Hezbollah & The Fight For Control in Qalamoun / Intervention in the order of Iran
TODAY’S MESOP SYRIA INSIGHT
The Syrian government vowed Wednesdaythat Bashar al-Assad would not surrender his position as president at the proposed “Geneva 2” peace conference scheduled for January 22. Astatementissued by Syria’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday insisted that “the official Syrian delegation is not going to Geneva to surrender power.”
SYRIA UNTOLD – THE REAL SUBSTANCE OF THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION
Tammam Azzam: The Revolution Gives Us All
25 November 2013 – Tammam Azzam, a Damascus-born artist, starts his interview with Syria Untold with an emphatic statement about his contributions to the revolution: “Nobody gives anything to the revolution, it is the revolution that gives us all.” He ascertains that the revolution to him, as to many other Syrians, has become a second rebirth. “Its effect can not be seen in an artwork. The magnitude of the event, and the crime, is beyond us as artists. The revolution, by its very logic is an agent of change, and even those who stood against it, will feel this change.”
STATEMENT Syrian Coalition: We Look Positively To Setting Date for Geneva II, No Role for Assad in the Political Process
27.11.2013 – Louay Safi, the spokesman for the Syrian National Coalition, stressed that Iran is “an occupying country” and so it cannot be part of the negotiations in Geneva II. He said that Geneva II is positive only when it meets the conditions set forth by the Syrian Coalition which constitute the primary path to the negotiations in Geneva II.
KURDWATCH NEWSLETTER WESTKURDISTAN OKTOBER 2013 : Rumailan: Syrischer Ölminister trifft PYD
KURDWATCH, 25. November 2013 – Am 13. November 2013 hat der syrische Ölminister, Sulaiman al‑ʿAbbas, Vertretern der Partei der Demokratischen Union (PYD) in Rumailan einen Besuch abgestattet. Vor dem Besuch hat Augenzeugen zufolge der Asayiş, der Sicherheitsdienst der PYD, in der Umgebung von Rumailan die leeren Ölfässer, die die Kontrollpunkte der PYD markieren, blau überstreichen lassen. Zuvor waren sie in den kurdischen Farben rot, gelb und grün gestrichen. An dem Gespräch mit al‑ʿAbbas nahmen neben Mitgliedern der PYD auch arabische Stammesführer der Nationalen Verteidigungsarmee teil. Der Minister soll den Gesprächspartnern feste Anteile aus den Öleinnahmen zugesagt haben. Der Anteil der PYD soll bei zwanzig Prozent liegen.
KURDWATCH NEWSLETTER WEST KURDISTAN 2013 – Rumailan: Syrian oil minister meets with PYD
KURDWATCH, November 25, 2013—On November 13, 2013, the Syrian oil minister, Sulayman al‑ʿAbbas, paid a visit to representatives of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Rumailan. According to eyewitnesses, the Asayiş, the security service of the PYD, had the empty oil drums that mark PYD checkpoints painted blue prior to the visit. They had been previously painted in the Kurdish colors of red, yellow, and green. In addition to PYD members, Arab tribal leaders from the National Defense Army also took part in the conversation with al‑ʿAbbas. The minister allegedly promised the involved parties a fixed percentage of oil revenues. The PYD’s share is said to be twenty percent.
NO GOOD OUTCOME: How Israel Could Be Drawn into the Syrian Conflict
Essays by Washington Institute Analysts – POLICY FOCUS 131 | NOVEMBER 2013
Clawson, Eisenstadt, Levitt, Schenker, Tabler, White, and Zelin – Given the complexities and dynamics of the Syrian conflict, it is distinctly possible that Israel could be drawn into the fighting. Perhaps more important, the risk of spillover will likely extend years into the future, since the war’s aftermath will not include near-term peace between Syria and Israel. How can Washington help minimize this risk and the attendant strategic threat of increased regional instability and escalation?
Kerry: Genf-2 wird zur Bildung kommissarischer Regierung in Syrien beitragen
WASHINGTON, 25. November (RIA Novosti).- Syriens Außenamt besorgt: Kerrys Äußerungen könnten „Genf-2“ vereiteln.
SALIH MUSLIM : Relations between Arabs & Kurds, & the current situation in Syrian Kurdistan
Rojava News – QAMISHLI, Syrian Kurdistan, 26-11-2013 – A new interview with Sahil Muslim by M. Ali Çelebi has been published in Özgür Gündem. Below is a translation of certain segments, in which Muslim talks about efforts to prevent inter-communal fighting, relations between Arabs and Kurds, and the current situation in Syrian Kurdistan [Rojava] more generally.
MESOP SYRIA INSIDE TODAY : FSA Will Not Halt Fighting for Syrian Peace Conference
Free Syrian Army commander General Salim Idriss said the FSA would not participatein a peace conference on Syria in Geneva, and would not suspend fighting. The United Nations announced Monday that the long-delayed Geneva 2 conference will begin on January 22. The Syrian government said it will attend the talks, but will not accept any preconditions.
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