Act Now To End Bombing Of Syrian Civilians

[Sally]

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#withSyria
World leaders:
Act Now
to End Bombing of Syrian Civilians
“In Syria there are daily attacks, from groups on all sides, hitting schools, hospitals and other residential areas.
In February, the UN Security Council demanded that indiscriminate attacks in Syria stop.
It promised to take further steps if these attacks continued. As the violence gets worse, please use your power
to hold the UN Security Council to its word.”

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"The killers, destroyers and torturers in Syria have been empowered and emboldened by the international paralysis."

- UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

The most dangerous place to be a civilian
In Syria mothers are left to watch the skies above their children’s schools for attacks. Husbands are left to dig family members from the rubble. Kids come home from school to find it’s no longer there. Schools, hospitals and homes are shelled and bombed—this should never happen, not even in a conflict. In February 2014 the UN Security Council, made up of the world’s most powerful nations, said if these indiscriminate attacks that are killing civilians did not stop they would be taking further steps. Attacks continue but as the world’s attention is grabbed by other crises we’ve seen no progress.

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[tinydancer]

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#withSyria
World leaders:
Act Now
to End Bombing of Syrian Civilians
“In Syria there are daily attacks, from groups on all sides, hitting schools, hospitals and other residential areas.
In February, the UN Security Council demanded that indiscriminate attacks in Syria stop.
It promised to take further steps if these attacks continued. As the violence gets worse, please use your power
to hold the UN Security Council to its word.”

Email
SIGN
"The killers, destroyers and torturers in Syria have been empowered and emboldened by the international paralysis."

- UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

The most dangerous place to be a civilian
In Syria mothers are left to watch the skies above their children’s schools for attacks. Husbands are left to dig family members from the rubble. Kids come home from school to find it’s no longer there. Schools, hospitals and homes are shelled and bombed—this should never happen, not even in a conflict. In February 2014 the UN Security Council, made up of the world’s most powerful nations, said if these indiscriminate attacks that are killing civilians did not stop they would be taking further steps. Attacks continue but as the world’s attention is grabbed by other crises we’ve seen no progress.

Watch video at:

In Reverse

If our western leaders would stop funding terrorists and paid mercenaries to overthrow the President of Syria, the government forces could quite quickly end this fake rebellion and the people of Syria could resume a normal life.

It is time to force our leaders in the west and the leaders of Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to stop their attempts to depose Assad.

Enough is enough. This has never been an "Arab Spring" in Syria.

Just a ruse to force regime change.

 

[Sally]

All the viewers on this forum should watch this.

#withSyria
World leaders:
Act Now
to End Bombing of Syrian Civilians
“In Syria there are daily attacks, from groups on all sides, hitting schools, hospitals and other residential areas.
In February, the UN Security Council demanded that indiscriminate attacks in Syria stop.
It promised to take further steps if these attacks continued. As the violence gets worse, please use your power
to hold the UN Security Council to its word.”

Email
SIGN
"The killers, destroyers and torturers in Syria have been empowered and emboldened by the international paralysis."

- UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

The most dangerous place to be a civilian
In Syria mothers are left to watch the skies above their children’s schools for attacks. Husbands are left to dig family members from the rubble. Kids come home from school to find it’s no longer there. Schools, hospitals and homes are shelled and bombed—this should never happen, not even in a conflict. In February 2014 the UN Security Council, made up of the world’s most powerful nations, said if these indiscriminate attacks that are killing civilians did not stop they would be taking further steps. Attacks continue but as the world’s attention is grabbed by other crises we’ve seen no progress.

Watch video at:

In Reverse

If our western leaders would stop funding terrorists and paid mercenaries to overthrow the President of Syria, the government forces could quite quickly end this fake rebellion and the people of Syria could resume a normal life.

It is time to force our leaders in the west and the leaders of Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to stop their attempts to depose Assad.

Enough is enough. This has never been an "Arab Spring". Just a ruse to force regime change.

I wish it would stop too as so many are dying. However, I have to disagree with you about the Arab Springs. Too many young people were involved and they wanted change in their own countries. In fact, there was an article a while back where the young Egyptians under Morsi said they thought it would be different and life would be better for them, but it hasn't been. I don't think the young people in Morocco started any Arab Spring so perhaps they were satisfied with King Mohammed's policies. The only ones who seem dissatisfied with him are the very strict Muslims.

 

[tinydancer]

All the viewers on this forum should watch this.

#withSyria
World leaders:
Act Now
to End Bombing of Syrian Civilians
“In Syria there are daily attacks, from groups on all sides, hitting schools, hospitals and other residential areas.
In February, the UN Security Council demanded that indiscriminate attacks in Syria stop.
It promised to take further steps if these attacks continued. As the violence gets worse, please use your power
to hold the UN Security Council to its word.”

Email
SIGN
"The killers, destroyers and torturers in Syria have been empowered and emboldened by the international paralysis."

- UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

The most dangerous place to be a civilian
In Syria mothers are left to watch the skies above their children’s schools for attacks. Husbands are left to dig family members from the rubble. Kids come home from school to find it’s no longer there. Schools, hospitals and homes are shelled and bombed—this should never happen, not even in a conflict. In February 2014 the UN Security Council, made up of the world’s most powerful nations, said if these indiscriminate attacks that are killing civilians did not stop they would be taking further steps. Attacks continue but as the world’s attention is grabbed by other crises we’ve seen no progress.

Watch video at:

In Reverse

If our western leaders would stop funding terrorists and paid mercenaries to overthrow the President of Syria, the government forces could quite quickly end this fake rebellion and the people of Syria could resume a normal life.

It is time to force our leaders in the west and the leaders of Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to stop their attempts to depose Assad.

Enough is enough. This has never been an "Arab Spring". Just a ruse to force regime change.

I wish it would stop too as so many are dying. However, I have to disagree with you about the Arab Springs. Too many young people were involved and they wanted change in their own countries. In fact, there was an article a while back where the young Egyptians under Morsi said they thought it would be different and life would be better for them, but it hasn't been. I don't think the young people in Morocco started any Arab Spring so perhaps they were satisfied with King Mohammed's policies. The only ones who seem dissatisfied with him are the very strict Muslims.

Sally you are correct about Egypt. I should have been more specific and I'll go back and edit my post so that my remarks are strictly limited to Syria.

Good catch. And thank you.

 

[Bleipriester]

All the viewers on this forum should watch this.

#withSyria
World leaders:
Act Now
to End Bombing of Syrian Civilians
“In Syria there are daily attacks, from groups on all sides, hitting schools, hospitals and other residential areas.
In February, the UN Security Council demanded that indiscriminate attacks in Syria stop.
It promised to take further steps if these attacks continued. As the violence gets worse, please use your power
to hold the UN Security Council to its word.”

Email
SIGN
"The killers, destroyers and torturers in Syria have been empowered and emboldened by the international paralysis."

- UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

The most dangerous place to be a civilian
In Syria mothers are left to watch the skies above their children’s schools for attacks. Husbands are left to dig family members from the rubble. Kids come home from school to find it’s no longer there. Schools, hospitals and homes are shelled and bombed—this should never happen, not even in a conflict. In February 2014 the UN Security Council, made up of the world’s most powerful nations, said if these indiscriminate attacks that are killing civilians did not stop they would be taking further steps. Attacks continue but as the world’s attention is grabbed by other crises we’ve seen no progress.

Watch video at:

In Reverse

If our western leaders would stop funding terrorists and paid mercenaries to overthrow the President of Syria, the government forces could quite quickly end this fake rebellion and the people of Syria could resume a normal life.

It is time to force our leaders in the west and the leaders of Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to stop their attempts to depose Assad.

Enough is enough. This has never been an "Arab Spring". Just a ruse to force regime change.

I wish it would stop too as so many are dying. However, I have to disagree with you about the Arab Springs. Too many young people were involved and they wanted change in their own countries. In fact, there was an article a while back where the young Egyptians under Morsi said they thought it would be different and life would be better for them, but it hasn't been. I don't think the young people in Morocco started any Arab Spring so perhaps they were satisfied with King Mohammed's policies. The only ones who seem dissatisfied with him are the very strict Muslims.

The fact that the Arab Spring was initiated by the West cannot be "canceled" by listing those who participated in the "Spring" that is a Fall of the civilizations and caused nothing but Islamization.

On June 29, 2012, Tahrir Square erupted in cheers as Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, took office. On July 3, 2013, the square was once again packed with cheering Egyptians. This time, they were celebrating the military’s announcement that Morsi had been ousted,
The Egyptian people rise up and overthrow Morsi 8211 or was it the army.. 972 Magazine

Thousands of mostly pro-Assad supporters flocked to the Syrian Embassy Wednesday to cast ballots in the presidential elections, causing suffocating traffic jams around Beirut.
The embassy opened its doors in the early hours of the morning when hundreds walked to the only polling station available to vote, with Syrian anthems blaring from cars and buses decorated with photos of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Hezbollah flags.

Some parents took their children along to the embassy. A Syrian child was chanting “our country is with you, our president Assad” while her father held up the Syrian flag. Another elderly woman was reciting a folk lyric poem in praise of Assad.
“I am here to elect President Bashar Assad, he is our president and our leader,” one of the voters said.

“Today is the end of the Arab Spring, this American project,” Mohammad Jamous, a refugee residing in south Lebanon, said as he boarded a bus in Sidon to head to the embassy.
Beirut roads paralyzed by Syrian voters headed to polls News Lebanon News THE DAILY STAR

 

[Sally]

All the viewers on this forum should watch this.

#withSyria
World leaders:
Act Now
to End Bombing of Syrian Civilians
“In Syria there are daily attacks, from groups on all sides, hitting schools, hospitals and other residential areas.
In February, the UN Security Council demanded that indiscriminate attacks in Syria stop.
It promised to take further steps if these attacks continued. As the violence gets worse, please use your power
to hold the UN Security Council to its word.”

Email
SIGN
"The killers, destroyers and torturers in Syria have been empowered and emboldened by the international paralysis."

- UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

The most dangerous place to be a civilian
In Syria mothers are left to watch the skies above their children’s schools for attacks. Husbands are left to dig family members from the rubble. Kids come home from school to find it’s no longer there. Schools, hospitals and homes are shelled and bombed—this should never happen, not even in a conflict. In February 2014 the UN Security Council, made up of the world’s most powerful nations, said if these indiscriminate attacks that are killing civilians did not stop they would be taking further steps. Attacks continue but as the world’s attention is grabbed by other crises we’ve seen no progress.

Watch video at:

In Reverse

If our western leaders would stop funding terrorists and paid mercenaries to overthrow the President of Syria, the government forces could quite quickly end this fake rebellion and the people of Syria could resume a normal life.

It is time to force our leaders in the west and the leaders of Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to stop their attempts to depose Assad.

Enough is enough. This has never been an "Arab Spring". Just a ruse to force regime change.

I wish it would stop too as so many are dying. However, I have to disagree with you about the Arab Springs. Too many young people were involved and they wanted change in their own countries. In fact, there was an article a while back where the young Egyptians under Morsi said they thought it would be different and life would be better for them, but it hasn't been. I don't think the young people in Morocco started any Arab Spring so perhaps they were satisfied with King Mohammed's policies. The only ones who seem dissatisfied with him are the very strict Muslims.

The fact that the Arab Spring was initiated by the West cannot be "canceled" by listing those who participated in the "Spring" that is a Fall of the civilizations and caused nothing but Islamization.

On June 29, 2012, Tahrir Square erupted in cheers as Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, took office. On July 3, 2013, the square was once again packed with cheering Egyptians. This time, they were celebrating the military’s announcement that Morsi had been ousted,
The Egyptian people rise up and overthrow Morsi 8211 or was it the army.. 972 Magazine

Thousands of mostly pro-Assad supporters flocked to the Syrian Embassy Wednesday to cast ballots in the presidential elections, causing suffocating traffic jams around Beirut.
The embassy opened its doors in the early hours of the morning when hundreds walked to the only polling station available to vote, with Syrian anthems blaring from cars and buses decorated with photos of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Hezbollah flags.

Some parents took their children along to the embassy. A Syrian child was chanting “our country is with you, our president Assad” while her father held up the Syrian flag. Another elderly woman was reciting a folk lyric poem in praise of Assad.
“I am here to elect President Bashar Assad, he is our president and our leader,” one of the voters said.

“Today is the end of the Arab Spring, this American project,” Mohammad Jamous, a refugee residing in south Lebanon, said as he boarded a bus in Sidon to head to the embassy.
Beirut roads paralyzed by Syrian voters headed to polls News Lebanon News THE DAILY STAR

Well silly me!!! And here all the time I, and countless others of course, thought it all started in Tunisia and then it was picked up from there. Maybe someone in the West told the street vendor in Tunisia to set himself on fire so that Arab Springs would start. Maybe we should blame the West for the Internet so that young people in other Arab countries saw what happened, thus figuring out that they could start up too.

How Arab Spring Started
middleeast.about.com › ... › Country Profiles › Tunisia

The Arab Spring started in Tunisia in late 2010, when a self-immolation of a street vendor in a provincial town of Sidi Bouzid sparked mass anti-government .

 

[Bleipriester]

All the viewers on this forum should watch this.

#withSyria
World leaders:
Act Now
to End Bombing of Syrian Civilians
“In Syria there are daily attacks, from groups on all sides, hitting schools, hospitals and other residential areas.
In February, the UN Security Council demanded that indiscriminate attacks in Syria stop.
It promised to take further steps if these attacks continued. As the violence gets worse, please use your power
to hold the UN Security Council to its word.”

Email
SIGN
"The killers, destroyers and torturers in Syria have been empowered and emboldened by the international paralysis."

- UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

The most dangerous place to be a civilian
In Syria mothers are left to watch the skies above their children’s schools for attacks. Husbands are left to dig family members from the rubble. Kids come home from school to find it’s no longer there. Schools, hospitals and homes are shelled and bombed—this should never happen, not even in a conflict. In February 2014 the UN Security Council, made up of the world’s most powerful nations, said if these indiscriminate attacks that are killing civilians did not stop they would be taking further steps. Attacks continue but as the world’s attention is grabbed by other crises we’ve seen no progress.

Watch video at:

In Reverse

If our western leaders would stop funding terrorists and paid mercenaries to overthrow the President of Syria, the government forces could quite quickly end this fake rebellion and the people of Syria could resume a normal life.

It is time to force our leaders in the west and the leaders of Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to stop their attempts to depose Assad.

Enough is enough. This has never been an "Arab Spring". Just a ruse to force regime change.

I wish it would stop too as so many are dying. However, I have to disagree with you about the Arab Springs. Too many young people were involved and they wanted change in their own countries. In fact, there was an article a while back where the young Egyptians under Morsi said they thought it would be different and life would be better for them, but it hasn't been. I don't think the young people in Morocco started any Arab Spring so perhaps they were satisfied with King Mohammed's policies. The only ones who seem dissatisfied with him are the very strict Muslims.

The fact that the Arab Spring was initiated by the West cannot be "canceled" by listing those who participated in the "Spring" that is a Fall of the civilizations and caused nothing but Islamization.

On June 29, 2012, Tahrir Square erupted in cheers as Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, took office. On July 3, 2013, the square was once again packed with cheering Egyptians. This time, they were celebrating the military’s announcement that Morsi had been ousted,
The Egyptian people rise up and overthrow Morsi 8211 or was it the army.. 972 Magazine

Thousands of mostly pro-Assad supporters flocked to the Syrian Embassy Wednesday to cast ballots in the presidential elections, causing suffocating traffic jams around Beirut.
The embassy opened its doors in the early hours of the morning when hundreds walked to the only polling station available to vote, with Syrian anthems blaring from cars and buses decorated with photos of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Hezbollah flags.

Some parents took their children along to the embassy. A Syrian child was chanting “our country is with you, our president Assad” while her father held up the Syrian flag. Another elderly woman was reciting a folk lyric poem in praise of Assad.
“I am here to elect President Bashar Assad, he is our president and our leader,” one of the voters said.

“Today is the end of the Arab Spring, this American project,” Mohammad Jamous, a refugee residing in south Lebanon, said as he boarded a bus in Sidon to head to the embassy.
Beirut roads paralyzed by Syrian voters headed to polls News Lebanon News THE DAILY STAR

Well silly me!!! And here all the time I, and countless others of course, thought it all started in Tunisia and then it was picked up from there. Maybe someone in the West told the street vendor in Tunisia to set himself on fire so that Arab Springs would start. Maybe we should blame the West for the Internet so that young people in other Arab countries saw what happened, thus figuring out that they could start up too.

How Arab Spring Started
middleeast.about.com › ... › Country Profiles › Tunisia

The Arab Spring started in Tunisia in late 2010, when a self-immolation of a street vendor in a provincial town of Sidi Bouzid sparked mass anti-government .

Very nice...

"Tunisia’s Islamist party Ennahda ceded power on Tuesday to a caretaker government, ending a strife-ridden two years as the country’s first elected government after the Arab Spring of 2011. The government departed under pressure, criticized for failing to halt rising terrorism and steady a faltering economy, but Ennahda was nevertheless assured of its place in Tunisian politics.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/w...hands-power-to-caretaker-government.html?_r=0

There's a real sense in which, more than any other part of the former colonial world, the Middle East has never been fully decolonised. Sitting on top of the bulk of the globe's oil reserves, the Arab world has been the target of continual interference and intervention ever since it became formally independent.

Carved into artificial states after the first world war, it's been bombed and occupied – by the US, Israel, Britain and France – and locked down with US bases and western-backed tyrannies. As the Palestinian blogger Lina Al-Sharif tweeted on Armistice Day this year, the "reason World War One isn't over yet is because we in the Middle East are still living the consequences".

The Arab uprisings that erupted in Tunisia a year ago have focused on corruption, poverty and lack of freedom, rather than western domination or Israeli occupation. But the fact that they kicked off against western-backed dictatorships meant they posed an immediate threat to the strategic order.

Since the day Hosni Mubarak fell in Egypt, there has been a relentless counter-drive by the western powers and their Gulf allies to buy off, crush or hijack the Arab revolutions. And they've got a deep well of experience to draw on: every centre of the Arab uprisings, from Egypt to Yemen, has lived through decades of imperial domination. All the main Nato states that bombed Libya, for example – the US, Britain, France and Italy – have had troops occupying the country well within living memory.

If the Arab revolutions are going to take control of their future, then, they'll need to have to keep an eye on their recent past. So here are seven lessons from the history of western Middle East meddling, courtesy of the archive of Pathé News, colonial-era voice of Perfidious Albion itself.

1. The west never gives up its drive to control the Middle East

2. Imperial powers can usually be relied on to delude themselves about what Arabs actually think

3. The Big Powers are old hands at prettifying client regimes to keep the oil flowing

4. People in the Middle East don't forget their history – even when the US and Europe does

5. The west has always presented Arabs who insist on running their own affairs as fanatics

6. Foreign military intervention in the Middle East brings death, destruction and divide and rule

7. Western sponsorship of Palestine's colonisation is a permanent block on normal relations with the Arab world

The Arab spring and the west seven lessons from history Seumas Milne Comment is free theguardian.com

 

[Sally]

All the viewers on this forum should watch this.

#withSyria
World leaders:
Act Now
to End Bombing of Syrian Civilians
“In Syria there are daily attacks, from groups on all sides, hitting schools, hospitals and other residential areas.
In February, the UN Security Council demanded that indiscriminate attacks in Syria stop.
It promised to take further steps if these attacks continued. As the violence gets worse, please use your power
to hold the UN Security Council to its word.”

Email
SIGN
"The killers, destroyers and torturers in Syria have been empowered and emboldened by the international paralysis."

- UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

The most dangerous place to be a civilian
In Syria mothers are left to watch the skies above their children’s schools for attacks. Husbands are left to dig family members from the rubble. Kids come home from school to find it’s no longer there. Schools, hospitals and homes are shelled and bombed—this should never happen, not even in a conflict. In February 2014 the UN Security Council, made up of the world’s most powerful nations, said if these indiscriminate attacks that are killing civilians did not stop they would be taking further steps. Attacks continue but as the world’s attention is grabbed by other crises we’ve seen no progress.

Watch video at:

In Reverse

If our western leaders would stop funding terrorists and paid mercenaries to overthrow the President of Syria, the government forces could quite quickly end this fake rebellion and the people of Syria could resume a normal life.

It is time to force our leaders in the west and the leaders of Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to stop their attempts to depose Assad.

Enough is enough. This has never been an "Arab Spring". Just a ruse to force regime change.

I wish it would stop too as so many are dying. However, I have to disagree with you about the Arab Springs. Too many young people were involved and they wanted change in their own countries. In fact, there was an article a while back where the young Egyptians under Morsi said they thought it would be different and life would be better for them, but it hasn't been. I don't think the young people in Morocco started any Arab Spring so perhaps they were satisfied with King Mohammed's policies. The only ones who seem dissatisfied with him are the very strict Muslims.

The fact that the Arab Spring was initiated by the West cannot be "canceled" by listing those who participated in the "Spring" that is a Fall of the civilizations and caused nothing but Islamization.

On June 29, 2012, Tahrir Square erupted in cheers as Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, took office. On July 3, 2013, the square was once again packed with cheering Egyptians. This time, they were celebrating the military’s announcement that Morsi had been ousted,
The Egyptian people rise up and overthrow Morsi 8211 or was it the army.. 972 Magazine

Thousands of mostly pro-Assad supporters flocked to the Syrian Embassy Wednesday to cast ballots in the presidential elections, causing suffocating traffic jams around Beirut.
The embassy opened its doors in the early hours of the morning when hundreds walked to the only polling station available to vote, with Syrian anthems blaring from cars and buses decorated with photos of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Hezbollah flags.

Some parents took their children along to the embassy. A Syrian child was chanting “our country is with you, our president Assad” while her father held up the Syrian flag. Another elderly woman was reciting a folk lyric poem in praise of Assad.
“I am here to elect President Bashar Assad, he is our president and our leader,” one of the voters said.

“Today is the end of the Arab Spring, this American project,” Mohammad Jamous, a refugee residing in south Lebanon, said as he boarded a bus in Sidon to head to the embassy.
Beirut roads paralyzed by Syrian voters headed to polls News Lebanon News THE DAILY STAR

Well silly me!!! And here all the time I, and countless others of course, thought it all started in Tunisia and then it was picked up from there. Maybe someone in the West told the street vendor in Tunisia to set himself on fire so that Arab Springs would start. Maybe we should blame the West for the Internet so that young people in other Arab countries saw what happened, thus figuring out that they could start up too.

How Arab Spring Started
middleeast.about.com › ... › Country Profiles › Tunisia

The Arab Spring started in Tunisia in late 2010, when a self-immolation of a street vendor in a provincial town of Sidi Bouzid sparked mass anti-government .

Very nice...

"Tunisia’s Islamist party Ennahda ceded power on Tuesday to a caretaker government, ending a strife-ridden two years as the country’s first elected government after the Arab Spring of 2011. The government departed under pressure, criticized for failing to halt rising terrorism and steady a faltering economy, but Ennahda was nevertheless assured of its place in Tunisian politics.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/w...hands-power-to-caretaker-government.html?_r=0

There's a real sense in which, more than any other part of the former colonial world, the Middle East has never been fully decolonised. Sitting on top of the bulk of the globe's oil reserves, the Arab world has been the target of continual interference and intervention ever since it became formally independent.

Carved into artificial states after the first world war, it's been bombed and occupied – by the US, Israel, Britain and France – and locked down with US bases and western-backed tyrannies. As the Palestinian blogger Lina Al-Sharif tweeted on Armistice Day this year, the "reason World War One isn't over yet is because we in the Middle East are still living the consequences".

The Arab uprisings that erupted in Tunisia a year ago have focused on corruption, poverty and lack of freedom, rather than western domination or Israeli occupation. But the fact that they kicked off against western-backed dictatorships meant they posed an immediate threat to the strategic order.

Since the day Hosni Mubarak fell in Egypt, there has been a relentless counter-drive by the western powers and their Gulf allies to buy off, crush or hijack the Arab revolutions. And they've got a deep well of experience to draw on: every centre of the Arab uprisings, from Egypt to Yemen, has lived through decades of imperial domination. All the main Nato states that bombed Libya, for example – the US, Britain, France and Italy – have had troops occupying the country well within living memory.

If the Arab revolutions are going to take control of their future, then, they'll need to have to keep an eye on their recent past. So here are seven lessons from the history of western Middle East meddling, courtesy of the archive of Pathé News, colonial-era voice of Perfidious Albion itself.

1. The west never gives up its drive to control the Middle East

2. Imperial powers can usually be relied on to delude themselves about what Arabs actually think

3. The Big Powers are old hands at prettifying client regimes to keep the oil flowing

4. People in the Middle East don't forget their history – even when the US and Europe does

5. The west has always presented Arabs who insist on running their own affairs as fanatics

6. Foreign military intervention in the Middle East brings death, destruction and divide and rule

7. Western sponsorship of Palestine's colonisation is a permanent block on normal relations with the Arab world

The Arab spring and the west seven lessons from history Seumas Milne Comment is free theguardian.com

Well you send an E-mail to all the young men and women who were involved in these Arab Springs and tell them that while you sat safe and sound in Germany away from your native country, they really weren't putting their lives on the line to accomplish change in their respective countries.

By he way, I wonder why you are even living in the West since you have such a low opinion of it. I am sure there is some other Syrian who would be happy to take your place in Germany. Isn't it strange that these Middle Easterners have such a low opinion of the West, but they certainly don't mind living in Western countries?

 

[Bleipriester]

Well you send an E-mail to all the young men and women who were involved in these Arab Springs and tell them that while you sat safe and sound in Germany away from your native country, they really weren't putting their lives on the line to accomplish change in their respective countries.

By he way, I wonder why you are even living in the West since you have such a low opinion of it. I am sure there is some other Syrian who would be happy to take your place in Germany. Isn't it strange that these Middle Easterners have such a low opinion of the West, but they certainly don't mind living in Western countries?

No, I don´t send an e-mail and I currently live in my native country where I was native-born and ever lived as a native. I have a low opinion of many western countries, because they deserve to be rated low. That does not include all what the countries are.
But these countries are dropping their values and mortgage the future of the peoples which live in them and the peoples they bomb and/or terrorize.

 

[PredFan]

Things that don't exist:

1. Syrian civilians
2. Innocent Pastinians
3. Peaceful Muslims
4. Intelligent democrats
5. The Loch Ness Monster
6. Bigfoot
7. The Chupacabra

And I'm not sure about #7

 

[Bleipriester]

Things that don't exist:

1. Syrian civilians
2. Innocent Pastinians
3. Peaceful Muslims
4. Intelligent democrats
5. The Loch Ness Monster
6. Bigfoot
7. The Chupacabra

And I'm not sure about #7

What kind of post is that?

 

[Sally]

Well you send an E-mail to all the young men and women who were involved in these Arab Springs and tell them that while you sat safe and sound in Germany away from your native country, they really weren't putting their lives on the line to accomplish change in their respective countries.

By he way, I wonder why you are even living in the West since you have such a low opinion of it. I am sure there is some other Syrian who would be happy to take your place in Germany. Isn't it strange that these Middle Easterners have such a low opinion of the West, but they certainly don't mind living in Western countries?

No, I don´t send an e-mail and I currently live in my native country where I was native-born and ever lived as a native. I have a low opinion of many western countries, because they deserve to be rated low. That does not include all what the countries are.
But these countries are dropping their values and mortgage the future of the peoples which live in them and the peoples they bomb and/or terrorize.

Since Europe is populated with many people who have their roots in the Middle East but might have been born in Germany, I think many of the readers have picked up that your roots are probably in Syria. After all, all you have been wanting to talk about in post after post after post is about Syria when there are so many other countries in the Middle East.

You don't have to send E-mails to the young people in the various Middle East countries. They know who they are and don't need someone like you to make them feel that they were not actually out there on the streets rioting and protesting against their current dictators because they wanted change.

 

[Bleipriester]

Well you send an E-mail to all the young men and women who were involved in these Arab Springs and tell them that while you sat safe and sound in Germany away from your native country, they really weren't putting their lives on the line to accomplish change in their respective countries.

By he way, I wonder why you are even living in the West since you have such a low opinion of it. I am sure there is some other Syrian who would be happy to take your place in Germany. Isn't it strange that these Middle Easterners have such a low opinion of the West, but they certainly don't mind living in Western countries?

No, I don´t send an e-mail and I currently live in my native country where I was native-born and ever lived as a native. I have a low opinion of many western countries, because they deserve to be rated low. That does not include all what the countries are.
But these countries are dropping their values and mortgage the future of the peoples which live in them and the peoples they bomb and/or terrorize.

Since Europe is populated with many people who have their roots in the Middle East but might have been born in Germany, I think many of the readers have picked up that your roots are probably in Syria. After all, all you have been wanting to talk about in post after post after post is about Syria when there are so many other countries in the Middle East.

You don't have to send E-mails to the young people in the various Middle East countries. They know who they are and don't need someone like you to make them feel that they were not actually out there on the streets rioting and protesting against their current dictators because they wanted change.

Talking nonsense does not prove anything. The Islamist hijack of the "Arab Spring" in Tunisia is not a secret, and what came thereafter was Islamist from the beginning.

 

[Sunni Man]

Things that don't exist:

1. Syrian civilians
2. Innocent Pastinians
3. Peaceful Muslims
4. Intelligent democrats
5. The Loch Ness Monster
6. Bigfoot
7. The Chupacabra

You forgot #8. The Holocaust

The biggest fraud in the history of the world. ......

 

[Freeman]

Well you send an E-mail to all the young men and women who were involved in these Arab Springs and tell them that while you sat safe and sound in Germany away from your native country, they really weren't putting their lives on the line to accomplish change in their respective countries.

By he way, I wonder why you are even living in the West since you have such a low opinion of it. I am sure there is some other Syrian who would be happy to take your place in Germany. Isn't it strange that these Middle Easterners have such a low opinion of the West, but they certainly don't mind living in Western countries?

No, I don´t send an e-mail and I currently live in my native country where I was native-born and ever lived as a native. I have a low opinion of many western countries, because they deserve to be rated low. That does not include all what the countries are.
But these countries are dropping their values and mortgage the future of the peoples which live in them and the peoples they bomb and/or terrorize.

Since Europe is populated with many people who have their roots in the Middle East but might have been born in Germany, I think many of the readers have picked up that your roots are probably in Syria. After all, all you have been wanting to talk about in post after post after post is about Syria when there are so many other countries in the Middle East.

You don't have to send E-mails to the young people in the various Middle East countries. They know who they are and don't need someone like you to make them feel that they were not actually out there on the streets rioting and protesting against their current dictators because they wanted change.

Talking nonsense does not prove anything. The Islamist hijack of the "Arab Spring" in Tunisia is not a secret, and what came thereafter was Islamist from the beginning.

Your savage regime will go as others and the terrorists of Hezbollah and Badr, iranian jihadists will burst with him, he has no place in the country.

 

[Bleipriester]

Your savage regime will go as others and the terrorists of Hezbollah and Badr, iranian jihadists will burst with him, he has no place in the country.

Have FSA and ISIS merged US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum

 

[Sally]

Well you send an E-mail to all the young men and women who were involved in these Arab Springs and tell them that while you sat safe and sound in Germany away from your native country, they really weren't putting their lives on the line to accomplish change in their respective countries.

By he way, I wonder why you are even living in the West since you have such a low opinion of it. I am sure there is some other Syrian who would be happy to take your place in Germany. Isn't it strange that these Middle Easterners have such a low opinion of the West, but they certainly don't mind living in Western countries?

No, I don´t send an e-mail and I currently live in my native country where I was native-born and ever lived as a native. I have a low opinion of many western countries, because they deserve to be rated low. That does not include all what the countries are.
But these countries are dropping their values and mortgage the future of the peoples which live in them and the peoples they bomb and/or terrorize.

Since Europe is populated with many people who have their roots in the Middle East but might have been born in Germany, I think many of the readers have picked up that your roots are probably in Syria. After all, all you have been wanting to talk about in post after post after post is about Syria when there are so many other countries in the Middle East.

You don't have to send E-mails to the young people in the various Middle East countries. They know who they are and don't need someone like you to make them feel that they were not actually out there on the streets rioting and protesting against their current dictators because they wanted change.

Talking nonsense does not prove anything. The Islamist hijack of the "Arab Spring" in Tunisia is not a secret, and what came thereafter was Islamist from the beginning.

What came afterward is sad because the youth saw that they weren't to get the change they wanted. All the people wanted, whatever their age and whatever country they resided in, was the same as what the Egyptians wanted...

"The Egyptian protesters' grievances focused on legal and political issues,[25]including police brutality, state-of-emergency laws,[1]lack of free elections andfreedom of speech, corruption,[2] and economic issues including high unemployment, food-price inflation[3] and low wages."

 

[Bleipriester]

What came afterward is sad because the youth saw that they weren't to get the change they wanted. All the people wanted, whatever their age and whatever country they resided in, was the same as what the Egyptians wanted...

"The Egyptian protesters' grievances focused on legal and political issues,[25]including police brutality, state-of-emergency laws,[1]lack of free elections andfreedom of speech, corruption,[2] and economic issues including high unemployment, food-price inflation[3] and low wages."

Democracy cannot work if groups like the MB participate.

 

[Sally]

What came afterward is sad because the youth saw that they weren't to get the change they wanted. All the people wanted, whatever their age and whatever country they resided in, was the same as what the Egyptians wanted...

"The Egyptian protesters' grievances focused on legal and political issues,[25]including police brutality, state-of-emergency laws,[1]lack of free elections andfreedom of speech, corruption,[2] and economic issues including high unemployment, food-price inflation[3] and low wages."

Democracy cannot work if groups like the MB participate.

I don't think democracy can work in any Muslim country in the Arab world. The people seem to need tyrants and dictators to rule them.

 

[Bleipriester]

What came afterward is sad because the youth saw that they weren't to get the change they wanted. All the people wanted, whatever their age and whatever country they resided in, was the same as what the Egyptians wanted...

"The Egyptian protesters' grievances focused on legal and political issues,[25]including police brutality, state-of-emergency laws,[1]lack of free elections andfreedom of speech, corruption,[2] and economic issues including high unemployment, food-price inflation[3] and low wages."

Democracy cannot work if groups like the MB participate.

I don't think democracy can work in any Muslim country in the Arab world. The people seem to need tyrants and dictators to rule them.

What happens, if you ask an muslim extremists who should govern?