I too liked the second article - Scott --------------------------------------------------------------------------
These are all great articles. The second one is about how The Saudi royal family plays its part in the anti-Syrian government false flag drama. Saudi Arabia is also a nation divided like Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria into Shia and Sunni areas. The Saudis worry lest the eastern Shia province should rise up and revolt since that is where their main oil wealth lies. And, yes, the Saudis blatantly threatened to use its Chechen terrorists to harm the Russian Winter Olympics if Putin did not back down from protecting Syria. <http://www.intifada-palestine.com> Intifada Palestine _____ * Syria Crisis: Cameron rules out military action after Commons defeat * âBandar ibn Israelâ * Greek Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hanna: âWe reject any aggression on Syriaâ <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/intifada-palestine/yTiY/~3/1sSD2_iS3p0/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email> Syria Crisis: Cameron rules out military action after Commons defeat Posted: 29 Aug 2013 06:53 PM PDT <http://i1.wp.com/www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/parliament.jpg?w=0> Syria Crisis: Cameron rules out military action after Commons defeat <http://i0.wp.com/www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hands-of-Syria.jpg> Anti-war protesters outside Parliament during the debate Anti-war protesters outside Parliament during the debate By Douglas Carswell Dozens of Conservative MPs refused to support the Prime Minister and sided with Labour in opposing a Government motion which supported the principle of military intervention. The motion backing the use of force âif necessaryâ was rejected by 285 votes to 272, a majority of 13 votes. It is the first time that a British Government has been blocked from executing a military deployment and highlights the deep mistrust of official intelligence in the wake of the Iraq war. Within minutes of the embarrassing defeat, the Prime Minister said that he understood that there was not support for British action against Syria and indicated he would abandon any such plans. The decision came just hours after Britain had sent fighter jets to the region. Mr Cameron had hoped to join America in launching cruise missile strikes against the Syrian regime as soon as this weekend after Assad was accused of deploying chemical weapons in a suburb of Damascus last week. The Prime Minister had played a leading role in persuading President Obama of the need for action against Syria â with Britain tabling a draft United Nations resolution â and the Parliamentary vote may also undermine Mr Cameronâs international reputation. âI strongly believe in the need for a tough response to the use of chemical weapons but I also believe in respecting the will of this House of Commons,â Mr Cameron said tonight. âIt is clear to me that the British Parliament, reflecting the views of the British people, does not want to see British military action. I get that and the Government will act accordingly.â Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, said that the Parliamentary vote would be welcomed by the Syrian regime. âI am disappointed,â he said. âWe do believe that the use of chemical weapons in this way needs a clear and strong response.â âThere is a deep well of suspicion about military involvement in the middle east stemming largely from the experiences of Iraq.â âI donât think it is anything to do with the Prime Minister, I think it is to do with the legacy of experience.â It is the first time since the 1956 Suez crisis that an opposition has failed to support Government plans for a deployment of the armed forces. The Coalitionâs motion â which had already been watered down earlier in the week to allow for another Parliamentary vote before Britain took part in direct military action â was defeated by a majority of 13 votes. In a night of febrile scenes in the Commons, senior Cabinet ministers openly accused those opposing the motion of giving âsuccourâ to the Assad regime. Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, allegedly shouted at Conservative rebels who he described as a âdisgraceâ. Labour demanded an official inquiry into the activities of the Prime Ministerâs main spin doctor. The Parliamentary vote may trigger a leadership crisis for Mr Cameron as Conservative MPs openly criticised the Prime Ministerâs decision to recall Parliament and force a vote. He was accused of a massive miscalculation with Sir Gerald Howarth, a former defence minister, describing the Prime Ministerâs actions as ârushedâ and âcavalierâ. There were shouts of âresignâ from the Labour benches as the results of the Parliamentary vote were read out by John Bercow, the Commons Speaker. Mr Cameron has spent much of the week personally stressing the need for military action against the Assad regime. In his speech to Parliament today, the Prime Minister had insisted that Britain has a duty to âdo the right thingâ and intervene in the âhumanitarian catastropheâ unfolding in Syria. However, he also admitted that the intelligence assessment did not provide â100 percentâ certainty of the evidence against the regime. The Prime Minister told an emergency sitting of Parliament that the country should not be âparalysedâ over its response to international crises in the wake of mistakes made in the run-up to the Iraq war. He had implored MPs to âforce themselvesâ to watch harrowing videos of small children suffering following a chemical weapons attack in Damascus last week which killed hundreds of ordinary Syrians. However, in a major blow to his authority, senior Conservative MPs spent the day standing up during the eight-hour Parliamentary debate to criticise the Governmentâs plans to intervene in the Syrian crisis. Among those blocking the plans were David Davis, the former shadow Home Secretary, and former ministers. Nick de Bois, Secretary of the Tory 1922 Committee, voted against the Government. He said it was an âextremely difficult decisionâ. <http://i2.wp.com/www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Ed-Milband.jpg> David Cameron has said he will respect the will of the House of Commons after MPs rejected a government motion on military action in Syria. Ed Miliband demanded âcompelling evidenceâ against the Assad regime Ed Miliband refused to support the Governmentâs Parliamentary motion saying that he was, as yet, not fully convinced of the case against the Assad regime. The decision sparked an angry backlash from Downing Street who accused the Labour leader of âgiving succourâ to the Syrian dictator. This was strongly denied by senior Labour sources who said that the behaviour of Mr Cameronâs aides was âfrankly insultingâ. Other developments today in the Syrian crisis saw: ⢠The publication of a British intelligence briefing which concluded that it was âhighly likelyâ that the Assad regime was responsible for last weekâs chemical weapons attack which killed more than 300 civilians. ⢠The release of the Attorney Generalâs legal advice which ruled that British could legally participate in military strikes against Syria to protect innocent civilians from further atrocities. ⢠The White House privately briefing senior figures in the US Senate and Congress on secret intelligence on the Assad regime which could pave the way for American action against Syria this weekend. ⢠President Assad pledge that Syria would âdefend itself in the face of any aggressionâ. The experience of the Iraq war was repeatedly raised by MPs during the debate â with several former Labour Cabinet ministers speaking and describing the âscarsâ of the mistakes made by the Blair administration. âI am very clear about the fact that we have to learn the lessons of Iraq,â the Labour leader said. âOf course we have got to learn those lessons and one of the most important lessons was indeed about respect for the United Nations.â He added: âI do not rule out supporting the Prime Minister but I believe he has to make a better case than he did today.â During the course of the debate, a succession of senior Conservative and Labour MPs also made speeches expressing doubt over the wisdom of British action against Syria. David Davis, the former shadow home secretary said that the intelligence âmight just be wrongâ. Mr Davis said that chemical weapons were used either by Assadâs regime, by a rogue regime military unit, or by rebels âwith the direct aim of dragging the West into the warâ. Jack Straw, the former foreign secretary, said âWe all know â I have the scars about this â how easy it is to get into military action and how difficult it is to get out of it.â. In a parallel debate in the House of Lords, Lord Hurd, the former foreign secretary, said: âI cannot for the life of me see how dropping some bombs or firing some missiles in the general direction of Syria, with targets probably some way removed from the actual weapons weâve been criticising, I canât see how that action is going to lessen the suffering of Syrian people. âI think itâs likely to increase and expand the civil war in Syria, not likely to bring it to an end.â The Archbishop of Canterbury spoke of his fears that Christians in Syria would be targeted in the wake of any strike. However, other senior Parliamentarians offered backing for the Prime Minister. Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the head of the Intelligence and Security committee, said: âAt this very moment, the Assad regime in Damascus are watching very carefully as to whether they will get away with what they have done.â âIf they get away with what they have done, if there is no significant international response of any kind, then we can be absolutely certain that the forces within Damascus will be successful in saying we must continue to use these whenever there is a military rationale for doing so. âThere is no guarantee that a military strike against military targets will work, but there is every certainty that if we donât make that effort to punish and deter, then these actions will indeed continue.â Lord Ashdown, the former Liberal Democrat leader, said: âWe are, I think, living under the shadow, sadly, of Iraq. But this is not Iraq. We are not putting boots on the ground, we are not invading, we are not seeking to govern somebody elseâs country and, above all, this is not George W Bush, this is Barack Obama. âAnd you only need to look at this American president and what he has done to see how nervous, how hesitant, how cautious he is about action.â Tonight, American reports suggested that President Obama was now drawing up plans to intervene in Syria without international assistance. This article was originally published at <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10275158/Syria-crisis-No-to-war-blow-to-Cameron.html> The Telegraph The post <http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2013/08/syria-crisis-cameron-rules-military-action-commons-defeat/> Syria Crisis: Cameron rules out military action after Commons defeat appeared first on <http://www.intifada-palestine.com> Intifada Palestine. <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/intifada-palestine/yTiY/~4/1sSD2_iS3p0?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email> <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/intifada-palestine/yTiY/~3/dmJHCPbHtzg/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email> âBandar ibn Israelâ Posted: 29 Aug 2013 06:40 AM PDT <http://i0.wp.com/www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bandar.sultan1.jpg?w=0> âBandar ibn Israelâ <http://i1.wp.com/www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Bandarr.jpg> Bandarr By Sharmine Narwani The recent acts of political violence in the Middle Eastâs Levant are not unrelated. Car bombings in the predominantly Shia southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh; twin bombings targeting Sunni mosques in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli; an alleged chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of Damascus blamed on the Syrian government; a secret IDF operation across the Lebanese border foiled by Hezbollah; rockets lobbed by an Al Qaeda-related group into Israel; an IDF airstrike on a pro-Damascus Palestinian resistance group base in Lebanon⦠>From one perspective, the common thread is the crisis in Syria, where a 29-month conflict has cemented divisions in the rest of the region and set the stage for an existential fight on multiple battlefields between two highly competitive Mideast blocs. >From another perspective, the common thread drawing these disparate crimes scenes together is the âculpritâ â one who has strong political interest, material capabilities and the sense of urgency to commit rash and violent actions on many different fronts. In isolation, none of these acts are capable of producing a âresult.â But combined, they are able to instill fear in populations, stir governments into action, and in the short term, to create the perception of a shift in regional âbalances.â And no parties in the Mideast are more vested right now in urgently âcorrectingâ the regional balance of power than the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the state of Israel â both nations increasingly frustrated by the inaction of their western allies and the incremental gains of their regional rivals Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and now Iraq. Worse yet, with every passing month the ânoose of multilateralismâ tightens, as rising powers Russia, China and others offer protective international cover for those foes. Israel and Saudi Arabia are keenly aware that the age of American hegemony is fast declining, and with it, their own regional primacy. Common foes, common goals <http://i0.wp.com/www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bush-and-bandar.jpg> bush and bandarAt the helm of efforts to âcorrectâ the imbalance is Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, the USâs longtime go-to man in Riyadh â whose 22-year reign as Saudi Arabiaâs ambassador to Washington provided him with excellent contacts throughout the Israeli political and military establishment Like Israel, Bandar has long been a vocal advocate of curtailing the regional influences of Iran and Syria and forging a neocon-style âNew Middle Eastâ â sometimes to his detriment. When he all but disappeared from public view in 2008, one of the <http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/01/19/hugh-miles/the-missing-prince/#sthash.6V7ONbbC.dpuf> reasons cited for Bandarâs âbanishmentâ from the royal circle of influence was that he had âmeddled in Syrian affairs, trying to stir up the tribes against the Assad regime, without the kingâs approval.â <http://i2.wp.com/www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/1_887502_1_34.jpg> 1_887502_1_34The frustrated Bandar, who at the time officially headed Saudiâs National Security Council, was also notably absent when Saudi King Abdullah paid a highly visible visit to the Syrian president in late 2009 to renew relations after four years of bitter tensions. All that changed with the Arab uprisings in early 2011. Regime-change in Syria â according to an acquaintance who visited various prominent Saudi ministers (all key royals) in 2012 â suddenly become a national priority for the al-Saud family. According to this shocked source, the Saudis had come to believe that if the battle for control over Syria âis lost,â the kingdom would lose its Shia-dominated Eastern Province where its vast oil reserves are concentrated. That year marked Bandarâs return to influence in the kingdom, and within short order he was promoted to head the powerful Saudi Intelligence Agency, known for its myriad links into the underworld of global jihadis. <http://i1.wp.com/www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bandar.sultan.jpg> bandar.sultanBut the kingdomâs once-reliable western powerhouse ally, the United States, appeared to be withdrawing from the region. Highly sensitive to the fall-out over its aggressive interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, Washington was shying away from the kind of overt leadership that the Saudis desperately needed to re-establish their equilibrium in the region. Which is where Bandar comes into the picture. The former ambassador to Washington has the kind of relationships that go deep â no Saudi knows how to twist American arms better than he. But to push western allies in the desired direction, the Saudis were in need of an influential and opportunistic ally that was also passionately fixated on the same set of adversaries. That partner would be Israel. Says a 2007 <http://wikileaks.org/cable/2007/02/07RIYADH296.html> Wikileaks cable from the US embassy in Riyadh: âWe have also picked up first hand accounts of intra-family tension over policy towards Israel. Some princes, most notably National Security Advisor Bandar Bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, are reportedly pushing for more contact with Israel. Bandar now sees Iran as a greater threat than Israel.â Bandarâs ascendancy to his current position suggests more than ever that the Saudis, at least for now, have put aside their reservations over dealing with Israel. And Iranâs election of a moderate new President Hassan Rouhani has brought urgency to the Saudi-Israeli relationship â both fearing the possibility of a US-Iranian grand bargain that could sink their fortunes further. Putting wheels into motion For Riyadh and Tel Aviv, Syria is the frontline battle from which they seek to cripple the Iranians in the region. None have been as ferocious in lobbying Washington on the issue of Syrian âchemical weapons useâ and âred linesâ as this duo â perhaps even setting up <http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/mideast-shuffle/chemical-weapons-charade-syria> false flag operations to force its hand. Since last Winter, says the <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323423804579024452583045962.html> Wall Street Journal: âThe Saudis also started trying to convince Western governments that Mr. Assad had crossed what President Barack Obama a year ago called a âred lineâ: the use of chemical weapons. Arab diplomats say Saudi agents flew an injured Syrian to Britain, where tests showed sarin gas exposure. Prince Bandarâs spy service, which concluded in February that Mr. Assad was using chemical weapons, relayed evidence to the US, which reached a similar conclusion four months later.â The following Spring, it was Israelâs turn. In an article entitled <http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/04/washington-embarrassed-over-israeli-declarations-on-syria.html#ixzz2d8npvIkg> âDid Israel Ambush the United States on Syria,â Alon Ben David says: âBy stating that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons, Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, the director of Israelâs Military Intelligence Research Department, cornered the Americans. Washington finally â and very tentatively â admitted that such weapons had been used. If Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to ambush the Americans, it was a phenomenal success. From an Israeli standpoint, this was a chance to test Americaâs supposed âred line.â The Russians, however, have stood in the way of every effort to draw the US into intervening directly in Syria. In the past year, the Saudis and Israelis have tag-teamed Moscow, by turns cajoling, threatening and dangling incentives to shift the Russians from their immovable position. <http://i2.wp.com/www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bandar_1-20130810-193914.jpg> bandar_1-20130810-193914Just last month, Bandar beat a path to Moscow to test Russian President Vladimir Putinâs appetite for compromise. According to leading <http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2013/08/saudi-russia-putin-bandar-meeting-syria-egypt.html#ixzz2d2qLavl7> Lebanese daily As-Safir, a private diplomatic report on the Saudi princeâs visit claims that Bandar employed a âcarrot-and-stickâ approach to wrest concessions from Putin on Syria and Iran. In what has to be the most delusional statement Iâve heard in a while, Bandar allegedly told the Russian president: âThere are many common values and goals that bring us together, most notably the fight against terrorism and extremism all over the world.â He continued with a threat: âI can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics in the city of Sochi on the Black Sea next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us, and they will not move in the Syrian territoryâs direction without coordinating with us. These groups do not scare us. We use them in the face of the Syrian regime but they will have no role or influence in Syriaâs political future.â According to the report, Putin responded to Bandar thus: âWe know that you have supported the Chechen terrorist groups for a decade. And that support, which you have frankly talked about just now, is completely incompatible with the common objectives of fighting global terrorism that you mentioned. We are interested in developing friendly relations according to clear and strong principles.â Bandar ibn Israel: a terror Frankenstein <http://i1.wp.com/www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Abu-Omar-Sheshani.jpg> Abu Omar SheshaniChechen jihadis have, of course, turned up in Syria to fight alongside their brethren from dozens of other countries against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the past two years. The Saudi links go beyond jihadis though. Seventeen months ago in Homs â and barely a month after the battle over Baba Amr â <http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/sandbox/homs-opposition-al-farouq-battalion-killing-us> 24 Syrian rebels groups sent an email to the externally-based Syrian National Council, complaining about the rogue behavior of the Saudi-funded Al Farouq Battalion. This is the group to which the infamous lung-eating Syrian rebel once belonged. Alleging that Al Farouq was responsible for killing at least five rebels and fomenting violence against civilians and other fighters, the group wrote: âThe basis of the crisis in the city today is groups receiving uneven amounts of money from direct sources in Saudi Arabia some of whom are urging the targeting of loyalist neighborhoods and sectarian escalation while others are inciting against the SNC.â¨They are not national, unifying sources of support. On the contrary, mature field leaders have noted that receiving aid from them [Saudi Arabia] entails implicit conditions like working in ways other than the desired direction.â In a reprisal of his role in Afghanistan where he helped the CIA arm the Mujahedeen â who later came to form the backbone of the Taliban and Al Qaeda â Bandar is now throwing funding, weapons and training at the very same kinds of Islamist militants who are establishing an extreme version of Sharia law in territories they hold inside Syria. Says an analyst at a Beirut-based think tank: âThese fighters, many of whom are ideologically aligned with Al Qaeda, are much more pragmatic today. They are ready to take funding, facilities and arms from the Saudis (who previously they targeted). There is no concept of a main enemy â it could be the US, Russians, Iranians, Saudis, Muslim Brotherhood. Their only priority is to use the new situation of instability in the region to form a core territorial base. They now think in Syria they have a real opportunity to regenerate Al Qaeda that they didnât have since their defeat in Iraq. In the Sinai too. Through a central Syrian base they are ready to converge with other regional actors from which they will move into Lebanon, Iraq and other places.â âSome of them know Bandar for a long time,â says the analyst. âThere have always been Saudi intelligence officers dedicated to oversee jihadist groups in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kashmir, Chechnya.â Though the Saudis tell Washington that their goal is to keep extremists out of power in Syria, elements in the US administration remain uncomfortable about where this could end. Says the Wall Street Journal, quoting a former official concerned about weapons flowing into jihadi hands: âThis has the potential to go badlyâ â an understatement, if ever there was one. Using Lebanon as a lever Whereas western powers have sought to maintain stability on the Lebanese front, the Saudis â who lost influence in the Levantine state when Hezbollah and its allies forced the dissolution of a Riyadh-backed government in early 2011 â are not as inclined to keep the peace. Paramount for Bandarâs Syria plans is halting the battlefield assistance Hezbollah has provided for the Syrian army in key border towns which had become supply routes for rebels. To punish Hezbollah and weaken its regional allies, the Saudis have used their own alliances in Lebanon to hammer daily at the Shia resistance groupâs role in Syria. One easy route is to sow sectarian tensions in multi-sect Lebanon â a tactic at which the conservative Wahhabi Saudis excel. Pitting Sunni against Shia through a series of well-planned acts of political violence is childâs play for Saudis who have decades of expertise overseeing such acts â just look at the escalation of sectarian bombings in Iraq today as example. This does not necessarily mean that Riyadh is involved in planning these operations though. Says the Beirut analyst: âThe escalation may be Saudi-run, but not necessarily the deed itself. (When they back these Islamist extremists in Lebanon), they know the software of these people. They know they will attack Shia and moderate Sunni, use rockets, car bombs, etc. They empower these groups being conscious of the consequences. These guys are predictable. And the Saudis also have some trusted men among these groups who will act in a way that will conform to Saudi interests and projects.â <http://i2.wp.com/www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/w460.jpg> LEBANON-UNREST-BLAST-BEIRUT-HEZBOLLAHThe diplomatic report on the Bandarâs Moscow visit concludes: âIt is not unlikely that things [will] take a dramatic turn in Lebanon, in both the political and security senses, in light of the major Saudi decision to respond to Hezbollahâs involvement in the Syrian crisis.â Two bombings: one, targeting a Shia neighborhood, the second aimed at Sunni residents. On another front, the IDF launches a secret mission across the Lebanese border, swiftly thwarted by a Hezbollah counterattack. Soon after, an Al Qaeda linked group called the Abdullah Azzam Brigades (AAB), which last year acknowledged its fight against the Syrian state, launches four rockets into Israeli territory. Israel does not retaliate against this Salafist militia though. The IDF choses instead to strike at the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a group that supports the Resistance in Lebanon and Syria. It appears that Israel, like the Saudis, has a message to relay to Lebanon: Hezbollah should stay out of Syria or Lebanon will bear the consequences. The escalation of violence in the region â from Lebanon to Iraq â is today very much a Bandar-Israel project. And the sudden escalation of military threats by Washington against the Assad government is undoubtedly a result of pressures and rewards dangled by this duo. While Putin may have told Bandar to take a hike when the he offered to purchase $15 billion in weapons in exchange for a compromise on Syria and Iran, the British and French are beggars for this kind of business. Washington too. With $65 billion in arms sales to the kingdom in process, the Obama administration is prostituting Americans for cold, hard cash. Let there be no mistake. Bandar ibn Israel is going for gold and will burn the Middle East to get there. This article was originally published <http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/sandbox/bandar-ibn-israel> Al Akhbar All images courtesy <http://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/> uprootedpalestinian Blog ********************** <http://i0.wp.com/www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Sharmine-Narwani.jpg> Sharmine NarwaniSharmine Narwani is a commentary writer and political analyst covering the Middle East, and a Senior Associate at St. Antonyâs College, Oxford University. She has a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia Universityâs School of International and Public Affairs in both journalism and Mideast studies. Follow Sharmine on twitter <https://twitter.com/snarwani> @snarwani. The post <http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2013/08/bandar-ibn-israel/> âBandar ibn Israelâ appeared first on <http://www.intifada-palestine.com> Intifada Palestine. <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/intifada-palestine/yTiY/~4/dmJHCPbHtzg?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email> <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/intifada-palestine/yTiY/~3/3iEfGnaArh4/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email> Greek Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hanna: âWe reject any aggression on Syriaâ Posted: 28 Aug 2013 11:29 PM PDT <http://i1.wp.com/www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Atallah1.jpg?w=0> Greek Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hanna: âWe reject any aggression on Syria <http://i1.wp.com/www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Atallah.jpg> Atallah Occupied Jerusalem, (SANA) â Large number of Greek Orthodox Palestinian Christians held a sit-in at the courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher to express sympathy with Syria which is exposed to threats and pressures targeting its stance and national role. In a speech in front of the participants, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia, Atallah Hanna said that we call on all honest people to reject the foreign intervention in Syria which is planned by western countries, particularly the US. Bishop Hanna added âwe believe that the solution in Syria should be politically through dialogue among the Syrians, pointing out that the foreign intervention and the conspiracy are aiming at fragmenting and weakening Syria.â He called on all the world powers concerned in solving the crisis in Syria to encourage the Syrians to sit around the dialogue table. 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