The Syrians, and the rest of the world, you know what to expect: Bashar Assad does not think reform of the dictatorship he inherited from his father and encouraged to hear protests, he said, for "conspiring with an Israeli plan." The Syrian president has delivered a speech today both continuous and challenging, interrupted by his own laughter and the poems of devotion that he directed the deputies.
Despite promises made by the regime itself in recent days, has not spoken to lift the state of emergency in force since 1963. Shortly after the appearance of El Asad, hundreds of angry demonstrators have taken to the streets in the coastal city of Latakia. The immediate reaction in Latakia, where witnesses said security forces have carried out numerous shooting, could anticipate major events on Friday, the day of huge demonstrations.
Local reporters from Al Jazeera and The Guardian have suggested that disappointment with the inaction of the president was perceptible even in people close to the regime. The scenery of the speech was the typical political solemn occasions. At the entrance to the building of the People's Assembly in Damascus, several hundred people shouted "God, Syria, Bashar." In the Chamber, Members (nominated by their loyalty to the dictator) cried his eagerness to give his life for the roast.
Vice President Farouk the Sahara, had said on Monday that the Assad would announce "major decisions" that would "welcome to the Syrian people." The expectation was high. But there was nothing new whatsoever. The core of the speech in Asad has consisted of a sentence like I used to use his father: "We tell those calling for reform that we delay in your application but will start soon.
The priorities are stability and improving economic conditions ". The same priorities as always, but in changing circumstances: the regime had failed to ensure stability, view demonstrations and riots in Daraa, Latakia and other cities, and worsening economic conditions had for years. The president of Syria has been lavish in excuses.
"We are accused of promising reforms and not performing, but we have been forced to change our priorities as a result of repeated regional crises and four years of drought," he said. On demonstrators shot dead by security forces, at least 61, Asad did not blame the mysterious "armed groups", as he had done his Government (resigned on Tuesday).
Implicitly recognized that they were security forces, led by his younger brother, the cause of the killings, and has added a curious autoexculpación: "I had made specific orders to not attack them (the protesters) the State's duty is to listen to people, but we can not tolerate chaos. " "Under the guise of reform has created chaos," he insisted.
State of emergency The president's speech has played with fear, justifiable, to an abrupt fall of the regime would cause an implosion of the country and a war between religious factions, similar to that of Lebanon and more recently Iraq. The state of emergency imposed following the coup of the Baath in 1963 was the resource that Hafez al-Assad, president since 1970, imposed a regime of terror and censorship on all political dissent and also allowed certain religious freedoms and private avoided sectarian conflict.
When Bashar Assad succeeded his father in 2000, promised to do away with the state of emergency. But there still. As Tunisia's Ben Ali, Mubarak and the Egyptian, two dictators and brought down by the great Arab revolt, El Asad has attributed the protests to "slogans" of the "pan-Arab satellite television stations, ie, Al Jazeera, and conspiracies "internal and external" promoted by Israel.
It would be really strange that Israel would end up with a regime like the Syrian, who does not dare to make war (the border of the Golan is the quietest in the region) and uses others, such as Lebanese Hezbollah and Palestinian Hamas, for a controlled harassment turn Israel uses to justify its refusal to make peace and to return the occupied territories.
The liberal daily Haaretz reported on Tuesday, in fact, an article entitled.
Despite promises made by the regime itself in recent days, has not spoken to lift the state of emergency in force since 1963. Shortly after the appearance of El Asad, hundreds of angry demonstrators have taken to the streets in the coastal city of Latakia. The immediate reaction in Latakia, where witnesses said security forces have carried out numerous shooting, could anticipate major events on Friday, the day of huge demonstrations.
Local reporters from Al Jazeera and The Guardian have suggested that disappointment with the inaction of the president was perceptible even in people close to the regime. The scenery of the speech was the typical political solemn occasions. At the entrance to the building of the People's Assembly in Damascus, several hundred people shouted "God, Syria, Bashar." In the Chamber, Members (nominated by their loyalty to the dictator) cried his eagerness to give his life for the roast.
Vice President Farouk the Sahara, had said on Monday that the Assad would announce "major decisions" that would "welcome to the Syrian people." The expectation was high. But there was nothing new whatsoever. The core of the speech in Asad has consisted of a sentence like I used to use his father: "We tell those calling for reform that we delay in your application but will start soon.
The priorities are stability and improving economic conditions ". The same priorities as always, but in changing circumstances: the regime had failed to ensure stability, view demonstrations and riots in Daraa, Latakia and other cities, and worsening economic conditions had for years. The president of Syria has been lavish in excuses.
"We are accused of promising reforms and not performing, but we have been forced to change our priorities as a result of repeated regional crises and four years of drought," he said. On demonstrators shot dead by security forces, at least 61, Asad did not blame the mysterious "armed groups", as he had done his Government (resigned on Tuesday).
Implicitly recognized that they were security forces, led by his younger brother, the cause of the killings, and has added a curious autoexculpación: "I had made specific orders to not attack them (the protesters) the State's duty is to listen to people, but we can not tolerate chaos. " "Under the guise of reform has created chaos," he insisted.
State of emergency The president's speech has played with fear, justifiable, to an abrupt fall of the regime would cause an implosion of the country and a war between religious factions, similar to that of Lebanon and more recently Iraq. The state of emergency imposed following the coup of the Baath in 1963 was the resource that Hafez al-Assad, president since 1970, imposed a regime of terror and censorship on all political dissent and also allowed certain religious freedoms and private avoided sectarian conflict.
When Bashar Assad succeeded his father in 2000, promised to do away with the state of emergency. But there still. As Tunisia's Ben Ali, Mubarak and the Egyptian, two dictators and brought down by the great Arab revolt, El Asad has attributed the protests to "slogans" of the "pan-Arab satellite television stations, ie, Al Jazeera, and conspiracies "internal and external" promoted by Israel.
It would be really strange that Israel would end up with a regime like the Syrian, who does not dare to make war (the border of the Golan is the quietest in the region) and uses others, such as Lebanese Hezbollah and Palestinian Hamas, for a controlled harassment turn Israel uses to justify its refusal to make peace and to return the occupied territories.
The liberal daily Haaretz reported on Tuesday, in fact, an article entitled.
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