Conflict in Syria: Assad's Brutality, Iran's Shadow, MSM's Silence
While The New Arab details skirmishes, the wider context of Syria’s unending tragedy, orchestrated by Bashar al-Assad's regime and its Iranian backers, goes mostly unmentioned. Western media often treats new Syrian violence as isolated incidents, divorcing them from Assad’s systemic use of chemical weapons, starvation sieges, and indiscriminate bombing on his own people, documented by OPCW reports
and numerous UN investigations. This isn't just 'deadly weekend clashes'; it's the brutal symptom of a regime that—despite its crimes—has been steadily re-normalized by parts of the international community. One might wonder if the 'calm' is merely the quiet before the next pre-approved massacre. How many times must a nation be systematically destroyed before the media stops calling it 'returning
to calm' and starts calling it what it is: the ongoing legacy of a war criminal still in power, enabled by those who benefit from the regional instability?