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1. They Planned -Ծրագրեցի՜ն and They Armed –զինեցին

   They planned -Ծրագրեցի՜ն-, they instigated -հրահրեցի՜ն, they financed – ֆինանսաւորեցին, they supplied-մատակարարեցին, and they armed – զինեցին.

   Such expressions are heard in every day conversation among friends from Middle East. To me they convey a cavalier attitude and imply that the mostly Arab youth in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Syria and their leadership do not know what is better for their countries and are no more than at best misguided intellects at worst puppets and agent provocateurs in the hands of foreign interests and the Israeli intelligence.

   The situation in the Arab world, including Syria is far from such a simplistic assumption pitting differing visions within the country against each other. Their resolutions, if such a word can be used, will be long in the coming, unfortunately at the cost of many lives, loss of wealth. As to the Armenians in Syria, they were there before the Assad family came to power, and were no less prosperous and vibrant and there is no reason why they should not continue on living there as law abiding citizens. Naturally, they also will bear the brunt of the civil unrest along with the rest of the Syrians.

   Hopefully the bloody turmoil in the Arab World will render the countries where the rule of the law, not a person yielding the power, will assure personal liberties and safeguard the safety and the dignity of its citizens of any faith, creed and ethnicity.
    

   1. The sublime sounding “Arab Spring”

      Dear Garabed,

      I am afraid people in the West are too much carried away with the sublime sounding "Arab Spring". While Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain uprisings were primarily based on popular demands against oppressive regimes, the same cannot be said about Lybia and Syria. Of course in the latter two cases popular grievances were part of the movements, but not the driving force behind regime change.

      In Egypt the west is resisting true democratic change through the military.

      Nobody is talking about Bahrain and how the resistance is silenced through Saudi Arabia with the help of the west.

      Lybia turned out to be pure and simple invasion without occupation.

      Syria was and remains a major target for a variety of reasons that I suppose all of us are aware of.

      I would bring to the readers’ attention  "Iran and the Strategic Encirclement of Syria and Lebanon" piece that appeared on Information Clearing House. It’s worth reading to have another view about the events that have unfolded lately in the area. I’ll quote only one paragraph as an illustration.

      "The 1996 Israeli document, which included prominent U.S. policy figures as authors, calls for “rolling back Syria” in 2000 or afterward. The roadmap outlines pushing the Syrians out of Lebanon, diverting the attention of Damascus by using an anti-Syrian opposition in Lebanon, and then destabilizing Syria with the help of both Jordan and Turkey. This has all respectively occurred from 2005 to 2011. This is also why the anti-Syrian March 14 Alliance and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) were created in Lebanon."

2. Syrian Armenians

   Garabed,

   I disagree with your optimistic view that Syrian Armenians will continue to live in peace if the Assad regime is pulled down.

   Islamist groups have made frequent threats that once they oust Assad, their next targets will be the Alewites and the Christians.

   In appreciation of the relative protection the Assad regime has provided Syrian Christian minorities, the heads of all the Churches there have publicly stated their support of the government.

   Perhaps you are unaware of the virulent strain of Islamism which has in recent months caused the death of Christians in Iraq, Egypt and on Christmas Day in Nigeria.

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