dinsdag 10 november 2009

President Assad van Syrië wil 'zionistische bezetting' elimineren

 
President Assad vergeet voor het gemak dat een deel van de Golan bij het mandaatgebied Palestina hoorde tot 1923, en dat Syrië een smalle strook zelf illegaal veroverde in 1948. Hij verzwijgt ook dat Syrië vanuit de Golan voortdurend de lager gelegen Kibboetsen en andere Israëlische plaatsen beschoot. Hij moet eerst maar eens laten zien dat Syrië nu te vertrouwen is, en Israël ook daadwerkelijk vrede zal krijgen in ruil voor de Golan.
 
The Syrian president went on to say that the real cause of the problem in the region was "the Zionist occupation" which "we must begin to work to eliminate."
 
Het blijft lekker vaag wat hij precies bedoelt met de 'zionistische bezetting'. Als hij de in 1967 bezette gebieden bedoelt, dan is zijn opmerking absurd, want er was daarvoor zeker ook al een probleem in de regio. Als hij Israël zelf bedoelt, is dat veelzeggend en laat het zien dat er nog weinig veranderd is sinds 1967.
 
Assad cited the world's "negative" response to the Goldstone Commission's report, as well as its "indifferent reaction" to what he termed "one of the worst war crimes ever known in modern times" - apparently referring to Israel's three-week offensive in Gaza - as reasons for the Arab and Islamic world to be more self-sufficient.
 
Laten we voor het gemak even vergeten dat Syrië hele dorpen heeft uitgemoord omdat de bevolking opstandig tegen het regime was, en ook in Libanon de nodige bloedbaden heeft aangericht, mede onder Palestijnen. Laten we de dagelijkse vernederingen van dissidenten en (religieuze) minderheden ook even vergeten, net als de totale angst waarin mensen die openlijk het regime bekritiseren verkeren. Misschien is Syrië niet helemaal het aangewezen land om Israël de les te lezen wat betreft vermeende oorlogsmisdaden.
 
RP
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JPost  - The Jerusalem Post
Nov 9, 2009 15:20 | Updated Nov 9, 2009 17:47
Assad: Resistance to the occupation is a national duty
By JPOST.COM STAFF
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1257770021197&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


Syrian President Bashar Assad continued to sway from peace overtures to threats of war on Monday, stressing that resistance might be used to "return" the Golan Heights.

"Resisting occupation is a patriotic duty and to support it is a moral and legal imperative…and an honor of which we are proud," said Assad in a speech to the 25th Economic Summit of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (COMCEC) in Istanbul.

"This does not contradict our unceasing desire to achieve a just and comprehensive peace on the basis of the return of the occupied territories, especially the occupied Syrian Golan, but the failure of negotiations to restore all our rights would make resistance an alternative solution," he said, in an apparent allusion to acts of violence and terror against Israel committed by "resistance" movements such as Hizbullah.

Concerning the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Assad said that stopping settlement construction was not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

"What about dismantling settlements instead of stopping construction, and most importantly, what about ending the occupation?" he said.

The Syrian president went on to say that the real cause of the problem in the region was "the Zionist occupation" which "we must begin to work to eliminate."

Assad cited the world's "negative" response to the Goldstone Commission's report, as well as its "indifferent reaction" to what he termed "one of the worst war crimes ever known in modern times" - apparently referring to Israel's three-week offensive in Gaza - as reasons for the Arab and Islamic world to be more self-sufficient.

"Internationally banned weapons are being used against [Gazan] civilians, showing Israel's barbarianism," said the Syrian president. "[The world's reaction] proves that none of our goals will be achieved by relying on others."

At the end of October, Assad said that Damascus was ready to resume peace talks with Jerusalem, stressing that the people of his country would support negotiations.

"As far as it concerns us in Syria, we have national support to continue talks with Israel," Assad said in Zagreb after meeting Croatian President Stipe Mesic. "However, there is a condition that on the Israeli side we also have those who want to continue the negotiations."

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