TO know the magnitude of the tragedy caused by Bashar Assad’s regime to his country, one must look carefully at the recent confrontations that took place between the Iranian and Israel forces on the Syrian territory.
Israel occupies the Syrian Golan Heights and uses it to launch rockets into the Syrian territory. On the other hand, there is an unreasonable presence of the Iranian army occupying the entire Syrian territory. Iran has more than ten military bases and having more than ten thousand fighters in addition to thousands of other mercenaries and militias affiliated to sectarian Hezbollah, the same regime that boasted about “occupying” Damascus as well as Baghdad, Beirut and Sanaa.
It is painful and sad to see an “occupier” fighting another “occupier” from and on the territory of Syria, causing loss of land and misery for the people at the hands of an occupying regime. This is the ground reality and it is clear description away from the national and revolutionary claims. Israel is an occupier so is Iran and it is very important that they must be dealt with the same way and at the same level.
Syria is governed by a regime that is accustomed to ceding control, allowing others to continue the occupation of its territory as it is the case with Israel or the new occupation by Iran or giving full control to Russia. What happened in the recent rocket clashes in Syria between Israel and Iranian militias is a new proof of the Syrian regime’s loss of legitimacy, respect, credibility and merits, and that all its power are always directed solely against its unarmed people.
Qassem Soleimani, a well-known terrorist who leads the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps., the terrorist militia arm of the regime of Iran, is the ultimate commander of the existing forces supporting the Assad regime. He commands an absolute authority over a large number of airports and military bases from which he carries out terrorist operations and stores his arsenal consisting of both conventional and chemical weapons which can be used against the Syrian people and threaten their neighbors. There is no value here to the presidential decision from Bashar Assad or from his intelligence services or from the army Bashar is in-charge of.
Syria has politically stooped to abysmally low levels in order to preserve the system of the family rule, sacrificing Arabism and brotherhood which were merely salable and handy slogans. As far as the last scene was most likely to be the aggressor and aggressor on the occupied territories of Syria, but it are natural consequences of the wrong situation under the criminal regime overbearing the dignity of the land and the sovereignty of the people and thus things reached what happened today.
Syria has been fully handed over to a regime that had been working for more than four decades to separate Syria from its Arab environment and to provoke its neighbors in various ways and methods and to “occupy” it from within in a dictatorial manner. A monstrous system, pretending to be Arab but a fervent Persian, claiming to be a secularist but having a sectarian goal. This violent conflict between Israel and Iran is a natural and realistic result of a bitter past, a painful present reality that must be confronted, recognized and treated as it is, and we do not make empty slogans blindfolded and deafening ears and absent minds to steal the truth from us.
Beyond the wailing of the nationalism and the revolutionaries, it must be recognized that confronting the occupier against the occupier is caused by a dysfunctional regime, breaking the pottery as the old Shami says.
