{"id":8264,"date":"2011-06-29T21:27:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T17:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=8264"},"modified":"2011-07-16T12:42:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:42:27","slug":"whisper-it-things-might-be-changing-in-syria-a-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-politics-analysis\/whisper-it-things-might-be-changing-in-syria-a-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"Whisper it &#8211; things might be changing in Syria. A bit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/syria-unrest-troops-storm-hom-to-strike-uprising.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8265\" title=\"syria-unrest-troops-storm-hom-to-strike-uprising\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/syria-unrest-troops-storm-hom-to-strike-uprising-e1309368397419.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/syria-unrest-troops-storm-hom-to-strike-uprising-e1309368397419.jpg 498w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/syria-unrest-troops-storm-hom-to-strike-uprising-e1309368397419-145x92.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a>With foreign journalists allowed into the country, moving relatively freely (although with government minders accompanying them); with Michel Kilo and Aref Dalila allowed to take part in an opposition meeting; and with SANA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/eng\/337\/2011\/06\/27\/355077.htm\">reporting the following<\/a> \u2013 has something changed? (Even the fact that their headline acknowledges that there is a Syrian <em>opposition<\/em> is new).<\/p>\n<p>Participants in the meeting, in their final communiqu\u00e9, voiced support for the <strong>popular peaceful Intifada<\/strong> for the realization of its aims as to <strong>move to a civil, democratic and plural state<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The participants also called for an end to \u201dsecurity alternative\u201d for the <strong>withdrawal of security forces from cities, towns and villages. <\/strong>The participants underscored in their communiqu\u00e9 <strong>the \u201cright to peaceful demonstration with no prior approval\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The journalists, who went to cover the meeting, in particular Satellite TV channels, including the Syrian TV, which were ready to transmit live the meeting, were caught by a surprise when the sessions of the meeting were held behind closed-doors. The journalists were only allowed few minutes to take some pictures.<\/p>\n<p>And so it was that SANA woke up \u2013 just a little bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS FROM SYRIA: Foreign journalists allowed in?  Recognition that there is, actually, an opposition?  Great, but old habits die hard in Damascus.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":8265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,83,60,317],"tags":[5733,4492,18330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}