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Divided States of America

Two, Including A Child, Kidnapped In Bethlehem
File – Wadi Hilweh Information Center
 
Saed Bannoura
(IMEMC) ,- Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn [October 3, 2013] the Al-Khader town, and Husan village, in the Bethlehem district, and kidnapped a youth and a child.

Gaza crushed between Israel and Egypt

 
By Jonathan Cook
The furore over the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria has overshadowed disturbing events to the south, as Egypt’s generals wage a quiet war of attrition against the Hamas leadership in Gaza.

Childhood Denied
 
 
By Yousef Munayyer

Netanyahu and Obama Seek “The Truth”

 
The world must stand up to and stop Israel’s bullying of its neighbors and of the U.S. leadership, or the irrational men that run Israel will trigger catastrophe.
 
by James M Wall 
 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the United States this week, vowing to expose “the truth” about Iran.

Israel Will Have to ‘Stand Alone’ as Netanyahu Rhetoric Continues

CW Expert Opinion on the UN Report on Syria

by Sharmine Narwani

West’s damning silence over Bahrain

By Finian Cunningham
Bahrain’s despotic Al Khalifa rulers have gone into a huff over US President Barack Obama’s comparison of the Persian Gulf island state with Syria.
In his address to the UN General Assembly last week, Obama made vague mention of sectarianism in Syria and Bahrain in the same sentence.

Syria to the UN: We are facing a terrorist onslaught

(RT) – The Syrian government is fighting against “terrorist groups from 83 countries” as part of its “constitutional right” to protect the country’s people, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem told the UN General Assembly in New York.

A Wall for a Wall: Mirroring Racism

 
William A. Cook
 
Now that our President has handed over the resolution of the Syrian debacle to the United Nations, perhaps justice demands that he hand over resolution of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to that international body as well.