New Syrian campaign: 'Over our dead bodies'

Supporters of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria are reported to be carrying out a campaign called 'Over our dead bodies.'

Let's go to the videotape.



I'm willing to bet that this campaign is orchestrated (and not spontaneous as suggested by the video above) and that many of those camping out are actually prisoners and dissidents who are being forced to be there.

On Monday, those Assad

Caroline Glick: Obama is turning the United States into a global laughing stock

Caroline Glick appeared on Washington's WMAL radio on Monday to discuss President Obama's decision to punt the decision to attack Syria to Congress.

This interview is devastating.

Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Jack W via Pat Dollard).

Israel 'sticks to a routine'

Seen on a highway in northern Israel on Saturday... (Hat Tip: Meir G).

Another picture John Kerry would like you to forget

Here's another picture John Kerry would like you to forget. On Monday, I posted a picture of Kerry and his wife having dinner with Assad and his wife in Damascus. This picture is part of the same trip. It's from Kerry's April 2010 meeting with Assad. Here's why he went to Damascus.

On Thursday, Kerry came to town.

Assad
on Sunday called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to

There wasn't a moderate Syrian opposition before there was one

On Monday, I blogged a report from the Wall Street Journal that claimed that not all of the Syrian rebel troops are Islamists, and that the non-Islamists control substantial territory. Daniel Greenfield reports that the author of the Wall Street Journal report - Elizabeth O'Bagy - has been the source for reports in the past that claim that all the significant Syrian rebel factions are Islamist.

Flashback: Nancy Pelosi leads Dem delegation to Syria over Bush objections

We haven't heard a lot from Nancy Pelosi on Syria. Maybe this has something to do with why (original source here).

Ms. Pelosi was criticized by President Bush for visiting Damascus at a
time when the administration -- rightly or wrongly -- has frozen
high-level contacts with Syria. Mr. Bush said that thanks to the
speaker's freelancing Mr. Assad was getting mixed messages from the
United

Report from Syria: There are moderates and they do control territory

Elizabeth O'Bagy has been to Syria many times over the past year, and reports that the stories about the rebels being dominated by al-Qaeda are not true. She says that while there are extremists among the rebels, there are also non-Islamists. She believes that an American attack on Bashar al-Assad ought to benefit the non-Islamists.

Contrary to many media accounts, the war in Syria is not

The picture John Kerry doesn't want you to see

Yes, that's the Kerry's and the Assad's dining together in a Damascus restaurant in better times. On Sunday, Kerry compared Bashar al-Assad to Adolph Hitler and Saddam Hussein.

Kissinger: Yes, there is a good option for Syria

Henry Kissinger, who knew Bashar al-Assad's father Hafez well, claims that there is a good option for dealing with Syria. It involves undoing a nearly 100-year old mistake.

But the West is wrong to think it has no good options. It has a
superb and just option, one that will let history unfold as it should
have long ago. That option — to break up Syria into coherent nations —
was proposed

Syrian media publishes target list for Israel, Cyprus and... Turkey

Syrian media has published a list of targets that Syria plans to hit in the event that the United States attacks Syria. The targets are in Israel, Cyprus and Turkey. There's just one small problem: Syria's air force is reported to be on its last legs, and a US attack could be the end of it. This is from the first link.

Aerial photos of the purported targets were released by state
media, 

Dear Assad....

Heh.

British intelligence caught Syrian commanders telling captain 'fire chemicals or be shot'

Part of the evidence that the West has that the Assad regime carried out chemical weapons attacks against his people is conversations overheard by RAF eavesdropping in which a Syrian army captain was ordered by senior commanders to fire chemicals at civilians or be shot.
In one heated exchange, a regional commander was
overheard demanding the captain of an artillery battery in a

Damascus' Marie Antoinette

Asma al-Assad takes a beating in the British media. Yes, she really does sound like Marie Antoinette (Hat Tip: Shy Guy).

But as Asma Assad shelters in a bomb-proof bunker to avoid the horrors erupting within Syria – and to escape the US missiles expected soon to rain down on the country – she has become more of a Marie Antoinette figure, shopping for extravagant designer goods, food and health

Who says an attack on Syria has to help al-Qaeda?

Unfortunately, much of the West sees a US attack on Syria in precisely the zero-sum game terms that this US Naval officer sees it (Hat Tip: Shy Guy via Zero Hedge.com). But it doesn't have to be that way. A reminder from Caroline Glick's Friday column.


It is important to note that despite the moral depravity of the
regime's use of chemical weapons, none of America's vital interests is

Devastating interview: 'At the UN, I'm sure there's a celebration going on'

Rick Grenell, the spokesman for the last four US ambassadors to the UN, rips President Obama's dithering on Syria. He says that the President doesn't have a foreign policy strategy, and that what Obama did is a political move.

This is a devastating interview.

Let's go to the videotape.



Ouch.

From Munich 1938 to Damascus 2013, nothing has changed

Iran isn't the only country watching the West doddle on Syria. So is Israel. Britain's backing out of a Syria strike, and Hussein Obama's obvious hesitation to do the job are going to encourage an Israeli attack on Iran.

But the Iranians are not the only ones watching.  So is Israel. 
Whether or not Israel decides to act against Iran could be determined in
large part by how the world acts

Erdogan willing to fight Syria to the last American

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has become one of his biggest opponents, believes that an American attack on Syria should topple Bashar al-Assad (Hat Tip: Memeorandum).

Erdogan said
that the limited strikes which the United States is reportedly planning
against Syria would not be enough and pushed for a broader military
offensive.


"A limited operation cannot be

Assad's son dares Obama to attack

In a lengthy Facebook post 'liked' by numerous children and grandchildren of the Syrian elites, Hafaz al-Assad, the 11-year old son of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has dared President Obama to attack his country (Hat Tip: Jack W).

It is impossible to confirm whether the Facebook account does, in fact, belong to the son, Hafez al-Assad,
and aspects of it invite doubt. For example, the

Overwhelming majority of Israelis back US attack on Syria

Shavua tov, a good week to everyone.

A poll of Jewish Hebrew-speaking Israelis finds that 67% support an American attack on Syria.

While in the United States and
Great Britain, some 90 percent of the publics are opposed to such an
attack -- in Israel, more than 66% of the Jewish Hebrew-speaking
population supports an attack (only 17% opposes). With that, the exact
same percentage of the

Napalm bomb dropped on Syrian school building

A napalm bomb was dropped on a school building in Urum al Kubra, which is near Aleppo, Syria this week. Since the rebels don't have planes, the Syrian government cannot really blame them this time.

Let's go to the videotape.









There was also a second video filmed after the attack.

In another video filmed in the aftermath of the attack, a doctor
reports seven deaths and 50 injuries -