The majority is but the real opposition
To oppose for a just cause is a moral, human and ethical right and even a duty; it is an opposition for more reforms, construction and building. In some countries, oppositions form shadow governments to keep an open eye on their respective governments, like in the United Kingdom, for example. One here can’t but to wonder whether Mr. David Cameron would allow the British opposition to declare a war of attrition against his own elected government and the British at large!
Unfortunately, the question of opposition isn’t so far ripe enough in our beloved Syria. There are tens of oppositions; the majority of them base their opposition on their own selfish interests -mostly greedy personal ones- or on sectarian and narrow blind minded divisions and affiliations to foreigners. Thus, there are those who are remote-controlled and affiliated to France, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, US ..etc. here one would too wonder whether such oppositions are different from al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist groups, given the unlimited support, training, harboring and arming by the said countries. Thus, a case of two faces of the same coin exists! Hence the goal is but to oppose the mere existence of the integrated, united, sovereign and independent Syria, though they call themselves ”friends of Syria”! Consequently, the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius’s recent statement that ” it is Islamist groups that risk gaining ground” is but the result for such reckless policy by these countries; and as to evade further deterioration, Fabius , contrary to what he desires, and all those dancing to his boring tunes, should refrain from pushing his noses in Syria’s domestic affairs. Countries which send troops abroad to combat terrorists should neither support terrorists nor train, mushroom, harbor them as to slaughter the Syrians.
Other forms of opposition have their own contradictory statements, zigzag tactics; most of them wait in vigil for a change in the balance of power! The Syrian Arab Army military boots, recently filled with flowers and raised over heads, can surely give the answer.
The majority of the Syrians who defend their country and support their legitimate government ,institution, and whose main objectives are but stability, unity, security, welfare do meet other forms of the national Syrian opposition whether those represented in the government, inside Syria, and some outside like the Chairman of National Coordination Body abroad, Haitham Manaa with his strong rejection of foreign meddling in the Syrian internal affairs. Such oppositions stand against the destruction of their country, the slaughtering of the Syrians, they do oppose corruption, bribery, looting and every form of immorality. The role of the two prominent opposition figures inside the government is indeed vital and constructive in the interest of Syria and Syrians.
The bosom of Syria, the caring mother of every Syrian, is ,however, open for every Syrian, thanks to the big heart of President Bashar Al-Assad. All the Syrian citizens, who legally or illegally left their homeland because of the events, are urged to come back, instructions were given that all Syrian opposition forces abroad, who want to take part in the national dialogue, are to enter Syria regardless of the documents, the Higher Judiciary Council’s has taken a decision to halt prosecutions against opposition political forces and figures who take part in the national dialogue.
Hopefully, such positive developments and the recently formed local committees for dialogue, not to mention the remarkable achievements by the heroes of the Syrian Army against the terrorists, would pave the way for emerging out victorious from the foreign tailored crisis imposed on Syria.
Dr. Mohammad Abdo Al-Ibrahim