Khan Sheikhoun is signed by Erdogan

Written by Nasser Kandil,

The Turkish-Saudi-Israeli alliance does not seem incapable of the functional division of the roles at this  very difficult stage faced by its parties, when it becomes necessary to strike in Russia to undermine the status of its president; the Israeli acts along with what is granted by Al-Qaeda organization or others and the message reached that the restriction of the Israeli air movement in Syria will not pass peacefully, and when the matter requires controlling the armed groups  behind Al Nusra in the invasions of Damascus and Hama the Turkish does not hesitate to send the instructions and to ensure the sticking to them, while when the matter needs money and fatwas the Saudi is ready since this is what he is good at.

The US-Russian relationship seems in light the Saudi-Turkish-Israeli tripartite, the success of this relationship along with a partnership in the war on terrorism will mean a clear tripartite, its first part is showing the Kurdish role as a partner in this war, as has happened in the meeting of the Russian and the US Chiefs of Staff and the notification of the Turkish Chief of Staff two months ago. The second part is the change of the US relation with the Syrian country which was shown in the statements of the US President as a beginning for its development. Third, the US overlooking of the presence of Hezbollah in this war according to what the Russian Foreign Minister said in response to the term of getting Hezbollah out of Syria as a condition for the US-Russian cooperation in the war on terrorism, by virtue of the commendation of the role of Hezbollah in this war as an added value.

The tripartite results of the US –Russian cooperation means the end of each of the Turkish, the Saudi, and the Israeli if we distribute the triangular results on the triangular enmities, Turkey versus the Kurds, Saudi Arabia versus Syria, and Israel versus Hezbollah. It must expect that the Turkish-Saudi-Israeli tripartite will do the impossible to disable any opportunity of this cooperation. Just as Israel had sought through its futile raids on Syria, it targeted Petersburg, and as Turkey had provoked the armed groups for the failed invasion of Aleppo, it returned to do the same in the invasion of Damascus and Hama which was the most futile process, and as Saudi Arabia had done what it always does, it offered the money and the fatwas.

In the heart of the Turkish-Saudi-Israeli tripartite course, Turkey has appeared as an operator for using the chemical weapons by ISIS and Al Nusra from the beginnings, with every progress of the Syrian army towards the military victory or with every progress of the Syrian country towards the diplomatic victory it has presented opportunities for its allies to change the course of the conflict, to stop the Syrian ability of progress, and to transfer it from the attack to the defense. This has happened repeatedly and now it is happening. The timing of the usage of the chemical weapons was always well thought at the rhythm of Syrian successes, and the question was why will Syria do that while it is winning, knowing that it has not done that when it was suffering from severe troubles and while it was losing many areas, so why will it do that while it is feeling of the growing of its political force, the lifting of the siege off it, and the openness of major countries to it , so why to lose with no reason, and why it did not do that when it was aware that its situation was as the drowning who does not fear of getting wet.

Syria has not experienced better military political situation comparing with the situation now after its victory in Aleppo, its success in repelling the invasion of Al Nusra in Damascus and Hama, the start of its counter attack, and after the administration of the President Trump has announced that the overthrowing the regime and the presidency in Syria are not among its goals. Every observer of the function of using the chemical weapons and what the massacre of Khan Sheikhoun has provoked will discover that it will confuse any openness by the administration of Trump to Syria, so maybe the administration will reconsider its announced position, and it will confuse the military process which launched by the Syrian army and will put it under international pressures that target the Russian partnership to avoid more of the media and political campaigns.

Erdogan did it in Khan Sheikhoun, even if we do not know how. One day the assistants of another Trump will notify us of that as the assistants of Trump has told us how Erdogan did that in Ghouta with the cooperation of Hillary Clinton by using the Libyan Sarin gas which was delivered to Al Nusra front in Benghazi, where the US Ambassador was killed and the embassy was bombed in order to hide the evidences as the FBI investigation said.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,