I would like to dispel the fiction that the Ba'ath are competent secular people with the interest of the Syrian people at heart.
They are corrupt, they opened the door to political Islam, Hafez Assad and his Ba'ath party have repeatedly prevented and hamstrung secularism and even regressed the country to appease Islamist.
t.JIDF
Who brought back the requirement in the Syrian constitution that the president must be a Muslim, who when he immediately took power removed secular language and brought back religion into the Syrian constitution.
Reminder the revolt against Salah Jadid was carried out during an Israeli attack on Syria. Islamist had no power during this time.
Hafez Assad proves to be a traitor to Syria (carrying a coup while the nation is under attack by Israel)
And an idiot
(appeasing Islam, only to have the Muslim brotherhood kill Alawite cadets in a military school later on)
I apologize in advance for the glaucoma inducing photos.
who tried to appease Islam and create a moderate version, even though the blood of Alawite cadets spell out this is a mistake? who peeled back secularism in the post 9/11 age where the Islamist terror danger is apparent to the world?
Why would you even appease Islamist? Bashar was facing no Islamist uprising.
The Asad family is collecting the debt of their incompetence and corruption.
Do they not understand that you can't inoculate yourself from cancer by injecting yourself with cancer?
The incompetence of the regime was so apparent people with any foresight resisted the Islamization.
when the Asad regime had to choose between women, secularist, religious minorities or Islamists
Who they did choose?
>>2496201
Salah Jadid, Amin Al-Hafez. The predecessors of the Asad clique, have actually fought wars against Israel.
The Asad clique routinely allows Israeli jets to bomb Syria and they never retaliate.
2013
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/01/30/israel-airstrike-syria/1878113/
2014
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/07/israeli-jets-bomb-syria-says-damascus
2017
https://www.rt.com/news/373522-syria-army-base-bombed-israel/
All the regime ever does is """"warn"""" Israel not to do it again.
>>2496250
>The Asad clique routinely allows Israeli jets to bomb Syria and they never retaliate.
>country plunged in civil war
>"let's retaliate against Israel"
No
>>2496336
>2007
>country not in civil war
>Israel bombs you deep in your territory
>don't even shoot down one plane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Orchard
same bullshit happens in 2003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain_es_Saheb_airstrike
at least Saddam launched SCUD missiles.
>>2496374
I was referring to your three articles from 13, 14 and 17