Question:
The
truce collapsed that America and Russia spent lengthy meetings designing to the
extent that some meetings lasted up to ten hours between Kerry and Lavrov. America
and Russia were boasting that it differed from previous truces and that this
time America will ensure the implementation from its part and that of the
opposition... and Russia will ensure its implementation from its part and that
of the (Syrian) regime... But the truce collapsed and America and Russia both
exchanged blames, pointing fingers at each other for being the cause of its
failure! Does that mean that the notorious road of truces has ended? And if it
has not ended, what is currently happening in the Syrian crisis? May Allah
reward you with all the good.
Answer:
The
notorious road of truces is unfinished according to America, whereas ongoing
events have pushed it to re-examine it to modify it, in what it calls "ceasefire"
to give way for more intensive bombing to influence the factions and the people,
to surrender and accept the new meeting between the regime and the opposition,
on the basis of the amended truce agreement, which America is preparing during
this break! This is because Obama wants to end his term with a sort of solution
to the Syria issue, or at least to bring together the regime and the opposition
in a meeting that rates his term with success, even if it is small, following
the steps of the Democratic president before him, Clinton, regarding the Palestinian
cause. Although Clinton did not achieve what he wanted, yet Obama did not take
heed, and believes that he can succeed where his predecessors failed! Nevertheless,
he is not aware that his failure exceeds that of his predecessors! To shed
clarity on the matter, there needs to be a review of the following issues:
1.
America sought to impose the truce seriously, when Russia and the (Syrian)
regime imposed a full blockade on Aleppo, after they managed to control main
parts of Alcastelo Road through the Russian and the regime’s intensive bombing;
where the air raids continued intensively. Al-Jazeera correspondent reported on
07/07/2016, “The number of air raids by Russian aircrafts and aircrafts of the
regime on Aleppo exceeded a hundred raids...” This enabled the regime to gain
control over the road after the withdrawal of the opposition. “Al-Jazeera
correspondent reported, citing the Syrian military sources that Syrian military
opposition fighters have withdrawn from their positions that they had
controlled in the vicinity of Alcastelo Road in northern Aleppo for military
reasons...” (Al-Jazeera, 10/07/2016). Then intensive air raids followed, which led
the Syrian regime’s forces backed by Russia, Iran, and the militia, and its
followers, to impose the siege on Aleppo, on 26/07/2016, the Syrian regime
forces tightened the siege on the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo after seizing
control of the Alcastelo complex in north of the city on Tuesday...”
(Al-Jazeera, Wednesday, 27/07/2016)... In this atmosphere, and during a meeting
of the US Secretary of State with the Russian Foreign Minister in Vientiane,
the capital of Laos on 26/7/2016, Kerry promised the journalists that he will be
in a position to tell them (i.e. the journalists) of positive steps to change
the status of the war in Syria, in the beginning of August 2016. After he was
reassured of the regime’s advances in Alcastelo Road backed by Russia and Iran and
then the siege of Aleppo, Kerry wanted to approve the truce when this blockade
takes place.
2.
But that did not happen due to the seriousness of military operations waged by
the revolutionaries in south of Aleppo, during which they were able to lift the
siege of its harshest stronghold in the south of Aleppo and the military
colleges. This was after the revolutionaries have managed to take the
neighborhood of Ramouseh south of Aleppo, and opened the way to it, i.e.
breaking the siege. The siege breaking operations of Aleppo served as a severe
blow to the American plans, which sees that striking the Syrian revolution
should be by focusing on its strongest and hottest strongholds in Aleppo.
America and Russia were enraged as a result, Russia describing the revolutionaries’
operations, via Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as "brazen acts," and
this shows that Russia and America thought that they had aborted the revolution
in Syria, and brought to an end.
3. In order to ensure the success of
the American plans, which remains focused on Aleppo, it had to re-impose a
blockade on it. America worked on two axes to re-impose the siege on Aleppo:
First: Turkish army entering into northern Syria, starting with
the area of Jarablos, this was announced by Turkey as the "the shield of
the Euphrates," operations and calling the revolutionaries "loyal to
Turkey" from the south of Aleppo to fight ISIS, i.e. through weakening of
the real battle fronts in Aleppo and creating new fronts of internal fighting,
and to drive away as many as possible of the revolutionaries from the
battlefront in Aleppo!
Secondly: to mobilize more of Iran’s thousands of followers and send
them to the south of Aleppo, and declarations of its party in Lebanon to send the
“elite troops” to the south of Aleppo, as well as An-Nujaba’ Iraqi movement, at
the same time, Russia has carried out a significant intensification of air raids
on Ramouseh area...
With these two axes, America enabled
the regime and its allies to re-impose the blockade on the Aleppo, and put the
eastern neighborhoods on the US conspiring table under headings such as "striking
the terrorists" and "humanitarian aid to civilians in Aleppo". The
time was appropriate for America to declare its agreement with Russia and the
imposition of "cessation to hostilities", which took place at a
meeting of the foreign ministers of both America and Russia in Geneva, which
lasted for more than ten hours. During the meeting the US Secretary of State
Kerry was in contact with the security departments, especially the Pentagon in
Washington to ensure that the Russian demand for the implementation of the
Russian-American joint and public operations and against groups that do not
abide by a cease-fire.
4.
America and Russia announced that 12/09/2016 is the date of "cessation of
hostilities" in Syria after they were reassured that the regime's army and
allies of Iran and Russia have re-imposed a new siege over Aleppo... This date
was also the start of the evening of the first day of the blessed Eid ul Adha,
so as to exploit the notion of “Eid" to improve the chances of
acceptance of a cease-fire in Syria.
5.
America was serious about the output of this agreement and its implementation. US
Secretary of State Kerry considered that the Russian-American agreement ‘may be
the last chance we have to save a united Syria…’ (Al-Jazeera, live broadcast of Kerry’s speech,
12/9/2016), because it achieves its goals of imposing the cessation of
hostilities as a prelude to the development of the Syrian issue in the Geneva
negotiations... On the other hand, this plan will achieve, by coinciding with
the American elections, political gains to the Democratic Party, these gains
are the reasons for America's rush to achieve success for the Obama
administration in Syria at the end of his term. At the same time Russia was
cheering the near launch of a wave of joint and public military operations with
America, which is an old Russian demand which it sees as the basis for
continuing to serve the objectives of America in Syria, in anticipation to the
unknown of the next US administration policy, following the Obama
administration.
6.
But things have gone contrary to what America wants, two things came up which
were not in America’s calculations, namely:
First: Despite all the crimes created by the
United States in Syria directly through its coalition or through its alliances,
Russia, Iran and its militias in Iraq and Lebanon and their followers, and
although the truce agreement was held during the suffocating siege,
particularly in Aleppo, what made America and alliances and henchmen think that
the people of Syria will agree to the truce. However, the opposite happened...
there were demonstrations coming out under the blockade, the prevention of food
aid, and even bombardment, drove out demonstrations denouncing the truce
agreement, this encouraged a number of factions to declare that they are not
concerned with this agreement, even when they didn’t act and were waiting! And
other factions opposed America’s plans according to the agreement by steering
joint strikes with Russia against groups that they call "terrorist", and
there were other factions which opposed the agreement completely... Not only
that, but the pressing movements of people have stopped the pro-American agent
factions from showing their position in favor of the plan and forced them to
conceal their positions; what made America aware that its agreement in this
rejecting reality is not as feasible as it hoped.
But
what enraged America the most, during its attempt to apply that truce was the
blatant rejection of some of the opposition parties to meet members of US
Special Forces in northern Syria, after Erdogan declared the start of the third
phase of the "shield of the Euphrates," with the participation of
American troops, the American troops were introduced to northern Syria... But
it was surprised of the outright rejection by the opposition, not only what is
designated as extremist opposition, but also by what it calls the moderate
opposition, they refused to fight alongside US Special Forces and the refusal
was accompanied by calls branding the US forces "crusaders". The
media reported the event on 16/9/2016: (video footage circulated by activists
and journalists’ accounts on Twitter showing what appears to be soldiers from
the US Special Forces leaving the town Ar-Ra’i, in Aleppo, after coming under
insults of the fighters believed to be from the Free Syrian Army. This video comes
at a time when the newspaper Wall Street Journal cited US officials
saying that President Barack Obama agreed to send about forty of the special
operations forces into Syria to work with the Turkish forces in northern Syria...
and the footage in the town of Ar-Ra’I shows fighters shouting slogans hostile
to America at a time when a convoy of trucks transporting US troops... In the
video, a man is heard saying, "The Americans have no place among us...
they want to launch a crusade war to occupy Syria"...” (Al Bawaba Website,
16/9/2016) and the same was reported by the Daily Telegraph Newspaper (16/9/2016).
This
was the first thing to make America see that they need a truce break
(cease-fire)! To
increase the bombings in retaliation to the people of Syria, who stood up and
are still so, in the face of America's crimes and its plans. America thinks by
increasing the shelling it will subjugate them, but it will be disappointed,
Allah willing.
Second, the truce agreement was not only a
militarily solution but it was also a political solution, Obama was looking
forward to the end of his term with a solution in Syria to preserve America's
influence, and for it to become his legacy, and help the Democratic candidate
in the elections... It was mentioned in the news that the agreement is made of
five documents: two of them regarding the cessation of hostilities and food
aid, and these were released... The United States refused to disclose the other
three documents because they seem to relate to the political solution, and they
are likely to reveal the American deception to the moderate opposition, that it
stands with them. It will not be surprising to find in it that the tyrant
Bashar will remain as head of the interim government until elections and
beyond!
Therefore,
America does not want them to be revealed until it ends from the military and
relief operations. America was in an agreement with Russia on this matter,
things went at first quietly, and it seems that America forgot that Europe,
which was sidelined by America on the ongoing events in Syria, will not spare
any efforts to cause mischief in any available opportunity, even though it was
known that Europe has no active role in the Syrian crisis, but it can embarrass
the United States... and that's what happened! Europe has tried to exploit this
point: France has demanded loudly America to disclose the terms of the
agreement to its allies, the French Foreign Minister demanded that America to
inform its allies on the details of the agreement with Russia regarding the cease-fire
in Syria... “French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Thursday 15
September that France wants to see the text of the cease-fire agreement in
Syria reached by the United States and Russia so unequivocal mistake happens
with respect to the target on the ground...” (Arabic DW site, 15/09/2016).
It
seems that the Europeans had deliberately embarrassed the United States and
Russia together, by pointing that the agreement contains dangerous items! Even Russia
was affected and tried to escape! It asked for an emergency session in the
Security Council to provide a UN cover to the US – Russian agreement, “Zakharova
– Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson – explained the goal of the Moscow from
this important requirement, noting that the agreement consists of "several
documents, have been adopted, and agreed upon during the negotiation process...
and that the Russian side at the beginning of negotiations, and during them,
and after reaching a final agreement, already called for, and even urged the
American side to publish these documents, and the need to do so; so that these
agreements do not become the subject of speculation "...” (Arabic 21, 16/9/2016).
But
the Security Council emergency session on the night of 16/09/2016 was canceled
insistence of the United States not to reveal terms of the agreement, and of
course because of the Russia can not reveal it alone because it operates in
Syria with the consent of America!
This
second issue made America, in order to avoid the embarrassment, content with
the little from the booty! It decided to redraft the truce agreement, so that Obama
is sufficed by a truce that will lead to a solution, even a meeting between the
regime and the opposition and then the new agreement will not include of
embarrassing documents!
7.
In light of these two matters, which faced America, it decided to take a "break
for truce" for more intensive bombardment operations to influence the factions
and the people to accept the new meeting between the regime and the opposition,
according to the truce agreement prepared by the United States during that
break! In order to justify the cessation of the truce for a period of time as mentioned,
and remove the suspicion that America is behind the cessation of the truce and
the intense bombing which it arranged with Russia and the regime, the United
States has taken the following actions:
a.
It told Russia “that it is difficult to separate between the moderate
opposition and the "terrorists" in Syria...” (Al-Hadath Channel,
19/09/2016).
b.
It made the regime declare an end of the truce and start bombing, backed by
Russia... as it was circulated by different media outlets: “The Syrian regime
forces on Monday announced the end of the truce, which lasted seven days which
was brokered by America and Russia without reference to any possibility of
renewal...” (Al-Jazeera, 19/9/2016)
c.
It staged a dispute with Russia, and each party accused the other of being
behind the failure of the truce: “The US State Department said in light of
these flagrant violations of the ceasefire and peace agreements stipulated by
the recent agreement with Russia, the United States would re-evaluate all
future relations with Russia in the Syrian affairs...” (Al Jazeera.net, 20/9/2016).
Russia and the United States exchange accusations for days about impeding the implementation
of the agreement, Moscow sees that Washington had not fulfilled its obligations
to the truce, especially in the determination the location of the existence of
the opposition factions and elements of Fath Ash-Sham Front, while Washington
has threatened to stop the militarily coordination with Russia in the absence
of the introduction of aid to the besieged areas...” (Gulf Online, 24/09/2016) End.
d.
America initiated a disagreement between the Pentagon and State department, and
that the Pentagon objected to the terms of the truce, as if the truce was held
in a day and night without knowledge the Pentagon! Note that the negotiations
were taking place under their hearing and eyesight, even if they were objecting,
they would have objected before, and not after the end of the truce, while this
truce was imposed on 12/09/2016, and has been extended on 14/9/2016 with the
consent of the Pentagon! “... After the announcement of the agreement to extend
the truce in Syria for 48 new hours, an Al-Arabiya reporter in Washington
reported that the Pentagon has welcomed this extension on Wednesday evening...
The foreign ministers of Russia and America announced on Wednesday, to extend
the cease-fire in Syria 48 hours despite the violations that have occurred
since Monday night, the first day of the validity of that truce...”
(Al-Arabiya, 15/09/2016).
8.
Thus the cease-fire in Syria officially collapsed on Monday, 19/9/2016 after
six days, less than a week from its imposition by America and Russia, and it
was assumed that the United States and Russia to jointly bomb the
revolutionaries in Syria, under the name of "war on terror" after the
holding of the agreement for seven days, which deliberately did not take place
by America! It began the “truce break" and more bombing, meanwhile it can
amend the previous truce, with a new truce, thinking that they can arrange a
meeting between the regime and the opposition before the end of Obama’s term...
This
is what is currently happening,
and what America and its alliances and henchmen are preparing to achieve...
This is what they claim. However, the reality of the situation is that the
Syrian crisis is a thorn, but a thorn in Obama’s throat, and his successors and
his followers, although he has said before during a period when he was stronger
than today, and when he had more time than today. However, US President Barack
Obama said in a speech on the difficulties he faced in the White House, “The
Syrian war and meetings on the Syrian crisis is "what gave him grey hair"....
Obama said on Thursday 4 August in a press conference after meeting the National
Security Council and military leaders in the Pentagon, “I am pretty confident
that a big chunk of my grey hair comes out of my Syria meetings”. (Russia Today,
05/08/2016). If he said so before, he will now no doubt will state the harsher
words to describe the impact on himself, he will leave his black house, saying:
"Syria killed me"... He has the right to issue such statements, although
Syria is devoid of international conflict, America is in control internationally
where it uses Russia and sidelines Europe, as well as it is in control
regionally, the acting states such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran, are
pro-America, and it also is in control of the regime, and in some factions...
However, America has not been able with all the alliances and followers to
implement its plans in Syria so far, it has been more than five years, in which
it is only fighting the people of Syria... but it is not surprising that Obama
gets "hysterical" for not implementing his objectives, and even his
special forces that were introduced to Syria with the Turkish soldiers, could
not stand on their own feet in the land of Syria, but ran away dogged by the
cries of condemnation, and from whom? The factions that were trained by America
in which it thought they had surrendered to it!
All
this is because Syria and the people of Syria have Islamic sentiments overflowing,
and are affected by sincere forces that provide them with awareness and insight,
pushing them to stand in the face of the collaborators and traitors and their
masters from the colonial and greedy states over Muslim countries. Thus how
will it be when the Islamic ideas flows in them, and they are motivated and led
by sincere loyal Islamic leadership that will implement on them the saying of
the Messenger of Allah (saw) in the Hadith which Tabarani transmitted in the
great “Mi’jam” for Salamah ibn Nufail, said: The Messenger of Allah (saw) said:
«عُقْرُ دَارِ الْإِسْلَامِ بِالشَّامِ»
“the Abode of Islam is Ash-Sham”? And then the sun of the Islamic state
will rise over them, the righteous Khilafah, a Khilafah of truth and justice,
which will return them as masters of the world again, giving glory to Islam and
its people, and humiliate Kufr and its people, and indeed Allah is Capable over
that:
﴿وَيَوْمَئِذٍ يَفْرَحُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ * بِنَصْرِ اللَّهِ يَنْصُرُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ
وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ﴾
“And that day the believers will rejoice *
In the victory of Allah. He gives victory to
whom He wills, and He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.”
[Ar-Rum: 4-5]
23 Dhul Hijjah 1437 AH
25/09/2016 CE
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