Current political debate - Essay Example

But today, Syria is one of Israel’s most uncompromising opponents and will do anything to gather arms to attack against it and openly speaks against Israel. The recent unrest began in the city Deraa in March 2011. This was the wave of the Arab unrest which started with the Tunisian revolution. But in Syria, it finally arrived when the Deraa’s residents protested against torturing students for putting up a slogan fight against the government. They had written the popular slogan from the uprising in Tunisia and Egypt: “The people want the downfall of the regime” and the protestors later continued to call for democracy and freedom but not the removal of the president.

This anti-government protest reached out to other cities across the country and the army besieged them as the “armed gang and terrorists” (Guide: Syria Crisis 2012). Cities including “Baniyas, Homs, Hama and the suburbs of Damascus” were involved in the protest. The debate started when it it became clear what the protestors really wanted. They needed democracy and a greater freedom because Syria is one of the most oppressed countries in the Arab world. President Assad was demanded to resign the moment the army opened fire against the peaceful protest.

The situation became out of local authority’s control. It was president’s brother Maher who asked the army to “crush” the citizens of Syria (Guide: Syria Crisis 2012). The residential areas were destroyed and many people were killed. President Assad refuses to step down from his chair but he did promise reforms in April 2011 for improvement in certain eminent sectors of the country. In a referendum help in February 2012, a multi-party elections was approved by the constitution. People are still apprehensive about the promises made by the president as long as the blood-shed continues.

Being a country of almost twenty million