The killer mediates for the mass murderer

We are clearly living in a time when black comedy is prevalent; this was proven by the news that the Egyptian leadership is going to sponsor dialogue between the Syrian opposition and the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. This means that the killer Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, responsible for the murder of thousands of Egyptians in the Rabaa Al-Adawiyya and Al-Nahda Squares, will mediate for the even more of a mass murderer Bashar Al-Assad, who has killed hundreds of thousands of his people and is still bombing the rest with aircraft and tanks.

What kind of dialogue will Al-Sisi conduct between the opposition group formed by the Syrian intelligence agencies which has arrived in Egypt amid great media attention from the coup-run outlets? His experience can bring nothing but more killing of the freedom-seeking Syrian people and more destruction to the country, which has become like a giant ghost town after millions have been displaced; Syrian (and Palestinian) refugees are suffering severely, living in tents where their children are freezing to death in this very harsh winter. They are being humiliated by countries which, sadly, claim to be Arab and Muslim states.

We must be extremely wary of this proposed dialogue and apprehensive of the true purpose behind it. From my reading of the Libyan scene, I believe that the coup leader Al-Sisi wants to create a Syrian “General Haftar” along the lines of the original in Libya who kills Libyan rebels.

Just as the Egyptian president interfered in Libya and helped to form a militia loyal to him which he trains and provides with supplies and weapons, he now wants to intervene militarily in Syria in the same manner; he already supplies the mass murderer’s army with Egyptian weapons. The Syrian rebels who seized Egyptian weapons have displayed them on television.

This is the dialogue that will be conducted by the killer under his sponsorship; it will be a dialogue of blood. Beware, for these militias will operate under the pretext of fighting terrorism, which is what Al-Assad’s regime calls the rebels in Syria. He has been able to benefit from the terrorism fever and Islamophobia that has swept the world, utilising it to serve his purpose, especially after the air strikes launched by the international coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria and Iraq.

Al-Assad is now claiming that he is fighting terrorism and he will find support and help from the killer Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. They are two sides of the same blood-soaked coin.

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