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Israeli case for war with Syria - and Lebanon By Sami Moubayed DAMASCUS - The Middle East seemed to snowball into crisis last week, as war threats were fired back and forth between Syria and Israel.

The Obama team may get modest benefits from ending a five-year chill with Damascus but will find it hard, if not impossible to peel Syria way from hardline ally Iran and break the Arab-Israeli stalemate, analysts said.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hinted on Tuesday that Israel will hold Hamas responsible for the barrels of explosives that washed ashore near Ashdod and Ashkelon a day earlier.

Posted By onlyonesecret 17 hours, 53 minutes ago in News Syrian President Bachar Assad must realize that if he provokes Israel his regime will collapse," Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, thrilled by the "art" of threats to the region, warned on Friday.

Overseas, "The Long Night" has garnered critical acclaim and awards, but at home in Syria censors remain nervous about permitting the screening of a film on the topic of political prisoners.

For supporters of the slain former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the court is their key to hopes for uncovering who was behind the February 2005 suicide truck bombing that killed him.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday said that Israel seeks peace with Syria but will react against any threat, as the two Middle East foes engaged in an intensifying spar.

Syria on Wednesday did not rule out a possible war with Israel and used stern language to warn the Jewish state that any future confrontation would be "comprehensive" and reach Israeli cities.

Syrian Health Ministry on Wednesday announced two new death cases of A/H1N1 flu.

Hamas probing whether Israel also got into Damascus security services. The mysterious death of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month has prompted Hamas to launch an internal investigation to determine whether Israel has managed to infiltrate the highest echelons of the Islamist movement, a senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip revealed on ...

Yet another explanation of the death of founding Hamashole Mahmoud al-Mabhouh: the killers got to him with the help of the Jizz .

Before his assassination in Dubai, Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh was filmed by the organization, Palestinian sources reported Saturday evening.

U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell named the United States' new ambassador to Syria in a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Lebanese daily An-Nahar quoted American sources as saying on Saturday.

The Gulf is ablaze with news of the brazen assassination last week of one of the founders of a Hamas military arm in a hotel at Dubai.

ISRAEL has assassinated a senior Hamas military commander in Dubai, an official in the Palestinian Islamist group said today.

Date : Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:53:49 +0400 TOURISTS RETURN TO AN ANCIENT CROSSROADS IN SYRIA By Lionel Beehner Saudi Gazette Jan 26, 2010 TRAVEL TO shouts of "yella-yella" - move along! - the driver of a donkey lugging a wagon overstuffed with pistachios parted the throngs of shoppers in Aleppo's medieval souk.

The Knesset House Committee on Tuesday discussed Balad MK Said Naffaa's request for parliamentary immunity from the indictment filed against him.

Tensions have escalated along the Israeli-Lebanese border and Syria has begun calling up troops from its Fourth Reserve, sources told the pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat. The newspaper, printed on four continents, reports that the Israeli military has been carrying out drills on Israel's northern frontier, as the second anniversary of the death of ...

Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal addresses a rally in Damascus on January 22, 2010 to commemorate the first anniversary of the Islamic movement's "triumph" during Israel's devastating offensive in Gaza which ended just over a year ago.

DAMASCUS, Syria a ' Four Iranian pilgrims were killed and 40 others wounded as a bus veered off the road near Damascus, Syria, on Friday morning.