SYRIA: New images said to show security forces opening fire on small town

Syrian security forces opened fire into a crowd in the village of Sheik Miskeen near the besieged southern city of Dara on Friday, according to video posted online that could not be verified.

In the video posted on YouTube, about 100 men are seen milling around in a rural street before coming under fire. The description posted by the user says the event took place at a military checkpoint and that eight people were killed and dozens wounded.

Activists said at least 24 people had been confirmed dead across the country as of early Friday evening, but that number is expected to rise in the coming hours.

Fatah and Hamas sign reconciliation deal

The fox and the scorpion shake hands.

You may recall the story:

The fox and the scorpion stand on the banks of the river Jordan looking into Israel.

The scorpion says to the fox, "If I hop on your back, we can swim over and conquer the Israelis."

The fox looked at the scorpion incredulously and said, "You must be joking. One bite from you and I would be dead."

"That I wouldn't do." replied the scorpion, "Then we both would die".

"True", thought the fox. "OK - hop on". And they plunged into the water.

About halfway over, the scorpion bit the fox.

"Why did you do that?" exclaimed the fox in his dying breath.

The scorpion replied, as the waters swallowed them both up, "It's the middle east, my friend, it's the middle east..."

Thank God they are not Jews

The Jews in their desire to establish independence and realize control of their own democratic institutions accepted the UN partition of Palestine in 1947. They were attacked by the surrounding Arab nations who had rejected the UN partition plan. After a hard fought War of Independence the Jews were not "pushed into the sea", the State of Israel was declared and established. 500,000 Arab refugees were created - a sad fact that was to be manipulated and distorted and misused far outweighing in the eyes of so-called impartial third party observers the criminal acts of the rejectionists of the UN partition.

And who are these rejectionists who have constantly supported terrorist actions and promoted, participated in wars against the State of Israel? Who are these rejectionists who took the high moral ground when judging Israel’s almost impossible task of policing the intifadas that were fuelled by these rejectionists' anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli rhetoric?

They are the same toilets (Gadaffi and Assad et al.) who are indiscriminately killing their own people for the terrible crime of wanting control of their own democratic institutions.