In Syria alone, the facts are clear

Written by Nasser Kandil,

Mystery, stammering, fraud, and deals in the black rooms are the titles of the regional and local scenes in many Arab countries. This is the case of the Saudi-American relationship, the Saudi-Turkish relationship, and the American-Turkish relationship after the case of Jamal Al Khashoggi, the release of the arrested pastor, and the talk about the independency of Judiciary, in addition to what is going on in public and secret to hide the apparent crimes in exchange for political and financial deals or through repetitive humiliating demands by the US President to the rulers of the Gulf by threatening them to pay otherwise…Therefore, the talk about the human rights and revolutions is a lie as the war on terrorism, to the extent that the talk about the concept of the national security in countries as America, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the occupation entity became flexible according to the desires of expansion, incompetence, the difficult equations and the balances of deterrence.

In Syria alone, the goals are drawn carefully and according to principles and constants. The necessary capacities are allocated to achieve them, and thus they became announced slogans not vice versa once the deals are achieved the slogans disappear. In Syria alone, the slogan of the national security is true stemming from stable constants; the unity of Syria and its sovereignty. The war on terrorism stems from a credibility, the alliances based on deep principled understandings to serve noble goals. Addressing people and mobilizing them is in favor of the ultimate goals. The progress towards goals is not a proof of the ability to negotiate that ensures the willingness to waive the continuation of the process in favor of profits; rather it is an act of accumulation to progress to the last goals through the unity of Syria and its sovereignty.

In Syria alone, the simple achievements have the taste of victory. Opening the Nassib crossing is not a service or economic or logistical procedure; it is a sovereign achievement through the restoration of the relationship with the outside which participated in the war on Syria and under its consent. It is a relationship which is run by the Syrian state which its flag alone returned to be fluttered over the crossing against the will of those who were instigating and boasting of the arrogance of the revolution. Opening Al Quneitra’s crossing is not mere a restoration of the connection between the occupied Golan and the depth of the Syrian homeland, it is a formal end of the project of the bordered line which the occupation announced its determination to settle a day not so far. Along with the announcement of the closure of the alternative crossings which the occupation opened to tamper in the Syrian interior to provoke civil wars and sectarian strife, and the announcement of the prevention of Israel to tamper in the Syrian security after it became immune by land, sea, and air.

In Syria alone, when we hear the words of the Foreign Minister about the path of Sochi between Russia and Turkey, we believe his words. And when we heard the words about the relationship with Iraq and opening the crossings, we understand the meaning of the words. When we heard about determination in Idlib and the eastern of the Euphrates, we see the accuracy of words. This is because in Syria there are men of the country, and because in Syria politics has one meaning; to protect the homeland and to respect the people. Therefore, the words become meaningful and the language becomes a source for understanding politics.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,