tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:21:12 +0000ZionismZionist mythsZionist propagandaVia Recta is the Latin name of the Biblical "Street Called Straight" in Damascus, Syriahttp://viarecta.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Philip I)Blogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-5378093074679480185Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:33:00 +00002013-02-22T06:33:31.337-08:00 Whichever group let off the bomb that killed 50 innocent people in Damascus yesterday cannot possibly have the interests of the Syrian people at heart. They are acting in their own interests, driven by fundamentalist ideals, frustration, thirst for revenge and callous disregard for innocent human life.  Going after soft targets is both savage and cowardly. They do not have the courage to http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2013/02/so-called-freedom-fighters-mirror-image.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)85tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-7653429971311118750Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:27:00 +00002012-07-18T13:30:28.201-07:00 Only three top regime criminals have perished in the suicide bombing in Damascus today .Whose turn is it going to be next? Syrians are regaining their freedom the hard way - through blood and tears.  Russia has its own strategic interests in the region and (like other governments) could not care less for the torment and violent deaths in Syria.  Syrians should nevertheless be pleased http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2012/07/good-riddance-to-those-who-turned-their.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-5203867295642002499Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:57:00 +00002012-06-13T01:59:02.302-07:00 The Alawites (a branch of Shia Islam) had a state of their own in Syria's coastal region for 12 years after the collapse of the Ottoman Emipre (see 1920s map). They even issued their own postal stamps (see pictures). The French who seized and colonised "Greater Syria" from 1922 to 1943 helped to create several mini states from previously semi-autonomous regions including Lebanon (with its http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2012/06/alawites-bloody-retreat-into-own.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-8522064136182674685Fri, 08 Jun 2012 06:08:00 +00002012-06-13T02:02:13.062-07:00 Syria has been ruled by stubborn mountain idiots with big guns and false army medals, white-collar thieves and street thugs for forty years.  Their rule has  been sectarian,  tribal, fuedal and brutal, reflecting their true character, deep cultural roots and minority fears. The Assad gang never truly felt loyalty to Syria as a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic nation state. Once http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2012/06/high-treason-and-boat-to-israel.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-8245394461831769072Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:15:00 +00002012-02-16T00:19:54.434-08:00 The regime wants to hold a referendum on a new constitution on 26 February 2012. Once the constitution is approved, parliamentary elections will be held within 90 days. The proposed constitution has been four months in the making.  It is a statement of principles and intentions and therefore short on detail.   An English translation of the existing constitution can be found http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2012/02/proposed-syrian-constitution-full-text.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-2981039699102553901Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:47:00 +00002012-01-28T02:55:50.934-08:00 Moscow reportedly approves of the Arab League initiative for a peaceful transition to multi-party democracy in Syria (see previous post) but wants Assad to remain as president. That's very interesting. It seems that the Syrian people have been out on the streets demanding that Mr Putin picks a suitable president for them, when I was asleep. Sarcasm aside, the Russian pronouncements are in http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2012/01/moscow-plays-chess-with-just-one-pawn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-5874771962232050286Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:16:00 +00002012-01-27T23:07:46.335-08:00Say what you will about the impotence and Western bias of the Arab League, but its bold call to Assad to hand over power to his deputy, Farouk Al-Sharaa, and hold multi-party elections in six months is both wise and measured. The Russians, who are deeply concerned about losing their only naval base in the Mediterranean and remaining client state in the Arab world, are unlikely to object to this http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2012/01/arab-league-get-out-of-jail-free-card.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-921034227779318271Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +00002012-01-20T13:00:05.761-08:00 From: http://rationalinsurgent.wordpress.com - Please circulate widely In light of the dire news out of Syria, international action is ever more urgent. In my judgment, Syria reflects one of the paradoxes of international politics: its strategic importance in the region renders international military action nearly impossible–or at least extremely unlikely. Regional and global powers are nothttp://viarecta.blogspot.com/2012/01/13-ways-to-support-syrian-opposition.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-1162088765873156174Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:51:00 +00002011-12-18T10:28:23.349-08:00 Vaclav Havel, former Czech President, architect of the "Velvet Revolution" and dissident playwright has sadly died today aged 75. On becoming President in 1990, he spoke of the fallen communist regime as “a monstrous, ramshackle machine” which had bequeathed not merely economic failure but also “a spoiled moral environment”. “We have become morally ill because we are used to saying one thinghttp://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/12/vaclav-havel-and-arab-spring.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-8769143326990140546Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:13:00 +00002011-12-12T13:50:11.306-08:00 He has, after all, a Phd in history and knows exactly what he is talking about. There was no "State of Palestine" under Ottoman rule, nor was there a State of Israel. There were lots of Palestinian Arabs and some Palestinian jews. They lived side by side in relative harmony  until European jews flooded Palestine, displaced the Palestinian Arabs and invented the State of Israel. There http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/12/gingrich-is-right-palestinians-are.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-3354935252604126044Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:26:00 +00002011-12-03T14:26:40.250-08:00 The French created the Alawite State in and around Lattakia in the 1920s to divide and rule Syria.  They encouraged Alawites to join the new army because the more-affluent and urban Sunni majority preferred civilian life. As they rose through the ranks and their numbers swelled the armed forces, the Alawites proceeded to build a state within a state from the late 1960s onwards motivated http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/12/alawite-state-within-state-begins-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-2792586114333688095Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:16:00 +00002011-11-26T09:05:22.523-08:00 First the Human Rights Watch report then the Arab League suspension and now the threat of foreign intervention. What next? Will this regime ever come to its senses? If the Assad clan and their armed thugs are ever caught they should be tried not just for crimes against humanity but also high treason. Their refusal to meet public demands for free and fair elections and deliberate escalation http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/11/noose-tightens-round-their-necks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-2937897925382590827Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:48:00 +00002011-10-25T22:51:38.037-07:00 He could have retired in dignity but,  like all despots, he believed his own hubris and met the end that he deserved. Mr Assad, do not fight the people. Take a good look at this picture, learn from history,  pack your bags and go. http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/10/king-of-all-african-kings-is-hunted.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-4748140310896205083Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:29:00 +00002011-08-09T13:51:20.253-07:00 Today's visit to Damascus by Turkey's foreign minister is a watershed in Syria's modern history. The visit marks the beginning of foreign  intervention in the country to install a new regime and alter the balance of power in the region.  Iran will lose its Syrian protege and Russia will keep its naval base in Tartous. Turkey is a member of NATO but also capable of playing its own http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/08/beginning-of-foreign-intervention-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-7107278809198918011Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:35:00 +00002011-07-22T10:26:10.916-07:00 Syrians are peace-loving, hospitable, mild-mannered and generous people, or so our parents and school teachers led us to believe. This video tells a very different story (please be aware that it contains bloody and distressing scenes).  It makes you feel ashamed of your own identity, history, flag, passport, constitution and everything that the country http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/07/are-we-savages-beyond-compare.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-1400112950452824263Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:51:00 +00002011-06-26T00:35:25.995-07:00Western powers, through Turkey, have tried hard to persuade Assad to lead a peaceful transition to a genuine multi-party democracy but failed. They are giving him one last chance despite the intransigence of the primitive savages in his extended family. The alliance of  Western powers, Israel and conservative Sunni Arab governments would like nothing more than to end Iran’s influence in http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/06/threat-of-turkish-invasion-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-5989645760601121248Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:14:00 +00002011-06-20T14:14:02.309-07:00 Baa..conspiracy..Baa..committee..Baa..dialogue..Baa..reforms.. http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/06/another-ventriloquist-speech.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-6810378542746558828Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:37:00 +00002011-06-12T01:28:21.185-07:00In Syria we refer to stubborn belligerent idiots as “tuyus jabalieh” or mountain goats. No one can reason with them. They bully, torment, torture and then kill everyone in sight just to prove that they have the firepower and will use it as they please. Yet, when faced with superior power, they do not fight back; they go quiet, squirm and flee. Force is the only language they understand.The http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/06/tuyus-jabalieh-head-for-slaughterhouse.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-4886212277195856723Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:35:00 +00002011-06-03T14:03:07.415-07:00Who are those psychopaths who have been let loose by the Assad clan to inflict such barbarity on an innocent child like Hamza Ali al-Khateeb?Where is the sophisticated Asma Al-Assad now? Is she shopping at Harrods for an expensive new toy for little Hafez?The poor woman is not my soft target for today after running out of ideas. Her misfortune (or misjudgment) of marrying into such a monsteroushttp://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/06/can-they-sink-any-lower.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-8305233676113790449Wed, 04 May 2011 00:12:00 +00002011-05-03T17:15:45.026-07:00It has been reported that some regime elements are in favour of negotiating with the opposition. They “complain” that there are no visible or credible opposition leaders with whom they can negotiate; hence the only option is a crackdown to restore peace and order and a continuation of the status quo.Where have we heard this fine line of argument before? Could it be the Israelis who, for 40 http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/05/turkey-yet-again-sets-good-example-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-3053156240879807401Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:37:00 +00002011-04-22T15:15:03.519-07:00Regime snipers are now firing exploding bullets at innocent civilians, hunting them down like wild animals. This image is bad enough but the video clip is even more harrowing. The skull of a 10-year old boy has been blown apart scattering his brain all around his body. This is the same regime that presents itself to the rest of the world as cultured and civilised. It is the same regime that losthttp://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/04/exploding-bullets-dont-look-if-you-are.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-6471641541712159907Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:21:00 +00002011-04-22T13:41:38.178-07:00Dear AsmaTell your husband to quit. If he and his clan have any sense at all, they should start packing their bags now. South America makes a good hiding place and they accept dollars in most supermarkets. Your in-laws may have a stubborn streak but they are no martyrs. Men who sleep on feathers do not willingly fall on their swords. It is over, run before the angry crowds tear you and your http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/04/petite-ceausescu.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-4862718801811905773Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:55:00 +00002011-04-18T22:38:18.354-07:00The second half of This short amateur video was captured in Banias (a small town in northern Syria). It shows how blatant, sadistic and vindictive regime thugs can be.This second video was posted on Facebook. The beatings and torture are all too evident on the faces and backs of these brave men from Banias.Unfortunately for Syrians, the stubborn mountain goats that have ruled the country for 40 http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/04/brainless-baboons-stubborn-mountain.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-2617862763030277707Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:12:00 +00002011-04-02T16:20:41.696-07:00No Comment...!http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-assad-thinks-of-syrian-people-part.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29778036.post-8692704867208121702Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:58:00 +00002011-03-26T22:16:45.090-07:00The popular uprising in Syria will spiral out of control and rivers of blood will flow unless Assad's brothers and cousins are stripped of their powers immediately and put under house arrest and the army is deployed in force in all the main population centres. That of course is pure fantasy. Assad is too weak among his clan; the higher echelons of the armed forces have been corrupted or rendered http://viarecta.blogspot.com/2011/03/syria-needs-military-coup-and-turkish.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Philip I)0