Perpetual liars and Darayya falsehoods

After the Assad regime turned 70% of Darayya’s buildings into ruins, and after the displacement of the last 8 thousands of its remaining population, its media declared the END (in their terminology) of the so-called Syrian revolution, the end of calls for democracy and the end of those “stupid” calls for reform in Syria.

For such media, Assad is back, the one and only, the president, the decision-maker, the Mecca where every hostile head of state would come back to, repent and apologize. They would come back to him to learn how terrorism can be fought, how the sovereignty of states can be preserved, and how leaders can deal with superpowers on equal footing. More than anything else, Arabs and anybody with a cause could learn from him such unique lessons in steadfastness and resistance for regaining rights.

No one, even the ones loyal to the killer and his gangs, has any illusion about the falseness of such claims especially the issue of sovereignty. Today more than 40 countries occupy the Syrian skies and borders. And no world official is ready to touch the hand of a killer. And as for resistance and steadfastness towards Israel, only the dead do not know the fact that had it not been for Israel, the Assad regime would have evaporated years ago. 

The striking matter is actually considering the annihilation of Darayya a victory and an end to the Syrian revolution. In terms of land, Darayya constitutes less than one in a thousand of the Syrian territory, so is the percentage of its population to that of Syria’s even before the last ethnic cleansing.

Another striking matter with this Assad media approach to the issue of shoring up Assad and the attempts to rehabilitate him is when they do self-criticism. Of course they do that thinking that they are adding an element of credibility to what they say. This is shown in their confession that there is corruption, there is an iron fist policy, there is cruelty; but these are in their propaganda machines indispensable procedures in emergency cases. They say that even in developed countries, such matters happen when there is chaos. 

One wonders whether such confessions are out of arrogance, superficiality, stupidity or ignorance. By the way, those who sell such goods are Lebanese journalists writing in Lebanese media outlets. They should be excused; they must be reading Assad newspapers and watching his TV channels. 

When conscience dies, nothing lives, especially morals.