Assad Continues Deflecting Attention From Barbaric Slaughter of Syrian Opposition
Once again, Bashar al-Assad has been caught cribbing pages from his father’s Hama rules playbook. He’s busy having his security forces murdering Syrian opposition throughout the country, shut down the Internet, limited media access, and has also engaged in using Israel as a diversion for the world media. Indeed, the latest border incidents along the Golan would not have happened unless the Syrian regime allowed it to happen. At a time when Assad is shutting out the media on ongoing operations to crack down on the opposition, his state-run media was broadcasting the Golan skirmishes and reporting on Israel.
The US has come out and indicated that Syria’s Assad was behind the most recent border infiltration attempt across the Golan frontier this weekend.
“This is clearly an attempt by Syria to incite these kinds of protests,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner said, saying Damascus hoped to divert attention from its own internal problems. “Israel, like any sovereign nation, has a right to defend itself.”Assad murders his own citizens and the media shrugs its collective shoulders; Israel defends its borders against unlawful incursions fomented by Assad and the resulting casualties are Israel’s fault in the eyes of the media that writes headlines that suggest Israel was somehow at fault?
No, Israel is the relief valve for despots and dictators in the Middle East, and Assad is playing the Israel-card for maximum effect - namely to stay in power.