The Syrian people supported freedom fighters and revolutionaries, and became their social incubator, now and forever. But then what?
The question that should be asked strongly and boldly: where did the Syrian revolution go wrong?
Actually, where did the revolutionaries go wrong? And why did we reach this point? Could we have reached a better reality than this one? What are the ways to go beyond our current situation?
We all have a firm belief that this cosmic conspiracy on Syria and its people will continue, and it is written in Syria’s fate to face it and defeat it.
Aleppo’s victory revealed the truth and a vital secret that the cosmic conspiracy on Syria is not meant to succeed, just as it is not to defeat it.
Whoever believes that the recent developments, quality weapons, etc, are behind the breaking of the siege and behind this victory, I tell that person that there are no quality weapons comparable to what is owned by the Russian occupiers from strategic bombers to Hmeimim base – which are capable of carrying nuclear warheads – in addition to aviation and artillery in the quiver of one of the strongest armies in the world, not to mention the Iranian interference and border-crossing sectarian militias.
The real challenge is in front of the elites of Muslim sheikhs, military personnel, intellectuals, revolutionaries, businessmen, etc. In my opinion, here lies the danger and here lies the cure.
The challenge ahead is for them to unite themselves just like the Basel Conference called for by Theodor Herzl in 1897 – which set out half a century for the creation of the State of Israel.
Were the Syrian revolutionary elites unable to call for such a conference in which the most important qualities of those invited would be their purity, their strong loyalty and connection with their people and their country, their ability to bypass different political affiliations that have drained us throughout the years of the revolution? There is a need to invite elites of all the classes and different segments of the Syrian society to come together in this conference to put forward a real project that can be implemented in reality and stay true to the people and their revolution.
I think that money is the crux of the conflict now.
Clean money must be secured immediately to the revolutionary groups far away from the filthy political money. This, in my opinion, can be done by establishing Syrian Revolution Fund in which these elites divide the work and determine the schedule – for example, for six months – and announce at the end of the specified period with the utmost transparency what they have achieved, how much money is left and why have they not achieved what they have not. This transparency will attract many followers and supporters, especially if every member pledges to not enter politics in the future for a specific period of time or for life and to serve as the Council for the Preservation of the Revolution and maintaining it. I believe that it is only then the revolutionaries on ground will adhere to such a project, pushing all other countries to accept this project and take it seriously.
The reality in Syria has become so intertwined to the extent that an engineer started doing the journalist’s work and the doctor took the mufti’s position, and in the near future we will see the revolutionaries doing political work and the soldier in the service sectors and so forth. This confusion has scattered efforts, complicated them, and caused them to be repeated often. The main solution to this crisis is for each one of us to return to his/her specific occupation and to hold each one accountable for their own success in their own work according to his competence and what is required of him.
What if the elites of the Muslim clerics announced their support of the revolution and the revolution only, defecting from all of the factions and parties, and characterizing themselves as being higher than any other faction. The sheikh and scientist are the for the whole nation and should not be owned by a state, a party or a group, and their project is for Syria and the entire Ummah. By this, they can give the revolution project the legitimacy of it being Syria’s revolution. In addition, it can provide the revolution with the needed support of the trader, the revolutionary, the politician, the soldier, etc. It is a project which divides the tasks with only one target in its mind which is bringing victory for the revolution and rid our people from sectarian criminality and the occupiers who serve it.
The first step of this blessed move is to sort all of the elitists from the segments of society, and to develop an action agenda. The merchant who is pro-revolution must put forth a vision of why his colleagues did not defect from the criminal regime, or why they did not at least differentiate between the murderer and the murdered, so we can know what they want and how we can win them over. This is not perfected or known by anyone except for those who work in the same profession. In turn, the intellectual must work to raise the level of culture and to educate the people about the risks, the opportunities, the grants and tribulations faced by the revolution, as well as the journalist, the politician, etc.
When the elites divide themselves into departments, the states will then deal with them seriously and as equals. Isn’t it a shame for serious social problems to take place because a Syrian lady did not receive a visa to Turkey to join her husband? She committed no crime expect that she is outside her country. Meanwhile, the opposition is incapable of delivering this suffering to the officials in Turkey and the other countries. Isn’t it not a shame for an opposition to not be able to solve a small problem for a family or to a wounded or to a distressed? These slight problems are not being solved only because everyone wants to do the work of all. Today, for example, the sectarians succeeded in making the world question the revolution. They target civilians with chemical weapons or poisonous chlorine and make the world doubt who hit, how they hit and where they hit, causing the incident to get lost in obscurity, until targeting with chemical weapons became like targeting with bullets.
Did the opposition fail to legally document these incidents, in order for it to be able to deliver its voice and the voice of its people and its agony to the media and the public opinion, with providing all the documents that reveal who is committing these attacks? However, for an activist to work on the ground as a lawyer, journalist, politician and everything, then he cannot work properly and the world will not be able to trust his documentation. This effort needs a team composed of a lawyer, a doctor, a soldier, a politician and a journalist to document the incidents and send them immediately to the media before they get buried with a much more recent event.
Public opinion today is being formulated every moment, in the shadows of a technological media revolution that has devastated the revolution and the revolutionaries, in as much as it helped them and publishing has become the target and not a follow-up of a crime to prevent another one and to hold its perpetrators accountable.
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