Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Arab Unity In Opposition

"Today there is a crisis in Syria which pays the price of its strong positions. Syria will not budge and will emerge stronger ... and plots against Syria will fail." Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem
Dear, dear. The Arab League has chosen to suspend Syria's membership. An Arab clique expelling an Arab country. Syria can always look to its great good non-Arab friend, Iran. Deserted by Turkey and by the rest of the Arab world, Syria has been cut adrift. Outrageously, unfairly; who might ever have imagined this would result from a sovereign country attempting to reassert its authority over protesting rabble?

And sinister foreign intervention, let's not forget about that. And, of course, fanatic Islamists, terrorist types who seek to foment a tide of chaotic problems upon Syria's government. President Bashir Assad knows his people, and they applaud his gracious reign. There have been popular marches in support of the regime. Haven't his critics got eyes to see that with?
Pro-Syrian regime protesters, shout slogans and carry a giant Syrian flag during a demonstration against the Arab League decision to suspend Syria, in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday Nov. 13, 2011. Tens of thousands of pro-regime demonstrators gathered in a Damascus square Sunday to protest the Arab League's vote to suspend Syria over its bloody crackdown on the country's eight-month-old uprising. Saturday's Arab League decision was a sharp rebuke to a regime that prides itself as a bastion of Arab nationalism, but it was unlikely to immediately end a wave of violence that the U.N. estimates has killed more than 3,500 people since mid-March. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
Pro-Syrian regime protesters, carry a giant Syrian flag during a demonstration against the Arab League decision to suspend Syria, in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday Nov. 13, 2011. Tens of thousands of pro-regime demonstrators gathered in a Damascus square Sunday to protest the Arab League's vote to suspend Syria over its bloody crackdown on the country's eight-month-old uprising. Saturday's Arab League decision was a sharp rebuke to a regime that prides itself as a bastion of Arab nationalism, but it was unlikely to immediately end a wave of violence that the U.N. estimates has killed more than 3,500 people since mid-March. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

It is not just Syria, come to think of it. It is Syria's satellites, like Lebanon, like Hezbollah, like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. And, of course, its great patron, the Islamic Republic of Iran. Abandoned, all of them. Simply because their divine right to rule is being challenged. It is the Arab League seeking the approval of the European Union and the United States.

Just when Syria was preparing to mount its next step, installing all the conditions set forward by the Arab League's plan to apprehend the insurrection. It takes time to put such things in place. And it is perfectly insupportable that the Arab League stands prepared, along with the EU to engage with the Syrian National Council.

And King Abdullah, who does he think he is? "I believe, if I were in his shoes, I would step down. I would step down and make sure whoever comes behind me has the ability to change the status quo that we're seeing." Does he really believe that the minor rebellion Jordan experienced has been resolved and is forgotten?

Islamic Jihad can be persuaded to do something about that situation.

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posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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