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MORE ON THE FAILURE OF GENEVA II



MORE ON THE FAILURE OF GENEVA II

VIDEOS Published on Jan 25, 2014 by Daniel Solis

Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faysal Al-Miqdad makes statements to the press at the Syria peace talks in Geneva on Friday, January 26, 2014.


Geneva 2 - Faysal Al-Miqdad (pt. 1)

Geneva 2 - Faysal Al-Miqdad (pt. 2)


CHECK ALSO THESE  2 ARTICLES:  [that comes in brackets is my comment]

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TOP THREE MEDIA LIES ABOUT SYRIAN PEACE TALKS: The US-led “Regime Change” Goal Continues. By Shamus Cooke / The 4th Media News | Saturday, January 25, 2014 http://www.4thmedia.org/2014/01/25/top-three-media-lies-about-the-syrian-peace-talks/  [here only extracts]

The lies were necessary to give the Obama administration an upper hand in the peace negotiations, which are not being used to pursue peace, but instead, to accomplish the Obama administration’s longstanding  GOAL of SYRIAN REGIME CHANGE. Here are the top three Western media lies about the Syrian peace talks. 

[The US failed miserable during this theatrical show  known as Geneva II. And  failed also in conditioning the invitation of Iran to Geneva II if they support their goal of “regime change”.  Iran didn’t  accept it,  nor  come to Geneva II;  and Kerry threaten them in very irresponsible way. Kerry is a loser…  I suggest to his bosses: Get for this ..... another circus!! .  Now, let’s go to the lies]


1ST LIE:  THE REMOVAL OF SYRIAN BASHAR AL-ASSAD WAS AN AGREED UPON “PRECONDITION” FOR THE GENEVA II PEACE TALKS.  

 In fact, the Geneva II communiqué includes this crucial statement:

“[a transition government] could include members of the present [Syrian] government and the opposition and other groups and shall be formed on the basis of mutual consent.” Nowhere does it specifically mention or imply President Assad would have to leave power first. The Los Angeles Times recently exposed this lie:

“[John] Kerry regularly cites the “Geneva communiqué,” a kind of peace road map hammered out in June 2012 during a United Nations-organized summit. But this document does not explicitly call for Assad’s ouster.”

2ND LIE:  THE U.S.-BACKED REBEL MILITIAS ARE “MODERATE” ISLAMIC GROUPS.  

The media narrative paints the U.S.-backed “good” rebels fighting both the Syrian government and the “bad” al-Qaeda linked rebels. But the “good” rebels in the U.S.-backed Islamic Front share the same vision for Syria’s future as the al-Qaeda rebels: a fundamentalist version of Sharia law, where women live in virtual house arrest and where religious minorities are second class citizens (non-Sunni Muslims would simply be butchered, as they are on a regular basis in Syria, which is again minimized or ignored in the Western media.)

The “moderate rebel” and top leader in the most powerful militia, Ahrar al Sham, within the Islamic Front declared Ahrar al Sham to be the “real” representative of al-Qaeda in Syria. The Western media also continues to ignore the fact that the “moderate” U.S.-backed Islamic Front issued a joint statement that aligned itself to the extremist views of Ahrar al Sham, the “real” al-Qaeda.

3RD LIE: NEW EVIDENCE OF SYRIAN GOVERNMENT “INDUSTRIAL SCALE” TORTURE 

The Western media recently blasted the “breaking news” of brand new evidence showing massive “Nazi-like” torture and murder by the Syrian government, released at the beginning of the Syrian peace talks. The lie here is that the Western media promoted the inexistent “evidence” as being unquestionably true. The fact is that such story doesn’t reach first base when it comes to evidence-based journalism.  

The evidence of the “NAZI-like” atrocities was written in a study paid for by the government of Qatar, which has long funneled cash, guns, and Jihadis to Syria in aid of the anti-government rebels.

The same biased dynamic occurred in relation to the infamous chemical weapons attack, where no real evidence was provided. But when Pulitzer prizewinning journalist Seymour Hersh reported that the Obama administration lied about the rebels not having the capacity to perform such an attack, the Western media simply ignored the legend of journalism. The wrench in the propaganda machine was simply dislodged.

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KERRY’S HYPOCRISY ON SYRIA  http://www.4thmedia.org/2014/01/25/kerrys-hypocrisy-on-syria/  Robert Dreyfuss | Saturday, January 25, 2014,


[THIS IS  A SMALL EXTRACT, got to the full article in the web above]

As Kerry said in a press conference following the first day of talks, it’ll be a long, hard road. “No one should doubt, no one’s trying to gloss this over, that this is the beginning of a tough and complicated process,” he said. “It’s no secret that getting to where we are now has, as I said, been difficult, and peace and stability will not arrive overnight. But it’s important that this process is now in place. It is important that the government and the opposition will sit down over these next days. And we don’t expect a sudden breakthrough.”

Part of the reason no breakthrough is imminent is that the conflict between the Syrian government and the rebels is not the only one going on. Parallel to that is the conflict between the United States, which implacably demands that the government of Bashar al-Assad be ousted, is the voice of  Russia, which says that there is no reason at the outset to exclude the possibility that Assad and his cohort would remain in place. 

On top of that, there is a regional conflict between Iran, which supports Assad, and Saudi Arabia, the chief backer of the opposition. If the United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran can all agree on the outlines of a new Syrian political balance, then there’s a chance that the peace talks can succeed. Unfortunately, in a shortsighted and self-defeating step, the United States and the Syrian rebels insisted that an invitation to Iran from the UN’s Ban be rescinded, and it was.

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