My field trip to ancient Maaloula: Saint Martha vs. America, Zionists, Saudis & ISIS
In his latest book, The Management of Savagery,
Max Blumenthal gently reminds us of the obvious -- that savagery can
never be managed. Once you let the monster out of the bag, it can never
be put back inside again. https://thegrayzone.com/2019/06/14/syrian-network-for-human-rights-opposition-snhr/
This truism is clearly obvious to even the dimmest bulbs on the porch
-- unless of course you are either delusional or in charge of America's
foreign policy. "They may be monsters but they are our monsters." I forget who said that. Perhaps Osama bin Ladin's first American handler back in the good old mujaheddin days?
http://syria.trendolizer.com/2019/09/visit-to-syria-the-reality-our-media-wants-hidden.html
http://syria.trendolizer.com/2019/09/visit-to-syria-the-reality-our-media-wants-hidden.html
"I want to go to Douma and Yarmouk today," I said to the desk clerk at
my hotel in Damascus. "How can I get there? Take a taxi?"
"You could -- but it would be expensive and take you over an hour each way. But why would you even want to go there?"
"To see the very place where the American media made up all those lies
about President Assad using chemical weapons of course," I replied. https://www.claritypress.com/product/axis-of-resistance-towards-an-independent-middle-east-2/
"We have a tour bus leaving for Maaloula in a half-hour. If you are
desiring to see some war-torn ruins, that would be a good place to
start." Plus the tour bus was free. Sure. Sign me up. I got onto the
bus.
"Maaloula is a rocky cliff-side town famous for its ancient Christian
monasteries," said our tour's organizer. "Legend has it that St. Martha
herself retired there in 40 A.D. Residents of Maaloula still speak
Aramaic." Geez Louise, this town is out in the middle of nowhere. How
did Saint Martha even manage to find the place?
"During the proxy invasion of Syria, the Saudis, Americans and
Zionists supported a gang of al-Qaeda-slash-ISIS 'rebels' who terrorized
this town. See that arched gate over there? An ISIS suicide bomber
blew it up first, and then ISIS berserkers rampaged throughout the
city." https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-eastern-syria-relies-isis/5672489
Don't you just hate hypocrisy? When elected officials in Washington constantly claim ad nausea
to be morally holier-than-us just because they name-drop the God-word
on TV all the time -- all the while secretly supporting al Qaeda and
ISIS on the down-low? That's totally un-Christian behavior.
But if Jesus ever had to make a choice between siding with Saint Martha and
the Arab Christians of Maaloula or else siding with the heinous
American, Saudi and Zionist criminals who support ISIS? It's clearly a
no-brainer who he would choose! And all those phony American
"Christians" who always continue to elect and re-elect butchers like
Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump? They ought to be ashamed of
themselves. And Jesus is clearly ashamed of them too. https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-relationship-between-washington-and-isis-the-evidence/5435405
But I digress.
But I digress.
As our brave little bus slowly drove up the steep narrow winding streets of Maaloula, we could still see what was left of various
bombed-out homes, shops and holy places, still clinging precariously to
the cliff walls.
"Al Qaeda forces then asked their Saudi handlers what to do with the
residents of Maaloula. 'Kill them all,' came the reply." Even the U.S.
media had a hard time pretending that these butchers were "rebels" and
"freedom fighters" -- but even the New York Times managed to pull it off. And NPR actually had the nerve to insinuate that these al-Qaeda-slash-ISIS "rebels" were actually saving some brutally kidnapped nuns, not holding them hostage. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/12/19/255548730/rebel-leader-nuns-were-led-to-safety-not-seized-in-syria
Our tour bus continued to wind its way up the steep hillside streets of
Maaloula until we finally came to yet another bombed-out building on
the mountaintop. "This used to be a nice hotel for pilgrims," said our
guide.
The bombed-out
hotel was made even sadder by the sight of the twisted steel of
partially-destroyed playground equipment in front of it. A mangled
slide. A broken teeter-totter. Some metal springs that used to hold up
bouncy plastic animals for kids to ride on -- you've seen stuff like
that in almost every park in America.
"I came here two years ago," said one of the tourists in our group.
"Much government-sponsored restoration work has been done on the monasteries and churches
since then."
And the
pilgrims have also returned as well. I counted eleven huge tour buses
parked outside the Melkite church and another eight tour buses parked
outside St. Martha's former monastery. "If you rebuild it, they will
come."
But wait! It's hot outside. Is anyone selling ice cream in Maaloula? Yes?
Like Jesus resurrecting from the grave, this wonderful town is in the
process of restoring itself. Thank goodness that ISIS is gone! The
Saudis would never have let me eat ice cream. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29058214-the-dirty-war-on-syria-washington-regime-change-and-resistance
Managing savagery is an impossible task. Americans need to finally
realize that and stop arming and training all of their barbaric al-Qaeda-slash-ISIS savages. But first things first. How do you say "ice
cream" in Aramaic?
PS: I
can never really take any of my fellow Americans' petty complaints about
their lives seriously any more -- not after having seen all the pain and suffering that America's dirty proxy "war" on Syria has brought to Maaloula.
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