Een vriendin van me, de schrijfster Esseline van der Sande die vloeiend Arabisch spreekt, zit op dit moment in het Midden Oosten. Ze schrijft:
Umm Ali
The ruffle of war is resonating louder and louder through the whole Middle-East rippling out on the globe with the war planes already landing on a Cypriot base. Like many I find myself surfing on the Jordanian internet from one to the other link in an attempt lay the pieces of this worldwide jigsaw puzzle called Syria.
What is really going on? Who is benefiting from the chaos? It feels somehow that we’re letting ourselves move into the direction of a third World War. Is this really the only way to go? With a dualistic mind were are pulled into right or wrong scenarios. Do we have to choose sides? USA versus Russia? Saoudi-Arabia, Qatar versus Iran? Assad versus opposition versus rebels? Looking at the mainstream media we clearly are fed with information that only can lead to one conclusion that an invasion in Syria would be the right thing to do. There are other sources to read too revealing the background of ‘Another Western war crime in the making.’ It seems like we didn’t learn anything from the war in Iraq.
A lot of people here in Jordan seem to shut off being warn and weary with all that is going on in the region for the past years. Though when I speak to a Lebanese he says: ‘You have to live through twenty long years of civil war to understand how important it is and of great moral support if a country speak up or even better stands up to take action. Otherwise it is: Kalaam fadi, empty talk. It is important that the US finally is drawing a line into the sand.’ He explains the situation in Syria as: ‘You cannot keep accepting that someone lives for 95% in your house while you are the owner.’
Still a growing number of people have stopped to listen to the news concentrating on their inner circle of life. In other words: ‘Be the peace you want to see in the world.’ It seems wise to remain calm meanwhile we still have to keep practicing the journalistic laws of hearing both sides and asking questions.
Still a growing number of people have stopped to listen to the news concentrating on their inner circle of life. In other words: ‘Be the peace you want to see in the world.’ It seems wise to remain calm meanwhile we still have to keep practicing the journalistic laws of hearing both sides and asking questions.
Although devastating it is still not clear who used the chemical weapons in Syria. This is a chance for Europe to finally grow up to take its own stance in this media war before dragging ourselves into a war with our neighbors. Is this really what we want? The US and the UK are not physically close to the Middle-East. Europe is connected in so many ways geographically, culturally, historically and politically. Since we have actively drawn the dividing lines of the Bilad-as-Sham in the Sykes-Picot Treaty 1916 we are now obediently following the US like a herd of sheep jumping of a cliff.
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