Samar Yazbek: "Syrians refuse to remain slaves to the Assad regime"

"I can no longer talk about freedom of expression, or even allow myself to think about anything other than the mangled corpses of children being pulled out by their mothers’ hands from under the rubble of homes destroyed by Assad’s bombs."

Robin Yassin-Kassab:
"Fools can write all they like about compromise with the child-killers, peace conferences, negotiations and so on. half a minute inside Syria is long enough to show anyone with a brain stem that such talk is entirely and absurdly irrelevant."