Goodbye To Secular Syria And Secular Turkey And All Secular Muslims!
Syrians will not forget U.S. stood by and watched them bleed to Death
In 1977 I chose 10 nations to be the 10 toes & 10 horns in Daniel 2 & 7
They were Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Morocco, and Sudan.
Their internal actions and changes for the last 36 years have led me to believe my choice was correct
June12, 2013
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Begin Excerpt 1 from Ynet News by the Associated Press
Police crush barricades in Istanbul square
June 11, 2012
Officers fire tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons in clashes with protestors in Taksim Square; Turkish PM Erdogan: No more tolerance, none will get away
Associated Press
Hundreds of riot police overran improvised barricades at Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Tuesday, firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons in running battles with protesters who have been occupying the area for more than a week.
The police raid, which came on the 12th day of nationwide anti-government protests, sparked clashes with groups of demonstrators well into the afternoon. Many other protesters fled into the adjacent Gezi Park, where hundreds have been camping out to stop developers from cutting down trees in the park.
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As police moved in, bulldozers began demolishing the barricades and the makeshift shelters.
A peaceful demonstration against the park’s redevelopment has morphed into a test of Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authority and a rejection of what some see as his autocratic ways.
Erdogan, however, made it clear Tuesday that he had come to the end of his patience with the protesters, whom he accused of sullying Turkey’s image abroad.
“To those who … are at Taksim and elsewhere taking part in the demonstrations with sincere feelings, I call on you to leave those places and to end these incidents, and I send you my love. But for those who want to continue with the incidents I say: `It’s over.’ As of now we have no tolerance for them,” Erdogan said, speaking in the capital, Ankara, as the raid was taking place.
“Not only will we end the actions, we will be at the necks of the provocateurs and terrorists, and no one will get away with it,” he added.
The unrest – which has spread to 78 cities across Turkey – has been inspired in part by what some see as Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian style of governing and his perceived attempts to impose a religious and conservative lifestyle in a country with secular laws.
Erdogan, a devout Muslim, says he is committed to Turkey’s secular laws and denies charges of autocracy. Yet as he defended his tough stance, he gave critics little hope of a shift in his position.
“Were we supposed to kneel before them and say please remove your pieces of rags? They can call me harsh, but this Tayyip Erdogan won’t change,” he said.
Erdogan was referring to the banners and posters that activists had hung from a building and a monument at Taksim Square, which police removed.
Erdogan spoke before a meeting with President Abdullah Gul to discuss the protests, their first since they erupted. Contrary to Erdogan, Gul has defended people’s rights to express democratic rights.
By afternoon, the clashes had extended to the very edge of Gezi Park, with acrid tear gas covering its sides, even though authorities had promised not to go into the park. Several people were rushed on stretchers to a first aid station manned by protesters before being taken to ambulances. Others were carried, overcome by tear gas.
Selin Akuner, a volunteer at a makeshift infirmary at the park, said some 300 people had sought treatment, mostly for the effects of tear gas. Nearly 50 people had been hit by rubber bullets or gas canisters, 12 had head traumas and about eight had injured legs or arms, she said. The governor’s office said one demonstrator and one police officer were hospitalized.
The Turkish Human Rights Foundation on Tuesday raised the number of deaths in more than a week of protests to four. It said a man who had died of a heart attack days ago had been exposed to “too much” tear gas. Two demonstrators and a policeman were also killed and some 5,000 protesters have been treated for injuries or the effects of tear gas. The government says 600 police officers have also been injured.
Begin Excerpt from The Observer via World News
Syria is bleeding to death and the west stands by
Apart from William Hague’s Foreign Office, the western leadership is shamefully indifferent to the abuses committed by Assad
Nick Cohen
The Observer
Saturday 8 June 2013
Sceptics about humanitarian intervention in Syria hit you with what they regard as a killer question: “Where do you stop?” If the “international community”, such as it is, tries to halt the massacres in Syria, why doesn’t it intervene in North Korea or Somalia? If the political partialities of your inquisitor lean to the pseudo-left, the whataboutery does not stop there. Guantánamo, drones, the West Bank, or whatever else is troubling them that day mean that nothing can be done for the Syrians until the lands of the west have been cleansed of their sins.
The only proper response to “where do you stop?’ is “when do you start?” The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is meant to protect against “barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind”. The conscience of mankind, however, has become remarkably forgiving of late.
What can outrage it? Not the 80,000 dead, according to the UN (a minimum of 94,000, says the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights). Not the 1.5 million the war has driven into exile in poverty-stricken camps, where families sell their daughters to dirty old men to pay for food. Not the United Nations, which last week talked of soldiers forcing children to watch the torture and murder of their parents and concluded that, while all sides were guilty of war crimes, rebel actions did not “reach the intensity and scale” of the massacres committed by government forces.
Few qualms have afflicted the conscience of dictatorial regimes. Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have practised illiberal intervention. But as for the conscience of the west, when it considers Syria at all, it finds liberal intervention unconscionable – nearly everywhere, that is, except in William Hague’s Foreign Office.
I accept that praising Hague (and by extension David Cameron) in the Observer is akin to praising the pope at an abortion rights rally. But no one reads this newspaper to have their prejudices confirmed (for what would be the point of that?). It is only from Hague’s Foreign Office and the Quai d’Orsay that you find a glimmer of an understanding of the moral and diplomatic questions the Syrian catastrophe raises.
]We should never forget that the Syrian revolution began with peaceful demonstrators asking for democracy and a decent life. It was closer to the velvet revolutions of eastern Europe than the civil war in Libya. Assad’s forces responded by mowing down, raping and castrating the protesters. Syrian intellectuals warned me and many others that, if Nato did nothing, the war would spread to Iraq, Lebanon, Israel and maybe Jordan and southern Turkey, and they were right. Radical Islamists would fill the void, they continued, and again the only comfort they have today is that they were right about that too.
Hague is impressive because you do not need to tell him what he already knows. He accepts that the world failed Syria and gave Assad the time and space to brutalise the population. He at least is not surprised by reports of massacres. They are chronicles of deaths foretold.
Although you will never get British or French foreign ministers to say so in public, they also know that there has been a calamitous failure of American leadership. Russia, Iran and Assad have taken every opportunity available. The Nixonian Obama, as indifferent to abuses of human rights abroad as he is to abuses of civil liberties at home, has shrugged and looked the other way.
It is a sign of the parochial spirit of the age that the modest proposal by Britain and France to fill the vacuum by threatening to arm rebels has been greeted with fury on the right and left. I accept that it is hard after Iraq to talk of the national interest or of Nato or the EU’s interest. But the facts of grand strategy have not changed. Even if you can suppress all humanitarian impulses, it is not in the west’s interest to have an Assad regime more beholden to Iran than ever on the shores of the Mediterranean.
More to the point, without pressure, why would Assad come to the negotiating table and demand anything less than his opponents’ abject surrender? Why would rebels come to hear the terms of their capitulation? The threat of arming of rebels who profess democratic principles would tell Assad that he could not carry on regardless.
Labour, which is meant to represent the sensible wing of the British left, will not give Hague a fair hearing. During the Bosnian war, Douglas Hurd, the Tory foreign secretary in 1993, said he would not allow arms to reach the Bosnian Muslims for fear of creating “a level killing field”. Many on the liberal left condemned him. Hurd was ignoring the distinction between aggressor and victim, we said. He could not bring himself to say that the Serbs outgunned the Muslims and were taking full advantage of their superiority to ethnically cleanse the south-east Balkans.
Now the roles are reversed. A Conservative foreign secretary does not want to sit by as the bodies of the murdered pile up.
Meanwhile, another Douglas, Douglas Alexander this time, Labour’s “progressive” foreign affairs spokesman, breezily maintains that there is no need to help rebels because Syria is already “awash” with weapons. He then contradicts himself by maintaining that if Britain and France were to arm rebels – why would they need to if Syria were already “awash” with weapons? – the rebels would not come to the negotiating table.
If Cameron were saying he was going to send British troops into another war, I would have no argument with Alexander. But he is condemning any application of diplomatic pressure. Russia has used every gambit it can think of to delay peace talks. British diplomats have told the Russian foreign ministry it can hold talks in the Kremlin and call them the “Moscow talks” or the “Russian peace process”… anything to get the process started. To no avail. Putin wants to give Assad as much time as possible. Nothing will change unless the terms of trade change first.
There is an alternative future. Faint though it may seem, there remains the possibility that the rebels will win without western aid. If so, they will be more jihadist, sectarian, brutal and anti-western when they take Damascus.
The words of my Syrian friends will then sound prophetic: “We will never forget how you forgot us.”
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