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June 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Exclusive footage by Press TV shows that Homs now resembles a ghost town with empty streets and deserted homes, while its Joret al-Shayyah neighborhood has witnessed the most violence with armed groups being involved in street fighting.
The footage also shows how the armed groups fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad have taken over the houses of the civilians and turned them into the corridors for their street battles.
Press TV talks with Lawrence Davidson, professor of West Chester University, regarding the issue. Below is an approximate transcript of the interview.
Press TV: I would like to ask you about these exclusive images that we have here. It is a bit disturbing, isn’t it, that they have been taking over civilian homes, digging holes through them. What exactly is the game plan here? And also tell us about the foreign connection to all of this.
Davidson: I have not seen your images. They have not come through at least on my computer.
But I think that what we have got is a civil war and as these neighborhoods are evacuated by their residents and taken over by one side or another, the buildings are turned into essentially battle stations or fortresses and so this is quite typical.
My concern here actually is with the ability of the Syrian government to actually achieve a decisive decision in this.
It used to be that I thought that they could in fact do that but it seems to me that it is getting more and more difficult to achieve that goal and if that is the case, if in fact this thing can go on for years in part because of a foreign support for the rebellion, then, I think the Syrian regime, Bashar al-Assad’s regime, is in trouble because I am not sure it can endure this sort of endless process.
Press TV: The so-called Syrian National Council has elected a Kurd as its new leader. Should we expect any changes in the SNC’s strategy so far?
Davidson: I think what they have got to do is essentially get their act together and present a united front if in fact they want official outside assistance ala, say Libya.
So far the Syrians have not been able to do that and I suspect that the new leadership is not going to be any more successful in achieving that kind of unity.
However, what they can do is sustain essentially this level of harassment and attack, retreat and this sort of thing and so the problem is that the other side cannot stop them.
Press TV: There are no instances of Western media blaming or even reporting on armed gangs committing many crimes against Syrian civilians. Why do you think that is?
Davidson: I think there is de facto censorship going on politically for a very long time.
Syria has been suspect or not very popular in this country because it stood as a frontline state against Israel and so you have got a generation of media who are used to seeing the Syrians as bad guys and it flows almost naturally to picture them that way in the struggle.
But I think that there is an underlying political agenda to the media’s approach which is partially pro-Zionist motivated and partially led in that direction by the US government.
MSK/JR
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