Syria the whipping boy of Israel, Saoudi-Arabia and Qatar

Syria continues to be the whipping boy of the unholy triple alliance of Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. They say politics makes for strange bedfellows, but it’s not so strange when you think of it. All three are experts in oppression, religious zealotry, and paying zillions to Washington lobbies. Israel has captured Palestinian lands through force of (American) arms and continues to oppress millions of Palestinians under its occupation. The various bombardments of Gaza have killed thousands of innocents, yet the great American comedian Elie Wiesel recently asked Obama, “How is it that Assad is still in power?”
“The Syrian conflict has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with the new Cold War between the West and Russia.”

Saudi Arabia, a country whose human-rights record makes Syria look like Switzerland, is the godfather of international terror in exchange for peace at home. The Saudis have funded terror from the start, but because of their powerful DC connections and their ability to bribe everyone involved, Uncle Sam and his poodle the EU are turning a blind eye as Saudi-financed jihadis and al-Qaeda fighters pour into Syria.

The third great democrat/humanist leading the propaganda fight against Syria is Al Thani, the Qatari thief whose family has lorded over the tiny Gulf strip since the early 19th century. Qatar recently bribed FIFA to assign the 2022 World Cup to that crappy little pseudo-country. Al Thani and his gang of thieves have now set their hooded eyes on bigger projects such as establishing a Sunni corridor that isolates Iran and Iraq.

While la Clinton rails against Russia for arming the Syrian regime, she forgets that Uncle Sam arms the Saudis, the Israelis, the Qataris, and now even the Libyans. The Arab Spring is a far more complex event than credulous Western journalists imagine. It is not about the weak rising against the strong. It’s about a transfer of power to rival clans and religious groups. The Saudis want Assad out because he’s a man who, like his father before him, kept Sunni Islamists at bay.

Inside Syria itself, Western journalists get their info only from jihadis trying to overthrow the Assad regime. There are reports that “rebels” fire upon the army with the sole purpose of inciting riot and mayhem. British reporter Alex Thompson says he was entrapped into a fire zone by jihadis hoping the army would kill him, thereby gaining them more sympathy from the West. A friend of mine who has just come out of Syria told me that he’s pretty sure the murder of children and certain other massacres bear the mark of militant Islam.

Although I rejoiced at the Gaddafi gang’s downfall, take a look at Libya eight months after his demise. It’s a far, far worse place than it ever was under the mad dog Gaddafi. (The only thing good to emerge was that we won’t have his vile children visiting European fleshpots this summer and coming winter.)

The Syrian conflict has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with the new Cold War between the West and Russia. The latter supports Syria’s secular regime, just as Uncle Sam and his stooges in Europe support the Gulf’s kleptocracies and the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands.

If anyone had any brains inside the Beltway—and if there were any parties not locked down by the Israeli lobby—they would let Russia negotiate the Assads’ future, making sure that Saudi-financed jihadis were expelled from that ancient land. Yes, the Assad father-and-son regime has been in power since 1970 and has been quite brutal by Western standards—but not by Middle Eastern ones. But looking at how clumsy and self-defeating American foreign policy is, how in the hell did the good uncle ever win against the big, bad Russian bear? I’ll tell you how. The bear fell into a hole—one it had dug itself—and the uncle took the credit.

source: TAKI’S MAGAZINE, june 2012