The end of the lie of the Syrian opposition

Written by Nasser Kandil,

It is enough to compare the words of the UN Envoy Steffan De Mistura before the Security Council last night with his previous positions toward the war in Syria and what was entitled the Syrian opposition and the formulas of the political solution to announce the end of the lie. De Mistura who always refused any interference in forming the negotiating opposition delegation to Geneva leaving the task to Istanbul Council, and the coalition of Doha and later to Riyadh Conference according to the changes in the structure which is formed by the operators of the decision of the war on Syria said either the opposition will succeed in forming a delegation that represents all the formations, or I will myself form the unified delegation for representation, then he said that Iran is a partner in the political process and a guarantor of its success and the cease-fire, while Russia is a key player in political solution-making and terminating the fighting. But regarding the transitional body which was foreshadowed by Geneva I and was adopted by De Mistura against any speech about a unified national government, De Mistura said that the subject of the political solution is government, constitution, and elections.

De Mistura has not changed, but the circumstances, the countries, and the war changed. The formations of the armed opposition which were hiding under the name of the Free Army and have disguised the presence of Al Nusra front among them to enlarge their size and the area of their geographic dominance and to employ Al Nusra to impose political speech that meets the goals of the disintegration of Syria, weakening it and overthrowing its president and its army according to what was decided under the American, Turkish Saudi and Israeli consensus, were defeated in the most important battle which its operators were ready for it, it was the crucial battle of Aleppo which what came after it was not as what preceded it. Neither America not Turkey are partners in the bet of the war after it, neither Saudi Arabia nor Israel have an alternative for the US political and military cover and for the Turkish neighborhood and depth. The factions which were driven to Astana are the scandal of the hypocrite secular speech of the Supreme Commission for negotiation in which numbers of the speakers with ties and fabricated civil language were gathered. In Astana there were Muslim Brotherhood Wahhabi factions having the same breads like their leaders and their rhetoric, in addition to their concern about the relationship with Al Nusra. Now after Astana where there is no presence for the Free Army in any Syrian geography , and after the war in the northern of Syria has resolved the matter between Ahrar Al Sham and Al Nusra front, and where the factions are distributed between them, and where in the southern of Syria and its center there are settlements and reconciliations and the decay of the remnants of the Free Army, so where is the opposition , it is just a fantasy as was described one day by the Former US President Barack Obama.

The Syrian President and the Syrian army are from the axioms of the image of the new map of the Middle East in the war on terrorism and what is after it. The US Russian understanding which is expressed by raids on ISIS and Al Nusra in partnership is based on the return to the countries which the basis of their stability is the powerful armies in security, politics, and strategy especially the central countries as Egypt and Syria, where the democratic game is confined with their internal affairs in order to ensure the higher degree of the social peace among the ethnic, sectarian, class, social, and cultural components without exposing the unity of the countries to instability. The six years-war which was waged to change Syria, to destroy it and to dismantle it and perhaps to divide it ended and was replaced by a war of terminating the terrorism which brought by the first war as a partner and an ally, but has become a burden and a threat. The task of cease-fire and the political solution in Syria is the stage of the transition between the two wars not between two regimes or two presidents. The nature of the task has become known by De Mistura.

 Translated by Lina Shehadeh,