The Revolting Syrian-يلا إرحل يا بشار

The Wait. »

This is a guest post by @BigAlBrand who is an activist living in Homs, cradle of the Syrian revolution. He agreed to share some insights from his everyday life.

We each have a certain routine we live by most of our days, a routine that changes in every episode of our lives. School days have a routine different from college and work days. Life in a war zone has its own episodes of routine as well.

During the past two years, our lives changed dramatically. In cities like Homs, Daraa or Douma, that saw early clashes, it now feels a lot like living in a war zone . But in the past few months we have been in a new routine, which I can describe best in one word : Waiting.

Water

Our daily routines usually starts with shelling and shooting sounds, we get up and the wait begins. We check the water level, how much left in the water container, in the drinking water supply, is there enough water to cook? To wash the dishes? Then we wait for fresh water to arrive. Fresh water is a rare thing, it’s controlled by the regime so they only open it for a couple of hours at a time. If our wait ends with the arrival of fresh water, we fill the container, bottles, then we cook, wash our clothes, do the dishes, and take a shower. But most days water won’t last this long so we do as much as we can. However, our wait for water sometimes keeps going for days. Spending two or three days without fresh water happens often. The most we spent without a drop was five days in my area. Those were tough days indeed.

Bread

While the family is waiting for the precious water, one of them can go and get bread. For months we had to stand in line for 6-7 hours and wait for our turn every day, but now the wait is reduced to 3-4 hours but the amount of bread is reduced as well.

There are other types of bread that you can get for a much higher price. The pack of bread from the bakery costs 15 pounds while the other packs cost between 80-125 pounds each.

Cooking Gas

The wait for cooking gas requires standing in a line for hours twice. Once to deliver the empty container, and the second time to get it back full a few days later.

I stood in those lines so many times that I caught a very bad flu once, but I also made new friends since you get to stand with the same people 6-7 hours or, in some cases, 12 hours at a time.

You could skip the wait and pay more for the full container, but it would cost you up to ten times the original price.

Since waiting for gas takes hours and waiting for bread takes hours, we can’t do both the same day, so when gas is available we don’t get bread, or if the family is big enough, different people can stand in different lines, since most people don’t have a job, and many children don’t go to school anymore.

Electricity

Another important element that we need to survive is electricity, and the waiting for this precious item is a stressful one.

Since early 2012 we saw some serious power issues in Homs. At times, we had no power at all for days or even weeks in some areas. That’s why we did what we could to create alternatives. New products and new inventions showed up in the market in order not to live in the dark.

The obvious solution to darkness and lack of electricity is the use of candles, but after 3 days without power in 2012 I couldn’t find a single one in any store. That’s when creative people used their minds and started inventing, while others started importing.

To give a few well thought inventions, some people used a small light that found its electricity in land line phones to light a room or took a battery taken from a broken USB device and made it into a cellphone battery charger. To save the refrigerators or any other electronics devices from turning on and off multiple times when power is acting up or from high or low voltage when power came, some people had connected an internet router power source to a little box that would regulate or delay the power.

LED Lights with rechargeable batteries have become widely used and available in a variety of sizes and prices, and can be found in every home. And of course the electricity generators found a big market from those who want more than to light their houses. Car batteries are also sold with a charger and a piece that will alter its voltage so can be used on small devices.

The lack of gasoline made the generator useless in many areas, and when power goes off for weeks or months, nothing can be done but wait in the dark or leave.

There are many needs that we must get in order to survive. In the winter we need heating fuel, which is one of the rarest elements in Syria nowadays since it’s being used for tanks, and most families didn’t get a third of what they needed if they got any diesel at all.

Gasoline is not easy to get either, and people have to wait in lines for hours to get some for their cars or electricity generators.

Phone lines get disconnected a lot, and as I’m typing those landlines have been down for an entire month. ADSL connections have also been down for three days.

Cellphones get disconnected even more frequently, and when power goes off so do most cellphone coverages in many areas. Overall we spent about 50 days in 2012 without phones, cellphones, or internet connection of any kind (Dial Up, 3G, ADSL, IDSN, GPRS) and we waited a long time to get them back. We are always waiting to get online.

Cashing out salaries is not easy for both working and retired people, as most banks closed down. I used to travel every month to Damascus just to get my salary and withdraw some money. Others go to Tartus to get it but it costs them a lot.

Many different types of medicine can’t be found easily either. In this case, you don’t need to wait in a line, as you could wait for weeks or even months until the medication gets available. I used to get medicine from Damascus when I was going there to get my salary. I haven’t found more than three different types of medication in Homs since early 2013.

And for many people like me, we’re waiting to get back to work and earn money.

Unwelcomed waits

All I talked about is waiting for things we need, or want, but there is a different kind of waiting in our daily routine, the only one for which we would rather stay in the waiting line, that’s the wait for something bad to happen.

If one day we wake up without horrible shelling sounds, we start waiting for it because we know it will start soon. We’re always expecting bad things to happen, like bullets breaking our windows, shells falling nearby, or security forces barging in our houses, collecting us, dragging us down to check if we’re wanted, or taking us away. It already happened to most people, and in many cases it ended with a martyr, a destroyed house, a raped girl or kids with slit throats. This wait is mixed up with horrible fear. This is the worst wait of all.

The Big Wait

I’ve talked about the basic needs in order to survive, but the biggest wait of all is the one we’ve been on for over 50 years. The wait for freedom, democracy, and equality. The wait for our human rights.

Not only Homs, but the entire country has been waiting for those rights for half a century, and still are. This wait lasted so long, but in 2011 we finally went out and demanded our rights for the first time, and we’ve been facing this unbelievable oppression ever since.

Waiting for something to happen is always hard to do, but it’s been the essence of our living for a while. We are now waiting for this wait to end, and hoping for a better era, with a better routine in which we can start rebuilding the country and work on a better future for us all.

NOT A SINGLE DAY GOES BY IN SYRIA WITHOUT SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENING. Damascus (Douma): May 16, 2013 - These are the remains of some of the 30 bodies discovered by locals near an Assadist checkpoint in Damascus. Assad’s forces executed them and burnt the bodies.

This is an everyday occurrence in Syria. I repeat, every … single … day.

Another massacre also took places yesterday in Kherbet Sawdah in Homs. Again, executed and burnt by Assad’s forces.

Thanks @NuffSilence

Hamza Aydeen, a little boy from Maarat Al Nouman, Idleb (Syria) is killed after Assad’s forces shelled his home.

Thanks @SyrianSmurf

A Cannibal in Syria by @intensionality »

This ought not to be an important subject - one crazed guy in a horrifying video and a disturbing interview. Some insist that it takes attention away from far worse atrocities. That hasn’t had much effect. It takes more than morality and politics to explain the divergent reactions..

The vocabulary of the reports is suggestive. In Foreign Policy, Peter Bouckaert asked Is This the Most Disgusting Atrocity Filmed in the Syrian Civil War? There was another source of disgust, some jokes about the incident. All these reactions testify to the special character of the atrocity. Cannibalism is an act fundamentally unlike the torture and massacre that outrage morality.

The prohibition of cannibalism is not so much a fundamental moral principle as a deep, deep taboo. The victim wasn’t killed to be eaten; he’d died in battle. Eating parts of already dead bodies harms no one - unlike killing torture, exploitation and virtually all ‘normal’ moral concerns. We - I include myself - very much want to think of cannibalism as terribly wrong, but the commentary is accurate: really, it’s terribly disgusting. It gets special attention for that reason. It deserves that attention, because it arouses fears that our efforts to civilize ourselves have failed. It’s supposed to be something animals might do, but not humans. This certainly seems important whether or not anyone is harmed.

When people make jokes about cannibalism, it’s not that they don’t take it seriously; it’s that they don’t quite manage to see it as a moral outrage. (Moral rules are broken all the time; taboos, very rarely.) The video was literally a horror movie. People laugh at horror movies for the same reason: because they’re thoroughly unsettling and humour is a kind of nervous reaction, a way to bring the horror down to size. No one says: ”how can you laugh? these acts are terribly wrong.”

Everyone is right about the cannibalism video. It’s disgusting. It needs to be taken seriously; we just don’t quite know how. From a moral standpoint there are indeed far more serious crimes. Violating a taboo is very serious, but in a different way.

There is no settling this, but perhaps the spectators can understand one another.

Syria is being “aided” with more conferences & meetings as we drown in blood. - @omarsyria

THERE IS NOTHING MORE THE DOCTORS CAN DO. THE BOY IS DEAD. HIS PARENTS IN AGONY. Aleppo (Al-Safira): May 15, 2013 - Mustafa Bin Khaled is only 5 years old. That did not matter to Assad’s forces when they shelled his home. His parents brought him to the clinic in hopes he could be saved, but the force was too great, the medical attention to inadequate. He died.

You can hear is parents crying in the background.

Thanks @aleppomediacent

The Massacre of Ariha, Idleb (Syria)

Idleb (Ariha): May 14, 2013 - Assad’s forces unleashed a hellstorm of shells and rockets on this small town yesterday. The town, once known for it’s sweet cherries is now a wasteland of dead and dying children. No exact death toll was released at the time of this post.

A man hold up a baby girl who was crushed to death in her own home after Assad’s shells struck it. She is placed next to another older child, also dead.

A little girl screams in shock and agony as she sees the body of her mother down the hall being pulled out of a pickup truck. Her mother is dead.

Thanks @LccSy @SyrianSmurf @EatingMypeaz

Does This Not Outrage You?

Much has been said over the past two days in the world press about a sick video showing an FSA commander tearing the heart out of a dead Hezbullah fighter (sent to murder Syrians) in Qusayr, Homs and then eating it.

The video is vile. The act is vicious. The cannibalism is inexcusable.

However, the ‘outrage’ over this video has been proclaimed by Human Rights Watch to be “the most disgusting atrocity filmed in the Syrian Civil War”. Human Rights Watch is also quoted in dozens of the world’s most widely read newspapers, television programs and news media networks stating the same. The media in general has taken the same attitude, saying that this single video, is the worst thing to have befallen the Syrian Revolution (they incorrectly call it a civil war).

Honestly? This video is the worst you people have seen come out of Syria? If that’s the case, then allow me to educate you for a moment.

Countless keyboard pontificators, armchair generals, faux-leftists and of course, Assad’s supporters have pounced on this video, waved it like a flag in the wind, and declared that every Syrian who is not on Assad’s side of the massacre (again, not civil war) is a ‘dirty cannibal terrorist’. And yes, they apply that label to babies, children, women, the elderly and the 90,000+ martyrs that Assad’s forces have killed since March 2011.

Where was your outrage, dear fellow humans, when all of the videos below were released? I categorized (that’s how many there are now) them for you below. Can you watch them? Can you bear it? Can you stand it? Or will you look away? Toss our martyrs aside and forget us, or even worse, tell us that our 90,000 dead are all the result of ‘terrorists’ and/or the most elaborate ‘hoax’ of all time. Which is what the Assad regime has said since the first protesters took to the streets in Daraa on March 15th, 2011.

The videos below represent a tiny fraction of the entire body of videos released from Syria and represent a much smaller fraction of what actually happens across the country that is not recorded. I can say, with full, and disgusting, confidence that the Syrian Revolution, turned massacre, is the largest ever mass murder of the Information Age, where there is literally hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of videos to attest to that fact, many of them recorded and released in near real-time.

You can continue your outrage over the video of a cannibal ripping the heart out of a terrorist sent to fight on behalf of a sectarian warlord with the sole aim of empowering a dictator so that he may resume his reign of terror on the people of my country. However, you have no right to label it the ‘most disgusting atrocity’. No right whatsoever.

*These videos are by no means all or even the worst to have emerged from Syria. They are a sample that I have been able to find in the last 2 hours.

LEAKED VIDEOS OF ASSAD’S FORCES TORTURING AND EXECUTING CIVILIANS AND FSA: It is worth it to note that of the few videos posted below, Assad’s regime has not even gone as far as to acknowledge their very existence (of the videos), much less hold those in the videos accountable (since the regime is the one ordering such atrocities). It is also worthy to note that most major crimes by the FSA have been acknowledged and admitted. Even though the FSA is not a formal organization, nor does it have any type of structure or tangible line of command. The FSA even published a statement about the cannibal video here. Something Assad never has, or ever will do.

Assad’s forces torture and execute a group of men. Very difficult to watch.

Assad’s forces beat a middle-aged man in the street and tell him “I’ll let you see your children again if you let us f**k your wife” to which he responds “my wife is my crown” Then they execute him.

Assad’s forces stab and stone two men to death. Horrific video, tough to watch.

Assad’s forces beat this man with metal rods, bricks and then finally execute him while saying ““F**k Your Sister! … F**k Your God You Beast! …. F**k Your Prophet … Take Your Holy Book & Shove it Up our Ass! …. I Want To F**k Your God!”

After beating and humiliating him, they lay him on the ground and execute him.

After brutally torturing them, then executing them, Assad’s forces cut the genitals off these men and place it in their mouths.

Asasd’s forces beat two men to death, laughing as they do it. They even set fire to one of the men’s heads.

As they stab and beat this FSA soldier, they keep asking him if he wants freedom. They tear off his index finger then shoot him in the head.

After they beat, torture, humiliate and execute these men, Assad’s forces run over them with a truck.

Assad’s forces torture a man in Banyas, Tartous.

A member of Assad’s forces calls his mother and asks her to listen to him as he executes a man.

The man from the video above before he was executed. They beat him and say “Don’t speak of God! … Your God will f**k your sister you son of a whore!”

Assad’s forces torture three of their own soldiers for helping the opposition.

After Assad’s men execute these two, they set their bodies on fire and say: “Let this be a warning to all who challenge Allawites, this is what we will do to you”

Assads forces repeatedly whip this woman over and over after they abducted her at a checkpoint.

Assad’s forces slap, humiliate and shave the heads of a husband and wife in-front of their children.

Assad’s forces run over dead FSA soldiers with a tank.

Assad’s forces beat a man in the streets of Homs

Assad’s forces film themselves as they attempt to decapitate a dead FSA fighter

Assad’s forces beat, slap, spit at and humiliate this boy.

They force this man to sing songs of praise to Assad as they beat him.

Assad’s forces brutally torture and beat a woman amongst a group of men on a bus

Assad’s forces shoot a man at point blank range, forcing him to ‘confess’ to whatever they want.

INJURIES & DEATH CASUED BY ASSAD’S FORCES: Below are videos showing some of the more horrific injuries and deaths suffered by Syrian civilians, many of them children, at the hands of Assad’s forces. All the injuries and deaths are by way of bullets, knives, stones, axes, shells, rockets, missiles, ballistic missiles, air raids and even a few instances of tanks physically crushing people.

How can we ever forget Hamza Bakour. He had his jaw blown off by Asasd’s forces in Homs more than a year and a half ago. He died a short while later.

Litte Fatima was decapitated last year after Assad’s forces shelled her town in Idleb.

Another little girl is decapitated by an Assad shell in Aleppo while playing the park. Here is the link to six more videos of decapitated little girls in Syria.

Another girl had her head blown of by a shell in Al Ghanto, Homs.

How can we forget Zainab Al Hosni? The girl who was abducted, skinned, stabbed then beaten to death by Assad’s forces in Sept 2011. Then the regime released a video of her (that her mother said was not her) on TV and made her say she ran away from home. This was done before they killed her.

A mother and her fetus are killed by Assad’s forces in Homs. Here are 7 other videos of mother’s being killed with their fetus’s

Little Salah Khaled Qanna had his head blown open by an Assad sniper in Daraa.

He was arrested in Homs by Assad’s forces on May 29th, 2011 and returned like this to his parents on June 18th. Abdullah Juha was only 13 years old.

We also remember little Ola Jablawi, shot through her eye in Lattakia by Assad’s forces in August 2011.

Of course, we have Hamza Al Khatib, the horrific torture he endured after being arrested (he was 13) included chopping off his genitals, breaking most of his bones, being shot, electrocuted and beaten. We thought, back in 2011, that this event would lead to world intervention and help. This was before the people of Syria took up arms to defend themselves and before a further 8,000 children were killed.

Maher Al Zourbi, 11 years old, was shot along with his father by Assad’s forces in Rastan in Sept 2011. Here he is taking his final breath.

A little boy is shot dead in the head in Daraa Oct 2011 after protesting in the streets.

A little boy is choking on his own blood after being shot in the head and neck by Assad’s forces in Homs in Oct 2011.

This is all that is left of two children in Kafr Takhareem, Idleb after Assad’s forces shelled them in Feb 2011.

Ammar Abdul Nasser Zamour, a boy, was abducted along with his entire family in Homs in March 2012. Assad’s forces ‘released’ the entire family. Dead. This is what they did to Ammar. he was tortured to death.

Mustapha Saeed Al Jarkass is not even 10 years old. He was arrested by Assad’s forces and returned to his parents like this in March 2011.

Mohamed Al Naser had his skull blown off when he was shot by Assad’s forces in Dier Ezzor in April 2012.

Mohamed Al Dali, another boy, was also shot in Deir Ezzor. His brain was blown out as well. Only in this video he is still alive, taking his last breaths. his body still twitching.

Basel Aslan, a young volunteer with the Red Crescent and medical student in Aleppo was arrested by Assad’s forces and had his bones broken, was stabbed and burned alive.

Little Ayat Al Sleik had most of her head blown off in Douma, Damascus in Sept 2012. She is still alive in this video, taking her final breaths.

Mohamed Jasem Al Ahmar takes his final breaths after a horrific injury from a shell strike in Deir Ezzor.

Her legs are shredded, yet she’s still alive. A tiny victim of Assad’s shelling in Talbiseh, Homs in July 2012.

A horrific scene in a clinic in Houla, Homs in July 2012. One of the children was decapitated.

You can’t even make out that this pile of flesh and bones was once a 7 year old boy named Mustafa Khalil Al Khalil from Idleb.

Assad’s forces run over this boy in a car during a protest in Al Bab, Aleppo. His brains came out through his mouth.

Ismail Al Khateeb is a little child. His head was blown off by Assad’s forces in Sha’ar, Aleppo in August of 2012.

Sarah Zakaria had her skull blown open by Assad’s forces in Al Bab, Aleppo.

Mohamed Saleh Khubiyeh has the top half of his head blown of by Asasd’s forces in Douma, Damascus.

The shrapnel pierced his mothers womb and killed him in Dier Ezzor in Sept 2012.

A little boy is confused, shocked and terrified as he stand over the body of his mother who was just killed before his eyes in Idleb.

All they could do was watch her take her last breaths and die. A little girl in Douma, Damascus.

Her final moments on Earth are agonizing. She’s only a toddler in Idleb.

Shahed Al Khattab is a three year old girl from Kafrzeita, Hama. In Dec 2012, this is what Assad’s forces did to her.

Majed Rajab is a 14 year old Palestinian boy who lived in Damascus (Al Asali). In Dec 2012, Assad, the ‘Leader of The Resistance’ ordered his home to be shelled.

Two young boys in Maaret Misreen, Idleb who are very much alive and are experiencing the unimaginable horror of having their entire bodies burnt.

Little Walid Al Hannash has his face blown off by Assad’s forces in Douma, Damascus in Jan 2012.

A FEW OF THE MASSACRES CARRIED OUT BY ASSAD’S FORCES: The video’s below are a few of the massacres that have occurred over the last 2+ years. All by Assad’s forces. I’m sorry that I have not included a great deal of the videos here, there are just too many and the objective was not to list all of them, but to show people that this is small fraction of what happens everyday … what they should be outraged at …

One of the many videos from the most recent massacre that took place in Banyas, Tartous. Hundreds of men, women and children were slaughtered.

A Massacre in Karam El Zeitoun, Homs in Jan 2012. So many of the dead are children.

Dozens of massacred bodies were being hidden in the National Hospital in Idleb in Jan 2012.

All of them children. All murdered in Hama by Assad’s forces on the 30th anniversary of the Hama Massacre.

A massacre in Khalidyah, Homs in Feb 2012

An entire family, including 4 children, are massacred in Karam El Zeitoun, Homs in Feb 2012.

More children massacred in Karam El Zeiroun, Homs in March 2011.

Of course, how can we forget the massacre in Houla in May 2011 … so many children, throats slit.

Another scene from the Houla Massacre.

A shell strike in Douma, Damascus in May 2011. One of the regular and daily scenes of horror.

The massacre in a tiny farm called Qubeir in Hama resulted in close to 100 deaths.

His father was one of 13 men taken off a bus in Qusayr, Homs and executed by Assad’s forces in June 2012.

A horrible scene where Assad’s forces bombed a bakery in Talbiseh, Homs.

A shell strike in Bustan Al Qasr, Aleppo i July 2012… this is the result.

Little kids among the dead during shelling on the small village of Gharnata in Homs.

Horrible footage from a massacre in Zamalka, Damascus in July 2012 where Assad’s forces detonated a car bomb while a protest passed by. 100+ dead.

Just one of the dozens of videos from the Daraya, Damascus massacre in August 2012 where upto 1,000 people were massacred over 3 days of carnage.

Assad’s forces rounded up 50 men from their homes in Qaboun, Damascus and slaughtered them on the street in August 2012.

Dozens of bodies are found in the morgue at the University Hospital in Aleppo in August 2012. All bear signs of torture and execution.

This is the 1st massacre of Jdeidat Aroutz in Damascus in August 2012. Not to be confused with the 2nd much larger one that happened a few weeks ago.

After executing them, Assad’s forces burned them in Al-Arbeen, Hama in Sept 2012.

A massacre by Assad’s forces in Aleppo in Sept 2012.

A massacre in the village of Van in Hama in Sept 2012

Among the 10 people slaughtered in Tal Shoor, Homs, 3 are women, 4 are children.

A massacre in the town of Abel, Homs where entire families were rounded up, had their throats slit, then burnt.

A Massacre in the town of Madamiyeh, Damascus this past January from Assad’s shelling.

Horrific scenes of the dead/injured in Jobar, Homs earlier this year. More from this event here.

The unreal scene after an Assad airstrike on a bakery in Halfaya, Hama.

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From Dael, Daraa (Syria): “To Bashar: Special offer: kill a single Israeli soldier and rule us forever.”

Thanks @omarsyria

PEOPLE CONTINUE TO MAKE THE ‘CROSSING OF DEATH’ IN ORDER TO LIVE. Aleppo (Bustan Al Qasr): May 13, 2013 - You’ve never thought about it. You cross the street as most people on Earth do, you look both ways, make sure there are no cars or bikes and then cross. You don’t hesitate or hide behind a street corner. You don’t stop and think to yourself, “is it worth my life? do I have to cross?”. You just simply cross.

That is not the case for the people of this neighborhood. They don’t look left or right. They don’t walk. They say a little prayer, then run for their life as Assad’s snipers fire at them. They must do this every single day.

A short film was made about the ‘Crossing of Death’, watch it here.

Thanks @NuffSilence

WARNING: NO MUSLIMS OR ARABS … NOR HUMANS WERE OUTRAGED AT THIS ANCIENT MONUMENT BEING SHELLED. Homs (Jouret Al Sheyah): May 13, 2013 - This is the Khaled Ibn Walid mosque in Homs, possibly one of the city’s most recognized and priceless historic buildings.

The mosque is said to house the mausoleum of Khaled Ibn Walid, a 7th century commander who defeated the Byzantine (East Roman) occupiers in Syria. The mosque was built around his mausoleum shortly after his death and expanded multiple times until it reached it’s current form sometime in the 19th or 20th century.

It has survived various occupying armies over hundreds of years … that is until now, as Assad’s forces destroy the city of Homs and everything in it.

Thanks @Basma_

Syrians flee to Turkey only to have Assad and his agents follow them there …

Thanks @HadiAlabdallah

***GRAPHIC*** YES. HIS INJURY IS AS HORRIFIC AS YOU THINK IT IS. HE’S JUST A BOY. Damascus (Babila): May 12, 2013 - No, those are not his clothes soaked in blood. That is is body with the skin and flesh torn away. He was severely wounded when Assad’s forces shelled his home.

Thousands of children across Syria suffer the same fate as this boy each day.

Thanks @OnlySyrian

“From us Palestinian children to the children of Syria: We are with you till death.”

Thanks @NMSyria

“MiG” A Short Film on the Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Damascus, Syria -

If the “MiG” didn’t show up, it could’ve been just another ordinary day.

But it was there, looking for love to shatter, and blow away the features of my exile the “camp”, palestine’s twin.

The bedroom, the beautiful nights and the morning coffee were all exposed to the streets and the main square. At that very moment, Dunia my love and my wife, was dead to me.

This movie is about the Palestinian refugee camp “al Yarmouk” on December 16th, when it was attacked by the Syrian regime’s “MiGs”, as a punishment for sheltering displaced Syrians & Palestinians whom lost their neighborhoods due to previous attacks.

It may seem the “MiGs” aimed to knock down the place, but the real target has been languishing the spirit people of the camp had. Yet, they’d never settle to that, even if the price will be an endless exile.