Samir Sadek, George Banna:
No savagery represents a new kind of brutality in the Syrian crisis, which has transformed into a civil war,In a civil war, there are no boundaries or laws that all parties adhere to,Theoretically, this war could have been called an asymmetric war, which presupposes one side abiding by some law and the other by no law or custom,The parties in the Syrian civil war have adhered to absolutely nothing and have never considered the other side,The homeland was the last thing on their minds. Gangs fighting each other and killing the nation.
For over fourteen centuries, the Syrian situation has been rife with decline, violence, and increasing savagery, until the country, along with the al Julani has become the most savage and brutal jungle in history, fertilized with whatever deadly poisons are available, The country is rife with legendary corruption, tyranny, escalating poverty, the absence of justice, the lack of equal opportunities, nepotism, physical and psychological violence, imprisonment, torture, persecution, and racial discrimination, whether religious (Muhammadan) or Arab nationalist, This includes the monopolization and theft of people’s livelihoods, the theft of even Syrian citizenship and identity, transforming it into a Bedouin Arab identity, and exclusion in all its forms, even from employment as a teacher or garbage collector!
What is a Ba’athist? Is he the honorable ideologue who doesn’t accept bribes or profit through subservience? What is a Sunni and what is an Alawite? And do these represent the Syrian citizen who accepts equality with all other citizens in rights and duties? Inequality, racism, and oppression have been enshrined in the constitution through Articles 8 and 3, and through the article “Are believers equal to non-believers?” Injustice has been enshrined in Article 285, ignorance and deception have been enshrined in the media law, and fundamentalist apostasy has been enshrined in the personal status law, which contains 330 articles that are offensive to women, etc.
The constitution has enshrined in the constitution Every simmering tension eventually explodes, and the Syrian tension exploded far too late. It erupted as a movement of rejection, protest, revolution, or a fleeting uprising that lasted only a few months before being extinguished by the religious, jihadist, factional, and Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated tension, a tension steeped in sheer criminality, whose sole aim is to kill and seek martyrdom,These jihadists desire death for themselves and others, driven by the hope of a swift ascension to heaven, where virgins, youths, and rivers of wine and honey await them—a veritable brothel of unparalleled debauchery, It cannot be said that injustice, enslavement, and corruption would be lessened if the al-Julani ISIS replaced the Assad regime, Most likely, the situation would be worse, as we have witnessed and recently demonstrated. In general, neither the al-Julani ISIS nor the Assad regime represents the aspirations of the Syrian people, Both are unacceptable, and it is impossible to live and progress under either, especially not under the al-Julani ISIS!
Those who reject the al Julani must also reject the Assad regime, and those who reject Assad must also reject the al Julani In short, it can be said that the majority of Syrian society rejects them all, This leaves only a secondary question regarding the priority of the confrontation: should the Golan Heights’ ISIS elements be confronted first, or the other side first? Generally, there is now a near consensus on the priority of confronting the Golan Heights’ ISIS elements; they represent the greatest danger among the pack of beasts in the jungle.
Rejection takes many forms, There is civil rejection, secular rejection, and even silence is a form of rejection, There is also armed rejection, and those who are rejected become mercenaries, recruiting other mercenaries. Each has its own sources for recruiting mercenaries. The ISIS-affiliated al-Julani recruits from among the Sunnis, while the Assad regime recruits from another sect, or rather, from everywhere,The door was never closed to any mercenary, even from among the Sunnis. The oppressive regime welcomes every mercenary, as do the various factions, Among the mercenaries, there are ranks, positions, red lines, black lines, special privileges, and familial and tribal connections, It is a complex web of relationships that, from beginning to end, aims to maintain sectarian hegemony, for which everything, even the very existence of Syria, is sacrificed,
Tension and its explosion have an inherent dynamism, and we know the patterns of this inherent dynamism from history, In general, the use of violence decreases with the presence of mechanisms to alleviate tension, The development towards violence and savagery accelerates in direct proportion to the absence of a means to alleviate or remove tension, What has happened in recent years does not include any means to alleviate tension, but rather everything that raises the level of this tension, which exploded with predictable mob violence and brutality…