West seeks to divide Syria into ethnic groups: Activist
Press TV has interviewed Jacob Cohen, an author and activist in Beirut, to discuss Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s remarks about airstrikes launched by the UK and France against purported positions of Daesh Takfiri terrorists in the Arab country.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Looking at what the Syrian President has said, he has condemned London and Paris for their airstrikes saying that they are against international law and saying that it will only increase terrorism in the region. Do you see it that way too?
Cohen: Yes because we have to explain why the West - France and Britain – make the war to Syria. It is not to bring peace and understanding in this country. Their aim is to put this country down and to divide it into ethnic groups and they had the same aim in Iraq and in Libya. And in Syria we are provided during these last five years with men, with arms, with money and their intention is to create chaos in this country and not help find a solution. And all these hundreds of thousands of people who had to go away and the chaos they created into the region will develop the actions of terrorism.
Press TV: So if that is how the goals of the West are when it comes to Syria, what about the Russian airstrikes? Why are they any different?
Cohen: Well, you know, I am not a military man but it is obvious that if the West wanted to crackdown on the terrorist groups - Daesh who came with thousands of cars - it would have been very easy to stop them and the difference with the Russians [is that] they really bombard the bases of the terrorist group. They destroyed their oil traffic and since one month we can see the difference between the bombardments of Russia and the West. And the West now is obliged to catch up and to do the same thing because nowadays it is clear that the West did not do anything to fight the terrorists and now they have to do, at least give the impression that they do so.
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