{"id":8593,"date":"2011-03-12T18:20:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T23:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/?p=8593"},"modified":"2011-03-12T19:10:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T00:10:33","slug":"fuel-subsidies-to-be-cut-april-1-syria-eyes-western-intervention-in-libya-with-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/fuel-subsidies-to-be-cut-april-1-syria-eyes-western-intervention-in-libya-with-caution\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Subsidies to be Cut April 1? Syria Eyes Western Intervention in Libya with Caution. Denies Giving Military Aid to Qaddafi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The head of Egypt’s military council <\/a>expressed his hope to meet President Assad soon and to open a new page of Egyptian Syrian relations<\/strong>. Also, el-Baradei said during an interview on ON TV that Egypt’s relations with Israel were the master-slave type and he would never allow that again. For Syria, it is all about the Golan.<\/p>\n

The Arab League unanimously called today on the United Nations Security Council to impose a no-fly zone on Libya, Secretary General Amr Moussa told a news conference in Cairo. Two countries — Syria and Algeria — had reservations about the decision because they feared that foreign influence in Libya might be open ended. Syria views the Arab revolutions largely in terms of which new governments are likely to line up with Syria to pressure Israel to give back the Golan. So far Egypt and Tunisia are distancing themselves from Israel. The prospect the Libya may fall under Western influence as the price of getting ride of its terrible leader has Syria worried.<\/p>\n

Here’s a tweet from an influential Libyan: “To the govts of #Algeria & #Syria: the #Libyans will remember your actions against us & when your people turn against you we fight with them.”<\/p>\n

Syria has issued this statement denying all allegations that Syria has two fighter jets in Libya and a ship on the way to help Qaddafi. The Syrian Foreign Ministry denies that Syria has any military presence in Libya and reports that allegations to the contrary are false.<\/p>\n

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Syria’s Ambassador to the US defends<\/a> the Vanity Fair article in the WSJ:<\/p>\n

Instead of targeting Vogue’s profile on Syria’s first lady, the anger and indignation emanating from Bari Weiss and David Feith’s op-ed “The Dictator’s Wife Wears Louboutins” (op-ed, March 7) should be directed toward matters of grave proportions, such as the recent killing of nine boys in Afghanistan by the U.S. military, the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis as a result of the U.S. invasion, or the “war crimes and crimes against humanity” committed by Israel in Gaza (as reported by the United Nation’s Goldstone Report).<\/p>\n

Indeed, such vitriol on behalf of Ms. Weiss and Mr. Feith begs the larger question: Why does the Journal turn down op-ed submissions on the aforementioned momentous topics, and instead devote so much space for an op-ed that finds as a grievance the first lady’s “manicured toes”? One possible explanation: Vogue succeeds in showing a side of Syria that the editors at the Journal don’t want, or refuse, to see: “a country that’s modernizing itself, that stands for a tolerant secularism in a powder-keg region, with extremists and radicals pushing in from all sides,” as a Western ambassador observes in the article. Make no mistake, this is what angered the authors, not red soles on a first lady’s feet.<\/p>\n

Imad Moustapha, Ph.D., Ambassador of Syria to the U.S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those unhappy about Western institutions engaging with Syria will also be dismayed at several other events taking place this spring.<\/p>\n