“Detached from Reality!”
H.E. President Bashar Al-Assad’s underscored, during yesterday’s meeting with a visiting Italian delegation, chaired by Senator Paolo Romani, that the stances by most European countries on what was happening in Syria were indeed distanced from and detached from the reality of what was ongoing on the ground in Syria.
Members of the Italian delegation, among them was an ex-minister of Defense, pointed out that the unrealistic narrative promoted by media outlets to depict the events in Syria since the beginning of the war began to lose its impact calling for a different European policy based on reality, and not on propaganda, fabrications and false-flags.
It is almost 9 years of the ugliest and most heinous war by terrorists, mainly foreign-backed ones, against Syria and Syrians! This war has been accompanied by a wide-scale misinformation and propaganda campaigns as to distort the reality and facts on the ground.
However, many objective reporting and accurate analyses came into light at different times of the war. Among them was an analysis by Susan Dirgham, at the American International Herald Tribune on September 14 ,2019: Syria: How one Month Can Shine a light on 8 Years of War.
In pursuing the truth about the war in Syria, we could begin by examining a pivotal month in the war: August 2013. In doing so, we may come to realize that supporting the people of Syria might require us to re-assess our assumptions about the war, our allies’ actions in the war, and the direction of our government’s foreign policy.
Pursuing the truth might put us in step with millions of Syrians who don’t support the US and UK foreign policies toward their country, nor support the aims of armed groups wishing to establish a Caliphate across the region, starting with Syria.
August 2013 was a pivotal month in the Syrian war. Events in that month encapsulate the Syrian war as a whole: it has been a dirty, covert war of aggression against a sovereign country and its people.
August 2013 events added Dirgham, challenge assumptions about the war in Syria, enable to watch the backs of Australian defense personnel so they are not sent into wars that put them on the side of the aggressors, lead to a truer understanding of the suffering endured by the people of Syria these past 8 years and pave the way for politicians to pursue a more independent foreign policy- way from the US dictates.
Looking closely at events in Syria that occurred in August 2013 points to the nature of the war as a whole.
A. In early August 2013, armed groups from ISIS to the Free Syrian Army were willing to ignore ideological differences they may have had in order to come together to massacre scores of Alawite women and children in villages not far from the Mediterranean. As well as the killings, many women and children were kidnapped during this coordinated action by insurgent groups. [1]
B. On 21 August 2013, insurgents were able to stage the killing of hundreds of civilians – including scores of children – and pass it off as a ‘sarin’ attack committed by Syrian government forces. Presumably, insurgents could only get away with such subterfuge if UK and US intelligence personnel, among others, provided support. [2]
C. On 29 August 2013, when UK politicians were voting on whether to support military strikes against Syria, the BBC broadcasted a seemingly graphic news report from a BBC team on the ground in northern Syria. The BBC team had worked with ‘activists’ to film scenes allegedly showing victims of a ‘napalm’ bombing of a school being treated in a local hospital. There are strong grounds for believing the scenes were fabricated. [3]
One aspect of the Syrian war rarely examined is the alliance between the CIA and MI6 personnel in Syria and leaders of insurgent groups and ‘activists’ for the so-called ‘revolution’ in Syria. They are not natural allies. Perhaps part of the answer can be gleaned from an interview Julian Assange conducted with two UK ‘activists’. In that interview, they expressed their idealistic belief in a Caliphate that would unite Arabic-speaking, predominantly Muslim countries.
One body in the US and UK which is funded, I contend, to subvert serious, objective analysis of the war in Syria is Bellingcat. Because it is supported by the current US and UK ‘establishment’, it has had an extraordinary influence on shaping people’s beliefs on Syria.
Endnotes
[1] ‘You can still see their blood’, Human Rights Watch report into massacre and abductions in Latakia, August 2013
[2] ’Murder in the Sun Morgue’, by Dr. Denis O’Brien (retired lawyer and former neuropharmacologist)
‘Possible Implications of Faulty US Technical Intelligence in the Damascus Nerve Agent Attack of 21 August 2013 ‘, by MIT Professor Ted Postol and former UN weapons inspector Richard Lloyd
‘A Fact-Resistant Group Think on Syria’, by award-winning investigative journalist Robert Parry
[3] ’Fabrication in BBC Panorama ‘Saving Syria’s Children’, by Robert Stuart.
Dr. Mohamad Abdo Al-Ibrahim