The gentleman giving the talk in the video below is Father Daniël Maes, a Flemish priest who lives in Syria and who has said that news coverage of the conflict there is “the biggest media lie of our time”. Father Maes, who spoke in Belgium on June 3, lives and serves God in the 1400-year-old Mar Yakub Monastery, located in the village of Qara, some 60 miles northeast of Damascus.
The martyr celebration he speaks of at the beginning of the talk commemorates the deaths of 21 Arab nationalists (both Syrian and Lebanese) who were executed by Turkish authorities on May 6, 1916 for their resistance against the Ottoman Empire. The Arab nationalists, long suffering under Ottoman rule, had supported Britain and France in World War I though later were betrayed – by both, but by the French in particular – in a series of events leading up to the signing of the infamous Sykes-Picot Agreement (an agreement which set up the two European countries as the primary colonial powers in the region, giving the British control over Palestine and establishing the French as the overlords in Syria and Lebanon).
Thus when Father Maes says: “I was a little bit ashamed. I think: ‘I am from the West’,” he is presumably referring to this history, although that statement could be pointing out that the actions of Britain and France today in backing US goals for regime change are even more ignoble than their treacherous behavior of a century ago.
In his talk, Father Maes also makes a prediction – call it a prophecy if you will – that the war in Syria will take the world from a unipolar to a multi-polar world order.
He also makes reference to a soup kitchen set up by Mother Agnés-Mariam in the city of Aleppo and which serves 25,000 hot meals per day five days a week. Mother Agnés is known to the alternative media readers from the series of articles on her back in 2013 and 2014, after she released a 50-page report on the August 21, 2013 chemical attack in Ghouta.
The report provided evidence that some of the videos uploaded to the Internet immediately after the attack were staged and faked. But for her efforts, Mother Agnés found herself under attack by liberals like Jeremy Scahill and Owen Jones, both of whom refused to appear at a conference she was scheduled to speak at in London. This was in November of 2013.
How would Scahill and Jones feel if they knew the woman whose name they besmirched four years ago is now serving food to 25,000 hungry people a day in a war zone?
God works in mysterious ways, and this is certainly an example of it. Jones, Scahill and all the other “liberal interventionists” who attacked Mother Agnés should really be ashamed of themselves and urgently make a public excuse.
As for Father Maes, he told an interviewer, back in January 2017: “Do you not know that the media coverage on Syria is the biggest media lie of our time? They have sold pure nonsense about Assad: it was actually the rebels who plundered and killed.”
And in the talk mentioned above, he notes that the Syrian Army has recently been making “more and more and more and more progress” and he expresses hope for an end to the conflict soon. “We hope that with the Russians and Iran, and of course the Syrian Army, that they will finally take out all the terrorists.”
You can play this 14-minute video at 1.25 speed, and skip forward. There is good information here.
yogaesoteric
December 16, 2017