tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post1172160397843057357..comments2024-01-18T11:30:45.737-05:00Comments on Les Politiques: Curating the news on Syria: Sunday June 19thUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-18295840030691768062011-06-20T17:26:35.783-04:002011-06-20T17:26:35.783-04:00I agree.
But the theory here is not only psycho...I agree. <br /><br />But the theory here is not only psychoanalytical. It is religious, it is anthropological, and it is political. Girard's theory is that Christianity reversed the desire for ritual and sacrificial killings in primitive societies by refusing to agree with the persecutors that the victim is guilty and by symbolising the violence in the narrative of the life of Jesus.<br />Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577807573716384982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-24504238320384143342011-06-20T12:11:10.876-04:002011-06-20T12:11:10.876-04:00I would not follow on your "psychoanalytic&qu...I would not follow on your "psychoanalytic" theory of the scapegoat.<br />I know that Bashar was very popular in Syria ( and abroad ) before March 15th.<br />His reputation had to be destroyed by the activists in the western (and satellite ) media.HSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-50381336302176181662011-06-20T10:46:03.218-04:002011-06-20T10:46:03.218-04:00HS,
I agree. read my post. The scapegoat is usu...HS,<br /><br />I agree. read my post. The scapegoat is usually a victim not only of his ennemies but also of his own peple who agree to designate him as the scapgoat in order to clear themselves. It is an interesting theory about the origin of violence in HUmans.Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577807573716384982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-13663749889197674692011-06-20T10:31:23.889-04:002011-06-20T10:31:23.889-04:00Bashar Assad has been trained as an eye doctor ( t...Bashar Assad has been trained as an eye doctor ( the only surgeon not dealing with blood ) in London<br />( where he met his wife ).<br />He has to come back from England when his brother Basel , the military trained heir of the regime, died in a car "accident" .<br />Then , his father taught him the job of president and he also became the repository of the 20th century secrets of the HSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-74702381786270209862011-06-20T10:00:05.863-04:002011-06-20T10:00:05.863-04:00HS,
The fact that they are not known can either b...HS,<br /><br />The fact that they are not known can either be one of two things:<br />-They have no support in Syria<br />-They are serving as a screen to other people<br /><br />I watched also Bashar's speech (I didn't see the very end of it). And I agree that the applause was spontaneous at least on two occasions. When he spoke about himself and his family and when he spoke about theSophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577807573716384982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-45161759056485091102011-06-20T08:51:18.529-04:002011-06-20T08:51:18.529-04:00About the national council
their spokesman Jamil S...About the national council<br />their spokesman Jamil Saib, announced Sunday in a statement made near the Turkish-Syrian border.<br />"We announce the creation of a National Council to lead the Syrian revolution, comprising all communities and representatives of national political forces inside and outside Syria. <br /><br />Council members included notably <br />Abdullah Trad al-Moulahim, HSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-31703612326241912992011-06-20T08:06:05.033-04:002011-06-20T08:06:05.033-04:00I watched the president’s speech.
I don’t know who...I watched the president’s speech.<br />I don’t know who was attending.<br />I noticed at the end that several ( and only ) young women rush toward him when he left the room to talk to him.<br />I am quite sure the scene was not planned and spontaneous.<br />I find this show of support interesting.<br />A far cry from<br />http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/06/17/153670.htmlHSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-24172459131364635602011-06-20T03:27:53.385-04:002011-06-20T03:27:53.385-04:00Go willing things will get better, let's see w...Go willing things will get better, let's see what the president will say.<br />It'll be too little too late whatever he say for the blinded oppositions.<br />Will bug you later.<br />Have a great day :)Jadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-81892388021734839332011-06-20T03:06:01.656-04:002011-06-20T03:06:01.656-04:00We all know that the Syrian Baath has suppressed s...We all know that the Syrian Baath has suppressed sectarian sentiments. This is a pocitive thing but it came back to haunt them. It is a matter of emotions, fear, never reason. So the ennemies of Syria are playing with the sentiments and fear of its people.<br /><br />What I really like when I visited Syria is the innocence of the poeple in matters of sectarianism. Those fears were probably there Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577807573716384982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-84583074023462681002011-06-20T03:01:52.301-04:002011-06-20T03:01:52.301-04:00All of people with the slightest dignity and brain...All of people with the slightest dignity and brain cells will worry about a sudden change in Syria, it will be Iraq hell and Lebanese civil war 5 folds, it's the end of all of the Levant mixed fabric ethnically, religiously and culturally and I believe that the whole world will pay the price including Israel and Turkey and Europe will be dragged in it for many decades to come.Jadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-56441510259044078572011-06-20T02:57:31.546-04:002011-06-20T02:57:31.546-04:00Jad,
I also know from trusted sources that practi...Jad,<br /><br />I also know from trusted sources that practically all politicians in Lebanon (including the new maronite patriarch) are worried by the prospect of the sudden departure of Assad and the possibility for sectarian war in Syria, except of course the hardcore of March 14th (Gea3gea and Hariri). Jumblatt specially is worried for the future of Lebanon and his own community.Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577807573716384982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-16388710776245116782011-06-20T02:57:31.172-04:002011-06-20T02:57:31.172-04:00Did you read about the new 'National Council&#...Did you read about the new 'National Council' and the 'New Government' they formed?<br />They actually formed them according to sect, ethnicity and tribal background, it's so strange that the same people who criticize Lebanon and Iraq on their sectarian and ethnic parliament are doing exactly the same for Syria which show that with all the negative the Syrian regime has it Jadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-35038349367446132472011-06-20T02:46:35.672-04:002011-06-20T02:46:35.672-04:00Jad,
Free of any influence and resilient. There ...Jad,<br /><br />Free of any influence and resilient. There will be better days. <br /><br />Look at Lebanon, they fought 15 years of an ugly civil war, a million displaced, millions injured, we don't know hoe many killed but probably in the hundred thousands, for what? we went back to the situation that prevailed before, a sensitive sectarian divide of power. In Lebanon, if we are to Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577807573716384982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-32083110938192350772011-06-20T02:20:03.360-04:002011-06-20T02:20:03.360-04:00Sophia,
I agree on you know where site, the site s...Sophia,<br />I agree on you know where site, the site strategy is in favor of the anti-regime even when many of them are obvious liars.<br /><br />I agree with you about the picture used for that old post, it's very orientalist cliche. I believe that the owner of you know where is stuck with sectarian/ethnic/divided views of Syria, he can't see Syria as a country without doing a horrible Jadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-59053937500132780502011-06-20T00:24:12.692-04:002011-06-20T00:24:12.692-04:00By the way, I was shocked by the photo of the Alaw...By the way, I was shocked by the photo of the Alawis that was posted to illustrate an article on Syria where you know. It reminds me of the worst orientalist cliches. The way the news are presented also there is very disheartening and I believe it is intended to be this way in order to win over people by discouraging them. <br />It is really a strategy of bait and switch that has happened there, Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577807573716384982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-59394809795340563812011-06-20T00:15:07.794-04:002011-06-20T00:15:07.794-04:00Dear Jad,
I would say that the west is conniving ...Dear Jad,<br /><br />I would say that the west is conniving in the destruction of Syria. <br /><br />Nick Cohen is rather a lousy writer on any subject matter except that this article is one of those tactics neoliberalcons use to intimidate their governments into pseudo humanomiliatry action. I wouldn't mind also with the apartheid state label. Cohen, an Israel apologist, must know that Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577807573716384982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-25818932185337359072011-06-19T19:26:24.671-04:002011-06-19T19:26:24.671-04:00Dear Sophia,
Please read this horrible Guardian ar...Dear Sophia,<br />Please read this horrible Guardian article, Syria now is an Apartheid...Seriously why they keep those writers around? <br /><br />Face the facts – Syria is an apartheid state<br />The west is conniving in Bashar Assad's brutal suppression of opposition<br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/19/syria-bashar-assad-opposition-suppressionJadnoreply@blogger.com