All I know is that we might intervene and help out Israel...and that there is civil unrest in Syria and that the government was going to use chemical weapons on its people...I've watched Ron Paul's interviews saying we shouldn't intervene etc. But somebody please elaborate on this entire situation. I would like to know more on what is going on over there. Need to brush up on the history with Israel.
thanks
I recommend You and
everyone spend the time to watch/listen to this independent non corporate journalist Robert Fisk, who's not a tool as the public relations firm for the DOD Pentagon/Washington DC embedded Fascist war/fear news.
This interview was this morning from a journalist with much experience in the near-middle east terrorism/wars/etc, plenty of additional links.
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/7/robert_fisk_on_syrias_civil_war
[h=1]Robert Fisk on Syria’s Civil War, Chemical Weapons "Theater" & Obama’s Backing of Israeli Strikes[/h]
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Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent of
The Independent newspaper in London. He was just in Syria for two weeks. He is the author of several books, including
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East.
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As the United States moves toward increased intervention in Syria, we’re joined by Robert Fisk, the longtime Middle East correspondent of the British newspaper The Independent. Just back from two weeks in Syria reporting around the capital Damascus, Fisk discusses what he calls the "theater of chemical weapons," the latest in Syria’s civil war — a battle he says the Syrian government is winning — as well as his reaction to what he calls President Obama’s "pitiful" backing of the recent Israeli missile strikes. "Don’t ask me if they have used chemical weapons," Fisk says. "It’s conceivable. There really isn’t any proof. What you have got to realize is that this is a propaganda war just as much as it is a savage war, killing many thousands of human beings."
[h=2]Transcript[/h] This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
AARON MATÉ: We begin today’s show looking at Syria. Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin following this weekend’s Israeli air strikes on Syrian military facilities. Syria calls the strikes "an act of war" that’s, quote, "opened the door to all possibilities." Earlier today, the Turkish government described the Israeli attacks as "unacceptable," calling them, quote, a "golden opportunity" for President Bashar al-Assad to cover up massacres of his opponents.
AMY GOODMAN: The United States is moving closer toward directly intervening in Syria. On Monday, Democratic Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey introduced a bill to allow U.S.-provided arms, military training and supplies to be sent to some Syrian rebel groups. The bill comes amidst conflicting reports that chemical weapons have been used in Syria.
Meanwhile, the civilian death toll in Syria continues to rise. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said nearly 200 people died each day in April. Half the nearly 6,000 people killed last month were civilians; nearly 1,700 were rebel fighters; just over a thousand were members of the Syrian army.
For more on Syria, we turn to Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for
The Independent newspaper in London. He was just in Syria for two weeks. He is author of a number of books, including
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East.
Robert, welcome back to
Democracy Now! Can you talk about your time in Syria? You were embedded with Syrian soldiers?
ROBERT FISK: No, I was not embedded with Syrian soldiers. I’ve never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other. What actually happened was I got a visa to go to Damascus, from the Syrian government, of course. I have a colleague who goes regularly into northern Syria and reports from rebel areas. I spent quite a lot of time talking to old friends in Syria, talking to the military, whom I have always been able to talk to. And while I was talking to them, I said, "Look, I would like to go up to the front lines in northwestern Syria." That is to say within a mile of the—just a mile and a half of the Turkish border. To my amazement, they said, "Yeah, fine. Get on a plane. Go to Latakia. We’ll meet you there. You can go and see our soldiers and talk to them." And this is what I did. The only restriction they had on me is they didn’t want me to take photographs of their faces. I could take pictures of them from behind. I could take pictures of the front line. I could climb on their tanks and take pictures, which I did. And I had—I got a pretty graphic and rather grim idea of what the Syrian army—I’m talking about the Syrian government army—is doing at the moment.
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