FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Washington DC, June 5,
2011. The Reform
Party of Syria has
learned today, from
intelligence sources
close to the Assad
regime in Lebanon, that
Syrians storming through
the Golan Height next to
the Quneitra crossing
are Syrian farmers who
have migrated in recent
years from the
drought-stricken
northeast Syria to the
south. Estimates put the
number at 250,000
impoverished migrants.
Information received
cite the regime has paid
hundreds of these
farmers $1,000 each to
show-up and $10,000 to
their families should
any of them succumb to
Israeli fire. In Syria,
an average salary is
about $200 a month and
to these impoverished
farmers, such a one-time
sum can keep them
economically afloat for
six months.
Such tactic was used
in the past by another
defunct Ba'ath Party in
Iraq, under Saddam
Hussein, to pay
Intifada-driven
Palestinians the sum of
$25,000 to their
next-of-kin should they
die throwing stones.
That measure had a
worldwide impact and it
seems the Assad regime
is using the same play
from a twin playbook.
It is obvious, with
this action, Assad
wants to divert the
attention of the world
away from his own
massacres and brutality
that resulted in some 70
deaths yesterday and
about 30 today in Jisr
al-Shoghour. RPS
expects, on the basis of
today's success, for
these operations of
incursions to multiply
in scope in the near
future for two reasons:
1) Divert the attention
away from Assad's
barbarism and
savageries, and 2) Stand
tall again in the eyes
of the regime's
supporters whose morale
has taken quite a
beating the last 3
months because of the
violence perpetrated by
Assad against unarmed
civilians.
On this day of
Naksa, RPS strongly
believes in ownership
and title of its Golan
Heights. But unlike a
regime bred on the use
of violence, the Syrian
people, demonstrating
how peaceful they are as
they endure one massacre
after another, believe
in peaceful negotiations
to repatriate our lands.
If Assad really wanted
the Golan Heights, he
would walk the same
peaceful path Anwar
Sadat walked long before
him. But then, if he
does, how can he justify
his own existence as the
"Commandant
de
la
R�sistance".
For Assad, winning
through peace means also
losing the war against
his own people.
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