After the two days of battles in the province Hikri HikriAn Israeli intervention, along with these factions, decided the Syrian President Ahmed Al -Shara The army and security forces were completely withdrawn from the province, announcing in a registered speech to the Syrians at dawn on Thursday that it had taken this decision to preserve the unity of the country and spare it an open war with Israel.
Al -Shara affirmed that the withdrawal came within the framework of an agreement with local authorities in As -Suwayda, which is to assign some local factions and Druze clerics “the responsibility of maintaining security” in the province. The French agency quoted government fighters on the outskirts of the province as saying that “government forces ended their withdrawal at dawn” on Thursday, July 17.
As -Suwayda’s battles resulted in the situation of the country at a turn and a study described by experts as dangerous, and while some saw in the presidential discourse and the withdrawal decision a must to spare the country more destruction, commentators and activists considered that what was a complete defeat of the Syrian state in exchange for the Suwayda militants and their Israeli bombs, blaming the government in its management for the entire situation.
Sharia: We chose to prevail in the national interest
On July 14, the President’s Administration decided to send the army and the Internal Security Forces to the Suwayda Governorate to end local fighting between the Hijri Druze factions and between the Bedouin armed men who were kidnapped by a truck driver on the Suwayda road, Damascus, and developed into mutual kidnappings and then violent clashes between the two parties that claimed the lives of many people.
The government intervention was met with the welcoming of some of the Druze factions loyal to Damascus, but he was rejected by Al -Hijri and the pro -caused military council, and they launched an attack and planted ambushes of forces. Syrian army Supported by widespread Israeli air intervention that affected military vehicles and heavy weapons, and even the army leadership building in the capital, Damascus, which was caused by great damage after a violent Israeli raid alongside another raid targeting the vicinity of the presidential palace.
Al -Shara said that the situation was between two options, either “an open confrontation with Israel at the expense of security Druze..And either the Druze elders and sheikhs have been given to return to their senses, and to prevail in the national interest over those who want to discredit the people of the mountain.
While the President stressed that the state dominated the interest of the Syrians in avoiding destruction, he said that it succeeded in restoring stability and “expelling the factions outside the endosperm in As -Suwayda, despite the Israeli interventions” pledging to protect the Druze citizens and hold all those who offended them accountable and reject any endeavor aimed at dragging them to an external party or bringing about division.
The Syrian President directed his speech to Israel by saying, “We are not the one who fears the war,” stressing that “the Israeli entity has been seeking since the fall of the defunct regime to turn our land into the land of conflict and dismantle our people.”
“We are the children of this land and are able to overcome the attempts of the Israeli entity to tear us, as Syria is not a field of experiments of external conspiracies and the ambitions of others.”
The first rough speech towards Israel
The Sharia talk about the lack of fear of the war, and its preparation for it, is the first escalation of its kind in the diplomatic dialect towards Israel, in a way that reflects Tammala, Syria – which appears to be – from a firm Israeli intransigence and adheres to a torn vision of Syria, as Israeli officials have repeatedly announced.
The Syrian President and the staff of his government had repeatedly sent -since the forces to deter the aggression entered Damascus on December 8, after the escape of the head of the ousted regime, Bashar al -Assad -with lists of reassurance to Israel through the media and across regional and international parties regarding their lack of intention to change the rules of engagement or the content of the agreement to separate the forces in force with Israel since 1974, despite the latter’s announcement to end the agreement from one side, in conjunction with the incursion of the Israeli army Bashar System- in the buffer zone Ballan The occupied Syrian.
With every Israeli violation of the atmosphere of Syria and the targeting of the military assets of its army after changing the regime, Damascus was expressing its condemnation, but it adheres to the calm, and continues to provide guarantees to Israel not to work to target it, and even took steps to express good intentions, such as the re -belongings of the most famous Israeli spy in Syria Elie Cohen To Israel, and entering into multiple negotiation paths under the auspices of regional and international parties, in the hope of establishing an agreement to revive the 1974 forces separating the agreement.
But the accounts of the Syrian government, in particular, regarding As -Suwayda, faced more complicated challenges with Israel’s previous assertion that it would prevent government forces and any heavy weapons affiliated with it to this province and the whole of southern Syria. However, the calm – which prevailed in the situation before recent developments and direct negotiations with it, besides the statements of the American envoy to Syria Tom Barak on the unity of Syria – caused the wrong reading of the situation by Damascus, according to politicians and analysts.
Israel and the anesthesia of the American position of Damascus
With the Sharia president acknowledging that Israel sought to undermine the ceasefire in As -Suwayda, had it not been for American, Arab and Turkish mediation, he saw the Syrian political thinker Burhan Glion The Israelis “installed a trap of Syria” in light of recent events.
Ghalioun explained – in a television interview – that the Israelis “gave the impression at the beginning that they would not interfere with regard to the file of As -Suwayda, but in the end they turned the issue to achieving their goals that were clear before, but they reduced talking about it recently, which is the division of Syria and its dismantling and not allowing it to turn into a sovereign state capable of protecting its people and defending its interests.”
According to the Syrian thinker, what happened was mostly a response by Israel to its failure to extract the concessions that were hoping to extract it from the current Syrian government, after leaks stating that Sharia refused a demand to allow Israel to continue to carry out military operations in the country freely under a possible agreement.
Glaon said that the Israelis not only faced the Syrian forces in As -Suwayda after entering it, but also exploited them to achieve goals that have nothing to do with the endosperm and the Druze, which is to break the will of the new state, show its weakness in front of its people and in front of the forces that are not satisfied with the situation, and undermine its international credibility, commenting, “This is what the authority could not expect from the beginning and it seems that the words of the American envoy are numb.”
Defeat and government failure
In a vision that goes further from what Glion went to, activists and analysts saw that what happened in As -Suwayda, with the decision to withdraw the entire regular Syrian forces from the province, is a complete defeat for the state and its devices that express government failure in dealing with the overall situation, especially with the circulation of videos via social media that shows widespread governmental elements.
For his part, the Syrian writer and researcher Ahmed Aba Zaid considered that what happened was “a complete defeat, for the state, the people and the homeland, a complete failure, military, security and political, and a mistake in making a decision without studying its repercussions and the possibility of success in it, and complete betrayal of those who possibly resigned and criminalized and devoted isolation and division.”
Aba Zaid called in a post on his Facebook page to “hold the reasons,” adding, “The catastrophe, nor the death of hundreds of martyrs, and the division of society were not an imperative, but the result of decisions and accumulated paths that cannot bear the responsibility of one party.”
Aba Zaid and other analysts in their opinion are based on what began to reveal hours after the government forces left the endosperm, where (the Druze cleric) seemed to be the largest victorious, with reports that the militias loyal to him displaced the Bedouins from the Maqous neighborhood in the city, in parallel with the issuance of a statement on the spiritual presidency under his leadership calling for the opening of a border crossing with Jordan and a road towards the areas that are controlled by the so -called areas Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) northeastern Syria.
The Syrian Druze political activist Maher Sharaf al -Din published a picture of him with Al -Hijri at his host and commented on it by saying, “Shortly before in channels … hand in hand with the leader of victory,” referring to Al -Hijri.
For his part, the Syrian writer and researcher Abdul Rahman Al -Hajj focused the head of the Syrian memory position project concerned with documenting events Syrian revolution On the issue of violations committed by government elements in As -Suwayda, saying, “It is no longer acceptable to have unreasonable groups, the image of the state has become at stake at home and abroad, this is something that can be understood from everyone in the first months to rebuild the army, but this cannot be accepted anymore.”
“Every event must be a lesson, and this is one of the dangerous lessons for us,” Al -Hajj said in a post on his Facebook page.
Political maturity and confidence guide
On the other hand, other analysts believe that the Sharia president pledged to hold accountable those involved in violations against civilians in As -Suwayda, a correct choice, and they promised him an expression of the power of the state, not its weakness.
The Syrian writer and politician Wael Mirza considered that the presidency of the Republic chose to “exercise the highest levels of political and moral discipline, with a clear condemnation of any violations that afflict civilians, and the official pledge to investigate and accountability.”
“This behavior does not come weak or confused, as some may be illtuated, but rather a sign of political maturity and a guide to self -confidence, confirming that the Syrian state – which is fighting the battle to stabilize stability and the rule of law – does not need to be covered on errors, nor to ignore or justify.”
In this context, the official position, in light of this difficult and painful timing, is sent – according to Marsa – a dual message, the first of which is to all Syrians that their state does not compromise on justice, and is not hiding behind emotions when it comes to their rights. The second to the hostile forces is that those who possess the leadership and political initiative is the most capable of making a stable and worthy future.