The colonial-era division of spoils draws a map of Syria's uncertainty http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/the-colonial-era-division-of-spoils-draws-a-map-of-syrias-uncertainty#page2
On August 7, 1920, The Times reminded its readers that Feisal's army had been in effect an adjunct of the British army during the war:"The Arab army was equipped from the stores of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Cairo, and it was accompanied in the field by a small staff of British specialists in irregular war, who acted as advisers and as liaison between Feisal and Allenby."As a British tool, Feisal's Arab army had to accept British occupation of Transjordan and Palestine, and French dominion in Syria and Lebanon.In 2012, a new armed force, calling itself the Free Syrian Army, is rising in Syria. It has taken temporary hold of many Syrian towns and parts of its main cities. Like Feisal's volunteers, its members are a mixture of idealists and opportunists.There are other similarities: they receive weapons, training and commands from outsiders; they have no idea what demands the foreign powers - among them the old imperialists Britain and France, as well as the United States, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar - will make of them if they should seize power in Damascus; and they do not know where their insurrection will lead the country.When the rebellion's foreign patrons discuss Syria's fate, their own interests will inevitably prevail - as Britain's and France's did in 1920 - over the desires of a "native government".
[ED NOTES:I TAKE ISSUES WITH FEW THINGS,HOWEVER WHAT I'M ONLY CITING,IS TO JUST GIVE YOU A PERSPECTIVE FROM A JOURNALIST(WESTERN)WHO HAS BEEN IN MIDDLE EAST FOR A LONG TIME (HE'S A MIXED BAG, BUT FOR A WESTERN JOURNALIST HE HAS CALLED OUT THE WEST FOR NEOCOLONIALISM REGARDING SYRIA)...HERE IS ANOTHER ONE OF HIS ARTICLES ,ON SYRIA.. Syria's many new friends are a self-interested bunch (FROM END OF JULY) http://www.charlesglass.net/archives/2012/07/syrias_many_new.html
Last week France hosted the third conference of the Group of Friends of the Syrian People, a collection of 107 countries and organisations modelled on the Friends of Libya who cheer-led Nato's air war in that country. Where have these friends been hiding for the past 50 years? What were they doing in 1967 when Israel seized the Syrian Golan? What support did they send to more than 100,000 Syrian citizens when Israel demolished their villages and expelled them from their homes? What was their reaction to Israel's illegal annexation of the Golan in 1981? Have they taken a stand against the 30 settlements that Israel planted on property stolen from Syrians? Are they calling for sanctions against Israel until it withdraws from Syrian territory, dismantles its settlements and permits Syria's Golan citizens to return home? You know the answers. So do the Syrians. The CIA is arming and guiding gunmen near the Turkish border, as it once did anti-Sandinista Contras along the Honduran-Nicaraguan frontier.To avoid Congressional scrutiny as it did in Nicaragua, the US has turned again to Saudi Arabia. The British are running anti-Syrian government operations from Lebanon. France, my sources say, is playing a similar role from both Turkey and Lebanon. Russia and Turkey vie for influence in a country whose citizens hate them both. [ED NOTES:HE IS CRITICAL OF BOTH SIDES,AND DOES CORRECTLY HIT NAIL ON THE HEAD WHEN PORTRAYING OPPOSITION AND WESTS ROLE IN CONFLICT.HE SPECIFICALLY HAMMERS IT IN WHEN HE ACCUSES THE CIA OF SPONSORING REBELS SAME AS THEY DID IN NICARAGUA WITH CONTRA DEATHSQUADS,IN FACT ,US MAJ. GEN. VALLELY WHO MET WITH FSA LEADERS A MONTH AGO IN TURKEY,IS A CLOSE FRIEND OF WAR CRIMINAL ''OLIVER NORTH'' WHO COMMANDED AND RAN THOSE CONTRA DEATHSQUADS..AND BOTH OF THOSE MEN HAVE BEEN BEHIND THE SCENES CALLING FOR REGIMECHANGE AND FACILITATING THE DESTABILIZATION IN SYRIA!! SEE.. FLASHBACK-2005,WAR CR... INTRODUCTION TO BOOKBY WAR CRIMINALOLIVER NORTH!... I DONT AGREE WITH ALL GLASS SAYS ON MANY ISSUES,HOWEVER THE REASON WHY I'M CITING HIM IS THAT ...COMING FROM A SEASONED ''WESTERN'' JOURNALIST(WITH SO MUCH HISTORY IN M.E. REGION-GOOD AND BAD)HE WOULD BE LITERALLY THE LAST PERSON WHO'S ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THEM(HE HAS EVIDNECE AS DO I AND MANY OTHERS), THE WESTERN GOVT'S COULD EVER HOPE TO DISCREDIT,NOT ONLY BECAUSE HE'S RIGTH,BUT BECAUSE ,HE WAS PART OF THAT ESTABLISHMENT FOR SO LONG! SEE WE CAN BE ACCUSED OF BEING BIAS,REGARDLESS OF WETEHR WE HAVE EVIDENCE OR NOT PROVING SAME CONCLUSIONS,(NOT THAT I AM,OR CARE)BUT HE CAN'T!!
Last week France hosted the third conference of the Group of Friends of the Syrian People, a collection of 107 countries and organisations modelled on the Friends of Libya who cheer-led Nato's air war in that country. Where have these friends been hiding for the past 50 years? What were they doing in 1967 when Israel seized the Syrian Golan? What support did they send to more than 100,000 Syrian citizens when Israel demolished their villages and expelled them from their homes? What was their reaction to Israel's illegal annexation of the Golan in 1981? Have they taken a stand against the 30 settlements that Israel planted on property stolen from Syrians? Are they calling for sanctions against Israel until it withdraws from Syrian territory, dismantles its settlements and permits Syria's Golan citizens to return home? You know the answers. So do the Syrians. The CIA is arming and guiding gunmen near the Turkish border, as it once did anti-Sandinista Contras along the Honduran-Nicaraguan frontier.To avoid Congressional scrutiny as it did in Nicaragua, the US has turned again to Saudi Arabia. The British are running anti-Syrian government operations from Lebanon. France, my sources say, is playing a similar role from both Turkey and Lebanon. Russia and Turkey vie for influence in a country whose citizens hate them both. [ED NOTES:HE IS CRITICAL OF BOTH SIDES,AND DOES CORRECTLY HIT NAIL ON THE HEAD WHEN PORTRAYING OPPOSITION AND WESTS ROLE IN CONFLICT.HE SPECIFICALLY HAMMERS IT IN WHEN HE ACCUSES THE CIA OF SPONSORING REBELS SAME AS THEY DID IN NICARAGUA WITH CONTRA DEATHSQUADS,IN FACT ,US MAJ. GEN. VALLELY WHO MET WITH FSA LEADERS A MONTH AGO IN TURKEY,IS A CLOSE FRIEND OF WAR CRIMINAL ''OLIVER NORTH'' WHO COMMANDED AND RAN THOSE CONTRA DEATHSQUADS..AND BOTH OF THOSE MEN HAVE BEEN BEHIND THE SCENES CALLING FOR REGIMECHANGE AND FACILITATING THE DESTABILIZATION IN SYRIA!! SEE.. FLASHBACK-2005,WAR CR... INTRODUCTION TO BOOKBY WAR CRIMINALOLIVER NORTH!... I DONT AGREE WITH ALL GLASS SAYS ON MANY ISSUES,HOWEVER THE REASON WHY I'M CITING HIM IS THAT ...COMING FROM A SEASONED ''WESTERN'' JOURNALIST(WITH SO MUCH HISTORY IN M.E. REGION-GOOD AND BAD)HE WOULD BE LITERALLY THE LAST PERSON WHO'S ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THEM(HE HAS EVIDNECE AS DO I AND MANY OTHERS), THE WESTERN GOVT'S COULD EVER HOPE TO DISCREDIT,NOT ONLY BECAUSE HE'S RIGTH,BUT BECAUSE ,HE WAS PART OF THAT ESTABLISHMENT FOR SO LONG! SEE WE CAN BE ACCUSED OF BEING BIAS,REGARDLESS OF WETEHR WE HAVE EVIDENCE OR NOT PROVING SAME CONCLUSIONS,(NOT THAT I AM,OR CARE)BUT HE CAN'T!!
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