I'm doing what I can but it just seems like most Americans have turned their back on Gaza, on Syria, so many other places, and even at home. The apathy and silence are deafening. I don't understand how people just seem to not care :(
Great care in knowing who the sources are with regard to Syria. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) is considered more reliable than the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), and it can get things wrong. The new transitional government has a major task on its hands because there are non-Syrian influences that would like to destabilize it, including Israel. I see Israel as one of the greater threats to Syria right now because of the history with the Assad family it has had for over 50 years.
To the degree that the former regime of Assad inflicted so much horror on all of the different religious and ethnic groups in Syria, I am amazed at how little terror is being perpetrated (e.g., no all out killing on a scale of India-Pakistan at the time of partition). I follow Charles Lister and his Syria Weekly posts available here on Substack for regular reports. He provides only the facts he confirms and doesn't speculate. I always ask the question, who benefits from the activities/violence. The pro-Assad partisans and others who benefited from Assad's patronage are the ones who are most triggered by his loss, as in "follow the money". Al-Shar'a has created a new government that my Syrian friends are very pleased with because he has picked many of the best people who survived the Assad regime. He shows great thought and wisdom. He doesn't have an enviable task ahead of him but he seems able to do it as well as one can expect.
OK, it was meant as a hint. We teach students not to use all caps. It is like shouting. I was ok with it for the occasional post but it is getting tiresome. I just don't like seeing it in my feed. And it looks amateurish.
The amount of genocide in this world is just staggering. And we thought it could never happen here but it's starting. Who will save all these people?
All of us - one by one. We have to!
I'm doing what I can but it just seems like most Americans have turned their back on Gaza, on Syria, so many other places, and even at home. The apathy and silence are deafening. I don't understand how people just seem to not care :(
Great care in knowing who the sources are with regard to Syria. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) is considered more reliable than the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), and it can get things wrong. The new transitional government has a major task on its hands because there are non-Syrian influences that would like to destabilize it, including Israel. I see Israel as one of the greater threats to Syria right now because of the history with the Assad family it has had for over 50 years.
To the degree that the former regime of Assad inflicted so much horror on all of the different religious and ethnic groups in Syria, I am amazed at how little terror is being perpetrated (e.g., no all out killing on a scale of India-Pakistan at the time of partition). I follow Charles Lister and his Syria Weekly posts available here on Substack for regular reports. He provides only the facts he confirms and doesn't speculate. I always ask the question, who benefits from the activities/violence. The pro-Assad partisans and others who benefited from Assad's patronage are the ones who are most triggered by his loss, as in "follow the money". Al-Shar'a has created a new government that my Syrian friends are very pleased with because he has picked many of the best people who survived the Assad regime. He shows great thought and wisdom. He doesn't have an enviable task ahead of him but he seems able to do it as well as one can expect.
I find your use of all caps in your titles as jarring and repetitive.
Is that really what you took away from this? I see so many petty criticisms of these journalists. They're doing amazing work. Focus on that, please.
OK, it was meant as a hint. We teach students not to use all caps. It is like shouting. I was ok with it for the occasional post but it is getting tiresome. I just don't like seeing it in my feed. And it looks amateurish.
Really, that's what is important?