Geostrategic Media Political Commentary, Analysis, Security, Defense
Idris Hani
The cup of crime in Syria has run over, and all the narratives in which images played a decisive role have been exposed. This same image now creates its own opposing discourse: justifying and concealing crimes. Was it any surprise when Syria was handed over to those who had no knowledge of the project of statehood and coexistence?
The art of managing brutality required superior theatrical training, mastered by a Boca graduate who disappeared years ago in Iraq only to reappear in a new variation: Al-Nusra. All this bloody violence is nothing new, nor is the cover provided by the game of nations in Syria. The paradox, however, is the reversal of the image and the media involved in a project of racial cleansing in Syria.
As terrorism became more evident than the image game could obscure, talk began of achievements that served as distractions from the crimes against humanity being perpetrated against a defenseless people. The first distraction related to an unexpected reconciliation: the first with the SDF and the second with the Druze. The coast has been a chronic obstacle for al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, because they viewed the conflict as tribal and sectarian, and it was precisely for this reason that they were chosen for this functional role. The people of the coast had fewer opportunities than others, and their villages reflected their social standing. However, the instinct for revenge, which transcends all cultures, and is carried by a swarm of Takfiris complicit with hateful movements ignorant of both religion and politics, is the bet on to destroy Syria.
The issue in the coast transcends all apparent approaches related to revenge. It is a conspiracy to displace the Alawites of the coast, so that partition will suit the game’s creators. They realize that even with the imposition of partition, the people of the coast will be better off than the terrorists, because they possess a waterway. The danger lies in the fact that partition will lead to al-Qaeda’s dominance over the supposed Sunni state, a threat to Sunni moderation in the medium and long term. On the other hand, the organization seeks to obsess over the details of the Syrian state and penetrate its depths, in all this without caring about the occupation that is eroding Syrian unity.
There is nothing like the bloodbath unleashed by the ruling groups in a country that fought against terrorism and for decades provided a form of coexistence, a reality that generations will remember years from now as a golden age for Syria. The narrative of Saydnaya and the staged plays were useless compared to the massacres perpetrated by what Syria’s opponents’ channels called “conquerors” and “revolutionaries.” If there is a message to these massacres, it is to refute all methods of distorting the facts. What Syria feared is what we are witnessing today, and what channels connected to private projects are concealing. They have adopted a pattern of exaggeration and downplaying, exaggerating what they called the crimes of the former regime and downplaying the massacres of armed groups.
This was no surprise to us, because, in light of a realistic view of the nature of the contradictions existing in Syria, regionally, and internationally, we believed that any future option would be nothing but the option of al-Qaeda. We’ve seen this since the media began concealing the flow of terrorism into Syria, and that the only alternative that possesses the necessary conditions for empowerment is these militants. No one took the matter seriously. Time will tell those who argue the impossible that a unified Syria, a coexistent Syria, a Syria that protected its unity, sovereignty, and coexistence, has ended in favor of the chaos project. Those who criticized the former regime for not firing a bullet in the Golan Heights, should they show their bravado and their resources in the Golan Heights? Our reading of the situation remains accurate. All malicious interpretations, which carry the wishes of functional groups unconcerned with the real and principled dimensions of national liberation, will evaporate. The equation remains difficult to analyze.
Cowardly terrorism, unable to raise its voice in the face of occupation, obeys external orders that the people are unfamiliar with, and which bullies a defenseless people without concern, because it realizes that it is a protected form of extremism, and that it emerged without a fight or a referendum. Recent events have accelerated the fall of the masks of the brutal administration. After 13 years of steadfastness, the conspiracy against Syria has succeeded in achieving its goals, most notably the occupation of Syria, its disarmament and removal from the equation, and the establishment of a new Middle East under its imperialist conditions.
How long will these complicit channels attempt to conceal these crimes? Where is the humanitarian message used by these functional groups and organizations in their massive vilification of the old era, which the world will soon realize provided the best situation Syria has known, with all its internal contradictions? All the slogans raised by functional groups during the decade of aggression against Syria have been turned upside down. No one today can condemn the occupation of Syria, the siege of Syria, the killing, brutality, tyranny, and explosive barrels in Syria. It is clear that the goal from the beginning was to seize power, even over the corpses of a defenseless people. Where are those who mourn the Syrian people among those involved in conspiring against Syria, which they dismantled under the yoke of international and regional ambitions? Who, I wonder, is killing their own people today? The rope of lies is short.
