Lost Pleasure and Other Ramblings (by SYRIAN HAMSTER)

I was told in argument on SC that it is no longer pleasurable to read my posts. As if I care,… this is not a competition for the most pleasant piece of literature. It is a battle forced on Syrians by a regime being defended, hyped, and constantly propped up by a bunch of people with primitive fears trying to hide innate sectarianism, believe of entitlement, and a maddening cocktail of inferiority-insecurity-superiority complexes.

How dare those trying to play both sides claim that the people of Syria want to burn their country?  None of the revolutionaries, the FSA, or even Jihadists who may have entered the line here and there is flying Migs aircraft, driving tanks, and positioning mid-range artillery guns to prepare areas for the hordes of Assad barbarians by bombarding Syria’s cities one after another. It is the criminal regime, empowered by the cowardice of the shifty “against the regime but not with the revolution”, by the subhuman ethics of its defenders, by a primitive fear-based cult, and a group of anti-something fools, who never managed to join the 21st century and still reach orgasm imagining yet one more totalitarian system’s victory against forces of progress and civility. Zakraria Tamer is right, it is a regime empowered by Ignorance, arrogance, audacity, pettiness, stupidity and foolishness. It is the Assad hyenas who keep saying Assad or we burn the country, and have been burning the country, and some people have the audacity to blame those whose homes and cities are being burned, those whose families are being murdered, and those whose brothers and sisters are being killed under torture for the catastrophe befalling the country, so that these cowards can feel superior to the masses and rest comfortable with a malformed conscious grown out of their elitism.

Anyone who points the finger at the citizen who takes up arm to defend his neighborhood from the hyena packs instead of pointing the finger at the head hyena is a participant in the murder, an enabler of the sub-human regime, and is a part of the problem.

The most common theme in the writing of this class of cowards is their disingenuous declaration of sadness for the people of the country being massacred because “some people” want the toppling of the regime at all costs. Now it is us who are being rigid, and not the bastards of Damascus and their packs of hyenas hell-bent on burning the country and their enablers in Syria and elsewhere who propagate false stories, perform intellectual prostitution through shady articles accusing everyone of being on the pay of someone, whilst they refuse to declare the names of their financial and academic backers.  So let us look at some of the fatal logical flaws in their set of arguments. Take the above argument, for example. It is mostly directed at SNC. Here are some of the statements

SNC is causing the mayhem by tricking people into fighting the regime for their own political agenda (aiming to deny the people on the street the legitimacy of free will to fight back… they are tricked)….

and

SNC is incompetent, it has no legitimacy, nor the backing of Syrians, its members are greedy,…. And so on. .

Does anyone see the contradiction of the two statements, most of the time present within a single regime-propagandist (or indirect apologist) paragraph. I will not try to pontificate like the foolish assad, so you pick it yourself.

However, there is an important undertone of the first statement, not only as an attempt to deny the popular character of the revolution,  but also as a disgusting cowardly attempt to normalize the regime’s criminal violence, by implicitly accepting such non-human violence as the only possible, expected, must live with response. This also takes a more sinister form by blaming Qatar, KSA, Israel, US, and others for the follies of the stupid Syrians, who brought on themselves the wrath of this regime, rather deservingly because they have collaborated, directly or indirectly with the west. How deceitful and sinister.  These are the same people who instead of accusing the Assad hyena gangs of burning the country, look at those striving for dignity and freedom and blame them for destroying the country.  Sadly, these same bunch of ethically and morally challenged characters would drive themselves and others into fits of indignation if anyone suggested that hizbullah had any responsibility in instigating the murderous Israeli campaign against Lebanon or Gaza. I believe that they are somehow angry that Israel was successful in neutralizing Hizbullah and Hamas, at least militarily after a significantly shorter period of murderous bombardment and with less damage and lives lost than the damage their regime has wrought and lives lost to protect their cult master, while on the other hand, their beloved fool still can’t do the same in Syria. It is also the same people who are now advertising the regime as the best protection Israel has against the “islamist” monster, but fail to reconcile with their own rhetoric, when cornered by the persistent, no prisoner taken style of someone like AIG. I refused Israel’s defenders logic then, and I refuse Assad’s apologists logic now.  

What they miss, really miss, is that toppling this regime is no longer a political quest, it is now a human and civilization necessity. And Syrians are paying the price to join civilization and civility again. There is no question in my mind that when speaking of regime apologists, cover and overt,  their humanity did not fail them, the failed and continue to fail humanity with every word they utter.

I happen to believe that the demise of the Syrian Regime and its bosom body in Iran would be the first condition for stability in this region.  Sustainable peace will come after stability…. Any fool knows that. And if these liars try to accuse me of being an Israel friendly, all I have to do is to remind them that in their narrow sectarian mindset, it was them who tried to sell the regime to Israel as its guarantor starting with Rami Makhlouf and not ending with the characters on SC.

I am not bitter, … I am repulsed and disgusted.

Who are SNC:

I also encounter so much hype from both sides about SNC members and how they spend their time in five stars hotels. For many members of SNC, especially the younger, ground active members, this could not be further from the truth. A few have lost their jobs because of the demand of their work. Others barely have enough to survive and they are living in far worst conditions than those using the broadest of brushes to paint SNC in bad picture. As a political organization, SNC’s record is mixed, with more negative than positive. But please do not belittle the sacrifices of many of its members, who could have continued t o live comfortable lives, with reasonably paying professional jobs, but chose otherwise for the sake of Free Syria.

On Asef, Ikhtiar, and the rest of the Gang

I Don’t believe in hell and heaven, so my word is Good riddance.

On the West

Unlike the regime, who is has surrendered Syrian Sovereignty to Iran and Russia at the pleasure of a few Russian agents pretending to be journalists, researches, and commentators, the revolution is beholden to no one.  We will bring down the regime, punish those who ordered and committed atrocities and crimes against humanity (even if they defect from this point on), and build a new Syria. Syrians may not have many friends willing to fight on their behalf, but they will have plenty of friend as they embark on rebuilding their country.  Mark my words. We just have to think in long terms and recognize that it is not easy to deprogram an adult elephant of its thin rope. It may take the next generation for freely roaming elephants.

Someone Else’s FB Rambling

I leave you with a FB status written a while a go by one of my friends, It is written in Arabic and it is far more concise than my writing above.

القتل فرضه النظام وليس المجلس الوطني أو الجيش السوري الحر رغم مساويء كل منهما
توصيف وضع المعارضه الان واتهام أطرافها الرئيسة بالسعي نحو السلطه وبأنها شهود زور على حرق البلد وبان من وقف مع الثورة من المثقفين يريد التغيير فقط للتغيير يخدم دعاية النظام وشبيحته الذين يتهمون الثورة بأنها وراء خراب البلد محاولين التغطيه على الشعار المقيت “الاسد أو نحرق البلد” …
كفاكم تباكيا واستخفافا بعقولنا ولو كان ذلك عن حسن نيه … لاتريدون الانضمام الى الثورة لخوفكم من الطاغية .. أنتم أحرار.. ولكن لا تلعبوا دور الغربان في وقت حرج كهذا … نحن لا نحتاج تعففكم عن الدماء … فأنتم طاهرون ومثاليون … أما نحن الرعاع فقد فرض علينا الدم …

لا يا سادتي … لستم انسانيون أكثر منا .. ولستم حضاريون أكثر
تذكروا أن من فرض الدم هو النظام الذي لازلتم تتخوفون من فوضى زواله …

Translation:

Murder and death were forced by the regime and not by the SNC or the FSA despite of their deficiencies. Over-analyzing the state of the opposition, and accusing its various components of running after power and of being false witnesses to the burning of the country and accusing intellectuals who side with the revolution of being after change for mere change only serves the regime’s propaganda and its thugs who are accusing the revolution of being behind the destruction of the country in their attempt to cover for the contemptible slogan “Assad or we Burn the Country” .

Stop decrying and stop your disregard and insult on our intelligence, even if you mean well. If you don’t want to join the revolution for fear of the tyrant, then don’t, you are Free. But don’t become craws at a critical time like this.  We don’t need your prudery of blood for you are the pure idealists. As for us, the mob, blood was forced upon us.

No sirs,   you are not more humane than us, nor are you more civilized.  And remember, blood was forced on us by the regime, whose demise you are so afraid of .

Posted on July 26, 2012, in Arab Spring, Crimes Against Humanity, Syria, Syrian Regime Crimes Against Humanity and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. 175 Comments.

  1. MUndas,

    Why do you think those soldiers did not defect earlier ?

  2. Jordan is treating Syrian refugees like common criminals, UAE and Kuwait are refusing visas and deporting Syrian activists en-masse, and Brotherly Egypt is still allowing Russian, Iranian, Chinese and Assadist ships carrying weapons to cross the Suez Canal.

    Meanwhile the sadistic Algerian generals and sectarian Iraqi regime are still providing Arab cover to the Assads at the UN.

    Fear God O Arabs.

  3. Ay Mundas, that shot in the arm was well needed. Thank you !

  4. Riyad Hijab urges other officials to defect, says regime on the brink of collapse
    (insh’allah)

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/14/syria-regime-brink-collapse-riyad-hijab

  5. Antoine,

    The video you asked to be translated is basically and interrogation of captured regime soldiers done in Daraa camp by someone who sounds Hourani, (it seems they are just conscripts from all over the country). He asks them to give their names and where they’re from. The one who says he’s from BabaAmr is then criticized “and you say it with pride, do you?” “But I was captured by the Regular Army and forced to fight with them”, he replied. “How come you didn’t defect, though we have raided police stations and check points many times and had chances to defect?” “I tried but…”
    Then the interrogator goes on and asks each of them where he is from and if there is fighting and killing in his home town and how come he didn’t do anything about it or defect. “Shame on you you call yourselves Syrian while the butchering and tashbeeh goes on! You’r more like Iranian shabbiha than Syrians! What can we say, here we have BabaAmr, Halab, Hama, Dimashq all of you are our brothers and you kill and butcher us…shame, shame and tfou (spit) on such people for not protecting Syrian honor (reference to rapes, obviously).

    This video and others that are listed at the end of it are very disturbing. I am sure you heard the slapping and shouting going on in the background and the terrible state of that man from BabaAmr and the fear in the eyes of all of the men. The other videos also show captured Iraqi (Moqtada Al-Sadr men, we’re told) who had been tortured and one ominously tells that the man will meet his punishment.

    Dear OTW, would consider going back to having just the youtube video likns instead of embeding?

  6. Florence Aubenas interviewed on France Inter on her stay in Aleppo (en français)

    http://www.franceinter.fr/emission-l-invite-florence-aubenas

  7. Encore une fois, merci umm nuwâs de cette excellente interview. I wish we had thumbs

  8. MGB,

    Actually I did find the interrogator’s accent strange, especially the way he was saying “Hama”. Daraawi/Hourani accent is similar to Jordanian accent do you think ? I mean do you think this accent will stand out in a typical Shami crowd ?

    Btw why do you find physical abuse against regime soldiers and shabbiha to be disturbing ?

  9. Another thing which disturbs me regarding neighboring countries’ Syruian refugee policy is the way they are discriminating among the Syrian refugees.

    Turkey for example has a more favorable policy regarding the Turkman refugees from Lattakia and Halab. I have been hearing that Turkmen FSA Brigades in Reef Latakia and Reef Halab are getting some weapons supplies secretly by sympathetic Turkish intelligence officers, while regular FSA brigades are denied this privilege.

    Jordan also, where a few Syrian tribes and clans, mainly from Daraa, are given exclusive right to live with their relatives and clansmen in al-Ramtha and Mafraq near the Border, while Palestinian refugees from Syria are denied access to Jordan altogether.

  10. MUndas,

    Why do you think those soldiers did not defect earlier ?

    Antoine,
    As you may have understood from mgb’s translation, those soldiers did not defect. They were caught while they were still with the regime. In a way, I sympathize with them. It is not easy to defect. Everyone of us should feel lucky we were not put in their position. I have come across relatives of killed soldiers by the mukhabarat because they refused to shoot at protesters. I have met someone recently whose relative was killed along with seven other soldiers because they refused or were not cooperating and shooting at civilians. The kid called his mother one time crying while his mother was begging him not to shoot at anyone. The kid told his mom “mama, my superior مقدم already threatened me”. A few days later, he was shot dead along with his friends, and his family was begging to get his dead body back.
    My answer to your question is, if they defect where do they go? I believe defections will get easier from this point on because the whole country is in an upheaval. 
    We all understand the effects of a totalitarian, criminal regime on a society and its members. Everyone is politicized now. Everyone has chosen sides by now. A broader way of phrasing your question is “how could someone defend or support this criminal regime after what’s happened?” who in the history of mankind bombed his own cities? And i think that the scum of the scum are those living outside the country and defending the regime. It takes a Phd to answer these questions. 

    To answer your other question “Btw why do you find physical abuse against regime soldiers and shabbiha to be disturbing” 

    As someone who lived outside Syria longer than I have lived inside, I say it is much easier for those living outside to rationalize events. It is also good to have voices calling for human rights etc… But as someone currently living in Syria, I’m more radicalized than I ever thought I would ever be. As an example, I, and everyone I know, were thrilled to hear the bombing of the Syrian Ikhbaria TV station. I am a firm believer in the freedom of the press. That channel was anything but a mukhabarat branch. I would’ve felt bad if they ever allowed free press in Syria. I didn’t mind seeing the execution of the Berri gang in Aleppo. Realistically, these things will happen. But compared to what the criminal regime has done, it was nothing. We have lived the regime’s atrocities for the past year and half. Again, I don’t mind the voices calling for human rights. But who can rationalize with victims, the widows, the orphans, and the displaced?. We live this misery every single moment in Syria. I say that because when I travel outside Syria, I get distracted and get my mind off the misery even if it’s for a few hours a day.

    On a positive note, I will say again that I had never been more proud as a Syrian than I have been since the start of the revolution. As hard as it tried, the criminal regime was not able to destroy every Syrian. There’s a huge segment of the society that is caring and supporting the distressed. You will not believe how Syrians are looking out for each other. That’s what sustained the revolution. I believe the revolution has passed its mid point, so the happy ending is near.

    I am sooooo proud to be Syrian. When this is over I’m going to buy the new Syrian flag and hang it outside my home. I never owned a flag before.

  11. The treatment of the Syrian refugees by neighboring countries is appalling. It has improved somewhat recently. But up to about three weeks ago, seeing some families being turned back, especially those from restive areas, makes you cry. it seems like Jordan wants to get paid, Lebanon is not an independent  country, and neither is Iraq.
    I get annoyed when I see people criticize Turkey. Turkey has done more for the revolution than any other country in the world. They hosted the opposition and refugees. Some people want Turkey to fight our war, thus displaying ignorance about democracies. Unlike ASSad and his likes, in a democacy, you have to convince the 50% that didn’t vote for you why it’s in their national interest to wage a war.

  12. Dear Mundas, I posted your comments on my English blog and shall translate them into French.

  13. Syria, under the leadership of the two ASSes can be described as a perpetual horror story in the 80s, and for the past 17 months. Endless tragedies and loss of lives with no end, at least, in the foreseeable future. While the regime in Damascus is escalating its bombardment with long range artillery, as well intensifying its air strikes on civilians, one cannot but keep questioning the world’s reaction…

  14. Syria is shrinking under our watchful eyes!

    What’s as alarming, is the sizable segment of our Syrian society who are still trying hard to legitimize the mass murders of their hero. The traitorous regime, ASS & Co., audaciously pulled back most of its forces from the north-eastern border with Turkey, while Syrian Kurds have filled in the vacuum and Kurdish flags fly all over the town of Qamishli.

    Is it not alarming, that after all the atrocities, the so called civilized world did not make an explicit call for their ASS to quit?

    Is Turkey the intended target? Oh, but No, Syria is tooooo complicated.

    Sadly, rather than looking at the big picture, we are busy with tit for tat.

  15. Organisation of Islamic Cooperation suspends Syria!!!!! Wowwwww

    How will that help Syrians, where can they exchange this suspension with tangible benefits on the ground.

    The kings and princes are no less traitors than the one in Syria, constantly feeling their back heads… people are dying, while they are suspending one of their own, pathetic..

  16. Mundas,

    It is very appalling that the UN and all the rich contries of the World are not paying for the Syrian refugees. I think especially the OIC should do its part, especially since its Ramadan. The World has lots of money to burn.

    Jordan and Turkey have been crying out loud for money for the refugees but it is outrageous that USA has its door shut.

    I mean what are a few hundred billion Dollars for the rich countries of the World ? Nothing..

  17. Attention all Revolution supporters,

    Please make public the names, addresses and all personal details of any Syrian Arab Air Force Pilot if you have such information.

    You can make available such information public in any public space.

    OBSERVER,

    You have mentioned that you have received a list of Syrian Arab AirForce pilots and their personal details. I will request you to publish that list on SyriaComment.

    From now on, if any Revolution supporter comes across personal details of Air Force employees, such information will have to be made public.

    There is already a campaign to locate the families of Air Force pilots who are living in rebel-controlled areas. It will be very useful if we can locate and arest familes of Syrian Arab Air Force officers.

  18. Guardian reporter Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Azaz

    2h 9m ago
    Reporter describes the scene in Azaz

    Guardian reporter Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, speaking on the phone from Azaz near the Turkish border, describes the scene following yesterday’s airstrike by Syrian government forces.

    Between 3.15 and 3.30 two bombs hit the town – one in the middle of a cluster of houses, leaving a circle which is just a big empty space. Around it are collapsed buildings and others that are half-collapsed.

    When I arrived, there was a heavy stench of death and they were pulling a body out, but it was only the head. They kept digging. Kids were lifting big boulders and finding bits of flesh and bones.

    One of the houses was the home of Fadhel Danoun. Twenty-five of his family were killed. One daughter, Umma Ahmad, survived.

    It was a poor section of town. Sixty-four houses have collapsed or fallen apart. People are still retrieving blankets, carpets and plastic shoes. A hundred metres away there are homes with parsley and mint still growing in their gardens.

    Another guy, Ahmad al-Aboud, who is 57, was standing on piles of concrete that were his home. He said he didn’t hear a plane. There was a big explosion like an earthquake.

    He said: “We’re all poor workers’ families. We don’t even have a gun in this area.”

    The injured have been taken to Turkey. People say they don’t blame the Syrian regime so much as the Saudis, Qataris, Turks and Americans for failing to help them.

    A Syrian man reacts after seeing the body of his relative buried in rubble after an air strike destroyed houses in the town of Azaz. A Syrian man reacts after seeing the body of his relative buried in rubble after an air strike destroyed in Azaz yesterday. Photograph: Khalil Hamra/AP

    Updated 1h 55m ago

  19. Antoine and Mundas,

    “why do you find physical abuse against regime soldiers and shabbiha …disturbing ?”

    Because the revolutionaries (FSA et al) are supposed to be the good guys, and the good guys don’t just do what their oppressors have been doing to them, just because they can.

    The Syrian people have been demanding justice, dignity, the rule of law, and due process. Is torturing prisoners just and dignified; is that how the rule of law due process work? Has anyone conducted a proper investigation to find out if the captives were participating in the attacks against their fellow country folk willingly and gladly or under coercion and the threat of being shot in the back? What could I or you or any beni-Adam do if one were a conscript or even an opposition fighter or sympathizer who was caught by the regime thugs and told to fight with them, that I’m being watched and any wrong moves and I’d get a bullet in the back of the head?

    As to bombing regime propaganda outlets, I think it is imperative that the FSA, SNC and all other resistance groups issue a loud and clear warning to every person that works in such establishments (make it by direct broadcast and using the specific organization’s name) that their names have been collected and their conduct, words and actions, is being closely watched and that once the regime has fallen they will have to account for what they have done and face the consequences their actions and words. Remember what happened to Nazi collaborators in France?

    And if there are people who are hell-bent on carrying out suicide missions wouldn’t the Russian ships carrying arms and munitions to the regime be a much more suitable target?
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    RE foreign aid to refugees, the Australian govt. as well as the French and Canadian (I think the US too, no?) are doing/giving something, maybe not as much as we’d like, but BTN, I say:

    http://www.ausaid.gov.au/HotTopics/Pages/Display.aspx?QID=752
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/08/11/baird-syria-refugee.html
    http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/14534598/syria-refugees-fear-long-stay-as-french-aid-reaches-jordan/

  20. Interview with Florence Aubenas (Le Monde édition abonnés)

    Florence Aubenas : “Les rebelles syriens n’ont aucun doute : ils vont gagner”

    Le Monde.fr | 16.08.2012 à 22h02 • Mis à jour le 17.08.2012 à 07h29

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    Florence Aubenas.

    Pendant plusieurs semaines, la reportrice du Monde Florence Aubenas était en Syrie pour couvrir le conflit. Elle a répondu aux questions des internautes lors d’un chat organisé le jeudi 16 août.

    Est-ce que vous vous sentiez menacée en tant que femme lorsque vous suiviez des combattants en Syrie?

    Florence Aubenas : Pas du tout. En général, être une femme sur les lieux de combat m’a plutôt semblé un avantage, jusqu’ici en tout cas : cela évite les surenchères ou les défis que ce type de situations suscitent parfois. Les gens font tout pour vous aider : lorsque des hélicoptères se sont mis à tirer à Alep, les premiers jours, les habitants se bousculaient tous pour m’inviter à me mettre à l’abri chez eux.

    Ça vous fait quoi d’être une journaliste “embedded” dans la rébellion ? Vous pensez faire votre travail honnêtement ?

    Florence Aubenas : Ce n’est pas un choix d’être “seulement” aux côtés de la rébellion : c’est une obligation dans le cas de figure syrien. Les journalistes n’ont actuellement pas de visa officiel (à l’exception de quelques-uns) : il nous faut donc entrer dans le pays clandestinement et continuer à y vivre et à y travailler de la même manière. Pas d’hôtel, pas de location de voiture, aucun des circuits habituels. Le seul réseau par lequel nous pouvons passer est celui des Syriens engagés, c’est-à-dire des opposants au régime, militaires ou pas.

    Comptez-vous rejoindre l’armée régulière si vous en avez la possibilité ?

    Florence Aubenas : “Rejoindre” n’est pas le mot que j’utiliserais. Mais, oui, j’aimerais aussi couvrir ce conflit de l’autre côté, si j’en avais la possibilité.

    Quel est l’état d’esprit de la population à Alep ? Est-ce qu’on parle d’une “ville fantôme” ou plutôt d’une ville qui vit malgré l’horreur des combats ?

    Florence Aubenas : A Alep, je ne suis allée que dans les quartiers qui étaient sous le contrôle des forces rebelles. La raison en est simple : je n’avais pas de visa officiel et se faire arrêter par les militaires du régime aurait été extrêmement dangereux.

    Dans les secteurs de la ville que j’ai vus, les gens ont commencé à fuir aux premiers jours du conflit. C’était vraiment une ville fantôme. Personne dans les rues, tous les magasins fermés, pas une voiture : un vrai décor de cinéma. Les gens ont commencé à y revenir petit à petit. Les combats n’avaient pas ralenti, mais chacun avait fini par s’y “habituer”. Les marchés ont repris, les habitants ne se mettaient même plus à l’abri quand un avion apparaissait dans le ciel. Cette accoutumance à la violence est une des choses les plus terribles dans les conflits.

    Martine : Quelle est la situation alimentaire à Alep ? Et la situation des quartiers de la ville qui ne sont pas tenus par les “rebelles” ? Les soins médicaux sont-ils encore possibles?

    Florence Aubenas : A Alep, capitale économique du pays, les seules entreprises que la guerre n’a pas arrêtées sont celles qui fabriquent la farine et le pain ! Pour l’instant, la situation alimentaire ne pose pas de problème. Le Croissant-Rouge fait des distributions dans certaines villes, mais toutes n’en ont pas besoin ; il y a énormément de solidarité, à la fois pour la nourriture et pour l’hébergement.

    Les soins médicaux sont plus compliqués : en fait, la Turquie (à quarante minutes d’Alep), qui soutient les rebelles, a ouvert ses hôpitaux aux blessés syriens. Cela dit, beaucoup de gens continuent de mourir, faute de soins. Dans les quartiers toujours tenus par le régime, la situation est bien plus calme : par définition, ils sont à l’abri des bombardements et des chars.

    Ressent-on encore la révolte populaire à Alep ou n’est-ce plus qu’une guerre civile ?

    Florence Aubenas : Il y a un mot qui fait hurler tous les opposants au régime, celui de “guerre civile”. Pour eux, c’est une “révolution”, au sens où ils veulent renverser le régime. La manière dont ils définissent eux-mêmes le sens de leur combat est une lutte contre les injustices du régime.

    Cette dimension de liberté et de dignité reste très forte dans un pays où il est interdit de regarder une autre chaîne que les télévisions officielles, même chez soi. Maintenant, la guerre a sa propre dynamique ; elle amène les gens à se radicaliser, alors qu’ils ne se sentaient pas spécialement impliqués au début.

    L’influence de djihadistes “salafistes” étrangers fait l’objet d’une controverse intense entre le pouvoir régulier et les rebelles. Avez-vous des éléments sur cette question ?

    Florence Aubenas : Oui, c’est l’argument principal du régime contre les rebelles. Dans la région du Nord où j’ai passé un mois, je n’en ai pas rencontré. Il serait impossible pour des combattants étrangers d’y passer inaperçus : la rébellion recrute par famille, par village. Tout le monde se connaît, loge au même endroit.

    J’ai longuement interrogé des commandants sur l’existence de camps d’entraînement ou de soldats venus d’ailleurs. Eux non plus n’en connaissaient pas. Autre élément : la manière dont les rebelles se battent montrent la pauvreté de leur moyens, en armes et même en nourriture. Il n’y a même pas une kalachnikov par personne. Je pense que si Al-Qaida les épaulait, ils auraient moins de difficultés face à l’armée de Bachar Al-Assad. Cela dit, il faut rester modeste : la situation peut être différente dans d’autres parties du pays.

    Croyez-vous à une explosion de la Syrie en différents États ethniques ou religieux ?

    Florence Aubenas : C’est l’une des grandes théories sur l’après-Bachar : tous les alaouites vont se réfugier dans la zone côtière, où ils sont majoritaires, et créer une sorte d’Etat indépendant, laissant le reste du pays aux sunnites. Certains soutiennent même que cette solution, façon ex-Yougoslavie, est le plan secret du président. Je reste assez sceptique : beaucoup de Syriens de tous bords restent très attachés à leur pays. Il y a un sentiment national très fort.

    Les rebelles croient-ils en leur chance de victoire ?

    Florence Aubenas : Ils n’ont aucun doute : ils vont gagner. Cette conviction dans la victoire est même leur arme principale.

    Khadija H. : Quelles sont les attentes des “rebelles” vis-à-vis de la communauté internationale?

    Florence Aubenas : Cette question revient toujours dès qu’on interviewe les rebelles : “Pourquoi personne ne nous aide ?” Elle s’adresse à la fois aux pays arabes et aux pays occidentaux. En même temps, ils restent assez philosophes. Certains répètent : on se bat seuls et on gagnera seuls.

    Victor RF : Un rapport affirme que des crimes de guerre ont été commis par l’ASL. Que pouvez-vous nous dire sur cela ? Comment sont traités les prisonniers ?

    Florence Aubenas : J’ai vu, personnellement, des soldats de l’armée rebelle exécuter au moins un sniper qu’ils avaient capturé pendant un combat de rue à Alep. C’est un crime de guerre. Il y en a certainement eu d’autres. La diffculté est de dire : est-ce que ce sont des exceptions ou est-ce une méthode systématique ? Du côté des gradés, on affirme que les soldats ont l’ordre de ne pas s’y livrer, mais je pense que des enquêtes devront avoir lieu.

    Quant aux prisonniers, certains ont été maltraités, pas de doute non plus. Je les ai vus, visiblement battus et maltraités pour certains. Human Rights Watch est en train de boucler un rapport là-dessus. L’armée rebelle a promis d’y participer. On attend la suite, il faut être très vigilant.

    Victor RF : Les versions de l’ASL et de l’armée officielle sont parfois contradictoires. La guerre se joue t-elle également sur le plan de la communication ?

    Florence Aubenas : Bien sûr ! Le même jour, les deux armées ont parfois annoncé en même temps qu’elles maîtrisaient le même quartier. La guerre s’est doublée d’une bataille de communication. Je pense qu’aujourd’hui, c’est inéluctable. Une des premières mesures de l’armée libre, en entrant dans Alep, a été de nommer un “responsable de la presse”. C’était assez cocasse, car nous étions trois journalistes dans la ville à ce moment-là, aucune ligne de téléphone ne passait et le responsable en question n’était jamais joignable.

    Nono : Y a-t-il des alaouites parmi les rebelles?

    Florence Aubenas : Alep et toute la zone nord, où j’étais, constituent une région sunnite presque à cent pour cent. Il y a quelques Kurdes et quelques chrétiens, mais pas de communautés alaouites. Il n’y en avait donc pas dans les troupes rebelles que j’ai vues. En revanche, dans les villes de Homs, de Hama, de Damas, qui sont mixtes, quelques alaouites se sont enrôlés. Ils restent très minoritaires. La dimension de révolte des sunnites contre les alaouites, considérés comme favorisés par le régime, est très forte dans ce conflit.

    Existe-t-il une haine entre les communautés alaouite et sunnite en Syrie ?

    Florence Aubenas : Je crois que cette haine existe dans certaines zones mixtes, où les gens se sont retrouvés confrontés les uns aux autres. Je pense à Homs ou à Damas, où des voisins qui s’appréciaient ont pu s’enrôler, les uns, dans les milices pro-Bachar, les autres, côté rebelles. Dans les zones majoritaires, sunnites ou alaouites, cela se pose moins durement, on y parle davantage d’injustice que de haine. On n’y entend pas les gens prononcer des mots terribles ou même des menaces d’extermination les uns contre les autres, comme cela a pu être le cas au Rwanda ou en ex-Yougoslavie. Si le conflit s’éternise, le risque existerait que la haine gagne peu à peu tout le pays. Ce serait terrible.

    Léon Z : Y a-t-il des femmes, des enfants, des adolescents parmi les combattants rebelles ?

    Florence Aubenas : J’ai vu des adolescents de 16 ou 17 ans, mais ni femme ni enfant. Dans les grandes villes, les femmes ont participé aux manifestations, aux côtés des hommes ou dans des cortèges séparés. Cela ne se fait pas dans les campagnes. Beaucoup s’occupent de soins médicaux à domicile, font la cuisine pour les compagnies.

    Une victoire du régime est-elle envisageable ? On a l’impression que le régime a des ressources illimitées et a l’avantage par rapport aux opposants.

    Florence Aubenas : C’est vrai que le régime syrien a des alliés de poids, la Chine, la Russie, l’Iran, ce qui implique un armement important, une armée nombreuse, des finances. Cela dit, le poids des désertions, militaires et civiles, montre un régime littéralement pourri de l’intérieur. Près de trente pour cent de l’armée rebelle est composée de déserteurs de l’armée officielle.

    Ces éléments donnent aussi un thermomètre sur l’état réel des institutions et leurs capacités à garder l’avantage. On a parfois l’impression qu’en dehors d’un cercle de fidèles, de moins en moins de gens y croient, y compris à l’intérieur. Je pense que cela contre-balance les faibles ressources des rebelles.

    Le Monde.fr

  21. MGB,

    As long as the regime kills and tortures, the FSA have to do the same, otherwise they will be beaten into submission.

    This is a regime which belives in violence as a solution, I mean overwhelming violence such as sending jet planes to flatten entire towns.

    How will you fight a MiG-23s that can kill 500 people in a matter of minutes ?

    By kidnapping and killing Air Force pilots of course, totally neutralizing the Air Force by a lack of skilled personell.

  22. Fadi I: http://youtu.be/BOMB-WWWUuk

    I met Fadi at a demo and we became friends.
    I filmed this one hour testimony and shall film a shorter version in 3amiye.
    I need help with subtitling and shall try the resources offered by youtube. Yet if someone knows how to, can he/she write to me at anniebannie@skynet.be ?

  23. 275. ANNIE said:

    “Antoine !

    What is the matter with you ? This call to snitching and may be you will hit a pilot (or his family) who might not have killed a single civilian or revolutionary for that matter ?

    You are bringing us down to the level of the system.

    What is your nationality ? I am becoming suspicious”

    ________________________________________________________________

    By nationality I’m Canadian. Though I strongly identify with the City-State of HAMA in Syria.

    What about you ?

  24. Sorry to bother you, OTW, but there is something strange happening here and I wonder if the others are experiencing the same: first, all embedded youtube videos are appearing in my browsers (ie, opera and chrome) as a black rectangle. Second, Antoine is replying to a comment by Annie (apparently about his comment above at Antoine | August 16, 2012 at 10:02), but he uses a number (275). However, her original comment does not appear anywhere, so how could he have seen it and replied to it?! And how come there is a number to the comment? As far as I know comments do not have numbers here, no? Hope my computer hasent been infected by something :-(

  25. mgb hello and in spite of circumstances eid mubarak to all of you.
    As for Antoine, he answered a comment I made at Syria Comment, hence the number.
    About the videos, I don’t know.
    here are the links :
    Fadi II : http://youtu.be/TxZ3WXkzoHs
    Fadi III : http://youtu.be/lnM–vWwsfU

    The videos were not at all edited; hence I did not sign them.

  26. Thanks for that Annie.

  27. sonofdamascus

    mgb,

    Re: Black Boxes (I am assuming you are a PC user?)

    It could be two things:

    1- Flash Disabled: Tools -> Add-ons -> Plugins look for shockwave/Adobe Flash and check to see if it is enabled.

    2- Need to upgrade flash, or Flash got corrupted. Just download the latest one and it should be fine.
    http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/

    Hope that helps.

  28. Syria’s mentally retarded might consider resigning! To where? WAllah, WAllah ya Assad, even in hell you will not be spared..you’ve been on the loose for far too long causing death and havoc all around Syria and neighbouring countries. As the world has lost its conscience, we Syrians have lost our fear and on the way to regain our country.

  29. At least 20 journalists have been killed in Syria, the latest victim, Mika Yamamoto, who worked for the independent Japan Press news agency, was killed Monday during a gun battle in Aleppo. Bless her soul.

  30. Someone on Twitter was trying to find an explanation of Ass latest appearance. The Butcher has broken a record for the shortest Eid prayers, 11 minutes in total. He looked petrified and shaky.

    He was relieved to come upon a verse in the Qur’an that describes the likes of our dictator. I find his search and the Quranic verse noteworthy. The link:

    http://instagram.com/p/OoaIh4k2bE/

  31. Please start a campaign to stop Turkey from enforcing quotas for refugees. I am very very worried at Davutolu’s announcement that Turkey is “unable” to take in more than 100,000 refugees and that “welcoming the refugees in Syrian territory might be a good idea” WHO ARE YOU F***ING KIDDING ??

    In 1948 Syrians took in 500,000 Palestinians , in 2003 Syrians took in 1 million Iraqi refugees. Turkey is 5 times the size of Syria in terms of land area and population, and 10 times larger in terms of economy, WHO ARE YOU F***ING KIDDING MR. MINISTER that Turkey can’t take in more than 100,000 refugees – refugees who if they stay behind in Syria face a very very high probabality of death.

    Guys please start campaigning about this issue now on and SNC should take the lead – closing the door on Syrian refigees faces should be a red line.

    There are currently 70,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey and 30,000 more will reach within the next week going by current statistics from ildeb and Halab.

    Guys please lobby the Turkish Government NEVER to close the border on refugees faces. This might be good for AKP electorally, but Syrians will never forget who their friends were and who their enemies.

    OTW I expect you to inform your SNC contacts about this urgent issue. there should be absolutely no closing of borders for Syrian refugees, neither by Turkey nor by Jordan.

  32. Dawutoglu said clearly that Turkey will not take in more than 100,000 refigees and that it is a good idea to create a “safe zone/NFZ” within Northern Syria. While I applaud Mr. Davutoglu for taking this bold and admirable decision, both he and everyone knows that Turkey at this moment is unable to create such safe zopnes single-handedly. Clinton already told Turkey to take a hike as it is impossible that any big power will act unilaterally outside UNSC – and UNSC is hand-tied by Putin-China.

    So will Turkey shut the border on Syrians’ faces, the same way Hosni Mubarak did to Gaza in 2007 ?

    Also read my post above and please recognize the urgency of the situation.

    I have not posted this on SC becuase I do not want to give the roving bands of Menhebakijis there another chance to rejoice at the sufferings of Syrias who dared to protest against their Godly Ruler.


  33. Torture in hospitals

  34. “GENOCIDE” in Syria, they dare to call it “conflict” in Syria…

    Torture in hospitals! A damning report not for ASSad, of course, but for the Big ASSes claiming to be civilized, they are partners in crimes for allowing this genocide to continue for so long.. pretending to be unable to do anything.

    How much longer will Obama be forced to stay silent, how much longer will the rest of the Arab world, including those Sheiks who say they are Muslims, turn a blind eye on the Genocide and influx of refugees to neighbouring countries?

  35. The Arab World has let Syrians down big time, I am honestly especially astonished by the attitude of Egypt and Morsi, especially now that it has been known that Walid Muallem andWael al-Halqi will attend the NAM summit in Tehran, Mosri should absolutely refuse to be part of a gathering where Syrian officials are present.

    Should we remind Dr. Morsi that were he Syrian and not Egyptian, he will have been dead by now or rotting in prisons for daring to read the works of Sayyid Qutb.

    Also lets not forget that in the persistent refusal of NATO to consider a No-Fly Zone, the main reason they give is that the Arab League is against it, lets not forget how Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia and a number of other progressive Arab countries have repeatedly refused calls for a No-Fly-Zone and refused to stand beside Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

  36. Come on, whats wrong with the people on this blog, why so few commentators ? The only reason I keep away from 7ee6an is the utter lack of conversation due to the paucity of commentators.

    MGB, Hamster, OTW, where are you all ?

  37. “دمشق هي العاصمة الوحيدة في العالم التي لا تقبل القسمة على اثنين”

    انها دمشق

    ( كما يوصفها الشاعر والاديب العراقي مظفر النواب )

    شقيقة بغداد اللدودة، ومصيدة بيروت، حسد القاهرة، وحلم عمّان، ضمير مكة،
    غيرة قرطبة، مقلة القدس، مغناج المدن وعكاز تاريخ لخليفة هرم.‏‏‏‏‏

    إنها دمشق امرأة بسبعة مستحيلات، وخمسة أسماء وعشرة ألقاب، مثوى ألف ولي
    ومدرسة عشرين نبي، وفكرة خمسة عشر إله خرافي لحضارات شنقت نفسها على
    أبوابها.

    إنها دمشق الأقدم والأيتم، ملتقى الحلم ونهايته، بداية الفتح وقوافله،
    شرود القصيدة ومصيدة الشعراء.‏‏‏‏‏

    من على شرفتها أطلّ هشام ليغازل غيمة أموية عابرة،”أنى تهطلي خيرك لي ”
    بعد أن فرغ من إرواء غوطتها بالدم، ومنها طار صقر قريش حالماً، ليدفن تحت
    بلاطة في جبال البرينيه.‏‏‏‏‏

    إنها دمشق التي تحملت الجميع، متقاعسين وحالمين، صغار كسبة وثوريين، عابرين
    ومقيمين، مدمني عضها مقلمي أظفارها وخائبين وملوثين، طهرانين
    وشهوانيين….

    رَضَّعت حتى جفَّ بردى، فسارعت بدمها بشجرها وظلالها، ولما نفقت الغوطة،
    أسلمت قاسيونها (شامتها الأثيرة) يلعقونه يتسلقونه، يطلون منه على جسدها،
    ويدعون كل السفلة ليأخذوا حصتهم من براءتها، حتى باتت هذه مهنة من يحبها
    ومن لا يقوى على ذلك لكنها دمشق تعود فتية كلما شُرِقَ نقي عظامها.‏‏‏‏‏

    إنها دمشق أيها العرب العاربة والمستعربة قِبلة سياحكم، ومحط مطيكم، تمنح
    لقب الشيخ لكل من لبس صندلا واعتمر دشداشة ولا تعترف إلا بشيخها محي
    الدين بن عربي‏‏‏ ،هو من لم تتسع له الأرض، حضنته دمشق تحت ثديها وألبسته
    حياً من أحيائها فغنى لها ” كل ما لا يؤنث لا يعول عليه”

    ‏‏‏‏‏
    إنها دمشق لا تعبأ باثنين، الجلادين والضحايا، تؤرشفهم وتعيدهم بعد لأي
    على شكل منمنمات تزين بها جدرانها أو أخباراً في صفحات كتبها، فيتململ
    ابن عساكر قليلا يغسل يديه ويتوضأ لوجه الله ويشرع بتغطيس الريشة في
    المحبرة، لا ليكتب بل ليمرر الحبر على حروف دمشق المنجمة في كتابها
    دمشق التي تتقن كل اللغات ولا أحد يفهم عليها إلا الله جل شأنه وملائكة عرشه.‏‏‏‏‏

    دمرَّ هولاكو بغداد وصار مسلماً في دمشق، حرر صلاح الدين القدس وطاب
    موتاً في دمشق، قدم لها الحسين إبن علي ويوحنا المعمدان وجعفر البرمكي
    رؤوسهم كي ترضى دمشق، وما بين قبر زينب وقبر يزيد خمس فراسخ ودفلى على
    طريقة دمشق.

    ‏‏
    إنها دمشق لا تحب أحداً، ولا تعبأ بكارهيها، متغاوية ووقحة تركت عشاقها
    خارجاً بقسوة نادرة كي لا ينسفح الكثير من دمهم، وتتفرغ للغرباء الذين
    ظنوا أنفسهم أسيادها ليستفيقوا فجأة وإذ بهم عالقين تحت أظافرها.‏‏‏‏‏

    لديها من الغبار ما يكفي لتقص أثر من سرقها فتحيله متذرذراً على جسدها.‏‏‏‏‏
    لديها من العشاق ما يكفي حبر العالم.‏‏‏‏‏ من الأزرق ما يكفي لتغرق
    القارات الخمس .

    لديها من المآذن ما يكفي ليتنفس ملحديها عبق الملائكة، ومن المداخن
    ما يكفي “لتشحير” وجه الكون.‏‏‏‏‏

    ولديها من الوقت ما يكفي لترتب قبلة مع مُذنَّب عابر، ومن الشهوة ما يدعو
    نحل الكون لرحيقها.‏‏‏‏‏

    لديها من الصبر ما يكفي لتنتشي بهزة أرضية، ومن الأحذية و”الشحاحيط ”
    المعلقة في سوق الحميدية ما يكفي للاحتفال بخمسين دكتاتور.‏‏‏‏‏

    لديها من الحبال ما يكفي لنشر الغسيل الوسخ للعالم أجمع، ومن الشرفات ما
    يكفي سكان آسيا ليحتسوا قهوتها ويدخنوا سجائرهم على مهل.‏‏‏‏‏

    لديها من القبل ما يكفي كل حرمان المجذومين، ومن الصراخ ما يكفي ضحايا
    نكازاكي وهيروشيما‏‏‏‏‏

    لديها من النهايات ما يكفي ثمانين ألف رواية، ومن الأجنة ما يكفي لتشغيل
    الحروب القادمة.

    لديها شعراء بعدد شرطة السير، وقصائد بعدد مخالفات التموين، ونساء بكل
    ألوان الطيف وما فوق وتحت البنفسجي والأحمر.‏‏‏‏‏
    لا فضول لدمشق، لا تريد أن تعرف ولا أن تسرع الخطى، ثابتة على هيئة لغز،
    الكل يلهثُ يرمحُ يسبحُ، وهي تنتظرهم هناك إلى حيث سيصلون.‏‏‏‏‏

    دمشق هي العاصمة الوحيدة في العالم التي لا تقبل القسمة على اثنين في
    أرقى أحيائها تسمع وجع “الطبالة”، وفي ظلمة “حجرها الأسود” يتسلق كشاشي
    الحمام كتف قاسيون ليصطادوا حمامة شاردة من “المهاجرين”.‏‏‏‏‏

    دمشق لا تُقسم إلى محورين، فليست كبيروت غربية وشرقية، ولا كما القاهرة
    أهلي وزملكاوي ولا كما باريس ديغول وفيشي ولا هي مثل لندن شرق وغرب
    نهر التايمز ولا كمدن الخليج العربي مواطنين ووافدين ولن تكون كعمّان
    فدائيين وأردنيين، ولا كبغداد منطقة خضراء وأخرى بلون الدم ….‏‏‏‏‏

    دمشق مكان واحد فإذا طرقت باب توما ستنفتح نافذة لك من باب الجابية وإذا
    أقفل باب مصلى فلديك مفاتيح باب السريجة‏‏‏‏‏ وإن أضعت طريق الجامع الأموي ،
    ستدلك عليه ” كنيسة السيدة ”

    لا تتعب نفسك مع دمشق ولا تحتار فهي تسخر من كل من يدعي أنه يحميها
    ومن يهدد بترويضها، فتود أن تعانقها أو تهرب منها، تلتقط لها صورة أو
    تحمضها كلها، تود أن تدخلها فاتحاً أم سائحاً، مدافعا أو ضحية، ماحياً أو
    متذكراً كل شيء دفعة واحدة.‏‏‏‏‏

    فتخرج سيجارة حمرا طويلة تشعلها بخمسة أعواد كبريت ماركة” الفرس”، وتقول
    جملة واحدة للجميع (إنها دمشق )


  38. Admire the bedside manner of the reporter with that dying woman

  39. What will remain from Syria? Everything Syrian, is the answer.
    The price is already hefty, why because of ASSadism…is the author lamenting ASS rule or what?

    ماذا يبقى من سورية؟
    غسان شربل
    الخميس ٢٣ أغسطس ٢٠١٢

    ماذا يبقى من سورية حين يتكرس شغور مقعدها في الجامعة العربية ويعتاد العرب على غيابها؟ وحين تعلق عضويتها في منظمة المؤتمر الاسلامي ولا تنجح مشاركة الرئيس محمود احمدي نجاد في تجنيبها هذا القرار؟ وحين تحاصرها الجمعية العامة للامم المتحدة بـ 133 صوتاً وتطالبها ببدء انتقال سياسي للخروج من محنتها؟

    ماذا يبقى من سورية حين يغادرها خالد مشعل يائساً من قدرته على اقناع سلطاتها بأن الحل سياسي وليس امنياً وان ما يجري ثورة وليس ارتكابات عصابات مسلحة؟ وحين يخسر محور الممانعة الضلع السني الوحيد الذي كان يوصله الى قلب غزة وقلب النزاع الفلسطيني – الاسرائيلي؟.

    ماذا يبقى من سورية حين يجرؤ جهاز امني لبناني على اعتقال الوزير السابق ميشال سماحة بعد ضبطه متلبساً بنقل عبوات ناسفة؟ وحين تتداول وسائل الاعلام اللبنانية معلومات عن ان سماحة تسلم البضاعة من ارفع مسؤول امني سوري؟ وحين يعلن الرئيس ميشال سليمان انه ينتظر اتصالاً من نظيره السوري؟ وحين يضطر العماد ميشال عون الى الصمت المعجون بالندم لأن سماحة كان منسق علاقته مع دمشق وجذور مار مارون وتحالف الاقليات؟

    ماذا يبقى من سورية حين تنهال دبابات الجيش على احياء في دمشق التي كانت اكثر عواصم المنطقة امناً واستقراراً؟ وحين تلتهم المدافع ما تبقى من جدران متفحمة في حمص؟ وحين تنقض الطائرات لتدمي حلب او لتشطب قرية من هنا واخرى من هناك؟

    ماذا يبقى من سورية حين يتكدس ابناؤها لاجئين في مخيمات في الاردن؟ وينتظرون الحصص الغذائية في خيام في تركيا؟ او يقيمون في شمال لبنان وبقاعه وعاصمته موزعين بين الحزن والخوف لأسباب كثيرة؟

    ماذا يبقى من سورية حين يقال ان الازمة الانسانية فيها هي من بين الاسوأ في العالم؟ وان مليونين ونصف مليون شخص بحاجة الى مساعدة انسانية عاجلة؟ وان مليوناً و200 الف اجبروا على ترك منازلهم؟ وان اعمال القتل المروعة صارت مشهداً يومياً وعادياً؟ وان العثور على جثث بلا رؤوس لم يعد حدثاً او خبراً؟

    ماذا يبقى من سورية حين يسارع البعثيون الى الفرار من الارياف هرباً من هجمات العمال والفلاحين الذين كانوا يدعون تمثيلهم والتحدث باسمهم؟ وحين ينشق آلاف الضباط والجنود ويغسلون ايديهم من جيشهم على شاشات الفضائيات؟ وحين يرتكب «الشبيحة» ما تخجل العيون من مشاهدته؟

    ماذا يبقى من سورية حين تصطاد متفجرة كبار حراس الهيكل في معقلهم؟ وحين يوافق بعثي منضبط على تولي حقيبة رئاسة الوزراء ليبدأ على الفور ترتيب رحلة انشقاقه؟ وحين ينشغل العالم باستطلاع حقيقة من قتل ومن انشق ومن يستعد للقفز من السفينة؟

    وماذا يبقى من سورية حين يصبح مستقبلها مرهوناً بقرار فلاديمير بوتين والمرشد الايراني والسيد حسن نصرالله وتفهم رئيس الوزراء العراقي بعد ان كانت لهؤلاء حليفاً ثميناً وورقة رابحة او عمقاً استراتيجيا؟ وحين تفتح خريطة سورية هنا وهناك ويجري الحديث عن خرائط صغيرة وجزر مذهبية واستحالة العودة الى ما كان؟ وحين يستبيح حدودها مقاتلون جوالون يشكل وجودهم على ارضها مشكلة جدية للمعارضة ومأساة مقبلة للبلد؟

    لم يعد سراً أن سورية التي نعرفها انتهت. سورية الأمن المفرط والاستقرار الصارم. سورية اللاعب الذي يحرك اوراقه خارج حدوده. سورية التي تمتلك حق النقض في الموضوعين الفلسطيني واللبناني. سورية المؤثرة في استقرار العراق والاردن وتركيا. ذهبت تلك الصورة. أغلب الظن أن سورية ستغرق في حرب أهلية بلا رحمة. وأن نسيجها الوطني سيزداد تمزقاً. وأنها حين تخرج من موسم القتل الطويل ستخرج مدماة وضعيفة ضائعة بين الصراع القاتل بين السوريين والتنافس الاقليمي والدولي الشديد على رسم مستقبل الملعب السوري. سيرزح اللاعب السوري طويلاً تحت جروحه.

    كأننا في وداع سورية التي نعرف. ومن عادة سورية ان تترك بصماتها على ملامح الاقليم سواء كانت قوية أم مريضة.

  40. Only an ASS does not have the courage to babble directly with his people. Qaddafi to the last minute kept babbling with Libyan.

  41. ASS: “we are cleansing the country”… What does this mean? “we welcome defections” Why?

  42. Ass:”كل من هرب فر “

  43. Mc Cain addresses GOP convention, he mentioned Syria! Wow… Iran, Hizbullah and Russia as backers of Ass…he forget to mention ASS best ally, Israel. A fake democracy that keeps on barking about Iran nuclear power, Hizbullah a “terror” organization, Muslim Brotherhood and the Arab Spring taking the Arab world backward, ASSad, a representative of an alliance of evil..

    It is a fact that “Israel would be much happier to see Assad remain in power”,

    But wait, what about Assad chemical weapons? “nothing to worry about so long as they remain in the responsible hands of the government”… Also, “Israeli security depended on the Syrian regime’s security”.

    Since the big Ass became minister of defence, Syria’s foreign policy was designed and executed by Zionist agents.

    Today Ass showed no concerns to the hundred of thousands of Syrian refugees? Is this a surprise? What about the 17 million expatriates. Is this a national leader who is concerned about his people anymore than Qaddafi or Saddam? He is more concerned with his steadfast alliance till death do them apart!

  44. مقاومٌ بالثرثرة …ممانعٌ بالثرثرة قصيدة للشاعر أحمد مطر مهداة إلى المقاوم بشار

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    قصيدة للشاعر أحمد مطر مهداة إلى المقاوم الممانع بشار الأسد

    له لسانُ مُدَّعٍ..
    يصولُ في شوارعِ الشَّامِ كسيفِ عنترة
    يكادُ يلتَّفُ على الجولانِ والقنيطرة
    مقاومٌ لم يرفعِ السِّلاحَ
    لمْ يرسل إلى جولانهِ دبابةً أو طائرةْ
    لم يطلقِ النّار على العدوِ
    لكنْ حينما تكلَّمَ الشّعبُ
    صحا من نومهِ
    و صاحَ في رجالهِ..
    مؤامرة !
    مؤامرة !
    و أعلنَ الحربَ على الشَّعبِ
    و كانَ ردُّهُ على الكلامِ..
    مَجزرةْ
    مقاومٌ يفهمُ في الطبِّ كما يفهمُ في السّياسةْ
    استقال مِن عيادةِ العيونِ
    كي يعملَ في ” عيادةِ الرئاسة ”
    فشرَّحَ الشّعبَ..
    و باعَ لحمهُ وعظمهُ
    و قدَّمَ اعتذارهُ لشعبهِ ببالغِ الكياسةْ
    عذراً لكمْ..
    يا أيَّها الشَّعبُ
    الذي جعلتُ من عظامهِ مداسا
    عذراً لكم..
    يا أيَّها الشَّعبُ
    الذي سرقتهُ في نوبةِ الحراسةْ
    عذراً لكم..
    يا أيَّها الشَّعبُ الذي طعنتهُ في ظهرهِ
    في نوبةِ الحراسةْ
    عذراً..
    فإنْ كنتُ أنا ” الدكتورَ ” في الدِّراسةْ
    فإنني القصَّابُ و السَّفاحُ..
    و القاتلُ بالوراثةْ !
    دكتورنا ” الفهمانْ ”
    يستعملُ السّاطورَ في جراحةِ اللسانْ
    مَنْ قالَ : ” لا ” مِنْ شعبهِ
    في غفلةٍ عنْ أعينِ الزَّمانْ
    يرحمهُ الرحمنْ
    بلادهُ سجنٌ..
    و كلُّ شعبهِ إما سجينٌ عندهُ
    أو أنَّهُ سجَّانْ
    بلادهُ مقبرةٌ..
    أشجارها لا تلبسُ الأخضرَ
    لكنْ تلبسُ السَّوادَ و الأكفانْ
    حزناً على الإنسانْ
    أحاكمٌ لدولةٍ..
    مَنْ يطلقُ النَّارَ على الشَّعبِ الذي يحكمهُ
    أمْ أنَّهُ قرصانْ ؟
    لا تبكِ يا سوريّةْ
    لا تعلني الحدادَ
    فوقَ جسدِ الضحيَّة
    لا تلثمي الجرحَ
    و لا تنتزعي الشّظيّةْ
    القطرةُ الأولى مِنَ الدَّمِ الذي نزفتهِ
    ستحسمُ القضيّةْ
    قفي على رجليكِ يا ميسونَ..
    يا بنتَ بني أميّةْ
    قفي كسنديانةٍ..
    في وجهِ كلِّ طلقةٍ و كلِّ بندقية
    قفي كأي وردةٍ حزينةٍ..
    تطلعُ فوقَ شرفةٍ شاميّةْ
    و أعلني الصرَّخةَ في وجوههمْ
    حريّة
    و أعلني الصَّرخةَ في وجوههمْ
    حريّةْ

  45. Another Syrian star, whereabouts unknown! Because of blue eyed Ass.

    Orwa Nyrabia, a Syrian filmmaker and festival organizer who disappeared last week en route to Egypt. Nyrabia is believed to have been detained by Syrian security services as he prepared to board a flight from Damascus to Cairo.

    Nyrabia belongs to the emerging generation of Syrian filmmakers passionate about world cinema and passionate about freedom… Nyrabia and his wife formed the first production company in Syria independent of the government and founded Dox Box, a festival that brought international documentaries to Syria…often served as a jury member in film festivals in Europe and the Middle East. This year, he also organized a Dox Box Global Day to bring Syrian films to international audiences, showcasing insider views of continuing violence and government repression in Syria….its aim was to show the world “how poverty, oppression and isolation do not prevent humans from being spectacularly brave, stubborn and dignified.”…was collaborating with documentary director Omar Amiralay, an activist involved in the Damascus Spring, when Amiralay died in 2011.

    Nyrabia’s wife, Diana El-Jeiroudi, issued a statement last week saying she had had no contact with him and had heard from the airline that he did not board the plane.

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/08/30/syrian-filmmaker.html

  46. A private school in Damascus, where Anisa’s grandchildren- bushra the widowed and maher the invisible- attend.. Only 1/5 of the overall number of children re-registered. These children had voluntarily left with their parents, these children are the sons and daughters of Syria’s so called “elite”. Their homes are still standing, their bank accounts fattened and their losses is next to none -compared with rural Damascenes. Why did they leave?

    These children can no longer tolerate the constant bombardment on their city, the loud explosion of deadly bombs. Homs, Hama,..every city and vilage is not spared from the the ASSes wrath

  47. No one can keep up with ASSad daily achievements , the dead, the injured, the tortured, the disappeared, number of houses, schools,mosques and churches demolished.. historical monuments destroyed, artifacts robed and conspiracies weaved nowadays in the open…his latest, Austin Tice whereabouts unknown

    أعرب والد الصحافي الأمريكي الذي فقد في إحدى أخطر المناطق السورية، أوستين تايس، عن اعتقاده أن ولده معتقل من قبل حكومة الأسد، مناشداً الأسد لإطلاق سراحه.

    http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/08/31/235262.html

  48. Last Thursday, Rami Nakhla met some friends after work at a Starbucks on Dupont Circle. They sat outside, and the sun glinted off a glass building and lighted their faces.

    For months, Nakhla and his friends, Syrian dissidents who in the past year fled the regime of Bashar al-Assad, had lived shrouded in darkness. Now, meeting openly at a cafe in Washington evoked mixed emotions: bemusement, relief and a twinge of survivor’s guilt for being safe when so many are still in danger.

    “If you do anything for yourself, you feel guilty. . . . You have so many more things to do,” said Nakhla, 29, a political asylee who is working as a program specialist at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Until last year, he had been a political science student living in an Alawite section of Damascus.

    For many asylees who come to the United States, their political engagement dries up as they lose their connections with home and struggle to earn a living. But Washington, with its think tanks and politically engaged expat communities, offers more opportunities for involvement for people like Nakhla, who is still deeply entrenched in the war in Syria.

    For eight months, through the auspices of the institute, Nakhla has been putting together “The Day After,” a nongovernmental organization that connects Syrian dissidents worldwide to develop a blueprint for what should happen once al-Assad is ousted. The NGO is funded mostly by the State Department, with additional funding from some European governments and NGOs.

    Nakhla and others on the board of the 50-member organization unveiled the 130-page plan Tuesday at a news conference in Berlin, where the group’s meetings have been held (many of its members live in the Middle East or Europe). The plan offers suggestions on how to address issues often inherent in a regime’s collapse, such as ….

    to view the rest, click here.

    http://advancinghumanrights.org/news/ahr_blogger_board_member_featured_in_washington_post

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