#Syria #Palestine Useful idiots for the Assads The Syrian people, unlike the radically chic Western pro-Assad left, have always supported Palestinian freedom; Syrians did not notice the Nakba had happened 20 years later and decide it would be fashionable to buy a kuffiyeh and read some Edward Said before pontificating on their support for freedom. The Assad regime, like every other leadership in the Middle East, knew the importance of exploiting the peoples unwavering, heartfelt and genuine support for their brothers and sisters in Palestine, as and when expedient, to justify its own domestic repression - even dictators need to at least try to keep the people onside. This adept exploitation by the Assad regime of the Syrian peoples genuine and constant support for the great cause of Palestinian freedom has subsequently been turned on its head by useful, morally bankrupt idiots everywhere to insist that its the Assads who are a true bulwark against zionism and champions of resistance. The Assads have shown this resistance through regular speeches which are mandatory for every regional leader...and through protecting the occupied Golan for four decades on Tel Avivs behalf, with Washington providing aerial and now satellite surveillance under a still-operative agreement signed in 1974 between Hafez al Assad and the governments of the time in Tel Aviv and Washington. In Hafez case, this resistance was also demonstrated through a policy of starving and slaughtering thousands of residents in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon in the 1970s and 80s in a move to repress any strong Palestinian resistance, which it was feared might pose a political threat to the regimes own power base. In Bashars case, the resistance is practically demonstrated by starving and bombing Palestinian refugee camps in Syria, and in support for Washingtons War on Terror, both through the torture of suspects for the CIA and British intelligence services and through providing help in the deposing of Saddam Hussein (the only regional leader to give all Palestinians full citizenship or to fire more than speeches at Tel Aviv). In reality, the Syrian and Palestinian peoples are family. The two nations, along with Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, were part of one entity, Bilad al Shaam; prior to the partition of Bilad al Shaam, Palestinians could and did ride or drive from Gaza to Amman, Damascus or Beirut - there were no borders. These modern-day nations and borders were created in their current form by European imperialists - specifically Britain and France - around a century ago to aid them in the division and rule of the region, with Palestine being formally given to European colonialists in the aftermath of World War 2 largely to help further entrench this division and offer a permeanent regional base for Western colonialism. Ironically, some of those same Europeans descendants now have the monstrous temerity to claim that they have greater solidarity with Palestinians than Palestinians brothers and sisters a few miles away in Syria, who have never done anything but stand in solidarity. These same Western supposed supporters of freedom also have the jaw-dropping audacity to claim that the rulers who exploited that solidarity to impose their own brutal totalitarian rule (and to ensure the safety of Israels borders for decades) are true champions of Palestinian freedom, while the Syrians and Palestinians demanding and fighting for freedom, being starved and slaughtered as the world watches indifferently, are conspiring with Tel Aviv, Washington and/or Riyadh to depose a great anti-zionist. The radically chic nominal supporters of Palestinian freedom who remain silent on or overtly support the current Nakba in Syria (the word used wholly accurate by Azmi Bishara in 2012 to describe Assads genocide) are no different to their predecessors who did the same during the Nakba in Palestine 66 years ago or to the Western governments they rightly castigate for the same moral bankruptcy and selective wilful blindness to and complicity in evil in the name of political or ideological expedience. Anyone who can justify or disregard a genocide for political or ideological expedience is no friend of freedom, for Palestinians, for Syrians or for anyone else. via Radio Free Syria
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:49:50 +0000
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