Syria forces in Hama push as crackdown continues

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14367773

This tells us a couple of things:

1) The momentum of the uprising is pretty strong and feels that it has tactics that work. Remember that it is more or less decentralized and has no real leaders, so the protests have become an agreed upon response to the government, despite the violence against the protestors. Average working people have turned out for what in relative terms is quite a long time. Iran's protests had petered out by now. 
2) The government, for whatever reason, cannot stamp out the resistance. It may be that the population in whole has rejected them or it may be that there are no real leaders to arrest. Or both.
3) The Syrians have not engaged in civil war. This is a protest movement but we have little in the way of what is occurring in Lybia. Perhaps the Syrians have learned a lesson many Arabs have not.