By Yahya Sinwar The Great Return March, known by various names, has been going on for more than a week already, and the intense planning that went into it now appears to have gone to waste, all...
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Israel Postal Service Looks To Syrian Barrel Bombs For New Ways To Deliver Mail Badly
The project could have launched earlier, explained an Authority official, but for two important factors: reluctance on the part of security and defense officials to allocate the necessary equipment...
With Jewish Population Gone, Syria Boasts 0 Antisemitic Incidents
The Syrian approach is scalable to the entire region. Damascus, September 13 – Officials of President Basher Assad’s regime boasted today that prejudice-monitoring agencies in the country...
The Protest Against Brooklyn DA’s Office for Sam Kellner
Protest supporting Sam Kellner, anti-sex abuse advocate in the ultra-Orthodox community; Israel attacks Syrian arms site; a new documentary by director Arik Bernstein tells Israeli history through...
To Assassinate or Not to Assassinate?
Less than 24 hours ago, Hamas senior operative Kamal Ranaja was found assassinated in his home in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Hussein Murtada, director of Iran’s al-Alam TV station, says...
Totally Hezbollicious: Hezbollah Bolsters Irregular Warfare Capabilities
The beauty of irregular warfare is that while it employs indirect and asymmetric methods, it also utilizes a range of other advanced military capabilities that can erode the adversary’s power...
History lesson about Yishuv in Palestine from Bashar Assad’s grandfather
Through some sort of maze of websites that I can’t recall right now, I recently arrived at a NY Review of Books article about modern Syria, the Alawites (faith to which the Assads belong) which...
A Gay Girl in Damascus
Amina describes herself as an out lesbian, and her blog presents her “…thoughts on life, the universe and so on.” What’s remarkable is that Amina lives in Damascus...