If the "West" attacks the Syrian regime because of the mass deaths in Eastern Ghouta, shouldn't it logically also attack Egypt because of the massacres there?

Then there's Israel - shouldn't it have been attacked when it attacked Gaza in 2008-09 or Lebanon in 2006, killing about as many people as the highest estimates for the number of deaths from Eastern Ghouta are said to be - and the hundreds of thousands of people that the "West" killed itself in Iraq during the last decade...

Somehow the "Western" media forgets that at best in Syria we have a case of a "good serial killer" going after a bad one - except that the "good serial killer" has a bigger death toll. So, let's be honest: It's not about the deaths of civilians, it's about who is claimed to have killed them.

I'm not arguing in support of the Syrian regime, I'm arguing in support of some amount of honesty and objective treatment of different regimes.

I'm also afraid that the fall of the Syrian regime would not be the end for the civil war, that we would see the "West" supporting FSA's "good rebels" against al-Nusra's "bad rebels", with Lebanon and Iraq being brought fully into the war.

Of course, honestly I can't say that there should be no reaction whatsoever to suspected mass murder - of course there should be an international reaction, as there always should in cases like this. I'm just grasping after a world where the reaction would be same for each regime, no matter what country they are ruling, what ideology they represent and with which other countries they are allied with.

Syria needs a negotiated peace. I know it seems to be far, far away at the moment but cruise missiles are not answer any more than chemical weapons. If the "West" attacks and the rebels achieve victory through more massive loss of life, we would probably looking at next step of civil war, between "Western" backed more secular rebels and the al-Nusra Front etc. More cruise missiles and at the same time possibly more ethnic cleansing.

Syrian minorities that have supported or are thought to support the government could be the next Palestinians in the Middle East, stranded on refugee camps. Syria needs a peace that allows all of its people to come home.

Outright rebel victory in Syria would also lead to more bloodshed in Iraq, as the Guilf despotates clearly see Syria as abase from which to reconquer Iraq to the Sunnis and al-Qaeda seems to agree.

I have no illusions about the Syrian government, but I have also no illusions about armed rebel groups or the foreign states backing them.

Every shekel Israel spends counteracting #BDS is a shekel less it has to spend on killing Palestinians & deepening the occupation
— Jinjirrie (@Jinjirrie) August 19, 2013

On Sunday 18 August 2013, the Moroccan authority arrested three Saharawi activists who are members of the Saharawi Association ( CODAPSO- type the full name of the organization. )The activists are Hammad Hammad, Sidi Mohamed and Alal Asofi. The arrest took place at the Karont checkpoint, 40 kilometers away from the city of Dakhla. The Moroccan force police did not give them any reasons for their arrest and detained them for three hours. It investigated them and searched their cars and personal belongings. Eventually, the activists were released and continued their trip to the Dkhala city. 

In the meantime, the Moroccan security forces have besieged and surrounded the ASLAM neighborhood. 

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@carlesdijous @adfontib Who are playing #Foxconn' employees jumping to their deaths? Or is this side of #SteveJobs' story forgotten? #Apple
— Raimo Kangasniemi (@rk70534) August 16, 2013

You can be against #MB, and still denounce the massacre of the army and #MOI, and be against the sectarian crimes against the #Copts. #Egypt
— Leil-Zahra Mortada (@LeilZahra) August 14, 2013

BBC has become extremely cowardly in many issues in recent years, not just on those touching Palestine. During Samer Issawi's hunger strike BBC's lack of neutrality became very pronounced (he was mentioned off-handedly in two articles during it and his hungerstrike got it's own article only after it ended), and now of course one can look at how BBC tries to tell at little as possible about Edward Snowden's revelations. Fear before power has become collusion.

Answer to hysterical, absurd claims at: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/13639

European Union has made a small move towards justice, upholding international law. It could do much more, from heavy economic and political sanctions to just freezing the extremely favourable trade deals that it has granted to Israel. More of this hysterical whining and it will do that. I personally suggest you stuff this "blood libel" stuff where the Sun doesn't shine, because it's an affront towards victims of actual historical racism to try to connect their suffering to the illegal settlers.

Protest Against #‎StopPrawerPlan pic.twitter.com/wx2VB9pGf5
— Ahmad Daghlas (@Daghlous) August 1, 2013

BBC pointing out the #RoyalBaby has been born on a full moon. Not sure if they're suggesting it's a werewolf. We may not know for a while.
— The Media Blog (@TheMediaTweets) July 22, 2013