Kassioun Editorial 1246: “Down with the Warmongers!”

The situation in occupied Palestine, especially in Gaza, is closely tied to our situation in Syria and the region as a whole. Therefore, it is necessary to understand it as deeply as possible, and to do so, it is useful to place it within a broader context, in terms of time and place.

Let us examine a series of agreements, negotiations, and wars that the American and “Israeli” sides have engaged in—directly or indirectly—over the past few years, to reach some general conclusions.

• The U.S.–Russia Strategic Dialogue Summit (Biden and Putin) on June 16, 2021, whose key topic was Ukraine, ended with the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in February 2022. Every negotiation or agreement that followed—from Istanbul to Alaska recently—was accompanied by a rise and expansion in escalation, involving Western European countries as well.
• The Iran nuclear deal in 2015, the U.S. withdrawal from it in 2018, and the negotiations that “made great progress” in the first months of this year, all ended with the 12-day war between “Israel” (with direct U.S. support and participation) and Iran last June.
• The Kerry–Lavrov Agreement of 2016 to cease fire in Syria and move toward a political solution ended with the continuation of the war in a more violent form for a few more years, and its effects and risks of it reigniting remain until today.
• The “Abraham Accords” of 2019–2020, which were supposed to form an “Arab NATO against Iran” and establish a security-political alliance between the Zionist entity and the Gulf under US auspices, ended with the Zionist entity launching a direct military strike in Qatar and with all those agreements practically evaporating.
• The successive ceasefires, negotiations, and agreements in Gaza during the past two years and before, have always ended with renewed war—each time more brutal and savage.

Placing “Trump’s latest proposal” within this general context allows us to draw the following conclusions:

First: The consistent Western policy over the past two decades has been war and the expansion of wars. Negotiations, truces, and agreements are part of the war toolkit itself, and not a gateway to diplomatic solutions.

Second: This consistent trend reflects the renewed validity of the saying, “War is the iron lung through which capitalism breathes”. The Western center today is undergoing its most severe historical crisis—with its economic, social, and political dimensions—so its path forward is completely blocked. The only way it can open that path is by exporting its crises outward and evading the growing popular movements within its own countries—through wars and more wars.

Third: What all the previous examples share is that every new truce and every new war found the Western side weaker than before, and less able to impose its conditions. With each new war and truce, its political camp shrinks, while the rest of the world grows closer and more united against it.

At the beginning of the 20th century, revolutionaries raised the slogan “Down with the warmongers!” in the face of colonial greed for devastating wars that were meant to rescue it from its own crises. They managed to bring down the warmongers only through war itself—by defeating Nazism in 1945.

Today, the same slogan is raised again, as history opens the horizon for bringing down the warmongers before they drag the entire planet into an all-out war that would destroy it. This slogan is being realized by inflicting defeats on the West across multiple localized battlefields around the world.

As for Syria, it must be said clearly: there is no horizon for any agreement with the Zionist entity. The only viable horizon is an agreement among Syrians themselves, through a comprehensive political solution and a general national conference that unites them and truly enables them to determine their destiny by their own hands.

(النسخة العربية)