{"id":27483,"date":"2013-10-21T17:55:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T21:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=27483"},"modified":"2013-10-21T17:55:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T21:55:05","slug":"syrian-rebels-refusal-geneva-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/10\/syrian-rebels-refusal-geneva-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian rebels\u2019 Refusal Geneva 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27506\" title=\"syria-map-200\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/syria-map-200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>The Syrian rebels\u2019 refusal to attend the forthcoming Geneva 2 conference might pave the way for military solution at their expense, a political analyst tells <span class=\"profileLink\">Blaidd Ddwrg International Media<\/span> BDIM<\/div>\n<p><span> \u201cThe Syrian rebels are incorrigible. They simply will not negotiate and that\u2019s the most recent authoritative word we have from the Syrian National Council,\u201d Webster Griffin Tarpley told <\/span><span><span><span class=\"profileLink\">Blaidd Ddwrg International Media<\/span><\/span> on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The so-called Syrian National Coalition (SNC) is set to meet on November 1-2 in the Turkish city of Istanbul to decide whether to participate in the Geneva II conference.<\/p>\n<p>On October 13, a key group within the SNC said it would shun the proposed peace talks in Geneva and withdraw from the coalition if it took part in the conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not participate in a conference that is intended to hide the failure of international politics,&#8221; the Council president George Sabra said.<\/p>\n<p>Russia and the United States have been pushing to bring the Syrian government and the opposition to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p>The Geneva 2 conference is seen as a chance to find a political solution to Syria crisis. The event has been delayed for months, but Moscow and Washington are now trying to fix a date for it in mid-November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, if they won\u2019t negotiate, one might say that those same rebels are making a military solution at their expense inevitable. If they won\u2019t cooperate with some political solution then only the military solution is actually left,\u201d Tarpley noted.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the successes of the Syria army over the past few days, Tarpley said rebels have also been weakened due to infighting and assassinating other groups\u2019 leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Syria has been gripped by deadly unrest since 2011. Reports indicate that the Western powers and their regional allies &#8212; especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey &#8212; are supporting the militants operating inside the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the United Nations, more than 100,000 people have been killed and millions displaced in the violence.<\/p>\n<p><span><span class=\"profileLink\">Blaidd Ddwrg International Media has teams\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span><span class=\"profileLink\"> <span class=\"spell\">embedded<\/span> with both the Syrian Army and the Syrian Rebels. We will continue to bring you news from both sides of this civil war.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Syrian rebels\u2019 refusal to attend the forthcoming Geneva 2 conference might pave the way for military solution at their expense, a political analyst tells Blaidd Ddwrg International Media BDIM&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}