Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Il silenzio arabo sulla macelleria siriana

All'interrogativo di Al-Zaydi si potrebbe affiancare, sul "nostro" 
versante, la medesima domanda. Al di lï¿œ dell'opportunitï¿œ di una 
qualunque forma di intervento militare, perchï¿œ questo silenzio sulla 
Siria (e sullo Yemen), nel c.d. "Occidente"?
http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=2&id=25590
Why this silence?
19/06/2011
By Mshari Al-Zaydi
This is a truly baffling question: Why is the Arab World maintaining its 
incomprehensible silence with regards to the "massacres" openly carried 
out by the Syrian regime, in broad daylight, against its own citizens 
protesting for an end to suppression?
Why were the Arabs so "outspoken" about Libya's uprising to the extent 
that some contributed with money and arms to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi's 
regime and Jamahiriya, whilst keeping their lips sealed with regards to 
Syria's atrocities?
In Libya, the militias battling against the regime are supported by NATO 
aircraft and missiles. In other words, the Gaddafi regime is fighting 
armed groups reinforced with international aerial cover, whilst the 
Syrian regime is combating, or more accurately butchering, unarmed 
civilians who can only chant slogans, scream in pain, and sacrifice 
themselves. Let us put aside Jisr al-Shugur and what has been said about 
protesters wielding weapons there. We are talking about what happened 
earlier in Daraa, Latakia, Homs and al-Qamishli, along with other places 
where the protestors were completely unarmed.
If the rationale behind the explicit political and military Arab 
intervention in Libya is the killing of "civilians" by Gaddafi's 
battalions, in Syria the civilians are being shelled by the army's 
fourth division, and run down by tanks without receiving the protection 
of NATO aircraft.
The Arab League eventually issued a timid statement through its "fading" 
Secretary General Amr Musa, and articulated carefully chosen words about 
its "concern" over Syria's current events. Yet the Syrian regime did not 
accept this expression of concern on the part of the Arab League. Thus 
it began, along with its protï¿œgï¿œ Lebanese propagandists, who proved to 
be even more zealous, to level accusations of treason and collaboration 
with the US and Zionist enemies. Through such allegations, Syria's 
regime has been able to justify its crimes against protesters, including 
mutilating the body of the teenager Hamza al-Khattib, as well as 
kidnapping and torturing other civilians.
As my colleague Tariq Alhomayed has reiterated, as well as other writers 
like Dawood al-Shuryan, this Arab silence has drawn utter amazement. The 
incomprehensible attitude toward Syria's tragedy is a major ethical and 
political predicament for the Arabs, especially the Gulf States. 
Erdogan's Turkey has begun to adopt more explicit positions against the 
atrocities and obstinacy of Syria's regime, as France did previously, 
whereas the Arab and Gulf States have continued to maintain a perplexing 
silence.
The Syrian refugees who fled to Turkey in their thousands have expressed 
anger, as published in this newspaper, at the inexplicable international 
and Arab silence regarding their tragedy. I believe the Syrian blood 
being shed relentlessly will soon expose everyone, including the Obama 
administration, which justified its military and political intervention 
in Libya on moral and humanitarian grounds, whilst turning a blind eye 
to the more explicit ethical and political scandal in Syria.
Here I am not calling for a similar military intervention, for this 
could ignite the whole region. I am merely examining the logic through 
which everyone has justified their intervention in Libya. Strangely 
enough, those who applauded and hailed the Syrian regime's crackdown, 
from its protï¿œgï¿œs and Hezbollah's propagandists, maintained total 
silence towards the participation of NATO aircraft and US missiles in 
the campaign against the Gaddafi regime. Furthermore, they even sang the 
praises of Libya's revolutionaries.
Now Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman has come out to condemn any faint 
possibility of a US or European intervention in Syria, in response to 
the crimes committed by the regime against its civilian population. What 
a shame! Either you clearly reveal your motives for intervention in any 
location, without pretending to uphold humanitarian principles, or you 
apply these principles to each and every case without discrimination.
What is happening in Syria has far exceeded the sins and injustices 
committed by Gaddafi, Mubarak, Ben Ali or even Saleh.
-- 
Namib
"La force ne fait ni raison ni droit ; mais il est peut-ï¿œtre impossible 
de s'en passer, pour faire respecter le droit et la raison" (Saint-Just)

 Siria (e sullo Yemen), nel c.d. "Occidente"?
Perch� dopo la pirlata in Libia, � meglio tenere il basso profilo.
A parte che in realt� i "massacri" citati dall'opposizione (magari in GB)
vengono rilanciati acriticamente esattamente come avveniva in Libia
(il Governo mente sempre, i rivoltosi sono sempre sinceri) poi chiramente
a livello politico internazionale vale il discorso cui sopra.
Anche l'Occidente ha un limite di sopportazione ai massacri...ed
in Libia ne sta massacrando abbastanza per il momento
Ciao!

 Yemen), nel c.d. "Occidente"?
non mi pare che vi sia questo silenzio sull'argomento...i media ne parlano 
tutti mi pare...