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Syria: The moral imperative to act

Some left-wing writers and spokespeople look to Syria and see Vietnam. They are terribly wrong. The moral and historic duty of any progressive person is to stand by the Syrian people’s struggle for freedom and help them topple the genocidal Assad regime. By Assaf Adiv (translated from Hebrew by Ann Lavi) The U.S.-Russian Geneva agreement on…

By +972 Magazine September 21, 2013

Illustrative photo of a bombed out building in Homs, Syria (FreedomHouse/CC)

U.S. Jewish groups use Holocaust guilt to push for Syria strike

A policy decision on American military action in Syria cannot be justified by an analogy between Syrian suffering under Assad and Jewish suffering during the Holocaust. Two weeks after a chemical attack in Syria killed at least 1,400, including 400 children, and one week after U.S. President Obama announced he favors a limited military strike…

By Mairav Zonszein September 5, 2013

Threats Facing Israel Map (By Israeli Embassy in the U.S.)

As Syria strike looms, Israeli embassy plays up ‘threats facing Israel’

New and old media has gone abuzz with news that a U.S. strike on Syria could come as early as Thursday. And just as Israel’s cabinet ordered a “limited” call up of reservist soldiers, a map outlining all the threats Israel faces suddenly popped up in my social media feed, courtesy of the Israeli embassy in the…

By Mairav Zonszein August 28, 2013

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Bahraini journalist Nazeeha Saeed (Photo: NZ/facebook)

Honoring my friend: A tortured Bahraini journalist taking on the courts

A female Bahraini officer has been acquitted by a court in Manama on charges of torturing a local journalist working for a French TV and radio station. As the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) notes, reporter Nazeeha Saeed claimed: …during her 13-hour detention, al-Moussa and the other officers blindfolded her, beat her repeatedly with a…

By Roee Ruttenberg October 25, 2012

Ex-Brigadier General speaks out against Israeli strike on Syria

As Israel continues to debate whether to act in (or on) Syria – for the moment, it’s “watch and wait” – Shlomo Brom, a retired Israeli brigadier general who headed the army’s strategic planning division, emerges as a voice of reason, warning against an Israeli air strike on Syrian chemical weapons facilities. Ehud Barak, the Israeli…

By Roee Ruttenberg July 20, 2012

Im Tirzu leader, Ronen Shoval (Photo: Yossi Gurvitz)

Ultra-nationalist leader invokes Assad’s victims to defend Israel

Im Tirtzu, the ultra-nationalist organization whose main activity has involved witch-hunt campaigns against Israeli civil society and academia, has hit upon a new angle that it believes will save Israel, which one of its leaders unveiled in an op ed in Haaretz on Monday (Hebrew): expose human rights violations in the Arab and Muslim world!…

By Dahlia Scheindlin March 21, 2012

In face of Syrian regime’s increasing brutality, key to resistance lies in civil action

Syrians will soon mark a year since uprisings began in March 2011, and the violence only intensifies. Continued shelling by Assad’s forces in the city of Homs have brought life to a grinding halt, and bombings on Wednesday morning in the city cost the lives of dozens, including two Western journalists. Despite the regime’s increasing…

By +972 Magazine February 23, 2012

EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Syrian national on life under constant fear

‘I’m against everything that is violent, and I used to say that our revolution is peaceful and it must remain peaceful, but after going through all this pain and after seeing and watching all these tortured people, kids, women, I say yes to international intervention and even yes to war, because we have had enough’ By Elizabeth Tsurkov…

By +972 Magazine February 11, 2012

Palestinian rights group condemns Syrian ‘war crimes’

By Fady Khoury Adalah – the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel issued a press release on Tuesday denouncing the Syrian regime’s attacks on its own citizens. The organization – whose name means “justice” in Arabic – said that the attacks amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, violating international criminal law…

By +972 Magazine February 7, 2012

Thoughts following the Syrian massacre

Toppling the regime in Damascus should be the top priority these days | Those who once praised the Assads as anti-colonial heroes should learn their lesson | and condemnations of the Chinese-Russian Security Council veto would have sounded better if it wasn’t for the Americans’ history of using its own veto power This blog deals…

By Noam Sheizaf February 4, 2012

Gay? Girl? Damascus? Plot thickens around Syrian blogger

On Monday, this blog was one of the first to spread the world of the abduction of Syrian blogger Amina Abdallah Arraf, author of A Gay Girl in Damascus. A post on AGGID, purportedly written by Arraf’s cousin Rania Ismail, reported that two men bundled Amina into a car with a pro-regime sticker. A few hours…

By Dimi Reider June 9, 2011