The two long stages Syria has experienced since 2011 – that is, the stage of fighting and military attrition, following by the stage of economic attrition that continues until now – have laid the foundation for a situation that is simultaneously extremely dangerous and fragile. This has made preserving the unity of Syria and preventing turning the de facto partition into a permanent one, the top priority of patriotic action.
These days, the market is thriving with expectations regarding the directions that US policy will take in the upcoming Trump era, and implicitly expectations regarding what will happen in our region and in our country.
In 1960, before the US elections on November 6 of that year, Fidel Castro was asked which candidate he preferred, Nixon or Kennedy? He replied: “You cannot compare two shoes worn by the same person”.
Engels’s saying that “war is the iron lung of capitalism” is still applicable now, except with the development that capitalism as a whole has been become a rusty iron lung. Capitalism’s main project has become war, and its only salvation is war and the continuation of war.
Kassioun’s last editorial focused on the main dangers threatening Syria, and presented an initial vision of “how do we protect Syria?” What is certain this week is that threats are increasing, and their indicators and warnings are becoming clearer.
Every additional day of the ongoing battle proves what Kassioun has repeatedly confirmed, that it is not the battle of Gaza alone, nor even the battle of Palestine or Lebanon alone. Rather, it is a battle for the entire region, and part of a major global battle, in which the main hostile party is Washington. It also proves that the greater goal of the fire burning in Palestine and Lebanon is to ignite the entire region, starting from detonating its internal contradictions.
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.
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.
