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Ayoon Wa Azan (Between the Brutality of the Regime and Fragmentation of the Opposition)
Published in AL HAYAT on 27 - 04 - 2012

In Syria, the regime sees the situation as it wants to see it, and its supporters purport that it has already triumphed. Meanwhile, the opposition sees the situation as it wants to see it, and in turn claims that the regime will collapse in a matter of days.
I will not say that the government and the opposition deserve one another, but only that the Syrian people deserve both a better government and a better opposition. The Syrian people alone are paying the price, between the brutal crackdown of the regime and the fragmentation and fecklessness of the opposition.
I condemn the killing of any Syrian citizen, for it is his right to protest and dissent. But I will suffice myself with the above with regard to my views on both sides of the conflict in Syria, and move on to another aspect of the crisis that is causing me a lot of concern.
Some Arab countries called for sending arms to the opposition, and others threatened to intervene militarily. However, the Arab countries are incapable of acting on their statements, even if we accept the premise that they are acting out of good faith and out of sympathy with the Syrian people.
As regards the Western parties calling for arming the Syrian opposition or for direct military intervention, then I place all these under the same category of hostility to Arabs and Muslims, and the bid to undermine them in the service of Israel.
There are clear examples of this:
- Senators Joe Lieberman, Lindsey Graham and John McCain, called for arming the Free Syrian Army. The same senators were supporters of the war on Iraq, which killed one million Muslims, and they no doubt aspire to see another Iraqi scenario in Syria.
- Worse than the above, if that is at all possible, is the fact that around 50 Likudnik Americans, who owe their allegiance solely to Israel while claiming – in order to appear American – that they are neoconservatives, signed and sent a letter to President Barack Obama on 19/12/2011. The letter was inspired by the Libyan scenario to ask for American intervention in Syria. Then on 17/2/2012, they sent another letter with the same gist, and the signatories to it included the advocates of the war on Iraq, or the most despicable of humans, advocates like William Kristol, Max Boot, Michael Ledeen, Danielle Pletka, Joshua Muravchik and John Podhoretz.
- Ms. Samantha Power, who heads a ‘scandal-prevention council', wants the U.S. to intervene in Syria as it did in Libya, as though Libya is now an exemplary democracy.
- The Holocaust merchant Elie Wiesel asked President Obama, as he introduced him at a ceremony in the Washington Holocaust Museum, “"So in this place we may ask: Have we learned anything from it (i.e. the alleged Western failure to stop the Holocaust)? If so, how is it that Assad is still in power?” He also asked: Why doesn't America move against Iran? (For Israel's interests alone).
This is chutzpah that only a Holocaust merchant is capable of. The Holocaust is a fact, but it happened 65 years ago. Meanwhile, Israel kills, destroys and occupies every day, but Wiesel fails to see any features of its neo-Nazism. Furthermore, the Holocaust claimed the lives of six million Jews, so how can this enormous number be compared with nine thousand casualties in Syria?
Once again, such chutzpah is expected only from a Holocaust merchant.
- Nicolas Sarkozy accused Bashar al-Assad of lying. While I do not deny the charge, I want to say that Sarkozy is the last person who can make such accusations against others. For one thing, he had attempted to entice Bashar al-Assad in order to do service by Israel, and invited him to Paris where he gave him a warm reception. Then when he discovered that he cannot deal with Benjamin Netanyahu, the biggest liar in the world, his enthusiasm faltered, and he began to reach out to the Syrian opposition in the hope of serving Israel in a different way. I hope that Sarkozy will be driven out of the Elysée on the sixth of next month, because he brought France nothing but misery.
- The Christian Science Monitor, a newspaper which has become exclusively online, and which is the mouthpiece of a Christian cult, wrote about the containment of chemical weapon stockpiles in Syria. But why does this newspaper not write about the containment of the Israeli nuclear arsenal? The regime is harming its own people, but Israel is a terrorist state that has occupied the lands of the Palestinians, killed and destroyed in neighboring countries, and practiced terrorism and assassinations all around the world.
I have many tidbits like the above. Once again, I say that I gave my opinion of the Syrian government and the opposition right in the beginning. As for the examples I cited, these involve known enemies of the Arabs and Muslims, enemies who want to put Syria in the same position as Iraq, and no one should be fooled by them.


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