Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Reading media reports of the fighting in east Ghouta over the last few days has triggered an eery sense of déjà vu.
It is like taking a time machine back to the autumn of 2016 and listening to all the arguments over the fighting in Aleppo all over again.
Just as in 2016 the reports concern fighting between the Syrian military and a large force of Jihadis - in both cases around 10-15,000 men - trapped in a district of one of Syria's two main cities.
In 2016 it was eastern Aleppo; this time it is east Ghouta, which is a suburb of Syria's capital Damascus.
Just as in 2016 the presence of these violent Jihadi terrorists is being ignored, with the fighters 'defending' east Ghouta more often referred to in the Western media as 'moderate rebels' rather than the Al-Qaeda and ISIS affiliated Jihadi militants that they actually are.
Just as in 2016 the air waves and the presses are full of furious denunciations of Syrian and Russian bombing.
There is again talk of barrel bombs and of the supposedly intentional bombing of hospitals, though the military logic of deliberately bombing hospitals is never explained and entirely escapes me.
As was the case with the bombing of eastern Aleppo in 2016 much emphasis is given to the killing of children, with vivid pictures plastered all over the media of dead or injured children, to the point where at times it almost seems as if most of the people being killed in east Ghouta are children.
In 2016 there were no Western reporters in eastern Aleppo to observe and report about the bombing there.
Today in east Ghouta there are also no Western reporters present to observe and report about the bombing there.
Just as was the case in eastern Aleppo in 2016 so in east Ghouta today the presence of Western reporters is impossible because the violent Jihadi terrorists who in the autumn of 2016 were in control of eastern Aleppo, and the violent Jihadis who are in control of east Ghouta today, would kill or kidnap without hesitation any Western reporter foolish enough to go there.
The result is that just as was the case in 2016 in Aleppo, the reports of the bombing in east Ghouta come entirely from 'local sources' whose accuracy and objectivity (given that they are reporting from an Al-Qaeda controlled area) must be in doubt.
Moreover the same organisation - the White Helmets - is prominently involved in both places and on both occasions.
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The Duran
Reading media reports of the fighting in east Ghouta over the last few days has triggered an eery sense of déjà vu.
It is like taking a time machine back to the autumn of 2016 and listening to all the arguments over the fighting in Aleppo all over again.
Just as in 2016 the reports concern fighting between the Syrian military and a large force of Jihadis - in both cases around 10-15,000 men - trapped in a district of one of Syria's two main cities.
In 2016 it was eastern Aleppo; this time it is east Ghouta, which is a suburb of Syria's capital Damascus.
Just as in 2016 the presence of these violent Jihadi terrorists is being ignored, with the fighters 'defending' east Ghouta more often referred to in the Western media as 'moderate rebels' rather than the Al-Qaeda and ISIS affiliated Jihadi militants that they actually are.
Just as in 2016 the air waves and the presses are full of furious denunciations of Syrian and Russian bombing.
There is again talk of barrel bombs and of the supposedly intentional bombing of hospitals, though the military logic of deliberately bombing hospitals is never explained and entirely escapes me.
As was the case with the bombing of eastern Aleppo in 2016 much emphasis is given to the killing of children, with vivid pictures plastered all over the media of dead or injured children, to the point where at times it almost seems as if most of the people being killed in east Ghouta are children.
In 2016 there were no Western reporters in eastern Aleppo to observe and report about the bombing there.
Today in east Ghouta there are also no Western reporters present to observe and report about the bombing there.
Just as was the case in eastern Aleppo in 2016 so in east Ghouta today the presence of Western reporters is impossible because the violent Jihadi terrorists who in the autumn of 2016 were in control of eastern Aleppo, and the violent Jihadis who are in control of east Ghouta today, would kill or kidnap without hesitation any Western reporter foolish enough to go there.
The result is that just as was the case in 2016 in Aleppo, the reports of the bombing in east Ghouta come entirely from 'local sources' whose accuracy and objectivity (given that they are reporting from an Al-Qaeda controlled area) must be in doubt.
Moreover the same organisation - the White Helmets - is prominently involved in both places and on both occasions.
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