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Great article by Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Syrian leading intellectual, activist and former political prisoner.
The Palestinian cause has been used as a tool to control the Syrian and Palestinian people, and to suppress political agency both in Syria and the region. All of this has been intended to secure that the Assadist state stays in power forever. It has nothing to do with a struggle for the liberation of Palestine or its people. This game would not have possible without a degree of complicity from the side of Syrians themselves, due to their awareness that Israel is really antagonistic and aggressive. The Syrian people are more radical in their stance towards Israel than their rulers, despite their apathy sometimes towards certain political tactics, even though their radicalism does not mean they are always for confronting Israel militarily. Every time Palestinians suffered Israeli aggression, everybody would rally with Palestine regardless of their diversity of opinions towards Palestinian politics or the politics of this Palestinian side or that.
...More than 11 million Syrians have been displaced from their homes; 6 million inside Syria and at least 5 million in both neighboring and faraway countries. Three thousand people have been swallowed by the water of the Mediterranean in 2015 alone.
This is the Syrian Nakba. Doesn’t it remind us of the Palestinian Nakba?
Following 72 months of revolution, a civil war and a broader regional war, as well as almost 47 years of a dynastic rule, the regime has never shown any willingness negotiate a political compromise that would result in even minimal changes to the political structure against which Syrians had revolted in 2011. Isn’t refusal to any real negotiation a very Israeli action?
The regime has gained immunity through 8 Russian and 6 Chinese vetoes. Russia has constantly maintained their military support for the regime. Isn’t this a very Israeli action, Russian and China substituting the erstwhile role of the USA?
During these 72 months, the regime has used its air force. Its helicopters has dropped barrel bombs on the populations. It has used war planes against populated areas. Don’t these actions resemble and surpass Israeli actions?
The Israeli exceptionalism and refusal to abide by international law offers a legal foundation for Assad, who is not abiding by any laws either. Israel has been annihilating its enemies –Palestinian people– politically, and physically whenever it needed to. The Assadist state has followed suit but more savagely, with more people murdered and more buildings destroyed.
Israel has stripped Palestinians from their ownership of Palestinian land. The Assadist state has done the same to Syrians and has transformed a family of murderers to owners of Syria, –they call it “Assad’s Syria.”'
https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/en/critical-thought/the-palestinization-of-syrians
The Palestinian cause has been used as a tool to control the Syrian and Palestinian people, and to suppress political agency both in Syria and the region. All of this has been intended to secure that the Assadist state stays in power forever. It has nothing to do with a struggle for the liberation of Palestine or its people. This game would not have possible without a degree of complicity from the side of Syrians themselves, due to their awareness that Israel is really antagonistic and aggressive. The Syrian people are more radical in their stance towards Israel than their rulers, despite their apathy sometimes towards certain political tactics, even though their radicalism does not mean they are always for confronting Israel militarily. Every time Palestinians suffered Israeli aggression, everybody would rally with Palestine regardless of their diversity of opinions towards Palestinian politics or the politics of this Palestinian side or that.
...More than 11 million Syrians have been displaced from their homes; 6 million inside Syria and at least 5 million in both neighboring and faraway countries. Three thousand people have been swallowed by the water of the Mediterranean in 2015 alone.
This is the Syrian Nakba. Doesn’t it remind us of the Palestinian Nakba?
Following 72 months of revolution, a civil war and a broader regional war, as well as almost 47 years of a dynastic rule, the regime has never shown any willingness negotiate a political compromise that would result in even minimal changes to the political structure against which Syrians had revolted in 2011. Isn’t refusal to any real negotiation a very Israeli action?
The regime has gained immunity through 8 Russian and 6 Chinese vetoes. Russia has constantly maintained their military support for the regime. Isn’t this a very Israeli action, Russian and China substituting the erstwhile role of the USA?
During these 72 months, the regime has used its air force. Its helicopters has dropped barrel bombs on the populations. It has used war planes against populated areas. Don’t these actions resemble and surpass Israeli actions?
The Israeli exceptionalism and refusal to abide by international law offers a legal foundation for Assad, who is not abiding by any laws either. Israel has been annihilating its enemies –Palestinian people– politically, and physically whenever it needed to. The Assadist state has followed suit but more savagely, with more people murdered and more buildings destroyed.
Israel has stripped Palestinians from their ownership of Palestinian land. The Assadist state has done the same to Syrians and has transformed a family of murderers to owners of Syria, –they call it “Assad’s Syria.”'
https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/en/critical-thought/the-palestinization-of-syrians
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