Turning Syria into another Libya

The US’ Arab clients will feel the spillover too

The foreign ministers of seven Arab states — Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, Bahrain, and Qatar — held three days of talks in Jordan’s winter capital, Aqaba, in their capacity as countries with influence on and influenced by developments in Syria. They were tasked with drawing up an agreed political, military, and security strategy for dealing with the situation and containing the threat of spill-over into the region.

The meeting was convened by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and also attended by the foreign ministers of Turkey, France, and the European Union. The most important absentee, at least in the physical sense, was Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, whose government played a key role in planning and carrying out the tripartite aggression that toppled the Syrian regime in such humiliating fashion and replaced it with a coalition of armed Islamist factions directly supported under US auspices by Turkey and some Arab states.

But Saar’s absence was more than made up for by the meeting’s mover and chief fixer, Blinken, who publicly affirmed his allegiance to Zionism on his first visit as US chief diplomat, and who finally admitted for the first time that his country, and possibly he personally, had been in direct contact with Hay’at Tahrir ash-Sham all along.

Before considering the final statement issued by the seven Arab foreign ministers, which barely told one percent of the truth, it must be recalled that it was these same seven countries that led moves to embargo Syria and eject it from the Arab League. They directly or indirectly funded the US-backed military operations launched 13 years go aimed at toppling the regime.

And they actively participated in the suffocating siege that starved the Syrian people and undermined the regime from within, repeating the scenario applied in Iraq that culminated in the country’s occupation after the US-led invasion in 2003. The main difference is that in Syria, the US subcontracted the task to armed Islamist groups, and sufficed with occupying the oil and gas fields and establishing a military base there, while assigning on-the ground control of the country’s breadbasket to its Kurdish allies. This blockade and partial/proxy occupation played a massive role in ultimately bringing about the regime’s downfall.

It was supremely ironic, that the statement issued by the seven Arab states that met in Aqaba, nominally under the Arab League banner, called for “a peaceful political transition in Syria that meets the aspirations of all components of the Syrian people via free UN-supervised elections,” and the need to “respect the rights of the Syrian people without discrimination on the basis of sect, religion, or ethnicity and guarantee freedom and justice for all citizens.” As a face-saving afterthought, they also condemned Israel’s incursions into the Golan Heights buffer zone and adjacent areas of Syria.

In truth, the countries that heeded Blinken’s summons are terrified by what the takeover in Syria could mean for the present and future of their own ruling regimes. The region stands at the threshold of an ‘Arab Autumn’ mark two, led by armed political Islam and steered by the US, Turkey, and Israel to create a New Middle East with Israeli maps, borders, and leadership.
These great Arab champions of human rights in Syria never met with such zeal to halt the war of extermination and ethnic cleansing on the Gaza Strip, and failed to deliver a single box of milk powder to its starving infants. Their silence and inaction led directly to the killing of 50,000 and maiming of 200,000 of their fellow Arabs and Muslims, along with the destruction of all the hospitals the blocking of medical supplies. We can be sure that the safety, security, and stability of the Syrian people is the last of their concerns.

They spoke in their statement of the need for free and fair elections for the Syrian people. But in most cases their own people have never seen a ballot box, and where these do exist they are only for decoration: their elections are token and with no semblance of fairness. Their advocacy of human rights is equally risible: their own prisons overflow with innocent people who are subjected to torture no less terrible than at the infamous Saidnaya jail.

The foreign minister of Iraq — whose country may be next on the US hit-list, before Iran — told the media that the seven participants at the meeting do not want a repeat of Libya in the region. But whatever they want or don’t want, they are not the decision-makers. They are mere pawns in the hands of the US, summoned into service by its secretary of state who planned the ongoing genocide in Gaza and its depopulation under the cover of war and starvation, and perpetuated it via 14 months of phoney truce talks in Cairo and Doha.

The tripartite aggression will indeed turn Syria into a second Libya. That is the US-Israeli template. A variant of it was transferred to Sudan, and it could be extended to most countries in the region via sectarian or ethnic civil wars that are being studiously stoked at present.

“Missionary” political Islam succeeded in toppling the regime in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen, but failed in Jordan, Iraq, Morocco, and Syria. The new armed political Islam could prove more potent and successful, as evidenced by developments in Syria. The American godfather is perfectly capable of changing its skin, facades, and tools when needed.

So, the Arab states that colluded in US schemes to spread chaos and change regimes in the name of democracy and human rights under the had best beware: armed anarchy is coming from Syria to you.

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