Amnesty International is demanding investigation of “reports of hundreds of civilians, mostly from the Alawite minority, being killed in Syria’s coastal areas.” The Cradle reports: “Israel bombs south Syria as war chief repeats threat of ‘indefinite occupation’ from Mount Hermon.”
CHARLES GLASS @charlesmglass
Available for a limited number of interviews, Glass‘s most recent book is the forthcoming Syria: Civil War to Holy War?
He said today: “With so many external actors, whose interests conflict more than coincide, and internal antagonists hostile to one another — Sunnis, Druze, Alawites, Ismailis, Arab and Armenian Christians, fundamentalists, and secularists — the disappearance of the Assad regime may presage not so much the end of the war as the beginning of a new one.”
His new book examines how euphoria at the fall of Assad has been “tempered by fear for the future. The victorious insurgents were supported by outside powers and had a track record of brutality comparable to Assad’s in addition to religious fanaticism. Syrians — whose fragile, cosmopolitan mosaic has been repeatedly shattered by foreign-backed sectarians — faced rule by an avowedly Islamist regime that pledged to break with its past and show tolerance to all religious communities.”
See prior accuracy.org news release: “Syria’s Future: Democracy or Subservience to U.S., Turkey and Israel?”
WikiLeaks notes that “Hillary Clinton email 23 July 2012: Israeli intelligence says collapse of Syria will spark a Sunni-Shiite war that will benefit Israel.”