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- On Sep 10, Asim Hawari, Commander of the Syrian Army Air Force, met with Selcuk Bayraktar oglu, Chief of Staff of the Turkish Army, and Ziya Cemal Gazioglu, Commander of the Turkish Air Force in Ankara;
- On Sep 9, A Russian delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak met with the Syrian interim government President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus;
- On Sep 9, Israeli strikes targeted military sites and ammo depots near Homs and Latakia.
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the real syrian moderates: voices of reason/ by eva bartlett, march 15, 2015
by contributing writers- september 25, 2020
mar 15, 2015, eva bartlett, russia today
[re-published in arabic at dr. shaaban’s fb page and at: dissident voice and uprooted palestinians]
while the western-led, anti-assad bloc mind-blowingly speaks of arming non-existent “moderates” to fight in syria, they also continue to demonize and silence the
very voices that offer a true means of bringing peace and stability back to the region.
two of these voices are: political and media adviser to president al-assad, dr. bouthaina shaaban; and syria’s highest muslim official and scholar, grand mufti dr. ahmad badr al-din hassoun. both are highly-educated and convey messages of dialogue, understanding, and peace.
and both seemingly terrify the west, which has been quick to sanction and deny them visas, lest the anti-syria lies and propaganda be challenged before a western audience.
from february 24-26, 2015, the us delegation i accompanied met a number of important syrian figures, including mufti hassoun and dr. shaaban.
dr. shaaban is known to her american friends as “the bridge,” she says. “i always wanted to be a bridge between syria and western cultures.” she has lived abroad, earning a phd in english literature from warwick university, on a fulbright scholarship at duke university, and later as professor at eastern michigan university.
she speaks affectionately and respectfully of americans: “i enjoyed american people, their hospitality and kindness.” affection for the people aside, she is heavily critical of the us government and allies’ prolonged attack on syria.
not only has the west backed and trained terrorists in syria, the so-called “opposition” they hand-picked to represent syrians can’t even pretend to do so. “they adopted personalities who haven’t lived in syria for 30 years! further, they took the wrong step in closing embassies, instead of communicating with us and observing from the ground. in the name of ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights’ they are destroying our country.”
in our meeting, shaaban paints a picture of the syria that existed prior to this multi-regime attack on its sovereignty.
“syria was formerly one of the fastest developing countries in the world, and one of the safest. we have free education and health care. we did not know poverty; we grew our food and produced our own clothing. at universities, 55 percent of the students were women.” already, these are points the west would prefer remain unheard, points which dispute the lies that syrians were living in miserable oppression prior to the faux-revolution, and also which could not be said
about nato’s gulf state allies. “the souk of aleppo was the most beautiful. it’s now rubble, they destroyed it. in whose interest is it to destroy this heritage? who is the beneficiary of this? i’m sure if the american public knew the truth about what is happening in syria they wouldn’t accept syrian people being slaughtered.”
further points the ‘axis-of-destruction’ would care to keep under wraps: “you have hundreds of thousands of widows, most without any income because they’ve lost their main provider and are left to care for their children—theirs is the better situation, in secure government-ruled areas. in areas where armed gangs rule, women are being raped, sold, or killed. also, in refugee camps in jordan, women are being raped and sold. women and children are paying the highest price.”
presidential adviser, dr. bouthaina shaaban (r) with former attorney-general ramsey clark
“i find it strange they consider me dangerous,” she says. but it’s not that they find her, per se, dangerous, just they would like her to shut up. “at the beginning of the crisis, they tried to buy me,” she says, noting they tried to play the “come to a
civilized place” card. dr. shaaban is similar to syria’s permanent representative to the un, dr. bashar al-ja’afari, in her sharp intellect and quick responses, and in her use of literary references to shoot down western belligerence.
“i told them, ‘we have baths which are over 1,000 years old and still functioning. i studied shelley: they didn’t have baths 800 years ago in england.
we did, we were having baths and coffee,’” she relates with a laugh. “stop calling for us to be civilized. we are civilized!”
if israel has any say in her ostracization, it may be dr. shaaban’s continued advocacy for palestinians (in addition to her strong anti-imperialist syrian voice) that makes her ‘dangerous’ to israeli and western interests. in her 2010 article, the delegitimization of israel, she noted:
…what characterizes the first decade of this century is that the world has started to realize that the conflict in the middle east is not a religious one, nor a war on terrorism as portrayed by zionist propaganda. it is the result of a racist settler movement which deprives an ancient people, who lived on the land of their ancestors for thousands of years, from freedom. this is why jews, christians and muslims have taken part in demonstrations against the racist wall of
segregation and called for lifting the blockade of gaza and staged sit-ins with the palestinians in protest against killing children and demolishing homes.”
on the note of religion, shaaban embodies the secular coexistence that is syria. “i’m a muslim, but i feel am partly christian. i visit (christian towns of) saydnaya and ma’loula. i celebrate
christmas, because it is something that i feel. there is an arabic proverb which says: ‘differences don’t mean that you don’t love one another.’ we each have our own different ways of life.”
she tells the story of a jewish family from abroad who in 1999 visited syria, went to their ancestral homes and were shocked to find graves of their ancestors untouched.
this is syria. in contrast, the west’s imported, ever-circulating un-islamic ‘moderates’ are actively destroying not only graves but any source of syria’s heritage they can get their bloodied hands on.
mufti hassoun calls his greek orthodox counterpart, bishop luca al-khoury, his cousin and brother. “our grandfathers, 1,400 years ago, were one family. my grandfather embraced islam and his remained christian.” he maintains that he, as grand mufti, serves the syrian people, period. “in syria, there are 23 million christians, and 23 million muslims. my title is grand mufti of the syrian arab republic, not the mufti of a particular denomination.”
in the media war on syria, which insists sectarianism—which the syrian people reject—this declaration is significant: in syria, the ancient cultural fabric is rich and secular.
unlike the saudi mufti – who has reportedly said “all churches in the arabian peninsula must be destroyed” – mufti hassoun is open-minded and committed to unity of people (not only the syrian people) – to the point of making light of some religious institutions’ use of power: “
god, is not a christian or muslim or a jew. god is for all of us. jesus was not a catholic, nor an orthodox, nor a protestant. and mohammed was not a wahhabi, not a sufi. we as religious clerics have divided you into sects, so that we become leaders of each sect. we whisper in the ears of politicians: if you support us, we will repay the favor.”
while dr. hassoun does not wield his influence in such a way, it is rare that a religious authority figure so candidly speaks of this potential abuse of power over their people. so what does he whisper in people’s ears? he’s not shy about it, he doesn’t whisper:
forgiveness. understanding. unity. love. and like shaaban (and most syrians), solidarity with palestinians in their struggle for liberation, and
resistance to israeli occupation, to extremism, and to the foreign invasion of secular syria. at an islamic unity conference in tehran in january 2015, hassoun urged muslim leaders and scholars to unify, and highlighted, “the most dangerous thing we witness today is the use of religious jargon by people who do not know islam, and the most dangerous is the name ‘islamic caliphate’.”
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russia deserves that poland strikes at russia like the hero sobieski struck at the turks, and that poland will be so large that moscow will be within poland.
we erased syria and sent assad to go live in a moscow apartment…heheheh
the only thing that needs erasing is israel, its a fake colonial entity that soley exists on lies and stealing other people their lands. the whole holohoax is a lie and a myth that jews use to guilt extort goyim into consessions.
the jews commited mass geno grapes and expulsions of millions in eastern europe after ww2
these jews who migrared to palestine are originally from ukraine and the northern caucasus they dont belong there. they are khazars.
it wasn’t the jews who were the masters of the iranian famine, it is the british.
the persian famine of 1917–1919 was a period of widespread mass starvation and disease in iran under the rule of the qajar dynasty during world war
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jews control britain for a very long time now as early as the napoleonic wars when nathan rothschild claimed napoleon won at waterloo and made a fortune when bonds were dumped and bought up at firesale prices.
in londen you have the city of london were the jewish bankers have the monarch bow down to them completely under their own jurisdiction. so yes jews did it.
they use the british the americans the russia and the chinese every side is used by the jews to do their bidding. its important to understand how they control governments and make these countries do their bidding. if the usa bombs iraq or iran it are the jews who control congres who decided on it. remember how paul wolfowitz and many jews wanted war with iraq and made gentiles fight the war for them. same with iran. and the british empire.
the main power these jews have is subversion to make others do their bidding.
the souk of aleppo was the most beautiful. it’s now rubble, they destroyed it. in whose interest is it to destroy this heritage? who is the beneficiary of this? i’m sure if the american public knew the truth about what is happening in syria they wouldn’t accept syrian people being slaughtered.”
that’s what a stupid woman thought, but i know that people in the usa are evil and that it is built on genocide against indians.
the only one benefitting from destroying syria is khazar ashkenazi jews. who want to erase the people of syria iraq lebanon turkey saudi arabia kuwait jordan and egypt and take all the land for themselves. its all according to their plan isis and julani are just a means to that end they are a israeli created land clearence opperation that destroyer syria and its people and cohesion. israel will jse the druze to take all of southern syria for example.
people in syria are free now.
situation very good now in syria.
only problam is kurdistan rojava.
kurds still did not join under the djolani administration.