The average citizen has really no idea to what extent the “quality media”, such as (not to mention all the private channels), for example, the ARD and ZDF (German State media) are subverted and what incredible lies are served to them by these media stations day after day.

Without the efficient propaganda apparatus of the history, which was built up by the oligarchs since the fall of the Berlin Wall and also brought into line systematically, neither the war against Libya nor the proxy / covert war against Syria would have taken place.

The masterminds behind the stage still need the consent or at least the passive acquiescence of the people in the West to carry out their murderous wars. And their money, too.

The secret lies in the concentration of the media in few hands, which control the media operate and stick to the worst brainwashing of viewers and readers. Distraction from the dreary and stressful working in a decaying society is provided with sex, so-called talk shows and, in general, with idiotic television series and disinformation.

They keep the people away from really bad news (about the non-democratic behavior of own governments e.g.) and, instead, lie to them like a trooper.

Even the coverage of the Iraq war, with its “embedded” journalists, was the premise that the U.S. and its allies were able to perform this murderous nuclear war. The people in the West – thanks to the same, connected media – have no idea about the incredible crimes that have taken place there, to this day. They were not able to notice it. Of course, how should they be able to when media was already brought into line.

An objective coverage of the Western press, even before the war, would have been able to prevent such a huge catastrophe. And one is able to continue the chain of reasoning backwards. Afghanistan, 9/11… …the mainstream media are just telling us nothing but lies and delude us from the world by delivering a world of illusion, which conceals the crimes of murderous systems.

The German Foreign Minister Mr. Westerwelle has once refused to take part directly in the Libyan conflict; he is no more able to afford such a stance anymore. Bernard Levy has actually overthrown the German Foreign Minister, and the chair, on which he sits, has only one sawed leg.

You are able to say it with complete justification, that Western mass media are shooting Syria ready for a war. The importance of mass media is totally underrated in the whole game. Without the desk workers of the corporate media, there would be no conflict of Syria, at least not on the plane and in the bloody proportions, as it stands now. At least the alternative media have to try to unmask the lies of the West apparatus.

Here’s the appeal of Christoph R. Hörstel about Syria.

Extraordinary situations require extraordinary measures – Urgent appeal at the last minute

Christoph R. Hörstel

In Syria, the clear stance, especially by Russia with its aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean port of the Syrian city of Tartus, forces the United States to give up open military attacks and to instead operate a secret service organized terrorist war (“terror management”) in Syria. (E.g. to destabilize the country)

Syria has the time to deal with comparatively small means to build very strong public relations activities (media relations, PR, public relations) – and is not doing this! One can hardly understand at first – but the attempt not only seems helpful, but also necessary for the serious and dangerous situation:

• Syria does not know any free media for decades. Consequently, there is a huge lack with the expertise and the experience in dealing with it. The most corrupt Western media landscape is a wonderful piano – but Syria was never given a chance to learn to play it. And the PR professional says: they are therefore not even able to control agencies. In German: they are not even professional in a position to use a good PR agency so that it makes sense.
• Syria’s main ally, Iran, Russia, China, also have little expertise background in PR; Russia perhaps could have the most experience with it. All three countries have their own representation problems in the West, which they clearly structurally do not cope better than it was and is done in Syria. Of these countries, only China is therefore not suffering as strong as the other two because China is courted as a major economic power; this makes it less vulnerable to attacks – and China is also the largest U.S. creditor…
• About Syria`s public relations experiences in the recent past: Syria has made attempts to get rid of the lousy image in the West, especially in Europe, but Syria has failed because of the mentioned reasons. The two Syrian ministries, which were mainly personally involved in that failure, and which are still involved, are the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Information in Syria. Both ministries are now just able to react defensively when a European comes along and claims that the situation can be changed and that he can do it. Just such a proposal is able to let some Syrian officials fear for their jobs. Nobody hears these claims without a fight, especially not in these times of crisis in Syria.
• About the case of the author: In May 2011, the General Secretary of the “German-Syrian Society” has asked the question how the PR deficit of Syria can be really addressed, to solve this deficit. After several hours of personal conversation, it was agreed on, that the author should submit a proposal to the Syrian ambassador. This was done. The General Secretary and the Syrian Ambassador were satisfied. The Syrian Ambassador took the paper with a proved and suitable “starter program” to the Syrian capital Damascus and got a resounding rejection. Afterwards it was revealed that the case was even passed to the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian President al-Assad has selected the internally much criticized Information Minister, Dr. Hassan Adnan Mahmoud, for this job in April. Dr. Hassan Adnan Mahmoud, Syrian Minister of Information, has no experiences with the West and no “West experiences”. And this at a time when it was clear that the whole trouble (in Syria) is a Western production.
• The author was shocked by the rejection because of the harsh and historical consequences for the country and people of Syria. With continuing commitment for Syria, the author has met with Germans from Syria, which supported his proposals. This has led, almost by pressure of the civil society from the Syrian population, to a invitation by the government in Damascus. This “fight” of forces between the Syrian government and the Syrian supporters of the proposals by Christopher Hörstel still continues. Therefore, the author asks anyone, who can politically think for itself, to participate politically and to support this cause. It is here not about persons or nationalities – the point is that public relations work is tried on a professional and larger scale, before it`s too late.

After all, the current unarmed UN military observer mission (UNSMIS) will not be renewed, in accordance with the United States, when the observer mission does not bring peace to Syria. While the U.S. and its accomplices try in secret missions and by terror, that nobody is able to succeed in bringing peace to Syria.

Afterwards, the official U.S. threat should be implemented: “robust mandate”. If Syria is fallen, the war of Iran will follow, because then, nobody is able to prevent the Iran war anymore; integral to the author`s view, because of the irrational U.S. policy: In Public Relations issues, the Iran is perhaps even more clueless and more careless as Syria.

Therefore, a peaceful solution can only be saved if many support this current appeal: First, in three European countries, but also from the USA, we want to counter the attacks against Syria, controlled by Washington.

A Media campaign in Europe not only benefits the peace, but also the peoples concerned, which are never really in a position to go against their governments and their restless political corruption, not even at the compulsory purchase by the Fiscal Pact, nor in the case of ESM-dictatorship. This gives the people of Syria and Germany suddenly common interests – and the chance for an opportunity to implement this!

This vision is historically new, it has never seen before: people join together across national boundaries and distances of time for common policies in order to get their governments to act reasonably. The author believes unconditionally that this is the last real opportunity to receive significant funding for meaningful public relations. For peace.

Moreover, this international action could be the only way against global imperialists, banksters, energy companies, pharmaceutical giants, and other dubious organizations and associations. Also this needs to be practiced…

The good thing about this challenge without your / your involvement, it must fail.

On the positive side it also means we can be our own fortune.

Website: http://syria-help.blogspot.de/

Source: http://www.politaia.org/terror/syrien-wird-von-den-westmedien-sturmreif-geschossen-appell-von-christof-horstel/

When it comes to Syria, the leaders of the G8 countries have already agreed to the point that the problems in Syria have to be solved politically, which means, a political change has to be implemented.

Russia, which was represented only by the Prime Minister Medvedev, and not by Putin at the G8 summit in Camp David, has tried to soften the more vigorous actions against the Syrian government in Damascus.

Russia actually sticks to the implementation of the six-point peace plan by Kofi Annan for Syria and has already insisted several times that all sides have to be taken equally to account. Although the other participants of the G8 summit expressed that only political solutions can solve the situation in Syria, the actual actions of some of these governments are, however, contradictory to their phrases.

It is also unanswered by the G8 leaders at Camp David, how they do imagine the so-called political changes for Syria. Probably, all will continue as before: arming the rebels and religious fanatics, accusing the Syrian government and strengthen the pressure on Damascus and the Syrian President al-Assad. Not to mention that they will further stick to the propaganda against the Syrian government.

For example, America, which supports the so-called “Syrian rebels” with civilian tools such as communication equipment and covers the back of Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Both Gulf States are arming the Syrian terrorists and rebels since weeks, even since months. Saudi Arabia and Qatar are also financial supporting these armed groups in Syria.

By active supporting the armed insurgents in Syria with funds, weapons and ammo, America and these Gulf States are violating the peace plan by the UN envoy Kofi Annan. The arming of violent groups in Syria does absolutely not help to end the violence and bloodshed in Syria. In contrary, the upgrading of armed groups with more and better weapons boosts the level of violence in this country of the Middle East and is contrary to find a base for political solutions.

The so-called “international community”, which favors democratic values, should also act this way. This would also mean that the “international community” has to condemn all support for armed groups in Syria by foreign powers and it would be the duty of the “international community” to use all levels to stop this arms smuggling and to end the direct support of Islamists and criminals with weapons, ammo and money.

Not to mention that the support with weapons for armed people cannot be a base to bring peaceful solutions to Syria. After the last week, it became obvious, that some states are willfully violating the peace plan by Mr. Kofi Annan. As already mentioned since weeks, the violation of the six-point plan favors the goal of the so-called Syrian opposition, e.g. based in Turkey, and also the questionable goal of the West, especially of the United States. A real ceasefire and political solutions for Syria would not help these sides to achieve their real goal(s) for and in Syria.

The dangerous situation in Syria is boosted again and again by some Western governments. The will to dialogue is an empty phrase by the West and just used for propaganda purposes and also, of course, to brainwash Western civilians, thus they agree on another war against Syria and later against Iran. At least about a so-called military intervention in Syria. Western civilians are just informed with one-sided reports and have no real chance to make up their minds, based on real facts and a objective coverage of the situation in Syria.

When the West does not start to show intentions to negotiate and does not stop to only take the Syrian government in Damascus to account for every violence in this country, the situation will sure not relax in Syria. Thus, the Russian stance and statements show more democratic values than the empty phrases of the West and Gulf States like Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Surprisingly enough.

Of course, not only because Moscow is a good friend of Damascus, that is not really true. But Russia has own interests and seems to be pissed about what really happened in Libya and why it was and is still happening. That is only one of the reasons for the Russian stance on Syria. Not to mention the Russian port in the Syrian city of Tartous (Tartus), economic interests and also regional intentions.

On Friday, the Norwegian General Robert Mood has also spoke about the fact that all sides should finally proceed to a dialogue at a press conference in the Syrian capital Damascus. General Mood has also said that violence is by no means able to solve the problems in Syria. However, as long as weapons and mercenaries are smuggled across the border(s) to Syria, there will be no dialogue.

Even if the Syrian government continuously agrees on steps towards the implementation of a dialogue, their steps are not really convincing. Even less convincing, however, is the side of the external opposition, e.g. the “Syrian National Council” (SNC), based in Istanbul, Turkey. This so-called opposition does not want to sit at the same table as the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and only wants to stop the fighting when the Syrian President al-Assad is overthrown.

There is a stalemate in Syria, which is hardly dissolvable. The UN observers cannot change the situation. Since the arrival and positioning of the UN observers, a decline in violence is indeed reported, but still, all sides constantly break the ceasefire (truce) in Syria.

The UN observers became repeatedly witnesses of the violence and the shattered situation in Syria. Whether the UN observers can actually accomplish something, or whether they should give the UN Security Council (UNSC) only time, to find new ways and methods to achieve their dubious interests and questionable goals in Syria, is unclear.

What is clear is that foreign powers meddle in Syria and that they fight a proxy war in this country. That the violence of Syria spills over to Lebanon is hardly surprising. Lebanon is in itself also a divided country, whose conflicts break out every now and then. Even in Lebanon, the religious conflict and the struggle for power and for the supremacy of religious communities plays a major role.

Currently, the Lebanese Interior Minister negotiates with Islamic preachers in Lebanon to find a solution which guarantees the security of the country. This solution shall not be only a compromise which delivers security only for some time.

Indeed, it is to observe in Lebanon, that the number of Islamists, of Salafists, has risen steadily since the outbreak of the crisis in Syria and that the Salafists are now looking for mercenaries that can be sent to Syria, under the guise of humanitarian aid. In Lebanon there is a large gap between Sunnis and Shiites that could lead to a divided Lebanon. Lebanon would be divided in separate parts and it is already spoken about it.

Compared to last Friday, the situation in Syria was pretty quiet yesterday, although it again came to some attacks. Of course, opponents of the Syrian government and President al-Assad took advantage of the afternoon, after the Friday sermon, to take to the streets and to demonstrate. Again, the numbers, which are cited by Western media, are not really correct.

One should really not assume that thousands took to the streets in the Syrian city of Aleppo (Halab). The number could only be correct, if one adds all villages around Aleppo and even parts of other districts. The city itself was largely peaceful. There are still protests at the University of Aleppo, but these protests are mainly instigated by students from other districts and suburbs. Just as in Damascus.

Another example of Western propaganda are the headlines in German newspapers. The German newspaper “Welt” reports that the demonstrations in Syria were used in order to show solidarity with the (allegedly) killed students, which were shot dead during a raid by Syrian security forces at the University of Aleppo.

The German mainstream withheld their readers the information, that the people who were reported as dead, are finally alive. Thus, German newspapers should start to check their sources again. But more and more people know, that Western mainstream publishes the propaganda and false information of the Syrian opposition without any check of the information. It is willfully used by Western media, even if some of the “sources” have already lost all credibility.

Syria is facing a huge media campaign which distorts the real situation completely. Although that does not mean that there are no problems in Syria and that e.g. SANA is better than Western media, but the coverage of Western mass media is willfully one-sided and often just false.

In some small regions of Syria, one can now speak of civil war-like conditions; which is also related to the fact, that the Syrian army is still not using full forces against the armed groups. More and more people in Syria are asking, why not. More people fear about their lives, because the armed insurgents, which are still celebrated as “Syrian rebels” for a democratic country in Western media, are a threat for every Syrian civilian.

Not only for Syrian soldiers and security forces. This opposition is no real opposition and no option for a better Syria tomorrow. To refer to the demonstrations in the Syrian city of Aleppo (Halab) as mass protests is smooth away a lie. Of course, Western media does it. As usually, false information for Western civilians to prepare them for another false war.

This has nothing to do with objective journalism and shows the lack of journalism, even in Western states with the so-called freedom of press. These journalists and students in Western editorial offices help to spread lies and false information. Willfully or not, it is to condemn what they have already done to journalism. The once good values of journalism are killed by economic interests.

Of course Iranians’ attachment to Persian Gulf and the cultural heritage which it carries does not emanate from blind nationalistic sentiments. Iranians know well that today, they are the representative of a greater, broader union that is the Islamic Ummah. They know that it’s with the blessing of Islam that they can still take pride on being an unrivaled superpower in such a tumultuous and restless region as the Middle East. However, Iranians are extremely sensitive about those vicious, brutal powers who intend to undermine their national honor and solidarity by encroaching on their national belongings, including the Persian Gulf.

The American web giant Google has recently fueled an anti-Iranian campaign by removing the name of Persian Gulf from its online maps and Google Earth plans. No Google official was ready to give comments on this questionable move, and Iranians are still wondering what motives have caused the American company to take such a thoughtless action.

Albeit if we take a look at the documents and evidence which point to the fact that Google is in actuality a CIA subsidiary that takes orders from the White House and operates under the guise of a technology firm while serving the long-run interests of a circle of American policymakers, it will be no surprise that by removing the name of Persian Gulf from its maps, Google intends to contribute to the anti-Iranian agenda of the United States and Israel which are vehemently underway these days.

In a 2006 interview with “Alex Jones show,” Robert David Steele, a 20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer and a former clandestine services case officer with CIA said that he had credible information attesting to the fact that Google was assisted and funded by CIA. “Google took money from the CIA when it was poor and it was starting up and unfortunately our system right now floods money into spying and other illegal and largely unethical activities, and it doesn’t fund what I call the open source world,” said Steele, citing “trusted individuals” as his sources for the claim.

“Let me say very explicitly – their contact at the CIA is named Dr. Rick Steinheiser, he’s in the Office of Research and Development,” said Steele.

And now that the United States is doing its best to convince Iran’s trade partners in Asia, Africa and Europe that they shouldn’t buy Iran’s crude oil anymore, launch chained covert cyber operations against Iran’s state-owned companies, facilitate the assassination of Iran’s nuclear scientists and impede the route of diplomacy for finding a solution to Iran’s nuclear standoff, asking Google to erase the name of Persian Gulf which is a tremendously strategic waterway in the Middle East and a symbol of Iran’s regional domination can be interpreted as a new phase of this complicated anti-Iranian plot.

But such unprofessional actions which are in sharp contrast to all the proclaimed principles and policies of companies like Google, including non-alignment to governments and independence in action, will do no harm to the regional superiority of Iran but give rise to anti-American sentiments among Iranians, discredit and bring into disrepute their fame and strengthen the national solidarity and unity of Iranians.

University professor and author Dr. Kevin Barrett believes that Google’s removal of the Persian Gulf name is part of a Zionist-directed plot against Iran: “Google’s idiotic removal of the Persian Gulf from its maps is part of a coordinated strategy by Zionist-dominated American policy-makers. Google is a CIA subsidiary. They are trying to foment hatred, strife, and violence between Iranian and Arab Muslims, as part of their imperial divide-and-conquer strategy.”

“This is part of what the US military calls its “total war,” meaning a genocidal war of extermination, against the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims. Their goal is to provoke Muslims to fight and kill each other. That way, the Israelis and Americans won’t have to suffer the blowback from committing genocide directly,” he added.

“This is only one example of the Zionist West’s genocidal efforts to provoke bloodshed between different groups of Muslims. The February, 2006 terrorist attack on the Golden Dome al-Askari mosque in Samarra by the U.S. forces is an example of the numerous false-flag attacks by Zionist-controlled terrorists designed to destroy Islam by fomenting schism and bloodshed (what Muslims call fitna),” wrote Barrett.

American journalist and radio host Stephen Lendman similarly believes that Google’s decision in removing the name of Persian Gulf from its maps is dictated from above: “Google is connected to the CIA. The agency provided startup funding. Its “mischievous attack” had to be CIA or political Washington connected. Why else would they do it? It provides Internet searches and other online related products and services. It’s a profit making business, not a political instrument unless directed to perform this type service.”

Famous British TV journalist and political commentator Yvonne Ridley is also against the seditious action of Google; however, she says that having a black record of mischievous actions by Google in mind, it would be no surprise that the American firm has removed the name of Persian Gulf from its maps: “Google has Jerusalem down as the capital of Israel so I wouldn’t get too upset by seeing this. It has its own political agenda and it is obviously under the thumb of the foreign policymakers in the United States.”

Ridley believes that Google is establishing a dangerous tradition by removing the name of Persian Gulf from its maps. She recommends Iranians to get united and take action against Google: “it might be worth Iranians mounting a campaign with online petitions, using the social networks and ridiculing Google for its silly attempt to erase the Persian influence in the region. If you stand by and let a search engine like Google erase your country’s history and culture it will set a dangerous precedent. Iranians should put up a resistance from the highest echelons of government to the kids in the street.”

Tim King, a former U.S. mariner and veteran journalist also believes that Google’s action is not justifiable by any standards and nothing but a political game: “In my mind, there is no question that we are watching the Google political, technical arm undermine and attempt to erase ancient history. I believe the U.S. and Israeli governments are absolutely carrying out another campaign against Tehran and this one is more shameful than most, as Americans are painfully unaware of world geography and the real history relating to the US, the UK and Persia. This is a Zionist program without question, we all know that.”

King believes that Google questions its already stained reputation with such moves: “I don’t see how this type of move will do anything but harm the reputation of Google, a company already known for its pro-Israel bias and its refusal to speak out over Israeli war crimes and apartheid politics. It is sad, I know so many Iranians who continually and expressly wish the war drums would die down.”

Nima Shirazi, Iranian political commentator and author says that there’s no dispute over the naming of Persian Gulf and that Google has started a political game over a scientific issue: “My impression is that Google’s decision to leave the Persian Gulf as an unnamed body of water on its maps is an example of a bad decision made in a misguided and misinformed effort to remain neutral on an issue that isn’t actually controversial or in dispute. Through its own ignorance and naïveté, Google made a decision that, in the absence of labeling the Persian Gulf by its historical and centuries-old internationally-accepted name, is actual a very political one.”

He further referred to the Iranian President’s visit to the Iranian island of Abu Musa which was widely protested by the Arab states of the Persian Gulf and also cited the example of the Gulf of Mexico, raising the question that what would happen if the Gulf’s name was changed to the Gulf of Cuba or Gulf of Texas: “additionally, coming on the heels of the absurd and manufactured outrage over Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to the Iranian island of Abu Musa, this is yet one more example of the deliberate disrespecting of Iranian sovereignty and recognition. Of course, no one would begrudge Mexicans for being confused and upset if “The Gulf of Mexico” were renamed “The Gulf of Cuba” or “The Gulf of Texas” or “The American Gulf.” And yet, Iranians are supposed to accept a similar offense without reaction.”

Shirazi believes that Google has showed its naiveté and ignorance by leaving the Persian Gulf unnamed on its maps: “first and foremost, I think it demonstrates Google’s ignorance and naïveté. Sometimes the attempt to remain “neutral” is itself a political act. By leaving the Persian Gulf unnamed on its maps, Google is essentially giving credence to the claim that such a title is disputed when, in fact, it is not. The United Nations, UNESCO, United States, United Kingdom and most other countries on the planet recognize the Persian Gulf as the accepted name of that body of water. The Persian Gulf has been so-called since antiquity. The Greek historian Herodotus utilized the term “Arabian Gulf” only in reference to what is now known as The Red Sea. The Greek travel writer and geographer Strabo repeatedly referred to the Persian Gulf in his seminal work Geographica.”

Persian Gulf’s legacy remains Iranian forever. By removing its name from the maps or faking other names for it, its reality cannot be changed.

Written by: Kourosh Ziabari | 19.05.2012
Source: Google following CIA’s path in confronting Iran

Image: nuttakit / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

And it seems that the prediction of Abraham Lincoln slowly materializes itself now. This trend emerges slowly in Europe and even the United States. Although the most Western journalists remain in general in the known questionable representations about the situation in the Middle East and especially about the events in Syria, but there are more and more Western civilians who start to ask critical questions about the general coverage. More Western civilians raise questions about the stories which are sold as the only valid truth about the events in Syria in the West.

Of course, in general it therefore remains at the representation that the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a awful butcher and that the Syrian government in the capital Damascus is more than just bloodthirsty and has only an interest in the preservation of power.

This representation certainly contains some truth but the situation in Syria and now even in Lebanon is not black and white and the coverage by Western journalists in general hides a lot of details and even important information.

Not to mention that it often seems like those other details are willfully kept hidden and that the questionable reports by e.g. the “Syrian Observatory for Human Rights” (SOHR), based in London, are published without any fact checking, although some journalists sure know that this two-man show in London is anything but credible. Both “Observatories” have a huge lack of credibility and at least one of them is easy to name it a Muslim Brotherhood office.

If Western journalists would stick to the dogmas of journalism, they also have the duty to write definitely similar or identical about the so-called Syrian opposition and the violent “Free Syrian Army” (FSA). After the last days it seems that the violation of the six-point peace plan by Mr. Kofi Annan of the United States and some Gulf States like Qatar and Saudi Arabia are not really condemned by the so-called “international community” and that Western journalists are not even willing to condemn and name such violations of the peace plan by the UN envoy, Kofi Annan.

Washington and Saudi Arabia are violating the six-point plan willfully because a real ceasefire and real discussions with the Syrian government and President al-Assad would not really help them to achieve their dubious goals and questionable intentions.

Many pictures and videos out of Syria and even out of Lebanon now show the unique character of Islamists: The Bearded dominate the pictures from Syria and started to stick to violence in Lebanon, too. Of course, it is not fetched from far that the same armed groups of people are spreading chaos and violence in both countries now.

Some pictures of North Lebanon even confirm that the there is a huge relation between these radical people and the “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) in Syria. They breakfast in Homs, have dinner in Damascus and kill Alawites in Tripoli at night. But the armed people in North Lebanon do not only fight against the small district of Alawites in Tripoli.

This representation in Western media is not really true. Not to mention that some still try to hide the sectarian and Islamistic background. These armed groups kill anyone who they deem as a “Kafer / Kafir”, which means that they also kill Sunnis, Shiites, Christians and Muslim Alawis, of course. “Kafir” is an Arabic term which is usually translated as “infidel” or “unbeliever” and refers thus to a person who rejects God or who denies and hides the “truth”, not to mention that it is used for branding people who have a different religion.

If people do not share the opinions of these armed groups and when people are even from a different sect / religion, these armed gangs are a huge threat for these people. Already sadly confirmed by violent events in Syria in recent months. The fact that such long beards are indicators for al-Qaeda clans or other related groups was taught in the West for a longer time. Perhaps not directly but it was again and again suggested between the lines. Just think of Afghanistan, Iraq and other regions of this beautiful planet where the self-appointed World police, America, was not interested to keep their hands off.

Al-Zawahiri, who became the terror chief and new “model man” of al-Qaeda after the allegedly death of Osama bin Laden, called already many years ago to fight against the Assad clan in Syria, because the Alawites, to which the clan of al-Assad belongs, are not recognized as Muslims by these radical people. The killing of others to achieve the death of all Alawites is just a collateral damage for him.

This also includes the killing of Sunnis, Shiites, Christians and others when they do not share such radical stances, this goal or are only in the way. So far, the most people, who got killed since the beginning of the unrest in Syria, were Sunnis. The representation in Western media that the Syrian army is behind the willfully killing of Sunnis is not only wrong, it is to condemn on every level.

These religious fanatics and radical Islamists wanted to remove the Alawite leadership from Syria for a long time, because they do not follow their radical interpretation of Islam, which is represented e.g. by Saudi Arabia and members of the terror organization al-Qaeda. Whether al-Qaeda (some call it al-CIAda) actually exists and whether Osama bin Laden was really murdered, is a hotly debated issue. But the fact is that there is a group of armed extremists who carry out terrorist attacks; create chaos and also bloodshed and who are a threat for normal civilians.

The United States play an evil, ambivalent and also conflicting game in the control or the financing of radical Islamists. While so-called Jihadists are still languishing in Guantanamo without trial till today, the U.S. administration seem to have forget about this, just to financial support extremists in Syria to topple the Assad clan and the Syrian government.

That is a policy which backfires, should actually be known since Afghanistan (at least). If one has not learned from Afghanistan, then perhaps from the developments in Iraq. And even if one has not learned it from Afghanistan and Iraq, one should direct the attention to Libya. But what actually happens just in Libya? This is kept hidden for the Western population.

Libya has disappeared from the Western news and mass media. Also about Iran, the mainstream media in the West are again fairly quiet.  Also about Syria, it is again a bit quiet in Western media. A bad indicator and sign for the fact, that some might plan a new strategy to overthrow the Syrian President al-Assad and the government in Damascus.

That fact, that not the democratic and peaceful forces are supported and also encouraged by the West in Syria, should be slowly clearly enough for more and more people. It`s not about the people of Syria, it is about geo-strategic interests and questionable intentions, not only in Syria, but also for the entire Middle East. The Lawrence-of-Arabia strategy still works in the Arab world.

The fact that Syria itself is not so weak after 14 months, as it was hoped by some Western governments and some Gulf States like Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and that the armed unorganized groups were not yet able to overthrow the Syrian President al-Assad and his government in Damascus, makes it relevant to plan other strategies. The Libyan-strategy seems to have failed in Syria.

Part of this new plan is to upgrade the so-called rebels with better and more weapons, which was already implemented, especially by the Gulf States Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The mere fact that exactly Qatar and Saudi Arabia participated at the last meeting of the so-called “Friends of Syria” meeting (when one has such friends, he does not need further enemies), and were also willing to disposal million dollars, while one can assume it is unofficially about billions of dollars, lets the American policy stink to high heaven.

The Syrian “rebels” are more and more armed and this is also announced cheerfully in the Western mainstream media, while the Western editorial offices always careful emphasize that the Syrian “rebels” only arm themselves in order to defend themselves against the brutality of the “Syrian regime”.

Although this one-sided representation is prayed down like a mantra, more and more doubts about this presentation in Western media appear – at least, by comments to such questionable reports. The government in Damascus speaks about terrorists and armed fighters which are smuggled to Syria from abroad, in order to create violence and chaos. Since months.

Now also Ban Ki Moon has admitted, that al-Qaeda appeared in Syria and is already meddling in the situation. The Syrian government has meanwhile already presented 26 foreign “freedom fighters”, of which 20 belong to the terror organization al-Qaeda (“al-CIAda”) and which were smuggled to Syria over the border with Turkey.

But the Western support of the jihadists, the support of terrorists, goes on, because they represent the interests of America and Saudi Arabia (also Qatar) in Syria and these radical people shall succeed in the implementation of these dubious intentions.

The fact that many mercenaries as well as weapons can be smuggled to Syria is located on the venality of many border guards and the dubious policy of some neighboring states. Some border guards are happy about the “extra income” and even need it to care about their families.

Not to mention that some could also share the radical stances. What should actually be fought is taken as a means to gain access to Syria. The “Syrian rebels” are due to Saudi and Qatari funds well equipped and able to buy their way free. The Syrian government in Damascus is not able to react to.

The displeasure towards the Syrian government is getting bigger, although this does not mean that these people stop their support for the government or, at least, it sure does not mean that they stop their support for the Syrian President. Syrians make a lot differences between the Syrian government in Damascus and the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Also, the Syrian government is still the lesser of two evils for the Syrian population, with which it can somehow handle and not to mention that the Syrian government has cared and even boosted a secular mind in Syria.

Russia warned in advance of the NATO / G8 Summit in Chicago to boost the military intervention in Syria, because that would not only lead to a war in the whole region, but may also lead to a war with the use of nuclear weapons.

Putin declined to participate at the G8 summit. Even if the West is not able to agree completely on a military intervention in Syria, one will use the G8 / NATO summit in Chicago this weekend to debate how to boost this strategy.

This summit will be also used to discuss about strategies how to weaken Syria and even Lebanon more and more, so that these Western powers are then finally, in the foreseeable future, in a good position to proceed against the actual main enemy, Iran.

America is on the move to another war and the hypocritically published intentions for a peace in Syria are empty words and just a strategy to brainwash the Western population and to increase the support for this war. Behind the scenes, the preparations for a war against Iran are in full swing. Thanks to AIPAC and Israel, too.

After all, also the German government has been asked for more military involvement, and the conflicts in Lebanon, which spill over from Syria, are no coincidence. The UN Observers in Syria, whose number has now grown to 260, are not really helpful for the implementation of peace. Some of these UN Observers are also to put into question or, at least, their behaviors.

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But if any Syrian government official attempts to put across the same argument, people roll their eyes. In a crisis people tend to believe independent civil groups rather than the government, but since Syria has been ruled by the Ba’ath Party for over 40 years there are few such groups. Consequently, during the current crisis when the western media appears to be waging a campaign against the Bashar al-Assad regime in much the same manner as it did against Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, the Syrian regime stands alone, with no independent groups to vouch for the truth.

But even if such groups did exist, it’s doubtful if the western media would have given them much credence. A decision seems to have been taken that Assad must go and any evidence indicating that any of the following may be true, if only partly, is being discounted:

• that some sections of the population support him
• that some of the rebels are antidemocratic Islamists who will take back the freedom that Syrian women enjoy to dress and work as they please thanks to the secular nature of society
• that unsavoury governments such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar are financing and supporting the rebels despite their own atrociously repressive regimes
• that the reforms which Assad has initiated — the removal of emergency laws, a new Constitution and elections on 7 May — may be a welcome first step towards introducing a multi-party democracy.

Obviously, the Ba’ath Party will win the elections. Its hold on Syria and its immense apparatus will ensure that none of the other parties — nine from earlier and nine new ones registered — stand a chance. But if the polls prove to be genuine and are accompanied by other media and social freedoms, at least the transition from one-party rule to a multi-party system will have begun. “The future of Syria will be represented by the ballot box. It will change the future face of Syria,” says Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al Miqdad.

Before visiting Syria, my impression from watching BBC and CNN was that the country was burning and disintegrating. Footage of tanks, artillery fire, bodies, smoking ruins of buildings and armed gunmen dominated the coverage. When I arrived in Damascus, it was not just peaceful, it was buzzing. The roads were jammed with traffic, the coffee houses and restaurants were packed, the souks were bustling, and families could be seen picnicking all over the city in their peculiarly Syrian fashion, right on the roadside with their barbecue sets as though they are just too lazy to bother driving the short distance to a nice park. The only difference from earlier times was the absence of tourists.

The government showed us what it wanted to show, but you cannot manufacture normalcy in a city of five million. Moreover, the countryside and small towns popular with tourists such as Maaloula, Syednaya, Shahba and even the country’s biggest city, Aleppo, were peaceful and normal. But no such pictures appear on western television channels.

Al Miqdad told a delegation of Indian journalists in April that the rebels fall into three main groups: elements of al Qaida (small but lethal); the Muslim Brotherhood and other extremist Muslims; and the majority — criminals, outlaws, and smugglers who, even before the troubles, had been involved in crime from across the Lebanese and Turkish border. Of course, he did not say that ordinary Syrians opposed to the regime were also fighting with the rebels, but that must obviously be true after so many years of dictatorship by one family. You may disregard his description of the rebels given his position in the government, but plenty of Arabs in the region also describe the rebels as a ragtag of armed criminals and foreign terrorists, rather than the romanticised image portrayed in global media as “pro-democracy activists”. In fact, they are so divided that the regime cannot fathom who it should speak to.

The Syrian conflict is not as Manichean as the West would have us believe. It’s not “Assad bad, rebels good”. According to the government, the insurgents are trying not just to take over Syria, but destroy the harmony between the Sunnis, the Shias and the Christians. Syrians kept saying that religion is simply not an issue. The minorities have no need of affirmative action or quotas. Religion does not dominate life here, nor is it flaunted to assert one’s identity. When a Muslim man marries a non-Muslim woman, she does not have to convert.

If the rebels had their way, they would cleanse the country of the minority Shias and Christians. Even if the Syrian government is the worst and most brutal regime in the world, its point of view about the rebels deserves an occasional airing, just as the rebels’ views should be shown. Instead, most of the western coverage has been totally slanted in favour of the rebels.

Take just one example: On 27 April, the BBC mentioned the suicide bomber in Damascus who killed 10 people. The blast was dismissed in a few sentences and the rest of the report focussed on how western countries are furious at the government’s ‘violations’ of the ceasefire brokered by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The report included a soundbite from US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice saying that American patience with the regime was ‘exhausted’. Exhausted? Only six observers arrived on 16 April and another nine had arrived in the next few days and were only just getting their bearings. But, by 27 April, Rice’s patience is already exhausted? How can 15 men enforce a ceasefire in a population of 26 million in 11 days?

If the ceasefire fails, it will be a prophecy foretold because the US is hungry — impatient for it to fail. (As are the Turks who set up refugee camps on their side of the border before there were any refugees). The clip of Rice was followed up by an interview with a UK professor who talked about how a “humanitarian corridor” would have to be carved out. In short, pushing the argument for military intervention.

Then, as this nicely balanced piece of news continued, Edward Luck, a man with the weird designation of ‘UN Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect’, told the BBC anchor at great length about how the ‘partition’ of Syria was inevitable, along with some phony noises of sympathy for the suffering of the Syrian people. Partition? Just days after a ceasefire? The anchor didn’t bat an eyelid at the monstrous idea of partitioning a country.

I suspect that the plan of the US, France and UK is to not allow a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis just as they didn’t in Libya where, instead of protecting civilians from Gaddafi’s repression through a ceasefire followed by political negotiations, the West opted for a no-fly zone and military intervention. They were interested in nothing but a regime change. Now, nothing less than deposing Assad will satisfy them because once Syria goes, it leaves only Iran that can promote the Palestinian cause.

This one BBC report alone was utterly one-sided and a good example of how the pretexts for war are being exaggerated or invented to justify western military intervention, but you would have to watch carefully to realise it. Most casual viewers would undoubtedly accept the thrust of most western reports. And once that perception has taken root in the western public ineluctably over weeks and months, it becomes easier for their governments to justify military intervention.

The fault for this biased coverage is partly of the regime’s, and its old-style Soviet tendencies to seek refuge in secrecy when it faces the glare of the world media. Instead of refusing visas to some western journalists, it should let them in. Syrian officials claim that they allowed western networks in to cover the conflict but were horrified at what they refused to show. Syrians may talk of a media “conspiracy” and the “agenda of the West” and it’s true that some of the editors at al Jazeera and al Arabiya have decided that Assad must be overthrown but at least some aspect of the government’s view of the troubles would have emerged.

Some networks, though, are trying to give both sides. Reuters had one recently from the Turkish side of the Syrian border, where its correspondent met some of the fighters who were there to drum up financial support. It portrayed the rebels as hopelessly fragmented, vying with one another for arms and admitting to the Reuters reporter that private donors, possibly frontmen for Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have funnelled millions of dollars to favoured rebel groups, with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis getting the lion’s share.

The report went on: Last month, the commander of a rebel unit in Homs province, Amjad al Hameed, who claimed to be funded by The Alternative Movement, criticised the leaders of several other groups. “We have armed men among our civilians that are a burden to our revolution,” he said in a 17 March YouTube video. “They are just thieves… It is impermissible for anyone to rape women, otherwise we are no different from Assad.” The next day, unidentified gunmen shot him dead.

There are also people like Patrick Cockburn of The Independent and Seumas Milne of The Guardian who have been unbiased. The Syrians are wrong to have given up entirely on the western media because if the falsehoods being peddled keep getting repeated, they will become reality. Moreover, there are plenty of independent journalists and media groups who could be allowed in to report on what is happening.

Syrians themselves sound fairly hopeless about their inability to influence public opinion abroad. Tourism Minister Lamia al Assi said that her own daughter, who works in Dubai, called her in panic when she saw on BBC great plumes of smoke rising from the military airport right next to their home. Looking at the airport through the kitchen window, Assi calmed her daughter down saying no such thing was happening there. And with such footage, who knows who caused the plume? The government? Or the rebels?

Many in West Asia had hoped that after the fictional narrative of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, western journalists would have reflected on their abject failure to question and expose their governments’ arrant lies but such an exercise is yet to happen. The disinformation campaign to remove Gaddafi was conducted along similar lines. Cook up story after story to build up the momentum to justify an unlawful military attack on Libya, while failing to explain why similar attacks should not be launched against Saudi Arabia and Bahrain whose regimes are equally, if not more, vicious and tyrannical.

Which western media network has really questioned their government’s stand? In covering Syria, it’s been a predicable pattern — quote a rebel, film an anti-regime demonstration and show a man with a gun in Homs. Any demonstration by regime supporters in Damascus finds no place in their pre-conceived framework.

If Assad is so hated by his people, why have the rebels not been able to overthrow him after more than a year and instead are begging other countries to intervene? In Libya too, it took months for the rebels to make any headway precisely because Gaddafi, brutal dictator though he was, enjoyed a measure of support from some sections of the people. After a brief visit to Syria, I’m in no position to say that all the people are behind Assad. Far from it. But nor does the West have the right to claim all the people are against him.

One disturbing corollary of the West’s demonisation of leaders such as Gaddafi and Assad is that the people who support Gaddafi are somehow not Libyans and the people who support Assad are not Syrians. They don’t count. It’s just as well the West did not decide that all Kashmiris were against the Indian State, despite Pakistan’s sedulous efforts to convey this impression.

EVENTS IN the West are unfolding according to a pre-conceived plan. The US wrote off the Annan peace plan before it had even got off the ground. Three days after the first batch of UN observers had arrived in Syria, the BBC quoted UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon saying he was “disturbed” by reports that the ceasefire was being violated and that Assad’s opponents were being harassed and executed, after talking to the observers. I and other Indian journalists met the UN spokesman in Damascus after he had been there for three days and he made no mention of this. Surely Ban could have waited until he had received the report of his observers before jumping to conclusions?

Syria doesn’t seem to be going the Arab Spring way in that it appears to enjoy a greater measure of support from Syrians than Egypt or Tunisia, which saw popular uprisings. But the war drums are getting louder, with US President Barack Obama and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy insisting that Assad must be stopped from “slaughtering” his own people. The West can cause the deaths of 1.5 lakh civilians in Libya but Assad must be toppled for killing his own people.

If Sarkozy faced subversion by Muslim extremists in, say, Lyon, would he not defend his regime by suppressing them? Governments have done this throughout known history. You may agree with the rebels or agree with the government, but the basic principle of allowing a regime to defend itself against violent subversion cannot be trampled on. The West would have us believe that Assad is fighting against his own nation and that all his people are against him. It creates the impression that Assad is wickedly engaged in wanton killing of his own people when, in fact, he is only acting against the rebels. There is a difference. But the difference has been lost in the media campaign against Syria. France has said that if the peace plan fails, it will press for a Chapter 7 resolution at the UN, which allows for action that could be backed by force.

If Sarkozy faced subversion by Muslim extremists in, say, Lyon, would he not defend his regime by suppressing them? Governments have done this throughout known history. You may agree with the rebels or agree with the government, but the basic principle of allowing a regime to defend itself against violent subversion cannot be trampled on. The West would have us believe that Assad is fighting against his own nation and that all his people are against him. It creates the impression that Assad is wickedly engaged in wanton killing of his own people when, in fact, he is only acting against the rebels. There is a difference. But the difference has been lost in the media campaign against Syria. France has said that if the peace plan fails, it will press for a Chapter 7 resolution at the UN, which allows for action that could be backed by force.

Syria fears going the way of other regimes in the region. The people are proud of the secular principles embedded in their society and consciousness. They see the Muslim Brotherhood coming to power in Egypt, gaining control in Morocco and expected to win in Algeria, while in Libya, chaos reigns. The idea of Muslim religious parties ruling them is anathema. It goes against their deepest instincts.

Amrit Dhillon visited Damascus in April as a guest of the Syrian government

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Of course, in the end it is nothing new that the United States, Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia support the not-peaceful rebels in Syria with weapons, money and advice. Considering the sovereignty of Syria, this could even be a declaration of war. Not to mention the visit of some external Syrian opposition figures to Kosovo to get some advice and help of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).

Also this visit was not condemned by the so-called “international community”, which still spreads the opinion that they stick to the values of justice, democracy and freedom. It becomes more and more questionable whether the West is really interested in implementing the six-point plan by Kofi Annan and whether Mr. Annan is just another tool to destabilize Syria – by selling this hidden destabilization as a peaceful solution to Western citizens.

Watching the real events in Syria and watching Western media, one will quickly realize that the West sticks to its plan: the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who gave a new interview to Russia24 yesterday, has to fall, no matter what it might cost. It has just developed to another method than it was in the past, e.g. in Libya and Iraq.

Sure because also the West knows behind the curtains that the majority in Syria supports the reform process of the President al-Assad and that Russia and China are not willing to start a surface fire in the entire Middle East. Not to mention that Moscow is not really pleased with the questionable Western foreign policy after the events in Libya. While Russia has its port in the Syrian city of Tartous (Tartus), it is also clear that Russia is no real big friend of Syria, but Moscow has own interests, just like China.

Probably there will be no international military intervention in Syria. No foreign armies will invade Syrian ground, but still there is no time to breathe for the Syrian people and the government in the capital Damascus. Hypocritically sanctions, the media war and the terrorism by armed Western-backed radicals, criminals and religious fanatics still let the Syrians suffer.

As it was mentioned at the last meeting of the so-called “Friends of Syria“, the support of the armed groups within Syria is ongoing and even running very well. When you have such friends, you really need no enemies. At least since April, the armed groups and criminals in Syria are getting a massive support by Saudi Arabia and Qatar with money and weapons.

Washington has increased its “support” dramatically, too. As one can read, the United States allegedly does not deliver weapons to the armed groups in Syria, but America (U.S.) delivers technical equipment, advice and connections to the armed people, which have nothing more in common with peaceful protesters. The United States have close ties with Saudi Arabia and Qatar and it is no secret anymore that both Gulf States deliver weapons and ammo to the gunmen in Syria.

Consequently, Washington cares about the coordination and delegation of financial resources. One could wonder whether coordination also means that the U.S. Administration cares about further steps of the armed groups in Syria. Some could be even so bold to ask whether Washington cares about upcoming places of attacks.

The weapons in the hands of those in Syria, who certainly do not pursue the goals of peace and democracy anymore, are still concerned mostly from the Lebanese black market. It is no surprise that a Lebanese author has mentioned that the Lebanese government and the Prime Minister could have more intimate contacts with Jeffrey D. Feltman than it is known or good for Lebanon.

The border and the border region of Syria are still problem areas and the Syrian army should bring these areas under a better control, although it seems not to work after all the months. Sure also because of the support for arms trafficking of some neighboring governments.

There is still no condemnation of the violations of the six-point plan by Kofi Annan from Western governments against the support with weapons to the armed groups in Syria. Even now, when it is clear that the “Syrian National Council” (SNC), based in Istanbul, does not care about peaceful solutions for Syria and boosts the violence in this country, the West stays silent about these violations of the peace plan.

Democracy and good values are sure something else. There are no questions anymore that some governments in the West and some Gulf States are not interested in peaceful solutions for Syria. These governments and Gulf regimes work opposing the six-point plan of Kofi Annan.

They upgrade the opponents of the Syrian government and the Syrian President in Damascus for further, intensified fighting; while the Western journalism falls so deeply that it seems even the lowest level in the times before the war against Iraq has been already undercut by most Western editorial offices.

The new reports about the support with heavy weapons for the gunmen in Syria are not only published to spread fear. These reports are true and thus, the values of Democracy are hard to find. If this is in line with the development of democracy in the Middle East, nobody would be surprised when Arabs will answer with a “no, thank you”. One cannot advertise democracy and the freedom of press by boosting violence and chaos in a sovereign state and by such a propaganda war about and against a country. This is contrary to the real values of freedom, democracy and logical thinking.

Some Western governments and Western journalists celebrate the upgrade of the Syrian rebels without actually caring about the people in Syria. Just as the “Syrian National Council” (SNC), a Islamists council, these governments in the West seem to not care about the Syrian population as long as they are able to reach their goals or, at least, to take another step at the attempt to reach their dubious goals and questionable intentions.

In the interests of America, to finally succeed in removing the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from his post in Syria, every mean seem to be OK. Since the United States are not willing to start another war of aggression in their election year, the U.S. administration simply arms the terrorists in Syria and is dependent on cooperation with the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists. This also counts for some European states.

For example, Germany. While the German government is not happy about Salafists in Germany, they support radical Salafists abroad. This double-sided policy will strike back someday as the history has already shown it.

It seems the West is not able to learn from the mistakes of the past. For example the arming of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Currently, the West seems to be ready for any means to overthrow the hated Syrian President in Damascus and if Bashar al-Assad does not step down voluntary, the West will find ways to finally oust him.

The number of the ones, who share the interests of the United States is large and it is no wonder that have quickly found the financiers who now contribute to the fact that the fire of violence and chaos burns in Syria and that this fire is already spreading to other areas.

Considering all this, the hypocritically words of the German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle sound more and more ridiculous. The German Foreign Minister warns of a surface fire in Syria and the Middle East now, and he wants to help to dam the threat of such a fire in the Middle East. One should mention that Mr. Westerwelle has already contributed to feed this fire. His words are just for the show and the German people.

If there is a real interest to support a peace process in Syria, what is to doubt after the recent developments and leaks, one should stop supporting the armed groups with weapons and stop to help such armed radicals with the coordination. Above all, one should also stop to provide them a huge platform in the media where they can spread their venom, faked information and lies.

That the Syrian government in Damascus is in fact also no real solution for Syria, at least, not in its current composition, is no secret. But one should assume that it is really the fact that only the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has the opportunity to bring Syria into a new era. The Syrian people differ between the Syrian government and the Syrian President, thus it is not the same for the most Syrians.

While the support for the Syrian President al-Assad is still huge, the criticism at the government in Damascus has increased. Also because of the fact, that a lot of Syrians feel alone in the threats of terrorism, violence and armed gangs. This also because the Syrian army is often missing in areas where the army should be to protect civilians.

As the reports by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and e.g. the Vatican have shown, these so-called “peaceful protesters” are also violent and a threat for every Syrian civilian. The level of sectarian anger and violence in the groups of armed “rebels” increases from day to day. The power struggle is raging in and about Syria. It seems the most just want to take over the rule in Syria, without doing anything in the real interests of the Syrian people.

Even the so-called opposition abroad is not better than the Syrian government in the capital Damascus. Considering recent events, some external opposition figures and groups are even worse than the Syrian “regime”.

Sometimes it seems that the only thing that distinguishes the two sites is the fact that the so-called “Syrian National Council” (SNC), based in Istanbul, Turkey, gets instructed and is controlled by Washington and probably also by the known Gulf States, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

It even seems there are no other explains why the dubious head of the “Syrian National Council” (SNC), Ghalioun, was re-elected, even though he has supposedly no support in this extremist organization. The opposition in the country itself is also not always the best and not everybody who rails against the Syrian government in Damascus is also representing the interests of the Syrian people.

As mentioned, everyone seems to strive for power and while the government maintains its power, this situation makes a progress really difficult and probably impossible. The support with weapons to the armed gangs in Syria provides no relaxation of the situation in this country. In contrary, this will boost the threats of a conflagration in the Middle East. Thus, the statements of the German Foreign Minister Westerwelle are not only hypocritically, but also pure lies for the German people.

The Western news about Syria remains the same bad level and are mainly directed against the Syrian government and the Syrian President al-Assad. The Western main stream media are in line and proven tools for propaganda purposes.

Statements of the Syrian government and / or the Syrian President are still dismissed as propaganda, while the unaudited reports of so-called opposition figures and so-called activists are published without any confirmation. This information is even published without any critical view, although some Western journalists sure know it better. The West is preparing for a war and the Western media tries to prepare the Western people for a war against Syria, in order to turn the focus on Iran later.

The strange news that the Syrian government tries to take the UN Observers under fire confirms the preparation for a war against Syria and also the propaganda (and false information) in Western media. The violations of the six-point plan are benefits for the armed groups and the so-called Syrian opposition, because the complete implementation of this peace plan for Syria would not help these sides to achieve their real interests, and they know it.

The government in Damascus would benefit of the implementation of the six-point plan, as their resignation is (no more) not required. So why should they want to cut off the branch on which it sits itself. Of course, Western media tries to prevent that somebody gets even an idea to really start to think about such logical facts.

What really happened in Khan Sheikhoun (Khan Shaykhoun) is difficult to fathom. The presentation of the Syrian government side, however, is conclusive as the strange presentation of the so-called rebels. In this Syrian city, there was a renewed attack on the UN observers. The vehicle of the UN Observers was damaged and, at least, one observer was wounded by the attack.

On the part of observers, there is no real statement about this attack, but only from the side of the armed gangs. If the UN observers found refuge with the armed “rebels”, why do they do not comment this and why do they thank the Syrian army for caring about them? (Statement of Gen. Mood)

It is more likely then, that the UN observers were lured by the armed rebels into a trap. After all, the incident has more benefits for the so-called rebels than for the government side, because Western media does not ask questions, as stated. And since the objective reporting was abolished, both sides are not shown with the same manners. As said, there are different representations of the incident in the Syrian city of Khan Sheikhoun (Khan Shaykhoun).

The opponents of Assad’s reported that the UN observers were attacked by government forces while visiting a funeral and sought shelter with the armed “rebels”. The other side represents the incident, that the UN Observers were almost forced to attend the funeral and then called on the authorities to help. The latest statements of General Mood seem to confirm this representation.

There were skirmishes between the regular Syrian army and the armed men, in which a UN observer was injured. The UN observers were detained by the Western-backed rebels and freed by the regular Syrian army. Also video footage, which is circulating on the internet about this incident, fits more to this representation, than the representation of the armed “rebels”. Finally, it is hard to tell what the truth is and what a lie is.

The armament of the Western-backed rebels violates the peace plan by Kofi Annan and will likely lead to the point that more and more Syrian soldiers will be killed, but also Syrian civilians, not only in the fighting, but also because these Syrian civilians are not supporting the armed “revolution” in Syria or just because they have a different religion.

The former safe country was pushed into a dangerous area through the dubious interests of various groups and Western imperialism. Not to mention the still (and always) sad struggle between Sunnites and Shiites.

It will take a long time before a decision is made in Syria. One can only hope that Syria will be able to eventually recovered from all this, although it will last a long time, perhaps longer than a lot of people are willing to accept at the moment.

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A senior State Department official admitted on condition of anonymity that the United States has increased its assistance to the Syrian opposition, the Washington Post reports. The Obama administration, however, has emphasized that the US is neither supplying nor providing funding for any lethal weapons, including anti-tank weaponry.

“We are increasing our non-lethal assistance to the Syrian opposition, and we continue to coordinate our efforts with friends and allies in the region and beyond in order to have the biggest impact on what we are collectively doing,” an official said.

The rebels confirm that they have begun receiving significantly more – and better – weapons in recent weeks. Officials and opposition activists say it is all paid for by states in the Persian Gulf and coordinated by the United States.

With the US repeatedly saying that “all options are on the table” the report seems to be a shift away from a peaceful solution to the crisis. RT spoke about the issue with Brian Becker, the director of the anti-war coalition ANSWER.

RT: What does Washington seek to gain by this? And what about the Gulf states? Why are they fueling a conflict in their own backyard?

BB: I think Saudi Arabia, Qatar have their own interest in terms of reorganizing the Middle East, principally weakening Syria, weakening Iran, changing the relationship of forces in Lebanon. But behind Qatar and Saudi Arabia and even Turkey which has its owner regional ambitions, is the United States and NATO countries, the former colonizers of Syria and the region, who are committed to overthrowing the Assad government. They have crossed the Rubicon now in terms of preparing for the all-out intervention, including military intervention by NATO forces. They will use, ultimately, military power to overthrow an independent government that they want to replace with a proxy regime in this important region.

RT:What chances does the UN observer mission in Syria have of achieving its goals with high-level foreign support for the armed rebellion?

BB: It’s quiet clear that when the United States and its allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar are pumping in huge quantities of weapons right into the middle of Damascus and other areas, their intention is not to have a negotiated settlement but an all-out civil war as a precursor to a NATO intervention. So I think the UN observer mission is basically dead in the water at this point.

RT:Damascus has been saying all along that it is fighting a foreign-funded insurgency – and these developments are certainly damning. How much of a boost is this for Assad?

BB: Of course it gives legitimacy to the Syrian government’s narrative that it is in fact facing a foreign intervention, but ultimately this will be a matter of military force. Ultimately this outcome will be arbitrated by those who amass the greatest number of weapons.

The United States scripted it in a way that peace is impossible. How can any sovereign government say ‘yes we’ll pull back’ while foreign forces are arming to the teeth those who are determined to overthrow them?

RT: Iran’s closely watching how all this is playing out as well, with Damascus being its close ally. What stake and role does Tehran have in the conflict?

BB: The Western powers, NATO, see the destruction of the Iranian government as the ultimate prize in terms of a reconfiguring, re-colonizing, of the Middle East. Iran has been independent since 1979; it has an ally in the Assad government and the Assad government also was a bridge to Hezbollah in Lebanon. I think the UnitedState sees the destruction of the Assad government as part of an effort to reshape Lebanon and ultimately to overthrow the Islamic republic in Iran – not to make it more humanitarian, more democratic, but to put in place in Tehran a proxy acquiescent regime.

Source: http://rt.com/news/syria-us-rebels-weapons-438/

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Afterwards, this UN vehicle was stopped by some Syrian security forces. The members of the Syrian security wanted to identify this new person in the car, but the other four UN observers have not allowed this. The UN Observers in the car refused any identification of this new person in their car after they have visited the city of Homs.

The Syrian security forces were not pleased that the UN Observers have rejected any identification of this new person. As our sources have stated, it came to some small turbulences between the Syrian security and the people in this UN vehicle.

While the Syrian security forces had nothing against the visit of UN Observers to Al Hamidiya, Homs, the Syrian security wanted to identify this new person in the UN vehicle. The reason is easy: the fifth man did not look like a Syrian.

Now, a bit later, it is clear that the 5th person in this little UN convoy was an officer from France. The Syrian security has not yielded and thus, it seems that another French Officer is in Syrian custody now.

Of course, there are some questions to ask. For example, why was the French Officer in Al Hamadiya, Homs, and the Syrian side did not know that he is there. Why wanted the UN Observers to prevent any identification process of this Officer from France? And so on… We hope our (credible) sources deliver more information in the upcoming days.

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I personally cannot imagine that you are not aware of the real situation in Syria. You are finally saying (and correct), that there is a risk of a conflagration in the entire Middle East.

This is the same what Dr. Bashar al-Assad (Syrian President) has already said on 30.10.2011 – in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph.

At that time, the statement of the Syrian President was dismissed as a “threat scenario” by you and the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin. Now, nearly seven months later, you are finally able to notice this fact, too. Not to mention that the German journalist and author, Mr. Juergen Todenhoefer (Todenhöfer), has also already warned about this some months ago.

In my opinion, there is the vaguely possibility that Dr. Bashar al-Assad is wiser than the German (Foreign) Policy ever wanted to be.

Credibility, authenticity and honesty were rarely attributes of policy on this world. Media and politics have made it their goal to overthrow the Syrian President al-Assad. No matter what it might cost. That’s, to say it directly, humanitarian terrorism. Why are the sanctions against Syria tightened again now? Why do you not call it horse and rider!?

Dear Mr. Westerwelle, if you truly have an interest in the welfare of the Syrian people, you should blame the states which make this ceasefire in Syria impossible. Targeted terrorism (which is indeed still being listed as a subliminal instigated act by the Syrian government) and an active weapons smuggling are the causes of the current escalation in Syria. Would you like to have Iraqi conditions in Syria? Apparently it is so, because otherwise the German policy would act differently.

But please do not forget that this is a policy by the German Foreign Ministry under your leadership, which is not directly supported by the politically interested people in Germany.

My anger at German politicians, journalists (if you call it that, “unthinking copyists with inadequate training” fits it better) and the Foreign Policy regarding the Arab world and the occupied Palestinian territories has grown so enormously, that  every political party appears as unelectable now.

Yes, they are worth to be pounded into the ground. They are all accomplices of a blood trail of terror and a Goebbels-like propaganda, which runs through the media with impunity, because the German press codex was well “planned” for this sham democracy in Germany. I cannot respect a lying political system, which is nothing more than a client of American, war-economic interests and a willfully customer of Wahhabi Saudis.

Dear Mr. Guido Westerwelle, if you really want to defend and assert values, then act that way! Do you really believe that after the first Iraq war, your opinions and your actions (and those of all participants) are (still) credible? The real masterminds of terror and massive supporters of these imperialistic wars (not only in relation to Syria) are in Europe, the United States and the Arabian Peninsula.

I’m still waiting for the solution-oriented politician who utters this. This honorable politician will also reap many votes. Sustainable solution-oriented means, to bring peace to a region with the available possibilities and not by war and sanctions.

Instead, you share responsibility for what you address yourself – a conflagration in the Middle East. You participate in the destruction of a country which was only just in the beginning of building up its economic structure, already harmed by sanctions. You participate in the destruction of Syria, with citizens which are value-oriented, respectful people, of whom I could learn to know a lot.

With your false policy, you not only destroy human lives, but also a mature culture and a once carefully thriving economy. Can you reconcile this fact with your conscience, Mr. Westerwelle?

Not Assad is the “evil”, the devils are our anxious, democratic “clean men” who “care so much” about the welfare of the people in these totalitarian states, and otherwise have also in mind, the good of all people (only remarkable that the kingdoms of the Arab world are not so heavily afflicted by humanitarian and democratic values). These “selfless caring” leads to a democracy, such as in Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq, where the people are now suffering, much more than before. The people in e.g. Libya are on a brink now.

It is very easy to make decisions whose consequences you are not even able to feel a bit, from a desk in a comfortable, air-conditioned atmosphere, far away from bullets and mortars.

But dear Mr. Westerwelle, you have detailed knowledge about the effects of the sanctions and not only about that. Please stop the hypocrisy that the sanctions against Syria do only “harm” the Syrian government in Damascus. That is not true, as you know behind the curtains.

By these sanctions, the purpose is to increase the potential of disaffected citizens in order to get more powder in the barrel; to further destabilize Syria.

I urge and beg you, the elected representative of the Federal Republic of Germany, to lift the sanctions against Syria. I urge you, Mr. Westerwelle, to do every possible step to stop the supply of weapons and ammunition to terror gangs in Syria, to make a supply of the Syrian citizens possible again.

The Western support for weapons smuggling is a violation of the six-point plan by Mr. Kofi Annan. The recent statements of Mr. Ghalioun, the head of the dubious “Syrian National Council” (SNC), based in Istanbul, Turkey, confirm the intentions of the external opposition to violate the peace plan by Kofi Annan. (Ghalioun’s SNC: ‘In the coming days we’ll get a shipment of weapons into Syria via Turkey!’)

Take part in combating terrorism and radical Islamists in Syria!

Sincerely,

A German citizen

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Shortly after 2 p.m. local time (GMT 1100) on Tuesday, a UN convoy of four vehicles was struck by a blast caused by an improvised explosive device in Khan Sheikhoun area, located near Syria’s central province of Hama, Ahmad Fawzi, spokesman of the UN- Arab League joint envoy Kofi Annan, said in a statement obtained by Xinhua.

Three UN vehicles were damaged, but no UN personnel were injured, Fawzi said, adding that the mission has sent a patrol team to the area to extract those observers.

Earlier, Syria’s mainstream media said an explosive device ripped through a UN convoy, injuring two observers and damaging two vehicles. The Syrian army has intervened, clashed with armed groups there and managed to move the observers to a safe zone.

The head of UN observers mission to Syria said Tuesday that the number of military observers has exceeded 200, stressing that the observers are tracking and documenting all violations to the cease- fire brokered by Annan, according to state-run SANA news agency.

While efforts are being exerted to find a political and peaceful solution to Syria’s 14-month-old unrest, clashes and killings were still reported as of Tuesday.

A three-floor building in the coastal city of Banias collapsed Tuesday when an explosive device under preparation by “terrorists” inside the building exploded, according to SANA.

As SANA said the blast caused unspecified number of casualties, the opposition Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least three people were killed in the Banias explosion.

In southern Daraa province, two law-enforcement personnel, including an officer, were killed after an “armed terrorist group” detonated two explosive charges and opened fire at their patrol, while in central Homs province; an armed terrorist group assassinated a brigadier general near Shinshar crossing on the Homs-Damascus highway.

In the meantime, the Syrian authorities foiled an infiltration attempt from the Turkish territories by armed groups at al-Duria post near the northwestern province of Idlib (Idleb). Border guards clashed with the gunmen, killing and wounding scores of them.

The prolonged violence in Syria has undermined the work of UN observers who began to arrive in Syria in April to monitor the cease-fire deal brokered by former UN chief Annan.

The cease-fire, which went into effect on April 12, has been shaky from the very beginning as mutual mistrust between the government and the opposition has overwhelmed the endeavors to solve the crisis politically.

Source: Syria’s violence extends its reach, undermines UN observer mission