Syria Live: "We Are Stronger Than Those Who Would Divide Us"<http://www.enduringamerica.com/home/2013/4/13/syria-live-we-are-stronger-than-those-who-would-divide-us.html> Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 12:20 | Scott Lucas<http://www.enduringamerica.com/home/author/scott-lucas>
*Protest in Kafranbel in Idlib Province on Friday* http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=38AjlWPmFdg* * ------------------------------ 1115 GMT: *"Non-Lethal" Aid. Having a bit of fun with recent US commitments of "non-lethal" aid to the insurgency, members of the Free Syrian Army offer Washington the same to defend the US against North Korea:video * *https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TxYOajNOE4A*<https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TxYOajNOE4A> 0522 GMT:* Cyber-Watch. The website of State news agency SANA<http://www.sana-syria.com/index_eng.html>, which has been knocked out of service for much of this week, is off-line again this morning.* *0505 GMT: Message from the Opposition. In a week filled with chatter about extremism within the insurgency --- to the point of Al Qa'eda controlling part of it --- the opposition, through protests and statements, declared on Friday: Syria is Stronger Than Those Who Would Divide It.* *The Local Coordination Committees asserted <http://www.lccsyria.org/11216>, "Whatever happens, Syrians insist on a complete revolution until dignity, liberty, and the building of a state for all Syrians is achieved."* Meanwhile, the LCC claimed 119 people were killed on Friday, including 47 in Damascus and its suburbs, 21 in Aleppo Province, and 16 in Homs Province. The Violations Documentation Center <http://vdc-sy.org/index.php/en/> reports 56,509 people killed since the beginning of the conflict in March 2011, an increase of 185 on Thursday. Of the dead, 44,861 are civilians, a rise of 107 from yesterday. http://www.enduringamerica.com/home/2013/4/13/syria-live-we-are-stronger-than-those-who-would-divide-us.html Alawi Syrians Cairo Declaration by ADMIN on APRIL 12, 2013 *The Alawi Syrian opposition conference<http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/67586/World/Region/Syrias-Alawites-deny-full-loyalty-to-Assad-in-Cair.aspx> adopted a twelve-point declarationtranslated into Swedish<http://kildenasman.se/2013/04/04/assad-saknar-religios-och-etnisk-bas-han-har-medlopare/> by solidarity activist John Swedenmark. The North Star<http://www.thenorthstar.info/>used Google translate to produce (with minor edits) the following:* 1. The Syrian revolution is all communities rebellion against tyranny, despotism, and corruption, nothing else. 2. The Syrian regime is characterized by despotism, looting, and destruction. To equate the Alawi Monastic ethnic group with the current regime is a moral mistake and a dangerous policy. The Syrian regime is not the Alawi monastic folk group regime. It has never been the regimes service and will never do it; on the contrary, the regime has held and continues to hold it hostage. The Syrian revolutions task, therefore, within the framework of reconstruction of national identity, freeing the Alawi monastic ethnic group from the captivity in which it is held by the regime now in power. 3. The courage and the historical responsibility given to us today instructs us to tell our families and loved ones that their future and safety lies with the Syrian people in their revolution. We categorically reject any attempt to usurp the ethnic group to drive it into confrontation with our brothers from other parts of the Syrian people. We attribute full responsibility for the victims harvested in the Alawi monastic community. 4. We do not just fall of the regime, but also the dismantling of the totalitarian structure that it created and the establishment of a state based on justice and citizenship. 5. The crimes of the Syrian regime has committed is a shame both for itself and for mankind and its history. These crimes gives us the task, as people and Syrians, not to demand anything less than a historical process in which the regime must be held accountable for the most despicable crimes known to man. We reiterate that the bill must be made up of all those who knowingly contributed to innocent Syrians have been spilling blood. The members of the Alawi monastic ethnic group or other groups of people alleged to have been involved in such acts should be brought to court to be sentenced in accordance with the law and under fair conditions. 6. The Syrian regime is lying when it pretends to protect minorities, especially Alawites. In this way it tries to scare Syrians by waving a scarecrow to imagine a possible radical Islam, the regime declares that it sees coming. The regime also tries to get the world to believe that the fight against jihadist groups and that it is the best insurance against terrorism. 7. Because of the distinctiveness of the stage revolution is undergoing the religious tensions and internal splits that have been developed both by the government and other parties recognize the participants in this congress that the Syrian peoples different components experience a huge need to feel reassured. The general principle should prevail in the upcoming Syrian government is that insurance and guarantees cannot be deleted from a source other than the Syrian people themselves. The people should be the only protector and the only defender of all Syria. Any claim to provide protection or make guarantees based on religious foundations that are contrary to the concept of citizenship. 8. The Syrian revolution rose to institute a democratic state and build a state based on citizenship. Anyone who tries to divert the revolution from its basic objectives by giving it a religious or sectarian turn helps to spill Syrian blood. 9. We call all those who support the regime, regardless of their affiliation, to immediately stop it. It kills namely their brothers and poses a threat to the countrys present and future. They should focus their energies on toppling the despot who runs Syria against the unknown. We urge all those who remain quiet to raise their voices and live up to their historical responsibility towards their country and join the revolution. 10. We call on our brothers in the Syrian armed forces, and especially our groups sons, not to raise arms against those who belong to the same people as us, and not to join the ranks of an army that regime operates to kill other Syrians. We also require the revolutionary forces to take responsibility and give them the help they need to be able to detach themselves from the regime. 11. We do not close our eyes to the errors committed in the name of revolution, whether they come from the armed forces or radical jihadist groups. We observe no accomplice silence about things that change the face of the revolution. But we believe that the regime is the instigator of these distortions, direct or indirect, whether arising in the moment or during the regimes long period in power. 12. Any attempt to divide Syria, whether they originate from external or internal parties, is a betrayal of the fatherland, to history and to future generations. As Syrians, we should all fight this drift and reject any form of sharing. Syria will always remain a single state for all its children. Today, when we take the floor after the meeting in Cairo, we explain why we as Syrians belong to one of the worlds oldest people. These people have become involved in the revolution for freedom, human dignity and fairness. It aims to establish a modern, civil, democratic state that is its own, a fatherland open to all without distinction or discrimination linked to religion, ethnicity or gender. These beliefs root Congress slogans: We are all Syrians. Together towards a homeland for all. *Cairo, March 22-23, 2013* http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/israel-s-favorite-arab-dictator-of-all-is-assad-1.352468 Israel's favorite Arab dictator of all is Assad Both Assad senior and Assad junior advocated resistance against Israel. This slogan was hollow, serving the regime merely as an insurance policy against any demand for freedom and democracy. By Salman Masalha Mar.29, 2011 | 2:30 AM | 26 As strange as it sounds, everyone in Israel loves Arab dictators. When I say everyone I mean both Jews and Arabs. The favorite dictator of all is president Assad. As Assad junior inherited the oppressive regime in Syria, so did both Jews and Arabs transfer their affection for the dictator from Damascus from Assad senior to his son. Following the intifada in the Arab states, Bashar al-Assad maintained in an interview to the Wall Street Journal that the situation in Syria is different, adding that Syria is not like Egypt. He also emphasized that Syria was not susceptible to sliding into a similar situation, because it was in the "resistance" front and belongs to the anti-American, anti-Israeli axis. Well, Assad is right. The situation in Syria is indeed different. The Syrian regime is more like Saddam's defunct regime. The Ba'ath Party that ruled Iraq and the one still ruling Syria both held aloft flags of pan-Arab national ideology. But slogans are one thing and reality is another. All the ideological sweet talk was only talk. For the Ba'ath Party, both in Iraq and in Syria, constituted a political platform to perpetuate tribal, ethnic oppression. Indeed, the situation in Egypt is completely different. If we put aside the Coptic minority, then Egyptian society is homogenous religiously and not tribal at all. The demoted Egyptian president, Mubarak, never had a tribal-ethnic crutch to lean on. The Egyptian army is also different and not at all like the Syrian or Iraqi armies. For example, when the United States invaded Iraq, the Iraqi army splintered into its tribal and ethnic fragments. The soldiers took off their uniforms and each joined his tribe and ethnic community. Saddam too adhered to those tribal codes. He did not flee Iraq but went to hide in the well-protected areas of his tribesmen. This is what happens in these societies. In the land of the cedars, as soon as the civil war broke out, the Lebanese army dissolved into its ethnic components and disappeared. True, Syria is not Egypt. Syria is also different in terms of the price in blood inflicted by the tyrannical Syrian regime. The Syrian tribal government is based on the force exercised by the security branches ruled by the tribesmen and their interested allies. Inherently, a tribal regime of this kind will always be seen as a foreign reign. This kind of reign can be called tribal imperialism, which rules by operating brutal terror and oppression. This is underscored when a minority tribe rules, like in Syria. Thus every undermining of the government is seen as a challenge to the tribal hegemony and a danger to the ruling tribe's survival. Such a regime by its very nature is totally immersed in a bloodbath. Both Assad senior and Assad junior advocated resistance against Israel. This slogan was hollow, serving the regime merely as an insurance policy against any demand for freedom and democracy. The Syrian "resistance" government has not uttered a peep on the Golan front since 1973. Instead, the "resistance" regime was and still is ready to fight Israel to the last Lebanese, and if that doesn't do the trick - then to the last Palestinian. As voices in Israel have recently spoken out in favor of Hamas' continued rule in Gaza, so many Israelis are worried these days over the Syrian regime's welfare. Astonishingly, not only Jews are praying secretly for the Damascus regime's survival, but many in the Arab parties as well. These parties' leaders have been dumbstruck, their voices have been muted and no outcry has been raised against the Syrian regime's massacre of civilians. All the hypocrites, Jews and Arabs alike, have united. It seems Assad has wall-to-wall support here, as though he were king of Israel. 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