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- Ban condemns Syrian 'brutality' in Homs, warns worse may come
  The Syrian assault on the city of Homs is "a grim harbinger of worse to come" without united pressure on the government in Damascus, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday. […]
- Activist: Infants, medical staff among dead in Homs crackdown
  Four straight days of shelling and bombing by Syrian government forces into the besieged city of Homs have left residents cowering, afraid to escape and fearing for their lives as bodies lie in the streets, unable to be recovered. […]
- Syrian regime gets bloody nose from resistance
  One fateful consequence of President Bashar al-Assad's ferocious crackdown on Syrian protesters is the emergence of the domestic armed resistance, the Free Syrian Army. […]
- Al-Assad hangs on by ruthlessness, reformist image
  When the Tunisian revolt erupted last year, Tunisia's president fled power in weeks. When Egyptians took to the streets, longtime leader Hosni Mubarak was swiftly ousted as well. […]
- No Libya play for the West in Syria
  Amid growing outrage over civilian casualties in Syria, there are ever more urgent calls to aid -- or at least protect -- the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. There is renewed talk of creating safe havens and humanitarian corridors inside the country. And those demanding tougher measures are again asking why events in Syria should not prompt Libya […]

Monthly Archives: November 2007

The Last minutes before Annapolis

November 27, 2007 Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad No comments

In the last minutes before the conference, still the Israeli and the Palestinian teams are trying at Washington to come out with one statement about what is agreed on until now. But it seems that it will be difficult for them to get such a statement while still they didn’t make it clear to both of the teams about what should be agreed on or lets say what can they agree on without facing difficulties back home in their governments and specially the Israeli government. Actually today I was discussing the

The Annapolis Conference – When the change starts from the people…

November 14, 2007 Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad No comments

Days are counting and the November peace conference is becoming closer. In these days the Palestinians and the Israelis are still negotiating in order to agree on something before going to Annapolis, so they can declare the achievement they want to reach. The real danger is what the extremists are doing from the both sides in order to make the people feel there is no chance for this conference and that its only an other meeting like all the ordinary meetings that cant bring any benefit

In the memory of Yasser Arafat…

November 10, 2007 Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad No comments

Exactly before three years and at a time like this time, the Palestinians were wondering and asking about the faith of their leader and president Yasser Arafat. Although the Palestinian people were divided into several political movements, but at the time they realized they are about to lose a real signal of their patriotic case, they all united and kept on waiting silently for the event that changed the

Israeli – Palestinian Negotiations, are they kept secret?

November 03, 2007 Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad No comments

Yesterday Friday, Hayem Remon the depute of Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, was interviewed on the Israeli channel one, in which he was asked about the strike the teachers are doing in Israel, and also was asked important questions about Monopolies November Peace Conference. Hayem Remon is known of his good relation with Ehud Olmert and also Rabin once at his time.