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Saturday, 20 June 2020

Massive Libyan Army convoy reaches Sirte for showdown with Turkish-backed forces: video

By News Desk -2020-06-20

BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:10 A.M.) – A massive Libyan National Army (LNA) convoy was filmed this week heading to the Sirte front-lines from a major showdown with the Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) forces.

According to the Libyan National Army, their forces deployed to the western countryside of Sirte, where they later took up positions along the front-lines with the Government of National Accord forces and their allies.

A video showing the massive military convoy heading to Sirte was released on RT Arabic’s YouTube channel on Friday; it showed hundreds of vehicles and a large number of soldiers making their way to the strategic port-city.

The Government of National Accord is preparing to storm the city of Sirte for the second time this month, as they seek to reverse all of the Libyan National Army’s gains that were made this year.

Sirte was first captured by Government of National Accord forces during their campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) in northern Libya in 2016; however, they would later lose the city in early 2020, when the Libyan National Army launched a surprise offensive there.

The GNA has since been able to retake several areas in northern Libya, including a number of cities and towns near the capital, Tripoli.

OVER 2,600 TURKISH-BACKED SYRIAN MILITANTS HAVE RETURNED FROM LIBYA – REPORT

More than 2,600 Turkish-backed Syrian militants have returned from Libya where they were fighting for the Government of National Accord (GNA), the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on June 19.

“The returnees have received all of their financial entitlements after the recent advance by GNA forces in Libya,” the monitoring group’s report reads.

At least 12,100 Syrian militants are still present in Libya. According to the SOHR, Turkey is now working to deploy even more militants there. More than 1,800 Syrians are currently receiving military training in camps inside Turkey ahead of deployment.

The SOHR also revealed that 300 Syrian militants fighting in GNA forces are minors, between the ages of 14 and 18. Most of these minors were recruited by the Turkish-backed Sultan Murad Division.

Despite the relative calm in Libya, the remaining Syrian militants there are still taking part in combat operations. In the last few days, at least 17 were killed. This raised the number of Syrians killed while fighting in Libya to 417.

The deployment of Syrian militants in Libya boosted the offensive capabilities of GNA forces, enabling them to make gains in northwest Libya.

صراع المعادلتين: “ارحلوا عنا أو تُقتَلُون»‏‎ ‎في مقابل «استسلموا أو تُقتَلُون»!؟

العميد د. أمين محمد حطيط

في أعلى درجات الوقاحة والفجور سنّت أميركا قانون قيصر لخنق سورية وفرضت تطبيقه على كلّ من يتعامل معها وبرّرت سلوكها بالقول إنه من أجل حماية المدنيّين، وهو ادّعاء كاذب طبعاً، حيث لا يخنق المرء حتى الموت مع الادّعاء بأنّ الفعل من أجل إحيائه.

لقد شنّت أميركا على سورية أبشع حرب اقتصادية تطالها منذ عقود بقصد أن تحرمها من انتصاراتها وتسلبها أو تمنع عليها استثمار تلك الانتصارات التي دفعت ثمنها دماء زكية وجهوداً مضنية ومعاناة قاسية خلال عشر سنوات خلت، وتريد أميركا أن تمنع إعادة إعمار سورية لتمنع عودتها إلى حياتها الطبيعية والانطلاق مجدّداً في مسار الدول الحديثة التي تؤمّن الرفاه لشعبها وتحقق الندّية في التعامل مع الآخرين دون استتباع أو تبعية أو هيمنة إلخ…

قانون قيصر عدوان اقتصاديّ أميركيّ يروّج له بأنه ضدّ سورية فحسب، لكنه في الحقيقة يطال سورية وكلّ العالم المتعامل مع سورية اقتصادياً، إنه قانون أميركي يُراد منه عزل سورية كلياً عن دورة الاقتصاد العالميّ ومنعها من التعامل مع الخارج في أيّ سبيل أو طريق، وهو يطال لبنان كأول متضرّر منه لأنّ التزام لبنان به يؤدّي كما تريد أميركا إلى إقفال الحدود البرية مع سورية ليس في المعابر غير الشرعية التي كثر الحديث عنها وإيلائها أهمية لا تستحقها، بل وإقفال عملي للمعابر الشرعية عبر التهديد بالعقوبات لكلّ اقتصادي أو متموّل أو رجل أعمال يجتاز تلك الحدود ببضاعة أو بمال أو بخدمة أو بقصد استثمار في سورية.

ولا تكتفي أميركا في ارتكاب هذه الجريمة فحسب بل إنها تضيّق الخناق على لبنان في مسألة عملته الوطنية من أجل الإضرار به أولاً ثم التضييق على سورية ثانياً وهي تدير عبر منظومة «جبهة أميركا في لبنان» حرباً نقدية تشكل فرعاً من فروع الحرب الاقتصادية التي يتعرّض لها لبنان بحجة محاصرة المقاومة، تنفذ هذه الحرب مع معرفة أميركا بتأثيرها على المواطن اللبناني – كلّ مواطن – ثم تصرّ عليها راسمة معادلة أولية: «التجويع للتركيع»، أما المعادلة الأساسية التي تريدها أميركا من حربها التي تستعمل خدمة للمشروع الصهيوأميركي العام فهي «التجويع للاستسلام» التي تقود إلى نزع سلاح المقاومة وتفكيكها، ما يمكن من دفع لبنان إلى التنازل لـ «إسرائيل» في البر والبحر في الأرض والماء والنفط، فتكون أميركا بذلك عاقبت مكوّنين من محور المقاومة بضربة واحدة مؤمّلة النفس بأن تحقق لها تدابيرها الاقتصادية الكيدية ما عجرت عصابتها الإرهابية في سورية وقبلها الحرب الصهيونية على لبنان عن تحقيقه.

فأميركا بكلّ بساطة تقول للبنان وسورية “تستسلمون أو تموتون جوعاً“. وهي معادلة تنطوي بشكل واضح على التخيير بين الموت على درجة واحدة تكون عبر الموت جوعاً أو الموت على درجتين تكون الأولى منهما بنزع السلاح ومصادر القوة تليها الثانية بالقتل والاعتقال والتصفية. أميركا تخيّر المقاومة وبيئتها بين الموت أو القتل. هذه هي بكلّ بساطة ووضوح معادلة أميركا بعد هزيمتها في سورية وعجزها عن تحقيق أهدافها في وجه محور المقاومة.

وتعتقد أميركا بأنها بهذه المعادلة الإجراميّة التي تنتهك حقوق الإنسان وتنتهك قواعد وأحكام القانون الدولي، والتي تعتبر ضرباً من ضروب الجرائم ضدّ الإنسانية، ويمكن تصنيفها بأنها جريمة إبادة جماعية، المعادلة التي تخيّر المقاومة بالتخلي عن سلاحها وإنجازاتها تمهيداً لاجتثاثها بشرياً، وتتصوّر أميركا أنها ستنجح في معادلتها، خاصة أنها مطمئنة إلى وجود من سيتطوّع لخدمتها في الداخل اللبناني أو في الإقليم ويكون معها في حربها ضدّ المقاومة، ويصدّق مقولتها بأنّ سلاح المقاومة هو سبب المشكلة الاقتصادية وانّ الحلّ يبدأ بنزعه.

بيد أنّ ردّ المقاومة لم يتأخر وعشية البدء بتطبيق قانون قيصر جاء الردً حاسماً وصاعقاً على لسان الأمين العام لحزب الله في لبنان، ردّ فهم المدققون فيه والخبراء الاستراتيجيون الذي يغوصون في كلام السيد فهموا فحواه وما رمى إليه ورأوا بأنه ردّ باسم محور المقاومة كله يرمي إلى تزخيم المواجهة وعدم التراجع بأيّ قدر، فهو ردّ يقول لأميركا بأنّ معادلتها مرفوضة، وبأنّ تجويع جمهور المقاومة وشعوب دولها مرفوض، وبأنّ نزع سلاح المقاومة مستحيل وبأنّ مَن يحلم بذلك فهو واهم أو مشتبه وأنه يبني على الظنّ العقيم.

وصحيح أنّ السيد نصرالله احتفظ لنفسه بنص المعادلة التي تطلقها المقاومة في مواجهة معادلة العدوان الآنفة الذكر أيّ معادلة «استسلموا أو تموتون جوعاً» أو بصيغة أخرى «استسلموا او تقتلوا»، فإنّ رفضه للاستسلام والتسليم لأميركا ورفضه لصيغة أخرى من جدار المكر الإسرائيلي المسمّى «الجدار الطيب» في جنوب لبنان، وتمسكه بسلاح المقاومة لأنه مسألة وجود ومسألة حياة أو موت وتهديده للعدو الذي يستعدّ لقتل المقاومة وجمهورها وشعوب دولها، تهديده له بالقتل متوعّداً له ثلاث مرات بالقول «سأقتلك»، يعني بكلّ بساطة انّ المقاومة صاغت معادلتها في وجه معادلة العدوان، وبات المسرح اليوم محلّ صراع بين معادلتين… معادلة العدوان الأميركيّ التي تقول للمقاومة وشعوبها «استسلموا أو تقتلون» ومعادلة المقاومة الدفاعية التي تتضمّن «دعونا وشأننا وارحلوا أو تقتلون».

وكما انّ تطبيق معادلة العدوان يشمل كلّ يد تمتد للعمل مع المقاومة ودولها وشعوبها مهما كان العمل أو التعامل، فإنّ معادلة المقاومة الدفاعية ستكون موجهة في تطبيقها أيضاً لكلّ مَن يخدم العدوان في فعل أو سلوك، لأنّ العمل بالمعادلة الدفاعية الجديدة لن يكون محصوراً في جهة أو طرف بل سيكون مفتوحاً على كلّ الاتجاهات والمستويات والأهداف في ما تصحّ تسميته بكلّ ثقة بأنه «حرب شاملة» لا يستبعد منها طرف او موضوع او مكان.

وعليه نرى انّ المنطقة باتت بين احتمالين لا ثالث لهما… الأول أن تفهم أميركا جدية معادلة المقاومة الدفاعية وتتجنّب المواجهة وتتراجع عن عدوانها وتحفظ نفسها ومصالحها وحلفاءها وعملاءها في المنطقة بدءاً من الأفراد صعوداً إلى الكيانات، أو تصرّ على غيّها وتجازف بالدخول في حرب مفتوحة شاملة مع المقاومة، حرب لا تستثني عدواً او حليفاً او عميلاً لأميركا او مصلحة لهم في المنطقة، أما حلم أميركا بالتركيع عبر التجويع فهو حلم لن يتحقق والأشهر الخمسة المقبلة ستحمل الجواب حول أيّ احتمال ستكون عليه الأمور.

*أستاذ جامعي – خبير استراتيجي

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Exclusive Interview with SYRIA TIMES Newspaper

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Wednesday, 17 June 2020 09:52

Ambassador Ja’fari: “Main Victim of Caesar Act is The Syrian Citizen.”

The Caesar Act comes at a time when the whole world is suffering not only in the health arena (Covid-19) but also in the financial one.

Syria specifically is suffering from great duress. Coming out of a ten year long war which has exhausted the country in all its sectors, Syria now faces more hardship.

Sanctions have long plagued Syria, European and American ones. Since the war started on Syria, the USA and the West have sanctioned Syria, starting with Syrian companies and Syrian individuals and ending with non Syrians that trade with Syria.

The transport of oil and gas to Syria’s ports was forbidden. This had adverse living conditions on the ordinary Syrian citizen. Many Syrians suffered from the cold due to lack of heating fuel and gas. Unable to even guarantee that they had enough gas to cook a simple meal, Syrians resorted to other alternatives like using wood or electricity when and if available.

Today Wednesday 17/6/2020 the Caesar Act comes into effect, punishing the Syrian civilian population in obtaining its most basic needs.

Syriatimes was lucky enough to exclusively interview Syria’s permanent representative to the UN and one of its most vociferous defenders Dr. Bashar Al-Ja’fari.

Exclusive Interview with SYRIA TIMES Newspaper

June 17, 2020

Syriatimes: “What does the implementation of the Caesar Act mean to the ordinary Syrian?”

– Ambassador Ja’afari: The unilateral coercive economic measures, mistakenly called sanctions, are based on a shared unethical principle by governments that impose such blockades, based on belief that whoever possesses economic, military and political influence is capable of imposing his own will, decisions and policies on any country in the world by just trapping them commercially, economically and impeding their banking system, while totally ignoring and condoning the fact that these measures are illegal according to international law and the Charter of the United Nations. With regard to the so-called “Caesar’s Act”, let me say that Syria has been subject to US sanctions for decades since 1979 under the pretext of supporting terrorism and threatening the security of Israel, but since the terrorist war on Syria began, the US government has issued eight executive orders to impose or tighten economic, commercial and banking unilateral measures on Syria. These punitive measures, which were accompanied by similar European ones, had and still have clear impact on the Syrian economy and on the Syrian citizen. The main idea behind drafting “Caesar’s Act” is to exercise political pressure and psychological warfare on Syria, because measures contained in this act are already imposed on the Syrian Arab Republic. The main new factor in the act is the practice of economic and financial terrorism on any government or foreign party that might consider doing business with Syria or to contribute to the process of reconstruction. On the other hand, this act focuses more on the status of the Syrian Central Bank, as it is responsible for controlling the exchange rate of foreign currencies, by trying to accuse it of practicing money laundry. Allow me to point out here an important fact, which is that the Western ambassadors in the Security Council have always said publicly in all meetings of the Council regarding the political and humanitarian situation in Syria, that their governments will not contribute and will not allow the reconstruction process to be launched in Syria unless the Syrian government and its allies accept political concessions that these Western governments want. Meaning, they are taking Syria and its people hostages of their own schizophrenic policies. Needless to say, that the required concessions from Syria and its allies are totally incompatible with the national and security interests of Syria, and that they target Syria’s political independent choices and ultimately aim at achieving the mere interests of Westerners and Israel. In conclusion, the practical application of the US economic blockade imposed on Syria and other countries is to prevent any country that is subject to Unilateral Coercive Economic Measures from free and sustainable access to the global banking system and free trade without restrictions or obstacles. This is exactly what the US government and the European Union are doing against the Syrian Arab Republic. When the Syrian government and private banks are prevented from accessing the global banking system and benefiting from its facilities and transfers, this inevitably means that the ability of Syrian commercial institutions and entities is very limited in concluding deals and commercial partnerships and in carrying out import and export operations in a free and stable manner. Consequently, the main victim is the Syrian citizen, because restricting the free movement of trade and import means higher prices, less materials, and weakening the purchasing power of the Syrian citizen.

Syriatimes: “Will this act not hurt the very citizen it claims it wants to protect?”

– Ambassador Ja’afari: It is well known that successive American administrations rely in their foreign policy on specific tools, foremost of which are military power and aggression, economic blockade, and destabilization in order to change legitimate governments. The claims of Americans and Europeans that they impose Unilateral Sanctions in order to protect citizens in some countries are false, and facts on the ground expose that. The Americans and Europeans claim that the sanctions target Syrian government institutions exclusively! Any sane man will ask a question about the role of the government in any country of the world, and the answer is that the government is responsible for providing services to citizens in various fields starting with medicine and food to providing water, electric power and basic services and needs for citizens. Therefore, if the State institutions have been targeted with punitive measures that subsequently means that their capability to perform their primary services role is targeted.

On the other hand, the unilateral measures that target countries such as Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Syria, have been and will always be targeting citizens. These countries, among others such as Russia and China, are a target of these measures because of their political stances against the American and Western hegemony over the world. One of the biggest Western governments lies is that they are seeking to “protect democracy and human rights” in the world by imposing unilateral coercive measures. Everyone knows that the American government and the European Union are the allies of the most brutal dictatorial religious regimes in this world, just as they are the true allies of Israel, which occupies Arab lands to this day.

The Western political mindset knows well that economic embargoes are primarily harmful to citizens, but its political institutions continue to press ahead with punitive measures against people in order to create stifling social crises and push people to stand against their national governments and hold these governments accountable for their suffering.

Syriatimes: “The USA claims that the Caesar Act will not affect daily necessities like medicine-How true is that claim?”

– Ambassador Ja’afari: Most of the illegal measures in the so-called “Caesar Act” are not new, and Syria has been subject to the last wave of unilateral US and European coercive measures since ten years ago until today, and they amount to war crimes and constitute economic and financial crimes of terrorism. These punitive measures cause great economic and social damages, and their profound impact is no less than the impact of the crimes committed by terrorist armed groups against Syria and its people during these years.

American and Western governments are so brazen. They openly declare that they will continue to impose an economic blockade on Syria until the Syrian state succumbs to their political, economic and military blackmail. They already know that this blockade directly affects health, banking and education sectors, as well as communications, transportation, electricity and basic services sectors, and every sector that relates directly to the daily details of the life of the Syrian citizen.

It is one of the ugliest forms of political hypocrisy embodiment in our world. The United Nations is subject to the pressure of these powers in order to limit the organization’s contribution in Syria to only providing humanitarian relief and refrains from launching projects to rehabilitate infrastructure and reconstruction. These Westerner governments do not find anything wrong with saying that they only allow the flow of humanitarian aid to Syria, but they will not allow the early recovery process that will directly affect the lives of Syrian citizens at home, and will provide the appropriate economic and social conditions for the return of Syrian refugees.

Syriatimes: “American and European sanctions have been implemented in Syria for some time now. How is this different?”

– Ambassador Ja’afari: This new US Act seeks to impose a kind of territorial division on the Syrian state, by excluding the area controlled by the unpatriotic Kurdish separatist factions from the consequences of Caesar Act. The US administration wants to undermine the reconstruction efforts and seeks to deprive the Syrians of their natural resources, paralyze production mechanisms, close production gates, and stop import and export operations, in addition to impeding the normalization of relations with Syria and undermining the contribution of Syrian expatriates to reconstruction efforts.

The so-called “Caesar Act” seeks to stifle Syria politically and economically after Washington was unable to strangle it with terrorist war. What is new in this Act is that it extends to include Damascus’ main allies, such as Russia and Iran, which the Act mentions by name.

In order not to repeat myself, I would say that more than 95% of the punitive measures mentioned in this Act are already imposed on Syria, and what the Americans, along with the Europeans and the Turks want is to target public opinion in Syria, to create a state of uncertainty and weak confidence in the local currency and the ability to promote self-sufficiency and in the capability and credibility of Syria’s allies that fought terrorism with it over the past years and will not abandon it in the face of this economic blockade.

The most important element in this battle is to know the goals of your enemy. Today, we are fully aware that Americans and Europeans want to compensate for their defeat when they supported terrorism, by exerting economic and social pressure on the Syrian state and its allies and preventing them from proving their capability to recover damages caused to the Syrian economy and launch the reconstruction process. In sum, our battle with them is a battle of existence, settling old and new accounts, and targeting the Syrian nation and national identity. We have no option to retreat after we succeeded in our war on terrorism that was and still supported by same governments.

Syriatimes: “What can be done politically (in the UN arena) to alleviate the suffering of the Syrian people?’

– Ambassador Ja’afari: We used to say within the diplomatic community of the United Nations, that this Organization is not a charity, and that what ultimately prevails in it is the logic of political and financial polarization. Needless to say that this does not lead us to despair, as much as, it pushes us to be realistic and to strive with our allies to confront as much as possible the attempt of Western domination of the frameworks of the United Nations by adhering to the provisions of the Charter and international law.

The main dilemma while addressing Unilateral Coercive Measures is that the United Nations periodically rejects and condemns them, but due to Western domination of the United Nations, this Organization has not been able, to date, to adopt clear legal and practical mechanisms or instruments to end these punitive measures or to mitigate their impact on the peoples of the targeted countries. Nevertheless, during the last period, especially with the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, we were able to push the Secretary-General and relevant international organizations and bodies to issue statements and adopt positions that speak candidly about the profound inhumane impacts of this economic blockade on the peoples of the targeted countries and the ability of the United Nations to achieve global collective solidarity in confronting this health pandemic.

In recent years, the Syrian government has sent many letters and appeals to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council regarding the impact of Unilateral Coercive Economic Measures imposed on the Syrian people. We have succeeded during the past months in creating sufficient lobbying power within the United Nations that embarrassed and provoked the American and European representatives and their governments.

However, the final evaluation is that these Western governments will not abandon the policy of military intervention or the imposition of Unilateral Economic Measures on every country that politically disagrees with them, including friendly countries such as Russia, China and Iran.

Therefore, options and methods of addressing this challenge are mostly national, and should focus on developing economic and industrial strategies that deal with these punitive measures and provide local alternatives to meet basic needs, and build strong and sustainable economic, industrial and banking relationships with our real friends, especially in light of the fact that governments imposing the economic blockade also control international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank Group, in order to define the course of the global economy.

Once again, our battle requires complete awareness of the goals of our enemies in the region and the world, and a clear definition of the limits of their capabilities and wills, so that we can address the main goals for which these Unilateral Coercive Measures were imposed, namely economic and social pressure on citizens and limit the state’s ability to secure the basic requirements for life.

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قيصر إنْ حكى‎ ‎في لبنان

نضال القادري

البعض في لبنان يتعامل مع المقاومة ومفهومها على أنها شأن يخضع لمبدأ القبول والرفض، كالكثير من الأمور الأخرى التي هشّمت وهمّشت بإرادة واستسلام جماعيّ. وتتقاذف الجماعات السياسية “المسألة اللبنانية” على أنها إشكالية تاريخية، ومن بين الخلطات التي تتجرّعها المكوّنات الإنعزالية ما يتعلق بدور لبنان وموقعه، وعدم قدرته أو قصوره على الصمود والمواجهة والصراع مع “اسرائيل”. وقد أثبتت التجارب فشل تثبيت مفاهيم أخرى موازية كالحياد، والحياد الإيجابي، وعلى ضفة المقاومة المجرّبة سقطت مقولة “إنّ قوة لبنان في ضعفه” إلى غير رجعة.

المقاومة مسألة وجوديّة تتعلق بالاحتلال “الإسرائيلي” لفلسطين، ومحور الحركة الصهيونيّة الاحتلالي، والمؤسسة “الإسرائيلية” وأطماعها في عالمنا العربي كله. المقاومة ليست ظرفية، وغير متعلقة ببيئة “حزب الله” الدينية أو بمسيرة الطائفة “الجعفريّة” في لبنان كما يصوّرها أعداء لبنان. تشكلت المقاومات الوطنية في لبنان قبل نشوء «حزب الله»، وهي من عمر المغتصبات على أرض فلسطين، وهي باقية إلى ما بعد زوالها، فهي شأن وجودي باق ثقافياً وسياسياً واقتصادياً وعسكرياً.

في لبنان، يختزل بعض ناهبي المال العام يومياتنا ليوائمها ما بين صدور قانون “قيصر”، وسلاح المقاومة، وأزمة الدولار، والاقتصاد الوطني المتردّي. إنّ الأزمة الاقتصادية في لبنان مردّها لسياسات اقتصادية ربطت مستقبل ازدهار لبنان بما يسمّى “السلام”، وأيّ سلام هذا الذي يشرعن الاحتلال؟! كذلك مردّ الأزمة يعود إلى تراكم ثروات مَن عاثوا فساداً في بيئة الأعمال الحكوميّة، وفي مشاريع الإدارة، والنقد، والقطاع المصرفي. جلّ من تعاطوا من الإقطاعات السياسية والدينية تغوّلت بلا رحمة. بيئة النظام المذهبي فقاسة أزمات وهاوية تسويات.

لقد تغوّل النظام الطائفيّ بمخالبه على مفاصل الاقتصاد ووجهه إلى منحدرات استهلاكية وخدمية خطيرة وغير محسوبة. نظام المحاصصة الطائفيّة المذهبية دغدغ جوع الشعب، وعلك الأزمات، وجملها وكرّرها بالقسمة، وغنّج أسياد الفساد وأبطاله، وها نحن اليوم نرى الأخطبوط نفسه يرقص فوق دم جثثه، وقد أبقى فريسته على قيد التنفس حتى استجرار آخر دولار في جيوب الفقراء.

على الهامش، ليس لتنامي مخزون السلاح الاستراتيجيّ علاقة بالاقتصاد. السلاح القويّ يستطيع أن يتعايش مع الاقتصاد القوي. سواء أكان سلاح المقاومة أو سلاح الجيش الوطني. فقط لسلاح الميليشيات، والأفراد المتفلتين، والمافيات المنظمة، وقوى الأمر الواقع علاقة عكسية بالاقتصاد المتردّي.

أما الأسئلة المتعلقة في “الجوع” الوجودي المقبل مع إقرار قانون “قيصر” وإيداعه قيد التنفيذ فهي مشروعة في وجه الجميع، وإباحة علاجها لا تصحّ إلا على قاعدة مصلحة لبنان العليا في إنتاج مناعة ذاتية للمواجهة، والشروع في إجراءات العمل والتكامل في بوتقة “مجلس التعاون المشرقي”.

الحكومة اللبنانية الحالية التي يرأسها د. حسان دياب صارت حكومة بثقة من هم مع الخيار الوطني المقاوم، فلتأخذنا هذه الحكومة إلى حيث تريد بوضوح اقتصادي وسياسي واجتماعي. التلوّن لا يجدي ولا يفيد.

لا يكفي أن يحمل نائب أو وزير إصلاحي أو فاعل خير ملفّ فساد يرمي به في الإعلام بوجه الشعب، أو يبقيه رهينة “ركوة قهوة” يقدّمها مدّعي عام على شرف ضيوفه من المستجوبين، وبعدها “يا دار ما دخلك شر”..!

يؤلمني ذلك المشهد، ولعمري يستوي في فداحته مع الأوامر التي صدرت بتقديم ضيافة الشاي إبان حرب تموز لجنود العدو الاسرائيلي في ثكنة مرجعيون. وإنّ حجم هذا الغضب المدوّي سيرتدّ مع كلّ فضيحة وبالاً على كلّ سيد فينا.

إنّ غياب السياسات العامة الصائبة، يملأ هشاشتها ساسة مجانين، استقالوا من المواطنة، وتعاطوا المذهبية والطائفية والزبائنية، وباعوا في أسواق القطعة بالجملة وبالمفرّق وبالتجزئة.

إنّ كلّ وقتنا الضائع على هامش أعمالنا كانت تلوّنه الأيادي الغريبة لبعض الواهمين بأنّ هزيمة مشروع المقاومة آتٍ بقرار، وعشر مقالات، ومن على متن جريدة صفراء أو شاشة زرقاء يتنفس كاتب، وحفنة مأجورة من المحللين!

إنّ قانون “قيصر” هو الإرهاب بعينه، وفيه من المظلومية لبلادنا وشعبنا وللمقاومة ما لا يرحم، وفيه اعتداء موصوف على حقنا في تحرير أرضنا، وعلى كلّ شعب يرزح تحت الاحتلالات. ولكن، ألا يجدر بنا الصمود في وجه الوصفة؟ إنها وصفة انتحار إذا ما تجرّعناها بإرادتنا.

ما من خيار إلا تعزيز ثقافة المقاومة وزيادة منسوب المناعة. المناعة ثقافة كاملة في العسكر والاقتصاد والسياسة، وفي مكافحة مؤسسة تفقيس الفساد، وإعلاء شأن المحاسبة، وتوازن سلطة القضاء وتنزيهه. كلّ ذلك خير لنا من اجترار الوهم. الوهم أن تموت جائعاً صامتاً.

المناعة أن تصمد أكثر، لا أن تموت أكثر. المناعة خيار الأحرار، وليس الفساد المتفشي بكلّ أشكاله إلا مائدة دسمة تقتات من مناعة الحياة. قيصر لا يمرّ إلا بقسمتنا. “قيصر” لا يمرّ إلا بالانعزال. كيف به يمرّ وكلّ خيارات الحياة ولادة مفتوحة حتى الموت. الموت الذي ينبت على رصيف الحياة.

نحن أحرار هذه البلاد، نقدّس ترابها، ننعجن فيه، كنا هنا، باقون هنا، لا مفرّ من المواجهة، ولتكن الحرب شريفة في وجه من أرادها أخلاقية في مساراتها بين الأمم. لكننا هنا لا نتحدث عن “أمم” بل عن احتلالات وانتدابات وحروب بالوكالة والأصالة وكافة أنواع السفالة فتتت كلّ شيء حولنا حتى صارت أمورنا مستحيلة.

كلّ الحروب علينا كانت باطلة في منطلقاتها الأخلاقية، وحاقدة لا ترحم في جولاتها، وكيدية لا تساير، وكانت لإسرائيلات الداخل فيها مخالب نابية، وأصواف ناعمة، وأصوات ناشزة، وحناجر مكبّلة بالباطل. لقد أشعل ناراً في هشيمها حين قال الشهيد أنطون سعاده فيهم: “إنهم يريدون أن يأتوا إلى الحرية بكلّ السلاسل والقيود التي يرسفون فيها. يريدون أن يأتوا إلى ساحة الحرية مكبّلين، ولا يريدون أن يقطعوا هذه السلاسل التي اعتادوا رنينها حتى أنهم لا يتمكنون من النوم إلا على رنينها”.

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Caesar: Another Failing Attempt to Restrict Syria, Hezbollah

By Nour Rida

On Wednesday, the United States is due to bring into effect the toughest set of sanctions on Syria, as part of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act. The Caesar act is a law that was passed in December of 2019 and allows the American administration to impose sanctions on foreign companies, countries, and people who do trade or transactions with Syria.

Mainstream media outlets describes the law’s main intent is as “to punish Bashar al-Assad’s government for atrocities committed against the Syrian people,” using negative ideology to shape the story according to the US political agenda in the region.

The mainstream narrative of Western media is a penetrating medium, capable of creating false consciousness among the viewers. This is something many peoples of Western countries know by now. Looking back at media reports, one can see how positive ideology to describe the Bush administration was used as he was classified as ‘friendly’ and a ‘liberator’ at the time he invaded Iraq. This is one simple example of how media manipulates words and discourse to serve its own goals. Lest we forget the Takfiri terrorist groups in Syria that killed and raped and destroyed across the country regardless of the religious or ethnic background of the people; the US administration would call them “Syrian opposition” and legitimizing their existence and violence.

Back to the topic, today media reports call Syria an oppressive regime and the US claims it stands by the Syrian people by imposing the Caesar act. Words matter, but they cannot change history. The Caesar act imposed on Syria carries the same goals of the US backing and support of terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq throughout the past few years; stopping Bashar al-Assad from supporting the resistance movement in Lebanon of Hezbollah. Hezbollah is the only force by far that has been able to defeat ‘Israel’ and prove its vulnerability.

As said earlier, looking at the geopolitics of the region, it is obvious that the main target of the Caesar act is the Hezbollah resistance movement which constitutes a threat to the ‘Israeli’ apartheid regime. The act aims at breaking the Syrian will and causing uproar across the country as it puts pressure on the people.

The Caesar act seems to be paired with another attempt to cripple the resistance or weaken it that was overlooked by the media. It comes under the pretext of bolstering surveillance capacity of the UNIFIL inside Lebanon. UN chief Antonio Guterres said in a report that video surveillance and sensors already deployed, Guterres called for thermal-imaging cameras, hi-tech binoculars and drones which could strengthen the UNIFIL surveillance capacity.

In a report published Tuesday ahead of the mission’s renewal in August, Guterres said the UNIFIL criticized by the United States and ‘Israel’, needs to be “more agile and mobile” in particular on the Blue Line separating Lebanon from Occupied Palestine.

Guterres said the changes could come from “replacing some heavy infantry functions used for day-to-day activities with reconnaissance functions” using smaller “high-mobility light tactical vehicles and reconnaissance vehicles with improved monitoring capacity.”

The UN head also said he wanted to see construction of observation posts and for UN troops to have modern technology to collect and analyze data and improve their communications. Amid such demands skepticism rises on the real need of such equipment at a sensitive time and place.

Back to the sanctions, what the US has still not realized after its experience of imposing sanctions on Iran- an ally and supporter of Syria and the resistance in the region, is that it has failed to achieve its goal of destroying the resistance and its allies. The attitude of Syria would be similar to that of Iran, the sanctions will probably be an incentive to achieve self-sufficiency. Yes, choking Syria’s economy will hurt and will cause the troubled economy of Lebanon also to deteriorate further, but what does not kill someone only makes him stronger.

It is worth noting that this is not the first time the US imposes sanctions on Syria. In 1979, the US considered Syria a ‘supporter of terrorism’ as it stood by The Islamic Republic of Iran after its victory and overthrow of the US-backed Pahlavi regime. By imposing the act, the US again aims at toppling the resistance axis in the region or bringing about what it calls “change in attitude”.

“The new US sanctions will be far broader in terms of their sectoral targeting, but also, critically, will involve US targeting of other countries and businesses seeking to do business with the Syrian government in a bid to ensure Syria’s tightening economic isolation,” Julien Barnes-Dacey, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at the European Council of Foreign Relations (ECFR), told Al Jazeera.

It is true that imposing sanctions on Syria will make things tough and strangle the reconstruction of the war-hit country after around 9 years of Takfiri terrorist groups destroying Syria, but the US and its allies must keep in mind that Syria has the potential and the infrastructure to reactivate its agricultural and industrial activities. So for media outlets that have been exacerbating their campaigns and picturing Syria in starvation and famine, keep in mind that the Syrians will always manage to have food on the table despite all pressure.

Hezbollah for its turn is the main target behind all this. “Impose sanctions on Syria, force the ending of transactions and import into Lebanon, force the end of Syria-Hezbollah cooperation and it is all sorted out.” This is far from being accurate. The resistance forces in the region including Hezbollah are immune against such attempts. Some Lebanese factors are cooperating with the US and ‘Israel’ to disarm Hezbollah, but that remains to be an unrealized dream. Resistance in face of occupation is a right, and standing up for oneself is an act of self-defense.

That is one important thing to keep in mind. Another important issue to remember is that the US is in decline and this is a fact today. Russia, China and Iran will not abandon Syria and its people. Lebanon as well, stands before the option of moving towards the East, where it can find its way out from American pressure. Whether it is fiber optics and pipe gas lines, the silk road project, the trade corridor designed to reopen channels between China and countries of Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe, these are all considered as potential for cooperation between Syria, Iraq, Iran, Russia, China and Lebanon (if its political factions agree to turn their back to the US and its dictations). It takes bravery, consent and a political decision to stand in face of US coercion, and as the US power declines by the time such a scenario of shifting towards the East and abandoning the US supremacy becomes possible.

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Syria’s Jaafari to UNSC NATO Klan: Let My People Breathe

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June 17, 2020 Miri Wood

Syrian ambassador Jaafari addressing NATO reps at UNSC — **H.E. al Jaafari quoting Egyptian Nobel Laureate Najib Mahfouz to the rabid & deaf UN hyenas [Archive].**

The UNSC held its anti-Syria meeting via webcam, 16 June, and, despite the massive anti-racism demonstrations in western countries, the NATO clique had not a single moral scruple when it came to flouting its klansmanship in its ongoing imperial plot to recolonize the Levantine republic.

One day later, the UN website has not yet found the Council meeting worthy of a press release; at this time, the only full statement available if by the UN offshoot of the Geopolitical & Peacedestroying Affairs. The UN Speck Envoy Geir O. Pedersen re-regurgitated his speeches of the last several months: Lying concern for COVID-19 in Syria; fictitious concern for humanitarianism in Syria; demand for Syria to empty its prisons; demand for Syria to stop fighting NATO-funded terrorists within its borders; demand for al Qaeda to run Idlib; demand for the imposition of fascist UNSCR 2254 only by Syria not by the other parties involved in it; demand for Syria to relinquish all control of its borders.

In short, the unindicted war criminals of the UNSC demand the racist right to run Syria like a NATO colony.

The rabid hyenas’ humanitarian bastards concern for coronavirus in Syria remains one of the most hypocritically anemic cover stories in the history of NATO humanitarian destruction of sovereign nations, given the comparison of death totals from COVID in the SAR versus this virus in the US, UK, and France.

Coronavirus COVID 19 positive cases in Syria - Syria News syrianews.cc

16 June death tolls from COVID-19 in France, UK, US.

British and French P3 members flaunted a cynical mocking of this month’s bogus meeting, in the tweet sharing of a variation on a nasty, digitally altered, war pornography photograph that was viralized by NATO stenography journalists in early May.

The Brits retweeted a variation of a digitally altered photograph that NATO media viralized in May.

In May, the stenographers demonstrated their gentleman’s agreement regarding war criminal propaganda in the diligence of not noticing that the key photograph of the bombed unhospital — from various POV‘s, taken by different ‘photographers’ on site — was not only bombed on two different days (5 and 6 May), but was also two different [un]hospitals, one even underground, according to the NYT (which claimed it proved that it was bombed twice).

Actually, unless Syria identifies this as actual ruins, it may simply be another CGI.

The vehicle in the criminal propaganda in the digitally altered — or completely created except for the very real and very illegal ambulance — viralized photograph appears to be a vandalized ambulance, not a bombed one. Thanks to the arrogance of the French and English, we now have inclusion of the operative who may have vandalized it.

The vehicle is from war criminal Turkey, which is illegally occupying parts of Syria. It is unlikely that the Brits, French, or Americans would accept such criminals in their countries; the exception, of course, would be the Hollywood 5th column elitists, who would surely want their children operated on by the unlicensed Mengeles who brag about performing surgeries without anesthetics, who are glorified with Oscar nominations.

“The collapse of the Syrian currency is due to our measures.” — James Jeffrey, 7 June. Jeffrey is a US Orwellian envoy paid by American taxpayers, though there is no US embassy in Damascus. The work of true diplomats is to build bridges to other countries, not bomb them, not brag about destroying the lives of their citizens.
https://www.syrianews.cc/the-us-caesar-sanctions-washingtons-last-stray-bullet-against-syria/

The US Caesar Sanctions, Washington’s Last Stray Bullet against Syria

H.E. Bashar al Jaafari addressed the NATO criminals running the UN as the consummate diplomat that he is — he congratulated the French ambassador in French, on his appointment as temporary president of the Security Council.

Dr. Jaafari again explained to them the meaning of the noble Charter of the United Nations and then explained that Trump’s stealing of 200,000 barrels of Syria’s oil, daily, is theft, and also a breach of both the Charter and International Humanitarian Law.

Syria Defies the UNSC NATO Hyenas; Vows to Liberate All Its Territories

Amb. Jaafari to UNSC COVID Meeting: Stop Terror Virus against Syria

— Miri Wood

Syrians hold large demonstration against Caesar Act in Homs: photos

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BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:20 P.M.) – Several Syrians participated on Thursday in a large demonstration against the U.S.-applied “Caesar Act”, which is a new set of sanctions that are meant to force regime change in the Arab Republic.

According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the demonstration took place at Martyrs Square in the administrative capital of the Homs Governorate.

The demonstrators waived the Syrian national flag, along with photos of President Bashar Al-Assad and signs against the U.S.-imposed sanctions.

“They also expressed anger and condemnation of the U.S. hostility towards the free peoples, affirming that the fake humanity of the U.S. and its allies has been exposed,” SANA reported.