Sheikh Hamad said Arab nations wanted to avoid a repeat of what happened in Libya, where aU.N. Security Council resolution led to NATO air strikes. He warned other Arab states that the West could intervene if it felt the league was not "serious.""All the work that we are doing is to avoid this interference," he said.
There has been an alarming escalation in the language and condemnation of the gulf states by the regime's supporters and its television and media. A derogatory term عربان (Arabians) is being used to refer to them, and I think it carries with it the historical derision that city folk الحضر viewed the Bedouin البدو. The regime and its supporters see themselves as better and more civilized than the Gulf Arabs.
If racist insults were the worst that this regime is capable of then I wouldn't be worried, but there are worrying signs and much darker clouds appearing on the horizon. In other news, DP-News, a news site sympathetic to the Syrian regime has reported that the Japanese beat Syria in the London 2012 Olympic soccer qualifier.
Dear brother, I feel very concerned about the situation in Syria. Surely I don't have all the elements in order to understand better what's happening there, but I am against a foreign intervention in Syria. I wonder if the regime is willing to implement reforms. I hope so. Israel could benefit from fitna between communities, between Turkey and Syria for a further intervention against Iran. Fitna is our worst ennemy. Salam.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate how difficult it must be for you to get accurate information in what must be the most confusing and heavily contested Arab revolution so far. Unfortunately I do not share your optimism about reform by the regime, and after eight months I have found no evidence that Assad is sincere about reform. Instead I have found a consistent program of repression, torture and mass arrests.
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