FROM MT QASIOUN, LOOKING DOWN ON DAMASCUS, AT PEACE IN SPITE OF WESTERN WAR ON SYRIA

Finally made it to Qasioun mountain, a fantastic view of Damascus.

Eva Bartlett

Looking down on the city, I remembered the intense terrorist shelling with mortars and missiles. In my visits in 2014, 2015, 2016 (and 17, 18, but the earlier years were, generally, more hard-hit), this mortar terrorism was very vivid, I have many accounts and memories of it.

To look down on a city at peace, relieved of the terrorism Western nations and their Gulf allies (not to overlook israel and Turkey) unleashed upon Syrian civilians, was a hugely moving moment.

Looking forward to the day that every inch of Syria is liberated.

Related:

The Terrorism We Support in Syria: A First-hand Account of the Use of Mortars against Civilians [ 2014]

mortars and nostalgia for the past [2014]

not only mortars, but gunfire, too, on Damascus [2014]

children injured by “rebel” shelling of Manar school, Damascus [2014]

University Hospital, Damascus: Meeting Victims of Western-backed Mortar and Rocket Terrorism [2015]

UN Feigns Outrage Over Ghouta While Terrorist Rockets Rain Down on Damascus [2018]

A Syrian Leader Tells His Country’s Story: An Interview with SAA General Hassan Hassan [2019]

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