source TV calling for opposition talks and sanctions http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/11/201111121342948333.html they have 4 days before it is effective
Waste of more time. Bashar is simply going to slaughter every last syrian to stay in power, just as his masters in teheran and lebanon taught him.
Since when has Bashir had masters located in Teheran and Lebanon? In the past twenty years the shoe has been on the other foot in Lebanon: Syria has had all too much influence in Lebanon, with strong ties to Hezbollah and to various groups located in the Bekaa valley. The feet don't rule the head. As for Iran, the cozy relationship Syria has with Iran is one of convenience rather than one of control. Both countries want to support anti-Israeli Muslim movements, both are willing to use Shia populations in other countries to do their dirty work, both are worried about Iraq as a base of U.S. power projection, both are on the outs with the West (although Iran is more so) and both have no real reason to backstab the other.
For a long time, and iran has bought and shipped weapons to syria both for its own use and some to be shipped onto hezbollah. Iran has the money and weapons, syria is a useful client state due to its location. And soon, both will likely face military strikes after which new governments will take power. A new dawn lies ahead for the peoples of both nations.
In an ideal world - you'd be correct but Alas - the internal stability Syrian people have enjoyed for many decades has come to an end. - a civil war is on the horizon. I was fortunate enough to have visited Damascus + Aleppo some years ago during happier times and feel very sad at the current political situation there. Meanwhile it seems millions Syrians still favour the present government. In Damascus, huge masses flocked to Sabaa Bahrat and Umayyad Squares and the main streets to express their rejection and condemnation of the Arab League decision. Participating in the rally of Sabaa Bahrat Square, Former Lebanese MP Nasser Qandil stressed that the Syrian people are able to overcome all the obstacles and crises in spite of all the pressures and the misleading media campaigns. ....
In all honesty, I don't think very highly of people who attack embassies. Attacking embassies is prefering agression over dialogue.
Hours after the Leagues decision, hundreds of Assad supporters armed with sticks and knives attacked the Saudi Arabian embassy in Damascus and Turkish and French consulates in the city of Latakia, residents said. U.S. President Barack Obama praised the Leagues move and France said it was time for international bodies to take more action against Syrias government. The Arab League will impose economic and political sanctions on Damascus and has appealed to member states to withdraw their ambassadors, said Qatars Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani. It will also call a meeting of Syrian opposition parties, he said. We were criticised for taking a long time but this was out of our concern for Syria, Sheikh Hamad told reporters at the Leagues headquarters in Cairo. We needed to have a majority to approve those decisions. Syrias representative at the Arab League said the decision was not worth the ink it was written with. The Leagues announcement was a sharp rebuke for Syrias leadership which sees itself as a champion of Arab nationalism. Hopes among Western powers that Assad would be isolated by his Arab neighbours were repeatedly dashed until now. Some Arab leaders have been reluctant to turn against one of their peers given their own restive populations, Middle East diplomats say. But Assad has pressed ahead with the crackdown on protesters against his rule despite an Arab peace plan brokered on November 2. The United Nations says more than 3,500 people have been killed in seven months of violence. Syria blames armed groups for the violence and says 1,200 members of the security forces have been killed. Assad, from the minority Alawite community which has held power for four decades in mainly Muslim Syria, has said he has used legitimate means to confront a foreign conspiracy to sow sectarian strife. Activists said six people were killed in Syria on Saturday. Sheikh Hamad said the suspension of Syria from the regional body would take effect on November 16, but did not detail the sanctions, Reuters reports. http://www.eurasiareview.com/13112011-assad-supporters-attack-saudi-arabia-embassy-in-damascus/
well if you lived in a dictatorship and knew what that was like and how little rights you have and have no way to express emotion then unfortunately these things will happen it's not right but when there is no hope as in Palestine people are driven to take desperate measures to be heard you would have to be in that situation to know how it feels to be utterly powerless and have no voice the pot boils over you are seeing many pots boiling over and now even it affects the Western nations now they realise they are not listened to by the 1% Obama needs to keep quiet and stay out of this. Leave the Arabs to deal with their own. They know their own culture.
Margot , I'm NOT sure whether main stream media has reported the full facts about Syria's internal; political situation has been accurately reported. "The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all." Ovid . ...
The murder bashar has slaughtered another 40 people. I look forward to watching the syrians practice their ceascaeu and mussolini skills on bashar and his brother.... http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=245574 Fighting in Syria kills 40 near Jordan border By REUTERS 11/14/2011 22:23 Troops backed by armor kill 20 people in assault on Khirbet Ghazaleh, bordering the Golan Heights....
Exactly and that is why you and I know nothing except what media says and why we should wait and allow ARAB 500 to enter to assess what is really going on. We do not need any meddling from the Pentagon or any other trouble makers.
