So, you've suddenly discovered the horrors in Syria? The torture chambers and hanging ropes in prison cells? Is this news to you? While you've been busy hunting for Israel's alleged "war crimes" in the Gaza Strip, while you've been hounding our soldiers who often died or were wounded because they took extreme care to avoid civilian casualties, the Assad regime has been executing and murdering hundreds and thousands – without trial, without due process.
When the Hague tribunal issued arrest warrants against IDF commanders – a military that "knocks on roofs" before striking terror headquarters and eliminating mass murderers whose declared goal is killing Jews and destroying Israel – Syria was burning bodies, dipping them in acid, and flattening them with hydraulic presses to prevent identification. They erased every piece of evidence.
While you, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, were "deeply concerned" about the humanitarian situation in Gaza and "forced" Israel to feed, sustain, and fuel the enemy that massacred its children, women, and elderly on Oct. 7; while you threatened us with weapons embargoes and withdrawal of diplomatic protection if we didn't comply – thousands of regime opponents in Syria were being tortured in underground chambers filled with filth, blood, and dirt, without daylight. Among them were children, women, young people, and the elderly.
This went on for decades, but at The Hague and the European Union were preoccupied with the State of Israel, from which schools of morality and ethics of warfare will one day teach how to preserve the purity of weapons and combat, even when human monsters, murderers, rapists and abusers hide within a civilian environment, whether sympathetic or hostile.
Good morning to you too, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. When was the last time you addressed the fate of people who simply vanished one dark morning? Have you heard about Rajid al-Tatari, a Syrian Air Force pilot who refused to bomb his own rebelling people and has been tortured for years in the depths of that horrific prison? Did you know the story of Ibrahim Sarahin, a Syrian citizen who was released from prison mentally shattered, weeping and hiding under parked vehicles in terror of his liberators?
Thirty thousand Syrian civilians have been brought to the Saidnaya military facility and executed since the start of the Syrian civil war. How much time has your organization devoted to Israel, the Middle East's only democracy, whose courts and legal system maintain oversight – often excessive and extreme – over its military operations? A democracy that grants rights, sometimes even excessive rights, to murderers who slaughtered, raped, and tortured our children and women on Oct. 7?
The world's hypocrisy isn't new, but the documented atrocities from Syria provide an opportunity to shine a spotlight on it. The nations of the world and their courts have nearly unlimited time, resources, and means to harass a country whose military is the most ethical in the world, to condemn it, to lie, and even to disrupt its campaign against terrorism.
On the other hand, with the Assad regime, the father and the son, and with the terrorist armies of Hamas and Hezbollah, or with the PA that engaged in terrorism and still provides support for terrorism, it has neither the time nor the desire to deal with it. The Palestinians and their lies have been beating us in the battle for world propaganda for years. The events in Syria are an opportunity to balance the picture somewhat, to strike while the iron is hot, and to present to the world what genocide really is and what crimes against humanity really are, to sharpen the difference between those who move a population into fresh humanitarian corridors, so that it will not be harmed, and those who bomb a population from the air with conventional or chemical weapons, slaughter its own citizens and drive its opponents underground for 25 years.
