Judging from the latest commentaries of Syrian newspapers on Nov. 3, it seems that the Arab League has accepted the Syrian version of evaluation: Better to contain the Muslim Brotherhood
If Syria really collapses, 300 thousand or more lives will be lost. Around 3,000 people are reported to have died in the current event so far.
The Emir of Qatar, after weighing these 2 choices, may have chosen to abandon street protesters whom he instigated in the past 8 months in order to preserve the framework of Syria.
Syria seems to have made the Arab League understand the necessity to eliminate external oppositions from the political process
A commentary of al-Baath newspaper on Nov. 3 says that the winners are Syria and the Arab League.
According to the writer, the AL agreement (PDF file) has prevented the Syrian crisis from internatioalization, which seems to mean interference from Turkey, the UN Security Council, or the NATO.
It continues to say that the agreement will help Syria be transformed into a modern democratic country without changing its anti-Israeli diplomatic stances.
The losers, on the contrary, are the Unites States, the EU, Turkey and Israel which planned to fragment Syria into pieces.
The commentary attacks the external oppositions by saying that they are inviting foreign military into Syria.
الرابح والخاسر في إتفاق القاهرة بشأن سوريا
Winners and losers in the Cairo Agreement on Syria
al-Baath, its cache (Click here for Google translation）
Subhi Ghandour
Director of "Centre for Arab Dialogue" in Washington
Thursday, November 3, 2011 19:43
Syria declares "No dialogue with Muslim Brotherhood extremists and SNC in Istanbul."
ما وراء الأخبار.. الحوار بين العقلاء وليس مع القتلة
Behind the News .. Dialogue between the rational and not with the killers
http://tishreen.info/_word.asp?FileName=26623958520111103043417
http://backupurl.com/rf9ll8 (Click here for Google translation）
Opinion of Tishreen
Thursday November 3, 2011
Ezzeddine Darwish
Comments of Russian experts vary, but this expert is pessimistic about Syria's future
No happy end for Syria - expert
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/11/02/59771944.html
Nov 2, 2011 17:40 Moscow Time
Yevgeny Satanovsky, President of the Moscow-based Middle East Institute:
The formula is really good. . .
But that's only theory. On practical level we have civil war in Syria, civil war, which cannot be stopped by any agreements, resolutions or something like that.
Syria has no chance for the happy end of all this story. If it is a military operation like in cases of Iraq and Libya, Syria will be destroyed by the Iraqi way.
If there is no military operation from Northern Atlantic Alliance or the League of Arab Nation or combination of such operation, it will be something like Egyptian scenario.
Reaction of Friday demonstrators to the Arab League agreement
Nov. 4
Kafranbil village in Idlib province (40km south of Idlib city)
This is a tiny village in a mountain with no external influence, but their slogans have always been useful to get an insight about internal debate among protesters on weekly basis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uThs6grkQ_M
At 00:00, "Damm, World Presidents and NATO Leaders! How can you smell the Syrian blood and watch people die and then sleep well? Occupied Kafranbil, Nov. 4, 2011"
At 00:09, "Sorry, HE Shaikh Hamad (of Qatar). Perhaps your "immediate" (withdrawal of the Syrian army you've agreed with Syria) will be the world longest."
At 00:14 (a painting of Pinocchio-like al-Assad with a very long nose) "Withdrawal of the army, stop killing, etc. . . "
At 00:17, (a painting of al-Assad who is rubbing Alladin's magic lamp, and the genie tells him) "Solution for. . . It is impossible to save you."
At 00:22, "What are you going to talk about? What shoud we tell to Zainab and Hamza?"
At 00:30, "The Arab League committee in case of permanent salvation. Syrian blood in case of permanent Zainab?!?!"
("Zainab and Hamzah" may be names of martyrs, or have special meanings.)
Other towns also express their frustration to the AL
Halfaya in Hama province
At 00:38, "We want the Arab League, not the Assad League."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Futmo7AAgOk
Tayyibah al-Imam in Hama province
At 00:24, "National Coordination Committee is NOT representing me."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mR_tuZ6ips
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