Bashar al Assad is not alone. He is an Alawite. If the Alawites had
not fought back when attacked by 'moderate rebels' as our Laurent
Fabius named them, then it is highly probable that now you would cry a
river about mass slaughter of Alawites by those rebels.
And in fact that is exactly what the grand-father of Bashar wrote to
Leon Blum in 1936 while Syria was under French protectorate. The
fac-simile of the letter is here:
http://www.les-crises.fr/lettre-du-gran ... m-de-1936/
and if you follow the link at the top of this blog entry, you land on
the original english page by the Jewish Press explaining this.
So OK the Alawites are mass slaughtering Sunnis. If that had not
happened, then Sunnis would certainly mass slaughter the Alawites as
of today.
And you perfectly know this. In fact I read your blog for many years
now and I always felt that you are honest in your views. But in the
case of this Alawites vs Sunnis in Syria, I don't feel this
honesty. In fact I feel some hatred especially when you describe the
support of the Alawites by the Russians. May I remind you that Bashar
was elected and that he officially asked an ally for military help?
Can you explain this bias of yours? Did the Russians do something
personal to your family?
I would understand a positive response of yours, because my father is
an Armenian born in France. My grand-father, when he was about 10, in
1916, had to search for his parents in a mass of corpses slaughtered
by the Turcs on the beach of Smyrne (now Izmir, a tourist
resort). During this mass slaughter the English were looking at this
from their warships but did nothing else than take some Armenians who
could escape by swimming with them. I think that my grand-father never
found the bodies of his parents (my grand-grand parents) but he never
really spoke about these events. Thus I have a bias vs Turcs. But I am
honest about it.
So again, did part of your family suffer like this because of
Russians?
Arnould, Rueil-Malmaison near Paris, France.
Bashar al Assad is not alone. He is an Alawite. If the Alawites had
not fought back when attacked by 'moderate rebels' as our Laurent
Fabius named them, then it is highly probable that now you would cry a
river about mass slaughter of Alawites by those rebels.
And in fact that is exactly what the grand-father of Bashar wrote to
Leon Blum in 1936 while Syria was under French protectorate. The
fac-simile of the letter is here:
http://www.les-crises.fr/lettre-du-grand-pere-dassad-a-leon-blum-de-1936/
and if you follow the link at the top of this blog entry, you land on
the original english page by the Jewish Press explaining this.
So OK the Alawites are mass slaughtering Sunnis. If that had not
happened, then Sunnis would certainly mass slaughter the Alawites as
of today.
And you perfectly know this. In fact I read your blog for many years
now and I always felt that you are honest in your views. But in the
case of this Alawites vs Sunnis in Syria, I don't feel this
honesty. In fact I feel some hatred especially when you describe the
support of the Alawites by the Russians. May I remind you that Bashar
was elected and that he officially asked an ally for military help?
Can you explain this bias of yours? Did the Russians do something
personal to your family?
I would understand a positive response of yours, because my father is
an Armenian born in France. My grand-father, when he was about 10, in
1916, had to search for his parents in a mass of corpses slaughtered
by the Turcs on the beach of Smyrne (now Izmir, a tourist
resort). During this mass slaughter the English were looking at this
from their warships but did nothing else than take some Armenians who
could escape by swimming with them. I think that my grand-father never
found the bodies of his parents (my grand-grand parents) but he never
really spoke about these events. Thus I have a bias vs Turcs. But I am
honest about it.
So again, did part of your family suffer like this because of
Russians?
Arnould, Rueil-Malmaison near Paris, France.