“Syrian government forces appeared to be close yesterday to seizing the last rebel-held areas of Homs, Syria’s third city, consolidating a recent string of victories for the Assad regime.Videos uploaded to the internet showed scenes of devastation in the Khaldiyah district in the northern half of the city. Streets were strewn with rubble and buildings badly damaged from shellfire and pockmarked with bullet holes………..”

Homs is divided between the Syria army and the opposition FSA and other Salafi groups. It looks like regime forces are steadily defeating the rebels and pushing them out. That explains the calls by Ahmad Jarba, the current Saudi Arabian tribal pro-consul of the Syrian National Coalition for a Ramadan ceasefire. Even Ban Ki-Moon, who can’t tell Ramadan from Christmas, has called for a Ramadan ceasefire.
No doubt the Syrian people need a permanent ceasefire. They need an end to this civil war and free elections. They need to put their lives back together. It is highly unlikely Mr. Al Assad will agree to a Ramadan truce. Typically, and logically, the losing side in a battle calls for an immediate ceasefire and the winning side refuses if they can. That explains why in 2009, during Mubarak’s War on Pigs, the pigs called for a ceasefire but the Egyptian army refused. The generals, possibly led by Tantawi and Al Sisi, thought they were winning. The pigs of Egypt were in deep doodoo, as pigs are wont to be

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