Another claimed suicide bomber attack. Call me a cynic but I've missed it the day the first UN monitors arrived in Damascus. Assad's way of saying hello to new guests. And now a shipfreight reported as 'arms for the rebels' discovered. Bravo (clap, clap, clap) for another stage-managed 'masterpiece'.
Who wonders that the Syrians struggling for the regaining of freedom and dignity are feeling kind of betrayed, abandoned, forsaken, stabbed in the back. Suddenly the 'efforts' to prevent more bloodshed appear as fade excuses for being unable or not wanting a regime change in the next time.
"Arab Spring? C'mon, that was 2011. Tunisia? Too fast. The guy took the plane. We helped to get rid of Gaddafi (because we had our own reasons to get rid of him). Now Syria? There's still discussion potential .."
Russia and China seem suddenly the straight ones in the global orchestra:
"No ifs or buts, we stay with the regime."
Every halfways interested netizen/citizen is realising that with Assad resides natural given unscrupulousness in al-Sham's presidential palace. The slightest attempt of defending this aristo-fascist rulership is an abecedarian misregarding of human rights, becoming a complicit of crimes against humanity. And this is all but a remake of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. This is incomprehensible reality.
Thirteen and a half months is the justified uprising against disposal and oppression now old, a long time for all those courageous civilians, activists, dissidents - all the haunted the shabeeha and the regime militia are permanently targetting and attacking. Being mainly hidden or on the run the active part of the revolutionary movement has also to endure an emotional rollercoaster with the global coalition of the apparently willing. The hope for international aid even simply to come up to a cease fire in combination with a troop withdrawal follows the embarrassment about the inability and the passivity of the publicly condemning majority. The United States? Election campaign. France (in the meantime the loudest in the choir requesting more effective actions against the Syrian regime)? Presidential elections. Germany? Referring to international law. The United Kingdom? Tactically waiting how the three mentioned nations will decide. The rest? Caught in the global triangle system between the balancing powers.
While writing these few lines the pro-regimer's hard core puzzles for darn sure the next plot to 'surprise' .. finally only themselves. That's what Menhebbak High is drumming them into their brains. 'Armed gangs', 'terrorists', 'salafis', 'sectarian': all under the head label called 'conspiracy'. Reality? Only what Addounia and all the other regime controlled media air. All those grotesque (and most of all dilettant) attempts to convince the spectators from the existence of a physical threat. I'm also convinced, yes, but in the way that the regime itself marks this physical threat. To nearly every Syrian civilian in the meantime. And a mental threat. To all the lobotomized appearing supporters.
Having the lasting words of a young Palestinian still in my mind: The Syrian revolution started out in the streets and it will be finished in the streets. The price is immense. Every day new martyrs. New detentions. New humiliations. And above all smeary orchestrations trying to discredit the primary peaceful and secondarily self-defending freedom movement and the Free Syrian Army.
A Syrian posted recently her feelings asking for a miracle. She's not the only one demanding and hoping for that. Maybe it's only a little switch, an inner lever moved in the correct position by the able and responsible ones (the optimist explanation). Maybe the global elites do not own such a switch or lever (the pessimist explanation). It is impossible to predict the development but the will and the resilience of the protesters inside Syria is not only remarkably strong, it is able to gain day by day new supporters around the world sympathizing with the Syrian revolution. And that is a massive merit of the sometimes hundres, sometimes thousands singing, chanting, dancing down on the streets. Their performances might also be called orchestrated. But their intentions, their feelings, their goals definitely aren't.
Instead of listen to the inner voice telling one self what is wrong and what is right the decision makers are disregarding and ignoring the honest claims the Syrian civilians are articulating and on the other side still taking the lousy regime-staged choreography for real. If this would be a stage play it's time to leave the theater now ..
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