Magnus Norell and David Pollock write for the Times of Israel that the EU must intervene further in Syria if it wants to encourage real democracy there, including military aid for the rebels as a whole as opposed to dealing only with the Syrian National Council.
But Islamists are not dominating inside Syria. That much also became clear during our discussions. On the contrary, it was strongly brought home to us that the vast majority of the opposition much preferred the EU, whose democratic structures are the political ideal after Assad. The amazing thing is that despite the pitiful support from the EU, the Union is still viewed as the role model for what may come in Syria. The EU and the US should seize the opportunity by actively working with Turkey, the Kurdish Regional Government of Iraq, and others, to broker a compromise political understanding between the mainstream Syrian opposition and the major Kurdish parties in that country. Not only will this hasten Assad’s fall, but it will also help avoid serious ethnic conflict after his departure from the scene. Outside Syria, everyone has been waiting for the US to take the lead, but the Syrian people are looking first and foremost to European countries, like France or Turkey, to save them. The solution to this problem is the simplest of all: use recent gains by the Syrian opposition as an opportunity to end this crisis, not a rationale for prolonging it. In other words, move urgently and decisively to ramp up humanitarian, political, and yes, military aid to the opposition. That means especially the “lethal” but defensive anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons they want and need in order to resist the regime’s last desperate murderous onslaughts. The logic of this position leads to one final, perhaps more counterintuitive point. Outside Syria, everyone has been waiting for the US to take the lead on this issue, particularly on more advanced arms supplies.Why, then, don’t European countries take this initiative, leaving the US to “lead from behind?” It worked in Libya, last spring. Why not in Syria, right now?
[ED NOTES:WHO ARE MAGNUS NORELL AND DAVID POLLOCK ADVOCATING REGIME CHANGE,EU,US MILITARY INTERVENTION? Magnus Norell is an adjunct scholar at The Washington Institute. David Pollock is a senior fellow at The Washington Institute, WHO IS THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE?IT'S AN EXTENSION OF WINEP,JUST ABREVIATTED BY TIMES OF ISRAHELL TO THROW READERS OFF..WINEP IS A PRO ISRAHELL U.S. THINK TANK ADVOCATING WARS FOR ISRAHELL...POLLOCK WAS A DIRECTOR AT... The Fikra Forum was set up by The Washington Institutue for Near East Policy (or WINEP), which in turn was set up by AIPAC. Most of the WINEP members of the FF are long-time neocons, and the FF project can be seen as a means to foster like-minded individuals and groups in the Middle East.Jeffrey Blankfort reports:
- [The NED] is currently involved in Syria where the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies, headed by Radwan Ziadeh, has served as a front for its activities. Ziadeh is also the director of the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Washington DC, and has served as a spokesperson for the Syrian National Council, an organization of Syrian living abroad who have been calling for Western military intervention in Syria, a move that has been so far opposed by the opponents of the regime within the country. This has endeared him both to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and the Foreign Policy Intiative, two pro-Israel neocon think tanks that are the successors to the Project for the New American Century. A less well-known connection to Ziadeh is to the Fikra Forum. It was founded by AIPAC in 1985, and it has served as a vehicle to push Israel’s agenda ever since – a fact that the mainstream media never mentions. The presence of 18 Fellows or Associates of WINEP, including several of its leading officials, as Fikra’s list of contributors alerted me to what pretends to be an independent forum
[ED NOTES:AS FAR AS MAGNUS NORELL,THE OTHER WINEP TOOL...HES QUITE POSSIBLE A MOSSAD DOUBLE AGENT BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Magnus Norell is an adjunct scholar at The Washington Institute and a senior research fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs in Stockholm. Previously, he was a senior analyst and project leader at the Swedish Defense Research Agency in Stockholm. Prior to joining the Swedish Defense Research Agency, Dr. Norell served as an analyst for the Swedish Secret Service and Swedish Military Intelligence.Dr. Norell has lectured on low-intensity conflict and terrorism at universities in Sweden and Israel
Dr. Magnus Norell is an adjunct scholar at The Washington Institute and a senior research fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs in Stockholm. Previously, he was a senior analyst and project leader at the Swedish Defense Research Agency in Stockholm. Prior to joining the Swedish Defense Research Agency, Dr. Norell served as an analyst for the Swedish Secret Service and Swedish Military Intelligence.Dr. Norell has lectured on low-intensity conflict and terrorism at universities in Sweden and Israel
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