A full year since the Al-Aqsa Flood, and the major events that followed in our region and the entire world, what are the main conclusions and conclusions?

The “Israelis”, along with the Americans, are betting that the rapid, painful, and intense strikes that have been directed at Lebanon and Hezbollah over the past two weeks, leading to the assassination of its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and a number of the party’s leaders, will be sufficient to secure protection for “Israel”, by paralyzing Hezbollah and ending the northern front, and at the very least by completely separating it from Gaza and the West Bank.

The entire Western camp, headed by Washington and the global Zionist center, has been experiencing for several years a state that can be described as being like a frog that is gradually being boiled, while relaxed, over a low fire. Even now, having realized that it is being boiled, it is not able to jump out of the pot or from its destiny.

Before looking at what must be done to get Syria out of its crisis, restore its unity and the unity of its people, and restore its sovereignty, we must look at what is actually being done on the ground and in politics.

For several weeks now, a protest movement has been emerging in some areas in northwestern Syria, trying to work against a Syrian-Turkish settlement. It has expressed itself in part by standing against the reopening of the “Abu al-Zandin” crossing, in addition to a number of other activities and events.

Official Syrian, Turkish, and Russian statements over the past week regarding the Syrian-Turkish settlement, made by the Syrian president, the Russian foreign minister, and Turkish officials, indicate that the gradual steps towards reaching a settlement, which have extended for more than two years starting with the Tehran summit of the Astana trio in July 2022, have come close to reaching a point of no return. This is represented by a meeting at the presidents’ level, which naturally will not be the end of the issue. Instead, it will form the basis for consensus that will be followed by the practical implementation of the steps of that consensus.

For years since 2011, the regime and opposition extremists have been in agreement to reject dialogue, they have now been in agreement for several years to call for dialogue. However, the most important question is: what dialogue, how, about what, and for what?

The European policy, said to be “new”, towards Syria is summed up in one clear sentence that came in the non-paper that eight European countries sent mid last month to the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The aforementioned sentence is: “Today, a political solution in line with UN resolution 2254 seems out of reach”.

More than ten months have passed since the start of the open “Israeli”/American genocidal aggression against Gaza and Palestine as a whole. After the Americans have brazenly and openly acted against any talk of a ceasefire throughout the first five months, they kept on insisting on continuing the massacre after that, albeit in more oblique and hypocritical ways, which their international isolation has pushed them to do, particularly in this issue.

Our entire region, and the wider world, are living on the verge of a major escalation and many dangerous possibilities. The direct driver of this situation is the American / “Israeli” behavior primarily towards Palestine, and secondarily towards all the region’s files, especially with the clear transition to adopting systematic terrorism policies represented by successive political assassinations.