If we put aside the different classifications and look at one issue: where are American troops located within the countries of the region called the “Middle East”, then we will see that American troops are present in almost all of those countries. This presence is in fixed NATO bases; within operations of “alliances”, “trainings”, or something along those lines; or in a direct hostile manner.

Although ten years have passed, “violence” in its various forms is still the most prominent headline in describing what is happening against the Syrian people, though that violence has taken different forms during the past ten years, and it has been practiced by many sides. Violence has become one of the most important tools used and still being used by the various forces and sides to suppress the Syrian people and try to divide Syria geographically and humanly, and to reinforce and deepen that division with the aim of perpetuating and fixing it and thus deepening the crisis and striving to make it impossible to reach a comprehensive and implementable political solution.

As the forces, sides, and circumstances at all levels changed, the forms of violence also changed to ensure the ability of stakeholders to achieve their objectives and interests that contradict and go against the interests of the Syrian people.

In many past articles we have discussed the saying the People’s Will Party has adopted since nearly 2005 (at the time the party was the National Committee for the Unity of the Syrian Communists), that about illusory dualisms. Some of the clearer examples of that are: opponent v. loyalist, secular v. religious, in addition to sectarian, national, and other dualities.

On Friday, July 9, 2021, the UN Security Council adopted unanimously a resolution, UNSC Resolution 2585, on the delivery of humanitarian aid into Syria through border crossings and “to all parts of Syria without discrimination”.