Aleppo and the Liberation Day

Written by Nasser Kandil,

This year, the Citadel of Aleppo has been chosen by the Syrian President in order to revive the Liberation Day in Syria as every year. This event which symbolizes the victory of the Syrian resistance which sticks to the Arab and National identities against the French colonialism, the project of division into sectarian states, and the attempts to restrict its Arab role and its free decision has been coincided with the confrontation waged by Syria against the aggression in which France participated with its same colonial dreams, along with Britain and America, and supported by the Israeli intelligence and the Saudi-Emirati finance, and where the US bases facilities in Qatar have been used as well as the British bases in Cyprus. On the Liberation Day the Syrians celebrated their new victory over the aggression; they went out to the squares and exclaimed for their army, country, Arabism, and their President who embodies the meanings of the steadfastness and the victory of Syria.

Aleppo which had a distinctive role in the victory over the French colonialism through its insistence on the establishment of a unified Syrian state and the rejection of the project of its secession from the homeland, as expressed by the leader Ibrahim Hanano through his solidarity with the leader of the resistance in the Syrian coast Saleh Al Ali and the leader of the resistance in the southern of Syria Sultan Pasha Al-Atrash, and their refusal of the project of the divided states and their sticking to the independence is the same Aleppo which has refused once again  the same project proposed by the Turks in the beginning of the war that targeted Syria seven years ago. It is the same Aleppo which scarified with its youth, construction, and economy to stick to the Syrian nationalism and Arabism. It is Aleppo which its liberation was the beginning of the liberation project of the entire Syria to Palmyra, Deir Al Zour, and Boukamal. That great achievement has been crowned with the liberation of Al Ghouta, and it will return to the eastward and westward of Aleppo towards Idlib and Raqqa. The Citadel of Aleppo which symbolizes the rootedness of this ancient city in history has witnessed once the confrontation for the liberation of Aleppo, where the beginning was from it toward Aleppo and from Aleppo to the rest of Syria.

The President Al-Assad chose Aleppo and its citadel to express the status occupied by them in the ongoing battle for the Syrian independence, which is being rewritten this time against a colonial alliance that is stronger and more dangerous than that was experienced by Syria with the French colonization. The armies, intelligence, satellite channels, funding were mobilized, ten thousands terrorists were brought, and the strife and the sectarian and doctrinal tribalism was as dangerous as killing, sabotage, and destruction. As in the past, the Syrians succeeded in protecting the most historical achievement during the past century, which is their unified national independent state, and protected its institutions represented by the presidency and the army, as two collective symbols of the concept of the unified independent national state, they succeeded in winning over the brutal modern colonial project which aimed at reproducing the project of hegemony over the region and the world. Syria has allies who support its unified independent national state being convinced that breaking the new colonial project in Syria will ensure their avoidance of the risks of the most vicious and brutal confrontation than ever experienced by Syria.

Syria celebrates its repelling the aggression while it is revving the Liberation Day, but Aleppo is celebrating its return as the capital of the Syrian resistance that was liberated from the sectarianism and the secession projects, so as it had a great contribution in the liberation and the restoration of the unity of Syria, it will have an important role in showing the example of the reconstruction of Syria outside the West ready projects which include all kinds of subordination and the traps of the economic sabotage.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,