On Tuesday, April 18, the Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria (AANES) published a document entitled “An initiative to solve the Syrian crisis”. Those who issued the document called on the various Syrian forces to consider it.
Scholars of World War II history agree that among the most important reasons for the collapse of Nazism at the time, was its opening two major fronts together, the first in 1939 and the second in 1941.
On July 30, the “Israeli” website MAKO published a long article in Hebrew entitled: Exactly 51 years ago: when the IDF set a trap for the Russian force sent to the region. The author of the article is well-known Zionist journalist Shay Levi.
Kassioun published in a previous issue, No. 1028, dated Monday, July 26, an article entitled: Regarding the Chinese-Russian “Contradiction” in Syria. Some statements and articles written on the subject over the past two weeks indicate that more can be said about the issue.
It has been nearly five and a half years since the adoption of UNSC Resolution 2254 providing for a solution to the Syrian crisis. At that time, the resolution was adopted unanimously by the members of the UN Security Council, though it has yet to be implemented.
Talk about the Putin-Biden summit, which will be held on the 16th of this month in Geneva, occupies the top place in the various current political discussions. This is not surprising, especially when it comes to hot clashing points, as is the case in Syria.
During the last four months, since the new administration took office, the US rhetoric has been characterized by an escalation in most major affairs in the international framework, especially those related to the conflict with Russia and China, whether through NATO or the many European files, including Ukraine and the gas pipeline dossiers, and others. This rhetoric is in essence a continuation of the US rhetoric during the Trump era, though some details might differ.
There is a noteworthy consensus in assessing the objectives of the repeated “Israeli” military assaults in Syria. As we hear from analysts from various sides a unified assessment, the summary of which is that the attacks target Iranian and Hezbollah sites, forces, weapons, or leaders operating on Syrian soil, and that their objective is to undermine the possibilities of transferring weapons to Hezbollah, as well as undermining “Iranian influence”.
A few days separate us from the end of a year that is, by all accounts, the most catastrophic for Syria and the Syrian people. While the world is preoccupied these days with counting its Coronavirus-related losses, the pandemic itself almost seems just a small detail in the long list of tragedies that Syrians are experiencing.
If the constitution is one of the main topics that come up nowadays due to the “ongoing work” of the Constitutional Committee (which is revolving in place till now), what is more important is that talking about the new constitution and paying attention to it is mainly due to it being one of the main pillars of the political process outlined in UNSCR 2254, which specifically calls for ≪drafting a new constitution≫.
