– “تنازلات” يقدمها الأسد بيده اليمنى اليوم سيأخذها بيده اليسرى غداً إذا سمحنا له أن يبقى في السلطة، لايمكن لنا أن نثق بوعود الأسود، لذا لاينبغي أن نسمح لهم بالبقاء في السلطة بعد اليوم.
– لا تنازل، لا تخاذل، لا تراجع، لا استسلام، بل مضيّ إلى الأمام حتى يسقط النظام. لا مساومات، لا مفاوضات، لا نقاشات، لا حوارات، بل مضيّ إلى الأمام حتى يسقط النظام. لا سلام، لا كلام، لا طعام، لا نوام، بل مضيّ إلى الأمام حتى يسقط النظام. حتى يسقط النظام. حتى يسقط النظام. حتى يسقط النظام. حتى يسقط النظام.
By Eli Lake, The Washington Times
Syrian rebels who have shaken the regime in Damascus do not want U.S. assistance, at least for now, a Syrian dissident in close touch with the network of protesters told The Washington Times on Sunday.
Ammar Abdulhamid, who has emerged as an unofficial spokesman in the West for the activists organizing the Syrian protests, said, however, that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was wrong to refer to Syrian President Bashar Assad as a reformer on CBS News on Sunday. Continue reading “Syrian rebels don’t want U.S. aid, at least for now”
“Deadly protests may force Syria’s Assad to choose,” says the Christian Science Monitor, with a quote from me among others:
“After Friday and Saturday we can now say that what the Assad regime is facing is a grass-roots uprising for democracy,” says Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syrian democracy activist based in the United States. “Momentum has spread.”
After weeks of appearing immune to Arab world protests, Syria faces escalating unrest as soldiers opened fire on demonstrators. Jeffrey Brown discusses the protests with former U.S. Ambassador to Syria Theodore Kattouf and democracy activist and blogger Ammar Abdulhamid, who was exiled in 2005. Continue reading “Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Corleone Correlations”
