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Syria’s president avoiding calls from UN Secretary General

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, facing international pressure over his crackdown on anti-government protests, has been avoiding calls from U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said that Ban tried to reach Assad several times, but he would not come to the phone.

“The Secretary General has been keen to speak to Assad. He tried to place a call yesterday but unfortunately the president was not available,” Nesirky said Friday evening. “He tried to place the call more than one time but he was not available.”

On Friday, the Secretary General issued a note highlighting his deep concern over the continuing violence in Syria and its heavy toll on the civilian population and called on the government to respect the rights of the Syrian people.

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43 responses to “Syria’s president avoiding calls from UN Secretary General”

  1. Patience2 Avatar
    Patience2

    When cornered by reason and goodness, what is a poor Hyena to do??

  2. Patience2 Avatar
    Patience2

    When cornered by reason and goodness, what is a poor Hyena to do??

  3. Avatar
    Anonymous

    When cornered by reason and goodness, what is a poor Hyena to do??

  4. feorio Avatar
    feorio

    I can imagin the “Wawee” not “Assad” by any means saying “eh 2llo ana moo hon” What a coward by all means.

  5. Avatar
    Anonymous

    I can imagin the “Wawee” not “Assad” by any means saying “eh 2llo ana moo hon” What a coward by all means.

  6. eblashko Avatar
    eblashko

    Maybe it’s because he realized that the UN is a joke. I mean, they had a resolution calling for Hezbollah to disarm and look how well that worked. Bashar just knows there will be no consequences for ignoring them. 

  7. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Maybe it’s because he realized that the UN is a joke. I mean, they had a resolution calling for Hezbollah to disarm and look how well that worked. Bashar just knows there will be no consequences for ignoring them. 

  8. UrOtherSide Avatar
    UrOtherSide

    He should also be calling Netanyahu to ask him to stop settlements, oppression of palestinains, and reduce his nuclear stock piles .. but he is not.

    1. eblashko Avatar
      eblashko

      I think the slaughter of 1,500 Syrian civilians is more pressing. 

    2. eblashko Avatar
      eblashko

      I think the slaughter of 1,500 Syrian civilians is more pressing. 

    3. Hannibal Avatar
      Hannibal

      That nuclear joke is so tired… I mean listen to yourself, let’s assume that Israel has nuclear bombs, what can they do with them? nuke themselves? The entire area is the size of a roach’s ass and a nuke deployed in Damascus will be felt in Jerusalem for generations. It is just a security blanket for the Israelis… They will never use it. However, they should stop settlements and even retreat and demarcate the borders with Palestine like the Syrians should do with Lebanon where miles and miles have been taken on our eastern borders by the Syrians. They literally live on occupied Lebanese land and in no way different than Israeli occupation of Shebaa.

      1. eblashko Avatar
        eblashko

        You’re right. But there’s a big difference between Shebaa and other occupied land. Nobody lives in Sheba. And whether or not it’s actually Lebanese, we took it from Syria, not Lebanon.

        Plus, I’m all for giving back land for peace, but I’m not all for giving up land for free, which, in the case of S. Lebanon in 2000 and Gaza in 2005, only brought rockets from the area we vacated. If the Lebanese said clearly and definitely, that you’ll offer Israel peace in exchange for Shebaa, we’d be out of there faster than you could blink your eyes.

        Unfortunately, Hezbollah has taken the opposite position: (From YaLibnan 2 years ago) “Hezbollah has vowed not to give up its arms even if Israel pulled out of the disputed Shebaa Farms area in south Lebanon. Any withdrawal from Shebaa Farms “will not change the fact that Lebanon needs the resistance,” Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah said.”

        That’s not very reassuring for the average Israeli.

        1. Hannibal Avatar
          Hannibal

          Hezbollah is NOT Lebanon… It is a state within a state, like the PLO before them. Of course they won’t give up their arms… This is how they terrorize the Lebanese people not Israel. The problem with Israel is that they need to stop looking at Arab or non-Arab Middle Eastern countries as “us vs. them”… As there is no such a thing as them. You will be surprised to find that there are more people willing to live with the Israelis than not. By “living” I mean permanency as peace agreements can be broken anytime. That being said, the BIGGEST mistake Israel did (listening to Bush) is attack ALL of Lebanon in 2006. Sometimes it is very hard to mend broken wings. That general and his administration were idiots. They should never ever attack indiscriminately… My village was in the North of Lebanon and they were celebrating a Christian holiday and many were outdoors, and albeit that the pilot did not hit any civilians, just roads and bridges, it scared the shit out of people and turned public opinion against Israel and away from Hezbollah who instigated the problem in the first place.

        2. Hannibal Avatar
          Hannibal

          BTW what is an Israeli Jew doing typing on a keyboard on a Sabbath? 😛

        3. Hannibal Avatar
          Hannibal

          BTW what is an Israeli Jew doing typing on a keyboard on a Sabbath? 😛

      2. eblashko Avatar
        eblashko

        You’re totally right about everything you said. I know Hezbollah is not Lebanon (just like Hamas is not Palestine). That doesn’t mean that we in Israel still shouldn’t fear them. However, I have great faith that most Lebanese wish to live side by side with us in peace, more than all other Arabic speaking countries. That’s why I write on this site. Lebanon is a cultured, enlightened, Western place. Compared to other Arabic-speaking countries like Yemen or Sudan, you look like us, dress like us, cook like us, party like us, and think like us. Aside from the language, religion, and what side of the blue line they were born on, most Israelis and most Lebanese are exactly the same.

        You’re also totally right about Israel’s mistakes in the 2006 War. It was terrible, and we know it. Like you said, what does a Christian village in N. Lebanon have to do with Hezbollah? In fact, there was a wikileak about it, about how the Lebanese Christians were helping us during the war until we started bombing their bridges. We just attacked like a big, dumb, bull in the bull-fighting ring that has just been poked with a hot poker. But as you may know, as a consequence, the Defense Minister and the Chief of Staff resigned and Olmert’s popularity plummeted. And as bad as Netanyahu is for peace, he’s good for war, and if there is another war with Hezbollah, I’m sure that we’ll be much more precise with our targets, Christian villages will be kept out of it, civilian lives will be spared, and that only the Hezbollah dogs will suffer.

        And you’re also right about how we (most Israelis) look at the Arabs as us vs. them. It’s interesting you say “us vs. them”. I thought of that same phrase vis-a-vis the conflict once. I was in South America, in a bar in Ecuador with a lot of tourists, and a bar fight erupted between an Egyptian guy and a Russian guy. My immediate gut reaction and instinct was to side with the Egyptian guy, I guess because despite our differences, he’s my neighbor. Then I thought to myself how weird that was that I automatically sided with him, since if the circumstances were different, we’d be trying to kill each other.

        It all reminded me of the famous Bedouin saying “me against my brother, me and my brother against my cousins, me and my brother and my cousins against the world.” I dream of the day when we Semitic cousins (the Hebrew ones who’ve returned to the region and the Phoenician ones who never left) can put our petty differences aside and remove the outside Persian influence and threat that’s trying to turn our beautiful homeland into another Gaza or Iraq.

        As far as typing on Shabbat, let’s just say that if god actually does exist and the torah is actually his law, then breaking Shabbat is the least of my worries 😉

      3. 316909 Avatar
        316909

        Wish ya libnan would add a delete comment button. I clicked the post as button twice and my comment posted twice… Also a dont like button would be nice so people that others consider to be stupid can know how stupid they are.

        1. eblashko Avatar
          eblashko

           I don’t think America would have used those bombs that they used to bomb Japan if they were fighting Canada or Mexico.

        2. eblashko Avatar
          eblashko

           I don’t think America would have used those bombs that they used to bomb Japan if they were fighting Canada or Mexico.

      4. 316909 Avatar
        316909

        They have tactical nukes. Not all Nukes are designed to do the same amount of damage. A small “tactical” nuke can be used to clear an area of up to 5000 m2 and all the way up to destroying a city. Dropping a H-Bomb on Syria would destroy the middle east but a bomb like the two used on Japan would only destroy a city. Pakistan for example only has short range med sized nukes and so do India. I dont know what Israel have but if they do have nukes Im sure they didnt design them to damage Israel if used.

        1. 316909 Avatar
          316909

          No Eblashko maybe not but that was 66 years ago and the 2 bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first ever developed. These days small nukes called tactical nukes have been developed by the U.S Army. Even the bombs dropped on Japan did not damage much more than the Immediate blast radius. Basically the amount of enriched plutonium in a bomb determines the destructive capabilities and blast radius. The city of Hiroshima was basically only moved about 100km from where it was originally build before it was nuked a few years after the blast. You may have signs of radiation in areas a few hundred km away but no destruction and the radiation will eventually go. I watched a lot of history channel, Discovery channel and buy tons of documentaries mainly about history and military.

        2. 316909 Avatar
          316909

          No Eblashko maybe not but that was 66 years ago and the 2 bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first ever developed. These days small nukes called tactical nukes have been developed by the U.S Army. Even the bombs dropped on Japan did not damage much more than the Immediate blast radius. Basically the amount of enriched plutonium in a bomb determines the destructive capabilities and blast radius. The city of Hiroshima was basically only moved about 100km from where it was originally build before it was nuked a few years after the blast. You may have signs of radiation in areas a few hundred km away but no destruction and the radiation will eventually go. I watched a lot of history channel, Discovery channel and buy tons of documentaries mainly about history and military.

      5. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Dropping a ‘Really-Big-Boy’ or two at this end of the Mediterranean would bring some peace and quiet for most of the rest of the world for a while (happy thought), and stop all the chest-thumping, but it might render the beaches useless – hmmm – perhaps … and the lovely ladies wouldn’t be on them either.  Best idea is to simply let women take over and become the leaders of governments, since they are obviously smarter anyway. No good mother ever wanted to send a son to war, after all, and they sure know about running things economically. Best ‘tactical’ weapon anywhere as I see it.

  9. Avatar
    Anonymous

    He should also be calling Netanyahu to ask him to stop settlements, oppression of palestinains, and reduce his nuclear stock piles .. but he is not.

    1. Avatar
      Anonymous

      I think the slaughter of 1,500 Syrian civilians is more pressing. 

    2. Avatar
      Anonymous

      I think the slaughter of 1,500 Syrian civilians is more pressing. 

    3. Hannibal Avatar
      Hannibal

      That nuclear joke is so tired… I mean listen to yourself, let’s assume that Israel has nuclear bombs, what can they do with it? nuke themselves? The entire area is the size of a roach’s ass and a nuke deployed in Damascus will be felt in Jerusalem for generations. It is just a security blanket for the Israelis… They will never use it. However, they should stop settlements and even retreat and demarcate the borders with Palestine like the Syrians should do with Lebanon where miles and miles have been taken on our eastern borders by the Syrians. They literally live on occupied Lebanese land and in no way different than Israeli occupation of Shebaa.

      1. Avatar
        Anonymous

        You’re right. But there’s a big difference between Shebaa and other occupied land. Nobody lives in Sheba. And whether or not it’s actually Lebanese, we took it from Syria, not Lebanon.

        Plus, I’m all for giving back land for peace, but I’m not all for giving up land for free, which, in the case of S. Lebanon in 2000 and Gaza in 2005, only brought rockets from the area we vacated. If the Lebanese said clearly and definitely, that you’ll offer Israel peace in exchange for Shebaa, we’d be out of there faster than you could blink your eyes.

        Unfortunately, Hezbollah has taken the opposite position: (From YaLibnan 2 years ago) “Hezbollah has vowed not to give up its arms even if Israel pulled out of
        the disputed Shebaa Farms area in south Lebanon. Any withdrawal from
        Shebaa Farms “will not change the fact that Lebanon needs the
        resistance,” Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah said.”

        That’s not very reassuring for the average Israeli.

        1. Hannibal Avatar
          Hannibal

          Hezbollah is NOT Lebanon… It is a state within a state, like the PLO before them. Of course they won’t give up their arms… This is how they terrorize the Lebanese people not Israel. The problem with Israel is that they need to stop looking at Arab or non-Arab Middle Eastern countries as “us vs. them”… As there is no such a thing as them. You will be surprised to find that there are more people willing to live with the Israelis than not. By “living” I mean permanency as peace agreements can be broken anytime. That being said, the BIGGEST mistake Israel did (listening to Bush) is attack ALL of Lebanon in 2006. Sometimes it is very hard to mend broken wings. That general and his administration were idiots. They should never ever attack indiscriminately… My village was in the North of Lebanon and they were celebrating a Christian holiday and many were outdoors, and albeit that the pilot did not hit any civilians, just roads and bridges, it scared the shit out of people and turned public opinion against Israel and away from Hezbollah who instigated the problem in the first place.

        2. Hannibal Avatar
          Hannibal

          BTW what is an Israeli Jew doing typing on a keyboard on a Sabbath? 😛

        3. Hannibal Avatar
          Hannibal

          BTW what is an Israeli Jew doing typing on a keyboard on a Sabbath? 😛

      2. Avatar
        Anonymous

        You’re totally right about everything you said. I know Hezbollah is not Lebanon (just like Hamas is not Palestine). That doesn’t mean that we in Israel still shouldn’t fear them. However, I have great faith that most Lebanese wish to live side by side with us in peace, more than all other Arabic speaking countries. That’s why I write on this site. Lebanon is a cultured, enlightened, Western place. Compared to other Arabic-speaking countries like Yemen or Sudan, you look like us, dress like us, cook like us, party like us, and think like us. Aside from the language, religion, and what side of the blue line they were born on, most Israelis and most Lebanese are exactly the same.

        You’re also totally right about Israel’s mistakes in the 2006 War. It was terrible, and we know it. Like you said, what does a Christian village in N. Lebanon have to do with Hezbollah? In fact, there was a wikileak about it, about how the Lebanese Christians were helping us during the war until we started bombing their bridges. We just attacked like a big, dumb, bull in the bull-fighting ring that has just been poked with a hot poker. But as you may know, as a consequence, the Defense Minister and the Chief of Staff resigned and Olmert’s popularity plummeted. And as bad as Netanyahu is for peace, he’s good for war, and if there is another war with Hezbollah, I’m sure that we’ll be much more precise with our targets, Christian villages will be kept out of it, civilian lives will be spared, and that only the Hezbollah dogs will suffer.

        And you’re also right about how we (most Israelis) look at the Arabs as us vs. them. It’s interesting you say “us vs. them”. I thought of that same phrase vis-a-vis the conflict once. I was in South America, in a bar in Ecuador with a lot of tourists, and a bar fight erupted between an Egyptian guy and a Russian guy. My immediate gut reaction and instinct was to side with the Egyptian guy, I guess because despite our differences, he’s my neighbor. Then I thought to myself how weird that was that I automatically sided with him, since if the circumstances were different, we’d be trying to kill each other.

        It all reminded me of the famous Bedouin saying “me against my brother, me and my brother against my cousins, me and my brother and my cousins against the world.” I dream of the day when we Semitic cousins (the Hebrew ones who just returned to the region and Phoenician the ones who have stayed the whole time) can put our petty differences aside and remove the outside Persian influence and threat that’s trying to turn our beautiful homeland into another Gaza or Iraq.

        As far as typing on Shabbat, let’s just say that if god actually does exist and the torah is actually his law, then breaking Shabbat is the least of my worries 😉

      3. Avatar
        Anonymous

        They have tactical nukes. Not all Nukes are designed to do the same amount of damage. A small “tactical” nuke can be used to clear an area of up to 5000 m2 and all the way up to destroying a city. Dropping a H-Bomb on Syria would destroy the middle east but a bomb like the two used on Japan would only destroy a city. Pakistan for example only has short range med sized nukes and so do India. I dont know what Israel have but if they do have nukes Im sure they didnt design them to damage Israel if used.

        1. Avatar
          Anonymous

           I don’t think America would have used those bombs that they used to bomb Japan if they were fighting Canada or Mexico.

      4. Avatar
        Anonymous

        They have tactical nukes. Not all Nukes are designed to do the same amount of damage. A small “tactical” nuke can be used to clear an area of up to 5000 m2 and all the way up to destroying a city. Dropping a H-Bomb on Syria would destroy the middle east but a bomb like the two used on Japan would only destroy a city. Pakistan for example only has short range med sized nukes and so do India. I dont know what Israel have but if they do have nukes Im sure they didnt design them to damage Israel if used.

      5. Avatar
        Anonymous

        They have tactical nukes. Not all Nukes are designed to do the same amount of damage. A small “tactical” nuke can be used to clear an area of up to 5000 m2 and all the way up to destroying a city. Dropping a H-Bomb on Syria would destroy the middle east but a bomb like the two used on Japan would only destroy a city. Pakistan for example only has short range med sized nukes and so do India. I dont know what Israel have but if they do have nukes Im sure they didnt design them to damage Israel if used.

        1. Avatar
          Anonymous

          No Eblashko maybe not but that was 66 years ago and the 2 bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first ever developed. These days small nukes called tactical nukes have been developed by the U.S Army. Even the bombs dropped on Japan did not damage much more than the Immediate blast radius. Basically the amount of enriched plutonium in a bomb determines the destructive capabilities and blast radius. The city of Hiroshima was basically only moved about 100km from where it was originally build before it was nuked a few years after the blast. You may have signs of radiation in areas a few hundred km away but no destruction and the radiation will eventually go. I watched a lot of history channel, Discovery channel and buy tons of documentaries mainly about history and military.

      6. Avatar
        Anonymous

        They have tactical nukes. Not all Nukes are designed to do the same amount of damage. A small “tactical” nuke can be used to clear an area of up to 5000 m2 and all the way up to destroying a city. Dropping a H-Bomb on Syria would destroy the middle east but a bomb like the two used on Japan would only destroy a city. Pakistan for example only has short range med sized nukes and so do India. I dont know what Israel have but if they do have nukes Im sure they didnt design them to damage Israel if used.

      7. Avatar
        Anonymous

        Dropping a ‘Really-Big-Boy’ or two at this end of the Mediterranean would bring some peace and quiet for most of the rest of the world for a while (happy thought), and stop all the chest-thumping, but it might render the beaches useless – hmmm – perhaps … and the lovely ladies wouldn’t be on them either.  Best idea is to simply let women take over and become the leaders of governments, since they are obviously smarter anyway. No good mother ever wanted to send a son to war, after all, and they sure know about running things economically. Best ‘tactical’ weapon anywhere as I see it.

  10. Avatar
    Anonymous

    He should also be calling Netanyahu to ask him to stop settlements, oppression of palestinains, and reduce his nuclear stock piles .. but he is not.

  11. antar2011 Avatar
    antar2011

    not only he Bashaar is a criminal but an arrogant one too.

  12. Avatar
    Anonymous

    not only he Bashaar is a criminal but an arrogant one too.

  13. Avatar
    Anonymous

    not only he Bashaar is a criminal but an arrogant one too.

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