[Peace-discuss] Interesting comment on Syria (from Elaine Hagopian, via Kevin Zeese on ufpj-activist)

[Stuart Levy]

Thought this worth sharing.  A question for us should be, How can we 
talk to people about the rush to war with Syria?  Isn't it our 
humanitarian duty, a necessary response to the brutal Assad regime, 
etc., to do something military against them, just as it was for Libya?

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Subject: 	[ufpj-activist] Interesting comment on Syria
Date: 	Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:58:17 -0400
From: 	Kevin Zeese <kbzeese at gmail.com>
To: 	ufpj-activist <ufpj-activist at lists.mayfirst.org>



I thought this was a good statement on Syria by Elaine Hagopian, a 
Syrian-American sociologist, a professor emeritus of sociology at 
Simmons College in Boston and political interviewer for Arabic Hour TV. 
She said today:

"The situation in Syria has intensified. The regime is determined to 
defeat the militarized opposition and the fractured and incoherent 
militarized opposition, which is trying to develop a united strategy, is 
determined to bring down the regime. Both parties refuse to accept a 
cease fire as part of the Annan plan, blaming each other for its 
failure. Each blames the other for the series of massacres that have 
taken place. But there are conflicting reports on these, and the UN 
monitors have confirmed the massacres, but have not stated who committed 
them. They did identify artillery shells that were fired in the area by 
the regime, but did not connect the up close murders of civilians to the 
regime. A leading German daily, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), 
reports that the rebels did the killing, and the victims were Alawites. 
Mainstream media report that the Shabiha (civilian Alawite mafia) did it 
on behalf of the regime. Who to believe? Two things are clear, both the 
regime and the militarized opposition lie, and both commit atrocities. 
In the meantime, the original, non-violent reform movement, now calling 
for Assad to step down as well, has been overshadowed by the violent 
exchanges going on between the regime and the militarized opposition. As 
Syria deteriorates and feels the pressures of the economic sanctions, 
the violence escalates. Russia and the U.S. suggest different 
'solutions,' but have not found common ground to move toward halting the 
violence..."

The full interview and others here: http://www.arabichour.org

KZ

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