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The Difference between Supporting a Revolution and Supporting Tyranny

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The Difference between Supporting a Revolution and Supporting Tyranny: An Ethical Criterion [An edited translation from the Azmi Bishara Arabic facebook page]

 

1. Generally speaking,  supporters of a revolution against tyranny denounce crimes committed by those groups which purport to act on their behalf. They openly discuss even those ideas which are anathema to themselves.

2. Supporters of a tyrannical regime, meanwhile, never criticize the crimes which such a regime commits, far less denounce them. Instead, they often justify those crimes or sometimes deny they took place.

3. Not only do supporters of a tyrannical regime act to defend tyranny, they in fact provide a further example of tyranny.

4. This corroborates what I have long said: the differences between those who support tyranny, and those who oppose it are a matter of ethics, and not analysis. Ignorance often makes the water even murkier

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Azmi Bishara on Syria

The subtitled last few minutes of a Jazeera Arabic interview with the great Palestinian thinker, in which Azmi expresses his disgust with those who fail to recognise the incredible revolutionary spirit of the Syrian people.  “The Syrian people are the ones who turned out to be strong!” he exclaims. “An admirable, heroic, great people! In the face of planes and tanks and artillery. I salute the people of al-Qusair! … This is what we ought to be impressed by!”

[youtube http://youtu.be/A3lfLp7RbH0?]

 

from here

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The Two-faced Propaganda of the Damascus Regime

  • [An edited translation from the Azmi Bishara Arabic facebook page]

    The Syrian regime has been hosting American journalists as part of its propaganda campaign targeted at the West. It explains to its guests that Damascus’ is the only government capable of combatting global Islamic terrorism, and invites them to view the pictures of the “foreign fighters” who have come to Syria. Of course, they neglect to mention here how the Syrian regime is committed to the resistance, nor do they deign to mention the occupation of the Golan Heights. In its propaganda targeted at the Arab public, meanwhile, the same regime has deafened all of our ears with claims that it stands up for the resistance, and that this is what motivated the American-Arab conspiracy that is the Syrian revolution.

    In the regime’s propaganda directed to the Arab public, the foreign jihadists who have arrived in Syria are depicted as products of US intelligence and American-allied Arab governments. There’s no mention of that in what is said to the West, however. In the image the Syrian regime projects to the West, the emphasis is always on “terrorism” and “Islam”. Here, the Syrian regime presents itself as a victim of “Islamic terrorism”, in the same boat as the US in the wake of the Boston Bombings.

    The sordidness needed to carry out such a feat of duplicity is boundless. A separate fact is that, regardless of their motives, the presence of foreign fighters in Syria has harmed the Syrian people’s national revolution.

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