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Syrian forces storm Damascus suburb
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Published: 25.04.11, 12:34
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1. Turn on it's own like a wild dog
Cameron ,   USA   (04.25.11)
2. Bashar al-Assad has lost last shred of legitimacy
Ben Alofs ,   Bangor, UK   (04.25.11)
This shameful behaviour of Assad and his henchmen, shooting at and killing their own people, imprisoning and torturing them is intolerable. He has lost any legitimacy there was left. His fate will be that of Mubarak. Although Syria for a long time had an enduring and brutal dictatorship it cannot outlast the will of the people and its desire for freedom.
3. Hussein Obama
Felix ,   Jlem   (04.25.11)
Mr Obama stabbed the faithful Mubarak in the back , while he is reluctant to do anything to help the Iranian and Syrian freedom lovers !!! One cannot escape from the logical conclusion that Mr Obama has a secret anti-American ,anti-Israeli and pro-Iranian agenda !Therefore Americans should impeach him for TREASON !!!
4. Human Rights
Jorge ,   Israel/USA/Argentina   (04.25.11)
Ii is proven that UNHR needs to be disolved. All arab countries can do massacres. The South African "judge" as secretary is watching very comfortable the situation and waiting to blam Israel, otherwise she does not speak.
5. And the world watches quietly...
Maurice ,   Montreal   (04.25.11)
...except for a few leaders who just uttered a few words of "condemnation" against the atrocities in Syria. Where is the "might"y Arab league? Where is the UN Human Rights council farce? Where is real action? At least some sanctions against Syria? We are living in hypocritical world. So sad...
6. Let them happily kill each other - it's what they love most.
Lee ,   Manchester UK   (04.25.11)
Murder is islams favourite sport. Syria can fry for all i care. Los sayonara Dimashq
7. Open air prison
Logic ,   Israel   (04.25.11)
Syria is one big open air prison, where the warden has no mercy. These are horrific crimes and must be stopped.
8. Ben Alofs #2, Hypocrite
Jake   (04.25.11)
Your post rings hollow. You were prepared to defend the likes of the brutal Syrian regime, just as long as they were instruments of terror against Israel. But now that the Syrian killing machine has spun out of control, you suddenly jump on the "will of the people" and "desire for freedom" bandwagon, as though the Syrian regime ever ruled over its own people by any other means than fear and terror. It was Western hypocrites with that same attitude that ensured the "legitimacy" of the murderous Syrian regime until now. How transparent.
9. I tend to agree and disagree with my clone
Ben Alofs ,   Bangor, UK   (04.25.11)
Syria's dictator is awful, however Arabs deserve their awful leaders because their entire society is despicable and this has nothing to do with any one dictatorship. On a personal note I am despicable too and I would never condemn the Itamar or Joseph's tomb or Jewish school bus targeted massacres. Dr. Alofs Patient in Psychiatric Ward Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital
10. Syria Shoots Protestors
Edward ,   Savannah, USA   (04.25.11)
We need to "clarify" a few points here. These people are NOT demonstrating for DEMOCRACY!!! They want an Islamic Caliphate with Sharia Law and they STILL want Israel GONE!!! The ONLY way to get this is to depose the dictators, Gaddaffi, Mubarak, and Assad, since they already got rid of Saddam Hussein in Iraq!!! ALL of this is happening with the help of the NWO folks controlled by the dynamic duo Rothchilds/Rockefeller combo!!! They plan to allow a Caliphate to rise to get it into a bloody fight with Christian Europe, and after they have killed most of their followers off, they plan on killing off the religious Jews. The GOAL is to establish a worldwide Luciferism society and the ONLY way to do that is to kill off ALL monotheistic religions!!! READ Morals & Dogmas by Albert Pike to get the game plan. Now that they deposed Murbarak, I'm hoping Assad and Gaddaffi mess up their plans!!! Yeah, these guys are bad but the ones pulling the strings to remove them are worse!!!
11. @ # 3 BIBI
Sheik ,   USA   (04.25.11)
Where is BIBI. Last time I checked Syria was Israel's arch enemy number #1. Why isn't BIBI calling for a UN investigation. Is he afraid of who will lead Syria next? Why do you have to blame Obama? The last time I checked Israel was the most powerful country in the ME and Mubarak was a friend of Israel and Syria is your neighbor whether you like it or not. Israel needs to step up and stop relying on the US for diplomatic cover. We spend enough money around the globe and we are broke. Let Israel spend its treasure and use what ever diplomatic capital it has. We have had enough.... MAN-UP for a change...
12. #1 Wild dogs don't turn on thier own.
Ypip ,   Canada   (04.25.11)
A human dictator full of lies and deceit do. Wild dogs consider human dictators as a snack.
13. To Israel; Nuke Damascus
Noah Lev ,   HollywoodCaU"SA   (04.25.11)
Britain/France/US made a peace pact with Moammar to induce him to give up his nukes. Mubarak has received 2b year since the treaty with Israel from US. Syria is part of the axis of evil ( Iran), Hez and Hamas, to undermine the Jewish state, yet we send an ambassador, and avoid sanctions now as well as unleashing the IDF against Damascus. Where are the cries of giving back the Golan from the leftists for peace.? What peace, with whom. Goldstone is strangely silent, as is the UNHRC and British MKs who abhore the Jewish state. Where is the London Times, the NYTimes and other pro-Pales papers? Where is the criticism of the shooting of a pious yeshiva students at theTomb, by Pales police thugs? Where, where, where? I cant hear you.
14. Ben Alofs #2:
Robert Haymond ,   Israel/Canada   (04.25.11)
How come you never condemned your "beloved" Hamas acquaintances when you had your medical clinic in Gaza? How come you never condemned them for throwing Arab opponents off off rooftops to their deaths on the streets of Gaza nor have you ever condemned their kneecapping of their opponents, thereby crippling them for life and as a means of making it clear to others what would happen to them should they oppose Hamas? Wait, I think I can answer my own question: Hamas is belligerant both towards Israel and Jews so, in your rarified perspective, they are worth something no matter how deplorably they actedtowards opponents. Let's hope your medical diagnoses is much more objective than yor political ones. Let me guess: The moment Syria turns this spectacle into an anti-Israeli theme, you will reconsider your critique. Just as I thought, Herr Doctor..
15. Response to Jake #8 and Robert #14
Ben Alofs ,   Bangor, UK   (04.26.11)
It is quite natural to be in solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people against Israel's occupation and at the same time to be opposing the various dictatorships in the Arab world. The Arab dictators use the struggle of the Palestinian people if it suits them. Syria is particularly cynical in using the various Palestinian resistance organisations and Hezbollah for its own political benefit. The Palestinian people and the PLO always had to make a precarious balancing act in order to maintain a modus vivendi with the Arab dictators.. I have experienced first hand the brutality of the Syrian army and muchabaraat in Lebanon and in Homs, while I lived in the local Palestinian refugee camp there in1983. The Palestinian resistance organisations, who struggle for freedom and against occupation have always been regarded by the Arab dictators with suspicion. They find the Palestinians with their tradition of resistance as potentially destabilising for their own regimes. There are many similarities between the Palestinian struggle and the struggle of the people in Syria, Egypt, Tunesia, Yemen, Libya, Bahrein for freedom and equality. It should not be hard to figure that out, Jake @#8 and Robert Haymond @#14. And whoever is in power in Syria it does not change one iota in the status of the Golan heights: they remain occupied Syrian territory and will have to be handed back to Syria sooner or later. I'd prefer it it would be handed back to a democratic Syrian government, that is accountable to the Syrian people!
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