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Watch: Syrians topple Hafez Assad statue
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Published: 05.03.13, 08:07
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1. What a barbarizm !
Istvan ,   BUDAPEST HUNGARY   (03.05.13)
To topple a beautiful statue of the beloved leader of the Arabic Republic of Syria, the father of all syrians is a tragic episode. Hopefully his excellency Bashar el Assad also the father of all syrians will win and build an even larger and more beautiful new monument for his father. If not I was wrong !
2. Statue being taken down reminds me of Saddam Hussein
Barbara ,   Haifa Israel   (03.05.13)
3. You Know Things Are Bad...
Chaim Ben Kahan ,   Efrat, Israel   (03.05.13)
When one runs to IRAQ for safety...
4. Let Me Guess...
Chaim Ben Kahan ,   Efrat, Israel   (03.05.13)
Were they yelling "Allah Akbar" again???
5. how times change
israel israeli ,   tel aviv   (03.05.13)
Between 1978 and 2011, toppling a statue of Hafez Assad would have been a war crime. The Arab world would rage at the insult, the UN would convene to condemn Israel and the people who did it would be considered Zionist agents. Who forgets the hatred the world (including US, France and UK) showed the Lebanese patriots of the SLA who tried to liberate Lebanon from Assad.
6. do arab leaders have an inferiority complex
zionist forever   (03.05.13)
They all seem to constantly need to remind themselves of who they are and what their role is by building statues of themselves and having giant portraits of themselves on all the streets. Have their face on the bank notes and I imagine name streets after themselves. I wonder if the next statues put up in Syria will be of members of Al Quaida or the FSA who want to glorify themselves.
7. The legacy of the Assads
Get Real ,   UK   (03.05.13)
How history will remember the period of the Assads rule in Syria. Dictatorship,Discrimination,Death, Destruction.And finally the pictures,still more to come of the toppling of the statues these dictators have built to themselves. So much just like Iraq.
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