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MORE than three million people have signed “the world’s longest love letter,” proclaiming the occupied Golan Heights to be Syrian territory in a national unity initiative started by 14 women on bicycles last week.
The women, from different parts of Syria, started collecting signatures to the letter in Sweida province in the south-west, where they held a demonstration at the government building and unfurled the national flag.
They have since taken the roll of paper to Daraa, Quneitra, Hama and Aleppo provinces, where it has been signed with declarations of love and loyalty under the title “Come Together.”
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
VIJAY PRASHAD looks at the web of militias and drug-trafficking gangs that emerged in the Sweida region through the Syrian civil war, and how they relate to recent clashes and Israel’s intervention