A Call From Syria
by Daniel Mabsout
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
The thing cannot be hidden anymore , democracy might be celebrated on many a site, the media might praise the so called Arab springs but things cannot be hidden anymore and the intentions of the world establishment have become clearer and clearer . Everyday that elapses brings along with it more truths revealed about the kind of insanity that has struck the administrators of this planet . The scheme not only involves invading and sacking countries- but infiltrating societies from within, and working on undermining these societies- deliberately. This world order considering itself the reference and embodiment of the human values ,like democracy freedom and human rights , is working on the differences that these societies naturally present and is isolating all social groups setting them all against one another -at different times- according to sectarian, religious, gender, ethnic and other differences .
The attention has shifted now from Gaza to Syria because Gaza -by not taking a clear stand regarding the attack on Syria – is out of this round of the game and is joining now the chorus that asks Assad to leave and has ended the state of siege temporarily and maybe only virtually , by making agreements with Israel through Turkey, Qatar ,and the Palestinian authority and partaking thus in the besieging of Syria .
The flotilla movements and convoys are no more relevant since Gaza has changed side and Syria has become- instead- the place under siege. It is Syria where the battle of Palestine and human integrity is being fought , that is throwing light on all that is happening world wide. Neither Gaza nor Jerusalem , but Syria is now moving under siege , separating , uniting ,revealing the real schemes of the world order , showing the involvement of the Arab league and NATO and UN and Muslim Arab Zionists of the Gulf regimes and the involvement of the world media and NGO’s and the role of the armed thugs or the hired killers and Turkey’s involvement with Israel and the CIA , not to speak of each country’s role and position.
It is Syria that is drawing the world map today , and it is to Syria that peace activists should look and turn their faces . Such peace activists will not need to take foods or goods , they will need to break the communications and information siege rather than the material one , and that siege is the siege of the truth regarding what is happening in Syria that is being camouflaged and distorted and misinterpreted by the vastest media campaign ever witnessed against a country .
Committed peace activists – like Ken O’Keefe- whose main role –was not and should not be limited to material aid for the besieged , nor to Trade Not Aid – but was rather to communicate the truth concerning Gaza , and connect the world with Gaza- where the human cause and condition was on display- and to prevent imperialism and colonialism from feeding on people’s ignorance , should continue to do so regarding the Syrian matter.
There is one place where truth is challenged nowadays and this place is Syria today , tomorrow who knows where ? And since the primary task of Ken O’Keefe and similar activists has been to connect and communicate the truth of what is happening to the human being under attack and siege , and since this task continued even during the abduction of the mission in terms of identifying such abduction and the forces behind it , this same task is calling brother Ken and activists like him to the place where the Palestinian , Syrian and human truth is besieged and highly threatened and this place is Syria no doubt.
..So finally what the usurpers of the” Aloha Mission” say out of blindness : that ” no one wants Ken O’Keefe in Gaza” has a hidden meaning that is unknown to them . It is a call From Syria : Syria wants Ken O’Keefe .
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Ariadna Theokopoulos
October 17, 2012 at 2:34 am
Yes, the attention spotlight keeps moving, as you say Daniel. Now it’s Afghanistan, next Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, now Syria and who knows where next. The Gazan leadership may be shifty, even deeply corrupt, they may have made a dirty deal, and some supplies may get through, but Gaza is still under siege.
Never having been an activist on he barricades I don’t know how this works. I only speculate how one may feel. I imagine that people like Ken, who have made personal sacrifices and dedicated years of their lives to the Palestinian cause have formed very deep bonds to Palestine.
I don’t think they see themselves as war correspondents traveling to wherever the action is and certainly not as long as the Palestinian struggle continues. That’s not to say that they are not capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time–Syria is an acute hot spot now.
But what you seem to suggest is a switch that would belie their commitment to a cause that is still very much alive.
Blake
October 17, 2012 at 3:53 am
US POLICY BULLSHIT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3bIt_yMo5c&feature=em-uploademail-new
Daniel Mabsout
October 17, 2012 at 3:14 pm
the Palestinian cause should not be called the Palestinian cause.For to call it the Palestinian cause we will be serving the Zionists in a way that the problem would be restricted to Palestine meaning that Israel should have no problem with other Arabs . This should have been called the Arab cause.
Even if the symptoms of a certain sickness appear in one part of the body , this does not mean that the whole body is not sick or will not show symptoms of the sickness.
The battle of Palestine -if we have to call it so, is going on in Syria and Syria , Palestine and Lebanon are not separate countries or separate except in terms of Sykes Picot and the creation of Israel.. It is the Arab cause. Our cause.And it is a universal cause because whatever our position from this particular battle, the enemy is taking turns on us,and will not stop fighting, and that is why we have this special feeling for Palestinians. Because we are due -according to the world agenda – to become Palestinians sooner and later , they are our predecessors
Ariadna Theokopoulos
October 17, 2012 at 3:53 pm
“the Palestinian cause should not be called the Palestinian cause. For to call it the Palestinian cause we will be serving the Zionists …..This should have been called the Arab cause.”
Daniel, I don’t disagree with your exposition causes, manifestations, symptoms, but we still have to call things by their names to be able to communicate and, with your permission, I will continue to call the Palestinian cause, just that.
We can stand back and see it as a larger problem and call it The Arab Cause, subsection #…, or step back even further and call it Humanity Cause, section #…, subsection #, paragraph #…
We can place it waaaay down the long line that starts with the first, anonymous, likely white and suspected cannibal caveman who first lifted a stone to kill his fellow caveman and robbed him of his perch of higher outcropping and a better sharpened stick.
But if we only talk about the last (and ongoing) well-defined period of aggression on the ME that started with the creation of Israel, then Palestine is the matrix. “In the beginning was Palestine.”
http://www.boldfacenews.com/palestine-palestine-palestine-2/
I am Ariadna, not running for anything, and I approve of the 2006 message in the above link, still valid to me
Daniel Mabsout
October 17, 2012 at 6:03 pm
“the Palestinian cause should not be called the Palestinian cause. For to call it the Palestinian cause we will be serving the Zionists …..This should have been called the Arab cause.”
Daniel, I don’t disagree with your exposition causes, manifestations, symptoms, but we still have to call things by their names to be able to communicate and, with your permission, I will continue to call the Palestinian cause, just that.”
To call the Arab cause the Palestinian cause is like calling the body fever a head fever just because the temperature was felt in the head , then we are wandering what happened to the legs and we have to treat the legs and the head separately; how can we treat separately having not diagnosed correctly as a whole body fever ?
Daniel Mabsout
October 17, 2012 at 3:46 pm
And finally these are human beings who have been ripped out of their humanity and houses and have been subject to all kinds of abuses which are part of a general genocidal plan targeting all Natives. Shouldn’t have we acted on behalf of the Native Nations or the Vietnamese or the Japanese who were targeted in the ugliest way?Do we relate to the human being or not ? to the oppressed human being wherever he is and whoever he happens to be ? and shouldn’t we see the human beneath the covering ? look at some Palestinian thug fighting the enemies of Israel in Syria and look at some Syrian or Lebanese who is fighting the Israeli aggression. who is the Palestinian ? and the goal is not to send a meal or a book, the goal is to regain freedom and independence. Long live Palestine!
Ariadna Theokopoulos
October 17, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Funny thing, I hadn’t seen this comment you posted before I posted mine above… I seem to have anticipated it…
Daniel Mabsout
October 17, 2012 at 6:05 pm
you still are making a difference between the struggle for Syria and the struggle for Palestine , they are not two related struggles they are one struggle , the outcome of the battle for Syria determines what happens in Palestine. there are no shift of interest . the Arab land was one land before and the colonialist has the same project for it . the colonialist agenda can be seen separately with respect to every country but it is one agenda though appearing differently. and the struggle against this agenda is one. to see that there is a different agenda and a different struggle for every Arab country is what Israel wants and permits Israel to attack each in turn , of course starting with Palestine
Ariadna Theokopoulos
October 17, 2012 at 8:56 pm
OK
who_me
October 18, 2012 at 3:03 am
“you still are making a difference between the struggle for Syria and the struggle for Palestine , they are not two related struggles they are one struggle , the outcome of the battle for Syria determines what happens in Palestine. there are no shift of interest.”
dividing syria and palestine is jp and the other capitalist fascists playing their divide and conquer game so they can knock out their opposition piecemeal.
who_me
October 18, 2012 at 2:27 pm
http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_10_18/Sheikh-Yusuf-al-Qaradawi-called-Russia-as-the-enemy-of-the-Muslim-world/
“In his recent sermon Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the leading Sunni Muslim scholar, demanded the Arab countries to impose political and economic boycott Tehran and Moscow due to their support for Damascus.”
sounds remarkably like that horseshit khalid and laura were peddling here, yes?
western fascism and jp speak with one voice and have many clones…
Alex
October 18, 2012 at 6:22 pm
I fully agree with Danial.
Till 1958, the formation of FATEH, and 1961, the Seperation of Syria from UAR (Uunited Arab repuplic), there where no Palestinian cause. We Palestinian were taking about Palestine, the central arab cause, uniting Arabs.
On 15 May 2010, In his Annual Nakba Commemoration Dinner Speech (Dearborn), Alan Hart claimed that the the Paletinian file was closed in 1948, that Arafat, “FATHER PALESTINE” reopened the Paletinian file, re-generated the ”Palestinian nationalism”. In fact the Nakba re-generated the ARAB NATIONALISM, and I don’t expect British Alan, Arafat’s linkmam with Perez to talk about Arab Nationalism (Nasser, Arab Nationalists Movement and Baath), instead he spoke about “the divided and impotent regimes of a mainly corrupt and oppressive Arab Order betrayed the Palestinians. After the first Zionist fait accompli in 1948, the Arab regimes secretly shared the same hope as all the major powers and Zionism”
Alan jumped from the 1948 Nakba to his “Father Palestine” who after Suez Canal War of 1956 and at the peak of Arab Nationalists Movement, created the so- called “Palestinian nationalism” to close, in OSLO, the Palestinian file for ever after closing the Arab Nationalisn file between with poisoning NASSER. Read my comment on Alan’s speech and you will realise that the struggle on Syria now and in early fifties, was the struggle about Palestine the Arab’s central cause, and how Arafat served the Zionists and changed PLO from a Palestinian Liberation Movement in a Paletinian Liquidation Movement.
Ariadna Theokopoulos
October 18, 2012 at 8:32 pm
Nobody disagrees with Daniel in principle. For the most part, however, he and I have been talking past each other a bit. I did not see why Ken should now “go to Syria”–that’s how the discussion started. And yes, Palestine is a cause, part of the large cause but still a distinct cause.
While Palestine and Lebanon and Syria are indeed one and the same “cause,” as is all the Arab world in the ME, not only in “spirit” but also in terms of the designs the “crusaders” have on the whole region, and while the current direct assault is on Syria, I don’t believe that the fate of Palestine will be decided in Syria.
I think that, on the contrary, to a certain extent the sense of “mission completed” about Palestine has emboldened them to make Syria the next project. Syria’s bloodshed also helps to deflect attention from the accelerated ethnic cleansing in and around Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
I think it is possible to disagree on some points of this perspective without feeling we are adversarial, can’t we?
who_me
October 19, 2012 at 1:46 am
“and how Arafat served the Zionists and changed PLO from a Palestinian Liberation Movement in a Paletinian Liquidation Movement.”
and when arafat outlived his usefulness, the zionazis liquidated him, the same way they later did litvenenko*. jp and western fascists tend to view their quislings as expendable, much like nazi germany did.
*there is a possibilty it was not the jewish mafia who did litvenenko, but british intelligence, to stem off some serious embarrassment – after being informed their boitoy’s po-210 plans were known by russian intelligence.
Alex
October 18, 2012 at 9:41 pm
“I don’t believe that the fate of Palestine will be decided in Syria.”
Arianda, off course we can disagree, and I disagree with your above statement, whats going on in Syria is a global war, that will decide not only the fate of Palestine, not only the shape of the middle east but the shape of the world.
Ariadna Theokopoulos
October 18, 2012 at 10:27 pm
So Syria is the last hand, so to speak, winner take all.
Then it’s pretty grim.
Alex
October 19, 2012 at 7:31 am
I am not saying syria is the last Land, nor I said winner take all, Losing or winning Syria is not the End of History. I am confirming what I said since the very begining of the so-called Syrian Spring, from Syrian womb a new world order shall emerge. Russia and others is defending itself in Syria, while sadley Palestinian Leadership are destroying “Palestinian cause” in Syria
Daniel Mabsout
October 19, 2012 at 3:40 pm
It is like one body which is weak and suffers most attacks and is under great pressure the other organs interfere to releave that organ because upon that organ at that time depends the whole body. Palestine, Syria, Lebanon are like organs in a big body and the attack of the disease is taking place somtime in Lebanon , sometime in Syria sometime in Palestine. The battle moves from one field to another.It is the battle of the whole body and each little battle precedes and decides for the whole body and for the final battle . Now this major battle- for this whole region- including Iran- is taking place in Syria , that is why all effort now is going to Syria .
Daniel Mabsout
October 19, 2012 at 3:46 pm
We have not divided our countries , the colonialists did this for us ,and we haven’t been able to learn that well and to assimilate this division .Truly Lebanon , Palestine , Syria are one country .it is difficult i think for westerners to figure out this most of the time.
Ariadna Theokopoulos
October 19, 2012 at 3:59 pm
No, Daniel, it is not that difficult to figure it out. The same thing happened in large swaths of South America.
But Che Guevara did not manage to convince most people there that they are one nation in spite of having one common enemy. Chavez has more or less the same message, at least in part but I don’t see a federal republic of South America in the future even if they were to be all free of outside influence. People have this tendency to clump in smaller clogs and see their “national culture” as separate and distinct from the one next door even when they speak the same language and have the same religion, which is the case here practically all over the continent (with the exception of Brasil where they speak Portuguese).
In the ME you have the additional problem of sectarian divisions.
What needs to be emphasized is that the crusaders do see the whole region as one chunk to be swallowed and therefore –strategically if you will–it is important for the people (Arabs AND Iranians) to perceive that they need to fight them in total solidarity.
Ariadna Theokopoulos
October 19, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Another Nasser would help, or rather another thousand Nassers
Blake
October 19, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Lebanon blast: Car bombing in Beirut kills eight
A huge car bomb has killed at least eight people and injured 78 in central Beirut, Lebanese officials say.
The explosion occurred in a busy street in the predominantly Christian district of Ashrafiya.
Witnesses say it was heard several kilometres away. It is the deadliest attack in Beirut since 2008.
No group has said it carried out the bombing. The intended target is unclear. Tensions in Lebanon have been rising over the conflict in Syria.
Friday’s attack took place near Sassine Square, at a time when many parents were picking up children from school.
There were chaotic scenes as emergency vehicles rushed to the area.
Nearby hospitals are calling for people to donate blood to help treat the wounded.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20006389
Roy Bard
October 19, 2012 at 5:07 pm
BBC: “The intended target is unclear.”
not any more:
Beirut car bomb: Lebanese police intelligence chief reported dead
who_me
October 20, 2012 at 12:36 am
the jews at reuters (and probably soon on all the other jewish run media) are already setting the stage to blame syria:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/19/us-lebanon-explosion-idUSBRE89I0N620121019
Beirut bomb kills anti-Syrian intelligence official
Alex
October 19, 2012 at 8:30 pm
“The battle moves from one field to another.”
Yes its moving to Lebanon
Who killed al-Hassan?
Who is the benificiary??
MOSSAD, most
likely its a response to Ayoub surveillance drone. As Israel can’t attack
Hezbollah, because such attack could lead to war, Mossad selected an easy
target, to hit two birds, Al-Hassan who arrested many mosad cells in Lebanon,
and target Lebanese stability.
A member of Loyalty to the
Resistance bloc MP Hassan Fadlallah said Hezbollah condemns and deplores the
attack against our people in Ashrafieh. Fadlallah considered that the target was
Lebanese security and stability and unity.
As expected Saad Al-Hariri and Jumblat
accused Syrian president for killing Al-Hassan.
Following the explosion of
Ashrafieh March 14 accused the Syrian regime .
“The explosion carries
political messages, Lebanon suffers from the possibility of dragging it onto the
Syrian crisis” said the “Future” MP Ahmad Fatfat “the Syrian regime has interest
in this explosion, we saw Syrian President Bashar al-Assad threatened,
previously, that the whole area will flare.”
Phalange Party leader Gemayel
considered that the blast carries the hallmarks of international
terrorism
Alex
October 20, 2012 at 4:54 am
‘Wissam
al Hassan Battalion’
at 5:34 PM