Siria: buah simalakamo.. Susah bepangku tangan dihadapan begitu banyak video
yang menunjukkkan agoni dan penderitaan penduduk sipil yang dibom dengan gas
beracun dan semacam napalm.. Pihak manapun, pemerintah atau oposisi, yang
melakukannnya... Tapi intervensi militer juga tidak bisa dibenarkan
secara moral.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23883610
Middle East
29 August 2013
Last updated at 15:18 GMT
Mood around the world as Syria military strike looms
As the US and its allies
consider possible military strikes against sites in Syria, Israelis are
scrambling for gas masks and oil prices are soaring.
Here, BBC correspondents based in some of the countries most
likely to be affected share their reflections of the mood in the
streets.
Nitin Srivastava from Delhi
Very few Indians remain in Syria as the government advised citizens to
return at the beginning of the unrest.
Any mention of a possible strike in Syria generally evokes raised
eyebrows from many Indians.
Many confuse it with the violence in Iraq and several ask: "Is the
US set for another war?"
But there is something most Indians are unanimous about. "If
another war breaks out in the Middle East, fuel is going to be get
dearer," many have expressed.
India is primarily dependent on oil imports and crude oil prices have
sky-rocketed in recent months.
The Indian government's decision to lessen oil subsidies has
gradually made diesel more expensive, resulting in transportation costs
going up along with the price of basic commodities such as vegetables
and consumer goods.
Although many feel that the US might not be in a position to
afford another war, they do appreciate the fact that India has by and
large been neutral.
But several leaders have also asked the government to clarify its stand
on Syria in clear terms.
Hugh Schofield from Paris
After the outrage, the hesitation.
At the start of the week President Hollande was poised to
lead France into a "punitive" military venture against the Syrian
regime.
Two days later, there's a noticeable shift in tone.
Meeting the Syrian opposition leader, President Hollande spoke only in
general terms about a need to "stop the violence".
Newspaper editorials, which waxed lyrical about the horrors of
the Damascus "massacre", now echo Le Figaro's headline on the
proposed
attack: Pour Quoi Faire? (To achieve what, exactly?)
Public opinion is increasingly cautious too.
The graphic TV images broadcast at the weekend stoked indignation and
an impulse to respond.
But now polls show only a slight majority in favour of action
- and that is only if it is carried out under UN auspices (of which
there is little prospect).
There is a powerful moral current in French policy-making.
But today who decides the moral argument?
The humanitarian interventionists (like former Foreign
Minister Bernard Kouchner) urging military action to protect the
vulnerable? Or the international legitimists (like Dominique de
Villepin) who warned of gun-happy governments making a bad situation
worse?
Stephen Evans from Berlin
A poll out earlier this week in Germany indicated strong opposition to
military intervention in Syria.
Forsa, widely seen as a reputable polling organisation, reported that
69% of those asked were against and 23% were in favour.
And of that minority in favour, not all were for German
involvement - in other words, some were in favour but without German
participation.
With a federal election less than a month away, the government is
treading carefully.
"If such an act (of using poison gas on Syrian citizens)
should be confirmed, than the world community must act," Foreign
minister Guido Westerwelle said.
Germany would "belong to those who call for the appropriate
consequences," he added, but he did not spell out what those
consequences should or might be.
Not only does Germany have an election on the way,
complicating the ability to act, but there is a whole weight of
historical baggage for obvious reasons.
The left is very against German military intervention, but
others are divided with some arguing that Germany's past actually gives
it an obligation to intervene to prevent the mass killing of ordinary
citizens.
On top of that, Germany decided not to get involved in the
toppling of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya; a decision later criticised in the
country when the despot had been toppled.
Daniel Sandford from Moscow
An unscientific poll outside a Moscow Metro station showed very little
support for any outside military action in Syria.
Opinions were divided over who had
carried out the alleged chemical attack last week. Some Muscovites I
spoke to thought President Assad was responsible, others thought it was
an American or rebel provocation.
But nobody thought that America or its allies should launch
air strikes or missile attacks in response. They insisted that the
United States should stay out of the Syrian conflict.
All that said, people in Moscow lead frenetic lives and -
although the Russian government is a strong ally of President Assad -
Syria is not high on ordinary people's agenda.
It is not like 1999 when Russians were outraged by the Nato
attacks on Serbia, a country with which they feel a strong ethnic bond.
Quentin Sommerville from Tripoli, Lebanon
In the Lebanese city of Tripoli, Syria Road divides the
neighbourhoods of Bab Tabaneh and Gabal Mehsin along sectarian lines,
with snipers on both sides.
The Sunni-Shia split that runs through the Middle East separates the
neighbourhoods.
It is two months, locals say, since the last person was killed in gun
battle, but there are plenty who have been injured.
The buildings are pockmarked from previous conflicts, some of the
bullet holes are relatively fresh.
As one side of the division honours its martyrs from the war
in Syria with huge portraits hanging above roads and from apartment
blocks, the other takes pot shots at their posters.
The war in neighbouring Syria is felt directly on the streets of
Lebanon.
The suffering and the violence hasn't been kept just within
Syria's borders. And as the conflict escalates, so too does the danger,
not just to Lebanon, but to the entire region.
Richard Galpin from Tel Aviv
The temperature is hitting 35C and the queues outside the gas
mask distribution centre in Tel Aviv - the only one in the region - are
moving painfully slowly.
Some people have been waiting six hours for the masks which
they fear may be needed if the United States and its allies start
bombing Syria.
Plastic water bottles and cigarette packets lie empty on the
floor around, and a man selling frozen drinks says he has sold 300 since
the morning.
At the front of the queue an official pushes open the heavy
glass door, shouts out a name and hands over a clutch of boxes
containing gas masks to a relieved woman.
Others push forward holding up their identity cards, hoping the
official will take down their names so they are next in line.
While tempers fray and frustrations show, there is no sense of panic
here.
But there is fear that either the Syrian military or
Hezbollah in southern Lebanon could attack Israel in retaliation for
Western air strikes.
"Its frightening for me and my baby," says Yulia, as she
waits in the special queue for people with young children.
"It's also frightening because my husband could be called in
for the military reserve. The repercussions for us could be really,
really bad."
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