Avoir le sens des priorités, c’est important dans une révolution :
http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/%C3%80+La+Une/article/794269/Syrie_%3A_Brahimi_dit_avoir_un_plan_acceptable_par_la_communaute_inte
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Des rebelles syriens vidant des bouteilles d’alcool dans la ville d’Alep, dans le nord de la Syrie. STR/AFP
L’Iran participe à une réunion au Caire sur la Syrie - Irna
http://www2.irna.ir/fr/news/view/line-96/1209105241203920.htm
L’Iran participe lundi à la première réunion d’un « groupe de contact » quadripartite sur la Syrie dont l’Égypte a proposé la création, ont annoncé plusieurs responsables iraniens.
Le vice-ministre des Affaires étrangères Hossein Amir Abdollahian est parti pour Le Caire afin de participer à une réunion quadripartite (réunissant l’Égypte, l’Iran ; l’Arabie saoudite et la Turquie) proposée par le président égyptien MohamedMorsi pour résoudre la crise syrienne.
« La participation de l’Iran à cette rencontre s’inscrit dans le cadre des efforts pour régler la crise syrienne et va permettre d’écouter les propositions égyptiennes », a précisé le porte-parole du ministère des Affaires étrangères Ramin Mehmanparast.
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Lakhdar Brahimi entame sa mission de médiation par une réunion au Caire
http://www.france24.com/fr/20120910-emissaire-onu-ligue-arabe-lakhdar-brahimi-entame-mission-paix-syr
Alors que l’armée poursuit ses raids au dessus d’Alep, le nouveau médiateur de l’ONU et de la Ligue arabe pour la Syrie a évoqué, ce lundi, sa délicate mission lors d’une réunion avec des responsables égyptiens et arabes au Caire.
Nabil al-Arabi, Ban Ki Moon and Annan are holding a press conference now. Live on AJM and here in English ►http://webtv.un.org/live-now/watch/security-council-media-stakeout/1677362996001
Nabil al-Arabi, Ban Ki Moon and Annan are holding a press conference now. Live on AJM and here in English ►http://webtv.un.org/live-now/watch/security-council-media-stakeout/1677362996001
Al-Akhbar in Lebanon says al-Dunya is “exposing the lies, excesses, and professional mistakes” of BBC/Arabiya
The Arab League has called on the region’s two major satellite operators to stop broadcasting pro-regime Syrian channels. Some Syrian expats are entertaining the idea of launching their own satellite to get around the ban.
The public watched on Sunday as Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi read a statement after the extraordinary meeting of the Arab foreign ministers, asking the two main satellite operators in the Arab world, Arabsat and Nilesat, to stop broadcasting Syrian private and public television stations.
The precedent-setting move comes after a series of sanctions that the US and the European Union took against the state-run Syrian TV and Ad-Dunya TV owned by businessman and MP Muhammad Hamsho.
further reading
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/television-syrian-crisis-orbit
Is the Arab League capable of saving Syria?
http://english.dohainstitute.org/Home/Details/5ea4b31b-155d-4a9f-8f4d-a5b428135cd5/f003f844-d1cc-41b1-be50-75f151f557db
However, the collapse of a regime does not automatically mean the rise of a democratic alternative. This scenario is also attended by various risks and hurdles, chief among them the inability of the Syrian opposition thus far to produce a unified political vision that overcomes its differences, or to rise above the logic of excommunication and exclusion, in order to send reassuring messages to the large segments of Syrian society that remain hesitant. We must remember that a section of this opposition has rejected the Arab Initiative, relying instead on international intervention and only abandoning this option once it was informed by the Western powers that this option was not forthcoming. There are sections in Syrian society that see the possibility of a civil war and the threat of the Iraqi model, fearing the receptiveness of a portion of the opposition to the notion of foreign military intervention, which is rejected by a silent majority among Syrian society that witnessed its effects in neighboring Iraq. To these hurdles should be added the threat of the division and fragmentation of the Syrian Army, and its inability to play a future role as a guarantor preventing civil war from taking place, if change happens in a non-peaceful manner. Therefore, and for this scenario to come to pass, the Syrian opposition must abandon the rhetoric that continually accuses opponents of treason, and which it has been employing in the recent phase; the opposition also must refrain from trying to clone experiments that do not correspond to the nature of Syrian society, which is ethnically and religiously diverse.
Puis le scénario de la guerre civile:
Even though this scenario is currently unlikely - since the Arab Initiative came as a preemptive move by the Arab League to avoid the internationalization of the crisis and its descent into the course of military intervention along the Iraqi and Libyan models it remains a latent possibility. There are indications auguring for this scenario in the medium and long term, and it is currently known in Syria as the “devil” scenario. The most important of these indications is the regime’s continual rejection of the Arab solution, halting violence, and entering into a transitional process of change, which takes place in tandem with the increasing penchant of domestic and foreign parties to push the revolution toward militarization, the carrying of arms and demands for border “buffer zones” along the lines of the Libyan scenario - especially with the regime’s insistence on adopting the “Samson” option. Consequently, we would find ourselves faced with a situation similar to Iraq in 2003, with the appearance of an opposition that calls for and instigates foreign military intervention, or the militarization of the revolution and the creation of “liberated” zones from which armed groups would be ready to wage their attacks against the regime.
This scenario is widely viewed as the most dangerous for Syria and the Arab world as it would represent a regression of the Arab Spring, whose first fruits are being harvested in Tunisia following the election of the Constituent Assembly. This scenario would imply a dangerous dimension of sectarian and ethnic division in Syrian society, causing Syria to becoming an engine for the destruction of the mosaic that is the Arab Mashreq, instead of being a democratic state that contributes to confronting sectarianism. This scenario also would lead to the shrinking of Syria’s importance and its inability to influence major issues, especially those regarding the conflict with Israel. Syria would become an arena for the struggle of regional international powers according to their interests, and the ramifications of such a process would reflect on Lebanon and other Arab states, leading to a complex Arab situation that represents a hurdle to the process of democratic transformation in other countries.
As such, a great responsibility falls upon the Arab League and pan-Arab action to create mechanisms that prevent the occurrence of this scenario, and instead produce solutions within the Arab circle, outside the agendas and interests of regional and international actors. The Syrian opposition, with all its factions, carries the greatest burden of responsibility because of its current negative role and its inability to produce the political vision that would encourage the majority of the people to engage in the movement, and to feel, in a tangible manner, the benefits of democratic change.
Syrie : la Ligue arabe aurait trouvé un accord avec Bachar Al-Assad | euronews, monde
http://fr.euronews.net/2011/09/11/syrie-la-ligue-arabe-aurait-trouve-un-accord-avec-bachar-al-assad
Première initiative concrète de la Ligue arabe depuis le début de la contestation contre le régime syrien : Nabil al-Arabi a présenté un plan de réformes en 13 points au président syrien.
La rencontre a été brève mais Bachar al-Assad et le chef de la Ligue arabe seraient parvenus à un accord sur des mesures pour sortir de la crise.
Egypt FM: Gaza border crossing to be permanently opened - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/egypt-fm-gaza-border-crossing-to-be-permanently-opened-1.358690
Egyptian FM tells Al-Jazeera that preparations are already underway to permanently open Rafah border crossing, which would allow goods and people in and out of Gaza with no Israeli supervision.
Je l’avais pas vue passer, celle-là (4 avril 2011) :
ElBaradei : We’ll fight back if Israel attacks Gaza - Israel News, Ynetnews
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4051939,00.html
Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who had previously announced his intetions to run for the presidency of Egypt, said Monday that “if Israel attacked Gaza we would declare war against the Zionist regime."