Adonis: "All Arab regimes, without exception, should fall.. "

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President Obama calls the attacks in Homs “outrageous bloodshed.” The Syrian Regime army of Bashar al-Assad continues to bombard the already ravaged city of Homs, in particular the Baba Amr district. Makeshift hospitals are frustrated, as regime troops have established a blockade to prevent incoming weapons for the rebels, as well as the needed medical supplies. An unnamed witness says that hospitals are overflowing with injured people. There are not enough doctors or medical supplies to care for the wounded, he says. Fighting is reported as well in Idlib to the north, the southern province of Deraa, and within the town of Zabadani, near Damascus.

President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton are continuing to establish a “friends of Syria” group of peace-favoring countries. Obama has sent the Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman to Morocco, France and Bahrain to seek support for the group, and to further define the group mission.

Syria is the home of a man considered by many to be the greatest living Arab poet. At 81 years of age Adonis was the first Arab to win the German Goethe Prize. At that time judges called Adonis “The most important Arab poet of our time.” He was favored by many to win last year’s Nobel Prize for Literature.

Adonis, poet, critic and artist, has been outspoken concerning the bloody rebellion. “I’m very sad,” he says, “I wish that the regime would understand that it has to reform or renew itself and create a new government through free and fair elections.” He declares his personal opposition to violence “in all its forms.” “He wishes,” he says, “that the opposition had not resorted to armed violence. I do not see any justification for its use whatsoever. The world should not interfere, especially not militarily. The Western world should not use this as a pretext to fulfill its own goals in the region.”

Speaking more generally, the poet said, “All Arab regimes, without exception, should fall because these regimes incarnate despotism, oppression and obscurantism.”

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Photo: Ali Ahmad Said Asbar , also known by the pseudonym Adonis or Adunis , is a Syrian poet and essayist who has made his career largely in Lebanon and France. He has written more than twenty books in Arabic language. He has been called the greatest living poet of the Arab world.

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16 responses to “Adonis: "All Arab regimes, without exception, should fall.. "”

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    rossoferrari

    Adonis, I completely agree with you.
    Look at it this way: ARABS regardless of religion are killing ARABS. “Arabs” and add “Muslims” were killed in recent history at the hand of Arabs and Muslims. Why!!!! All for “Keeping on ruling their respective countries” No democracy, no respect for humans nor for their rights. These brutal killers monarchs/leaders think that they are reigning in a herd. What happen to the Palestinian cause, it all died. That was the root cause for arming H/A, Syria, Lebanon….. all to defend Palestine and recapture it from Israel. Hogwash!!!!!!!!
    The Arab world yet trying to modernize itself only to turn BARBARIC against the civilian. Always playing the double cross game…CAN NOT TRUST ANY ARAB nor should even try, bunch of backstabbers with self interest.
    The uprising should not spare no one, but my fear is always replacing the evil with a  worse evil.
    The answer to that is to let the Arabs kill themselves, bomb each other neighborhoods, mosques, churches, gathering places….till they self eliminate. Probably not that easy though, some Arabs are reproducing like rabbits and that is how they believe they are going to conquer and expand the realm of iran. NOT.
    I am angry at all the news media from the middle east, they just seem to foment hate and anger among the viewers: Have you watched recently Press TV from iran, alalam, aljazeera, syrian TV…. It is like reporting the same story with different truth driven to appease politically the commoners and rally behind one ideology is to kill, kill, kill and be killed.
    Israel loves it, someone else is doing the dirty deed for it. I am mad as hell and can only watch the blood streams from the innocents, babies, kids, young ones, old ones and evil ones, WITHOUT a real cause.just to keep assad, a/j/, khomeini, kharzai, hassoun, aoun,…..in power. SHAME

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    Adonis, I completely agree with you.
    Look at it this way: ARABS regardless of religion are killing ARABS. “Arabs” and add “Muslims” were killed in recent history at the hand of Arabs and Muslims. Why!!!! All for “Keeping on ruling their respective countries” No democracy, no respect for humans nor for their rights. These brutal killers monarchs/leaders think that they are reigning in a herd. What happen to the Palestinian cause, it all died. That was the root cause for arming H/A, Syria, Lebanon….. all to defend Palestine and recapture it from Israel. Hogwash!!!!!!!!
    The Arab world yet trying to modernize itself only to turn BARBARIC against the civilian. Always playing the double cross game…CAN NOT TRUST ANY ARAB nor should even try, bunch of backstabbers with self interest.
    The uprising should not spare no one, but my fear is always replacing the evil with a  worse evil.
    The answer to that is to let the Arabs kill themselves, bomb each other neighborhoods, mosques, churches, gathering places….till they self eliminate. Probably not that easy though, some Arabs are reproducing like rabbits and that is how they believe they are going to conquer and expand the realm of iran. NOT.
    I am angry at all the news media from the middle east, they just seem to foment hate and anger among the viewers: Have you watched recently Press TV from iran, alalam, aljazeera, syrian TV…. It is like reporting the same story with different truth driven to appease politically the commoners and rally behind one ideology is to kill, kill, kill and be killed.
    Israel loves it, someone else is doing the dirty deed for it. I am mad as hell and can only watch the blood streams from the innocents, babies, kids, young ones, old ones and evil ones, WITHOUT a real cause.just to keep assad, a/j/, khomeini, kharzai, hassoun, aoun,…..in power. SHAME

  3. I m afraid to say that one thing this regime understands is the use of violence,force and oppression to cling to power!!!!

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    I m afraid to say that one thing this regime understands is the use of violence,force and oppression to cling to power!!!!

  5. If Obama wants to stop the killing,  Then He must stop with His terrorist attacks to Homs,  I mean,  Who is going to believe that The Syrian forces blew themselves?  You need to be STUPID,  like Obama,  to think that We don’t know who is making this killings in Syria,  Is the Economy STUPID! USA a broken country trying to steal another to score one more point for their masters, The Israelis.  Good for You idiots!  

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    If Obama wants to stop the killing,  Then He must stop with His terrorist attacks to Homs,  I mean,  Who is going to believe that The Syrian forces blew themselves?  You need to be STUPID,  like Obama,  to think that We don’t know who is making this killings in Syria,  Is the Economy STUPID! USA a broken country trying to steal another to score one more point for their masters, The Israelis.  Good for You idiots!  

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      (wow … another one … sigh …)

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        lol…the world is full of them..

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      (wow … another one … sigh …)

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      USA is a broken country???? in your dream..i’ve been in the us for 25 years and this is my best year in business, can’t ask for more..life is great here..and if you don’t believe that the syrian army can blow themselves up, u should have lived with us in lebanon during the syrian occupation, then you would have believed..

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         The only thing ‘broken’ around here is the perception of those who would prefer life under the ‘Islamist’ yoke.

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