Syrian activity ‘an embarrassment

Syria persists in arch the Arab account Wednesday, as abandon engulfs the Kurdish arena of the country and activity organizations abide to altercate in Cairo.

“The activity appointment adopts administration change and abutment for the ‘Free Syrian Army,’” reads the banderole of London-based circadian Al-Hayat, which letters a altercation aural the ranks of the activity convened in Cairo as to whether a followup board should be formed to baby-sit the accomplishing of the decisions passed.

A-Sharq Al-Awsat cites activity sources which affirmation that 70,000 Syrian soldiers accept defected so far, but about abandon continues to advance to the outskirts of Damascus as able-bodied as to the Kurdish mountains, which accept so far remained almost calm. The daily, which displays the photo of a destroyed Syrian catchbasin in a damaged Aleppo street, letters that villages in the Kurdish arena accept been angry into “a hell” by the Assad forces.

A-Sharq Al-Awsat, as able-bodied as London-based circadian Al-Quds Al-Arabi, appearance Assad’s account with the Turkish circadian Cumhuriyet as a tacit acknowledgment for downing the Turkish aircraft.

Al-Quds Al-Arabi editor-in-chief Abd Al-Bari Atwan writes that the Syrian activity appointment was an “embarrassment” and served as a allowance for the regime, announcement how burst the activity is. He says that the Syrian humans are ailing of conferences and charge absolute action.

Atwan concludes that Egypt is currently the alone aloof country able of rescuing Syria from its blood-soaked impasse.

“If the Gulf states proposed an action to accomplishment Yemen from absolutism and corruption… why should’nt Egypt action a agnate action in Syria, adequate acceptable relations with Russia and China on the one duke and with the United States and Europe on the other,” writes Atwan.

Tareq Homayed, editor-in-chief of A-Sharq Al-Awsat, considers Iraq to be “the aboriginal country to birthmark from Syria,” afterward statements by its adopted abbot Hoshyar Zebari, who alleged the Assad administration dictatorial. Now, alone the governments of Lebanon and Iran still ancillary with Syria, addendum Homayed, abacus that Russia seems to be ambivalent on the matter.

“It is bright today that Iraq, admitting the Iranian access on it, accomplished to abhorrence Syria,” writes Homayed. “The absolutist of Damascus has become a cardboard bobcat [a play on words on Assad's name, which agency bobcat in Arabic] in the eyes of Iraqis.”

Iran’s hyperactivity continues to be broadly covered by the Arab columnist Wednesday. Al-Hayat letters on its ballistic missile analysis Tuesday and its acceptance of a law acceptance the cease of the Strait of Hormuz.

Meanwhile, American agent to Yemen Gerald Feierstein gives A-Sharq Al-Awsat an absolute account in which he accuses Iran of affairs the adherence not alone of Houthi rebels in the arctic (who are Shiite), but aswell of separatists in the south. Feierstein tells the circadian that the United States is “extremely concerned” about Iran’s growing access in Yemen, aggravating to advance “anarchy and extremism” in the country and baffle its autonomous transition.