3 February 2014 No 2/3 ISSN 1664-7963 Current Concerns PO Box CH-8044 Zurich Current Concerns Switzerland The international journal for independent thought, ethical standards, moral responsibility, Phone: +41 44 350 65 50 Fax: +41 44 350 65 51 and for the promotion and respect of public international law, human rights and humanitarian law E-Mail:
[email protected] Website: www.currentconcerns.ch English Edition of Zeit-Fragen Syria: From proxy war to peace or chaos? by Prof Dr Eberhard Hamer The opinion-leading media of the world is about the monopoly (and monopoly 1. The Taliban, revolution fighters and Is- hailed the uprisings in North Africa, prices) for oil and gas. lamic fanatics, infiltrated to Syria by Syria or Ukraine as liberation move- – The participation of Israel in Syria cor- the US (CIA), as well as the enlist- ments. Meanwhile, however, it has been responds to the principle established by ed professional troops of American found that these uprisings did not come the Netanyahu government – as by all war companies (Blackwater and oth- from the countries themselves but were previous ones – to destabilise all neigh- ers), formerly used in the North Afri- brought about, financed and controlled bouring countries in order to protect Is- can countries, can practically not be from outside and that it is all a matter of rael. removed without causing mischief else- foreign economic or financial interests or – The US is the chief financier of the peo- where. Nobody wants them anymore. – as in Syria or Ukraine – strategic power ple’s alleged uprising in Syria, direct- So they have to be deployed in order politics.