Another Arab blog that is wildly wrong on many issues, but provides an emphatically useful perspective on others. This one from the Lebanese blog The Beirut Spring:
My friend was shocked when I told her about what Syria did in the North, where people were seriously harassed under Syrian tutelage. And I’m not talking about regular political assassinations and bogeymanship, I’m talking about mass humiliation and utter disregard for human dignity. Lands stolen and plundered, Men ordered to send their wives to Syrian officers, mothers were given machine guns and forced to kill their own children. Cars were stolen and sold back to their owners, phones were tapped and mass scale harassments were taking place. If you add that to the regime’s history with the Sunnis (Mass wiping of Hama, shelling beb el tibbene, killing muftis, installing the Karamis to rule Tripoli) you would understand why Hariri’s murder and its consequences are not just an excuse for Sunnis to grab power, it’s a loud, resounding ENOUGH from an entire sect. This is no longer about Hariri, it’s about a straw that broke a camel’s back.
Thankfully, the United Nations passed hundreds of resolutions condemning these Syrian abuses. Otherwise, it would have no moral authority to criticize Israel for mistakes made in the heat of battle. Ditto for the human rights organizations that make their business demonizing Israel. Oh, the UN never passed a single resolution against Syrian human rights atrocities in all those years? Well that’s weird…
Previously: We Are Unimpressed by Amnesty International’s Condemnation Of Israel. In Fact, We Think It’s Kind of Ugly, Hezbollah: We’re Going to Attack Israelis; US Liberal Churches: That’s Very Educational, Hezbollah Admits: Appeasing Violent Hatred Doesn’t Decrease Violence or Hatred
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