" ... One Golani who studies in Damascus told this observer, “We don’t expect help from Hezbollah. They have made clear to us they do not “do branches” in other countries despite requests for help around the region, but we have learned much from their experience and we will apply their logic and tactics.”...
They argued that what Hezbollah did in Lebanon, and what Hamas is doing in Gaza, Syrian patriots can do in the Golan. They believe they would be joined by thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese that might well lead to an unprecedented violent eruption of the Middle East......
There appears to be building pressure on the Bashar Assad government to act or allow a popular Intifada, despite analysts here arguing that it is unlikely that his government would agree near term. Many here are encouraged by Bishop Desmond Tutu’s fact finding report of September 2008 to the Human Rights Council on the Israeli shelling of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip in 2006, which led to the death of nineteen civilians as well as the growing international reaction to last month’s Goldstone Report on Gaza...."
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Golan Intifada?
Franklin Lamb, in Countercurrents, here
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Lamb's erroneous analysis is contradicted by facts on the ground. Bashar al Assad is NOT UNDER PRESSURE to launch a popular intifada in the Golan. It is Bashar who is exercising the pressure on the Syrian nomemclatura. The recent international conference on the Golan was held partly in Kuneitra. Over 5000 delegates from all walks of life in the Arab world and international community participated in this forum. The Syrian ministry of information is now devoting twice a week programs on Syrian TV about the Golan. All this would not have taken place had Bashar not wanted it.
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