This is a real joke seriously what is going in Syria currently , that makes me thank God thousand times that I live in Egypt despite all what the regime does from fighting the naughty bloggers who are exposing its scandals national and world wide
As you may have known in the last two weeks the Syrian regime has blocked several web services and hundreds of Websites and blogs
The most famous web services that were blocked in Syria are the following :
- Hotmail.com
- Blogger.com
- Facebook.com
- Youtube.com
- Google earth "May be for security reasons , but Israel too complained and yet it did not block nor Google changed the maps and surely the Americans and Israelis won't depend upon Google earth , it is blocked so the people will not know where are the palaces and mansions of Al-Assad dynasty !! "
The Websites and blogs that are blocked currently are of course for the opposition and forums ,lately the Kurdish and PK supporting Websites joined them "For the Turkish friends of course"
Today I found out that another two Web services are blocked recently are there "
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Now why on earth they block Amazon.com !!?? I mean what is the harm from a website that sells books and other stuff online ?? Because it contains books that are considered against the regime !!
Ok a smart question : How many Syrians buy from the Amazon inside Syria ??
I do not want to hint that the Syrians more and more are heading towards wordpress self hosting despite the fact that some web hosting companies do not welcome to hosts Syrian or Iranian Websites . Of course not to mention the Typepad blogging services . They are very smart in the Syrian intelligence as it is the party that follows the Internet , they know very well that inside Syria most Syrians go to blogger.com due to the fact it is free and much easier where as Typepad is used mostly by Syrians who live abroad , not to mention that the Syrian Envoy to the States got a blog there , oh yes but to my surprise I speak more about the politics of his country in my blog more him in his blog , his blog is all about Syrian painters and his travel with his family around the globe !!!
I wonder what website they would block next in Syria ??
by the way I won't post petitions and stuff because they do not care about them
Ah I know what they will block next , the petition sites !!!
For their eyes only to the Syrian intelligence service men who watch the net here is my favourite book in Amazon ;P
Amazon.com: Asad
He He HE :))
ReplyDeletewhat did you expect from Al-Baath?
:)
Not quite sure what your point is there. You clearly haven't read the Seale book. It's very pro-Hafiz.
ReplyDeleteYes, if only Syria can be more like Israel. Or Egypt. Because your police don't rape and torture political prisoners do they. How many are still in jail? 40,000? 60,000?
Something tells me they will be blocking you next Zeinobia...I'm sure you're heartbroken lol...
ReplyDelete@aardvark, well I accept even more worse than this
ReplyDelete@sasa , as far as I know on the official levels they hate the book of Seale's and attacked him ,saying that Seale gathered the street stories in one book regarding Hafez
anyhow regarding our Police , well at least we can speak to the public and the world and at least they go to jail
but do not afraid Syria set the records in the prisoners in Jail since 1970s
@anonymous , already Blogger.com is blocked in Syria
There is huge difference between syrian Bath and the Iraqi one.
ReplyDelete@Racoon not so huge if we step aside the ideological parts , both are dictatorship parties that are made to idolize the ruler over the expense of the people
ReplyDeleteSalam Zeinab,
ReplyDeleteI am afraid your assessment is not accurate.
The Iraqi Baath achieved the following targets:
1) Zero illetrtacty in 1982 for which Sadam Hussien recieved a prize from the UNICEF
2) Free health care and education to all Iraqis, at standards that were very close to west European one
3) Building remarkable indegigenous capabilities in scientific and technological domains, that were expected to tranform Iraq to the level of devloped wetstern nations in a matter of 10 years starting from 1989
4) Having the best women rights laws in the entire Arab/Muslim sphere
5) Buuilding a n efficient strong military that succefully wiped out the Iranian threat to the gulf, and the sectarian Iranian ideologies
6) The most secular nation in the Arab world. Second man in the state was christian-Tarek Aziz. 50% of the Bathist high cadres were shiites
Now regarding the ideological part. the Baathist Ideology is not concerned with a system of governace as it is focused to resurrecting the Arab civilsation and catchng up. One of its basic foundations is a stouch belief in the common destiny of Arabs who are facing these challenges.
The Iraqi Baath demonstarted the reliabilty and consiteny of Its pan Arab approach in the following situations:
In 1973 -Sadam sent 60,000 men comprising two armoured divisions that engaed with Israelians forces marching towards DAMASCUS. And according to independent sources played a pivotal role in restoring balance to the Syrian front.
On the Egyptian front:
Iraq supplied Egypt with Scud Bs proior to the war as a strategic deterrent to Israel, in addition to fighting squadrons that engaged the The Israeli air force over Sinai.
As it comes to dictsarship, given the centuries of foreign domionation in the Arab world, and the cultural and technlogical mess Arab world is facing- a stern uncompromising, yet visionary and dedicated leadership is must to drag Arabs by force into modernity.
@Racoon , of course they did something but also they turned Saddam in to a false idol with 99 names , his family had palaces every where , his sons were bastards and jails were open for anyone dared and said Saddamm was a human being !!
ReplyDeleteZaynab,
ReplyDeleteThat is totally untrue. And what the value of two men- Sadam's sons comapred to an entire nation which as in a very good order. Apart of Sadam's son there was great level of discipline and effciency in governmental instiutions.
Anyway both of his sons died like real MEN.
Now we have Iranian gangs ruling the country steeling the oil form the south and commiting gencides against all patriotic, secular Iraqis , in favour of the new Irani setlers
@Racoon,well real Men do not rape and torture other people
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