Israeli right wing Likud government and Labour (peace maker!) President and other Zionists are alarmed and angry because Palestinians are going ahead to request state membership of the UN. The US President(Nobel peace!), administration and the congress are also upset. The Zionist lobbies, Aipac and Jstreet are all up in arms to frustrate the Palestinian move.

Friday's 17 death toll, was confirmed to have reached 32, by the Local Coordination Committees, where Damascus alone, had a share of 23, in what comprises the highest death toll in central Damascus since the uprising. Of those, 14 assigned to secure the premises of the meeting in Qaboon were killed according to Meshaal Timmo, Kurdish opposition figure based in Damascus. In turn, the opposition canceled the "National Salvation" conference that was due in that locality in Damascus on Saturday, while moving on with the segment of that conference held in Istanbul, Turkey.

Syrian forces killed four villagers on Wednesday near Turkey, rights campaigners said, in an expansion of a military campaign to crush dissent against President Bashar al-Assad. The four were killed in tank-backed assaults on at least four villages in the Jabal al-Zawya region in northwestern Idlib province near the border with Turkey, an activist in Idlib and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Assad, from Syria's Alawite minority sect, an offshoot of Islam, is struggling to put down widening demonstrations in outlying rural and tribal regions, in suburbs of the capital and in cities such as Hama and Homs demanding an end to his autocratic rule.

Four militants and one soldier were killed in a clash in southern Yemen Sunday. The September 26 government website said the clash took place in the town of Zinjibar in Abyan province, but it gave no more details. Residents of the main southern city of Aden also reported clashes in districts of Dar Saad when militants attacked an army patrol and al-Hiswa when security forces hit two civilians while pursuing suspected militants. No deaths were reported.