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Syria

• October 22 -- Taking Syria's Side on Quneitra
Neil MacFarquhar advances the Syrian state's official line on the destruction of the city of Quneitra in the Golan Heights: "Syria says the Israelis dynamited the town as they went; Israel's rather unconvincing explanation, given the neatly collapsed symmetry of house after house, is that warfare destroyed the place." But the paper's own reporting suggests differently.

• March 23 -- Hamas Leader "Killed Just As He Finished the Dawn Prayers"
Neil MacFarquhar writes on Arab anger over the assassination of the "spiritual leader" of the terror-group Hamas, but calls him only "a Palestinian opponent to [Israeli] occupation."

• November 18 -- Syria's Torture, America's Shame
Clifford Krauss tells the story of a Canadian arrested while changing planes at JFK and deported to his native Syria, where he was jailed and claims to have been tortured. Krauss shakes his head and blames...the United States.

• October 14 -- Minding Syria's Business
Neil MacFarquhar's latest Damascus dispatch again lays out the terror-sponsoring state's case against Israel, while refusing to identify Hamas and Islamic Jihad as terror groups, simply saying they've been "labeled" so by Israel and the U.S.