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EU to bar all member states from funding Israeli settlements
EU to bar all member states from funding Israeli settlements
A 27 February 2013 files photo shows laborers working on the construction of home in the Israeli settlement of Har Homa in Israeli annexed Arab East Jerusalem. (Photo: AFP – Menahem Kahana)
An EU directive will bar all 28 member states from dealings with Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, including annexed Arab east Jerusalem, sparking attacks from Israeli officials Tuesday.
Top 10 Reasons Americans should Dismiss Israel’s Netanyahu on Attacking Iran
Top 10 Reasons Americans should Dismiss Israel’s Netanyahu on Attacking Iran
by Juan Cole
The Iranian electorate did about the most cruel thing possible to uber-hawk Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. It replaced former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with an eminently reasonable and personable successor, Hasan Rouhani.
Greek Orthodox Patriarch John X : Syrian people committed to unity, peace and stability
Greek Orthodox Patriarch John : Syrian people committed to unity, peace and stability
The arrival of Patriarch John (Yazigi) to the city of Lattakia, Syria
Editors Note: The brother of Patriarch John (Yazigi) , Archbishop Paul of Aleppo was kidnapped along with Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim of Aleppo . The two Bishops were kidnapped by armed militants in April and still missing.
Chemicals and Weapons seized from Insurgents in Damascus. Israeli Air Raid likely a Distraction
Chemicals and Weapons seized from Insurgents in Damascus
Medics and other masked people attend to a man at a hospital in Khan al-Assal in the northern Aleppo province, as Syria’s government accused rebel forces of using chemical weapons for the first time on March 19, 2013 (AFP Photo / HO-SANA)
by Christof Lehmann - nsnbc
