US-/IL-Angriff auf Syrien und Iran könnte bei atomarer Eskalation weltweiten Arbeitsplatzmangel schlagartig beenden
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"The Obama administration is, arguably, already at war with Iran by most legal and civilized standards – a war of economic strangulation and covert aggression. African Americans have historically opposed U.S. wars against the developing world, but Obama has “blurred the lines between war and not-war,” claiming that his 7-month bombing campaign against Libya was not really a war. Meanwhile, the corporate media “is full of fake news about Iranian threats, when it is the Americans who are doing all the threatening, all the killing.”
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Am Sonntag passierte der Flugzeugträger USS Abraham Lincoln die Straße von Hormus. Er verstärkt die anderen vor der Küste des Iran herumschippernden US-Kriegsschiffe (USS Carl Vinson) und israelischen Dolphin-U-Boote. Am Mittwoch, den 23. November tauchte der Flugzeuträger USS George H.W. Bush in den Gewässern vor Syrien auf. Damit dürfte die Mindestbasis an US-Flugzeugträgern für die bevorstehenden völkerrechtswidrigen amerikanisch-israelischen Luftangriffe auf den Iran/Syrien bereitstehen. Nach dem Angriffsversuch könnte es allerdings im ungünstigen Fall neben dem Iran/Syrien auch das "American Empire" und seinen Luftwaffenstützpunkt "Israel" nicht mehr geben. Der russische Kriegsschiff-Verband unter Führung des Flugdeckträgers Admiral Kusnezow, z.Zt. im syrischen Hafen von Tartus, ist ja auch nicht ohne. Obama sollte vielleicht vor dem Angriffsbefehl nochmal das Orakel von Delphi befragen, das damals dem Krösus einen klaren Fingerzeig gab („Wenn du den (Grenzfluss) Halys überschreitest, wirst du ein großes Reich zerstören.“).
Laut Internationaler Arbeitsorganisation ILO fehlen weltweit 600 Millionen Arbeitsplätze. Die Tagesschau berichtet:
„In der Europäischen Union und anderen westlichen Industrienationen ist die Zahl der Arbeitslosen seit Ausbruch der Finanzkrise 2007/2008 drastisch gestiegen. 45 Millionen Menschen seien 2010 in der EU, den USA, Japan und den anderen am weitesten entwickelten Volkswirtschaften ohne Job gewesen, teilte die Internationale Arbeitsorganisation ILO mit. Schätzungen zufolge wurde 2011 nur ein leichter Rückgang der Arbeitslosenzahl in diesen Ländern auf 43,5 Millionen verzeichnet. 2007 waren es noch 29,1 Millionen gewesen. Lediglich in Deutschland und Österreich sei die Situation mittlerweile wieder besser als vor dem Ausbruch der Krise.
900 Millionen Menschen können von ihrem Job nicht leben. Weltweit waren in den vergangenen beiden Jahren jeweils rund 197 Millionen Menschen arbeitslos und damit fast 27 Millionen mehr als vor der Finanzkrise. Hinzu kämen vor allem in den Entwicklungsländern rund 900 Millionen Menschen, die mit einem täglichen Einkommen von weniger als zwei US-Dollar trotz Arbeit unter der Armutsgrenze lebten. "Jeder dritte Arbeitnehmer auf der Welt ist arbeitslos oder lebt trotz Arbeit in Armut", erklärte ILO-Generaldirektor Juan Somavia.
Weltweit müssen nach den ILO-Berechnungen in den kommenden zehn Jahren 600 Millionen neue Arbeitsplätze entstehen, um die bestehende Arbeitslosigkeit abzubauen und die etwa 400 Millionen Neuzugänge in den Arbeitsmarkt aufzunehmen. Vor allem in den Entwicklungsländern ist der Anteil der jungen Menschen teilweise sehr groß. Viele von ihnen werden in den kommenden Jahren Arbeit suchen, sobald sie ihre Ausbildung abgeschlossen haben oder alt genug sind. Die Zahl der Erwerbsfähigen wird laut ILO-Schätzungen jedes Jahr um 40 Millionen Menschen weltweit steigen. Die Schaffung von Arbeit müsse daher "oberste Priorität" in der Wirtschaftspolitik haben, forderte Somavia.“

Der russische Flugdeckträger Admiral Kusnezow liegt z.Zt. mit einem halben Dutzend russischer Kriegsschiffe im syrischen Hafen von Tartus in Bereitschaft. Russische Techniker installieren rund um Damaskus und andere strategische Orte fieberhaft weitere S 300 Fla-Raketenabwehrstellungen. Im Nahen Osten knistert es gewaltig (Freitag).
Wegen der fortschreitenden Automatisierung und Computerisierung bei der Produktion von Waren und Dienstleistungen halte ich das Ziel der Schaffung von 600 Millionen Arbeitsplätzen in den nächsten zehn Jahren für unrealistisch. Müssen andere Lösungen für die (zu?) vielen Menschen auf der Erde her ?
Offenbar haben die Herrschenden in den USA und Israel beschlossen, das Problem der aus "westlicher" Sicht zu schnell wachsenden Überbevölkerung auf der Erde unilateral zu lösen. Ein Allgemeiner Atomkrieg mit ein paar hundert Millionen Toten wird im Pentagon-Atombunker anscheinend in Kauf genommen und könnte aus der zynischen Tunnelblick-Sicht von Netanyahu, Barak, Lieberman & Co. die sicherste Endlösung sein.
Als Auslöser dafür dürfte die Gefährdung der Alleinstellung der aggressiven Atommacht Israel durch den aufstrebenden Iran im Nahen Osten herhalten. Scusi! hat zum Thema öfters berichtet. Seit die EU sich dem US-Ölembargo gegen den Iran angeschlossen hat wartet der nächste Nahost-Krieg um die Ecke (Chris Floyd).
Szenarien für den kommenden (Nuklear-) Krieg sind bereits reichlich im Umlauf (USA: Szenarien für Angriff auf Iran, RIANOVOSTI). Bevor das AIPAC gegen den Iran losschlägt muss allerdings erst noch Israels unmittelbarer Nachbar Syrien plattgemacht werden. Es gilt die von Israel so "wahrgenommene" "Bedrohung" durch Syriens Armee und die Raketen der Hizbollah und der Hamas zu minimieren. Israel hält den Golan, einen Teil Syriens, besetzt und befindet sich offiziell mit Syrien noch immer im Kriegszustand.

TAGESSCHAU vom 27.01.12., 20:00 Uhr - "Aufständische" in Homs. Eine erkennbar "gestellte" Szene mit zwei wohl von westl. Diensten gegen Cash angeheuerten kriminellen Kopfgeldjägern. Das Sturmgewehr mit Zielfernrohr (links) und die Maschinenpistole (rechts) dürften aus Mossadbeständen stammen. Im ethnischen Flickenteppich Syrien schießt inzwischen jeder auf jeden, wenn man den gefaketen "Filmreportagen" von Al Jazeera, Al Arabia und den restlichen Westmedien glauben würde. Ein Blick auf den syrischen Wetterbericht entlarvt die Fälschungen, wenn der Reporter Ort, Datum und Tageszeit des angeblichen "Events" mitgeteilt hat.
Seit Anfang März 2011 laufen offenbar verdeckte Mossad/MI6/DGSE und CIA - Operationen des Westens in Syrien. In dem von Israel, Großbritannien, Frankreich und den USA massiv verdeckt gesponserten und durch Lieferung von Handfeuerwaffen und Panzerfäusten via Türkei/Libanon angeheizten „Bürgerkrieg“ der sunnitischen Mehrheit (inkl. Al Kaida) gegen die alewitisch-christlich-drusische Minderheit fließt das Blut in Strömen. Ziel der Inszenierung ist wie im Iran der Regimewechsel. "Das Erbe der Nazis wird nun hoffentlich beseitigt" schrieb "fem." in schöner Offenheit schon am 27. März 2011 in der NZZ. Der Chefredaktor der NZZ am Sonntag, Felix E. Müller ("fem.") hat einen besonders guten Draht nach Tel Aviv. Dass insbesondere Israel hinter den Unruhen gegen Assad steckt, das zeigen auch gezielt irreführende NZZ-Artikel wie "Israel bangt um einen verlässlichen Feind, Besser Präsident Assad als das Chaos", von Max Borowski, Jerusalem, in der NZZ vom 03. April 2011. Die ProIl-Katze sorgt bekanntlich immer dafür, dass in den Medien unterm Strich alles so aussieht, als ob es der Hund angestellt hätte.
Schon 1968 veröffentlichte der Ex-Mossad/CIA-Agent Edward Luttwak seine Handlungsanleitung für Staatsstreiche ("Der Coup d`Etat, oder wie inszeniert man einen Staatsstreich"), ein perfektes Drehbuch für den vermeintlichen "Aufstand der Massen", zunächst in Gaddafis Libyen und jetzt in Syrien mit modernsten HighTec-Mitteln inszeniert (s.u.: Assad-Rede).
Luttwaks Kapitel über die "Ausschaltung der Streitkräfte" (s. 80 ff.) beginnt so: "Als sich im Juni 1967 die Israeli, nach ihrem Sieg über die anderen arabischen Armeen, gegen die syrischen Einheiten wendeten, hielt Salah Dschadi, Chef des syrischen Nationalen Revolutionsrates, die zwei besten Brigaden in ihren Garnisonen in Homs und Damaskus zurück..." und weiter:
"Wir müssen daher die bewaffneten Streitkräfte im Zielland unseres eventuellen Staatsstreichs sehr sorgfältig untersuchen: wir können dabei keine noch so kleine Gruppe, die intervenieren könnte, außer acht lassen...Ohne einen Schauplatz für einen Stammesbürgerkrieg schaffen zu wollen, ist man doch stark geneigt, diesen Faktor auszunutzen..." (sic!).
Wie intensiv man sich in Israel mit der Planung von Umstürzen in Syrien seit Jahrzehnten befasst, darüber gibt auch Tabelle 4 in Luttwak`s Buch ein wenig Auskunft:

E. Luttwak: Übersicht über die ethnische Zugehörigkeit der "Putschisten" im Kontext syrischer Staatsstreiche seit Beendigung der französischen Mandatszeit (Auszug).
Offenbar rechnete die israelische Armee in Syrien zunächst nicht mit einer aufständischen Volksbewegung gegen Assad (siehe den Artikel "Bewegung ohne Basis", NZZ, vom Mai 2011). Alle Bemühungen des Westens waren vorrangig darauf gerichtet, Deserteure in der syrischen Armee gegen Assad zu gewinnen und zu bewaffnen, auch mit am Straßenrand versteckten Bomben (IED). Was zuletzt mit 11 toten "Aufständischen" schwer danebengegangen ist, als ein mit Gefangenen besetzter Polizei-Bus über eine wohl israelische IED fuhr.
Die syrische Sicht der Dinge taucht seit einem Jahr in "westlichen" Medien
nirgendwo mehr auf. Presse, Rundfunk und Fernsehen verstoßen mit dem Totschweigen der syrischen Position anhaltend und schwerwiegend gegen ihre gesetzlich vorgeschriebenen Informationspflichten. Deshalb habe ich die zweistündige Universitäts-Rede von Präsident Assad zu den "außengesteuerten" ("westlichen", d. Verf.) Machenschaften in Syrien im englischen Text in Auszügen im Anhang (s.u.) veröffentlicht. "Audiatur et altera pars." Lesen lohnt, auch wenn die typisch "orientalische" Rede aus okzidentaler Sicht etwas langatmig geraten ist.

Russland will 36 Jak-130 - Maschinen nach Syrien liefern. Die Maschinen sollen zur Unterstützung im Erdkampf geeignet sein. Einen entsprechenden Vertrag sollen beide Seiten bereits unterzeichnet haben.
Im Iran liquidierten die Handlanger des Mossad im Abstand von wenigen Monaten in kürzester Zeit auf offener Straße demonstrativ fünf iranische "Atomwissenschaftler". Der Chef der IAEA, der US-/Il-atommischpokegläubige Japaner Y. Amano, trug sogar durch vorherige weltweite Publikation der Namen der an der iranischen Atomforschung beteiligten Wissenschaftler aktiv dazu bei, dass der Mossad bei der Zielauswahl für die Morde nach Kräften von der IAEA unterstützt wurde.
Die Weltöffentlichkeit wurde über das iranische „Atomprogramm“, das angeblich der Entwicklung einer Atombombe dient, jahrelang mit Falschinformationen systematisch getäuscht. Es gibt bis heute keine Beweise, dass der schiitische Iran eine - für Muslime verbotene - Atombombe entwickelt. Ali Larijani, Irans Parlamentspräsident, hat die USA in einem Interview mit der NZZ
eines "miesen Spiels" bezichtigt. Und damit liegt er wohl richtig.
Die wilden Spekulationen in den westlichen Medien über die von Teheran im Ernstfall angeblich beabsichtigte Sperrung der für den Transport westlichen Öls unverzichtbaren Straße von Hormus zielen auf die Hysterisierung der weitestgehend entmündigten Konsumbürger westlicher Wohlstandsgesellschaften, für die das Autofahren einer der letzten „freiheitlichen“ Lebensbereiche ist, in dem sie noch autonome Entscheidungen treffen können. Die Bilder der amerikanischen Flugzeugträger vor der Küste des Iran sollen die Welt auf die unmittelbar bevorstehenden Luftangriffe vorbereiten und jeden Gedanken daran verdrängen, dass es sich beim US-/Il-Krieg gegen den Iran wieder einmal, wie schon in Afghanistan und im Irak, um einen völkerrechtswidrigen Angriffskrieg des „Proisraelischen Westens“ gegen einen Staat aus dem muslimisch-mißliebigen "Rest der Welt“ handeln wird (s. auch die US-amerikanische CAP-Studie zur Islamophobie: "fear inc.", engl.).
Stellen wir uns einmal vor, wie wir uns als Bewohner Syriens, Ägyptens, des Irak, Afghanistans oder des Iran, geboren als Entrechtete und Verarmte der (muslimischen) Dritten Welt angesichts der aggressiven Arroganz des "ProIl-Westens" und angesichts einer sich ständig steigernden atomaren Iran-Vernichtungsdrohung seitens Israels fühlen würden. Damit wir keinen Moment lang auf diesen Gedanken kommen, bombardiert uns die ProIl-Medienmaschine unaufhörlich, rund um die Uhr und jeden Tag in der Woche mit Propagandasottisen gegen Länder wie Iran und Syrien. Besonders schlimm ist es in den "deutschen" ProIl-Medien, ein Beispiel:
ProIl Martin Winter betreibt seine Kriegshetze gegen den Iran in der Süddeutschen Zeitung wie all die anderen deutschen Krummnasen seit Tagen ganz offen:
"Die letzte Phase im Streit um die iranische Nuklearrüstung hat begonnen. Mit ihren neuen Strafmaßnahmen gegen Teheran hat die Europäische Union ihre Sanktionskarte ausgereizt. Nun sollen die iranische Wirtschaft in ihrem Kern, dem Ölgeschäft, getroffen und die Zentralbank lahmgelegt werden - mehr geht nicht.
Das ist die letzte Eskalationsstufe im Rahmen des bald ein Jahrzehnt andauernden Versuchs, den Konflikt friedlich (5 Mordanschläge sind wohl kaum friedlich, und das ist nur die Spitze des Mossad-Eisbergs, d. Verf.) beizulegen. Lässt sich Iran auch davon nicht beeindrucken, dann blieben eigentlich nur noch militärische Mittel."
Da wäre ja eigentlich eine Strafanzeige gegen Herrn Martin Winter und die SZ fällig, denn "Aufstachelung zum Angriffskrieg" ist nach § 80a des deutschen Strafgesetzbuchs verboten. Aber wo ist der weisungsunabhängige Staatsanwalt, der es wagen würde gegen den ohrenbetäubenden Lärm der antiislamischen NATO-Kriegsmeute in D vorzugehen? Im Zweifel gibt es für jede findige Juristin eine Ausflucht, so wie es von der StA Berlin bereits praktiziert worden ist.
Bei dem Krach versteht man ja sein eigenes Wort nicht mehr. Auch im Internet findet man unter all den lärmenden Youtube-Videos nicht, was man sucht. Papst Benedikt XVI hat das Problem auch schon geblickt und empfiehlt die Suche nach der Stille:
"Das Netz wird heutzutage immer mehr der Ort von Fragen und Antworten; mehr noch, der Mensch von heute wird von Antworten auf Fragen bombardiert, die er sich nie gestellt hat, und auf Bedürfnisse, die er nicht empfindet. Die S t i l l e ist kostbar, um das nötige Unterscheidungsvermögen zu fördern im Hinblick auf die vielen Umweltreize und die vielen Antworten, die wir erhalten, gerade um die wirklich wichtigen Fragen zu erkennen und klar zu formulieren."
Abschalten, heißt die Devise. Und die gilt nicht nur für die Glotze mit den Kommentaren der TV-Kriegstreiber oder für die Atomkraftwerke. Gönnen wir uns selbst mal eine Auszeit, einen Augenblick der Stille, um Nachzulesen, um über die Wahrheit des Gesagten oder Gezeigten nachzudenken oder wenigstens über die Wahrhaftigkeit derer, die uns da gerade wieder etwas über ihre Riesen-Medienmaschine "verkaufen" oder "andrehen" wollen.
Immerhin, ein Gutes könnte die Sache mit dem Iran ja haben. Weil die Russen und die Chinesen einem Angriff auf den Iran nicht tatenlos zusehen werden, - Rußlands Lawrow spricht schon von der "roten Linie" - könnte ein US-/Il-Angriff auf den Iran in einer Kettenreaktion einen Allgemeinen Atomkrieg auslösen, der weltweit mindestens 600 Millionen Menschenleben vernichten könnte. Das Problem der ILO mit den fehlenden 600 Millionen Arbeitsplätzen wäre gelöst!
Wenn dann nicht sogar a l l e Probleme der Menschheit dauerhaft gelöst sind...
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Anhang
Rede von Syriens Präsident Assad
vom 12. Januar 2012 in der Universität von Damaskus
über die Urheber des Blutvergießens in seinem Land (Wortlaut der Nachrichtenagentur sana in Auszügen (engl.).
"I know that I have been away from the media for a long time, and I have missed having direct contact with the citizens, but I have always been following up with the daily occurrences and gathering the information so that my speech can be built on what is said by the street.
I would like to salute you in the name of pan-Arabism which will continue to be a symbol of our identity and our haven in difficult times, as we will continue to be its heart beating with love and affection. I would also like to greet you in the name of our home country which will always be the source of our pride and dignity, as we will remain faithful to its genuine values for which our fathers and grandfathers sacrificed dearly to keep the country glorified and independent. And I am proud of your steadfastness which will keep Syria an invincible fortress in the face of all forms of penetration, and free in resisting submission to foreign forces.
Today, I am addressing you ten months after the outbreak of the unfortunate events which befell the country imposing new circumstances on the Syrian arena. For all of us, these conditions represent a serious test of our national commitment, and we cannot pass this test except by our continuous work and honest intents based on our faith in God, the genuine character of our people, and its solid nature which has been polished over the ages and made brighter and more robust. Although those events have made us pay, until now, heavy prices which made my heart bleed, as it made the heart of every Syrian bleed, yet they require the sons of Syria, regardless of their beliefs and doctrines, to be wise and sensible, and to be guided by their deep national feelings. Only then our entire country can achieve victory with our unity, our fraternity, and our will to go beyond narrow horizons and momentary interests and reach where our noble national issues lie. For this is our destination and there lies the strength of our country and the glory of our history.
External Conspiring Is No Longer a Secret
External conspiring is no longer a secret because what is being plotted in the pal talk rooms has started to be clearly revealed before the eyes of the people. It is not possible anymore to deceive others except for those who do not want to listen or see; as the tears shed by the dealers of freedom and democracy for our own victims can no longer conceal the role they played in the bloodshed which they tried to use for their own purposes. At the beginning of the crisis, it was not easy to explain what happened. Emotional reactions and the absence of rationality were surpassing the facts. But now, the fog has lifted, and it is no longer possible for the regional and international parties which wanted to destabilize Syria to forge the facts and the events. Now the masks have fallen off the faces of those parties, and we have become more capable of deconstructing the virtual environment which they have created to push Syrians towards illusion and then make them fall. That virtual environment was created to lead to a psychological and moral defeat which would eventually lead to the actual defeat. That unprecedented media attack was meant to lead us to a state of fear, and this fear, which could paralyze the will, would lead to defeat.
Over Sixty T.V. Channels in the World Are Devoted to Work against Syria
Over sixty T.V. channels in the world are devoted to work against Syria. Some of them are devoted to working against the Syrian domestic situation, and some others are working to distort the image of Syria abroad. There are tens of internet websites, and tens of newspapers and different media channels, which means that we are talking about hundreds of media networks.
Their aim was to push us to a state of self-collapse in order to save their efforts in waging many battles; and they failed in doing so, yet they did not give in.
One of their attempts which you are aware of is what they did with me personally in my interview with the American news channel. Usually I do not watch myself on T.V whether in an interview or a speech. That time I watched the interview and I was about to believe what I myself was presented to have said. If they were capable of convincing me of the lie, how can they not convince others! Fortunately, we had an original version of the interview, and they did what they did because they thought that we did not have an original version which we can present to the citizens to compare with their version. Had that not been the case, no one would have ever believed the professional fabrication which they did even if I talk now for hours and try to tell you I did not say what was misrepresented on that news channel.
Of course, they had one aim in mind. When they failed in causing a state of collapse on the popular and institutional levels in Syria, they wanted to target the top of the pyramid of the state in order to say to the citizens, on the one hand, and, of course, to the West, on the other hand, that this person lives in a cocoon and does not know what has been going on. They also wanted to say to the citizens, especially those in the state, that if the top figure in the pyramid is evading responsibility and feeling that things are falling apart, then it is normal for things to go out of control.
There were continuous rumors like saying that the president has left the country, as to say that the president has given up on his responsibilities. They did their best to circulate those rumors but we say to them, ‘in your dreams, for I am not a person who surrenders his responsibilities.’
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We are talking now about responsibility, and this responsibility derives its importance from public support. This means that I acquire a position with the support of the people; and when I leave it, it will be with the will of this people. This is final, and regardless of what you heard, I always based my external policy in all our positions on public support and public will. What do we make of the interview with the American channel in the media framework? There was repeated talk about the good intention of many from within Syria and the outside world. Why did we not allow the media to enter Syria? In fact, during the first month or month and a half of the crisis, Arab and foreign media networks were completely free to move inside Syria. However, all the media fabrications, and the whole political and media campaign against Syria, were built on that phase of forging and distortion; and there is a difference between distorting the truth then giving it credibility as being presented from the inside of Syria, on the one hand, and distorting the truth from the outside of Syria where less credibility tends to be given to such misrepresentation. That is why we took a decision not to close the door to all media networks, but to be selective in the access given to them in order to control the quality of the information or the falsification which goes beyond the borders.
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Arab Countries Are Not the Same in Their Policies towards Syria
Here comes the foreign role after they failed in all attempts; there was no choice but the foreign intervention. When we say foreign, it usually comes to our minds that it is the foreign outside. Unfortunately, this foreign outside has become a mix of Arab and foreign, and sometimes, in many cases, this Arab part is more hostile and worse than the foreign one. I do not want to generalize; the image is not that bleak because Arab countries are not the same in their policies. There are countries which tried during this stage to play a morally objective role towards what is happening in Syria. In contrast, there are countries that basically do not care about what is happening in general. I mean they stand on the fence in most cases, and there are countries that carry out what they are asked to do. What is strange is that some Arab officials are with us in heart and against us in politics. When we ask for clarifications, it is said or the official says I am with you, but there are external pressures. I mean this is a semi-official declaration of losing sovereignty. It is not a surprise that the countries will one day link their policies to the policies of foreign countries just like linking local currency to foreign currencies, and thus giving away sovereignty becomes a sovereign matter.
The truth is that this is the peak of deterioration for the Arab situation, but any deterioration always precedes a renaissance; when we move from the first independence which is the first liberation of land from occupation to the second independence which is the independence of the will. We will reach this independence when Arab peoples take the lead in the Arab world in general. This is because the official policies we see do not utterly reflect what we see on the public arenas in the Arab world.
We do not see this Arab role, which we have suddenly seen now, when there is a crisis or a dilemma in an Arab country. In contrast, we see it in its best forms when there is trouble in a foreign country or a superpower. Saving that state from its crisis is often at the expense of another state or at the expense of Arab states, and often through the destruction of an Arab country. This is what happened in Iraq and this is what happened in Libya, and this is what we see now in the Arab role towards Syria.
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When we started reform, this thing was confusing for them, thus they shifted to the issue of the Arab League or the Arab initiative. The truth is that if we are to follow these countries, which give us advice, we have to go backward at least a century and a half. What happened a century and a half ago? We were part of the Ottoman Empire and we had the first parliament which we are concerned with in one way or another. The first parliament was opened in the year / 1877 / and if we put this aside, the first parliament in Syria was in 1919; this means less than a century ago. Therefore, imagine these countries that want to advise us about democracy! Where were these countries at that time? Their status is like the status of a smoking doctor who advises the patient to quit smoking while putting a cigarette in his mouth.
Eventually, outrage of the Arab or public reaction in Syria towards the issue of the Arab League was the result. In fact, I was not angry; why to get angry with someone who does not know his decision. If someone attacks us with a knife, we defend ourselves not by struggling with the knife but with the person. The knife is just a tool. Our struggle is not with these people but against those who stand behind them. The public reaction was outrage, indignation and surprise; why did not the Arabs stand with Syria rather than standing against Syria? I ask a question: when did they stand with Syria?! I will not go back far in the past, but let us just talk about the past few years. Let us start by the war on Iraq, after the invasion, when Syria was threatened with bombing and invasion. Who stood with Syria in 2005 when they exploited the assassination of Hariri? Who stood alongside Syria in 2006? Who supported our positions against the Israeli aggression on Lebanon in 2008? Who supported us in the IAEA in relation to the alleged nuclear file? Arab states vote against us. These facts may be unknown to many citizens. That is why we need to explain everything in these junctures and situations.
Recently, Arab states voted against Syria with regard to the Human Rights issue. In contrast, some non-Arab countries stand with Syria. That is why we should not be surprised. I mean we should not be surprised with the Arab League status because it is just a reflection of the Arab situation. The Arab League is a mirror of our situation.
The Arab League mirrors our current miserable situation. If it has failed in over six decades in taking a position in the Arab interest, why are we surprised today if the general context is the same and hasn’t changed except in the sense that it is pushing the Arab condition from bad to worse and in that what was happening in secret is now happening in public under the slogan of the nation’s interest.
Has the Arab league actually gained independence for its states, and consequently for itself? Has it ever implemented its decisions and removed the dust off its files and achieved only a fragment of the aspirations of the Arab peoples? Or has it contributed directly to sowing the seeds of sedition and disunity? Has it respected its charter and defended its member states whose land, or the rights of whose peoples, have been violated? Has it returned one olive tree uprooted by Israel or prevented the demolition of one Palestinian house in occupied Arab Palestine? Has it been able to prevent the partition of Sudan or prevent the killing of over a million Iraqis or feed a single starved Somali?
Today, we are not in the process of attacking the Arab League because we are part of it, although we are in the age of decadence. Nor am I talking about the Arab league because it or the Arab states have taken a decision to suspend Syria’s membership in it. This does not concern us in the least. I am talking about it because I have noticed the extent of popular frustration which we need to put in its natural context. The Arab League has been doomed for a long time. .... So, being out of the Arab League, or suspending Syria’s membership, and all this talk is not the issue. The issue is who wins and who loses. Does Syria or the Arab League lose? For us, we and the Arab states are losing as long as the Arab condition is bad. This is a chronic situation, nothing new in it, and there are no winners. We have been working for years to minimize the losses because it is not possible to win. But suspending Syria’s membership raises a question: can the body live without a heart? Who said that Syria is the throbbing heart of Arabism? It wasn’t a Syrian, it was President Abdul Naser, and this is still true.
Many Arabs have the same conviction. For Syria Arabism is not a slogan, it is a practice. Who offered, more than Syria, and is still offering and paying the price? Who, more than Syria, has offered to the Palestinian cause in particular? Who, more than Syria, has given to the process of Arabizing culture and education everywhere, in the mass media? Syria is quite strict about Arabization, particularly in school curricula. Who has offered more to Arabism and to Arabization and insisted on Arab culture in their school curricula more than Syria does in its schools and universities. The issue for us is not a slogan. If some countries seek to suspend our Arabism in the League, we say to them that they are suspending the Arab identity of the League itself. They cannot suspend Syria’s Arab identity. On the contrary, the League without Syria suspends its own Arab identity.
Arab League without Syria Means Suspending Arabism
If some believe they can get us out of the League, they cannot get us out of our Arab identity, because the Arab identity is not a political decision. It is heritage and history. Those countries, which you know, have not acquired, and will not acquire, the Arab identity. If they believe that with money they can buy some geography and rent and import some history, we tell them that money does not make nations or create civilizations. Consequently, and as I heard from many Syrians, and I agree with them on this point, maybe in our present condition we are freer in exercising our real and pure Arabism which Syrians have been the best to express throughout history. That is why we say that with this attempt they don’t focus on getting Syria out of the League, but rather on suspending Arabism itself so that it becomes an Arab League only in name. It will no longer be a league – bringing people together – or Arab. It will be a mock-Arab body in order to be in line with their policies and the role they are playing on the Arab arena. Otherwise, how can we explain this unprecedented and unreasonable tact with the Zionist enemy in everything it does and this decisiveness and toughness with Syria?
We Shall Never Close the Door to Any Arab Endeavor As Long As It Respects Our Sovereignty, the Independence of Our Decision and the Unity of Our People
We realize all that. But based on our genuine Arab character, and our desire to restore the original idea of the Arab League, in which we are supported by some sisterly countries keen on making the Arab League a truly collective and Arab body, we haven’t closed the doors to any solution or proposal; and we shall never close the door to any Arab endeavor as long as it respects our sovereignty, the independence of our decision and the unity of our people.
All these negative accumulations on the Arab arena, throughout decades, in addition to the current situation, led some of our citizens to take their anger out on Arabism which has been wrongly confused with the Arab League or the performance of some pseudo-Arabs to the extent that they denounced it.
Brothers and sisters,
The social structure of the Arab world, with its large diversity, is based on two strong and integrated pillars: Arabism and Islam. Both of them are great, rich and vital. Consequently, we cannot blame them for the wrong human practices. Furthermore, the Muslim and Christian diversity in our country is a major pillar of our Arabism and a foundation of our strength. When we get angry with Arabism or abandon it because of what some have done on this wide Arab arena we commit a gross injustice. As we have refused to generalize the mistakes done by some officials to the whole country, we shouldn’t generalize the mistakes of some pseudo-Arabs to Arabism. What we are doing now is similar to what the west did against Islam in the wake of 9/11.
We say that there is a great religion – Islam, and there are terrorists taking cover under Islam. Who should we banish: religion or terrorism? Do we denounce religion or terrorists? Do we fight those who trade in Islam or fight terrorism? The answer is clear: It is not the fault of Islam when there are terrorists who take cover under the mantle of Islam.
Christianity is a religion of love and peace. What is the fault of Christianity in the wars waged under its name and in the crimes committed in the heart of America or in European countries by people who claim to be committed to Christian values? The same applies to Arabism. We should not link it to what some pseudo-Arabs are doing; otherwise we head towards the greatest sin. There are things which have existed through a historical process and we cannot respond to them by an act or a decision. These things didn’t take place through a decision. There is a historical context and there is a divine will behind religions and nationality which we cannot face through reaction.
The first reaction was proposing the “Syria first” concept. It is natural to put Syria first. Every person belongs to his country first and foremost. One’s homeland cannot be in the second, third or fourth place; but the context in which this concept was made was isolationist – only Syria.
Every person belongs first to his city more than to other cities. He is naturally connected to it. Everyone likes the village he grew up in more than other villages, but this doesn’t prevent one from being patriotic and like the whole of the homeland. Being Syrian doesn’t prevent us from being Arabs; and being Arab doesn’t create any contradiction between our Arab and Syrian identities.
That is why we should stress that point, that the relationship between Arabism and patriotism is a close and vital one for the future, for our interests and for everything. It is not about romanticism or principles. It is about interests too. If we separate this fact from reaction, we should always know that Arabism is an identity not a membership. Arabism is an identity given by history not a certificate given by an organization. Arabism is an honor that characterizes Arab peoples not a stigma carried by some pseudo-Arabs on the Arab or world political stage.
Some might wonder about all this talk about Arabism and Arabs while in Syria there are only Arabs. My response is: who said that we are talking about an Arab race? Had Arabism been only the Arab race, we wouldn’t have had much to be proud of. The last thing in Arabism is race. Arabism is a question of civilization, a question of common interests, common will and common religions. It is about the things which bring about all the different nationalities which live in this place. The strength of this Arabism lies in its diversity not in its isolation and not in its one colordness. Arabism hasn’t been built by the Arabs. Arabism has been built by all those non-Arabs who contributed to building it and those who belong to this rich society in which we live. Its strength lies in its diversity. Had there been a group of non-Arabs who wanted to change their traditions and customs and abandon them, we would oppose them on the grounds that they weaken Arabism. The strength of our Arabism lies in openness, diversity and in showing this diversity not integrating it to look like one component. Arabism has been accused for decades of chauvinism. This is not true. If there are chauvinistic individuals, this doesn’t mean that Arabism is chauvinistic. It is a condition of civilization.
All the above will not affect our vision of the internal situation in Syria and how we deal with it. There is no doubt that the current events and their repercussions have posed a huge number of questions and ideas which aim at finding different solutions for the current situation Syria is going through. If it is natural and self evident, but it cannot be positive and effective except when it is based on the importance of facing the problem not running away from it, or when it is based on courage not panic and escaping forward.
We Cannot Carry out Internal Reform without Dealing with Facts
If we want to talk about the internal situation – and I think it is the issue over which all Syrians’ concerns are focused - we should identify issues clearly. There are numerous ideas, which might be good. But unless they are put in the appropriate framework they remain useless and sometimes harmful. Instead of having ideas moving in one strain contradicting and fighting with each other, let’s draw some definitions before we get into the details.
First, we cannot carry out internal reform without dealing with facts as they are on the ground, whether we like them or not. We cannot just hang on to a straw in the air. Neither the straw nor the air will carry us. This means falling. Under the pressure of the crisis, some talk about any solution and call for any solution. We shall not give ‘any’ solution. We shall only give ‘solutions’. Solutions mean that the results are known beforehand. ‘Any solution’ will lead to the abyss. It might lead to deepening the crisis. It might get us into an impasse. The pressure of the crisis will not push us to adopt just ‘any’ plan. Even though time is very important, but it is not more important than the quality of the solution which we shall provide.
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What is the relationship between the reform process and the outside plot? Will the outside plots against Syria stop if we introduce the reforms today? I’ll tell you something. We know a great deal about discussions taking place outside Syria, particularly in the West about the situation in Syria. None of those involved cares about neither the number of the victims nor about reforms, neither about what has been achieved nor what will be achieved. Everyone is talking about Syria’s policies and whether Syria’s behavior has changed from the beginning of the crisis till now.
The Outside Part of the Crisis Is against Reform That Makes Syria Stronger
On the other hand, there were those who came to bargain, saying if you do 1, 2, 3, 4, at least the outside part of the crisis and its internal tentacles will stop immediately. So, there is no relation between reform and the outside part of the crisis, because this part is against reform and because reform will make Syria stronger. If Syria is stronger, this means strengthening Syrian policies, and we all know that Syrian policies are not well liked in foreign circles. On the contrary, such policies are loathed by many countries which want us to be mere lackeys.
The second point: what is the relationship between reform and terrorism? If we carry out the reforms, will terrorists stop? Does this mean that the terrorists who are killing and destroying are keen on the political parties law, the local administration elections or things of that kind? They are not. Terrorists don’t care. Reform will not prevent terrorists from being terrorists. So, what is the component which concerns us?
The greatest part of the Syrian people want reform, and they have not come out, haven’t broken the law, haven’t killed. This is the largest part of the Syrian people, it is the part which wants reform. For us, reform is the natural context. That is why we announced a phased reform in the year 2000. In my swear-in speech I talked about modernization and development. At that time, I was focused on state institutions. In 2005, we talked about political reform. Part of what we are doing now was proposed in 2005 in the Bath party conference. At that time there were no pressures in this regard. Pressure was different, in a different direction. No one was talking about internal reform. We proposed it because we thought of it as a natural context not a forced one. It cannot be forced. It is a natural requirement for development. We cannot develop without reform. Whether we were late or not is a different question. Why we were late is a different question. But it remained a natural need. Had reform been part of the crisis, it would fail; and if reform were forced, it would fail. That’s why, in our discussion of reform, let’s separate natural needs from the crisis.
If we start from the current crisis, reform will be abrupt and tied to its current circumstances which are temporary. What about future decades? Things will be different. We have to connect what is before the crisis with what is after it regardless of it and then base our work on the reform process. Of course this is not in the absolute. Sometimes, we take into account what we are going through now in our reform efforts. We don’t separate it completely from the timetable. Sometimes we move quickly. Sometimes we assume that people’s reaction needs a move in a certain direction. There are some impacts of the crisis; but we don’t build our reforms on the crisis. If we do so, we justify foreign powers’ intervention in our crisis under the title of reform. So, let’s agree on separating the two and deal with the details on these grounds.
Now that we talked about the details, I proposed in my speech in this auditorium last June about an action plan; and I talked mainly about the legislative component in relation to laws and the constitution. At that time, I offered a timeframe for the laws which have all been passed within the timeframe identified at the time. Now, we hear many people saying “we haven’t seen any tangible results”. I always like to talk transparently, and I’ll address every subject separately.
The first law we passed was lifting the state of emergency. In such circumstances that Syria is going through, can any state lift the state of emergency. On the contrary, any state would have imposed the state of emergency. Nevertheless, we didn’t do that. We insisted on lifting the state of emergency. Some Syrians accused us of abandoning part of the security of Syria because we lifted the state of emergency. Of course this is inaccurate, because lifting the state of emergency or the state of emergency itself doesn’t provide security. It is rather an organizational issue. When there is a state of emergency, there are certain measures and when it is lifted there is a different set of measures. We haven’t abandoned security.
No state could accept to abandon security. The laws and the measures now in place give us full authority to control security regardless of the state of emergency law. But lifting the state of emergency needs training for the relevant services, including the security and police forces which deal with citizens. We all know that they are all over Syria now; and some of them haven’t taken leave for months. So, it is logical, reasonable or practical to train them now? This is impossible. There will be no training in the current circumstances.... We need to control the chaos in order to feel the results. In other words, we cannot feel the true effects of lifting the state of emergency while chaos prevails. And here I distinguish, of course, between different levels of mistakes, on the one hand, and killing, on the other.
There Is No Cover for Anyone; There Is No Order at Any Level of the State to Shoot at Any Citizen
There is no cover for anyone; but the issue of killing needs evidence. Some people believe that none of those who committed acts of killing have been arrested. That’s not true in relation to those working for the state. A limited number of people have been arrested in relation to murder and other crimes. I say limited because the evidence was limited and connected with those people. The existence of evidence or searching for evidence needs institutions; and institutions need appropriate conditions; and the current conditions hamper the work of such institutions. But I would like to stress that there is no cover for anyone; and there is no order, I stress, no order at any level of the state to shoot at any citizen. Shooting, under the law, is allowed only in the case of self defence and in defence of citizens and in cases of engaging an armed person. So, there is a specific case in the law. In this regard, I stress the need to deal with causes and effects.
Concerning the political parties, the political parties law has been issued. Some parties have applied and have been given licenses. The first license was given to the first party a few weeks ago; and I believe that yesterday or today there is a second party on the way which met all the conditions. There are many other parties which are still trying to meet the conditions and submit the necessary documents to be licensed. Of course we didn’t feel the existence of these parties, because political parties need time. But, in any case, after the political parties law has been passed, we haven’t only given licenses, but encouraged many groups to form parties. I don’t think that the state is responsible in this regard. We will not form any parties, will not appear in the media or conduct activities on behalf of anyone. So, there are no obstacles in this regard and it is only a question of time.
The local administration law has been passed and elections have been held. Of course they have been held in difficult circumstances; and it is natural that they will not give the desired results because participation, neither on the part of the candidates or the voters, was not as they were supposed to be with a new law because of the security conditions. There was a point of view saying that we should postpone local administration elections to a later stage. But there was a different opinion, which we adopted, saying that there should be change because every change is positive, particularly that most citizens’ complaints were about the performance of local administration. We embarked on that effort. But in any case, anything related to elections will not give results if there is no broad participation on the part of candidates and also on the part of voters, so that there is competition. That is why you will not feel the results. In general, with anything related to elections, part of the responsibility lies on the citizens and not only on the state.
As for the media law, I think the government has completed last week the preparation of executive instructions and have become ready for implementation. There are requests ready for television, press and others. The election law was issued and the aim of which is to frame all these ideas that we hear on the political scene, and anyone who has an idea should go to the ballot box which is the voice of law for everything in this country; this is the core of the issue...
There Is No Compromise with Terrorism, No Compromise with Those Who Use Arms to Cause Chaos and Division, No Compromise with Those Who Terrorize Civilians, No Compromise with Those Who Conspire with Foreigners against Their Country and against Their People
In cases of war or confrontation, states rearrange their priorities. Our utmost priority now, which is unparalleled by any other priority, is the restoration of the security we have enjoyed for decades, and which has characterized our country, not only in the region but throughout the world. This will only happen by striking these murderous terrorists hard. There is no compromise with terrorism, no compromise with those who use arms to cause chaos and division, no compromise with those who terrorize civilians, no compromise with those who conspire with foreigners against their country and against their people.
The battle against terrorism will not be the battle of the state or state institutions alone. It is the battle of all of us. It is a national battle; and it is everyone’s duty to take part in it. “Internal sedition is more grievous that murder”, because it involves dismantling and fragmenting society and ultimately destroying it. This is what we shall not allow in order to keep Syria immune and impregnable.
Yet, the immune and impregnable state knows when and how to forgive, and knows how to bring its children back to right path. It knows how to take the hired guns out of the hands of those who have been misguided and delusioned and return them to the process of building a modern state while maintaining its authenticity and originality and the spring wells of its Arab and identity. In as much as we need to strike the terrorists in as much as we need to bring those who have gone astray back to the right path. There are those who made mistakes and those who have been misguided. After they started on their mistaken course, they have been told that the state will take revenge against you, so you cannot go back. The objective is to push them on the course of crime and to the point of no return.
The state is like the mother who opens the way for her children to be the best every day in order to maintain security and avoid bloodshed. That is why, in this regard, we have passed one amnesty after another. Some people believed that these amnesties led to more security failures. But the fact is that in most cases the results were positive, particularly when the amnesty was coordinated with local actors in every city, village and governorate and in coordination with the parents whom we met and talked to. They had enough wisdom to bring their children back to the right path.
Of course there are cases which don’t succeed, but this is not the general trend. That is why I believe that decisiveness is necessary but continuing to show tolerance and forgiveness from time to time within the framework of clear criteria and sound mechanisms is equally important...
Until the end of 2011, the number of martyrs among teachers and university professors was about 30 and over a thousand schools have been vandalized, burned or destroyed.
On your behalf, I salute all the teachers, councilors, administrators and caretakers in schools. Can a revolution be against education, against national unity? Can revolutionaries use language which calls for the disintegration of society? Can a revolutionary rise against citizens depriving them of cooking gas which they need on a daily basis in order to push them to hunger, or of heating fuel to make them catch their death because of the cold, or medicine to push them to death because of diseases or deprive them of their livelihood by burning government and private factories and facilities to make the poor poorer still?
This is not a revolution. Can a revolutionary work for the enemy – a revolutionary and a traitor at the same time? This is impossible. Can revolutionaries be without honor, moral values or religious principles? Have we had real revolutionaries, in the sense we know, you and I and the whole people would have moved with them. This is a fact.
The basic question which has been put to me with a great deal of intensity is: when and how will it end? This is, of course, a difficult question and we cannot give an answer without having all the facts. There are things which we know and things we don’t. The first thing which we don’t have full information about but we can draw deductions about is the conspiracy. It will end when the Syrian people decide to turn into a submissive people, when we submit and abandon all our heritage: the heritage of the October war of liberation in 1973, when we abandon our pan-Arab positions. We defended Lebanon in 1982, when it was the springboard of resistance which led to the liberation of Lebanon in 2000, when we stop supporting the resistance which we supported in 2006 and 2008 in Lebanon and Gaza, when we give free concessions partially or fully in the peace process, particularly in our occupied land in the Golan, when we abandon our pan-Arab positions towards the Palestinian cause which we have adopted since 1948, when we accept to be false witnesses to the systematic and unprecedented destruction of al-Aqsa mosque.
I don’t know whether the Arab League would set up a committee to address this issue. I don’t think they will, because it is an issue of concern only to 1.3 billion people; so it is not worthy of their concern and that is why they won’t do it – just for the sake of comparison.
The Syrian people will never be submissive for many reasons. First, the principles to which he has been brought up; second, the models presented to us of submissive leaders, submissive policies or submissive states are not encouraging. In all circumstances and in the worst conditions, Syria’s condition was better than the conditions off all those countries, even those who appear to be in good shape now. The symptoms haven’t appeared so far, but one day they will.
We Cannot Abandon Our Dignity That Is Stronger than Their Armies and More Precious than Their Wealth
All these things can be summed up in one word: Syrian dignity. We cannot abandon our dignity because it is the most precious thing the Syrian people possess. Our dignity is stronger than their armies and more precious than their wealth.
The second point is related to the first: when will it stop? When the smuggling of arms and money from outside stops. This related to the first point. When we submit and give in we reach the second point. But what I know fully is that the conspiracy will stop when we beat it. We shouldn’t be reactive. It stops when we stop it. We can defeat it when we do so politically on the outside; and inside the country, we beat it when beat this dangerous arm of the conspiracy which is terrorism. The second point is related to our wisdom and awareness. We beat the conspiracy when we beat our own whims and passivity and return to reason and go back to the state of pure love which we had in Syria. Thank God, this is still the general state in the country, but I am talking about a few areas.
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If They Want to Besiege Syria, They Will End up Besieging a Whole Region
They are trying to depict Syria as an isolated country, trying to stress this over and over again. But our points of strength lie in our strategic position. If they want to besiege Syria, they will end up besieging a whole region. As for our relations with the West, they talk about an international community. This international community is a group of big colonial countries which view the whole world as an arena full of slaves who serve their interests.
For us, the West is important and we cannot deny this truth. But the West today is not like the West a decade ago. The world is changing and there are emerging powers. There are alternatives. It is important but it is not the oxygen which we breathe. If the West closes its doors, we can still breathe. It is not the life buoy without which we drown. We can swim on our own and along our friends and brothers, and there is plenty of them. That is why we decided in 2005 to move eastwards. At that time, we knew that the West will never change. The West is still colonial in one way or another. It is changing from an old colonizer to a modern colonizer and from a modern colonizer during the Sykes-Picot agreement to a contemporary colonizer. It has different forms and shapes but it will never change, which means that we have to turn to the East. We, as a state, started this procedure several years ago, and my visits during the recent years fell under that initiative in one way or another. But this is not sufficient. The private sector must also open channels with those countries.
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Despite all those complex circumstances, I am greatly confident of the future. My confidence is inspired by you, and by your throats which hailed glory, dignity, and defiance when millions of you filled tens of cities and squares along the country. I say to you I, as you have always known me, am one of you. When we do not face up to the challenges, we do not deserve the name of Syria; and when we do not dare to defend it or cannot defend it against its enemies, we do not deserve to live on its soil. Our people has proven its genuineness and sincerity when the bloody media machine fell short of destroying its unity and when the starvation attempts did not make it kneel and could not taint its honour and dignity. A people with such sophist feelings of belonging to their home country, with such high morals which face the most dangerous crises, and with such strong faith in its ability to overcome those decisive moments in its history will not allow a small group of frauds or delusional people to make it stray from the road of truth and righteousness; and it will not allow groups that sold themselves to the devil of pernicious desires and dubious interests to destroy what it has built over a long history of effort and sacrifice.
Our Martyrs’ Blood Is behind the Steadfastness of Our Country
My confidence in that is inspired by you and the men of our armed forces, the men of living conscience and strong resolve. They are the ones who truly express the feelings of the people, safeguard its values and aspirations, and give all sacrifices in order for the people to enjoy security. On your behalf, and on the behalf of every honourable citizen, I would like to greet them as they stand ready to protect the honor of their country, and the integrity of its soil and people. As for our martyrs’ blood which is behind the steadfastness of our country, it will always be the lightship that will light the road of our next generations to build the future Syria. Because when their blood waters the land, it will make it bear the fruits of a more secure tomorrow, unity and freedom for us all. As for the strength of their families who lost their dearest people, it has made us firmer and more determined and persistent in following on the same road which was taken by their brothers, fathers, and sons in defense of their country and its values, no matter how expensive the price is and to be as an example for all of us on how an individual dies in order for the country to live.
I would like to salute you, the sons of this great people, with all your intellectual, and political doctrines, you who strongly and unyieldingly defend the values of solidarity and love that unify our people against the feelings of malice and hatred which some try to invoke spreading their poisons all over the country, and you who work relentlessly in order to develop our country, regain its security, enhance its unity, and protect its sovereignty. And glory to our proud people who reject defeat in the age of collapse and who say to their enemies, ‘never will we be defeated!
’ For you, our proud people, we are persistent, and with your support, we continue to resist and win, and we will insha’ Allah win, and the peace and mercy of God be upon you all. "
"The Obama administration is, arguably, already at war with Iran by most legal and civilized standards – a war of economic strangulation and covert aggression. African Americans have historically opposed U.S. wars against the developing world, but Obama has “blurred the lines between war and not-war,” claiming that his 7-month bombing campaign against Libya was not really a war. Meanwhile, the corporate media “is full of fake news about Iranian threats, when it is the Americans who are doing all the threatening, all the killing.”
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Am Sonntag passierte der Flugzeugträger USS Abraham Lincoln die Straße von Hormus. Er verstärkt die anderen vor der Küste des Iran herumschippernden US-Kriegsschiffe (USS Carl Vinson) und israelischen Dolphin-U-Boote. Am Mittwoch, den 23. November tauchte der Flugzeuträger USS George H.W. Bush in den Gewässern vor Syrien auf. Damit dürfte die Mindestbasis an US-Flugzeugträgern für die bevorstehenden völkerrechtswidrigen amerikanisch-israelischen Luftangriffe auf den Iran/Syrien bereitstehen. Nach dem Angriffsversuch könnte es allerdings im ungünstigen Fall neben dem Iran/Syrien auch das "American Empire" und seinen Luftwaffenstützpunkt "Israel" nicht mehr geben. Der russische Kriegsschiff-Verband unter Führung des Flugdeckträgers Admiral Kusnezow, z.Zt. im syrischen Hafen von Tartus, ist ja auch nicht ohne. Obama sollte vielleicht vor dem Angriffsbefehl nochmal das Orakel von Delphi befragen, das damals dem Krösus einen klaren Fingerzeig gab („Wenn du den (Grenzfluss) Halys überschreitest, wirst du ein großes Reich zerstören.“).
Laut Internationaler Arbeitsorganisation ILO fehlen weltweit 600 Millionen Arbeitsplätze. Die Tagesschau berichtet:
„In der Europäischen Union und anderen westlichen Industrienationen ist die Zahl der Arbeitslosen seit Ausbruch der Finanzkrise 2007/2008 drastisch gestiegen. 45 Millionen Menschen seien 2010 in der EU, den USA, Japan und den anderen am weitesten entwickelten Volkswirtschaften ohne Job gewesen, teilte die Internationale Arbeitsorganisation ILO mit. Schätzungen zufolge wurde 2011 nur ein leichter Rückgang der Arbeitslosenzahl in diesen Ländern auf 43,5 Millionen verzeichnet. 2007 waren es noch 29,1 Millionen gewesen. Lediglich in Deutschland und Österreich sei die Situation mittlerweile wieder besser als vor dem Ausbruch der Krise.
900 Millionen Menschen können von ihrem Job nicht leben. Weltweit waren in den vergangenen beiden Jahren jeweils rund 197 Millionen Menschen arbeitslos und damit fast 27 Millionen mehr als vor der Finanzkrise. Hinzu kämen vor allem in den Entwicklungsländern rund 900 Millionen Menschen, die mit einem täglichen Einkommen von weniger als zwei US-Dollar trotz Arbeit unter der Armutsgrenze lebten. "Jeder dritte Arbeitnehmer auf der Welt ist arbeitslos oder lebt trotz Arbeit in Armut", erklärte ILO-Generaldirektor Juan Somavia.
Weltweit müssen nach den ILO-Berechnungen in den kommenden zehn Jahren 600 Millionen neue Arbeitsplätze entstehen, um die bestehende Arbeitslosigkeit abzubauen und die etwa 400 Millionen Neuzugänge in den Arbeitsmarkt aufzunehmen. Vor allem in den Entwicklungsländern ist der Anteil der jungen Menschen teilweise sehr groß. Viele von ihnen werden in den kommenden Jahren Arbeit suchen, sobald sie ihre Ausbildung abgeschlossen haben oder alt genug sind. Die Zahl der Erwerbsfähigen wird laut ILO-Schätzungen jedes Jahr um 40 Millionen Menschen weltweit steigen. Die Schaffung von Arbeit müsse daher "oberste Priorität" in der Wirtschaftspolitik haben, forderte Somavia.“

Der russische Flugdeckträger Admiral Kusnezow liegt z.Zt. mit einem halben Dutzend russischer Kriegsschiffe im syrischen Hafen von Tartus in Bereitschaft. Russische Techniker installieren rund um Damaskus und andere strategische Orte fieberhaft weitere S 300 Fla-Raketenabwehrstellungen. Im Nahen Osten knistert es gewaltig (Freitag).
Wegen der fortschreitenden Automatisierung und Computerisierung bei der Produktion von Waren und Dienstleistungen halte ich das Ziel der Schaffung von 600 Millionen Arbeitsplätzen in den nächsten zehn Jahren für unrealistisch. Müssen andere Lösungen für die (zu?) vielen Menschen auf der Erde her ?
Offenbar haben die Herrschenden in den USA und Israel beschlossen, das Problem der aus "westlicher" Sicht zu schnell wachsenden Überbevölkerung auf der Erde unilateral zu lösen. Ein Allgemeiner Atomkrieg mit ein paar hundert Millionen Toten wird im Pentagon-Atombunker anscheinend in Kauf genommen und könnte aus der zynischen Tunnelblick-Sicht von Netanyahu, Barak, Lieberman & Co. die sicherste Endlösung sein.
Als Auslöser dafür dürfte die Gefährdung der Alleinstellung der aggressiven Atommacht Israel durch den aufstrebenden Iran im Nahen Osten herhalten. Scusi! hat zum Thema öfters berichtet. Seit die EU sich dem US-Ölembargo gegen den Iran angeschlossen hat wartet der nächste Nahost-Krieg um die Ecke (Chris Floyd).
Szenarien für den kommenden (Nuklear-) Krieg sind bereits reichlich im Umlauf (USA: Szenarien für Angriff auf Iran, RIANOVOSTI). Bevor das AIPAC gegen den Iran losschlägt muss allerdings erst noch Israels unmittelbarer Nachbar Syrien plattgemacht werden. Es gilt die von Israel so "wahrgenommene" "Bedrohung" durch Syriens Armee und die Raketen der Hizbollah und der Hamas zu minimieren. Israel hält den Golan, einen Teil Syriens, besetzt und befindet sich offiziell mit Syrien noch immer im Kriegszustand.

TAGESSCHAU vom 27.01.12., 20:00 Uhr - "Aufständische" in Homs. Eine erkennbar "gestellte" Szene mit zwei wohl von westl. Diensten gegen Cash angeheuerten kriminellen Kopfgeldjägern. Das Sturmgewehr mit Zielfernrohr (links) und die Maschinenpistole (rechts) dürften aus Mossadbeständen stammen. Im ethnischen Flickenteppich Syrien schießt inzwischen jeder auf jeden, wenn man den gefaketen "Filmreportagen" von Al Jazeera, Al Arabia und den restlichen Westmedien glauben würde. Ein Blick auf den syrischen Wetterbericht entlarvt die Fälschungen, wenn der Reporter Ort, Datum und Tageszeit des angeblichen "Events" mitgeteilt hat.
Seit Anfang März 2011 laufen offenbar verdeckte Mossad/MI6/DGSE und CIA - Operationen des Westens in Syrien. In dem von Israel, Großbritannien, Frankreich und den USA massiv verdeckt gesponserten und durch Lieferung von Handfeuerwaffen und Panzerfäusten via Türkei/Libanon angeheizten „Bürgerkrieg“ der sunnitischen Mehrheit (inkl. Al Kaida) gegen die alewitisch-christlich-drusische Minderheit fließt das Blut in Strömen. Ziel der Inszenierung ist wie im Iran der Regimewechsel. "Das Erbe der Nazis wird nun hoffentlich beseitigt" schrieb "fem." in schöner Offenheit schon am 27. März 2011 in der NZZ. Der Chefredaktor der NZZ am Sonntag, Felix E. Müller ("fem.") hat einen besonders guten Draht nach Tel Aviv. Dass insbesondere Israel hinter den Unruhen gegen Assad steckt, das zeigen auch gezielt irreführende NZZ-Artikel wie "Israel bangt um einen verlässlichen Feind, Besser Präsident Assad als das Chaos", von Max Borowski, Jerusalem, in der NZZ vom 03. April 2011. Die ProIl-Katze sorgt bekanntlich immer dafür, dass in den Medien unterm Strich alles so aussieht, als ob es der Hund angestellt hätte.
Schon 1968 veröffentlichte der Ex-Mossad/CIA-Agent Edward Luttwak seine Handlungsanleitung für Staatsstreiche ("Der Coup d`Etat, oder wie inszeniert man einen Staatsstreich"), ein perfektes Drehbuch für den vermeintlichen "Aufstand der Massen", zunächst in Gaddafis Libyen und jetzt in Syrien mit modernsten HighTec-Mitteln inszeniert (s.u.: Assad-Rede).
Luttwaks Kapitel über die "Ausschaltung der Streitkräfte" (s. 80 ff.) beginnt so: "Als sich im Juni 1967 die Israeli, nach ihrem Sieg über die anderen arabischen Armeen, gegen die syrischen Einheiten wendeten, hielt Salah Dschadi, Chef des syrischen Nationalen Revolutionsrates, die zwei besten Brigaden in ihren Garnisonen in Homs und Damaskus zurück..." und weiter:
"Wir müssen daher die bewaffneten Streitkräfte im Zielland unseres eventuellen Staatsstreichs sehr sorgfältig untersuchen: wir können dabei keine noch so kleine Gruppe, die intervenieren könnte, außer acht lassen...Ohne einen Schauplatz für einen Stammesbürgerkrieg schaffen zu wollen, ist man doch stark geneigt, diesen Faktor auszunutzen..." (sic!).
Wie intensiv man sich in Israel mit der Planung von Umstürzen in Syrien seit Jahrzehnten befasst, darüber gibt auch Tabelle 4 in Luttwak`s Buch ein wenig Auskunft:

E. Luttwak: Übersicht über die ethnische Zugehörigkeit der "Putschisten" im Kontext syrischer Staatsstreiche seit Beendigung der französischen Mandatszeit (Auszug).
Offenbar rechnete die israelische Armee in Syrien zunächst nicht mit einer aufständischen Volksbewegung gegen Assad (siehe den Artikel "Bewegung ohne Basis", NZZ, vom Mai 2011). Alle Bemühungen des Westens waren vorrangig darauf gerichtet, Deserteure in der syrischen Armee gegen Assad zu gewinnen und zu bewaffnen, auch mit am Straßenrand versteckten Bomben (IED). Was zuletzt mit 11 toten "Aufständischen" schwer danebengegangen ist, als ein mit Gefangenen besetzter Polizei-Bus über eine wohl israelische IED fuhr.
Die syrische Sicht der Dinge taucht seit einem Jahr in "westlichen" Medien
nirgendwo mehr auf. Presse, Rundfunk und Fernsehen verstoßen mit dem Totschweigen der syrischen Position anhaltend und schwerwiegend gegen ihre gesetzlich vorgeschriebenen Informationspflichten. Deshalb habe ich die zweistündige Universitäts-Rede von Präsident Assad zu den "außengesteuerten" ("westlichen", d. Verf.) Machenschaften in Syrien im englischen Text in Auszügen im Anhang (s.u.) veröffentlicht. "Audiatur et altera pars." Lesen lohnt, auch wenn die typisch "orientalische" Rede aus okzidentaler Sicht etwas langatmig geraten ist.

Russland will 36 Jak-130 - Maschinen nach Syrien liefern. Die Maschinen sollen zur Unterstützung im Erdkampf geeignet sein. Einen entsprechenden Vertrag sollen beide Seiten bereits unterzeichnet haben.
Im Iran liquidierten die Handlanger des Mossad im Abstand von wenigen Monaten in kürzester Zeit auf offener Straße demonstrativ fünf iranische "Atomwissenschaftler". Der Chef der IAEA, der US-/Il-atommischpokegläubige Japaner Y. Amano, trug sogar durch vorherige weltweite Publikation der Namen der an der iranischen Atomforschung beteiligten Wissenschaftler aktiv dazu bei, dass der Mossad bei der Zielauswahl für die Morde nach Kräften von der IAEA unterstützt wurde.
Die Weltöffentlichkeit wurde über das iranische „Atomprogramm“, das angeblich der Entwicklung einer Atombombe dient, jahrelang mit Falschinformationen systematisch getäuscht. Es gibt bis heute keine Beweise, dass der schiitische Iran eine - für Muslime verbotene - Atombombe entwickelt. Ali Larijani, Irans Parlamentspräsident, hat die USA in einem Interview mit der NZZ
eines "miesen Spiels" bezichtigt. Und damit liegt er wohl richtig.
Die wilden Spekulationen in den westlichen Medien über die von Teheran im Ernstfall angeblich beabsichtigte Sperrung der für den Transport westlichen Öls unverzichtbaren Straße von Hormus zielen auf die Hysterisierung der weitestgehend entmündigten Konsumbürger westlicher Wohlstandsgesellschaften, für die das Autofahren einer der letzten „freiheitlichen“ Lebensbereiche ist, in dem sie noch autonome Entscheidungen treffen können. Die Bilder der amerikanischen Flugzeugträger vor der Küste des Iran sollen die Welt auf die unmittelbar bevorstehenden Luftangriffe vorbereiten und jeden Gedanken daran verdrängen, dass es sich beim US-/Il-Krieg gegen den Iran wieder einmal, wie schon in Afghanistan und im Irak, um einen völkerrechtswidrigen Angriffskrieg des „Proisraelischen Westens“ gegen einen Staat aus dem muslimisch-mißliebigen "Rest der Welt“ handeln wird (s. auch die US-amerikanische CAP-Studie zur Islamophobie: "fear inc.", engl.).
Stellen wir uns einmal vor, wie wir uns als Bewohner Syriens, Ägyptens, des Irak, Afghanistans oder des Iran, geboren als Entrechtete und Verarmte der (muslimischen) Dritten Welt angesichts der aggressiven Arroganz des "ProIl-Westens" und angesichts einer sich ständig steigernden atomaren Iran-Vernichtungsdrohung seitens Israels fühlen würden. Damit wir keinen Moment lang auf diesen Gedanken kommen, bombardiert uns die ProIl-Medienmaschine unaufhörlich, rund um die Uhr und jeden Tag in der Woche mit Propagandasottisen gegen Länder wie Iran und Syrien. Besonders schlimm ist es in den "deutschen" ProIl-Medien, ein Beispiel:
ProIl Martin Winter betreibt seine Kriegshetze gegen den Iran in der Süddeutschen Zeitung wie all die anderen deutschen Krummnasen seit Tagen ganz offen:
"Die letzte Phase im Streit um die iranische Nuklearrüstung hat begonnen. Mit ihren neuen Strafmaßnahmen gegen Teheran hat die Europäische Union ihre Sanktionskarte ausgereizt. Nun sollen die iranische Wirtschaft in ihrem Kern, dem Ölgeschäft, getroffen und die Zentralbank lahmgelegt werden - mehr geht nicht.
Das ist die letzte Eskalationsstufe im Rahmen des bald ein Jahrzehnt andauernden Versuchs, den Konflikt friedlich (5 Mordanschläge sind wohl kaum friedlich, und das ist nur die Spitze des Mossad-Eisbergs, d. Verf.) beizulegen. Lässt sich Iran auch davon nicht beeindrucken, dann blieben eigentlich nur noch militärische Mittel."
Da wäre ja eigentlich eine Strafanzeige gegen Herrn Martin Winter und die SZ fällig, denn "Aufstachelung zum Angriffskrieg" ist nach § 80a des deutschen Strafgesetzbuchs verboten. Aber wo ist der weisungsunabhängige Staatsanwalt, der es wagen würde gegen den ohrenbetäubenden Lärm der antiislamischen NATO-Kriegsmeute in D vorzugehen? Im Zweifel gibt es für jede findige Juristin eine Ausflucht, so wie es von der StA Berlin bereits praktiziert worden ist.
Bei dem Krach versteht man ja sein eigenes Wort nicht mehr. Auch im Internet findet man unter all den lärmenden Youtube-Videos nicht, was man sucht. Papst Benedikt XVI hat das Problem auch schon geblickt und empfiehlt die Suche nach der Stille:
"Das Netz wird heutzutage immer mehr der Ort von Fragen und Antworten; mehr noch, der Mensch von heute wird von Antworten auf Fragen bombardiert, die er sich nie gestellt hat, und auf Bedürfnisse, die er nicht empfindet. Die S t i l l e ist kostbar, um das nötige Unterscheidungsvermögen zu fördern im Hinblick auf die vielen Umweltreize und die vielen Antworten, die wir erhalten, gerade um die wirklich wichtigen Fragen zu erkennen und klar zu formulieren."
Abschalten, heißt die Devise. Und die gilt nicht nur für die Glotze mit den Kommentaren der TV-Kriegstreiber oder für die Atomkraftwerke. Gönnen wir uns selbst mal eine Auszeit, einen Augenblick der Stille, um Nachzulesen, um über die Wahrheit des Gesagten oder Gezeigten nachzudenken oder wenigstens über die Wahrhaftigkeit derer, die uns da gerade wieder etwas über ihre Riesen-Medienmaschine "verkaufen" oder "andrehen" wollen.
Immerhin, ein Gutes könnte die Sache mit dem Iran ja haben. Weil die Russen und die Chinesen einem Angriff auf den Iran nicht tatenlos zusehen werden, - Rußlands Lawrow spricht schon von der "roten Linie" - könnte ein US-/Il-Angriff auf den Iran in einer Kettenreaktion einen Allgemeinen Atomkrieg auslösen, der weltweit mindestens 600 Millionen Menschenleben vernichten könnte. Das Problem der ILO mit den fehlenden 600 Millionen Arbeitsplätzen wäre gelöst!
Wenn dann nicht sogar a l l e Probleme der Menschheit dauerhaft gelöst sind...
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Anhang
Rede von Syriens Präsident Assad
vom 12. Januar 2012 in der Universität von Damaskus
über die Urheber des Blutvergießens in seinem Land (Wortlaut der Nachrichtenagentur sana in Auszügen (engl.).
"I know that I have been away from the media for a long time, and I have missed having direct contact with the citizens, but I have always been following up with the daily occurrences and gathering the information so that my speech can be built on what is said by the street.
I would like to salute you in the name of pan-Arabism which will continue to be a symbol of our identity and our haven in difficult times, as we will continue to be its heart beating with love and affection. I would also like to greet you in the name of our home country which will always be the source of our pride and dignity, as we will remain faithful to its genuine values for which our fathers and grandfathers sacrificed dearly to keep the country glorified and independent. And I am proud of your steadfastness which will keep Syria an invincible fortress in the face of all forms of penetration, and free in resisting submission to foreign forces.
Today, I am addressing you ten months after the outbreak of the unfortunate events which befell the country imposing new circumstances on the Syrian arena. For all of us, these conditions represent a serious test of our national commitment, and we cannot pass this test except by our continuous work and honest intents based on our faith in God, the genuine character of our people, and its solid nature which has been polished over the ages and made brighter and more robust. Although those events have made us pay, until now, heavy prices which made my heart bleed, as it made the heart of every Syrian bleed, yet they require the sons of Syria, regardless of their beliefs and doctrines, to be wise and sensible, and to be guided by their deep national feelings. Only then our entire country can achieve victory with our unity, our fraternity, and our will to go beyond narrow horizons and momentary interests and reach where our noble national issues lie. For this is our destination and there lies the strength of our country and the glory of our history.
External Conspiring Is No Longer a Secret
External conspiring is no longer a secret because what is being plotted in the pal talk rooms has started to be clearly revealed before the eyes of the people. It is not possible anymore to deceive others except for those who do not want to listen or see; as the tears shed by the dealers of freedom and democracy for our own victims can no longer conceal the role they played in the bloodshed which they tried to use for their own purposes. At the beginning of the crisis, it was not easy to explain what happened. Emotional reactions and the absence of rationality were surpassing the facts. But now, the fog has lifted, and it is no longer possible for the regional and international parties which wanted to destabilize Syria to forge the facts and the events. Now the masks have fallen off the faces of those parties, and we have become more capable of deconstructing the virtual environment which they have created to push Syrians towards illusion and then make them fall. That virtual environment was created to lead to a psychological and moral defeat which would eventually lead to the actual defeat. That unprecedented media attack was meant to lead us to a state of fear, and this fear, which could paralyze the will, would lead to defeat.
Over Sixty T.V. Channels in the World Are Devoted to Work against Syria
Over sixty T.V. channels in the world are devoted to work against Syria. Some of them are devoted to working against the Syrian domestic situation, and some others are working to distort the image of Syria abroad. There are tens of internet websites, and tens of newspapers and different media channels, which means that we are talking about hundreds of media networks.
Their aim was to push us to a state of self-collapse in order to save their efforts in waging many battles; and they failed in doing so, yet they did not give in.
One of their attempts which you are aware of is what they did with me personally in my interview with the American news channel. Usually I do not watch myself on T.V whether in an interview or a speech. That time I watched the interview and I was about to believe what I myself was presented to have said. If they were capable of convincing me of the lie, how can they not convince others! Fortunately, we had an original version of the interview, and they did what they did because they thought that we did not have an original version which we can present to the citizens to compare with their version. Had that not been the case, no one would have ever believed the professional fabrication which they did even if I talk now for hours and try to tell you I did not say what was misrepresented on that news channel.
Of course, they had one aim in mind. When they failed in causing a state of collapse on the popular and institutional levels in Syria, they wanted to target the top of the pyramid of the state in order to say to the citizens, on the one hand, and, of course, to the West, on the other hand, that this person lives in a cocoon and does not know what has been going on. They also wanted to say to the citizens, especially those in the state, that if the top figure in the pyramid is evading responsibility and feeling that things are falling apart, then it is normal for things to go out of control.
There were continuous rumors like saying that the president has left the country, as to say that the president has given up on his responsibilities. They did their best to circulate those rumors but we say to them, ‘in your dreams, for I am not a person who surrenders his responsibilities.’
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We are talking now about responsibility, and this responsibility derives its importance from public support. This means that I acquire a position with the support of the people; and when I leave it, it will be with the will of this people. This is final, and regardless of what you heard, I always based my external policy in all our positions on public support and public will. What do we make of the interview with the American channel in the media framework? There was repeated talk about the good intention of many from within Syria and the outside world. Why did we not allow the media to enter Syria? In fact, during the first month or month and a half of the crisis, Arab and foreign media networks were completely free to move inside Syria. However, all the media fabrications, and the whole political and media campaign against Syria, were built on that phase of forging and distortion; and there is a difference between distorting the truth then giving it credibility as being presented from the inside of Syria, on the one hand, and distorting the truth from the outside of Syria where less credibility tends to be given to such misrepresentation. That is why we took a decision not to close the door to all media networks, but to be selective in the access given to them in order to control the quality of the information or the falsification which goes beyond the borders.
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Arab Countries Are Not the Same in Their Policies towards Syria
Here comes the foreign role after they failed in all attempts; there was no choice but the foreign intervention. When we say foreign, it usually comes to our minds that it is the foreign outside. Unfortunately, this foreign outside has become a mix of Arab and foreign, and sometimes, in many cases, this Arab part is more hostile and worse than the foreign one. I do not want to generalize; the image is not that bleak because Arab countries are not the same in their policies. There are countries which tried during this stage to play a morally objective role towards what is happening in Syria. In contrast, there are countries that basically do not care about what is happening in general. I mean they stand on the fence in most cases, and there are countries that carry out what they are asked to do. What is strange is that some Arab officials are with us in heart and against us in politics. When we ask for clarifications, it is said or the official says I am with you, but there are external pressures. I mean this is a semi-official declaration of losing sovereignty. It is not a surprise that the countries will one day link their policies to the policies of foreign countries just like linking local currency to foreign currencies, and thus giving away sovereignty becomes a sovereign matter.
The truth is that this is the peak of deterioration for the Arab situation, but any deterioration always precedes a renaissance; when we move from the first independence which is the first liberation of land from occupation to the second independence which is the independence of the will. We will reach this independence when Arab peoples take the lead in the Arab world in general. This is because the official policies we see do not utterly reflect what we see on the public arenas in the Arab world.
We do not see this Arab role, which we have suddenly seen now, when there is a crisis or a dilemma in an Arab country. In contrast, we see it in its best forms when there is trouble in a foreign country or a superpower. Saving that state from its crisis is often at the expense of another state or at the expense of Arab states, and often through the destruction of an Arab country. This is what happened in Iraq and this is what happened in Libya, and this is what we see now in the Arab role towards Syria.
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When we started reform, this thing was confusing for them, thus they shifted to the issue of the Arab League or the Arab initiative. The truth is that if we are to follow these countries, which give us advice, we have to go backward at least a century and a half. What happened a century and a half ago? We were part of the Ottoman Empire and we had the first parliament which we are concerned with in one way or another. The first parliament was opened in the year / 1877 / and if we put this aside, the first parliament in Syria was in 1919; this means less than a century ago. Therefore, imagine these countries that want to advise us about democracy! Where were these countries at that time? Their status is like the status of a smoking doctor who advises the patient to quit smoking while putting a cigarette in his mouth.
Eventually, outrage of the Arab or public reaction in Syria towards the issue of the Arab League was the result. In fact, I was not angry; why to get angry with someone who does not know his decision. If someone attacks us with a knife, we defend ourselves not by struggling with the knife but with the person. The knife is just a tool. Our struggle is not with these people but against those who stand behind them. The public reaction was outrage, indignation and surprise; why did not the Arabs stand with Syria rather than standing against Syria? I ask a question: when did they stand with Syria?! I will not go back far in the past, but let us just talk about the past few years. Let us start by the war on Iraq, after the invasion, when Syria was threatened with bombing and invasion. Who stood with Syria in 2005 when they exploited the assassination of Hariri? Who stood alongside Syria in 2006? Who supported our positions against the Israeli aggression on Lebanon in 2008? Who supported us in the IAEA in relation to the alleged nuclear file? Arab states vote against us. These facts may be unknown to many citizens. That is why we need to explain everything in these junctures and situations.
Recently, Arab states voted against Syria with regard to the Human Rights issue. In contrast, some non-Arab countries stand with Syria. That is why we should not be surprised. I mean we should not be surprised with the Arab League status because it is just a reflection of the Arab situation. The Arab League is a mirror of our situation.
The Arab League mirrors our current miserable situation. If it has failed in over six decades in taking a position in the Arab interest, why are we surprised today if the general context is the same and hasn’t changed except in the sense that it is pushing the Arab condition from bad to worse and in that what was happening in secret is now happening in public under the slogan of the nation’s interest.
Has the Arab league actually gained independence for its states, and consequently for itself? Has it ever implemented its decisions and removed the dust off its files and achieved only a fragment of the aspirations of the Arab peoples? Or has it contributed directly to sowing the seeds of sedition and disunity? Has it respected its charter and defended its member states whose land, or the rights of whose peoples, have been violated? Has it returned one olive tree uprooted by Israel or prevented the demolition of one Palestinian house in occupied Arab Palestine? Has it been able to prevent the partition of Sudan or prevent the killing of over a million Iraqis or feed a single starved Somali?
Today, we are not in the process of attacking the Arab League because we are part of it, although we are in the age of decadence. Nor am I talking about the Arab league because it or the Arab states have taken a decision to suspend Syria’s membership in it. This does not concern us in the least. I am talking about it because I have noticed the extent of popular frustration which we need to put in its natural context. The Arab League has been doomed for a long time. .... So, being out of the Arab League, or suspending Syria’s membership, and all this talk is not the issue. The issue is who wins and who loses. Does Syria or the Arab League lose? For us, we and the Arab states are losing as long as the Arab condition is bad. This is a chronic situation, nothing new in it, and there are no winners. We have been working for years to minimize the losses because it is not possible to win. But suspending Syria’s membership raises a question: can the body live without a heart? Who said that Syria is the throbbing heart of Arabism? It wasn’t a Syrian, it was President Abdul Naser, and this is still true.
Many Arabs have the same conviction. For Syria Arabism is not a slogan, it is a practice. Who offered, more than Syria, and is still offering and paying the price? Who, more than Syria, has offered to the Palestinian cause in particular? Who, more than Syria, has given to the process of Arabizing culture and education everywhere, in the mass media? Syria is quite strict about Arabization, particularly in school curricula. Who has offered more to Arabism and to Arabization and insisted on Arab culture in their school curricula more than Syria does in its schools and universities. The issue for us is not a slogan. If some countries seek to suspend our Arabism in the League, we say to them that they are suspending the Arab identity of the League itself. They cannot suspend Syria’s Arab identity. On the contrary, the League without Syria suspends its own Arab identity.
Arab League without Syria Means Suspending Arabism
If some believe they can get us out of the League, they cannot get us out of our Arab identity, because the Arab identity is not a political decision. It is heritage and history. Those countries, which you know, have not acquired, and will not acquire, the Arab identity. If they believe that with money they can buy some geography and rent and import some history, we tell them that money does not make nations or create civilizations. Consequently, and as I heard from many Syrians, and I agree with them on this point, maybe in our present condition we are freer in exercising our real and pure Arabism which Syrians have been the best to express throughout history. That is why we say that with this attempt they don’t focus on getting Syria out of the League, but rather on suspending Arabism itself so that it becomes an Arab League only in name. It will no longer be a league – bringing people together – or Arab. It will be a mock-Arab body in order to be in line with their policies and the role they are playing on the Arab arena. Otherwise, how can we explain this unprecedented and unreasonable tact with the Zionist enemy in everything it does and this decisiveness and toughness with Syria?
We Shall Never Close the Door to Any Arab Endeavor As Long As It Respects Our Sovereignty, the Independence of Our Decision and the Unity of Our People
We realize all that. But based on our genuine Arab character, and our desire to restore the original idea of the Arab League, in which we are supported by some sisterly countries keen on making the Arab League a truly collective and Arab body, we haven’t closed the doors to any solution or proposal; and we shall never close the door to any Arab endeavor as long as it respects our sovereignty, the independence of our decision and the unity of our people.
All these negative accumulations on the Arab arena, throughout decades, in addition to the current situation, led some of our citizens to take their anger out on Arabism which has been wrongly confused with the Arab League or the performance of some pseudo-Arabs to the extent that they denounced it.
Brothers and sisters,
The social structure of the Arab world, with its large diversity, is based on two strong and integrated pillars: Arabism and Islam. Both of them are great, rich and vital. Consequently, we cannot blame them for the wrong human practices. Furthermore, the Muslim and Christian diversity in our country is a major pillar of our Arabism and a foundation of our strength. When we get angry with Arabism or abandon it because of what some have done on this wide Arab arena we commit a gross injustice. As we have refused to generalize the mistakes done by some officials to the whole country, we shouldn’t generalize the mistakes of some pseudo-Arabs to Arabism. What we are doing now is similar to what the west did against Islam in the wake of 9/11.
We say that there is a great religion – Islam, and there are terrorists taking cover under Islam. Who should we banish: religion or terrorism? Do we denounce religion or terrorists? Do we fight those who trade in Islam or fight terrorism? The answer is clear: It is not the fault of Islam when there are terrorists who take cover under the mantle of Islam.
Christianity is a religion of love and peace. What is the fault of Christianity in the wars waged under its name and in the crimes committed in the heart of America or in European countries by people who claim to be committed to Christian values? The same applies to Arabism. We should not link it to what some pseudo-Arabs are doing; otherwise we head towards the greatest sin. There are things which have existed through a historical process and we cannot respond to them by an act or a decision. These things didn’t take place through a decision. There is a historical context and there is a divine will behind religions and nationality which we cannot face through reaction.
The first reaction was proposing the “Syria first” concept. It is natural to put Syria first. Every person belongs to his country first and foremost. One’s homeland cannot be in the second, third or fourth place; but the context in which this concept was made was isolationist – only Syria.
Every person belongs first to his city more than to other cities. He is naturally connected to it. Everyone likes the village he grew up in more than other villages, but this doesn’t prevent one from being patriotic and like the whole of the homeland. Being Syrian doesn’t prevent us from being Arabs; and being Arab doesn’t create any contradiction between our Arab and Syrian identities.
That is why we should stress that point, that the relationship between Arabism and patriotism is a close and vital one for the future, for our interests and for everything. It is not about romanticism or principles. It is about interests too. If we separate this fact from reaction, we should always know that Arabism is an identity not a membership. Arabism is an identity given by history not a certificate given by an organization. Arabism is an honor that characterizes Arab peoples not a stigma carried by some pseudo-Arabs on the Arab or world political stage.
Some might wonder about all this talk about Arabism and Arabs while in Syria there are only Arabs. My response is: who said that we are talking about an Arab race? Had Arabism been only the Arab race, we wouldn’t have had much to be proud of. The last thing in Arabism is race. Arabism is a question of civilization, a question of common interests, common will and common religions. It is about the things which bring about all the different nationalities which live in this place. The strength of this Arabism lies in its diversity not in its isolation and not in its one colordness. Arabism hasn’t been built by the Arabs. Arabism has been built by all those non-Arabs who contributed to building it and those who belong to this rich society in which we live. Its strength lies in its diversity. Had there been a group of non-Arabs who wanted to change their traditions and customs and abandon them, we would oppose them on the grounds that they weaken Arabism. The strength of our Arabism lies in openness, diversity and in showing this diversity not integrating it to look like one component. Arabism has been accused for decades of chauvinism. This is not true. If there are chauvinistic individuals, this doesn’t mean that Arabism is chauvinistic. It is a condition of civilization.
All the above will not affect our vision of the internal situation in Syria and how we deal with it. There is no doubt that the current events and their repercussions have posed a huge number of questions and ideas which aim at finding different solutions for the current situation Syria is going through. If it is natural and self evident, but it cannot be positive and effective except when it is based on the importance of facing the problem not running away from it, or when it is based on courage not panic and escaping forward.
We Cannot Carry out Internal Reform without Dealing with Facts
If we want to talk about the internal situation – and I think it is the issue over which all Syrians’ concerns are focused - we should identify issues clearly. There are numerous ideas, which might be good. But unless they are put in the appropriate framework they remain useless and sometimes harmful. Instead of having ideas moving in one strain contradicting and fighting with each other, let’s draw some definitions before we get into the details.
First, we cannot carry out internal reform without dealing with facts as they are on the ground, whether we like them or not. We cannot just hang on to a straw in the air. Neither the straw nor the air will carry us. This means falling. Under the pressure of the crisis, some talk about any solution and call for any solution. We shall not give ‘any’ solution. We shall only give ‘solutions’. Solutions mean that the results are known beforehand. ‘Any solution’ will lead to the abyss. It might lead to deepening the crisis. It might get us into an impasse. The pressure of the crisis will not push us to adopt just ‘any’ plan. Even though time is very important, but it is not more important than the quality of the solution which we shall provide.
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What is the relationship between the reform process and the outside plot? Will the outside plots against Syria stop if we introduce the reforms today? I’ll tell you something. We know a great deal about discussions taking place outside Syria, particularly in the West about the situation in Syria. None of those involved cares about neither the number of the victims nor about reforms, neither about what has been achieved nor what will be achieved. Everyone is talking about Syria’s policies and whether Syria’s behavior has changed from the beginning of the crisis till now.
The Outside Part of the Crisis Is against Reform That Makes Syria Stronger
On the other hand, there were those who came to bargain, saying if you do 1, 2, 3, 4, at least the outside part of the crisis and its internal tentacles will stop immediately. So, there is no relation between reform and the outside part of the crisis, because this part is against reform and because reform will make Syria stronger. If Syria is stronger, this means strengthening Syrian policies, and we all know that Syrian policies are not well liked in foreign circles. On the contrary, such policies are loathed by many countries which want us to be mere lackeys.
The second point: what is the relationship between reform and terrorism? If we carry out the reforms, will terrorists stop? Does this mean that the terrorists who are killing and destroying are keen on the political parties law, the local administration elections or things of that kind? They are not. Terrorists don’t care. Reform will not prevent terrorists from being terrorists. So, what is the component which concerns us?
The greatest part of the Syrian people want reform, and they have not come out, haven’t broken the law, haven’t killed. This is the largest part of the Syrian people, it is the part which wants reform. For us, reform is the natural context. That is why we announced a phased reform in the year 2000. In my swear-in speech I talked about modernization and development. At that time, I was focused on state institutions. In 2005, we talked about political reform. Part of what we are doing now was proposed in 2005 in the Bath party conference. At that time there were no pressures in this regard. Pressure was different, in a different direction. No one was talking about internal reform. We proposed it because we thought of it as a natural context not a forced one. It cannot be forced. It is a natural requirement for development. We cannot develop without reform. Whether we were late or not is a different question. Why we were late is a different question. But it remained a natural need. Had reform been part of the crisis, it would fail; and if reform were forced, it would fail. That’s why, in our discussion of reform, let’s separate natural needs from the crisis.
If we start from the current crisis, reform will be abrupt and tied to its current circumstances which are temporary. What about future decades? Things will be different. We have to connect what is before the crisis with what is after it regardless of it and then base our work on the reform process. Of course this is not in the absolute. Sometimes, we take into account what we are going through now in our reform efforts. We don’t separate it completely from the timetable. Sometimes we move quickly. Sometimes we assume that people’s reaction needs a move in a certain direction. There are some impacts of the crisis; but we don’t build our reforms on the crisis. If we do so, we justify foreign powers’ intervention in our crisis under the title of reform. So, let’s agree on separating the two and deal with the details on these grounds.
Now that we talked about the details, I proposed in my speech in this auditorium last June about an action plan; and I talked mainly about the legislative component in relation to laws and the constitution. At that time, I offered a timeframe for the laws which have all been passed within the timeframe identified at the time. Now, we hear many people saying “we haven’t seen any tangible results”. I always like to talk transparently, and I’ll address every subject separately.
The first law we passed was lifting the state of emergency. In such circumstances that Syria is going through, can any state lift the state of emergency. On the contrary, any state would have imposed the state of emergency. Nevertheless, we didn’t do that. We insisted on lifting the state of emergency. Some Syrians accused us of abandoning part of the security of Syria because we lifted the state of emergency. Of course this is inaccurate, because lifting the state of emergency or the state of emergency itself doesn’t provide security. It is rather an organizational issue. When there is a state of emergency, there are certain measures and when it is lifted there is a different set of measures. We haven’t abandoned security.
No state could accept to abandon security. The laws and the measures now in place give us full authority to control security regardless of the state of emergency law. But lifting the state of emergency needs training for the relevant services, including the security and police forces which deal with citizens. We all know that they are all over Syria now; and some of them haven’t taken leave for months. So, it is logical, reasonable or practical to train them now? This is impossible. There will be no training in the current circumstances.... We need to control the chaos in order to feel the results. In other words, we cannot feel the true effects of lifting the state of emergency while chaos prevails. And here I distinguish, of course, between different levels of mistakes, on the one hand, and killing, on the other.
There Is No Cover for Anyone; There Is No Order at Any Level of the State to Shoot at Any Citizen
There is no cover for anyone; but the issue of killing needs evidence. Some people believe that none of those who committed acts of killing have been arrested. That’s not true in relation to those working for the state. A limited number of people have been arrested in relation to murder and other crimes. I say limited because the evidence was limited and connected with those people. The existence of evidence or searching for evidence needs institutions; and institutions need appropriate conditions; and the current conditions hamper the work of such institutions. But I would like to stress that there is no cover for anyone; and there is no order, I stress, no order at any level of the state to shoot at any citizen. Shooting, under the law, is allowed only in the case of self defence and in defence of citizens and in cases of engaging an armed person. So, there is a specific case in the law. In this regard, I stress the need to deal with causes and effects.
Concerning the political parties, the political parties law has been issued. Some parties have applied and have been given licenses. The first license was given to the first party a few weeks ago; and I believe that yesterday or today there is a second party on the way which met all the conditions. There are many other parties which are still trying to meet the conditions and submit the necessary documents to be licensed. Of course we didn’t feel the existence of these parties, because political parties need time. But, in any case, after the political parties law has been passed, we haven’t only given licenses, but encouraged many groups to form parties. I don’t think that the state is responsible in this regard. We will not form any parties, will not appear in the media or conduct activities on behalf of anyone. So, there are no obstacles in this regard and it is only a question of time.
The local administration law has been passed and elections have been held. Of course they have been held in difficult circumstances; and it is natural that they will not give the desired results because participation, neither on the part of the candidates or the voters, was not as they were supposed to be with a new law because of the security conditions. There was a point of view saying that we should postpone local administration elections to a later stage. But there was a different opinion, which we adopted, saying that there should be change because every change is positive, particularly that most citizens’ complaints were about the performance of local administration. We embarked on that effort. But in any case, anything related to elections will not give results if there is no broad participation on the part of candidates and also on the part of voters, so that there is competition. That is why you will not feel the results. In general, with anything related to elections, part of the responsibility lies on the citizens and not only on the state.
As for the media law, I think the government has completed last week the preparation of executive instructions and have become ready for implementation. There are requests ready for television, press and others. The election law was issued and the aim of which is to frame all these ideas that we hear on the political scene, and anyone who has an idea should go to the ballot box which is the voice of law for everything in this country; this is the core of the issue...
There Is No Compromise with Terrorism, No Compromise with Those Who Use Arms to Cause Chaos and Division, No Compromise with Those Who Terrorize Civilians, No Compromise with Those Who Conspire with Foreigners against Their Country and against Their People
In cases of war or confrontation, states rearrange their priorities. Our utmost priority now, which is unparalleled by any other priority, is the restoration of the security we have enjoyed for decades, and which has characterized our country, not only in the region but throughout the world. This will only happen by striking these murderous terrorists hard. There is no compromise with terrorism, no compromise with those who use arms to cause chaos and division, no compromise with those who terrorize civilians, no compromise with those who conspire with foreigners against their country and against their people.
The battle against terrorism will not be the battle of the state or state institutions alone. It is the battle of all of us. It is a national battle; and it is everyone’s duty to take part in it. “Internal sedition is more grievous that murder”, because it involves dismantling and fragmenting society and ultimately destroying it. This is what we shall not allow in order to keep Syria immune and impregnable.
Yet, the immune and impregnable state knows when and how to forgive, and knows how to bring its children back to right path. It knows how to take the hired guns out of the hands of those who have been misguided and delusioned and return them to the process of building a modern state while maintaining its authenticity and originality and the spring wells of its Arab and identity. In as much as we need to strike the terrorists in as much as we need to bring those who have gone astray back to the right path. There are those who made mistakes and those who have been misguided. After they started on their mistaken course, they have been told that the state will take revenge against you, so you cannot go back. The objective is to push them on the course of crime and to the point of no return.
The state is like the mother who opens the way for her children to be the best every day in order to maintain security and avoid bloodshed. That is why, in this regard, we have passed one amnesty after another. Some people believed that these amnesties led to more security failures. But the fact is that in most cases the results were positive, particularly when the amnesty was coordinated with local actors in every city, village and governorate and in coordination with the parents whom we met and talked to. They had enough wisdom to bring their children back to the right path.
Of course there are cases which don’t succeed, but this is not the general trend. That is why I believe that decisiveness is necessary but continuing to show tolerance and forgiveness from time to time within the framework of clear criteria and sound mechanisms is equally important...
Until the end of 2011, the number of martyrs among teachers and university professors was about 30 and over a thousand schools have been vandalized, burned or destroyed.
On your behalf, I salute all the teachers, councilors, administrators and caretakers in schools. Can a revolution be against education, against national unity? Can revolutionaries use language which calls for the disintegration of society? Can a revolutionary rise against citizens depriving them of cooking gas which they need on a daily basis in order to push them to hunger, or of heating fuel to make them catch their death because of the cold, or medicine to push them to death because of diseases or deprive them of their livelihood by burning government and private factories and facilities to make the poor poorer still?
This is not a revolution. Can a revolutionary work for the enemy – a revolutionary and a traitor at the same time? This is impossible. Can revolutionaries be without honor, moral values or religious principles? Have we had real revolutionaries, in the sense we know, you and I and the whole people would have moved with them. This is a fact.
The basic question which has been put to me with a great deal of intensity is: when and how will it end? This is, of course, a difficult question and we cannot give an answer without having all the facts. There are things which we know and things we don’t. The first thing which we don’t have full information about but we can draw deductions about is the conspiracy. It will end when the Syrian people decide to turn into a submissive people, when we submit and abandon all our heritage: the heritage of the October war of liberation in 1973, when we abandon our pan-Arab positions. We defended Lebanon in 1982, when it was the springboard of resistance which led to the liberation of Lebanon in 2000, when we stop supporting the resistance which we supported in 2006 and 2008 in Lebanon and Gaza, when we give free concessions partially or fully in the peace process, particularly in our occupied land in the Golan, when we abandon our pan-Arab positions towards the Palestinian cause which we have adopted since 1948, when we accept to be false witnesses to the systematic and unprecedented destruction of al-Aqsa mosque.
I don’t know whether the Arab League would set up a committee to address this issue. I don’t think they will, because it is an issue of concern only to 1.3 billion people; so it is not worthy of their concern and that is why they won’t do it – just for the sake of comparison.
The Syrian people will never be submissive for many reasons. First, the principles to which he has been brought up; second, the models presented to us of submissive leaders, submissive policies or submissive states are not encouraging. In all circumstances and in the worst conditions, Syria’s condition was better than the conditions off all those countries, even those who appear to be in good shape now. The symptoms haven’t appeared so far, but one day they will.
We Cannot Abandon Our Dignity That Is Stronger than Their Armies and More Precious than Their Wealth
All these things can be summed up in one word: Syrian dignity. We cannot abandon our dignity because it is the most precious thing the Syrian people possess. Our dignity is stronger than their armies and more precious than their wealth.
The second point is related to the first: when will it stop? When the smuggling of arms and money from outside stops. This related to the first point. When we submit and give in we reach the second point. But what I know fully is that the conspiracy will stop when we beat it. We shouldn’t be reactive. It stops when we stop it. We can defeat it when we do so politically on the outside; and inside the country, we beat it when beat this dangerous arm of the conspiracy which is terrorism. The second point is related to our wisdom and awareness. We beat the conspiracy when we beat our own whims and passivity and return to reason and go back to the state of pure love which we had in Syria. Thank God, this is still the general state in the country, but I am talking about a few areas.
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If They Want to Besiege Syria, They Will End up Besieging a Whole Region
They are trying to depict Syria as an isolated country, trying to stress this over and over again. But our points of strength lie in our strategic position. If they want to besiege Syria, they will end up besieging a whole region. As for our relations with the West, they talk about an international community. This international community is a group of big colonial countries which view the whole world as an arena full of slaves who serve their interests.
For us, the West is important and we cannot deny this truth. But the West today is not like the West a decade ago. The world is changing and there are emerging powers. There are alternatives. It is important but it is not the oxygen which we breathe. If the West closes its doors, we can still breathe. It is not the life buoy without which we drown. We can swim on our own and along our friends and brothers, and there is plenty of them. That is why we decided in 2005 to move eastwards. At that time, we knew that the West will never change. The West is still colonial in one way or another. It is changing from an old colonizer to a modern colonizer and from a modern colonizer during the Sykes-Picot agreement to a contemporary colonizer. It has different forms and shapes but it will never change, which means that we have to turn to the East. We, as a state, started this procedure several years ago, and my visits during the recent years fell under that initiative in one way or another. But this is not sufficient. The private sector must also open channels with those countries.
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Despite all those complex circumstances, I am greatly confident of the future. My confidence is inspired by you, and by your throats which hailed glory, dignity, and defiance when millions of you filled tens of cities and squares along the country. I say to you I, as you have always known me, am one of you. When we do not face up to the challenges, we do not deserve the name of Syria; and when we do not dare to defend it or cannot defend it against its enemies, we do not deserve to live on its soil. Our people has proven its genuineness and sincerity when the bloody media machine fell short of destroying its unity and when the starvation attempts did not make it kneel and could not taint its honour and dignity. A people with such sophist feelings of belonging to their home country, with such high morals which face the most dangerous crises, and with such strong faith in its ability to overcome those decisive moments in its history will not allow a small group of frauds or delusional people to make it stray from the road of truth and righteousness; and it will not allow groups that sold themselves to the devil of pernicious desires and dubious interests to destroy what it has built over a long history of effort and sacrifice.
Our Martyrs’ Blood Is behind the Steadfastness of Our Country
My confidence in that is inspired by you and the men of our armed forces, the men of living conscience and strong resolve. They are the ones who truly express the feelings of the people, safeguard its values and aspirations, and give all sacrifices in order for the people to enjoy security. On your behalf, and on the behalf of every honourable citizen, I would like to greet them as they stand ready to protect the honor of their country, and the integrity of its soil and people. As for our martyrs’ blood which is behind the steadfastness of our country, it will always be the lightship that will light the road of our next generations to build the future Syria. Because when their blood waters the land, it will make it bear the fruits of a more secure tomorrow, unity and freedom for us all. As for the strength of their families who lost their dearest people, it has made us firmer and more determined and persistent in following on the same road which was taken by their brothers, fathers, and sons in defense of their country and its values, no matter how expensive the price is and to be as an example for all of us on how an individual dies in order for the country to live.
I would like to salute you, the sons of this great people, with all your intellectual, and political doctrines, you who strongly and unyieldingly defend the values of solidarity and love that unify our people against the feelings of malice and hatred which some try to invoke spreading their poisons all over the country, and you who work relentlessly in order to develop our country, regain its security, enhance its unity, and protect its sovereignty. And glory to our proud people who reject defeat in the age of collapse and who say to their enemies, ‘never will we be defeated!
’ For you, our proud people, we are persistent, and with your support, we continue to resist and win, and we will insha’ Allah win, and the peace and mercy of God be upon you all. "
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