This year, Human Rights Day is Saturday, December 10th. To advance the cause of the Eritreans, Everyone Group will be holding a Human Rights Rally at Lafayette Park, Washington, DC - in front of the White House from 10:00AM to 1:00PM. Their main objective is to tell the world about the suffering of the tens of thousands of young Eritreans who find themselves in the refugee camps of Sudan and Ethiopia, the prisons of Egypt and Libya, as well as the special circumstance of the very unfortunate few kept in the hands of human traffickers in the Sinai.
Argentina
Argentina Flirts with Iran as West Watches Nervously- Louis Charbonneau (Reuters)
Egypt
Netherlands, Belgium
Dutch Media & Israel: No Honest Reporting - Simon Plosker (Honest Reporting)
PA/Hamas/Fatah/etc.
Two Children Die and Others Endangered Due to PA Health Ministry Policy (Palestinian Center for Human Rights)
PA Website in UK "Wiped Israel Off the Map" - Matthew Ashton (Press Association-UK)
Book highlights PA denial of Israel’s right to exist - Jordana Horn (Jerusalem Post)
Russia
Syria
Syrian Opposition Leader: Hizbullah Showed Real Face by Siding with Assad (Daily Star-Lebanon)
How Assad Stayed In Power - And How He'll Try to Keep It - Tony Badran (Foreign Affairs) If "Lebanon and Iran are our economic lungs," as one Syrian official recently put it, then "Russia is our political shield." For Russia, with long-established military ties to Damascus, Western pressure on Syria is an encroachment on its traditional sphere of influence. Syria also affords Russia a foothold in the Mediterranean through a shared naval maintenance facility at the Syrian port city of Tartus.
Tunisia
Islamists, Liberals Face Off in Tunisia - Cecile Feuillatre (AFP-Sydney Morning Herald-Australia)
United States of America
Administration Tries to Water Down Iran Sanctions Legislation - Josh Rogin (Foreign Policy)
Israeli Officials "Disappointed" by Clinton's Remarks about Threats to Israeli Democracy - Herb Keinon (Jerusalem Post)
Israeli and Palestinian Statements about the "Damn Table" (CAMERA) Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made headlines this week when he called on Israel to "just get to the damn [negotiating] table." The statement is peculiar, since Israel has pleaded with the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table while Palestinian leaders insist they won't do so unless Israel first satisfies their preconditions.
