Mild Western Reaction to Mass Deaths in Syria

Arutz Sheva ^ | 9/4/11 | David Lev

[Eleutheria5]

Unrest continued Saturday in both Egypt and Syria, as protesters in both cities were killed by security forces in each country. Meanwhile, thousands of Egyptians rioted outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo over the IDF's response to Hamas terror attacks, increasing concern in Jerusalem that the protests in the Arab world could begin to focus on Israel, instead of on domestic issues.

In Syria, security forces opened fire Saturday on participants in a funeral procession for protesters killed in another attack Friday. At least 37 people were killed in those protests Friday. A Syrian anti-government protest group, the National Organization for Human Rights, accused the government of committing “crimes against humanity.”

Protests took place in several cities in Syria on Friday, with 30 people killed in Deraa, the epicenter of the protests. Witnesses said that dozens of others were wounded, but refused to go to the hospital for treatment, out of fear that the secret police would arrest them.

[Eleutheria5]

World reaction was mild, at best. European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton condemned the violence, urging President Bashar Assad to implement “meaningful political reforms.” On Friday, U.S. President Barack H. Obama issued a statement that “strongly condemned the abhorrent violence committed against peaceful protesters.” and called for “meaningful political and economic reforms.” Israeli observers said they were “disappointed with the mild statement. There was no call for a UN meeting on the murders of innocent civilians, as there would most certainly have been had Israel killed dozens of terrorists at a single time.”

Meanwhile in Cairo Saturday, two Egyptian protesters were shot by Egyptian military forces. Hundreds of soldiers charged a large crowd of protesters in Tahrir Square at about 2 AM Saturday morning, in an attempt to impose a curfew after a large protest on Friday. Later Saturday, thousands of protesters returned to the square to protest the killings, and to demand that the shooters, whom protesters accused of being in league with deposed President Hosni Mubarak, be put on trial, along with Mubarak and other figures from his regime.

During that protest, several thousand people broke away and marched to the Israeli Embassy, where they threw rocks and stones and attempted to enter the building. They were turned back by security troops. The crowd shouted anti-Israel epithets, claiming that Israel was killing “innocent Palestinians” in its response to Hamas rocket attacks. Diplomats in Jerusalem said they were concerned that the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists would use the Gaza situation to build protests against Israel, using the crowd in Tahrir Square for their anti-Israel agenda, after the group said it would become more active in the country's protest movement.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Time for UN sanctions, heavily worded letters of reprimand, and Capt. Obama to the rescue! Ya gotta love how these rulers are squeezing “O”’s nuts. They are looking at him and saying; “Don’t like it? Tough, what are you going to do about it”. Its time for a change, and it can’t come quick enough.

[Truth29]

In the US, the incidents can be either hyped or minimized depending on what the MSM/Obama machine wants. Syria, the new Egypt and Iran, as usual, are minimized. The Obama target of choice, Libya, got the magnify treatment, but now that things aren't going so well, it has been deemphasized, also. So much of everything is how the media treats it, not what is really happening.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“Diplomats in Jerusalem said they were concerned that the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists would use the Gaza situation to build protests against Israel, using the crowd in Tahrir Square for their anti-Israel agenda, after the group said it would become more active in the country’s protest movement.”

This is getting too obvious to slough off. All the unrest in these Arab nations is ultimately going to become focused into a situation where multiple armies will be massed along Israels’ borders. Israel is to be goaded and provoked into a preemtive war against these nations. If Israel does not literally wipe out a few of these nations in the resulting dustup, Israel will become a nuclear target of Iran. The stakes of this game are on a one-way path towards the most serious of escalations.

[fish hawk]

Maybe a lot of people don't give a hoot because Muslims killing Muslims seems to be a good thing. I for one would feel a little more compassion for them if the ones that claim NOT to be radicals would do something to help us but here in America they just sit on their asses and complain that they are being picked on and targeted. Until the so called “good Muslims” ( if there is such a thing) reject the bad ones, tough tootsie.I doubt very much if the "good ones" care that Muslims are killing Christians all over the world.

[samadams2000]

Ho-hum. Forever mired in islam.

[blueplum]

no help from Zero - he’s already ‘detached’ from the topic

[stuartcr]

Does Syria have oil?

[screaminsunshine]

Maybe Obama can get rid of another 5 or 6 hundred Tomahawks shooting sand dunes in the desert.

[muawiyah]

Not just that. It's pretty well recognized that Egypt is impoverished and has no exports worth worrying about. Syria has no exports ~ no oil, no gas, very little else of worth.

If we are going to limit ourselves to fighting wars for oil (a not bad idea if we aren't going to be drilling any ourselves) then fighting wars over intra Moslem violence where there is no oil involved would be a NON STARTER.

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[BenLurkin]

Friends of Hussein?

[newzjunkey]

But, but... Responsibility To Protect! HUMANITARIAN CRISIS!!

[Bean Counter]

Bashar al Assad is not his Daddy’s kind of dictator, and it is simply stunning that we are avoiding the opportunity to help take down one of the worst of all the Middle East regimes.

Of course none of this would be happening now if the US had not unilaterally withdrawn from the Mediterranean. We used to have an aircraft carrier task force permanently assigned to the Med to keep a cork on things, and since we have withdrawn, all hell has broken loose from one end to the other.

This is a demonstration of what the World looks like without American Leadership.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Eleutheria5.

At least 37 people were killed in those protests Friday.

When Al-Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, or Hizbollah takes over Syria, well, it must be because Republicans control the House of Representatives.

[SunkenCiv]

from Bloomberg, so unusable:

• Dozens Dead in Yemen, Egypt, Syria as Protests Shake Middle East Countries

[StormEye]

"This is getting too obvious to slough off. All the unrest in these Arab nations is ultimately going to become focused into a situation where multiple armies will be massed along Israels’ borders."

That's what I've been thinking also. These mobs will soon be manipulated into demanding a war against Israel.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

This is where it is heading. I just know it.

Within each Arab country that is de-stabilized past some tipping point, I envision a pinball machine...it’s a slanted table that, try as you might and you might be able to keep the ball in play a long time, sooner or later the ball is going to fall between the flippers. And that result is radical Islamization. It may be the MB in Egypt, it might be Hezbolleh over here, it might be Islamic Barbershop Quartet over there. The names matter little. Whatever form they ultimately take, the emerging leadership(s) in these countries are going to navigate towards a stance of blaming Israel for their ills, like Arabs always do. It is simply too easy of a path for new or even old, shaken leadership, to unite whatever remains of their so-called societies into a war-stance vs Israel. It is too stupid to go any other way because it is too predictable that it will work.

Trouble is, should this coalesce as I predict, Israel will be in the same position at is was in 1967 and 1973: With bloodthirsty drooling hordes on all her borders and Arabs imagining themselves on the very threshold of their common dream: the destruction of Israel. Israel is going to have to commit near-genocide to decisively extinguish this threat.

The “good” thing is that this situation could occur near the 2012 elections and cause American Jews to consider their silly reflexive left-over-from-the-thirties support of Democrats, and thus swing the 2012 elections. Ironically, Israel, by nearly sacrificng itself, could help the US “save” itself. I know, it’s an odd theory, but it could happen.

[Eleutheria5]

This is what the world IS like without American leadership.