Respect: SALAM ALQUDS ALAYKUM – سلام القدس عليكم

The army command has dispatched convoys to pursue the suspects and it is waiting for the necessary political cover, in order to do its job of protecting ordinary citizens and their own soldiers from such attacks. (Photo: Marwan Bu Haidar) By: Ibrahim al-Amin Published Wednesday, May 29, 2013 It is time to raise some questions as to what the Lebanese armed forces command is doing to defend the country’s military and those who serve in it.

Yesterday’s killing of three Lebanese soldiers in Ersal was not the first incident of its kind. Three months earlier, the army was subjected to a similar attack in the area, when soldiers tried to arrest a wanted man.

The perpetrators practically celebrated their act in the streets, while the army command declared that it was dispatching convoys in the area to make the rounds and search for the killers.

And just a few days ago in Tripoli, three soldiers were killed and a hundred were injured at the hands of armed men, whose identity is well-known to th…

Western led & armed Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria will fail
by Kourosh Ziabari
Manuel Ochsenreiter and a Syrian army soldier in Damascus This interview was originally published by Fars News Agency German journalist and magazine editor Manuel Ochsenreiter believes that the Western powers along with regional countries are backing and financing terrorists and insurgents in Syria because each of them have certain interests linked to the disintegration of the Syrian government and the removal from power of President Bashar Assad. He also says that these countries are supporting such dangerous groups as Al-Qaeda to destabilize Syria and fight the Syrian army at the expense of the lives of innocent Syrian citizens whose only crime is supporting their government. “These groups like Al-Qaeda, but also other armed militias that have infiltrated Syria during the course of the past year, now fight the proxy war of the big powers. For Ankara, Riyadh, Washington or Doha it is much more convenie…

بهدوء | الحرب المشرقية


‏الأربعاء‏، 29‏ أيار‏، 2013
أوقات الشام
ناهض حتر
بعد الحرب السورية، يشعر كل منّا، بالغريزة أو بالوعي غير المكتمل بعد، أن معتقداته السياسية الراسخة لفترة ما قبل الحرب، لم تعد صالحة للاستعمال بعدها. لقد اهتزت الأرض من تحت أقدامنا جميعاً. بعضنا أخذته الحماسة والتطورات اليومية، فلا يدرك أنه تغيّر تحت وطأة الاكتشافات المدهشة لدوافعه ومصالحه الحقيقية، والأهم لإحساسه الوجودي العميق بالحضور والأمان، وبعضنا يتبنّى مواقف لا تعبر عن توجهاته لما قبل الحرب، وبعضنا حائر، وبعضنا دائخ.
في الحروب الكبرى، تولد الاتجاهات الكبرى في التاريخ الاجتماعي للأمم، ما يحكم، تالياً، سيرورة موت أفكار ومعتقدات وأحزاب وهياكل سياسية، وولادة أُخرى جديدة، تستجيب لتجربة الحرب واحتياجات السلام وآفاق التطوّر اللاحق.الحرب السورية حرب كبيرة، ليس بسبب امتدادها وشمولها وحجم العنف غير المسبوق فيها، ولا بسبب حجم التدخلات الإقليمية والدولية فيها، وإنما، بالأساس، بسبب كونها مثلت وتمثل حصيلة للصراعات المتداخلة (الاجتماعية والطائفية والكيانية والثقافية) في المشرق، وبين المشرق وجيرانه في الخليج وتركيا ومصر، ومع العد…

Sadeq Khanafer, Hussein Mallah

In the last part of "Why Assad wasn't, won't be Defeated" we exposed the vision for a solution, future of the struggle in Syria, and the chances for a political settlement between the pinnacle of the events and the vagueness of the scene on both the international and regional levels.

Every day of the Syrian crisis carries the following questions: Until when will this bloodshed continue? When will the Syrians be allowed to sit around one table to find an exit for their country from this horrible crisis? What about the expected Russian-American summit in June? And will it reflect positively or negatively on the situation in Syria?
A bunch of questions whose answers are pretty difficult to be sufficient especially that the current data stress that the enterprises planned to Syria didn’t deplete their targets yet. In addition, the Americans and their allies in the region still bet on the developments of the field events to do their enterpris…

Under the Disguise of The “Battle against Terrorism”: The U.S., Britain and France Support “Al Qaeda in Syria”

The UK's intransigence in the EU show's the West's true intentions in Syria The UK Foreign secretary William Hague, and his French counterpart Lauren Fabius, are leading an isolated charge within the EU to lift a supposed arms embargo to self-described ‘rebels’, hitherto destroying Syria for over two years. Several underlying factors need to be addressed before these diplomatic (some would say military) manoeuvres are put into context.
Firstly, the most obvious issue with allowing the UK and France to freely arm ‘rebels’ of their choosing inside Syria is that this policy is against all international law, and will, as proven already to be the case, continue to vastly exacerbate the growing death toll and displacement in Syria. As the head of arms control at Oxfam noted:
“Transferring more weapons to Syria can only exacerbate a hellish scenario for civilians. If th…

Local Editor
In an article published by the Guardian on Tuesday, Simon Jenkins considered that “by helping to destroy secular politics in the Middle East, the west has unleashed the Shia/Sunni conflict now tearing it apart.”

Under the headline “Our Greatest Miscalculation since the Rise of Fascism”, Jenkins asserted that “there is no more dreadful idea than to pour more armaments into the sectarian war now consuming Syria. Yet that is precisely what Britain's coalition government wants to do.”

“For two years pundits have proclaimed the imminent fall of Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad. High on Arab spring, they declared he would fall from the logic of history. Or he would fall because western sanctions would bring him down. Or he would fall because the media, as in the novel Scoop, were with the rebels and had decided they would win,” the writer added.

He pointed out that “Assad has not fallen. He is still there, locked in the lethal Muslim schism that resurfaced with the demis…

اذا جاء جون ماكين والفتح؟ .. انه السل الفكري ...‎بقلم: نارام سرجون‎

أخشى أن أقول بأن القراءة في كتابات المفكرين العرب هذه الأيام من أقصى اليمين الى أقصى اليسار صارت بلا جدوى ان لم تكن اضاعة للوقت وربما كان الوقت في حل الكلمات المتقاطعة وصفحة التسليات أكثر ثراء بالمعرفة والطمأنينة ..
وأعترف أنه صارت لدي مشكلة مع كل كتاب لمفكر ولمثقف عربي لايزال على قيد الحياة لأنني لاأثق بما كتب على انه علم أصيل وقناعة متجذرة ولا أثق بما سيكتب غدا ان كان تنكرا لكل ماكتبه .. لأن مارأيناه من رحلات العقول ورفع المراسي الفكرية الفوضوي في عام واحد يدل على أن كتاباتنا ليست أصيلة وأن ما نكتبه ليس الا تقليدا وليس بيننا مبدعون ولاأصحاب أفكار خلاقة بل مقلدون وأتباع ودراويش .. وأن العقل العربي الحالي ليس الا جسما طافيا خفيفا تتقاذفه الأمواج .. وأننا أمة لانبدع بل نقلد .. حتى أن ابداع العرب الفكري هو صدى لأفكار ويشبه تقليدنا لفكرة سوبر ستار الغنائي ..دون أي فارق ..

وها أنذا أحضر نفسي غير نادم ولاآسف ودون أن يرف لي جفن لافراغ مكتبتي من الكتب العربية التنويرية التي كانت تجلس منفوشة الريش مثل الطواويس على…