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Saudi led Arabs should let
Syrian peace talks succeed!
-DR. ABDUL RUFF COLACHAL
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Enemies of Islam, now including both the West and Gulf states,
continue to target Muslims can celebrate their temporary gains against Islam
and Muslims as more and more Muslims get killed across the globe. Syria is
latest battle field to fell Muslims on both side of the political divide.
Already over 130,000 people have been slaughtered in Syria in nearly
three years and at least 700 people have been killed since the fresh fighting
started January 3.
President Assad's forces reportedly make steady gains on the
ground amid deadly internal fighting in the rebellion pitting the once-dominant
Islamists against resurgent fighters from groups more palatable to the West.
Upon successfully engineered Islamophobia by USA-Russia terror
twins first through Soviet occupation of Afghanistan for nearly a decade, and
then Sept-11 very skillfully perpetrated by USA to attack Afghanistan to obtain
legitimacy for the CIA’s plan for war on Islam, killing millions of Muslims
Unfortunately, many Muslim nations, including Arab nations where
Islam took birth, also fully engaged in and partially financed with
petrodollars the NATO war on Islam.
Now Arabs are shocked and annoyed because the NATO is still
reluctant to attack Shiite Iran and Sunni Syria so that Islam could become a
religion supplying Muslims slaves to NATO rouges.
Arab nations and Israel continue to pressure the White House to go
for the kill in Iran and Syria. .
The so-called "Geneva II" talks due to start on January
22 have been organised in an attempt to revive the idea of moving to a
transitional government including figures from the current regime and the
opposition.
After trying to entice Syrian rebels into Geneva peace talks by
vowing to exclude the Moscow-backed Damascus regime from any future transition
government, the top US diplomat John Kerry meets his Russian counterpart Sergei
Lavrov in Switzerland, Kerry said he was "confident" the
rebel-opposition would attend the upcoming talks.
Earlier, Kerry also had a meeting in Paris of the so-called
“Friends of Syria" group of mainly Western and Gulf countries opposed to
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He met National Coalition leader Ahmad Jarba,
whose grouping includes the main opposition movement in exile, and was due to
hold further talks with him on 13th January. "I am
confident that he and others will be in Geneva.," he said. Jarba was
equally upbeat, saying a "milestone" had been passed in diplomatic
efforts to end the conflict, which is believed to have killed at least 130,000
people in nearly three years.
In a statement, the 11-nation joint West-Arab “Friends of Syria”
team said that once a transitional government is established Assad and his
close associates with blood on their hands will have no role in Syria.
" I would welcome any initiative Iran wishes to take, if they
do, to try to provide a resolution to the crisis of Syria," Kerry said.
"The first thing they can do is accept the Geneva communiqué," he
said, in reference to a first round of talks held in June 2012 which called for
a transitional government recognising the opposition.
The
“friends” try to somehow bring in Assad for talks to claim “victory”. Whether
that could involve Assad himself is an issue that has generally been fudged in
the past and may have the potential to capsize the negotiations: Assad's aides
have repeatedly said they have no intention of coming to Switzerland to hand
over power.
This issue is likely to feature prominently in Kerry's discussions
with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar
Brahimi. Another key point in their talks will be whether Iran, which has been
instrumental in propping up Assad, should have any role in peace talks further
down the line. Meanwhile, Iran announced through an official television network
that its foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, would travel to Damascus in
the next few days. "If we receive an invitation without any preconditions,
Zarif said in Beirut.
Jarba has previously called for Assad to stop using heavy weapons,
lift sieges on a number of opposition-held areas and allow the opening of
humanitarian corridors as a show of good faith ahead of any talks. There has
been no sign of progress on those issues but, with little prospect of securing
a military victory, the opposition has few alternatives to negotiations.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said "This is going to put the
Assad regime on the spot if everybody turns up at those peace talks".
Kerry would not be drawn on what would happen if Assad pulled out of the talks.
"With respect to the Assad regime we have been told from day one they
allegedly are prepared to negotiate," he said.
The
balance of power appears to have tipped in Assad's favour over as deadly
clashes have erupted between the mainstream opposition and an Al Qaeda-linked
group, the US controlled Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), with
which they were previously allied.
It is high time, the Arab leaders gave up
anti-Shiite stand and desire to target them forthwith so that peace could be
given a fair chance in Mideast which is reeling under the fiercest conflict
around Palestine territories
Arab
nations should consider drop all their wicked plans against Islam by seeking to
enjoy tasting Shiite blood.
Arab
world while discarding cheap anti-Islamic thoughts, must also reconsider their
policy for Western essentially anti-Islamic nations.
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