© syria.liveuamap.comSyria today, August 13.
Qatar continues to use its vast stores of money to sponsor terrorism in Syria. It is, therefore, hard to understand why Iran has not been able to convince the derelicts in Doha to stop their insane and self-destructive policies aimed at "regime change" in Damascus. With the Saudis leading a coalition of Gulf countries-cum-Egypt that aims to end Qatari connivance with Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood,
one would think that Iran could exploit Qatar's isolation to bring it around to a more rational pattern of behavior.
Turkey's rapid move to assist Qatar paralleled Iran's maneuver to frustrate Saudi Arabia, its chief nemesis in the Gulf. Turkey is led by a card-carrying MB member, Erdoghan, who jealously protects the interests of Sunni fundamentalist anti-primogeniture movements like the MB, a position not terribly unlike Iran's anti-royalist attitudes. But, that's where all the similarities end.
Iran is committed to a full liberation of Palestine while the Turks are lingering in a world of Zionist appeasement. Iran is working toward building a Shi'ite Crescent across the northern Near East while Turkey is planning to annex whole parts of it in an effort to interdict Kurkish plans for a new republic on its southern border.
This all makes for great subject matter for rap sessions in college on the weekends. However, it also represents an intractable problem for those trying to end the carnage in both Syria and Iraq.
Comment: Despite the blockade, Qatar hasn't given up on its anti-Syrian, anti-Assad agenda. And to top it all off, their propaganda outlet Al Jazeera just linked (socialist) Assad to the American far-right. Say what? From the
Duran:
The following is a quote from an Al-Jazeera piece on the man whose car was used in the attack on marches in Virginia.
"Others (other far-right Americans) showed support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who alt-rightists and other far-right activists have publicly stood with in recent months".
There are several grave problems with this statement. Most so-called far-right and alt-right groups online are a combination of parody, semi-intelligible and often random rage, support for the iconography of Adolf Hitler and extreme hatred of anything that actually is or falsely assumed to be Islamic or Arabic in nature. This is hardly a place where the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party would find support and in fact it does not find support in such places.
Of course many people in the United States and throughout the world support the Arab Socialist Ba'ath party of the Syrian President. They support it because they generally prefer a secular tolerant vision for the Middle East to the extremist Wahhabi Sunni dictatorship that the terrorists fighting the Syrian government seek to establish.
People who support a secular, tolerant Syria are not far right, they are best called 'moderates'. Ironically, the Wahhabi extremists were called 'moderate rebels' by the US, Turkish, Qatari and Saudi media throughout the duration of the conflict. A more accurate term for such people might be the far-right of the Middle East or perhaps better yet 'alt-Islam'.
Comment: Despite the blockade, Qatar hasn't given up on its anti-Syrian, anti-Assad agenda. And to top it all off, their propaganda outlet Al Jazeera just linked (socialist) Assad to the American far-right. Say what? From the Duran: