In its second week after Assad, Syria continues to ride a wave of euphoria and hope, bolstered by pleasant surprises from its new de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly al-Jolani.
Over the weekend he told journalists that in the Middle East the Islamist Iran regime is the problem, and that he chooses diplomacy to settle disputes with Israel. And while the hardships of government will certainly complicate, and may even derail, Sharaa’s journey toward his stated goals, his start has been nothing short of excellent.
To understand Sharaa’s thinking, one can parse his different statements, from when he beat competing armed factions to emerge on top in Idlib, then from his time as the northern province’s ruler and, lastly, from his media availabilities since the rebels, mostly Islamists, swept the part of Syria that had been under the control of the Assad dynasty since 1972.
He will be dead within a year, assassinated by Mossad. They work really hard to destabilize their neighbors, as that makes stealing Lebensraum much easier.
Have no fear Israel will assassinate him in the near future. That seems to be how things go around that part of the world.
Especially if his talk is peace and diplomacy. Cooperating with the occupation angers the occupation as it deprives them of a hostile “other” they can use to justify bombing and killing civilians over.
This article is pure fellatio.
