During the last few days, a decision was passed allowing a private company to enter the fuel distribution market through several steps, some of which were announced, with others to be announced at a later time. This was done under the pretext of the need to “provide solutions to citizens” amid a widespread crisis, the most important features of which is the electricity crisis, the transportation crisis, and the fuel crisis.
Despite a lot of political and media talk about it, the actual progress of a Syrian-Turkish settlement is still pending and stuck, at least in how things appear. Westerners (who have expressly indicated their opposition thereto) and extremists in both the regime and the opposition alike, intersect in working against such a possibility.
Syrians want an immediate and urgent solution; they want an end to the catastrophe and the trail of pains they are treading. It is no longer important for them to even think about why things have gotten to the way they have. All they think about is how to get to salvation.
The new catastrophes that befall Syrians wherever they are, including the possibility of a new Turkish ground aggression these days, prove that every additional day of delay in implementing a comprehensive political solution through the full implementation of UNSC Resolution 2254 is an additional deepening of the crisis and the humanitarian and national catastrophe, and that the de facto division and with it the ceasefire are a fragile reality that could fall apart and explode at the slightest friction. Not to mention that any of the Syrian regions today, in the absence of a comprehensive political solution and the absence of comprehensive national sovereignty based on consensus and unity of the people and their interests, is the subject of polarization and confliction of international and regional interests, which makes matters more difficult, dangerous, and complicated. All this means that the most urgent priority in the comprehensive national sense was, and still is, represented in moving quickly towards a comprehensive political solution through the full implementation of UNSC Resolution 2254.
The Turkish Defense Ministry’s declaration of the raids it carried out on Saturday night on areas in northern Syria and northern Iraq was accompanied with the phrase: “day of reckoning”, implicitly indicating that these raids are revenge for the terrorist bombing in Istanbul last Sunday. The raids resulted in casualties in each of Iraq and Syria, including civilians, SDF fighters, and Syrian army soldiers.
The issue of “cash allowance” is being raised again these days, which supposedly will be distributed in place of the subsidies. Meaning, subsidy policies will be completely and officially eliminated, not only through what has been done thus far in terms of decreasing subsidies in all sectors, but fully eliminating it.
A few days ago, the 31st Arab Summit concluded in Algeria. The final communique of the summit included important indicators related to several international and Arab issues, including continuing to take a (practically positively) neutral position from the Ukrainian issue. These also included going back to the usual official positions on the Palestinian cause, which could be understood not only due to the effect of the prominent and undoubtedly important Algerian role, but also the desire of some Arab states, including those that have lately slipped towards normalization with the Zionist entity, to keep the door open so they could escape the consequences of normalization in a world that is quickly changing in a direction that goes against Western and Zionist interests. The aforementioned indicators also included what was said about the Syrian situation, which constitutes a good step forward in objectively dealing with the Syrian crisis through politically resolving it and UNSC Resolution 2254, and not through foreign interventions as was the case in previous positions of the Arab League over nearly eight years of the crisis, that is between 2012 and 2019.
“This explosion is not purely Syrian nor purely Arab. The masses all over the world have woken up and taken to the streets. If we are serious and we want to deal with the facts as they are, we must understand that the peoples have woken up and taken to the streets, and this movement will continue for decades to come”.
For weeks, northwestern Syria has been experiencing a high security and military unrest, especially with the latest invasions by the terrorist al-Nusra organization. This in no way means that things were stable before, as there are always tensions, albeit at varying levels from time to time.
Despite the slight improvement in the exchange rate of the Syrian pound against the dollar during the last two days, the general tendency remains constant towards further deterioration, as long as the same policies continue and particularly the role of the dollar within the Syrian economy.
