Arab League votes to suspend Syria----Discussion

[muhammadmohsinali]

The Arab League has voted to suspend Syria in four days and warned it could face sanctions if it does not end its bloody crackdown against anti-government protesters.

Qatar Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim said 18 countries agreed to the suspension, which will take effect on Wednesday. Syria, Lebanon and Yemen voted against it, and Iraq abstained.

The Arab League also will introduce political and economic sanctions against Syria, he said.

Violence has continued unabated since Syria agreed on November 2 to an Arab-brokered peace deal that called for Syria to halt violence against protesters, pull tanks and armoured vehicles out of cities, release political prisoners and allow journalists and rights groups into the country.

"Syria is a dear country for all of us and it pains us to make this decision," bin Jassim said. "We hope there will be a brave move from Syria to stop the violence and begin a real dialogue toward real reform."

In a nod to concerns that the decision could pave the way to international intervention as occurred in Libya, bin Jassim stressed that "no one is talking about a no-fly zone, people are trying to mix up the cases. None of us is talking about this kind of decision."

Dozens of protesters outside had rallied for the decision, carrying placards reading "Freedom for the Syrian people" and "Arab leaders are garbage" as they chanted for the removal of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

They were joined by demonstrators from Yemen, protesting violent government crackdowns in their country.

The decision comes as November is shaping up to be the bloodiest month yet in Syria's eight-month-old uprising. More than 250 Syrian civilians have been killed in the past 11 days as the regime besieges the rebellious city of Homs.

The UN estimates some 3,500 people have been killed in the Syrian crackdown since the uprising began, inspired by the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia.

[Lost]

A well appreciated move by arab league.I truly feel that its the dilemma of muslim world that most of the govts are fighting and killing its own people just to extend their rule.no government can come victoriuos by fighting against its own people.

This move by Arab League will bring positive outcomes for arab as well as muslim world and it will help stop any EU or US action out of screen.Also , it has given an impression of trust over league itself.

[The Lojic]

Syria has declared that it has begun a systematic pull out of its military forces from urban areas to end the month's long crisis in the country.


Press TV has conducted an interview with Yahya al-Aridi, Professor at Damascus University, to share his opinion on this issue.

Following is the text of the interview:

Press TV: I want to ask you what do you know that the Syrian government has done so far to try and make this plan work now? If unsuccessful, what do you think might happen then?

Al-Aridi: Actually mistaken any person or any party who thinks that the Arab League would be capable of solving any problem because historically this has been council of regimes rather than representative of the Arab people. There was an initiative and to everybody surprise the Syrian regime has responded positively to that initiative that is at least verbally and the opposition actually said no, because we know that this regime is unreliable, we would not accept such initiative because of the continuity of what is happening on the ground.

Now the Arab League took note of what is happening and decided to meet on Saturday to just initiate or propose something new possibly to withdraw totally from interfering, relay the whole issue to the Security Council which is going to be a very tragic matter.

Press TV: So what you are saying is that on Saturday we are going to see some steps where the plans seems to have failed and that they might revaluate their steps by just keeping away and sending it to the UN Security Council? Is that what you are saying?

Al-Aridi: Well there are two possibilities. One thing is to dispatch specific observers to go into the streets of Syria and observe what is happening and who is initiating the trouble. Or they would say well, we proposed something and you didn't accept and we withdraw our hands from this and we'll relay it to the UN Security Council. In such a case the Security Council is the one that is going to take a sudden initiative towards Syria and Article 7 or something like that, which is really very tragic. Ultimately the Syrian people are the main losers of this whole thing.

Press TV: Do you think that all Arab League members are with the plan or do we have some kind of different perspectives when it comes specially to the people, to the leaders of Saudi Arabia and Qatar maybe?

Al-Aridi: Well, actually there is no consensus in the Arab League even in this committee which was formed to develop this initiative towards Syria. You would find a sort of controversial matters, lack of knowledge about what is really going on the ground and at the same time there are certain political strings attached with the interests and different relations between Arab countries and another and between these countries and Syria in general.

Now an issue related to wishful thinking and reality; wishful thinking probably on the part of certain people who are not that fond of Syria says that things are reiterating in a very tragic way. Well this is partially true, but there is reality out there. If we go back to the basic treatment of what has happened in Syria so far, the treatment was not quite as expected for the majority of Syrians. This forceful hand which was having the upper word, the upper hand on what is happening has led to terrible way of managing the whole matter even the president confessed that there was certain mistakes in the treatment of the issue.

Your guest from London said one very important point. I don't think that the United States is manipulating the issue there. No one would believe that the United States would not manipulate any event or any issue happening in the world. Look at that statement by the State Department spokesman, Mrs. Nolan. She said that do not believe this regime, do not turn in your stuff or whatever…

Now all these things are leading to more confusion of the whole matter. Nobody is being straight forward, truthful to come to the rescue of Syrian people even the regime itself. The regime is not fond of killing people but things developed in such a way to make things move minute after minute into something quite tragic. But this Arab league coming to the rescue of Syria will not lead anywhere actually. It would be used as a means to develop something terrible towards Syria and we'll be seeing this trouble thing in the coming few days.

[The Lojic]

bahot e afsos aur dukh hota hai mujhe musalmanoon ka haal dekh kr!! arab league ki dhokay daziyoon aur cheating se mutaasir hogaye halaanke arab league ki haqiqat se waqif qatan nai!!!
1 asaan c mujuda aur taaza misaal:-
Arab league shaam k mamlay mein tou react krti hai aur uski hukumat ko ghalat qarar deti hai lekin yeh cheaters arab league Behren k mamlay mein bilkul chup hai halankay udher aik khandaan e zalim arsa e daraaz se zulm kr raha hai aur zabar dasti hukumat kr raha hai behrenians per!! khoon aur zulm ka bazar garm kr rakha hai !!yeh hai arab league ka dohra mayaar aur uska asl chehra!!!
note: yeh Q Ho raha hai? akhir arab league yeh Q kr ri hai????

Answer:1.arab league k 95% muslim mumalik k arakeen amrica k mazdoor hain, saudians un amrica mazdoor , na aqbat andesh arbiyoon ke sardaar hain!! amrica ki marzi hai aur hukm hai in arab haakimun ko k shaami hukumat ki sakht mukhalifat karen aur un per paabandiyaan lagaaen [q.k iss se amrica aur israail k liye iran k khilaaf jung krna asaan hojaega q.k hezbullah aur iran k drmeyaan sham ka waseela mahdood hojayga, jo iran aur labnaan donu k liye intahai aham hai]

2. aur amrica ki yeh qatan marzi nai k behren k muslmaan uss arab zalim khandaan se nijaat hasil karen jo behreni momineen pe kai ashroon se musallat hai... lehaza amrica ye qatan nai chahta k arab league behren pe musallat zalim hukumat k khilaaf aik lafz b munh se nikaalay!!!