About a month ago, I wrote an article headlined: Thugs in the Gulf States, in which I called on the Gulf countries that have been adopting positions in support of the Syrian people since the eruption of the revolution, to be cautious about the presence of thugs in the Gulf capitals, playing hypocritical roles to defend criminal regimes and reaching the point of disregarding the massacres committed by Al-Assad's thugs. These opportunists, who live in Gulf states, have adopted shameful stands toward the revolution, options and legitimate demands of their people. But their roles do not stop at this level, as they are writing intelligence reports against their compatriots who are supporting the revolution, so that their families in the Syrian cities are punished. The thugs in the Gulf are using lies and hypocrisy when confronted with the reality of their positions, justifying this by saying they do not care “whether the regime goes or stays. What is important is Syria." This reflects a clear maneuver on their part, as though the ones being killed with the weapons of the regime's thugs are not Syrians and were not carried in Syrian women's wombs. Still, what is noticeable is the “Lebanese media thugs" phenomenon. This point did not get enough attention, knowing that the latter could be described as senior thugs, if not the scholars of thuggery, as they are writing and talking on Lebanese and Arab media outlets, accusing any Arab country condemning the collective massacres and the killing of innocent children of being a pro-Zionist conspirator, and describing the protesters of being terrorists and saboteurs working for a foreign state! Ever since the eruption of the revolution, the latter thugs who were falsely dubbed journalists have been spreading rumors and promoting lies serving the regime, during each and every interview on Syrian or Iranian satellite channels. They have thus been issuing lies, disregarding the reality of what is happening on the ground and turning a blind eye to all the massacres, as though what was being spilled was water, and not the blood of innocent civilians. If you want to learn about these mouthpieces defending Bashar al-Assad's regime in media outlets other than those of Al-Assad's thugs, all you have to do is browse the Lebanese satellite channels and monitor the analyses of a group of Lebanese officials, journalists and deputies from outside Hezbollah, i.e. the active Syrian arm on the entire scene, and not just in Lebanon. Indeed, the mission of the latter since the eruption of the Syrian revolution has been the defense of a criminal regime killing its own people, slaughtering its children and setting up explosions and assassinations, but also the defense of the crimes of the thugs, while believing that Al-Assad's regime will stay in power forever. They think that the Arab populations are still neutralized and should accept their thuggery, lies, shameful acts, flaws, yelling and the crimes featured in their rhetoric, analyses and fabrications! A few months ago, I participated in the show Ma Wara' al-Khabar (Behind the News) hosted by the exceptional Lebanese journalist Ghada Awaiss on Al-Jazeera channel. The interview lasted for about an hour, and the guests included a Lebanese journalist from Beirut whose profession seemed to be “media thuggery." Indeed, he spent the entire show defending the regime's crimes without any shame, questioning the facts, images, tales and numbers and disregarding the scenes of murder as though refraining from looking at limbs and the shedding of innocent blood. Moreover, his only concern seemed to be the stay of a regime practicing the worst crimes against humanity, to the point where I felt that this thug was an employee at the Baath court seeking a new position in Lebanon, especially as he tried to clean his slate at the expense of the death of innocent people and the wasting of human dignity. Lebanon's government has been adopting abstinence at the level of the Syrian crisis during the Arab and international meetings, whether at the United Nations, the Security Council, or the Arab League. In fact, this is not abstinence as much as it is concern – from Suleiman and Mikati – vis-à-vis the possible response of the beast Hezbollah, which falls in the context of fear and betrayal practiced against humanity and the innocent. How can someone see blood being shed next to him on a daily basis and nod, as though not smelling the stench of the crime and unaware of the size of the human disaster that is sweeping everything on its way. There is no doubt that just like Lebanon has thugs, opportunists and hypocrites among its journalists, it also boasts honest, humanitarian and influential journalists and ones in the gray area, trying not to implicate themselves and repeating the record of the Syrian people's rights, thus showing vagueness in their opinions and writing about the ongoing events in Syria without tackling the depth of the popular wound. Hence, their role is limited to informing us about the necessity of seeing the discontinuation of violence for Syria's sake, in order to avoid sectarian war and the undermining of the regional equation, without condemning its actions and crimes. By doing so, they are abstaining from presenting a free opinion, in order to maintain a “way back" and protect themselves in case the regime were to stay in place based on their gray and not their humanitarian calculations. This does not come as a surprise, especially since the talk is about Lebanon and its status, as well as the status of its media that is biased to the sect and its journalists who are biased in favor of the butcher, and in light of the wish of its government to uphold its abstinence to remain close to the chair, even while it is the hostage of Hezbollah and affiliated with Iran. A Lebanese friend of mine said in response to my inquiries: Why are you surprised that the Lebanese journalists include the subdued, the opportunists and the defenders of demons, just as they include the honest, the patriotic and the nationalistic, seeing how former Information Minister Michel Samaha was caught planning explosions and political assassinations in his country and through agents to save Al-Assad's regime? In short, this conveys the fear of thugs from the thugs [...]. [email protected] twitter | @JameelTheyabi
