2 February 2012
Westerners and Gulf monarchs were shocked by the rebuff at the hands of Russia and China at the Security Council. Their bitterness comes out in two forms: first, the media lament the division between major powers when "the massacres are still continuing"; on the other hand, they accuse Moscow of prioritizing its strategic and commercial interests over human rights. All are silent on Beijing’s stance - yet just as unequivocal as Moscow’s - which they cannot pin on any vested interests.
Some commentators are drumming up arguments to convince Russia and China to change their position. However, their editorials are more likely to have been designed to prove to Western readers that everything has been tried in vain. Indeed, the arguments given can only be ill perceived by their recipients, who are accused of lacking principles when it is precisely on behalf of those principles that Russia and China cast their veto.
In the final analysis, everything suggests that after having considered (...)
Westerners and Gulf monarchs were shocked by the rebuff at the hands of Russia and China at the Security Council. Their bitterness comes out in two forms: first, the media lament the division between major powers when "the massacres are still continuing"; on the other hand, they accuse Moscow of prioritizing its strategic and commercial interests over human rights. All are silent on Beijing’s stance - yet just as unequivocal as Moscow’s - which they cannot pin on any vested interests.
Some commentators are drumming up arguments to convince Russia and China to change their position. However, their editorials are more likely to have been designed to prove to Western readers that everything has been tried in vain. Indeed, the arguments given can only be ill perceived by their recipients, who are accused of lacking principles when it is precisely on behalf of those principles that Russia and China cast their veto.
In the final analysis, everything suggests that after having considered (...)
31 January 2012
The Western and Gulf press reports of heavy fighting on the outskirts of Damascus. With maps to prove it, it claims that the revolutionaries are about to take the capital. The wife and children of President al-Assad were supposedly intercepted on their way to the airport attempting to escape and were forced to turn back. The fate of the tyrant’s family will soon resemble that of the Gaddafi’s, said Haitham Maleh, a leader of the pro-Western opposition.
In reality, the fighting took place in the outlying areas of the capital, no major armed group having penetrated the suburbs of Damascus. The airport road was never shut down and the al-Assads were never on it. This legend is meant to trigger a campaign against Syria exploiting the high esteem enjoyed by Asma al-Assad in Europe, particularly in Italy and France. Thus, Haitham Maleh asserted on BaradaTV (television channel based in London and funded by the CIA) that the beautiful young woman, a Sunni native of Homs, was a prisoner of (...)
The Western and Gulf press reports of heavy fighting on the outskirts of Damascus. With maps to prove it, it claims that the revolutionaries are about to take the capital. The wife and children of President al-Assad were supposedly intercepted on their way to the airport attempting to escape and were forced to turn back. The fate of the tyrant’s family will soon resemble that of the Gaddafi’s, said Haitham Maleh, a leader of the pro-Western opposition.
In reality, the fighting took place in the outlying areas of the capital, no major armed group having penetrated the suburbs of Damascus. The airport road was never shut down and the al-Assads were never on it. This legend is meant to trigger a campaign against Syria exploiting the high esteem enjoyed by Asma al-Assad in Europe, particularly in Italy and France. Thus, Haitham Maleh asserted on BaradaTV (television channel based in London and funded by the CIA) that the beautiful young woman, a Sunni native of Homs, was a prisoner of (...)
30 January 2012
The Western and Gulf press, which had until now slammed the Free Syrian Army for its weakness, is suddenly claiming that it is about to take Damascus. President al-Assad was supposedly forced to deploy troops in the capital to save his regime, while heavy fighting is raging in the suburbs.
This fable aims both to validate the idea that armed groups are composed of many deserters (and not primarily Wahhabi mercenaries), and that the disturbances have finally reached the capital. Above all, it serves to divert the public’s attention a while longer from the contents of the Arab League report. Indeed, this document debunks the Western theory of a brutally quelled popular uprising.
Such propaganda efforts are meant to prepare public opinion for the next meeting of the Security Council to be attended by the French and UK foreign ministers, who were successful in legalizing the NATO intervention in (...)
The Western and Gulf press, which had until now slammed the Free Syrian Army for its weakness, is suddenly claiming that it is about to take Damascus. President al-Assad was supposedly forced to deploy troops in the capital to save his regime, while heavy fighting is raging in the suburbs.
This fable aims both to validate the idea that armed groups are composed of many deserters (and not primarily Wahhabi mercenaries), and that the disturbances have finally reached the capital. Above all, it serves to divert the public’s attention a while longer from the contents of the Arab League report. Indeed, this document debunks the Western theory of a brutally quelled popular uprising.
Such propaganda efforts are meant to prepare public opinion for the next meeting of the Security Council to be attended by the French and UK foreign ministers, who were successful in legalizing the NATO intervention in (...)
















