New Assad Tactic: Keep Killing Syrians, but Blame Israel
Stripped of any international legitimacy due to the massacre of unarmed civilians which has continued for 12 weeks, Assad’s regime has contrived a duplicitous formula by which it hopes to survive: get the Syrian people to blame Israel for Assad’s continued rule.
The regime is so certain of its new strategy it has been telling the world — via its supporters abroad and certain CIA analysts — that Assad will survive.
The Reform Party of Syria had noticed this strategy developing via Facebook postings. When Syrians realized the world showed little interest in forcing regime change, they looked for someone to blame: Iranian and Hezbollah flags were burned. However, pro-Assad Facebook infiltrators kept pointing the finger at Israel, and this has had an effect despite the argument’s total absurdity.
This video was shot on Friday by the people of Homs; in it, Syrians stomp on an Israeli flag to vent their anger against the country supposedly protecting Assad (note that Syrian citizens would never have access to an Israeli flag unless it was given to them by the regime):
Give credit to the Assad regime for their cleverness — they are utilizing the world’s predictable failure to act.
Not only have Syrians, en masse, diverted their attention to the state of Israel even as Assad continues massacring them, but Assad has distorted reality by disseminating a false image of the Syrian people. Further, Assad dispatched several hundred well-paid Syrians in air-conditioned coaches to the Golan Sunday — a repeat of a similar incident on Nakba Day when Palestinians stormed Israel’s borders. The PR message? Israel not only protects Assad, but they kill Syrians too, just like him.
From sources within Lebanon, RPS learned that the Syrians storming the Golan Heights were each paid $1,000 to appear at the borders — and $10,000 would be sent to their families if they were to perish. With a GDP per capita differential of about 10x, to an American this is equivalent to $10,000 to show up and $100,000 to die. A steep purse for a country listed as 153rd in real GDP, but a small price for Assad to pay for effective propaganda. Even Syrian poverty is grounds for exploitation to the regime’s advantage.
When is Obama going to protect those Syrians? Call the UN, go behind Congress( like they didn’t know), and commence bombing Israel.
What will he do, oh, what will he do?
Assad is (almost) taking a page right out of Obama’s playbook – he just forgot to blame Bush.
I like idea of destroying a Mukhabarat building, but don’t know what the consequences would be.Feels good, but would it be a good thing to do?
I doubt seriously that Israel could earn any brownie points with the Syrians, no matter what they do except to vacate Israel. The best course of action is just to have a lot of bullets.
Debka.file is reporting NW Syria in rebel hands, and 120 Syrian troops killed. Assad sends military units to retake same.
More Arab spring, or just more murder in the name of the Muslim brotherhood, and the gods laws? Who is supporting the rebels? DaOne?
It’s pretty clear that the author’s intention here is to elicit sympathy and support for Syrian civilians who are supposedly trying to obtain their freedom from Assad’s vicious regime. The problem is that I have plenty of life experience with people lyiing to me and try to manipulate me. That’s what comes of living in North America, a place with a profoundly biased and dishonest media.
If Assad is as bad as is often claimed at PJM and if these protestors actually want to drive him out of power and establish a democracy, that’s great. I support that. The problem is that I have no idea what the people in the second video are saying, except that I very clearly heard “Allah Akbar” a number of times. Is this what a democracy activist would yell during a pro-democracy rally? Or am I looking at footage of a Muslim Brotherhood rally that just wants to establish a theocratic state along the lines of the one in Iran which is being presented as a pro-democracy rally? I really have no idea.
I do not see any obvious reason to prefer a theocratic regime along the lines of the one in Iran over Assad’s secular dictatorship. If someone can present some reputable sources that verify that the protesters actually want some form of democracy that I can recognize, I’d love to see that.
In the meantime, all I can do is express my confusion and concern that someone is trying to trick me.
I promise you they want democracy, a dictatorship is a dictatorship regardless of influence. The problem is that in that part of the world, they’ve been living under kings and dictators so long they don’t know what democracy is or how to have it because they still lack any conception of individual rights. Who knows, maybe it could lead to something as bad as honor killings because someone voted for a party their family doesn’t agree with. People are just expressing how much they don’t like the situation, but, without a cultural change, they’re going to keep getting more of the same, whether religious or secular.
Dear mr.Ghadry- as an Israeli a Jew and a human being i understand your anguish and wish to bring the world to action. But i have to say in all honesty- i dont think your ppl would like or welcome any Israeli response or action what ever it may be.
I think that in Syria’s case the world’s and the UN’s hypocrisy is clear to anyone who has eyes and a functioning mind.
apparently these ppl dont seem to be a majority! not that its new, as my country knows very well.
My personal opinion is that the Arab world needs to understand by itself what are the things and elements that make life a living hell and i say that because as witnessing in my own country and throughout the ME-THEY DO NOT! and instead just turn on the ppl who try to help and blame THEM instead.
only when they will understand they could help themselves and also accept assistance from the outside or a non-muslim neighbor.
As an Israeli and a mizrahi-jew i say to you- i wait for that day anxiously.
But until that day and until we will know for sure who are the ppl that are rebelling and what are their intentions,goals and affiliations i dont think my country will get involved and rightly so.
We tried to help in Lebanon and look how we are demonized there.
I really think that Assad WILL fall and perhaps then there will start to be positive changes.
I dont know but one can hope.
in any case i wish your ppl well and hope these atrocities will end soon.
It is not for Israel to get involved but for the international media to tell the truth.
In this day and age?! not going to happen.
If only the poor people of Syria, had oil. Then obama and the UN would rush into Syria, and save them, it sucks being poor!
If only they were being killed by Americans or Israelis then you and the other eftists you would care for them. It sucks being killed by Assad: you get the salme sylmpathies than the Vietanmese and Cambodians post 1975, the Kurds, the Afghans under Taliban or the Black Sudanese.
Due take your meds. I was just to bring out the hypocrisy of obama and the UN sorry it went over your head or you are tinky tinky thal!!
Take yours instead. Palestinins don’t have oil and it looks like the UN was created solely for feeding them and tying Israel’s hands. It is not about oil, it is about leftisma and dictatorships being majority in the UN.
I agree with you on the UN it is filled with thieves and liars that steal from the poor people. Look the palestinians lost the war and where never a true country, even Jordan and Syria do not want them why? Oh and they just found a large oil deposit off of Israel`s coast. The sad thing really is we are in Libya for the EU and it`s need of oil!