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The
Shimon Post
March, 201 1
Article 1. Asia Times
A golden opportunity for Assad
Sami Moubayed
NYT
The Syrian President I Know
David W. Lesch
Article 3.
Article 2.
Brookings
The Syrian Rift
Starner Rabinovich
Article 4. The New Republic
Why Has the U.S. Been So Soft on Bashar Assad?
Martin Peretz
Article 5.
Article 6.
Agence Global
Guts and Guns and Values
Rami G. Khouri
NYT
Looking for Luck in Libya
Thomas L. Friedman
Article 7. NYT
Why Palestinians Should Learn about the Holocaust
Mohammed Dajani Daoudi and Robert Satloff
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Article 1.
Asia Times
A golden opportunity for Assad
Sarni Moubayed
March -- DAMASCUS - Syrians usually go out on a Thursday
night, which marks the beginning of their weekend. Last Thursday,
however, was noteworthy in particular, as ordinary Syrians celebrated
what seemed to be the end of a crisis that had gripped the nation for a
week.
Presidential adviser Bouthaina Shaaban gave a press conference at 6
pm on Thursday evening, in response to violent demonstrations in the
southern town of Daraa near the border with Jordan. President Bashar
al-Assad, she stressed, had given strict orders not to fire at
demonstrators with live ammunition - and expressed his sorrow for
the senseless loss of life in Daraa.
Shaaban, dressed in black, firmly noted that the people of Daraa "are
our sons and our peoples". She promised an immediate investigation
into the bloody events there, just hours after Assad had dismissed the
governor of the southern city, Faisal Kalthoum, from his duties to
appease the town's residents.
In addition to taking immediate action on Daraa, Shaaban promised a
30% salary increase for government employees, major judicial
reforms, an end to arbitrary arrests, and a lifting of martial law, which
has been in place since March 1963. The political demands of the
demonstrators - not only in Daraa but in other Syrian cities as well -
were legitimate indeed, she added, as long as they did not resort to
violence.
This was only fair, ordinary Syrians seemed to be saying, glad to see
the government responding promptly to their political demands. All
topics under the sun, Shaaban added, were up for discussion so long
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as they remained in a legal, civilized and logical manner.
The smile on their faces was wiped off, however, by bloody events
that took place on Friday, March 25. Violent demonstrations broke
out in the midland city of Horns, in the coastal city of Latakia, and in
Sanamein, near Daraa, where 12 people were killed (10 of them from
the Syrian security forces). Overall estimates put at least 61 people
dead in the unrest in Syria.
In Latakia, armed bandits broke into the city, snipping at locals from
rooftops, while in Horns, the mob ransacked the Officers' Club,
killing one civilian on duty. The mob smashed car windows, set
buses and tires ablaze, and fired at locals indiscriminately. News
about Syria was suddenly given top priority on TV networks around
the world, trumping Yemen, Libya and Japan.
Even the Doha-based al-Jazeera, which has had good relations with
the Syrian government for years, could not stay silent and
immediately began covering the Syrian demonstrations, both the
violent and non-violent ones, as two sides of the same coin.
The message the world seemed to be getting was that Syria was
suppressing demonstrators because of political demands, ignoring the
fact that while some demonstrations were indeed legitimate, peaceful
and ought to be respected, others were armed and very violent.
Authorities immediately drew a clear line between peaceful political