\tLa guerre g\u00e9n\u00e9rale en Syrie ? DEBKAFiles<\/em> abonde dans ce sens (le 26 juin 2013<\/a>), notamment \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re de l’\u00e9trange nouvelle de l’\u00e9vacuation de Russes de Syrie (voir Novosti, le 27 juin 2013<\/a>), y compris de leur base de Tartus (Novosti, le 26 juin 2013<\/a>). Quoi qu’il en soit, cela doit faire, en 18 mois, une bonne douzaine de fois que DEBKAFiles<\/em> annonce un conflit g\u00e9n\u00e9ral en Syrie. Sera-ce la bonne ? Il para\u00eet que les circonstances s’y pr\u00eatent : \u00abFor now, tempers are heating up between Washington and Moscow on Syria and other things too, notably the elusive American fugitive Edward Snowden.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tQuelle tr\u00e8s \u00e9trange situation que cette guerre syrienne, l’un des centres en fusion de la crise haute<\/a>, avec le nouveau centre que constitue la crise NSA\/Snowden, et l’un li\u00e9 \u00e0 l’autre par leurs effets comme on le lit dans le citation ci-dessus de DEBAKAFiles<\/em>. Par cons\u00e9quent, dans cette \u00e9trange ambiance de ni\u00e8me proximit\u00e9 de l’affrontement g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, vient se poser devant vos yeux le non moins \u00e9trange cas de Tal Kalakh, tel que le d\u00e9taille Patrick Cockburn, le seul journaliste \u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s s\u00fbr de The Independent<\/em> (son reportage du 25 juin 2013<\/a>). La ville de Tal Kalakh vient d’\u00eatre reprise par l’arm\u00e9e syrienne, ce week-end. Les conditions de cette reprise sont diversement appr\u00e9ci\u00e9es : l’arm\u00e9e syrienne y voit une capitulation des rebelles d\u00e9courag\u00e9s par la chute de Qusayr ; des rebelles ralli\u00e9s, que Cockburn a rencontr\u00e9s, y voient plut\u00f4t l’effet de leur propre d\u00e9senchantement de la bataille men\u00e9e par leur propre bord de l’Arm\u00e9e Syrienne Libre, manipul\u00e9e par autant de puissances \u00e9trang\u00e8res que de factions internes, gangren\u00e9e par les divers groupes \u00e9trangers islamistes ou simplement du crime organis\u00e9e, sous les exclamations \u00e9namour\u00e9es des salons et \u00e9ditorialistes parisiens nous entretenant de la d\u00e9mocratie et des droits de l’homme. Pendant qu’Aljazeera, la station-TV du Qatar lib\u00e9r\u00e9, nous rendait compte des volutes de fum\u00e9e montant de Tal Kalakh et t\u00e9moignant de l’intensit\u00e9 de la r\u00e9sistance des h\u00e9ro\u00efques rebelles, Cockburn se baladait dans les rues de la susdite Tal Kalakh, causait ici et l\u00e0, rencontrait des soldats syriens semblant plut\u00f4t en permission qu’en action, et s’entretenait principalement avec le volubile Khalid al-Eid, Syrien, r\u00e9volt\u00e9 de la premi\u00e8re heure, et chef rebelle effectivement ralli\u00e9 \u00e0 l’arm\u00e9e d’Assad. Quant au reste, et notamment au journalisme postmoderne d’Aljazeera et \u00e0 ses nouvelles diffus\u00e9es en toute libert\u00e9, mise \u00e0 part celle de quelques cigarettes, \u00e0 Tal Kalakh point de fum\u00e9e. Voici donc ce qui pourrait \u00eatre la paix en Syrie, \u00e9videmment et malheureusement, sans l’apport enrichissant de l’hyst\u00e9rie du bloc BAO multipli\u00e9 par l’hyst\u00e9rie du Syst\u00e8me ; on comprend bien qu’\u00e0 ce compte de l’absence de la touche BAO, et paraphrasant le jugement sur Assad du successeur de Vergennes dans le fameux bureau du Quai d’Orsay, la paix ne m\u00e9rite pas d’exister… <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abOnce a rebel stronghold, the town of Tal Kalakh on the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon changed sides at the week-end and is now controlled by the Syrian army. The switch in allegiance is the latest advance by government forces into areas where they have had little or no authority since the start of the revolt in Syria two years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe government is triumphant at the surrender of 39 local leaders of the rebel Free Syrian Army with their weapons, which were ceremoniously stacked against the outside wall of the town’s military headquarters. The exact terms of the deal are mysterious, but there is no doubt that the regular Syrian army now holds all parts of Tal Kalakh, which had a pre-war population of 55,000 and is an important smuggling route for arms and ammunition from Lebanon a couple of miles to the south. Syrian army commanders claimed the reason the rebels had given up in the town so easily was because of their defeat in the battle for the similarly strategically important town of Qusayr, 20 miles away, earlier in June.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe Syrian opposition denied that the town had fallen, saying that there was still fighting going on there. In a three-hour visit, I saw no sign of it. Soldiers and civilians looked relaxed and there were no indications of recent destruction, though there are plenty of buildings damaged by shellfire or pockmarked with bullet holes from fighting in 2011 or 2012. The pro-rebel Al-Jazeera Arabic satellite television channel claimed smoke was rising from the town. I did not see or smell any. The rebels’ strenuous denial that they had lost an important town without a fight may show a certain desperation on their part. Ahmed Munir, the governor of Homs province, which includes Tal Kalakh, pointed out in an interview that the Syrian army had moved into the town just as 11 major powers, including the US, Britain, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, meeting in Qatar, had promised the rebels more weapons and equipment.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbA local FSA commander, who said his name was Khalid al-Eid, explained that he had gone over to the government side along with 20 men he led because of general disillusionment with the uprising. A paunchy man in his early thirties with a black beard and a red baseball cap, he appeared self-confident and almost truculent as he talked about his life as an FSA leader. He said that before the uprising, he used to work as a policeman during the day-time and in the family perfume shop in the evening. He seemed assured he would be able to return to his old routine.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbListening to him impassively were Syrian army officers and some civilians, including Khalid al-Eid’s father, who expelled his son from the family home when he joined the FSA. The deal that brought the army back into Tal Kalakh appears to have been brokered by leading citizens of the town who did not want it to become a battleground again. The devastating destruction at Qusayr when it was stormed over two weeks by the Syrian army and the Lebanese Shia militia Hezbollah gave a sense of urgency to the final negotiations.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbTal Kalakh may be peaceful now but it has seen much fighting in the recent past. There is an elaborate military checkpoint at the entrance to the town just off the Homs-Tartus main road where documents are checked. The atmosphere in the military headquarters housed in an administrative building of a large grain silo was relaxed, as if nobody expected to do more fighting. The buildings immediately in front of the army’s positions had been wrecked by cannon fire and looked as if they had been abandoned. Armed rebellion had started early in Tal Khalak in May 2011, probably because its position on the Lebanese border made it easy to smuggle in weapons.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tVoici maintenant quelques indications plus g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de Cockburn. On y voit les arrangements, la coop\u00e9ration g\u00e9n\u00e9rale ponctu\u00e9e d’\u00e9pisodes tr\u00e8s pratiques et de quelques marchandages, dans une atmosph\u00e8re plut\u00f4t bon enfant qui scandalisera sans aucun doute les m\u00eames salons et \u00e9ditorialistes parisiens d\u00e9j\u00e0 cit\u00e9s. Un eccl\u00e9siastique catholique, monseigneur Michel Naaman, y jour un r\u00f4le essentiel de n\u00e9gociateur et de peace-broker<\/em> comme aiment \u00e0 dire les Anglo-Saxons. (Certes, pendant ce temps, comme pour \u00e9quilibrer la chose dans le sens de notre civilisation \u00e9ventuellement chr\u00e9tienne, on apprend l’assassinat, le 23 juin, d’un pr\u00eatre catholique syrien, Fran\u00e7ois Murad, du Couvent de la Custodie de Terre Sainte de Gassanieh, dans la vall\u00e9e de l’Oronte, par une bande islamiste ou l’autre, \u00e9quip\u00e9e de frais. Novosti nous en donne l’interpr\u00e9tation du minist\u00e8re russe des affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res, ce 27 juin 2013<\/a> : \u00abLes pires craintes se confirment: les violences contre les pr\u00eatres chr\u00e9tiens de la part d’extr\u00e9mistes musulmans se poursuivront. Ceci est notamment d\u00fb \u00e0 la livraison d’armes \u00e9trang\u00e8res aux commandos syriens pour qui il n’existe ni barri\u00e8re, ni limite…<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t… Donc, Cockburn \u00e0 nouveau : \u00abEverybody seemed to accept that the Syrian army is back for good. The soldiers in checkpoints were not wearing helmets and often not carrying their weapons, as if they did not expect anybody to attack them. Khalid al-Eid said there had been 300-400 FSA in Tal Kalakh before the army’s return but they must have melted back into the local population under an unofficial amnesty or have gone to Lebanon. Soldiers or guerrillas who have switched sides are often an unreliable source of information about their former colleagues because they denigrate them in a bid to impress their new masters. But Khalid al-Eid did say that his men were paid between $100 and 300 a month and we got an extra $1,000 if we carried out an operation. He described how he would make Youtube films sometimes they show us firing when there was nothing to shoot at which would later be shown on al-Arabiya and al-Jazeera satellite television.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbWhat were the exact terms of the deal that replaced the FSA with the Syrian army? Peace did not break out all of a sudden and it had been preceded by a series of local ceasefires and negotiations arranged by leading local townspeople. Monsignor Michel Naaman, a Syriac Catholic priest in Homs, who has often taken part in mediating such agreements said that older people in the town had seen much of it damaged and did not want it destroyed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbHe adds that there are many other such deals and agreements in the making. For instance in Homs many people have moved to the al-Waar district for safety, its population rising from 150,00 to 700,000. The Old City, which once had 400,000 people in it is almost empty aside from rebel fighters. He says that ceasefires or agreements for rebels to put down their weapons in return for an amnesty are much easier to arrange when all the rebels are Syrians. When there are foreign Salafi or Jihadi fighters present, as there are in the Old City, an agreement is almost impossible.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tSorti de cette vari\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9trange de nouvelles, o\u00f9 les narrative<\/em> semblent sans aucun doute plus attrayantes que la pi\u00e8tre v\u00e9rit\u00e9 de la situation du monde (la paix, comme vous et moi !), on est en droit de rester coi, puis \u00e9ventuellement songeur. Il existe aujourd’hui, au cur de cette civilisation occidentale globalis\u00e9e qui est \u00e0 la fois contre-civilisation et Syst\u00e8me, une allergie profonde, une naus\u00e9e permanente pour tout ce qui se rapproche de la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 du monde. Il serait inutile et peu productif pour la pens\u00e9e de s’en tenir aux exclamations de rigueur, aux r\u00e9f\u00e9rences \u00e0 la morale, aux d\u00e9nonciations des semeurs de troubles, de trahisons et de calomnies. La situation vaut bien plus que cela.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tNous nous trouvons devant un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne historique sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent, qui m\u00e9rite les hypoth\u00e8ses les plus audacieuses, les r\u00e9f\u00e9rences \u00e0 bien d’autres forces que les habituelles et pi\u00e8tres manipulations et manigances humaines. La Syrie est une bonne mesure de la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de penser la crise du monde, et de ce qui nous para\u00eet \u00e9videmment et \u00e9galement comme la crise d’effondrement du Syst\u00e8me, en d’autres termes que ceux que nous impose la fr\u00e9quentation habituelle et in\u00e9vitable de ce monde et du Syst\u00e8me. Pour tenter au moins de mesurer et \u00e9ventuellement d’appr\u00e9cier intuitivement ces \u00e9v\u00e9nements, il s’impose de ne plus les conna\u00eetre tels qu’eux-m\u00eames veulent qu’on les connaisse, selon les donn\u00e9es du Syst\u00e8me par cons\u00e9quent, mais bien de les observer d’en-dehors, hors de leur attraction et leur pression. Cela s’appelle l’inconnaissance<\/a>, qui est la meilleure fa\u00e7on, aujourd’hui, de s’y reconna\u00eetre et de se reconna\u00eetre, m\u00eame dans les situations les plus triviales. Il est d’ailleurs \u00e9galement inutile de s’en tenir aux termes de victoire ou de d\u00e9faite de ce qui serait ou pas le notre cause de chacun, toujours \u00e0 l’int\u00e9rieur du Syst\u00e8me, ni m\u00eame aux termes interrogatifs sur la durabilit\u00e9 ou pas du Syst\u00e8me. La seule chose qu’il importe de suivre, c’est bien la course de l’effondrement du Syst\u00e8me, sans m\u00eame se demander si elle a lieu parce qu’il est simplement hautement \u00e9vident, c’est-\u00e0-dire d’une \u00e9vidence bien plus haute que notre pens\u00e9e, qu’il ne peut faire autrement que s’effondrer. La Syrie est n\u00e9cessairement une partie de cette exp\u00e9rience : nous essayons de suivre sans nous y perdre.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 27 juin 2013 \u00e0 14H18<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" La paix en Syrie ? Voyez Tal Kalakh La guerre g\u00e9n\u00e9rale en Syrie ? DEBKAFiles abonde dans ce sens (le 26 juin 2013), notamment \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re de l’\u00e9trange nouvelle de l’\u00e9vacuation de Russes de Syrie (voir Novosti, le 27 juin 2013), y compris de leur base de Tartus (Novosti, le 26 juin 2013). 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