Alain Gresh: that is no Robert Fisk

Al-Arabiyyah's Gizelle Khuri (one of the people I detest the most in life) devoted her program to Syria.  She invited a Hariri MP (the uncle of Jamal Jarrah who was one of the Sep. 11 terrorists) and Alain Gresh.  She invited Alain Gresh to her regret: she thought due to her ignorance that he would be as convenient as Robert Fisk.  Gresh not only speaks Arabic and reads Arabic, but he is no push over.  He is assertive and confident because he knows on the topics more than that Gizelle.  She wanted him to say that there are no outside interventions in Syria: he would not give her that and twice he mentioned Bahrain (when he mentioned Bahrain the second time he was thanked for his participation and was asked to get out of his chair).  He said that, yes, the developments in Syria are largely due to internal, domestic conditions but that there is outside intervention as well.  He even reminded viewers that Hariri politicians were exposed in Wikileaks as having aided the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006.  I never met Alain Gresh but I have admired him from afar.