{"id":28448,"date":"2024-12-15T09:32:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T09:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/the-world-failed-to-save-syria-now-its-people-must-be-free-to-chart-their-own-path-simon-tisdall\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T09:32:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T09:32:26","slug":"the-world-failed-to-save-syria-now-its-people-must-be-free-to-chart-their-own-path-simon-tisdall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/the-world-failed-to-save-syria-now-its-people-must-be-free-to-chart-their-own-path-simon-tisdall\/","title":{"rendered":"The world failed to save Syria. Now its people must be free\u00a0to\u00a0chart their own path | Simon Tisdall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Self-serving meddling by Israel, Turkey and other foreign powers puts the revolution at risk. They should back off now<\/p>\n<p>United in duplicity, if nothing else, Russia, Iran, Turkey and the US \u2013 key external players in Syria\u2019s long-running drama \u2013 all agreed. The country\u2019s \u201csovereignty, unity and territorial integrity\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/g7-leaders-statement-on-syria-12-december-2024\">must be respected and maintained<\/a>, each separately declared last week after Bashar al-Assad\u2019s sudden, welcome downfall.<\/p>\n<p>Even Israel, recklessly bombing Syria to blazes in the Jewish state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdx921zreweo\">largest ever military operation<\/a>, denied it was interfering in the country\u2019s internal affairs. Such cynicism is breathtaking. Like ravening wolves, supposed friends and neighbours tug at the still twitching corpse of the deposed regime. Unchecked, they could tear Syria apart, again.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/15\/the-world-failed-to-save-syria-now-its-people-must-be-free-to-chart-their-own-path\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-serving meddling by Israel, Turkey and other foreign powers puts the revolution at risk. They should back off now United in duplicity, if nothing else, Russia, Iran, Turkey and the US \u2013 key external players in Syria\u2019s long-running drama \u2013 all agreed. The country\u2019s \u201csovereignty, unity and territorial integrity\u201d must be respected and maintained, each &#8230; <a title=\"The world failed to save Syria. Now its people must be free\u00a0to\u00a0chart their own path | Simon Tisdall\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/the-world-failed-to-save-syria-now-its-people-must-be-free-to-chart-their-own-path-simon-tisdall\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The world failed to save Syria. Now its people must be free\u00a0to\u00a0chart their own path | Simon Tisdall\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}