Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 09.12.2024
Some people do not understand why the Islamists lead the mass struggle and not the left. To reply to this question, it is necessary to know the left’s position in the region.
The primary force on the left was the Stalinist parties. However, in 1948, the Stalinist parties dancing to Stalin’s pipe supported Israel in the war on the Palestinians, claiming that this was an anti-imperialist war. During the revolutionary struggle in Egypt during the Arab Spring, they supported the military coup of El-Sisi as well as Assad during the brutal attack on the revolution. Now that the uprising against the Assad regime has won, they claim that the rebels are agents of Turkey, Israel, and the USA.
This is what they wrote:
“In the meantime, the Israeli Communist Party (MKI) issued a statement yesterday (Saturday) warning against the disintegration of the Syrian state and its division among foreign interests. According to the announcement, “The dangerous developments in Syria reveal the depth of the international conspiracy against the Syrian people and their country, which has been going on for many years. The conspiracy against Syria, which has become visible to all, is based on cooperation between Turkey, Israel, and the United States and on the use of fundamentalist terrorist organizations, which in no way represent the interests of the Syrian people.
The party’s announcement emphasized that “the large-scale attack carried out by organizations affiliated with Al-Qaeda, equipped with modern technology and weapons, [is] evidence of international support”, especially from Turkey, whose “recent actions in Syria are intended to serve NATO’s interests in the region and to fulfill Erdogan’s ambition to revive the dream of the Ottoman Empire
According to MKI “The main target of this plot is Syria itself, to divide it as spoils between regional and international interests. At the head of these interests are Turkey’s ambitions to expand, as well as the interests of official Israel in the region. The terrorist organizations that are used as playthings in this plot serve external agendas only and do not work for the Syrian people, who are entitled to live with dignity in a free and united country.”[i]
This statement is a gross distortion of the facts. To begin with, no Islamist fighting organization is affiliated with Al-Qaeda. The leading organization, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militia(HTS), is an independent organization and does not serve Turkey, Israel, or the USA. It is the organization SNA that is serving Turkey. In addition, the Druze and the Kurds have joined the revolution. Israel occupied the Syrian part of the Hermon, and the US bombed the rebels, claiming they were ISIS. These are actions against Syria, ruled by the rebels.
“Israel has “seized” territory in Syrian-controlled areas of the Golan Heights, as its military warned Syrians living in five villages close to the Israeli-occupied portion of the strategic area to “stay home.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he ordered Israeli forces to grab a buffer zone in the Golan Heights established by a 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria after a lightning advance by Syrian opposition forces ended Bashar al-Assad’s rule.”[ii]
“The U.S. carried out a significant round of airstrikes on Islamic State targets on Sunday and warned the terror group against trying to regain strength in the country eon over 75 targets involving ISIS operatives and camps using B-52 bombers, F-15 fighter jets and A-10 close-air support attack aircraft “to ensure that ISIS does not seek to take advantage of the current situation to reconstitute in central Syria,” according to a statement from U.S. Central Command.”.[iii]
What a free and united Syria was the Assad regime?
“As the insurgents swept across Syria in just 10 days to bring an end to the Assad family’s 50-year rule, they broke into prisons and security facilities to free political prisoners and many of the tens of thousands of people who disappeared since the conflict began back in 2011…Syria’s prisons have been infamous for their harsh conditions. Torture is systematic, say human rights groups, whistleblowers, and former detainees. Secret executions have been reported at more than two dozen facilities run by Syrian intelligence, as well as at other sites“[iv].
Syria under Assad was controlled by Russian imperialism.
MAKI, the Stalinist party of Israel, is a traitor to the Syrian people and the Arab revolution!
Endnotes:
[i] https://hadash.org.il/%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%A8-%D7%94%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99-%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A0%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%95-%D7%9C%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A7-%D7%95%D7%94
[ii] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/8/israel-seizes-buffer-zone-in-syrias-golan-heights-after-al-assad-falls
[iii] https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/08/us-troops-stay-syria-shaheen-00193192
[iv] https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/syrian-rebels-free-prisoners-assads-notorious-dungeons-celebrate-116589865