The Role of the Media in Creating the Syrian Crisis


The telling of the story of Syria remains incomplete without going through the role of the media and international organizations.  This means primarily the intelligence agencies, the military complexes, and some NGOs which are influenced and directed by the latter.
In this chapter I will describe some behaviors of these entities.
The role that these organizations played in the Syrian tragedy is not small. In one way or another, the behavior of these organizations is responsible for the massacre. It is the deadly part of the story. All other things which the media focused on were either distraction or the result of the behavior of these bodies. Without these organizations, the amount of Syrian bloodshed would not have reached such a horrible level.

But do I believe in the conspiracy or not?Well, here is how I see it: It is not most important to decide whether there is a conspiracy or not. No matter if events are part of a conspiracy or not, humanity urgently needs to be aware of the behavior of these organizations. Most important, the Syrian tragedy is not the last episode of this bloody series. It was not the first one either. The behavior of these organizations keeps multiplying the tragedy into unlimited copies. It is like a complicated product which needs a long time to be designed and manufactured. However once it starts to function, it quickly produces thousands of similar pieces in rapid succession. This is how it appears to me when I watch these organizations multiply what happened in Syria.  It spreads to other countries like Yemen, Venezuela, Jordan, etc. The Syrian tragedy itself was an updated version of the Iraq war and before that the Afghan war.

The Behavior of Syrian and Arabic Speaking Media
The Arabic speaking media polarized the Syrian nation telling completely different stories about the nature of the conflict. The opposition media talked about freedom, revolution, democracy, or the right of the Sunni majority to govern Syria. Meanwhile the media of  Assad’s regime was talking about the global conspiracy against the regime. Each party got tremendous support from its allies. The regime’s media was backed by the media sources of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. There were unlimited mercenary writers.  These journalists were reporting to the Arabic speaking and international media. The landscape on the other side was not different. Media channels like Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, and others played a big role in preparing the Syrian crowds for the revolution. This role continued throughout the years of the revolution. These media channels chose the representatives of the Syrian opposition and their speakers. Again, I am not going to go through the question as to whether these channels acted as a part of a previous plan or if their acts were just a normal response to the events and circumstances. However, I might mention that the story of a polarizing media didn’t start in 2011, but instead many years before that.  The British Broadcasting Corporation BBC

Thanks to the role of these media channels, Syrians who lived together for decades ended up as complete strangers. In a few months the anti and pro-Assad Syrians became enemies and couldn’t trust or believe each another anymore. This plan was applied again in the opposition areas based on ethnic, ideological or sectarian factors. This was how the extremist areas were made to be so different from the moderate ones. The ultra-extremists started to defect from the less extremist ones and attack them. The Kurdish opposition didn’t want to stay in sync with the Arab Opposition. The media worked on splitting these groups into smaller ones based on tribal, regional and other bases.


The Behavior of the Western Media

Throughout the years of the Syrian crisis, the mainstream media explained the western failure as just a series of accidental mistakes, mere confusion and a lack of experience. This sounds to me simply not convincing. The western intelligence agencies have demonstrated a high performance level in many other events. It reached a very sophisticated level of organization and knowledge decades ago. Further, unintentional confusion can’t continue for many years like it did in the Syrian case and other similar cases like in Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and others. The bill of each of these failures is estimated to be millions of victims. It is mysterious when these intelligence agencies become suddenly helpless and amateur.
Sibel Edmonds, the Ex-FBI agent illustrated this phenomenon when she described a similar case while she was employed by the FBI:   “Yassin Al Kadi was one of our guys, CIA guys, with the Turkish Network together, having these terrorist related operations going on. But every time FBI wanted to go and snatch the guy, the State Department and the CIA would step in and they wouldn't let it happen. Then we had 9/11 taking place, and this was when we had Robert Wright coming out talking about it and saying: “they stopped the investigation”, the United States government. We had one of the financers. Okay? During the Syrian crisis years, the mainstream media overwhelmed their followers with daily reports and explanations similar to the above story narrated by Sibel Edmond. I would call this kind of narrative “the oops” effect. It is a modern generation of manipulation and one of the most dangerous tools used by the media to distract the crowds from what is really going on. 
Doubting such a narrative might lead to thinking about a conspiracy. A conspiracy theory seems sometimes very stupid. However, insisting to believe all these “oops” and abstaining from posing any question about them seem to me even more stupid than thinking of the conspiracy theory way.
The “oops” way of manipulation is the exact inversion of “Aha effect”. Only when we reject believing these frequent “oops”, we might get to the “Aha” effect and start to understand what is going on.


The reader can explain these observations as “accidental” or that “events happened according to the nature of things.” I would also never mind if any conspiracy theorist took my observations to prove their theories and complete the missing part of the story (according to them), telling the readers about the one family/organization/country who rules the world. All I want to say is that this book is devoted to the events that I experienced and were in my research area. I mentioned to the reader in the beginning of the book that the book wouldn’t tell the Syrian story from A-Z. I don’t think that any one book can do that. Let's say that this book only tells the story from O to P.  Any work that tells the story before O or after P would be great.

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