World-News

By Times of Israel staff

Russia s increased presence in the region, which began raising eyebrows in the US three months ago, represents one of its largest sustained naval deployments since the Cold War.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35000.htm



Russian Med fleet returns, an unintended consequence

Op-Ed

Russian Navy Commander Admiral Viktor Chirkov has announced that a permanent staff was being set up, and the present force might eventually include their nuclear submarines.

http://is.gd/wy5QIb



Israeli Special Forces in Syria

Video

Fox News has published a video allegedly showing Israeli special forces on a mission inside Syria.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34999.htm



Brinkmanship in Syria Boosts Risk of Regional War with Israel

By Nicholas Blanford

The Syrian authorities have warned that orders have been given to the army to launch an ''automatic'', if unspecified, retaliation should the Israelis launch another airstrike into Syria.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34997.htm



Assad Preparing Missile Strike Against Tel Aviv in Case Attacked Again

By Uzi Mahnaimi

The Syrian army is deploying advanced surface-to-surface missiles aiming at Israel in the aftermath of the alleged Israeli strikes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35005.htm



IDF chief issues stern warning to Assad over rapidly heating ''border''

Damascus will 'bear consequences' of further gunfire, says Gantz, after cross-border shooting; tensions 'several times more explosive than they were this morning,' says top Israeli analyst.

http://is.gd/hqOPcg



Israel Heads Closer to War on Syria

By Stephen Lendman

Netanyahu said he ll topple Assad if he responds to Israeli attacks. He suggested further bombings may follow. Allegedly they ll target weapons transfers to Hezbollah.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35043.htm



What is the U.S. REALLY doing in Syria?

By Stephen M. Walt

Washington can use Qatar and Saudi Arabia as its middlemen, roles they are all too happy to play for their own reasons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35048.htm



Russia Strikes Back in Syria

By Juan Cole

The Russian president is weaving a protective web around his client, fending off the Wahhabi winds of Muslim fundamentalism blowing from the Arabian Peninsula.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35058.htm



Israeli defense chief indicates if Russia ships advanced missiles to Syria, they could be hit

''At this stage I can t say there is an escalation. The shipments have not been sent on their way yet. And I hope that they will not be sent,'' he said. But ''if God forbid they do reach Syria, we will know what to do.''

http://is.gd/Fsu6AJ



Qatar seeks to send Yemen s military elite to fight alongside the Free Syrian Army

Qatar is now looking to by-pass the hurdle by sending Yemen Republican Guards to the front. Of course the men would go in their civilian capacity, hired as mercenaries by the State of Qatar.

http://is.gd/rgQV6w



Syria promises 'immediate retaliation' if Israel strikes again

Syria s foreign minister warned on Wednesday that Syria ''will retaliate immediately'' if Israel strikes Syrian soil again. ''Americans have no business in deciding who will run Syria,'' adding that this ''would be a precedent in international relations that we must not allow.''

http://is.gd/a09C15



Iraq warns Israel on using airspace in Iran strike

Baghdad has warned Israel that it would respond to any attempts by the Jewish state to use Iraqi airspace for a strike against Iran s controversial nuclear programme, a top Iraqi minister told AFP.

http://is.gd/3cRdhi



Israel now has 80 nuclear warheads, report says

Of those warheads, 50 are for medium-range ballistic missiles and 30 are for bombs carried by aircraft, the report said. In addition, ''Israel may also have produced non-strategic nuclear weapons, including artillery shells and atomic demolition munitions.''

http://is.gd/kPur9Y


From Information Clearing House

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Intervene in Syria
http://lewrockwell.com/scheuer/scheuer22.1.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/15-8



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Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned yesterday that deepening US military involvement in Syria s civil war would be a ''mistake,'' warning the outcome would be unpredictable and messy.

http://arabnews.com/news/451361



Russia s Mediterranean Task Force to Include Nuclear Subs: Navy Chief

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu earlier said a decision to deploy a permanent task force in the Mediterranean to defend Russia s interests in the area had been made. The Russian navy commander also said nuclear submarines could be deployed in the Mediterranean, if necessary.

http://is.gd/f2hzPQ



Syria Endgame Approaching Fast

By Shamus Cooke

Syrian government forces have scored significant battlefield victories over the rebels, and this has provoked a mixture of war provocations and peace offers from the U.S. and its anti-Assad allies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34922.htm



Syrian City Ruled by Gangs of Extremists

By Richard Spencer, and David Rose

The black flag of al-Qaeda flies high over Raqqa s main square in front of the smart new governor s palace. Their fighters, clad also in black, patrol the streets.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34925.htm



Putin Warns Netanyahu, Against Aggravating Syria Crisis

The remark appeared intended as a warning against foreign military intervention or arming the rebels fighting against Syrian forces.

http://is.gd/UMC7Hb



Austria says UK push to arm Syrian rebels would violate international law

Forceful Austrian position signals deep EU divisions on Syria ahead of this month s embargo decision.

http://is.gd/14pKKd



The Real Benghazi Story

US Smuggling Weapons to Syrian Rebels

By Daya Gamage

The 'real show' is that the United States, Ambassador Steven playing a major role, was in the process of shipping arms to Syrian rebels to topple Basher el-Assad s regime.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34974.htm



Syria Rebels Threaten to Wipe Out Shiite, Alawite Towns

By Dana El Baltaji

Communities inhabited by Shiite Muslims and President Bashar al-Assad s Alawite minority will be ''wiped off the map'' if the strategic city of Al-Qusair in central Syria falls to government troops, rebel forces said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35044.htm



Britain, France to drum up support to arm Syrian rebels

French President Francois Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron Wednesday said they would seek European support for their proposal to arm the "rebels" to fight Syrian government forces.

http://is.gd/FZUlyd



Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria now best-equipped of the group

Al Qaeda s affiliate inside Syria is now the best-equipped arm of the terror group in existence today, according to informal assessments by U.S. and Middle East intelligence agencies.

http://is.gd/IMgXlC


From Information Clearing House

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Israel, Syria and the United States

Stephen Zunes, Truthout: As America fears the possibility of chemical warfare in Syria, Stephen Zunes reflects on the past decade of political relations between Israel, Syria and the United States, a period filled with misinformation, spin and one too many thwarted attempts at peace.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16341-israel-syria-and-the-united-states

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No intervention in Syria

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

05/10/13

If after the debacles in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya (dare I say Vietnam?) some people still want the U.S. government to intervene, further, in the war inside Syria (but fueled by outsiders), we must conclude, not that they can t learn the lessons of recent history, but that they won t because doing so would be contrary to their assorted political, ideological, and material interests...

http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/tgif-no-intervention-in-syria/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis340.html

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A Welcome Pause in the Craziness Over Syria

By Eric Margolis

When Syria s President Bashar Assad refused to join the US-led alliance of western powers and conservative Arab states against Iran, his nation s fate was sealed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34898.htm



Buying Time in Syria

By Phil Greaves

The current softening of US rhetoric is merely a smokescreen to enable the US Government and its autocratic GCC (Gulf Co-Operation Council) allies to shift strategies and proxy allegiances.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34907.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/07-5

Mindlessness over Syria
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/07-8

'No' to US Military Action in Syria
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/07-7

What the US Media Won t Tell You About the ''Good'' Syrian Rebels
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/09-6

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The West and its Allies Cynically Bleed Syria to Weaken Iran

By Seumas Milne

If western politicians were really interested in saving lives, they would use their leverage to negotiate a settlement.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34872.htm



Syrian ''Rebel'' Leader Admits Difficulty In Unifying Fighters

By David Enders

The defected Syrian general whom the United States has tapped as its conduit for aid to the ''rebels'' has acknowledged that his movement lacks the military skill needed to topple the government of President Bashar Assad.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34868.htm



Will the U.S. Violate Its Own Laws by Arming Rebels in Syria?

By Chris Ernesto

The administration appears to be gambling that people won t recognize the double standard of the U.S. being on the same side as al-Qaeda in the struggle to overthrow Syria s president Bashar al-Assad.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34870.htm



Syria, US Wars of Aggression, and the Wrong 'Red Lines'

By Richard Falk

What is missing from the debate on Syria, namely, the prohibition of the use of international force by states other than in cases of self-defence against a prior armed attack.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34878.htm

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Every Television Newscast Is a Staged Event
http://lewrockwell.com/rappoport/rappoport27.1.html

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Hold the Front Page! We Need Free Media, Not an Order of Mates

John Pilger, Truthout: When the rich and powerful own the means of popular enlightenment and dress it up as a "free press," bestowing a false respectability called the "mainstream," the opposite is usually true.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16270-hold-the-front-page-we-need-free-media-not-an-order-of-mates



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Israel Attacks Syria

By Nancy Cooper

Israeli officials acknowledged Friday evening that they had launched airstrikes that hit inside Syria, say U.S. officials.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34815.htm



Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Chemical Weapon Use in Syria 'Could Have Been an Israeli False Flag

VIDEO

Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell during the Bush administration, talks about how President Obama should handle early evidence that Syria may have used chemicals weapons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34813.htm



Israeli Airstrikes Signal Western Desperation in Syria

By Tony Cartalucci

Alleged airstrikes hope to expand conflict, undermine Syrian advances, and provoke Syria and Iran to give US justification for military intervention.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34819.htm



Al-Qaeda sets up Sharia courts in key Syrian city

Radical Islamic militant groups are consolidating their power base across northern Syria with a reformed al-Qaeda doctrine of governance that seeks to correct the mistakes made by the organisation in Iraq.

http://is.gd/SnR6UY



Brzezinski Joins Lugar Warning Against U.S. Role in Syria

Brzezinski, who served under Democratic President Jimmy Carter, warned that U.S. military involvement in Syria would risk "a large-scale disaster for the United States."

http://is.gd/OINVEk



The Truth Is That After Israel s Air Strikes, We Are Involved

By Robert Fisk

If the EU and US say nothing about these attacks, approval is granted.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34840.htm



Escobar: Israel Gets US s Blessing to Bomb Syria

Video

Israel s attack on Syria is an act of war! Why Now?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34841.htm



Who Will Make The Next Move

IDF on war alert. Iran-Syrian-Hizballah war of attrition threatened. US set to act on Syria

By DEBKAfile

Monday, May 6, the Syrian president spelled out his next plan of action in a message posted to Moscow.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34851.htm



Hagel, Livni and Free Syrian Army commanders Reported to Gather in D.C.

By Philip Weiss

The U.S. is evidently closely coordinating its policy toward the Syrian civil war with Israel.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34846.htm



Longstanding US/Israeli policy prioritizes regional destabilization and conflict

By Stephen Lendman

Longstanding US/Israeli policy prioritizes regional destabilization and conflict. At issue is replacing independent governments in Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah in Lebanon with pro-Western puppets.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34845.htm



After the airstrikes: Scenes of devastation left by Israeli rockets

Pictures emerge showing destruction caused to buildings by airstrikes.
http://is.gd/QTimoX



Syrian rebels get boost from Israel

Syrian opposition forces got a boost from two nights of Israeli airstrikes against President Assad s regime, NBC s Richard Engel reports.

http://is.gd/edqhtr



Americans are Living In A Fantasy World

Video

Fisk discusses his reaction to what he calls President Obama s ''pitiful'' backing of the recent Israeli missile strikes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34854.htm



Number displaced inside Syria hits 4.25 million: UN

''Movement by internally displaced persons continues to be large-scale and fluid, as many Syrians are displaced multiple times,'' said Jens Laerke, spokesman for the Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

http://is.gd/TpCPDH



U.S. will 'shortly' be arming Syrian rebels: Key senator

The United States will ''shortly'' begin arming Syrian rebels, looking to boost moderate factions over al-Qaida-affiliated extremists whose rise would be a national security ''nightmare,'' the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told CBS News on Tuesday.

http://is.gd/GejsiU



Reminder: The U.S. Government Lies About Who Uses Chemical Weapons in the Mideast

Even beyond the bogus case for the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. government has a long history of lying about this subject.

http://is.gd/vmAg0r



US shrugs off Syrian rebels chemical weapons use, presses for war

Op-Ed

US officials continued to press for war against Syria yesterday, dismissing United Nations investigator Carla del Ponte s statement that Western-backed opposition forces, not the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad, had used chemical weapons.

http://is.gd/9D9waj



History Repeats? 'NYT' Boosts Claims of Syria s Use of Chemicals

Once again we have seen overheated front-page news stories, based on slim evidence, and columns by Thomas Friedman, Bill Keller and others. And, again as in 2003, the newspaper s editorials express caution.

http://is.gd/wHNreE



Free Syrian Army Rebels Defect to Islamist Group Jabhat al-Nusra

By Mona Mahmood and Ian Black

al-Qaida, is luring many anti-Assad fighters away from Free Syrian Army, say brigade commanders.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34880.htm



Jabhat al-Nusra Behind ''Chemical Weapons'' Attacks?

A photo from the Ras al-Ayn area of Al-Hasakah Governate (Province) in the North of Syria, shows a Jabhat al-Nusra fighter with a device identical to one flaunted as a chemical weapon device which was allegedly deployed by Syrian forces.

http://is.gd/H6yxYo


From Information Clearing House

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Who Are the War Criminals in Syria?
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan309.html

Israeli Bombing of Syria and Moral Relativism
http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/israeli-bombing-syria-and-moral-relativism.html

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Israel attacks Syria as pressure builds for US intervention
http://ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11463/

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Israel s bombs invite Obama to join war against Syria

The Nation
by Bob Dreyfuss

05/06/13

If Israel s bombing of Syria, which apparently killed more than 100 Syrian troops, is meant as a warning to Iran...then the message is: We can strike a nearby, war-embattled nation just minutes from our bases...President Obama, who, as noted in this blog, repeatedly, awkwardly boxed himself in with his off-the-cuff 'red-line' comments about Syria s alleged (and let us repeat, 'alleged') use of chemical weapons, should decline Israel s violent invitation to take sides in the anti-Iranian crusade. But John McCain, who s wanted to bomb Syria from the start, is urging Obama to accept Israel s invitation to join the fight. Unfortunately, too many Democrats, mostly liberal interventionists and allies of the Israel lobby, agree...

http://tinyurl.com/cvpv9sn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Pepe Escobar

Obama in Syria is fast becoming a remix of Reagan in 1980s Afghanistan. We all know what came out of those ''freedom fighters'' afterwards.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34802.htm



U.S. Sets Hurdles to Intervention in Syria

Obama Seeks International Consensus on Assad s Alleged Chemical-Weapons Use, Lowering Prospect of Military Action.

http://is.gd/WWJyLV


From Information Clearing House

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Syria s Chemical Weapons, Iraq Redux?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/03-8



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Der UN-Generalsekretär verlangt zur Überprüfung ungehinderten Zugang der Inspektoren.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39024/1.html



Israelischer Luftangriff auf Ziele in Syrien

Mit der Aktion, die mitten in der Diskussion über Optionen von Militärinterventionen in Syrien geschieht, gerät auch die Rolle der Hisbullah im Land stärker in den Fokus.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39062/1.html



Gezielte Militärschläge auf syrischem Terrain

Angeblich soll Israel Raketen auf einen Militärkomplex in der Nähe von Damaskus abgefeuert haben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39063/1.html



Bomben ins Blaue

Israels Geheimdienste wissen nur wenig über die Lage in Syrien. Dennoch hat die Luftwaffe Ziele dort bombardiert, eine gefährliche Aktion, warnen Kritiker.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39067/1.html



Spiel mit dem Feuer

Die israelischen Angriffe auf Syrien könnten die Situation in der Region kippen lassen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39069/1.html



Israel kündigt indirekt weitere Angriffe auf Syrien an

Die Angst wächst, dass Iran und Syrien die Hisbollah zu Angriffen auf Israel drängen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39144/1.html



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Government exercising more caution following intelligence reports and warnings by other governments that the major part of the rebel movement has been taken over by Jihadist groups.

http://is.gd/f6REFN



US says Syria has beefed up air defenses

With technical support from Russia, Syria has bolstered its air defenses, posing a threat to US aircraft if America decides to intervene in the war, a US official said.

http://is.gd/LrK12T



Republicans urge Obama to enforce Syria 'red line,' oppose deploying troops

''For America to sit on the sidelines and do nothing is a huge mistake,'' Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss told CBS' ''Face the Nation.''

http://is.gd/8MG7iG



Political intrigue hampers honest investigation of WMD use in Syria - Lavrov

He told a news conference in Moscow on Monday, ''There are states and external players who think that all means are good if they lead to displacement of the Syrian regime. But the issue of the use of weapons of mass destruction is too serious and no one should play with it. I consider it inadmissible to use this issue and speculate on it.''

http://is.gd/H9SEGs



Syria chemical weapons: British MPs demand evidence of sarin use by Assad

Pressure was growing on the Government to publish detailed evidence of Syria s alleged chemical weapons use before authorising further intervention in the conflict.

http://is.gd/UhXRIg



UN Has Testimony That Syrian Rebels Used Sarin Gas: Investigator

By Reuters

U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria s civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34834.htm



Five Ways to Force West to Intervene in Syria

By MAHIR ZEYNALOV

For Washington and its allies, the real red line in Syria is the defeat of Syrian opposition fighters.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34830.htm



UN Investigator 'Stupefied by Syrian Opposition Sarin Use'

Video

It s the rebels, not President Bashar Assad s forces, who have used chemical weapons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34842.htm


From Information Clearing House



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Op-Ed

If, indeed, the United States goes to war in Syria, it will look less like Iraq 2003-11 and more like Afghanistan 1979-88, that is, a war in which the United States backs an Islamist-dominated insurgency against a Russian-backed regime.

http://is.gd/rp8HT4



Graham: ''Growing consensus'' in Senate for U.S. action in Syria

''If we keep this hands-off approach to Syria, this indecisive action towards Syria, kind of not knowing what we are going to do next, we are going to have war with Iran because Iran s going to take our inaction in Syria as meaning we are not serious about their nuclear weapons program,'' he said. ''We need to get involved.''

http://is.gd/fe6olk



Foreign militant Islamists streaming into Syria

Researchers who monitor the conflict said this week that they have detected the influx of foreigners in firsthand observations on the battlefield, spotting them in rebel videos posted on the Internet, observing a recent spike in reported deaths of foreign fighters and studying their postings on social media sites.

http://is.gd/Ud2bmC


From Information Clearing House



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