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Russia says "decisive battle" underway in Syria
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday that a "decisive battle" was under way in Syria.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also warned that passing U.N. Security Council sanctions against Syria would amount to direct support for rebels and could draw the country into civil war.
"The battle for the capital, the decisive fight (is under way in Syria)," Lavrov told reporters in Moscow.
"Adopting a resolution against this backdrop would amount to a direct support for the revolutionary movement. If we are talking about a revolution then the U.N. Security Council has no place in this."
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would not freely cede power, Lavrov said, warning Western powers that their support for rebels would only lead to an escalation of the bloodshed in Syria.
"Instead of calming the opposition, some partners are fostering a further escalation," he said.
"It is a dead-end policy to support the opposition. Assad will not go on his own and our Western partners don't know what to do about that."
With violence rising, the West wants Moscow to drop its support for Assad. Along with China, Moscow has vetoed action against the president at the U.N. Security Council.
But before talks with international peace negotiator Kofi Annan in Moscow on Tuesday, Lavrov signaled no change in Moscow's position.
(Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; Writing by Alissa de Carbonnel; Editing by Douglas Busvine)
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For that matter, why do we never hear of Israel’s many nukes, or the radiation signature reported at the Israeli Consulate in NYC a while back?
Why don’t we hear this, if we fear religious zealots and racists – when Israel’s leader is a religious zealot and racist?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFr4C2BPLeM
Why, when it was painfully obvious that the Pentagon was purposely stacked with right wing, Likudnik, Zionist Jews under Bush, and that these Likudnik Jews cooked evidence to get the US to topple Iraq out of concern for Israel [not US security] – why did the media so fear to point out that what amounted to a cabal of Israel-First Neocons had essentially hijacked US intelligence and civilian oversight?
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/01/lie-factory
http://radicalarchives.org/2011/10/20/lasn-adbusters-helps-you-find-the-jews/
http://wikispooks.com/wiki/9/11:Israel_did_it
The correct and respectable desire to avoid a generalized anti-Jewish antipathy should not obfuscate the obvious fact that a minority of them, fiercely pro-war and pro-Israel, have in large part hijacked US policy.
We ignore it out of PC motives at our considerable peril.
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