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Vad är det som händer? Washingtonpost rapporterar om pro Assad demonstrationer 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/world/middle_east/in-damascus-a-show-of-support-for-assad/2014/04/16/c379f850-c58d-11e3-b708-471bae3cb10c_video.html
Det var otänkbar att publicera såna video för ett år sen .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/world/middle_east/in-damascus-a-show-of-support-for-assad/2014/04/16/c379f850-c58d-11e3-b708-471bae3cb10c_video.html
Det var otänkbar att publicera såna video för ett år sen .
Jag håller med, något konstigt håller på att hända inom västmedia. Jag tror de börjar få upp ögonen för hur verkligheten faktiskt ser ut, inte hur ledarna i väst vill att det ska se ut. Läs denna strålande artikel av en journalist som besöker Damascus och faktiskt blir förvånad över mycket stöd Assad faktiskt har ifrån vanligt folk. Konstigt att det skall behöva ta tre år innan man får reda på hur verkligheten ser ut i regeringskontrollerade områden ifrån västmedia.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10770311/Syria-As-the-bombs-fall-the-people-of-Damascus-rally-round-Bashar-al-Assad.html
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President Assad could very well win a popular election, even if carried out on a free and fair basis
Han får upp ögonen för att det inte är ett sekteristiskt krig (ifrån regeringens sida) som pågår, som många inom media vill påskina.
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This argument is very common. People here see their country as being threatened by foreign powers (above all Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, all backed by the West) who are sponsoring the jihadist groups that make up the opposition. I was struck by the fact that this argument is not made only by the Alawite coterie around the president. I also heard it from Sunni Muslims, Christians and members of the various other cultural and religious groups that abound in Syria.
How can this square with the Western narrative that President Assad’s government, with the aid of a handful of tribal followers, is hell-bent on the destruction of the rest of the country? Consider the facts. Only a handful of members of Assad’s 30-strong cabinet (I was told two) are Alawite. The prime minister is Sunni, as are the interior minister, the justice minister, the foreign minister, even the defence minister. The delegation that travelled to Geneva for the failed peace talks several months ago was also almost entirely composed of Sunni Muslims (though they would probably reject sectarian terms, and prefer to think of themselves just as Syrians).
How can this square with the Western narrative that President Assad’s government, with the aid of a handful of tribal followers, is hell-bent on the destruction of the rest of the country? Consider the facts. Only a handful of members of Assad’s 30-strong cabinet (I was told two) are Alawite. The prime minister is Sunni, as are the interior minister, the justice minister, the foreign minister, even the defence minister. The delegation that travelled to Geneva for the failed peace talks several months ago was also almost entirely composed of Sunni Muslims (though they would probably reject sectarian terms, and prefer to think of themselves just as Syrians).
Däremot så får han reda på hur sekteristiska och blodtörstiga de "demokratiska frihetsaktivisterna" som slåss mot Assad är.
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Nor is it merely the political class that thinks in this way. Last night I had dinner with a young doctor. He showed me a Facebook exchange that he had recently had with a former friend from medical school, who has joined the extremist opposition group al-Nusra. The doctor had put out a public status aimed at all jihadists asking them: “Please stop shooting at us with your mortars.” He was astonished to receive a reply from his friend: “I will put a bullet in your heads.” My doctor friend messaged him back: “I am not afraid of you.” This was followed by a horrifying response. “We love death, we drink blood. Our president is dead bodies. Wait for our exploding cars to kill you.”
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