As we
approach the end of the war against Syria, none of the initial goals of the
Anglo-Saxons have been clearly reached. Not only has the Muslim Brotherhood
failed to triumph via the Arab Springs, but they seem to be losing all over the
region, apart from in Qatar and Turkey. And although Syria is mostly destroyed,
Syrian society and its multi-confessional model have resisted – the Silk
Road should finally be re-opened. In any case, Israël and Turkey are close
reaping the benefits and disengaging, in their own way becoming winners in this
war.
Everyone expected that the crisis opposing Saudi Arabia and
Qatar would facilitate the resurgence of the Riyadh-Damascus-Cairo axis which
had dominated the political life of the Arab world until the « Arab Spring ». Nothing
of the sort occurred.
Perhaps Prince Mohammad ben Salmane still hopes to win in Yemen
and therefore sees no point in reaching out to Syria. Or else the Saudis, who
once led the Arab revolt against the Ottomans, consider today that it would be
too dangerous to take the side of Syria against Turkey. It is true that, during
last week’s Crans-Montana negotiations, the UNO, the IMF and the European Union
supported the occupation of Northern Cyprus by the Turkish army, regardless of
the fact that it is illegal under international law. Evidently, although it has
become fashionable in the West to vilify Erdoğan’s dictatorship, NATO offers
unconditional support for the Turkish military deployment in Cyprus, Syria,
Iraq and Qatar.
Since « Nature abhors a vacuum », it was Qatar who made contact
with Damascus. For President Bachar el-Assad, this is a less meaningful catch
than Saudi Arabia, but it’s a catch nonetheless. It represents one less state
engaged in the war against his country – and in fact, the only enemy states
left, apart from the US multinationals, are the United Kingdom, Turkey and
Israël.
The meeting between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump,
during the G20 in Hamburg on 7 July 2017, seems to have turned the tables! The
meeting was originally planned to last half an hour, but in fact lasted two
hours, forcing other heads of state and foreign government to wait outside.
Although we do not know what the two Presidents and their Ministers for Foreign
Affairs actually decided, we do know what they negotiated.
Israël, Egypt and the Arab Emirates proposed an end to the war
in Syria by implementing Tel-Aviv’s victory over the Palestinian Resistance,
which is currently divided between Fatah, which governs Ramallah, and Hamas in
Gaza.
However, Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah has progressively sunk into
corruption and now collaborates openly with Israël. Meanwhile, Hamas created by
the Muslim Brotherhood under the auspices of the Israëli secret services in
order to weaken Fatah has discredited itself first of all by its terrorist
attacks against civilians, then by its unbelievable behavior during the war
against Syria. As a result, only Turkey and Iran continue to support Hamas,
which detests all the other states. Shamelessly, Hamas, which had already
allied itself with Mossad and Al-Qaïda in order to massacre the leaders of the
PFLP in the Syrian camp at Yarmouk in 2012, once again begged Tel-Aviv for
forgiveness.
This is the source of the incredible plan to reunite the two
major Palestinian factions, to oust old Mahmoud Abbas (82), to recognise a
puppet Palestinian state, and to install as its leader … General Mohammed
Dahlan.
Mohammed Dahlan is the leader of Fatah who secretly became an
Israëli agent, fought violently against Hamas, and then poisoned Yasser Arafat.
Unmasked, he was excluded from Fatah, fled to Montenegro, and was found guilty
in absentia. For the last few years, he has been living in the United Arab
Emirates, where he enjoys a fortune of 120 million dollars misappropriated from
the Palestinian Authority. He will supposedly be welcomed in Gaza by his
historical enemies from Hamas, including the new « Prime Minister » Yahya
Sinwar, whom, it transpires, is one of his childhood friends. Forgetting the
past, he will be tasked with fighting the Army of Islam, in other words, the
Palestinian branch of Daesh.
This plan, if indeed it were to be implemented, would mark the
definitive liquidation of the Palestinian Resistance, after 70 years of
struggle.
It’s in this context that we should understand the announcement
of a Putin-Trump agreement concerning three regions in Southern Syria. US
troops would be authorised to deploy there, ostensibly to keep the peace, but
in truth to create a demilitarised zone between the Syrian Golan and the rest
of the country. Iranian troops would not be allowed to approach Israël.
Consequently, the Golan, illegally occupied by Israël for forty years, would be
considered de facto as annexed, even if the word would never be used. Local
village councils would be elected in October 2018, in conformity with Israëli
law. There would be no reaction from Russia, and the United States would turn a
blind eye to its Crimean obsession.
Peace could be concluded in the rest of Syria with the exception
of the zone taken from Daesh by the Kurds and the zone controlled by the Turks.
Washington and Moscow would allow the latter to sort out their differences with
the Kurds, in other words, to massacre them. Exactly the way in which Henry
Kissinger supported the Iraqi Kurds against Saddam Hussein, before abandoning
them overnight with their dream of a Kurdistan. Finally, the Turkish army would
remain to occupy Al-Bab, as it already occupies North Cyprus and Bashiqa in
Iraq.
The Palestinians and the Kurds will pay for their mistake of
having fought for a country outside of their territory (in Jordan and Lebanon
instead of Palestine for the former, in Iraq and Syria instead of Kurdistan for
the latter).
Israël and Turkey will, therefore, be the only two states who
will have benefited from six years of war against the Syrian People.
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Conference. His columns specializing in international relations feature in
daily newspapers and weekly magazines in Arabic, Spanish and Russian. His last
two books published in English : 9/11 the Big Lie and Pentagate.
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