How shameful is the Arab weakness vis-à-vis what is happening in Syria and how sad is the slowness of the Arab League, the frailty of its bones and the feebleness of its decisions. It is a League walking heavily as though affected with an earthly illness and proceeding toward the grave and political poverty. What is happening? Why this shameful “denial” of an Arab population taking to the streets with peaceful slogans and bare chests, holding nothing in its hands except for banners demanding reform, freedom and dignity but is being met with the bullets of the thugs? We are in the presence of motionless Arab countries and a rigid Arab League, as well as governments that are watching the massacres taking place in Syria, biting their tongues and disregarding the methodic sanguinary operations. The Arab populations are issuing calls and demands while the governments are only caring timidly and acting timidly, as though fearful about Bashar's “earthquake” and threats, and as though they want him and his gang of killers to tear the Syrian people apart and slit their veins. Bashar's thugs and his regime's oppressive security apparatuses are proceeding with their daily tasks and are killing the Syrian people in complete disregard to the international community, after they became certain that their acts are being overlooked and their crimes being ignored. They are killing children and women, without any exceptions. Murders, insults and arrests are besieging the Syrian cities without any differentiation, while even doctors are not spared from the pursuits, and are being prevented from tending to the injured and wounded. So far, and since the eruption of the revolution in March, more than 3,000 people have died, including 187 children. This was mentioned by the statement of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. What crime is that which the world can see but continues to disregard in the face of the might of Al-Assad's regime, its allies, aides and mouthpieces? The Arab citizens are growing sick and tired of the governments' “silence” and the polite statements being issued to numb the “revolution” on the street in the hope of seeing the feeling dissipating and the breath held until the people die of spite and frustration. It is shameful that the Arab countries and Nabil al-Arabi's frail League cannot exercise clear pressures on the Syrian regime, expose its practices, hold it responsible before the international community for the killings, the displacement, the terrorization and the division of the country, and publicly call for fast intervention to protect the oppressed people. What is also confusing is the Security Council's similar state and its inability to adopt an international resolution that would put an end to the killing and torture to which the Syrian people are being subjected before the entire world. Are the Arab and Western worlds not the ones that rose to support the Libyans and mobilized their aircrafts and warships to protect them and oust Gaddafi and his gang? Why do they not move again to support the Syrians and “break the neck” of Al-Assad's regime and thugs? Following the last visit of the Arab League delegation to Damascus and its meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, demonstrations were staged at night in Daraa, Homs, Rif Damascus, Deir ez-Zor, Hama and Edlib to oppose the idea of dialogue with the “murderous” Syrian regime. The demonstrators carried banners addressing the Arab League and saying: “How do you want us to engage in dialogue with the killers of women and children? Do all the norms not call for the trying in court of the criminals instead of engaging in dialogue with them?” Other banners added: “Russia is granting Bashar international protection, Iran is offering him weapons and the Arabs are giving him time.” Today, the Syrians know that the regime is sick, depressed and restless and that some of its leaders have started collapsing and thinking of dissent. Moreover, the Syrian security's weakness has started to show, at a time when it is trying to arrest all those talking about the imminent fall of the regime, even if based on mere predictions. The Syrians are thus circulating an anecdote about one of Houran's fortunetellers. When asked about the date of the fall of Bashar's regime, she said it was during lemon season, i.e. at the beginning of January. And when this tale reached the security services, they arrested the old woman. I believe that Houran's old fortuneteller is more courageous that the politicians of the idle Arab League, which moved only to serve the Syrian regime and grant him more time to proceed with the killing and intimidation. The Baath regime has gone too far in its killings, oppression, lynching and disregarding of all the international calls. As for the latest action undertaken by the League, it merely aimed at removing the blame, after Iranian President Ahmadinejad (Syria's ally) was forced to condemn the massacres during the interview conducted with him by the Arabic-speaking CNN channel last week. This placed the League in the face of an unwanted step. Some are saying that the world does not wish to see democratic change in Syria, considering that its nature is governed by ethnic, sectarian and ideological complications which might prevent stability in it or render it a fertile environment for the expansion of terrorism and the rowdy resistance movements as it was seen in Iraq. However, this is a lame excuse and a logic belittling the Arab mind and trying to outsmart it. Moreover, it constitutes the same broken record being reiterated by some Arab and Western governments in regard to the understanding of the demands of the Syrian people. But this understanding is not prompting them to act, which proves there is no truthful intention to support the Syrian people, spare them from the killing and protect them from the regime's massacres. And even if this “blind” vision were true, will the Syrian people be left alone and unarmed to face death, displacement and torture day and night at the hands of a regime that does not have mercy, in order for them to accept it by force and surrender to its brutality? I believe that the Syrians should overcome the advice of the “sellers of illusions,” eulogize the Arab League, call for protection from the international community and ask the human rights organizations to interfere and protect the people from the practices of Bashar's thugs and aides.
