Turn to the East….The West is hypocrite and conspirator

Written by Nasser Kandil,

After the collapse of the Soviet Union Syria was searching for its international and regional status to prevent being alone under the slogan of purging the Soviet legacy, it has succeeded in linking its relations with many western countries, it was liberated from the complex of considering its being far from the West an ideological outcome of its friendship with the Soviet Union and the countries of the Socialist system and its adoption national liberation policies. It has granted the west the opportunity to prove the eligibility of the its friendship with Syria and respecting its right in practicing its national independence. It was a partner with the Americans in the war of liberating Kuwait and it participated in Madrid Peace Conference, and it was the second sponsor of the Lebanese Taif Agreement with Saudi Arabia, where the Americans were the their unannounced sponsor, furthermore it got involved in partnership talks with the European Union and it sought friendships with the most concerned countries with the Arab countries especially France and Spain.

During the events of September 11, Syria stood a humanitarian and moral position, it sided with Washington and called it to lead an honest global alliance to combat the terrorism, it based on a definition of terrorism without the exclusion of Israel and without including the resistance, otherwise America would wage colonial wars that feed the terrorism and increase the global crises. Before the war of Iraq Syria waged at the spokesman of its President Bashar Al-Assad ideological battles to convince the Americans and their allies of the uselessness of the bet on the endless limits of the military force in making politics and the danger of tampering with the national structure of the Arab entities hoping to weaken them in order to serve Israel’s security. The President Al-Assad said these words clearly to the US Envoy William Burns who visited him in November 2002, and he said that publicly in his speech at the Sharm Al-Sheikh Arab Summit before the US invasion of Iraq, but the Americans were obstante and waged the war of adventure.

After the invasion of Iraq, the session meeting of the US Secretary of State Colin Pawel with the Syrian President witnessed the completion of the Syrian seeking to convince the Americans of the wrong of their bets and to call them to shorten the period of occupation leaving the matter to the Iraqis to determine their regime and the form of governance of their country, otherwise they will be confronted with resistance and this will agitate the presence of terrorism and then they will admit of failure, while the American arrogance was represented in list of conditions held by Powel to the President Al-Assad that includes the ending of his relationship with the option of resistance so that Syria will not be put on the targeting list.

The war that targeted Syria and through which the media funded by the West or Gulf and directed by the Western intelligence has made from the scum of people leaders and nominated them opponents, it has gathered the mercenaries and the parasites and nominated them opposition, and made for them fronts and conferences. Through this war there was the largest brainwashing process to show the terrorism a revolution, and to distort the image of the Syrian country, its army and its President. The west did not refrain from besieging the Syrian people by virtue of exerting pressure to overthrow the regime. The west knows that it commits a crime against morals and humanity without caring, it lies and narrates stories, fabricates accusation and distorts the fact, moreover it undermines the dignities and the prestige, so is it enough to change the positions because of disability or defeat?

The President Al-Assad in his speech yesterday put the political consideration aside and started from another place, calling the Syrians to turn to east which supports Syria and did give up it. It was moral, it made sacrifices without exchange or conditions, and it formed one of the pillars of its victory. So the option of turning to the East must be strategic and nonpolitical according the speech of the President Al-Assad economically, culturally, politically, and militarily. These systems of values are similar to ours, where the independence is a value, dignity is a value, morality is a value, magnanimity is a value, helping the oppressed is a value, pride is a value, faithfulness is value, and honesty is a value. Moreover, the interests with the East support the values, industry, agriculture, trade, and construction, and the culture supports interests and values so head for East is “the title of future”.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,