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Excellent run-down of the issue. This interesting clip from the long
article details how the demands of the Friday demonstrations (ie, part
of the ongoing civil movement that the "jihadwatching" left ignores and
denigrates) demonstrates how the mood of the Syrian masses moved from
calls for help from the West, through demands for arms to fight
themselves, to recognition that western imperialist states were
fundamentally on the side of the regime:
Meanwhile, across Syria people held weekly Friday protests, asking for
solidarity and support in their struggle. These hundreds of thousands of
voices were ignored. Every week tens of thousands of Syrian activists
voted in online polls to choose the main slogan for the Friday
demonstrations. Some called for intervention, some for weapons, many
asked simply for help, and to spread awareness of their struggle.
Reading through the slogans you can chart the disillusionment of the
protestors as their calls for solidarity went unanswered:
20: July 29, 2011 – “Your Silence Is Killing Us”
26: September 9, 2011 – “International Protection”
38: December 12, 2011 – “The Buffer Zone is Our Demand”
51: March 2, 2012 – “Providing Weapons for the Free Army”
53: March 16, 2012 – “Immediate Military Intervention”
67: June 22, 2012 – “Governments Let Us Down, Where Are the People?”
74: August 10, 2012 – “Arm Us with Anti-Aircraft Weapons”
82: October 5, 2012 – “We Want Weapons, not Statements”
91: December 7, 2012 – “No to Peacekeeping Forces in Syria”
99: February 1, 2013 – “The International Community Are Partners to
Al-Assad in His massacres”
128: August 23, 2013 – “The Terrorist Bashar Kills Civilians with
Chemical Weapons While the World Watches”
131: September 13, 2013 – “The Murderer Is Under the International
Community’s Protection”
146: December 27, 2013 – “Death Barrels with International License”
206: February 20, 2015 – “The World Failed us, God Give Us Victory”
The Syrian Revolution and the crisis of the antiwar movement
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