Italy pardons US colonel in CIA rendition case
Italian president Giorgio Napolitano pardoned US Air Force Colonel Joseph Romano of his conviction related to the “extraordinary rendition” of Egyptian cleric Abu Omar.
Italian president Giorgio Napolitano pardoned US Air Force Colonel Joseph Romano of his conviction related to the “extraordinary rendition” of Egyptian cleric Abu Omar.
A man painting Palestinian and Syrian flags on the separation wall at the West Bank village of Nilin, July 2012. Slogan in background reads “Nilin still going strong!” Even if it were in the Palestinians’ interest for Assad to remain in… Read morePalestinian solidarity with Syrian revolution
Lessons from the Fight against Fascism
by Talal Alyan, +972 Magazine
The lapse of support for the Syrian revolution amongst some segments of the Arab left will in retrospect be regarded as another failure to stray from party vanguards. Palestinians have once again found themselves being used as props for political causes they neither endorse nor hold any sympathy for. The latest instance being the pro-Assad camp that has worked tirelessly to link the Palestinian issue with the Assad regime.
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