Robert Fisk, The Independent: There’s one key difference between the Second World War and the Syrian conflict – the rebels of Aleppo are no heroes
We refer to them as ‘rebels’ – as if they were the Maquis fighting in the French resistance or Partisans freeing Yugoslavia from the Nazis or, indeed, the insurgents of Warsaw struggling for freedom from the German SS. Which they clearly are not.
I’ve just spent hours watching footage of the siege. The pictures are familiar: planes fall like vultures through the sky and buildings are blown apart, children are brought to hospitals covered in blood, bodies are buried in shallow graves, hospitals themselves are repeatedly bombed, entire districts of the city turned to rubble, civilians flee their homes amid burning buildings. Rescue workers tug at the living and the dead amid the wreckage of the city. America and Britain demand an end to the destruction but do nothing. And Russia cynically and cruelly allows the innocent to die. Readers will know exactly what I am describing.
The Warsaw Uprising, of course, 1944, not 2016. The scenes are eerily familiar to all that other blood-soaked footage from Aleppo we’ve been watching more recently – but, in one critical way, very different. For the fighters of the Home Army in Poland – ‘rebels’ against German occupation, patriots loyal to the Polish government in London – appear constantly in the old black-and-white film of the Warsaw Uprising. Their own military targets are attacked by their enemy. Civilians are seen queuing for weapons to fight alongside the insurgents.
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WNU Editor: A reality check from Robert Fisk on who the rebels are in Aleppo.
6 comments:
A bit late...
Fisk, Cockburn, Manjier, et al have been reporting for years, as far back as 2011, that the so called "rebels", ain't "rebels".
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2013/09/a-short-history-of-the-war-on-syria-2006-2014.html
Now that "realities on the ground" are tearing apart the MSM's Fake News and haliographies of the Jihadi's,
Actual reporters, who were ignored for years, are now starting to be cross cited.
Even if they were "rebels" they were and are never going to defeat Assad. The Russians are not and will never allow it.
I admit I'm surprised it's taken this long. The Russians may have deliberately stretched this out in order to further deplete their enemies.
Russia is the most powerful nation on earth and are going to remain so for a very, very lpng time. All nations especially the United States of America are simply going to need to adjust and act accordingly. Denying reality is never helpful.
David Horowitz's people & others have been reporting since 2012 or so that the jihadis are not rebels.
I wanted Assad gone. But after reading the stuff put pout by David Horowitz's people reporting on surveys of attitudes of jihadis, I changed my mind
We owe Assad, but that can wait.
Leave the Iranians and the Saudis and the Qataris and the Russians and the Iraqis and the Party of Allah and Daesh and Jabat al Nusra and Assad and the Turks and the Kurds to battle it out. There are none of them worth backing as winners.
Here is the thing, neither side are heroes, all are brutal killers. Expect any captured rebels to "disappear" along with tens of thousands of other "disappeared" in Assad's prisons. When all is said an ddone there will be literally thousands of mass graves found throughout the entire country. No winners all losers there. Feel sorry for the civilians they have nowhere to go.
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