Assad’s ouster has caused Arab nationalists to lose their balance
The fall of the tyrant Bashar Al-Assad and the liberation of Syria at the hands of a few faithful men within ten days continues to send shockwaves among secularists and Arab nationalists. They have not yet recovered nearly a month since Assad’s ouster, and are still shocked at the astonishingly rapid victory of a group of people from the Levant and some of their supporters, who accomplished in days what armies and international powers failed to achieve in years.
Their disorientation has caused them to make allegations here and there, uttering the most heinous insults and analysing the situation in Syria with their sick imaginations that rely on conspiracy theories being behind everything happening in the world, especially in the Arab region. Such people believe that nothing can happen without the US and Israel being behind it. They are convinced that anything that happens must have been planned behind closed doors, and that Ahmed Al-Sharaa, Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) and the conquerors of Damascus are nothing but American agents to be used as Washington pleases to divide Syria into mini-states.
“These sick people will need a long time to recover from this conspiracy theory that has corrupted their thinking.
They are accustomed to servitude and oppression and have grown to love living in such a state, so much so that they cannot comprehend that an authoritarian regime like that run by the Assad family has been swept away by the heroic people against whom the regime committed all kinds of atrocities that are hard to even imagine. Perhaps the enormity of what happened has made this class of slaves unable to understand that it is possible to live like dignified human beings, honoured and respected, after the dictatorial regimes that rule the Arab countries have turned them into worms, only good at crawling on their stomachs.
Syria has won by every standard and all evidence says that the hourglass that was commanded by the West — the US, Israel and its supporters — has been controlled and turned over to begin its counter-movement.
There is no doubt that Syria is in the midst of an amazing period of change in our strategic environment that, for many years, has been advancing according to the will of hidden and obvious hands, all of which are against the interest of the Arab people. Those who are smart will get the message and adapt to the new reality and begin to self-reform and correct their own course before the wheel of time runs them over and changes them by force.
I still fear for the new Syria from the counter-revolutionary puppet-masters in Abu Dhabi with whom intelligence agencies of several Western and Arab countries collaborate, headed by the Israeli Mossad. This is despite the telephone conversations that took place between the UAE foreign ministers and the new leadership in Damascus, and the visit of the Bahraini foreign minister who met Al-Sharaa, as well as the expressions of good intentions. Moreover, the Syrian defence and foreign ministers and the head of Syrian intelligence have visited Saudi Arabia at Riyadh’s invitation and met with their counterparts there, signing agreements and sending humanitarian aid for the Syrian people. However, this does not mean that we can ignore the hidden hands at play, working with malice to sabotage Syria, as they did before in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen.
“Syria’s victory is a bad omen for them, and they will spare no effort in sabotaging it secretly and openly.
We must also consider the threat of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei, and should not ignore it. Over the course of three weeks, he made three statements of a kind that should not be issued by the highest authority in the country or from any official who understands the sensitivity of their position and their choice of words. He threatened the new leadership in Syria with a revolution by the Syrians to expel them from the country. Perhaps his sense of defeat in Syria and the exit of his minions, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Shia militias, headed by Hezbollah, in such a humiliating way has unbalanced him and made him make such statements.
Or perhaps he meant to strengthen the resolve of those who have been left humiliated, frustrated and shamed, after they boasted in Tehran that they were occupying four Arab countries: Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen, but have been expelled from Syria and Lebanon. In any case, we must not discount the Iranian shrewdness and malice, and the new leadership in Syria must prepare a plan in the case they act rashly and resort to diabolical acts of sabotage.
May God protect Syria from the evil of its enemies and bestow upon its new leadership wisdom so that it may be an inspiration for all nations that seek freedom, pride and dignity, and are still waiting for change.