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Groundwork to justify strike on Syria being laid out via the media by Israel ?
This has false flag possibility written all over it.UPDATED WITH ADDITIONAL INFOComing days after Israel downplayed these previous strikes as 'errant fire' JP is promoting a different narrative altogetherFirst, here is the news about this being errant fire
Israel, Hawking and the Pressing Question of Boycott
By Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle | May 16 2013
It is an event ‘of cosmic proportions’, said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description regarding Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated on May 8 by Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor.
Syria: Precariously balanced- Which way will it go? Updated
Some of the latest and some of it is bring you all up to date on events from last week. Lots of ground to cover today, so let's get started!IMPORTANT UPDATE BELOW!!!
Nawaz Sharif Says US Should Halt Pakistan Drone Strikes
Al-Manar | May 14, 2013
Nawaz Sharif who is to be Pakistan’s prime minister for a third time, called Washington to end its drone strikes in the Asian country.
Sharif said the drone strikes pose a “challenge” to Pakistan’s national sovereignty, the Associated Press quoted him as talking to reporters from his family’s estate outside the eastern city of Lahore on Monday.
Is Israel Hastening the Fall of Assad?
Israel’s official silence following its airstrikes on weapons depots in Syria earlier this month fueled accusations in every direction. Damascus condemned it as an attempt to destroy the regime, Tehran said the real targets were Iran and Hezbollah, analysts in the U.S. said it was a demonstration of “credibility.”
But now a Syrian rebel commander has a different take: “The assault was in support of Assad.”
Why the failure in Almaty is a big deal
By Flynt Leverett & Hillary Mann Leverett | The Hindu | May 6, 2013
By once again blowing the chance to close a nuclear deal with Iran, the U.S. and its western partners have set themselves up for escalating the conflict with the Islamic republic