The Syrian Struggle For Freedom
Extracts from a press release of the Syrian Reform Party.
Washington DC, June 5, 2011. The Reform Party of Syria has learned today, from intelligence sources close to the Assad regime in Lebanon … “ the [Syrian] regime has paid hundreds [of farmers] … $1,000 each to show-up [on the Syrian-Israel border] and $10,000 to their families should any of them succumb to Israeli fire. In Syria, an average salary is about $200 a month …
“It is obvious, with this action, Assad wants to divert the attention of the world away from his own massacres and brutality”.
Bashar al-Assad “inherited” Syria from his father Hafez. (That’s how it works in those tyrannical autocracies). These are dictators who will do anything – ANYTHING - to remain in power. In 1982 Assad senior ordered his troops to quell an uprising against him in the town of Hama. Reliable figures show that he massacred about 20,000 Syrians, in cold blood. It’s hardly worth quoting figures here on just how many Syrians the government has murdered during the current so-called “Arab spring” uprising – the figures mount daily, almost hourly. Those are Syrians firing on their own brethren. Not some outside enemy infiltrators.
According to Syrian TV sources, on Sunday the Israel Defence Forces killed 25 Syrians on the Golan Heights. According to IDF sources – historically rather more reliable and accurate than Arab sources in general, Syrian sources in particular – four people, trying to enter Israel illegally, were shot after they refused to withdraw.
Why now? Because Sunday was 5th June, the anniversary of the start of the 1967 Six-Day war, when Syria, Egypt & Jordan (with a little help from their friends) united in battle to destroy Israel. Israel trounced these huge armies, destroyed their military power, all in 6 days.
“Give Peace a Chance”, the lyrics from the peace song, ring hollow. Unfortunately. Sadly. Repeatedly. Will the memory of that crushing defeat ever fade? Will the Arabs ever renounce violence and terror? Will there ever be peace? One thing is certain: if the world continues to ignore Arab terror; if the world continues to scream “Islamophobia” while ignoring virulent anti-Semitism; if the world continues to vilify Israel and laud the Arabs (guess who has the oil reserves?) “peace in our time” will forever remain but a dream.
Jonathan Danilowitz is a Contributing Writer for The Propagandist
