View from Greece: Destroying and Dismembering Syria…

Damascus today.
Photo: Reuters

Western media and governments are celebrating the fall of Assad and the “liberation” of Syria. They are completely indifferent to the fact that those who took power in the “liberated” Syria are the very same people who made careers as ISIS and Al-Qaeda “beheaders,” (banned in Russia) the ones who planted bombs in places like the Bataclan. They do not care that the new strongman in Syria is wanted, not by Iran or Russia, but by the FBI itself, writes Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, ex-advisor at the office of the Greek PM Andreas Papandreou on Arms Control and East-West relations.

The goal here — namely, the overthrow of Assad, the dismemberment of Syria, the destruction of the last secular state in the Middle East, the expulsion of any Iranian or Russian influence — justifies the means: “We had to get rid of the bloodthirsty dictatorship of Assad”. The fact that Israel is killing a hundred Palestinians a day doesn’t concern them at all. “Israel is a democracy,” they say.

It has been a long time since President Bush initiated the so-called “war on terror,” which ultimately revealed itself to be a “war alongside terrorists,” targeting any threat — no matter how minimal — to US and Israeli dominance in the Middle East.

Western politicians, “intellectuals,” and “journalists” are also indifferent to the fact that it is not a Russian or an Iranian, but the Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo who sadly observes that this is the end of “the rich, magnificent, and unique history of Christians in Aleppo”

We have finally reached a point where they use the most primitive lies and completely incoherent justifications for their actions. This is another example of how quickly Western civilization’s humanitarian, democratic and anti-colonial political and ideological legacy of the victory over Nazism is being demolished, along with the legacies of the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution.

Not long ago, they told us that Hezbollah and Hamas were extremist Islamic organizations, not popular national liberation movements with an Islamic ideology, as they largely are under their Islamic veneer, movements that emerged born out of the crisis of Arab modernization, nationalism, socialism, and communism, which inevitably pushes the Arab-Muslim world toward a form of Islam when there is no other way out.

But Hezbollah and Hamas are angels from heaven compared to the al-Qaeda beheaders who were brought to power in Syria to overthrow Assad — much to the delight of our media.

Of course, nothing comes purely bad without a trace of good. Such major events and ruptures in historical continuity give readers, listeners, and viewers a chance to judge which of those they read, listen to, and watch — and which of their politicians — are worthy of their attention.

The question is not just whether Syria has been liberated, as claimed; it is whether Syria will even exist at all. Israel has already carried out the largest air operation in its history, destroying all Syrian military installations and various research and university institutes. As for the Israeli Foreign Minister, he clarified that the purpose of the operation is the division of Syria, which may take the form of a so-called federation, an ambition that aligns with the decades-old high strategy of the faction that governs Israel, that calls for dividing all Middle Eastern states into smaller parts.

Syria, of course, is only the beginning of the chaos that (with the Guderian recipes for speed and surprise that we see being applied) will soon spread throughout the region; the Damascus-Teheran train (not forgetting Lebanon and Palestine) is now preparing to leave, while there are, of course, other train crossings for future use, not directly, I imagine, leading to Moscow, Central Asia and Beijing, and even towards the West, the Mediterranean and Europe. History will not stop in Damascus and the attacking forces do not take prisoners.

Any illusions about what is coming will come at a very high cost for all of Humanity.

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