A very daring opinion article, saying it like it is, describing a very sad and unfortunate situation on the ground, where again we're watching dangerous developments, endangering Syria and the entire region around it, although written and received sometime ago, it is very timely with the present events ....
Professor Dr. Daniel Charlie Hanna.
Let me say it frankly and without beating around the bush, because the time for pleasantries is over. Neither "Israel" with its extreme right nor "Netanyahu's" government is capable of penetrating Syria with more than a few cowardly airstrikes, and they won't be able to change a thing in the equation. Neither the "SDF" nor "Mazloum Abdi's" brutality nor "Al-Hajri's" followers have the courage to stand in the way of the real popular tide that is imposing its presence on the ground. The state is back, against everyone's will, and it will extend its sovereignty over every inch. I want to say this with utmost sectarian frankness if necessary, not out of hatred for anyone, but because people need to hear the truth out loud: For 15 years of displacement, killing, starvation, and humiliation, we have not seen a single Alawite living in a tent, not a Druze, not even a Christian—and I am a Christian, and I say it out loud. The one who carried the war on his shoulders is the Sunni. The one who was killed, humiliated, displaced, and whose presence was erased from entire cities is the Sunni. Every tent was covered in his blood, and every destroyed neighborhood was inhabited by him. Let's be even clearer: The Sunnis have been paying the price since day one, the most humiliated and abused component in Syria's modern history. As a Christian, I bear witness to this, and I heard Professor Jihad Makdisi say it clearly: Sunnis are the most oppressed component in Syria. Today, after fifty years of oppression, marginalization, detention, displacement and liquidation, there is no longer room for any party to come and laugh at the people or steal their true victory. There is no longer room for tricks or deals. Five million martyrs and detainees since the Alawite Hafez coup d'état. This is because Syria was democratic, ahead of many European countries. It didn't matter whether an Alawite or another ruled. Hafez and the Alawite and Druze officers like Salim Hatoum and others took advantage and staged a coup. Of course, the Druze were liquidated by their comrade Hafez. Let's not forget the five million destroyed homes and 15 years of exile and diaspora. All of this won't go away so easily. The Sunnis, who persevered and were beaten, will no longer accept anything less than regaining their dignity and power in their country. Whoever doesn't like it can drink from the sea. As a Christian, I have lived through the suffering of these people and seen the injustice with my own eyes. I can say it clearly: There is no going back. The people who were buried under the rubble will return to write their own history, and this history will not allow anyone – neither foreign nor domestic – to impose guardianship over it from now on. Therefore, in all honesty, I see my interest only with the Sunnis, and I would be foolish to antagonize them, incite against them, or ride in the ship of others that will sink.
This short and very factual column, was forwarded to me by a friend sometime ago, I'm not a follower of the author and never heard him before, but surely to any follower of the Syrian scene, his frank analysis and description is courageous, and factual, even if many do not fully agree, including myself originally, but it is the naked truth, Copying his words would surely help us all better understand what's happening in Syria and possibly beyond it.
As always, my profound many thanks to all. Stay safe and well. We're going through some very dangerous times in our humanity.
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