Syria

About Syria

Contrary to claims by the mainstream and much of the supposed alternate newsmedia, the government of Syria is not a corrupt and unpopular dictatorship resorting to brutal repression and mass murder to defeat a popular uprising. The supposed "popular uprising" is in fact a terrorist war fought by foreign mercenaries and jihadists against the people of Syria. The terrorists are armed and paid for by the government of the United States and its regional allies including Turkey, Jordan and the even more reactionary feudal Arab states of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

No government as hated by its own people, as it has been claimed that the Syrian Government was, could have hoped to have survived for more than a few months against a popular uprising without the support of a massive foreign armies of occupation. The supposedly hated Syrian government, without any foreign military forces to support it on its own soil, has somehow managed to defeat a supposedly popular uprising for more than three years now.

Conclusive evidence that the Syrian government had the overwhelming support of Syrians support of its people is the overwhelming vote for President Bashar al-Assad at the Syrian Presidential elections of 4 June 2014. " id="txtSubj4">4 In that election an overwhelming 10,319,723 Syrians, or 88.7% of the 74.42% of eligible voters who voted voted for Bashar al-Assad. A total of 65.15 of all eligible Syrian voter voted for al-Assad. The proportion would have be even higher had countries hostile to Syria, including France, not prevented Syrian expatriates from voting. Which leader of any of the supposed Western democracies can claim anywhere near as high a mandate as that which Bashar al-Assad received on 4 June 2014?

Until March 2011, when the current insurgency against Syria began, the war strategies of the United States and its allies seemed to be succeeding. They had conquered Afghanistan and Iraq and would invade Libya and overthrow its government. However, their plans to overthrow the Syrian government of have not gone according to plan. Three years later, prior to the (Saudi and Qatar financed) so-called "Islamic State" insurgency, the skill, bravery and sacrifice of Syrian soldiers and their support from the Syrian population resulted in the decisive defeat and almost total elimination of the terrorist invaders within Syria. " id="txtSubj2">2

However, no country, not even a country as resourceful and resilient as Syria, can indefinitely defend itself against an almost unlimited numbers of potential terrorists from the Islamic world, in addition to mercenaries and supposed Islamist converts from outside the Islamic world. Already 140,000 Syrians have died in the conflict and much of the countryside, housing and the productive resources of Syria have been ravaged by the terrorist invaders. If Syria is to survive it needs strong support from people outside of Syria and their governments.

To win that support for it is necessary to counteract the lies of the mainstream media with the truth. These pages on this web site is one place on which the truth can be found, or linked to elsewhere. Other sites in which the truth about Syria is to be found are listed ">below.

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(30/9/14) by the on Global Research

Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem, delivered a speech on Monday at the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in which he affirmed that Syria supports any international effort to combat terrorism as long as it fully preserves civilians' lives and national sovereignty and is carried out according to international accords.

(30/9/14) by of on PressTV

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"The real intelligence that needs to be gotten to Syria and not to the White House is why their supplies keep being shipped in, and they are shipped in by planes by somebody and ISIS doesn't have any planes," he wondered. "It's the same story with Afghanistan. Why hundreds of tons of heroin leaves American bases in Afghanistan."

"Why are they carrying American weapons? They are carrying and using American weapons. And not the American weapons that they say they captured from the Iraqis. The US gave Iraqis AK-47s. They are carrying American M4 carbines. [It is] very difficult to get those things unless they are delivered directly from the United States by planes," Duff revealed.

(29/9/14) by of (includes YouTube Video) on Global Research

"There is no doubt that Islamic State is an utterly reactionary sectarian force. But it is a force that came out of U.S. Policy and the destruction of the whole region. ISIS or Islamic State, is a direct result of U.S. Policy of fomenting religious, ethnic national differences, in Iraq, in Syria, as policy for the war in Iraq and for overthrowing the government in Syria. Again and again they have used absolutely reactionary groupings in these policies."

(29/9/14) by Rodney Martin of the on PressTV (Video included)

US President Barack Obama's "strategy to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL" is actually designed to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an American political commentator says.

Rodney Martin, who is the chairman of the American Nationalist Association, www.ana-ann.com, and a host on the American Nationalist Network, the Association's internet radio station, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Monday.

The ISIL terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, control large parts of Syria's northern territory. ISIL sent its fighters into Iraq in June, quickly seizing vast expanse of land straddling the border between the two countries.

(29/9/14) by of on Global Research

The sudden reversion of Washington to a 'war on terror' pretext for intervention in Syria has confused western audiences. For three years they watched 'humanitarian intervention' stories, which poured contempt on the Syrian President's assertion that he was fighting foreign backed terrorists. Now the US claims to be leading the fight against those same terrorists.

But what do Syrians think, and why do they continue to support a man the western powers have claimed is constantly attacking and terrorising 'his own people'? To understand this we must consider the huge gap between the western caricature of Bashar al Assad the 'brutal dictator' and the popular and urbane figure within Syria.

(29/9/14) by on Global Research

The recent beheadings of three Westerners, Foley, Sotloff and Haines, at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS) has sparked a wave of indignation and strong condemnation by Western heads of state.

For anyone aware of what has been truly going on in Syria from the outset of the war in March 2011, there is something unusual in these strong statements, which are now the object of a wave of "humanitarian bombings" under a counter-terrorism mandate directed against the Islamic State.

(27/9/14) on

The United States, along with members of the GCC, has been bombing Syria for two days, ostensibly to destroy the Islamic State.

(17/9/14) by on PressTV

US President Barack Obama recently delivered a national address outlining a four-point strategy to counter the threat posed by ISIL to the Middle East and beyond. Yet, given that ISIL was created by regional players acting under US auspices, we must ask what the real strategy behind this rhetoric emanating from POTUS about forming an international coalition to confront the terrorist threat is? Has Obama experienced a revelation on the road to regime change in Damascus or is the military option disguised as R2P still on the table?

(3/9/14) by of on Global Research

One of the roles of leading politicians and top officials of the state is to enlist public support for policies which serve the goals of the upper stratum of the population from whose ranks they sometimes come and whose interests they almost invariably promote. When these policies are at odds with the interests of the majority, as they often are, the mobilization of public consent is possible only through deception. The deception is carried out through prevarication, equivocation, and fear-mongering, crystallized into misleading narratives which the mass media can be reliably counted on to amplify. So it is that Western officials have ramped up a campaign of deception to provide a pretext for military intervention in Syria to combat ISIS but which may very well serve as a Trojan horse to escalate the war on the Syrian government.

(29/9/14) by of on Global Research

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) had recently announced that a female fighter pilot led the United Arab Emirates Air Force (UAEAF) bombardment of ISIS on Syrian territory. According to the UAE's online news source 'The National' based in Abu Dhabi confirms its nation's first female pilot leading the fight against the Western created terrorist group ISIS reported that:

"Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE's ambassador to the United States, confirmed on Thursday that the country's first female fighter pilot was involved in recent action against ISIL." He also said that "I can officially confirm that the UAE strike mission on Monday night was led by female fighter pilot Mariam Al Mansouri," he said. "She is a fully qualified, highly trained, combat-ready pilot and she is on a mission."

First, I must say that the pilot, Maj. Mariam Al Mansour who is employed by the government of the UAE leading the way by attacking ISIS targets in Syria deserves no praise or glory for participating in the bombardment of a sovereign nation.

Examples of how Major Mariam al-Mansouri is being used to promote war by the Australian newsmedia include: : (29/9/14) – Melbourne Age and SBS: (26/9/14) – SBS.

(29/9/14) by Tony Cartalucci

(11 April 2014) Tony Cartalucci, aka "", shows how supposedly "humanitarian aid" which is being sent to supposedly alleviate the suffering of the victims of the Syrian conflict is, in fact, being used to supply and arm the terrorists and prolong the suffering of the Syrian people.

">Cairo, (SANA, 11 Apr 2014) The Evangelical Church in the Shubra area in Cairo, Egypt, held prayers for peace in Syria on Friday, with the participation of representative of Egyptian churches along with Muslim religious figures and political, jurist and civil society figures.

Abram Luis, founder of the "Popular Diplomacy for Egyptian-Syrian Relations" initiative, said that the initiative invited all churches in Egypt to participate in this event to send a message of love, peace and solidarity to Syrians. He said that 24 churches in Arab and foreign countries were contacted and they agreed to join in prayers on Friday for the sake of Syria, including churches in Jordan, Palestine, Abu Dhabi, Canada and the United States.

(29/9/14) by Seymour M. Hersh of

In August-September 2013, Barack Obama, David Cameron and François Hollande accused Syria of killing 1,400 opponents in the suburbs of Damascus. Denouncing that a red line had been crossed, they threatened to launch a punitive campaign against Assad's criminal regime. Shortly after, London withdrew, then Washington, and finally Paris. Commenting on these events, Seymour Hersh shows that President Obama knew nothing of what had actually happened, abused the ignorance of his interlocutors and lied when he claimed to have evidence of Syria's guilt.

(29/9/14) by on Global Research

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind." – George Orwell.

US secretary of state John Kerry has just delivered what may turn out to be his most shameful moment in history. Kerry has been handed the baton of sabre-rattler-in-Chief by a President that has much vested interest in upholding his facade of "reluctant warmonger". Since President Obama declared his now infamous "red-line" over the use of chemical weapons in Syria; it has invariably been White House underlings and members of the State Department who are given the task of misleading the public – Kerry is not doing a very good job of it.

">Appendix 1: Web resources about Syria

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Web-sites with a broader focus and which include truthfully about Syria include: , , , , .

Appendix 2: French National Front Vehemently Condemns Paris' Stances on Syria

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Footnotes

" id="fnSubj1">1. ">↑ Even some who genuinely oppose the war against Syria have unfortunately, on occasions, accepted the lie that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a brutal and corrupt despot. This was claimed by the UK Member of Parliament in August 2013 – the YouTube video can be found at . The video is embedded in the article of 30 Aug 2013 by Max Keiser. In his speech, George Galloway, whilst presenting evidence that disproved the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's claim that the Syrian government had murdered its own citizens with Sarin gas, nevertheless, stated, "[everyone knows that the Assad regime] is bad enough to do it."

" id="fnSubj2">2. ">↑ See (9/4/2014) by on Global Research.

" id="fnSubj3">3. ">↑ The code, for embedding the video:

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... copied from the , doesn't seem to work with this version of the Drupal content management system, so an image linked to the page has been posted instead. The image shown is of the French female news presenter and not of Jean-Marie Le-Pen.

" id="fnSubj4">4. ">↑ For informative reports about the Syrian elections, see by , (28/5/14) by , (23/5/14) by , (4/6/14) by ...

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This page, and adjacent book pages, will headlines, links to important articles about the Syrian conflict and explanatory comments. Copies of some of these articles will also be on . Comments, which add to the discussion (whether in agreement or critical), are most welcome. Candobetter Editor Update 7 April 2021: You will find there are links to videos here that have since been removed from youtube. This was the effect of youtube's sweeping pro-US censorship of content that was vitally important to establish the truth on Syria: Notably all videos from the Syrian Government, mostly of President Bashar al Assad's video records of interviews and speeches. Also videos by activists, such as Syrian Girl Partisan. It is tragic that the world is so dependent on such a prejudiced publisher as YouTube. It is important to find and support other video platforms.

From the (English edition)

 

, 26 Feb 2014

Damascus, (SANA, 26 Feb 2014)-Speaker of the People's Assembly Mohammad Jihad al-Laham affirmed that the Syrian people alone have the right of self-determination and elect their representatives through ballot boxes ... (unable to retrieve the rest from SANA, because of slow connection - Ed, 13:36 +10:00 26 Feb 2014)

(17 Feb 2014)
... The [Russian Foreign] Minister stressed that there are deliberated attempts to hold the Syrian government responsible for the atrocious crimes through lies and manipulation of facts, while statistics prove that the greater part of complicated issues is caused by the behavior of extremist terrorist groups, not the Syrian government. ...

(20 Feb 2014)
Homs(SANA)- The International Parliamentary Union granted Syrian Journalist Lina Jnaidi the title of Ambassador of good will in the field of woman rights and media in Syria.. ...

(21 Feb 2014)
Syria's Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Faisal al-Hamwi dismissed some of the paragraphs of the report submitted by UN Secretary General's Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Leila Zerrougui as a blatant divergence from neutrality and credibility.
Delivering Syria's statement at the meeting of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on the international humanitarian initiative for children care, al-Hamwi criticized Zerrougui's ignoring of the Syrian government's cooperation with her and her team and the UNICEF office in Syria. ...

(21 Feb 2014)
Citizens across Syria continue to pour into the streets, sending out a strident message of support to their army in the face of terrorism that has plagued the country, and unshakable allegiance to national firm principles.
Sadad town in Homs spells out support for army ...
Hazarma town in Douma marches in rejection of terrorism ...
Citizens in Um al-Toyour, Lattakia countryside voice support to army ...

(21 Feb 2014)
The National Leadership of al-Baath Arab Socialist Party urged all the Arabs to rally around resistance and stand up against the sponsors of terrorism.

(21 Feb 2014)
Thousands of Syrians went out in massive rallies in various areas and cities on Thursday in manifestation of unswerving adherence to the Syrian national principles and staunch support to the Syrian Arab Army.
Thousands in Qudsayya show support to Syrian army, national principles...
Najha residents voice support to national principles...
Massive rally in Misyaf to glorify martyrdom...

(20 Feb 2014)
Damascus, (SANA)- Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi on Thursday issued several decisions dismissing 218 workers from various ministries and state establishments.
The dismissal came within the government’s measures to combat administrative and financial corruption.
104 other workers were dismissed earlier this week for the same reasons.

From the (http://www.syrianews.cc/)

(21 Feb 2014)
The ongoing battles in Yabroud reveal the Army’s determination to finish what it had initiated a couple of months ago which is to put an end to the threat the militants taking Qalamoun Mountains as shelters imposes. The Army is seeking to either regain control over some regions in specific (Qara, Deir Atieh, Nabak, and lately Jarajeer and Rima heights), or to impose a siege and block the way on supplies reaching armed groups in Yabroud, Assal Al-Ward, and later Rankus
The strategy of “taking control with fire” and “gradual gnawing” which the military units in Yabroud and its surrounding are following left great geographic, material, and life losses among the armed groups, according to the opposition itself which assured Monday night the killing of a significant leader, ...

(20 Feb 2014)
Grim warnings that an all-out assault on Syria, including assassination of President al-Assad may be imminent. Article is critical of Iran and Russia whom I had thought had helped prevent the defeat with their support of syria: "The role of the Russians is very murky, the role of the Iranians in this part is even murkier, both seen to be favoring the weakening of a strong Syria to enforce their shortsighted goals, ..."

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