Stories of Syrian Refugees encapsulate the Arab World’s new Nakba – While some societies evolve, we stumble on from one Nakba to the next. We can blame the world as much as we want, and we will have a point, but change will not come until we acknowledge our part in our repeated victimization. “Canned” responses and ideologies will not produce the needed change.
Month: December 2013
Moonwalking in Syria
Moonwalking in Syria – latimes.com.
In an interview with the BBC, Ambassador Robert Ford said that the views expressed by former CIA Director, Michael Hayden, do not represent those held by the Obama Administration. But then, judging from past precedents, it seems that even views expressed by Obama do not represent those held by the Administration. The Administration’s real views remain unexpressed because they are unexpressable, in the sense that they are absolutely odious, as they include establishing working relations with a genocidal maniac, and supporting a stronger role for Iran in the region. These policies will be impossible to defend if articulated, so the Administration chose to dissimulate. And to moonwalk.
Ignore the conspiracy theories: Assad was behind the Syrian chemical weapons attack
While the world currently focuses on Al-Qaeda’s rise in Syria and the growing role of Islamist rebels and foreign Jihadists and the assortment of war crimes they are committing, the fictitious and the real, we should not lose sight of certain well-established facts, facts that remain indisputable to those with sound minds and souls, namely: that the Assad regime and its sectarian militias (Syrian, Lebanese, Iraqi and Afghan), now assisted by foreign mercenaries from Russia and Greece (that we know of), are the major perpetrators of atrocities in Syria, in fact, they are the purveyors of genocide. And that chemical attack in Ghoutah that left close to 1,500 dead, it’s has their fingerprints all over it, so stop believing lies.
News Outlets Urge Syria Rebels to Halt Abductions
News Outlets Urge Syria Rebels to Halt Abductions – ABC News.
If these news outlets took a serious look at the reports their journalists have been producing since the beginning of the Revolution they would know that there are two parties involved in kidnapping journalists in Syria: the regime and Al-Qaeda. They would also know that moderate rebels have consistently been involved in protecting journalists or trying to secure their release from their captors by offering prisoner exchange deals when the regime was involved, with the regime always rejecting such offers, or, on occasions, by attacking Al-Qaeda hideouts and securing the release of kidnapped journalists by force.
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