Displaying items by tag: Syria

The date of the national dialogue conference was announced to be postponed twice. Although this may seem negative for some, since Syrians have a great desire to launch a new phase in Syria, the title of which is Syrian people's unity and their effective involvement in rebuilding their country, nevertheless this postponement process can also carry positive signals about the conviction that the conference needs good preparation, and a wide participation and consensus among the various Syrian spectra and forces.

The circumstances of the country today, are similar to the initial circumstances surrounding its establishment nearly a century ago. Although the global and regional, political and economic conditions are very different from that time, the Syrian will to restore unity of their country and rally it, is the same will the founding fathers had, including: Youssef Al-Azim, Sultan Pasha Al-Atrash, Saleh Al-Ali, Ibrahim Henano, Mohammed Al-Ashmar, Ramdan Pasha Shalash, Ismail Hariri, and their comrades. In addition to those who came during the stage of independence, including: Abdul Rahman Al-Shahbandar, Faris Al-Khoury, Khaled Al-Azim, and others, who rose above narrow affiliations and above multiple intellectual trends, and came together through a major general current, which is the patriotic Syrian current.

The Syrian popular movement in its second phase, after having completed in its first phase overthrowing the fugitive authority, faces several major tasks. Most notably of these is restoring the unity of the country and the unity of the Syrian people, preserving the dignity of the country and its sovereignty over its territory, in parallel with maintaining security and civil peace and working to build a national army, solely with which weapons are confined.

Many are trying to tell Syrians: “The revolution has triumphed, God bless you, your mission is over, so go back to your homes and sleep soundly!”

The struggles of the Syrian people, after nearly 14 years of continuous suffering, have achieved the first phase of victory, and complete victory is still a new wave of struggle away. The first wave, which began in March 2011, has ended. Now the new wave begins, laden with the experiences and lessons of the first wave. We still have a long way to go to complete the victory, and the Syrian people still have struggles that must be waged.

Dear victorious Syrian people,

Only a few hours had passed since the departure of the previous oppressive authority, when the “Israelis” rushed to expand their comprehensive aggression on Syrian territory and the Syrian people, with shelling and airstrikes that were the most violent since the October War in 1973. These airstrikes targeted locations, equipment, and weapons that belong to the Syrian people and are part of their strength. The “Israelis” also encroached on Mount Hermon and multiple areas within the Quneitra Governorate. Thus, jumping over Resolution 338, and unilaterally ending the 1974 disengagement agreement, not to mention continuing to occupy our Syrian Golan.

Today, a dark page in the history of Syria and the Syrian people has been turned; a page in which an entire people was squeezed into its narrow margin, suffering all kinds of torment, oppression, deprivation, pain, displacement, poverty, and detention centers, while the main page was occupied by tyranny, corruption, plundering, and encroachment on people’s rights and dignity.

Last Wednesday, November 27, during its press conference following its expansion with the addition of new forces, the Moscow Platform for the Syrian Opposition announced an initiative for a meeting between the opposition and the regime in the Russian capital, Moscow, similar to the “Moscow 1” and “Moscow 2” meetings that took place in 2015. At the time of issuing this call, the latest developments on the ground had not yet begun to appear, but they were nevertheless expected to some extent, and were one of the reasons for launching this initiative.

Even before Trump moves into the White House, the general features of the amendments that will be introduced to American strategy within the ongoing Western struggle against the birth of a new world, and to hold on to the crumbling hegemony and unipolarity, are gradually crystallizing.