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- Syria: Facebook Banned | Orato
  Posted by robynoratocom
  Last Friday, Facebook, the popular social networking site, was banned in Syria. Though the reasons for this ban are still unclear, there is talk of the possibility of government attempts to combat a propaganda e-mail proliferated in Syria's network. What are the marooned Facebookers to do? Global Voices reports.
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- Washington and Israel discuss possible war against Syria
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  The Bush administration has used discussions between Israeli Transportation Minister and former Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns to insist that there should be no talks between Israel and Syria.
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- The Flight From Iraq
  Posted by Jeff from Feeds.feedburner
  At a meeting in mid-April in Geneva, convened by the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, the numbers presented confirmed what had long been suspected: the collapse of Iraq had created a refugee crisis, and that crisis was threatening to precipitate the collapse of the region. The numbers dwarfed anything that the Middle East had seen since the dislocations brought on by the establishment of Israel in 1948. Most of this movement has occurred in the last two years.
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- Bill Clinton: Israel-Syria peace deal could be reached within 35 minutes
  Posted by Jeff from Haaretz
  Clinton said Israel and Syria were very close to reaching an agreement in 1998, adding that an accord could be reached assuming Iran does not play a role in the issue. The former U.S. president also said that, in his opinion, the 1995 assassination of then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin led to the failure of the peace process.
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- Is Syria talking peace with Israel?
  Posted by Jeff from Al Jazeera
  Syria has rejected statements by a Syrian-American businessman who said that he had been at the heart of unofficial peace talks with Israel.
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- Pelosi Meets Syrian President
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  Pelosi (D-Calif.), the highest-ranking U.S. government figure to visit Syria since 2003, said President Bashar al-Assad assured her of his willingness to engage in peace talks with Israel. The pledge appeared to diverge little from past public statements by Syria.
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- A Syrian's risky choice to help young Iraqis heal
  Posted by Jeff from Christian Science Monitor
  Noor and her family fled Baghdad. But three years later she was still haunted by her memories. They joined some 1 million Iraqis now living in Syria – among them an untold number of children struggling to cope with the emotional wounds of war. For Noor, and many other Iraqi children like her, there appeared to be no place to turn until a Syrian psychiatrist, risking his job at a state institution, defied authorities and decided to help.
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