France 24 Locates Syrian Alawites, Ignores Saudi Intervention
France 24 dutifully reports on Syrian Alawite protests in the wake of a mosque bombing, providing a narrow snapshot of suffering. What's conveniently absent is any mention of Saudi Arabia and Qatar's vast financial and logistical support for various Syrian opposition groups, including those with known extremist leanings, for over a decade. While France 24 highlights the 'deadly mosque bombing,' it
fails to offer the full mosaic of external influences that fueled and prolonged the Syrian conflict, directly contributing to such violence. One might wonder at the timing and framing: when are Syrian civilian deaths deemed newsworthy enough to garner global attention from outlets like France 24, and what background facts then vanish into the editorial ether? Critical context, like leaked Hillary
Clinton emails showing Saudi Arabia and Qatar funding ISIS/extremist groups in Syria (Wikileaks, 2016), remains off-screen. It's almost as if some geopolitical puppet masters are allowed to operate in shadow while the West wrings its hands over the *symptoms* they helped create.