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Syrian Fascism Strikes Again, Article by
Prof. Steven Plaut
22.6.2005
Professor Steven Plaut
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The Kurds are a homeless
people whose plight has never interested the Axis of
Evil, linking the Moonbat Left with Islamofascism.
The struggle of the Kurds in Turkey and Iraq is
somewhat familiar to Westerners.
What is less well known is that Syria also has a
large Kurdish minority. Strangely, none of those
people so convinced that creating a 23rd Arab state
and granting "national self-determination" to Arabs
- called by the media "Palestinians" - is the only
conceivable solution to the Middle East conflict
have come out for Kurdish national
self-determination. Why not? Maybe because Kurdish
self-determination would not help in destroying
Israel? |
Prof. Steven Plaut .
Steven Plaut teaches at the University of Haifa and
is author of The Scout (available from Gefen
Publishing House
Author's Website
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The Syrian Kurds in
particular are harshly repressed by the Ba'athist
fascists. Several weeks ago, the body of the head of
the Kurdish movement in Syria was recovered after he
had been murdered by the regime. The body of Sheikh
Machouk Alkhaznawi was returned to his family June
2, three weeks after he went missing. Amnesty
International, which no one suspects of being
pro-America or pro-Israel, and members of the
Kurdish Democratic Party said he was killed by
authorities, citing evidence of torture on the body.
The Assad junta claimed he had been killed by a
mysterious criminal gang.
A few days before his disappearance, the Canadian
Globe and Mail correspondent Paul Koring interviewed
Mr. Alkhaznawi in Damascus for a story about Syria's
newly emboldened political dissidents. "Either the
regime will change, or the regime must go," he said
in the interview. That sealed his fate.
The 46-year-old Kurdish cleric was a champion of
tolerance, respect between Arabs and Kurds, and the
compatibility of democracy and Islam, before he
disappeared last month. He came from the remote
Syrian city of Qameshli, in the heart of what 20
million Kurds call Kurdistan.
The Ba'athists also continue to murder people in
Lebanon, despite the "withdrawal" of Syrian troops
from Lebanon, a withdrawal that left behind a large
intelligence infrastructure and Syria-controlled
terrorist groups. Reuters and the New York Times
report that Lebanese journalist Samir Kassir was
murdered via car bomb by Syrian operatives for
criticizing the Ba'athist regime. He had written:
"The Ba'athist regime in Syria is behaving the same
way it behaved in Lebanon, making mistake after
mistake."
"Bashar Al-Assad and Emile Lahoud are behind it," a
senior Lebanese opposition leader, Marwan Hamade,
told the Christian Science Monitor. "The Syrian
regime is responsible from head to toe for this
horrific terrorist crime. Lebanon's opposition
should promptly close ranks anew to have every
Syrian intelligence cell left behind in Lebanon
ruthlessly smashed," the general manager of An-Nahar,
Gebran Tueini, told reporters at the scene.
The New York Sun reports, "The Syrian dictatorship
is tottering and weak. President Bush has decided
that Bashar Al-Assad will be gone and that the route
to Iran is through Syria."
Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that Syria
test-fired three Scud missiles last month, including
one that broke up over Turkish territory and
showered missile parts down onto unsuspecting
Turkish farmers. All the missiles were launched from
northern Syria, near Minakh, north of Aleppo,
Israeli officials said. One was sent about 250 miles
to southernmost Syria, near the Jordanian border.
The one that broke up was fired southwest toward the
Mediterranean, over the Turkish province of Hatay,
the ancient Antioch, and shed debris over two
villages there. The Israelis said they had film of
the launching and breakup. The test was the first
time Syria had fired a missile over another country
- a member of NATO and possible upcoming member of
the European Union, no less! - when Damascus could
easily have moved its mobile launchers to the center
of the country to avoid flight over Turkey
altogether.
The Moonbat Left continues its jihad in support of
the Syrian regime and against American
"warmongering" against Syrian fascism. We expect
Counterpunch soon to launch its "Take a Ba'athist to
Lunch" program.
It is time for President Bush to teach the
Ba'athists the game of Dominoes!
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