Would they please post their budget and their overhead and how much is being spent on administrative action and how much is being spent on actual action.
Can we know more about their audits as we are weary of so many people taking advantage of the situation

For more info on budget, please look at the website: http://www.reliefandreconciliation.org
This is a small ngo with very small overhead. I can guarantee that your money will be well used.

$345 have been donated in the last 12 days toward a goal of $5000. Fairly confident that they’re not spending the money on Italian tailored suits for salaried administrative staff members.

Show me audits and I will donate, not before.
We know how donations especially in Lebanon which ranks as one of the worst countries in terms of corruption have gone to grease the pockets of intermediaries.

Dear US citizens,

Your xxxxxxxing John Kerry is now stating that Assad must not necessarily go.

Fxxxxx youuuuu son of a bxxxx. Kerry you are the criminal, motherfxxxxx

Now really someone should kill this bastard. We must now accept the hugest criminal in history after Hitler….?

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !!!!!!!! GO TO HELL !!!!!!

It does not matter what he or she says. It does not matter who goes to Ryiad or Moscow or Tehran. It does not matter because
1. There is no such thing as SAA
2. There is no such thing as FSA, many factions but not unified
3. There is no such thing as a Syrian government
4. There is no such thing as exiled opposition

The SAA collapsed a long time ago and now only Iranian and Lebanese are fighting for even the Alawi community is refusing to send their sons to die for the regime. HA and Iran are dying to keep the security house of cards and the flow of arms to Lebanon and that is about to stop

So do not worry what is being said or not said. Iran said it would host Assad as he is a hero of the Syrian people to live in Tehran.

Godspeed I say he and his entire clan; but watch out for Muallem for no Iranian restaurant will be able to keep him fed

My apologies for my post above.

I just wonder what US citizens would think about legitimate an american politican who killing 400.00 citizens and destroy all US cities.

Well Obama has given open buffet to those responsible for the death of 2.500 US marines in Iraq, i.e. Iran and Assad.

don’t apologize Sandro. your outrage is needed to make up for everybody else being comatose.

The GCC ruling mafias and Turkey are
as mad as a ” hippo with a hernia” after
hearing NATO leaders making a slow but a definite U turn on the regime and
Assad in Syria. If you are surprised by the change you are either a fool or you
have a lot to learn about western world
politics. To them, my friends, all Arabs and Muslims are Bedouins who are unable to lead a civilized life or build free democratic states. What is driving western politics now is fear, fear from Isis and fear from refugees, their fear from Iran is now on the back burner, your revolution is not on their list, sorry. Those politicians could not care less about Syria and Syrians.
يا أمة ضحكت من جهلها الامم

The GCC ruling mafias and Turkey are
as mad as a ” hippo with a hernia” after
hearing NATO leaders making a slow but a definite U turn on the regime and
Assad in Syria. If you are surprised by the change you are either a fool or you
have a lot to learn about western world
politics. To them, my friends, all Arabs and Muslims are Bedouins who are unable to lead a civilized life or build free democratic states. What is driving western politics now is fear, fear from Isis and fear from refugees, their fear from Iran is now on the back burner, your revolution is not on their list, sorry. Those politicians could not care less about Syria and Syrians.
يا أمة ضحكت من جهلها الامم

The GCC ruling mafias and Turkey are
as mad as a ” hippo with a hernia” after
hearing NATO leaders making a slow but a definite U turn on the regime and
Assad in Syria. If you are surprised by the change you are either a fool or you
have a lot to learn about western world
politics. To them, my friends, all Arabs and Muslims are Bedouins who are unable to lead a civilized life or build free democratic states. What is driving western politics now is fear, fear from Isis and fear from refugees, their fear from Iran is now on the back burner, your revolution is not on their list, sorry. Those politicians could not care less about Syria and Syrians.
يا أمة ضحكت من جهلها الامم

8. Ghufran said: their fear from Iran is now on the back burner, your revolution is not on their list, sorry. Those politicians could not care less about Syria and Syrians.

you used to get mad at me for caring about syria so you must be gratified and relieved by their indifference, although that’s been obvious even before now.

look what Assad has done. How can anybody with a pulse defend him?

via Rana Kabbani

On WorldDisabilityDay, we remind the world and its aircraft that 60,000+ Syrian children are limbless as a result of Assad barrel bombs.

This is the regime you are always happy to defend:

“One time they hanged a man from his legs and hands. I tried not to see, but sometimes they hold your face to see. They were pulling the ropes… They split him. Until now I remember his voice shouting, and then suddenly I couldn’t hear anything.”

‘How I was tortured in a Syrian jail’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35005825

It does not count if France or the US agree or do not agree on athad being in a transition or not. The Western power is a shadow of itself after the defeat of the US in Iraq and soon in Afghanistan.
These incursions and invasions have shown not only the limits of power but the inability to keep the colonial artificial borders intact.
They also show that an invasion does not mean that you can swallow a country and digest it not even Lebanon can be digested as Israel learned that lesson the hard way.
Now it is clear also that no minority or small majority can also swallow a full country any longer. It is not possible for the Shia of Iraq to keep it together any longer for the Sunnis and the Kurds would not comply. Likewise the Alawi community has decide to abandon a large part of Syria as it is not capable of keeping the country together. And this area is shrinking and the only question is whet her they will be part of Syria or separate or be massacred unfortunately.
It is taking Iran and Russia to keep the regime barely in place. All of the bombing has not resulted in any advances.
As a matter of fact Russia has decided that taking Aleppo back is not going to be possible without a massive ground incursion and this is not going to happen.
Iran still thinks it can do it be the grinding is very slow and painful.
As for the minorities I would say that they and especially they are the laughing stock of the world:
1. Look at the Maronite minority in Lebanon: the leaders of this illustrious minority are Aoun, a megalomaniac self serving corrupt intellectual midget
2. Franjieh with barely an ability to make a single sentence and with an education of about 9th grade
3. Geagea a war criminal
4. Jemayel good only for the picture
5. I do not know of any leader of the Christian community in Syria.
6. The leader of the Alawi minority in Syria is none other than Barrel Bomb B whose troops have learned to bury people alive and to use massive bombing as they showed their cowardice each time they had to fight man to man and hiding behind Iranian and Russian power.
7. Or how about Makhlouf clan and their use of the so called institutions to fleece the country
8. Or how about the various posts that are filled with Alawi officers and clerks that have mastered the art of parasitism on the people of Syria; filling the government offices with smoking bad cigarettes and sipping coffee.
9. Or how about the ruralization of the cities of Syria and the forced use of corruption on the people or the desertification policies of northeastern Syria or the destruction of Ghuta and making it into an industrial wasteland. Damascus under Alawi rule looks and acts and lives like an backward African country. Watch Syrian TV and look at the make up of the presenter: looks like an owl with heavy mascara; what a vulgar ignorant post. It would be better to have Iranian like presenter than this joke of a presenter.
10. Or how about the decades of selling us the mirage of Arab Nationalism only to advance their agenda of remaining as religious ethnic minorities.

All want the majority to be secular while they remain minorities with special privileges.
يا أمة ضحكت من جهلها الامم
First and foremost the minorities

I am not supporter of Trump, I believe he has prejudice ideas , but the popularity of Trump is due to the fact he said , he is against political correctness, so he is not the usual politician, he says what he believes , he is not liar
I will support the republican nominee,

Defeating ISIS is half way to get rid of Assad,, Iran ,Russia and the Alawi regime are against FSA , not against ISIS

Here we go again:

“French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said he no longer believes that Bashar al-Assad’s departure is necessary before any political transition in Syria, in an interview published Saturday.
“The fight against Daesh is crucial, but it will only be totally effective if all the Syrian and regional forces are united,” he told the French regional newspaper Le Progres, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group..
“A united Syria implies a political transition. That does not mean that Bashar al-Assad must leave even before the transition, but there must be assurances for the future”.
The comments mark a change in France’s position on the Syrian president, as it has previously demanded the removal of Assad, describing him as a “butcher” of his own people”

On the issue of alawites and minorities, the challenge from day one was to replace the regime with a better government that is accountable and pleural, what we got was an islamist rebellion headed by war criminals and thugs who want to exterminate alawites and punish moderate Sunnis and bring back the days of Ottomans domination of the Middle East and sell Syria to the GCC, so in a nutshell, the so called revolution wants a regime change at any cost regardless of how bad the new regime will be. Do not blame the doubters look in the mirror first and give us a break from the usual song about the regime, we have known how corrupt and brutal the regime is since the 1970s, call us when you have a better choice !!

Keep denying the obvious, the CA shooting is the latest evidence that militant Islamic ideology (Wahhabism)is a clear and present danger to all especially Muslims in the West, it is Saudi Arabia’s poisonous gift to the world. The couple who committed the murderous act were described as “normal” which is even more disturbing because it suggests to others that normal appearing Muslims can still be terrorists in the making. NATO bombs are not enough to end this madness, Muslims need to decide if they want to join the 21st century or remain hostages to a backward and violent set of beliefs that contributed to the decline and decay of their societies, the last time Arab and Muslim states mattered in the race for moderation and invention was more than 800 years ago !!
Islamists use the excuses of injustice and oppressive regimes to revolt but then their answer is terrorism and Taliban-type governments !!
(my previous post was cut, I added: look in the mirror first and call us when you can form a better regime)

“call us when you can form a better regime”

OK, read this (in Arabic): خطة “مجموعة الخبراء السوريين” للانتقال السياسي

what US limits of power? media narratives that posture decline of american power are ridiculous. if obama wanted assad gone, he’d be dead the next day. ugly unvarnished truth is the entire western world is comfortable with assad remaining.

The defeat of ISIS is half way to get rid of Assad
,to defeat ISIS they need ground troops, ,Jordan is where those ground troops can be based, but it is not the best choice,Turkey is close to Reqqa ,Turkey has strong army ,over two million well equipped and can take over ISIS in short time , and in the north there is the free Syrian army

I told you break it up and let each community have its own government while uniting th region economically.
Lebanon was non viable without enlarging it in its current form. Alwaistan was not viable and to their credit one of their leaders refused France’s offer of separation from Syria.
Now Lebanon is clearly a failed state and Syria is no more.
Since the minorities are insisting on remaining minorities it is only logical that the majority Sunnis ask for a Sunni based state of their own.
The mantra Religion is for God and the Nation is for everyone was betrayed from day one by the minorities who insist on remaining minorities while asking the majority to be secular.
So if you want a secular Syria then there is no roundabout from removing the minorities regime and it has to be done by the minorities themselves. Jus as removing IS will only be done by as Rand Paul said today ” a rise in civilized Islam of yonder” to take back their freedoms and their religion from these deviants.
Oppression bring about disloyalty: case in point, the oppression suffered by the Alawis during the Ottomans rulers led some to ask France for a state of their own. Do you call them traitors? No I do not I call traitors those that oppressed them in the first place and drove them into the arms of anybody to save their identity and dignity and life.
The regime is exactly a mirror image of Wahhabi thought and practice and its sectarianism is no less virulent than that of IS.
Look at Lebanon, 19 different confessions run by warlords and now their brood. The country is economically non viable and is on a downward spiral of loss of its institutions.
The regime should not have played the sectarian card for the demographics have changed from the 80’s and the revolt is mainly rural and semi urban in nature ( that is from it own base ) yet it labeled it as MB and the likes.
I know of a niece that wanted to volunteer for the UNRWA while studying in Damascus and lo and behold the secret service came to her uncle’s home to inquire why she is doing that.
It was not to insure that she was a foreign agent it was to insure that she does not participate in local politics.
Go have an olive with your Martini tonight and stop denigrating the brave people of Syria who finally got fed up with this regime and your support of this abomination.

i’m shocked no one challenged my earlier contention pointing to experts argue ISIS being propped up by Putin. i’m glad we all agree!

Simo,

Did you hear? The Qataris -Turks visa is no long. Lots of Qataris will be flocking Istanbul for tourism and Qatar will supplyعمو Erdogan with gas. Who needs Russian tourists?

And btw, if you want recommendation for best food, best show, best shopping and best boutique hotel in Istanbul, let me know 🙂

one last thought. earlier suggested, i became entranced with the idea of bashar expiring in a fiery death.

now obama knows he done effed up allowing so many innocent people die. he knows the fervor of partisan defensiveness that shields him from criticism fades after he leaves office & his record will be scrutinized anew.

economic interests invested in keeping Russia and Iran placated will remain…but what if obama decided to go out with a blaze of glory in a last minute attempt to rehab his crappy record? nothing is stopping him from pulling another october surprise. the idea of his successor plotting to position him/herself a hero by acting to resolve syria and thus further painting obama an incompetent failure has to vex & nag at barack. his ego wouldn’t like that.

imagine the new president being sworn in as news leaks out obama sent a cruise missile that took out assad in whichever hidey place rat hole crawl space bashar was cowering in? BOOM! 💥 assad wouldn’t know what hit him.

wouldn’t that be something?

21. Tara said:

Did you hear? The Qataris -Turks visa is no long. Lots of Qataris will be flocking Istanbul for tourism and Qatar will supplyعمو Erdogan with gas. Who needs Russian tourists?

Jippii Tara Turkey is saved. The population of Qatar in 2013 was 278,000 Qatari citizens and 1.5 million expatriates. Of course they will replace those 4.5 million Russian tourists who visited Turkey yearly. To compensate the numbers it means that every single Qatari citizen has to visit Turkey 16.2 times every year. Or if they don’t the expats, all of them, three times, which they will not do that is sure.

Of course Tara sultan Erdogan is free to buy his oil and gas from where ever he wants, like he already does (now from ISIS). The problem is that there are no oil and gas pipelines from Qatar to Turkey. So it means LNG transporting for the gas, which demands rather massive investments also for Turkey on their receiving end. It would more cheap to build a gas pipeline from Israel and begin to buy “Jewish” gas in future. Well Sultan Erdogan that clever and moral business man and leader could do that. ISIS or Israel what is the difference for him?

I noticed that Germany will use Turkey as base to attack ISIS, ,and U.S. Will do the same , I expect England and France will do the same, Turkey is the more reasonable country to use to fight Daesh,, FSA must participate in this fight to assure that Assad regime does not get back there.
As I said before, defeating ISIS is half way to get rid of Assad
As for Ryad conference of the opposition, I welcome the participation of armed militants like Ahrar Al Sham and Jaish Al Islam along with political Coalition, , from this conference , twenty five will be elected to start the negotiation with this criminal regime , Russia is under obligation to guarantee that ceasefire is implemented.
Vienna conference is a step to implement Geneva accord, Geneva one, I have hope on it but not much of hope as we know Assad and Putin are liars and they do not respect their words
U.S. And Russia will not support dividing Syria, the ensuing small countries will be unpredictable and fight will continue, and they may elect to join other countries, that is scaring the big powers.
The end goal is freedom and democracy that we lack today under this criminal Alawi Assad regime, Syrians deserve to regain their dignity, after they lost it during the last fivty years, and justice will follow.

Criminal Assad is angry that Briton is attacking ISIS, he considered it act of aggression, further Criminal Assad said there is no moderate opposition , this is the mentality of tyrant who is never going to negotiate with opposition,
this emphasizes my notion that defeating ISIS is half way to get rid of Assad, , Iran and Assad are allies of ISIS.
John Kerry said if Iran and Russia continue to support and prop up Assad , U.S. Will be forced to resort to hard choices, good for you Mr. kerry

Finally some are honest enough to say it. I wonder what those from our illustrious minorities who are die hard Arab Nationalists think of this note taken out from the Facebook page of Zhgarta Ehden Daily.
Now some are truly fanatically anti Arab and anti Muslim just as some Muslims are fanatically anti everything even life itself and I would dare say anti God as well.
Zgharta Ehden DailyJ’aime la Page
3 décembre, 13:55 ·
قنبلة ثقافية من العيار الثقيل يفجرها الأب ثيودورس بعنوان “لسنا ﻋﺮﺑﺎً ”
ﻻ ﻟﺴﻨﺎ ﻋﺮﺑﺎً . ﻳﻜﻔﻲ ﻛﺬﺑﺎ ﻭﺗﺰﻭﻳﺮﺍً ﻭﻣﻤﺎﻟﻘﺔ ﻭﻋﺠﺰﺍ ﻭﺧﻮﻓﺎً . ﻟﺴﻨﺎ ﻋﺮﺑﺎ ﻭﻟﻠﻪ ﺍﻟﺤﻤﺪ .
ﺍﻟﺴﻮﺭﻱ ﻟﻴﺲ ﻋﺮﺑﻲ، ﺍﻟﻌﺮﺍﻗﻲ ﻟﻴﺲ ﻋﺮﺑﻲ، ﺍﻟﻤﺼﺮﻱ ﻟﻴﺲ ﻋﺮﺑﻲ، ﺍﻟﻠﺒﻨﺎﻧﻲ ﻟﻴﺲ ﻋﺮﺑﻲ ﻭﻻ ﺍﻷﺭﺩﻧﻲ ﻭﻻ ﺍﻟﻔﻠﺴﻄﻴﻨﻲ .
ﻧﺤﻦ ﻣﺸﺮﻗﻴﻮﻥ ، ﻧﺤﻦ ﺭﻭﻣﻴﻮﻥ ﻭﺳﺮﻳﺎﻥ ﻭﻛﻠﺪﺍﻥ ﻭﺃﺷﻮﺭ ﻭﺃﻗﺒﺎﻁ، ﻧﺤﻦ ﺃﺣﻔﺎﺩ ﺇِﺑﻼ ﻭﺍﻟﺮﺍﻓﺪﻳﻦ ﻭﺍﻟﻔﻴﻨﻴﻘﻴﻴﻦ ﻭﺍﻟﻔﺮﺍﻋﻨﺔ، ﻧﺤﻦ ﺃﻫﻞ ﺍﻟﻤﺸﺮﻕ ﻭﺳﻜﺎﻧﻪ ﺍﻷﺻﻠﻴﻴﻦ . ﻧﺤﻦ ﻟﺴﻨﺎ ﻋﺮﺑﺎً، ﻳﻜﻔﻲ ﺍﻏﺘﺼﺎﺑﺎً ﻭﺗﺰﻭﻳﺮﺍً ﻟﻠﺘﺎﺭﻳﺦ ﻭﻟﻠﺠﻐﺮﺍﻓﻴﺎ ﻭﻟﻠﺤﻘﻴﻘﺔ ﻭﻟﻠﻮﺍﻗﻊ .
ﺃﺑﻨﺎﺀ ﺍﻟﻌﺮﺑﻴﺔ ﻫﻢ ﺍﻟﻌﺮﺏ – ﻭ ﻟﻸﻣﺎﻧﺔ ﺍﻟﺘﺎﺭﻳﺨﻴﺔ ﻧﻘﻮﻝ ﺃﻥ ﺛﻤﺔ ﺑﻌﺾ ﺍﻟﻘﺒﺎﺋﻞ ﺍﻟﻌﺮﺑﻴﺔ ﺻﺎﺭﺕ ﻣﺴﻴﺤﻴﺔ ﻭﻟﻜﻦ ﻋﺮﻭﺑﺔ ﺍﻷﻗﻠﻴﺔ ﻻ ﺗﻌﻤَّﻢ ﻋﻠﻰ ﺍﻷﻛﺜﺮﻳﺔ ﺍﻟﻤﺸﺮﻗﻴﺔ ﺍﻟﺘﻲ ﻟﻢ ﺗﻜﻦ ﻳﻮﻣﺎ ﻋﺮﺑﻴﺔ .
ﻧﺤﻦ ﻭﺇﻥ ﺗﻜﻠﻤﻨﺎ ﺍﻟﻌﺮﺑﻴﺔ ﻓﻬﺬﺍ ﻻ ﻳﻌﻨﻲ ﺃﻧﻨﺎ ﻋﺮﺏ . ﺍﻷﻣﺮﻳﻜﻲ ﺍﻟﺬﻱ ﻳﺘﻜﻠﻢ ﺍﻹﻧﻜﻠﻴﺰﻳﺔ ﻟﻴﺲ ﺇﻧﻜﻠﻴﺰﻳﺎً، ﻭﺍﻟﺒﺮﺍﺯﻳﻠﻲ ﺍﻟﺬﻱ ﻳﺘﻜﻠﻢ ﺍﻟﺒﺮﺗﻐﺎﻟﻴﺔ ﻟﻴﺲ ﺑﺮﺗﻐﺎﻟﻴﺎً ﻭﺍﻷﺭﺟﻨﺘﻴﻨﻲ ﺍﻟﺬﻱ ﻳﺘﻜﻠﻢ ﺍﻹﺳﺒﺎﻧﻴﺔ ﻟﻴﺲ ﺇﺳﺒﺎﻧﻴﺎً ، ﻫﺬﻩ ﻟﻐﺎﺕ ﺍﻹﺣﺘﻼﻝ .
ﻧﺤﻦ ﻭﺇﻥ ﻧﺘﻜﻠﻢ ﺍﻟﻌﺮﺑﻴﺔ ﻓﻠﺴﻨﺎ ﻋﺮﺑﺎً ﻭﻻ ﻧﺸﺒﻪ ﺍﻟﻌﺮﺏ ﺑﺸﻲﺀ، ﻻ ﺑﺎﻟﻔﻜﺮ ﻭﻻ ﺑﺎﻟﺬﻭﻕ ﻭﻻ ﺑﺎﻟﺤﻀﺎﺭﺓ ؛ ﻫﻢ ﺃﻫﻞ ﺑﺎﺩﻳﺔ ﺃﻣﺎ ﻧﺤﻦ ﻓﺄﻫﻞ ﺣﻀﺎﺭﺓ . ﻫﻢ ﺃﺭﺿﻬﻢ ﺍﻟﺼﺤﺮﺍﺀ ﺃﻣﺎ ﺃﺭﺿﻨﺎ ﻓﺄﺭﺽ ﺍﻟﻠﺒﻦ ﻭﺍﻟﻌﺴﻞ ﻭﺍﻟﺘﻴﻦ ﻭﺍﻟﻠﻮﺯ ﻭﺍﻟﺘﻔﺎﺡ ﻭﺍﻟﻌﻨﺐ . ﺃﺟﺪﺍﺩﻧﺎ ﺯﺭﻋﻮﺍ ﺍﻷﺭﺽ ﻭﺗﺄﺻﻠﻮﺍ ﻓﻴﻬﺎ ﻓﺼﺎﺭﻭﺍ ” ﺃﻭﻻﺩ ﺃﺻﻞ ” ﺃﻣﺎ ﺃﻧﺘﻢ ﻓﺮﺣّﻞ ﻟﻢ ﺗﺰﺭﻋﻮﺍ ﻭﻟﻢ ﺗﺘﺄﺻﻠﻮﺍ . ﺁﺑﺎﺅﻧﺎ ﺯﺭﻋﻮﺍ ﺍﻟﻜﺮﻣﺔ ﻭﺻﻨﻌﻮﺍ ﺍﻟﺨﻤﺮ ﻭﺃﻭﺟﺪﻭﺍ ﺍﻟﻤﻮﺳﻴﻘﻰ ﻓﻔﺮﺣﻮﺍ ﻭﺭﻗﺼﻮﺍ، ﺑﻨﻮﺍ ﺣﻀﺎﺭﺍﺕ ﻭﻛﺘﺒﻮﺍ ﻛﺘﺒﺎً ، ﺃﺟﺪﺍﺩﻛﻢ ﺷﺮﺑﻮﺍ ﺍﻟﺪﻡ ﻭﻻ ﻳﺰﺍﻟﻮﻥ، ﺭﻗﺼﻮﺍ ﻋﻠﻰ ﺟﺜﺚ ﺑﻌﻀﻬﻢ ﻭﺫﺑﺤﻮﺍ ﺑﻌﻀﻬﻢ ﻟﻠﻔﺮﺡ ﻭﻻ ﻳﺰﺍﻟﻮﻥ . ﺩﻣﺮﻭﺍ ﺍﻟﺤﻀﺎﺭﺍﺕ ﻭﺃﺣﺮﻗﻮﺍ ﺍﻟﻜﺘﺐ ﻭﻻ ﻳﺰﺍﻟﻮﻥ . ﻻ ﻓﻲ ﺍﻟﺘﺎﺭﻳﺦ ﺍﻟﻘﺪﻳﻢ ﻧﺸﺒﻬﻜﻢ ﻭﻻ ﻓﻲ ﺍﻟﺘﺎﺭﻳﺦ ﺍﻟﻤﻌﺎﺻﺮ ﻧﺸﺒﻬﻜﻢ . ﺗﺎﺭﻳﺨﻨﺎ ﻣﻼﺣﻢ ﻭﻋﻠﻢ ﻭﻣﺠﺪ، ﺗﺎﺭﻳﺨﻜﻢ ﺧﻴﺎﻧﺔ ﻭﺣﺎﺿﺮﻛﻢ ﺧﻴﺎﻧﺔ ﻭﻣﺴﺘﻘﺒﻠﻜﻢ ﺧﻴﺎﻧﺔ . ﻻ ﻧﺸﺒﻬﻜﻢ ﺑﺸﻲﺀ ، ﻻ ﺑﺘﺎﺭﻳﺨﻨﺎ ﺍﻹﻧﺴﺎﻧﻲ ﻭﻻ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﻴﺤﻲ ﻭﻻ ﺍﻹﺳﻼﻣﻲ . ﻣﺴﻠﻤﻮ ﺑﻼﺩﻱ ﻳﺨﺘﻠﻔﻮﻥ ﻋﻦ ﻣﺴﻠﻤﻲ ﺑﻼﺩﻛﻢ، ﻣﺴﻠﻤﻮ ﺑﻼﺩﻱ ﺇﻧﺴﺎﻧﻴﻮﻥ ﻣﺤﺒﻮﻥ ﻟﻠﻌﻠﻢ ﻭﻟﻠﺤﻴﺎﺓ ﺃﻣﺎ ﺃﻧﺘﻢ ﻓﺄﻧﺘﺠﺘﻢ ﺷﻌﻮﺑﺎً ﻣﻤﻠﻮﺀﺓ ﻛﺮﺍﻫﻴﺔ ﻭﻋﻘﺪﺍً ﻭﺃﻣﺮﺍﺿﺎً ﻭﻣﺤﺒﺔ ﻟﻠﻤﻮﺕ . ﺗﺎﺭﻳﺨﻨﺎ ﺣﻀﺎﺭﺓ ﻭﻋﻠﻢ ﻭﺍﺩﺏ ﻭﻣﻮﺳﻴﻘﻰ ﻭﺷﻌﺮ، ﺗﺎﺭﻳﺨﻜﻢ ﺩﻡ ﻭﻏﺰﻭﺍﺕ ﻭﺃﺣﻘﺎﺩ ﻭﺷﻬﻮﺍﺕ .
ﻣﻦ ﺻﺎﺭ ﻣﺴﻠﻤﺎً ﻓﻲ ﺑﻼﺩﻱ ﺑﻌﺪ ﺍﻟﻐﺰﻭ ﺍﻟﻌﺮﺑﻲ ﻇﻞ ﺑﻨﺒﻠﻪ ﺍﻹﺟﺘﻤﺎﻋﻲ ﻭﺍﻟﺘﻘﺎﻟﻴﺪ ﻭﺍﻷﻋﺮﺍﻑ ﻭﺣﺘﻰ ﻣﻦ ﺳﻜﻦ ﺑﻴﻨﻨﺎ ﺻﺎﺭ ﻣﺜﻠﻨﺎ ﻣﻦ ﺍﻟﺠﺎﻧﺐ ﺍﻹﺟﺘﻤﺎﻋﻲ، ﺃﻛﻠﻨﺎ ﺳﻮﻳﺔ، ﺭﻗﺼﻨﺎ ﺳﻮﻳﺔ، ﺿﺤﻜﻨﺎ ﺳﻮﻳﺔ ﻭﺑﻜﻴﻨﺎ ﺳﻮﻳﺔ ﺃﻣﺎ ﺃﻧﺘﻢ ﻓﻠﻢ ﺗﺘﻐﻴﺮﻭﺍ . ﺃﻟﻒ ﻭﺃﺭﺑﻌﻤﺎﺋﺔ ﻋﺎﻡ ﻭﻟﻢ ﺗﺘﻐﻴﺮﻭﺍ ﻭﻟﻤﺎ ﻟﻢ ﺗﻘﺪﺭﻭﺍ ﻋﻠﻰ ﺗﻐﻴﻴﺮﻧﺎ ﻷﺟﻞ ﺫﻟﻚ ﺃﻧﺘﻢ ﺗﺪﻣﺮﻭﻥ ﺑﻼﺩﻧﺎ ﻭﺗﺮﺍﺛﻨﺎ ﻭﺗﻌﺎﻳﺸﻨﺎ ﻭﺇﻧﺴﺎﻧﻨﺎ . ﺍﻟﻤﺴﻠﻢ ﺍﻟﻤﺸﺮﻗﻲ ﻛﻔﺮ ﺑﻜﻢ ﻭﻗﺮﻑ ﻣﻨﻜﻢ ﺃﻛﺜﺮ ﻣﻦ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﻴﺤﻲ ﺍﻟﻤﺸﺮﻗﻲ .
ﻧﺤﻦ ﻣﻦ ﻋﻠّﻤﻜﻢ ﻭﻣﻦ ﺑﻨﻰ ﻣﺪﻧﻜﻢ ﻭﻣﺴﺘﺸﻔﻴﺎﺗﻬﻢ ﻭﺟﺎﻣﻌﺎﺗﻜﻢ ﻭﻣﻦ ﺣﻔﻆ ﻟﻐﺘﻜﻢ . ﻟﻴﺘﻨﺎ ﻟﻢ ﻧﻔﻌﻞ، ﻟﻴﺘﻨﺎ ﺗﺮﻛﻨﺎﻛﻢ ﻟﻘﻀﺎﺀ ﺍﻟﻠﻪ ﻭﻗﺪﺭﻛﻢ ﺍﻷﺷﺪ ﺳﻮﺍﺩﺍً ﻣﻦ ﻟﻮﻥ ﻧﻔﻄﻜﻢ .
ﻛﻨﺎ ﺟﺴﺮﺍً ﺑﻴﻨﻜﻢ ﻭﺑﻴﻦ ﺍﻟﻐﺮﺏ ﻓﺼﺮﺗﻢ ﺃﺩﺍﺓ ﺑﻴﺪ ﺍﻟﻐﺮﺏ ﻟﺘﺪﻣﻴﺮ ﻣﺸﺮﻗﻴﺘﻨﺎ . ﻣﻦ ﺛﻤﺎﺭﻛﻢ ﻋﺮﻓﻨﺎﻛﻢ، ﺗﺎﺭﻳﺦ ﻣﻦ ﺍﻟﻬﻤﺠﻴﺔ ﻭﺍﻟﺬﻝ ﻭﺍﻹﻧﻜﺴﺎﺭﺍﺕ . ﺫﻛﺮﻭﻧﺎ ﺑﺎﻧﺘﺼﺎﺭ ﻭﺍﺣﺪ؟ ﺃﻭ ﺑﻤﺠﺪ ﻭﺍﺣﺪ؟ ﺍﻧﺘﺼﺎﺭﺍﺗﻜﻢ ﻫﻲ ﺇﻓﻨﺎﺀ ﺑﻌﻀﻜﻢ ﺍﻟﺒﻌﺾ،ﺃﻷﺥ ﻷﺧﻴﻪ ﻭﺍﻹﺑﻦ ﻷﺑﻴﻪ ﻣﻦ ﺃﺟﻞ ﺍﻟﺤﻜﻢ ﺃﻭ ﻣﻦ ﺃﺟﻞ ﻧﺎﻗﺔ ﺃﻭ ﺍﻣﺮﺃﺓ ﺃﻭ ﺣﻤﺎﺭ . ﺍﻣﺘﻄﺎﻛﻢ ﺍﻟﻐﺮﺏ ﺍﻟﺬﻱ ﺗﺴﻤﻮﻧﻪ ﻛﺎﻓﺮﺍً ﻭﺃﻧﺘﻢ ﺗﻠﺤﺴﻮﻥ ﺃﻗﺪﺍﻣﻪ ﻟﻴﺤﻔﻆ ﻋﺮﻭﺷﻜﻢ ﻟﺘُﻤﻌﻨﻮﺍ ﻓﻲ ﺳﻠﺐ ﺃﻣﻮﺍﻝ ﺍﻟﻔﻘﺮﺍﺀ ﺍﻟﺘﻲ ﻣﻸﺗﻢ ﺑﻬﺎ ﺑﻨﻮﻛﻪ .
ﻧﺤﻦ ﺍﻛﺘﻔﻴﻨﺎ ﻭﻟﻦ ﻧﻐﻄﻲ ﻫﺬﻩ ﺍﻟﻤﻬﺰﻟﺔ ﺑﻌﺪ ﺍﻟﻴﻮﻡ . ﻓﻴﺎ ﺃﻳﻬﺎ ﺍﻟﺮﻋﺎﺓ ﻭﺍﻟﺴﺎﺩﺓ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺘﻌﺮﺑﻮﻥ ﻭﺍﻟﻌﺎﺷﻘﻮﻥ ﻟﻠﻌﺮﻭﺑﺔ ﺇﻥ ﺃﺭﺩﺗﻢ ﺃﻥ ﺗﺘﻜﻠﻤﻮﺍ ﻭﺗﺘﻐﻨﻮﺍ ﺑﻬﺎ ﻓﺘﻜﻠﻤﻮﺍ ﻋﻦ ﺃﻧﻔﺴﻜﻢ ﻭﻋﻦ ﺟﺒﻨﻜﻢ ﻭﻟﻴﺲ ﻋﻦ ﺷﻌﻮﺏ ﺫُﺑﺤﺖ ﻭﺍﻏﺘﺼﺒﺖ ﻭﺍﺧﺘُﻄﻔﺖ ﻭﺩُﻣّﺮ ﺗﺎﺭﻳﺨﻬﺎ ﻭﺣﺎﺿﺮﻫﺎ ﻭﺭﺑﻤﺎ ﻣﺴﺘﻘﺒﻠﻬﺎ ﺑﺎﺳﻢ ﺍﻟﻌﺮﻭﺑﺔ .
ﺍﻟﻤﺠﺪ ﻟﻠﻤﺸﺮﻕ ﻭﺭﺣﻢ ﺍﻟﻠﻪ ﻧﺰﺍﺭ ﻗﺒﺎﻧﻲ .
الاب ثيودورس داود ،راعي ابرشية القديسة مريم للروم الارثودكس ،بالتيمور – ميريلاند

واللهي انا عربية. اذا المسيحيين حابين يقولوا انهم من الشانزيليريه يصطفلوا.

الهبل بهيك كلام ان كل العالم جيناتهم مختلطة . ماحدا شي معين.

نحن الثقافة تبعنا.

سلامي لجماعة الشانزيليزيه

وحلّوا عن عروبتي

وعن أمريكيتي كمان

But what does it mean to be an Arab though?

Truthfully, I don’t share much with a Moroccan, Yemeni, or a Somali. Yes, we all speak the same language and most share the same faith but then what?

The middle east is not a melting pot. A mosaic of tribes and ethnic and religious groups cannot be bundled into one.

This is not to say that one group or another has a privileged right over the others.

When I was in school in Syria, I wish i was taught about Alawis, Kurds, Turkmen, Assyrian and so on. During geography class I learned more about Khartoum in Sudan than about my fellow Syrians.

Oddly enough, it is the minorities themselves that championed Arabist Nationalism.

It is all the same , no new things from the president today.

As for Arabism it was meant to unite us, it was meant to conter Zionism , it was meant to make us stand against European colonization and they were taking our resources, , Arabism failed , our leaders failed us, Arab league is an example , our leaders were more concerned about their chairs than about Arabism, we should blame our leaders not Arabism, we should blame dictatorship, that betrayed the people who yearned for freedom, Assad took advantage of Arabism to establish Alawi Assad dynasty, he did not care about Arabism , he never fought Israel since 1982 , 33 year, he fought his people
Sami , I do not believe what you said , You do feel sympathy to Palastineans, to Algyrians fighting for independence from France, don’t you?

Omen,

Since 2013 I repeat once and again that Russia and Assad moukhabaraat are fully infiltrated and driving ISIS politics and terror actions inside and abroad.

Arabism is a forced marriage of ideas at best and a total fraud in reality. It is not a coincidence that minirities (ie non Sunnis) were instrumental in the movement, minorities influenced by European politics and culture who felt threatened by ottoman style Muslim brotherhood movements found refuge in Arabism. Naser used Arabism to rally support and strengthen egypt’s position but his own envoys to Syria between 1958-1961 treated Syrians as second class citizens and Syrian merchants and businessmen danced when the Union with Egypt collapsed. Nationalism with a secular constitution is best for a country like Syria, Bedouin countries are free to choose any model they want which fit their goatish culture.
Albaath still has support but in free elections it will have less votes than the Islamists and the SSNP.

US warplanes are not only still violating Syrian airspace with absolute impunity, but being joined by French and British planes too.
You can shoot from the air freely whenever you like with impunity, go ahead, there are no reluctance … continue in this way … Syrian airspace is available ….
Then… Cemetery will be there 4U.

Vodka at work
http://www.aljazeera.net/news/arabic/2015/12/7/واشنطن-روسيا-وراء-قصف-معسكر-النظام-بدير-الزور

Latest technological breakthrough of Russian tanks

http://orient-news.net/ar/news_show/96377/0/تدمير-الدبابة-الروسية–الأحدث-T-على-يد-ثوار-حلب

No comment.

Observer

Long live the Vodka. Wish they give their pilots some more so next time they bomb Bashar rat’s hideout by mistake. Then they can blame it on us , no problem

Alan,

Be calm, new Russia’s Afganistan has just started.

The upcoming conference for Syrian ” opposition” has failed before it starts. Turkey’s mafia regime pressured its sister in KSA to exclude most Kurds and both regimes decided to include terrorist groups in the meeting. Manna withdrew and others will follow, we will be left with the Muslim brotherhood, few militia thugs and the clowns of the SNC.
تضربوا انتو و هيك مؤتمر

“Moderate” rebels shelled Al-Bayrouni hospital in Damascus ( cancer treatment center), one technician killed and the lab was severely damaged.
Next time you want to defend the rebels give us a warning so we can pre medicate ourselves with something to
prevent nausea.

OBSERVER, TARA, and SANDRO LOEWE
stop bla bla bla ……

Alliance military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren !
you will be crammed in the narrow corner.

34 Syrian civilians reported killed in suspected US-led coalition airstrikes
https://www.rt.com/news/325131-syria-bombing-civilians-coalition/

If all goes as planned the last part of Homs proper will be free from Nusra and other Islamist thugs in the next few hours. Hundreds of people will be allowed to move to Nusra controlled areas in north Hama and Idleb. I hope that means no more car bombs in Homs.

Putin is heading for trouble , those who think Putin is strong will be disappointed severely, I said he is worthless bombastic stupid, there is good article in Wall Street journal about Putin , it says that Russia is spending from its reserve , and Russia will run out of money by the end of 2016 , Putin will be forced to abandone expansion deas, Russian will be poor and Putin either will lose the election in Russia in 2018, or will turn to a dictator and abandone the democratic election in Russia, some thought that Russia will put troops in Iraq and exploit its oil, that means he has to replace Iran.
It is good article, and will disappoint some here on this blog

Obama has sold Syria to Iran, but does not want Russia to appear as the winner with Putin keeping all his military power in Syria. So Iran who is the new broker and servant dog for the World Order in the Middle East is trying to play to beneffit Assad staying in power and Russia conquering Syria while keeping away the US army to establish there in the future.

Now here is the Manar coverage of Venezuela for today:
http://www.almanar.com.lb/seccatpage.php?frid=23&seccatid=30

Clearly this is another one of the “resistance” axis that is going down the tubes; and with an inflation rate of 300% or more and with a monthly salary to cover one day’s supply of milk for the kids the are calling this economic disaster ” a foreign conspiracy” and Mayaddeen yesterday was saying that the government should have been more leftist in running the economy !!!!

Likewise the Universe has united against Syria and they are resisting. It is funny how the discourse is the same for all those losers. To quote the regime troll in poor disguise

يا أمة ضحكت من جهلها الامم

Yeah, the “moderates” that are going to show up on Jan 1 will be amusing. Put up or shut up.

The ground is shaking, by the way. National Front in France, Donald Trump… The establishment, the guys that run America and the West are losing control, and for the first time, they don’t seem to be able to do anything about it.

Alan look what your hero did to this little girl. You protest violation of sovereignty?? Russia has no right to be in Syria.

http://alistairreignblog.com/2015/11/30/httpwp-mep6khlz-149/

/Russia has no right to be in Syria/
Russia will be there, where it would require. Even if it is in the depth of the territory in United States.
Be sane.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/12/world/middleeast/syria-civil-war-damage-maps.html?action=click&contentCollection=Middle%20East&region=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&moduleDetail=undefined&pgtype=Multimedia&_r=0

90% of this is from the so called regime and its supporters.

Resistance to the last Syrian Lebanese and Palestinian while the leaders remain in place

So far Ryad conference seems to go well

I hope they reach an agreement plan for Syria that respects all sects and insist on freedom and democracy and justice, and an end to one sect rule and an end to dictatorship, where the power is for the people , and insist on return of refugees, release political prisoners and Justice, also they must agree on fighting ISIS too, and call on all foreign powers to get out of Syria including HA

I thought this article was good:

ISIS’ Imminent Demise

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2015/12/isis-imminent-demise

Putin threat to use nuclear bomb in Syria is just crazy, stupid , he is a mental case , he is worse than Hitler , he is just like the stupid Assad

49. MAJEDKHALDOUN
Those are criminal practices of countries that you yourself belong to !
stop chattering.
https://youtu.be/NbcxaLcHpyo
https://youtu.be/gwkyPvlWPM0

You can not make chicken soup from chicken poop, that means you can not rely on KSA (and Qatar/Turkey) to come up with a pleural and accountable government in Syria and you can not wait on Assad regime to voluntarily accept opposition and put an end to the rule of Mukhabarat. Read the statements from KSA conference and you will conclude that this war is not about to end until the sponsors or fighting forces suffer a near fatal blow (which has not happened yet).
Rebels and their families in Alwaer left Homs mostly for Idleb instead of Idleb and Hama, that means a near recognition that Hama will not be a long term safe refuge for rebels. Borders between regime controlled areas and Syriastan (Idleb and Aljazeera) are being drawn even if fighting parties refuse to admit that. The biggest fight will be in Aleppo (and less importantly in Ghouta and parts of Hama).Latakia will be under total regime control after Turkmen and Islamists in North Latakia are pushed back to Turkey. Rebels in Ghouta who wish to stay (many are Syrian)will be given special status where they run their areas but stop attacking Damascus, people in Damascus are decisively anti rebels regardless of what some deniers here say, Damascenes do not like, and never liked, the regime but they were not given a decent alternative.
Israel will continue to flirt and deal with islamist rebels in the south to create a buffer zone but those rebels will be unable to attack Damascus and they will mostly play a role similar to SLA when Israel occupied south Lebanon, rebels in Qnaitra will be Israel’s prostitutes.
Without a breakthrough in this war there will be a stretch of land from Damascus to Turkey’s borders north of Latakia under regime control with little or no presence of rebels, the current redistribution of population will be preserved for the short term leaving refugees with no real options but to stay where they are. Homs proper has changed drastically after losing much of its Sunni population but Latakia and Tartous (especially Latakia) have absorbed over 2 million Sunnis, that seems to be the preferred “market” solution to the threat of division. In a nutshell, the only short term preventive measure to the nightmare of division is giving people no choice but to live together in peace, there has been no sectarian clashes or security problems in mixed areas where there is enough presence of security and army personnel.
This situation leaves over 70% of Syria’s land (but less than 30% of the population)under Nusra and Isis rule. If Turkey and the GCC really cared about the fate of Sunnis in Syria they would have prevented such a tragic outcome, nobody should be forced to live under the rule of terrorists but that is the gift GCC and Turkey gave to Syrians, the regime is effectively saying “go and live in Syriastan if you do not like us”, the dream of a democratic and free Syria will not come true if the parties entrusted to transform it into reality are the Assad regime and the GCC-Turkey appointed opposition !!

تركيا/ناتو تطلق النار على طائرة روسية اخترقت اجواء اسكندرون لثوان و لمسافة امتار .
تركيا/ناتو اخترق الاراضي العراقية ثلاثين كيلومترا لتعربد هناك.
يجب ان يدق عنق تركيا/ الناتو هناك بشكل مؤلم

Akbar

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg came out with a strong statement today “in support of Muslims in our community and around the world.” In a sense, it’s clearly prompted by Donald Trump’s recent call to ban all Muslim immigration into the United States. But importantly, Zuckerberg doesn’t mention Trump by name or limit his remarks to the specifics of Trump’s proposal. After all, America’s rising tide of Islamophobia goes well beyond Trump.

Instead, Zuckerberg situates himself in the general context that “[a]fter the Paris attacks and hate this week, I can only imagine the fear Muslims feel that they will be persecuted for the actions of others.”
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The Jews in the US are heard loud and clear. I honestly would actively choose to live with Jews rather than to live with my fellow Syrian Darryl from Allepo who is probably now living in constant ecstasy over the Trump campaign and who was calling for the exact similar thing.

Alan,

Shame that the NATO did not downed this second plane. I’d call on my government to respect the sovereignty of their FELLOW NATO ally and shoot the intruder down immediately

Alan, I would be very concern about Putin’s mental status after the incident!!! Do you think he would need to be hospitalized in a mental ward to calm his bleeding ego?

Take cool. we have all capabilities certainly and firmly to turn the planet to radioactive ashes.
Stop flowing your old model flabby acrobatics.

is this a threat?

45. ALAN said: /Russia has no right to be in Syria/
Russia will be there, where it would require. Even if it is in the depth of the territory in United States. Be sane.

Alan

I thought you are Syrian?!

Do you Alan support Putin’s plan to Nuc Syria?