The
Syrian people are suffering under the ‘moderate rebels’ and
‘opposition forces’ backed by the US, NATO member states and
their allies in the Gulf states and Israel. Yet their suffering is
largely ignored in the mainstream media unless it furthers the agenda
dictated by the State Department.
This
article is the first in a two-part series of one Western journalist’s
journey to Aleppo, a city ravaged by an insurgency supported by the
United States, NATO member states, and their allies in the Gulf
states and Israel. In Part I, Vanessa Beeley lays out the mainstream
narrative on Syria, revealing a neoconservative agenda promoted by
NATO-funded NGOs. These NGOs paint the destruction of the historic
city as being caused by the Syrian government under Bashar Assad, not
the violent armed insurgents which receive arms, funding and training
from Western governments and their allies.
Aleppo
has become synonymous with destruction and “Syrian state-generated”
violence among those whose perception of the situation in the
war-torn nation is contained within the prism of mainstream media
narratives.
The
NATO-aligned media maintains a tight grip on information coming out
of this beleaguered city, ensuring that whatever comes out is
tailored to meet State Department requirements and advocacy for
regime change. The propaganda mill churns out familiar tales of
chemical weapons, siege, starvation and bombs targeting civilians–all
of which are attributed to the Syrian government and military, with
little variation on this theme.
The
purpose of this photo essay and my journey to Aleppo on Aug. 14 was
to discover for myself as a Western journalist the truth behind the
major storylines in the U.S. and NATO narrative on Syria.
City of
Aleppo
As we drove
further into the suburbs of Aleppo the damage became less intense. A
veneer of normality obscured the terror that this city faces each day
as it comes under attack from the armed insurgent groups camped at
the boundaries of their refuge from Salafist extremism and ethnic
cleansing–a threat hugely feared by the religious minorities in
government-held western Aleppo.
Dr. Nabil
Antaki is one of the 4,160 doctors working in western Aleppo who are
largely ignored in the NATO-aligned media. He said minorities, like
those in Shiite Muslim and Christian communities, were terrified that
if the SAA were to be driven back by the assorted aforementioned
terrorist gangs, it would result in a situation similar to that of
Mosul, Iraq, where these minorities would be massacred.
These
minorities, according to Dr. Antaki, were making contingency plans to
leave the city in convoys to attempt to protect themselves from the
terrorist hordes if they did break through SAA defenses.
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