Chairman of Arab Writers Union: Syria is facing Global War Targeting its Civilization

TARTOUS, (ST) _ Hussein Juma’a, Chairman of the Arab Writers Union, has asserted that Syria is facing a global war targeting its civilization and aiming at fragmenting its unity and undermining its strategic and resistant role in the region.

“The USA has been working since 1952 to replace Arab governments with other ones that work, under the cover of religion, to divide the Arab region and to create sectarian conflicts among its people.” Juma’a said during a meeting Wednesday with Arab Writer Union Members and intellectuals in Tartous.

He called upon intellectuals and writers to hold meetings with citizens and people’s organizations to raise their awareness regarding the real reasons behind the crisis in Syria.

Juma’a confirmed that the Arab Writers Union has been keen to continue its work even after the armed terrorist groups had targeted its office in Damascus.

He asked the Syrian intellectuals to intensify their efforts to disseminate culture and science vis a vis the “takfiri” thinking which some peoples are trying to spread among the Syrian youths.

 For their parts, the intellectuals of Tartous stressed that the ongoing crisis in Syria has nothing to do with so called “Arab Spring”, rather, it is a foreign conspiracy against Syria aiming to end resistance against Israel and to keep the US domination over the region.

Ibrahim Zaaboub