Opinion: Syria From Defense to the Liberation of the Golan
Al-Watan (Privately-owned, pro-government)
May 20, 2013
A pro-government paper calls for opening the Golan front with the Israelis
A pro-government paper calls for opening the Golan front with the Israelis
A pro government newspaper, al-Watan, calls for the opening of the Golan front with the Israelis
Syrian press editorials today lashed on Qatar and Turkey, as we;; as the “American backtracking” on the commitments it offered at the first meeting in Moscow
Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said Wednesday internal national dialogue is the only means to reach a political solution, to stop the bloodshed and the destruction of the state in Syria.
Syria’s U.N. envoy, Bashar al-Jaafari said Wednesday the draft resolution on Syria submitted to the U.N. General Assembly aims to inflame the current crisis.
For analysts familiar with the politics of Syria, the country’s descent into chaos amounts to an all-too-predictable pattern. It also parallels what Rami Makhlouf, a major regime figure and first cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, bluntly announced that, among other things, Syrians faced the Assad regime or domestic and regional chaos.
Israeli political sources say the United States dealt a severe blow to armed groups operating in Syria after it accepted Russian conditions to solve the crisis in the country.
Israeli political sources say the United States dealt a severe blow to armed groups operating in Syria after it accepted Russian conditions to solve the crisis in the country.
The former president of Syrian National Council, Abdul Basset Seida said that the a replacement for Ghassan Hitto, the current president of the Syrian Transitional Government is possible during a meeting of the executive body of the Coalition decided to be held in Istanbul on 11-12 May.
The American-Russian negotiations over Syria have reached an advanced stage, but the new agreement still lacks the teeth to achieve results, a political scholar specialized in Syrian affairs said during between American Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.
“The US successive administrations recognize that Syria is not a playground for their policies,” Syria’s Information Minister Minister says in Moscow
The Syrian National Coalition named veteran dissident George Sabra as caretaker leader of the main opposition grouping on Monday, following the resignation of Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib.
The SNC is fragile, and more likely to implode than become institutionalised. This is highlighted by three issues: the political initiative of its then president, Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib, in proposing talks with the regime; the decision in Istanbul to form a Syrian government in exile; and the fact that Syria’s seat in the Arab League was handed over to the SNC at the recent meeting in Doha.
Flanders warned against a catastrophic repetition of the Iraqi non-existed MDW’s, asserting that the same scenario, the same playbook seems to be used now in Syria with similar charges, pointing out that who has the weapons of mass destruction in the world today is but the Pentagon.
Allahu Akbar has within the past two years in Syria taken a different –unfortunately contradictory- meaning. For it has been abused and the name of Allah taken in vain time and time again.
President Bashar al-Assad said that foreign interference is a red line, adding that if the unrest in Syria leads to the partitioning of the country or if the terrorist forces take control of Syria, or both of the above, the situation will inevitably first spill over into neighboring countries and then create a domino effect throughout the Middle East and beyond.
Headlines describing the 24th Arab Summit held in Doha this week reflect profound division over Syria and Qatar’s role in effecting change in the Arab Region. Doha has taken over the presidency of the Arab league for what could be one of the most important years of the transitional period.
The Syrian opposition has opened its first embassy just one day after they took Syria’s seat at the Arab League, replacing the Bashar Al-Assad regime, and Damascus reacted angrily to the promotion of the Syrian rebels by the Arab League
The resignation os Sheikh Mouaz al-Khatib might have shown him to be a principled and deservedly popular leader in the opposition, but it also a political mistake, albeit a small one in the big scheme of things.
Moaz al-Khatib, leader of the Western-based Syrian opposition coalition has resigned, citing frustrations with the body’s inability to advance the fight against President Bashar Assad.
