Syria Burning: ISIS and the Death of the Arab Spring by Charles Glass
By Charles Glass
Due to the fact its graduation within the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civil conflict has claimed in far more than 200,000 lives, with an anticipated eight million Syrians, greater than a 3rd of the country’s inhabitants, compelled to escape their houses. A stalemate now exists within the nation with the govt. of Bashar al-Assad holding its grip on lots of the towns within the west, whereas huge swathes of the geographical region within the north and east are below the regulate of the Islamic fundamentalist teams ISIS and the Nusra entrance. The Caliphate introduced by way of ISIS in the summertime of 2014 occupies a few 35% of the rustic, in addition to gigantic territory around the border in Iraq.
The nuances of this clash have by no means been well-understood within the West, least of all, it sort of feels, by means of governments within the US and Europe, who, looking forward to Assad’s surprising departure, made it a of any negotiated payment. the implications of that miscalculation, Charles Glass contends during this illuminating and concise survey, have contributed tremendously to the unfolding catastrophe that we witness today.
Glass has mentioned greatly from the center East, and travelled often in Syria, over a number of a long time. the following he melds jointly reportage, research and heritage to supply an available review of the origins and diversifications defining the clash, situating it basically within the total challenge of the zone. His voice, dependent and concise, humane and richly-informed, is an important antidote to the sloganizing that shapes quite a bit remark, and coverage, about the civil war.
Foreword by means of Patrick Cockburn
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Our president believes he is an inspired person, with some special relationship with God. If he is i nspired, nothing is wrong. ” Many of the civilian members of the Baath Party, whose founders claimed to believe in secularism and democracy, deserted its ranks when the party took power in 1963. They rejected the militarization of the party, which kept power not through elections but A rab S pring , S yrian winter 19 by force of the arms of its members within the army. Among them was the father of Roulla Rouqbi, whom I met in 2012 at the hotel she manages in Damascus.
If a single image sums up the war in Syria, my friend’s house does the job. Neither the troops nor the insurgents gave a damn about him or his house, and it’s not clear how much either cares about the country. Syria has marked the fourth anniversary of a war that began with peaceful demonstrations. In mid-March 2011, the people of Dera’a protested against the torture of children arrested for writing a nti-government graffiti. Their demands were not revolutionary: dismissal of Dera’a’s governor and the trial of those responsible for torture.
On the one side, Russia and Iran have supplied weapons, ammunition and diplomatic cover for President Assad. On the other, there is the Group of Friends of the Syrian People, a collection of 107 countries and organizations modeled on the Friends of Libya who cheer-led NATO’s air war in that country. Where, you might ask, have these friends been hiding for the past 50 years? What were they doing in 1967 when Israel seized the Syrian Golan? What support did they send to more than 100,000 Syrian citizens when Israel demolished their villages and expelled them from their homes?