Hypocrisy, politicization & investment of terrorism
From the very beginning of the crisis in Syria, the US has been using terrorism as a tool to prolong the crisis and prevent the realization of a peaceful solution that preserves Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. It is an established fact that the US created Da’esh and facilitated the arrival of its members to Syria and Iraq through its regional tools represented by Turkey and the Gulf states which have been providing terrorists with financial and logistic support to kill Syrian people and destroy Syria’s infrastructure.
US President Donald Trump has said more than once that his country’s forces which occupy parts of Syrian territory will pull out from them, but this hasn’t happened yet because his administration wants to continue investing in terrorism in Syria and Iraq in order to carry out its agenda in the region in complicity with Turkey and militias in the Syrian al-Jazeera area.
The so-called international coalition, which Washington created without Security Council approval, continues to support Daesh (ISIS), as it has transported leaders and members of the terrorist organizations more than once. The US cooperation with Daesh has included a deal with the terrorists by which Washington received tens of tons of gold in exchange for allowing Daesh leaders and members to leave areas in Deir Ezzor, with US army helicopters transporting the gold under cover of night. Some Council members continue to ignore the war crimes committed by the US-led illegal coalition in Syria in collusion with their proxy militias, particularly the SDF, crimes which include the complete destruction Raqqa city and killing and displacing its residents, in addition to the coalition’s crimes in Deir Ezzor, and the forced detainment of tens of thousands of civilians in al-Rukban camp in al-Tanf area.
Terrorism has been used as a tool by its sponsors and financers, and from time to time they recycle it to utilize it in one area or another, as proven by the incident when Algerian authorities arrested hundreds of terrorists on its borders with Nigeria, and after interrogating the terrorists, it was revealed that they had come from Aleppo’s countryside. The question is who transported these terrorists from Syria to the Algerian-Nigerian borders? The answer is simply the US and its allies as they wanted to invest terrorism in another area to achieve colonialist objectives.
Since the beginning of the crisis, the Turkish regime has been facilitating the transfer of terrorists through its territories and into Syria, sponsoring all sorts of international terrorists from all over the world. The Turkish regime has yet to implement its commitments as per the Sochi agreement regarding the removal of terrorist organizations from the de-escalation zone in Idleb.
The selective approach of certain Council members constitutes support for terrorism, rallying against the Syrian state, and obstruction of its efforts for protecting its citizens and combating terrorism. There are politicized approaches of some UN Security Councils member states regarding the frequent requests for holding Council meetings whenever Syria takes legal measures to protect its citizens from the practices of terrorist groups. What would be the Western states options for dealing with a terrorist organization containing thousands of terrorists if it seizes one of the Western cities and commits atrocious crimes against its people and targets other cities with shells and rockets? No country in the world would submit to terrorist threats or to endangering its citizens’ lives or usurping its sovereign and constitutional right to defend its land and people.
Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization exploits the failure of the Turkish regime to abide by its commitments under the de-escalation zone agreement and the Astana and Sochi understandings to impose its control over Idleb and create a terrorist hotbed used to blackmail the Syrian state.
There are no “arbitrary attacks on civilians” in Idleb; there are military operations conducted against Jabhat al-Nusra, a terrorist entity that includes tens of thousands of foreign terrorists sent by certain countries’ governments to Syria to fight with groups that carry various names that have nothing to do with Syria, yet some like to call these foreign terrorists “moderate armed Syrian opposition ”.
Al-Nusra terrorists are using hundreds of thousands of civilians in Idleb as human shields, committing the most heinous crimes, and targeting civil facilities including hospitals, factories and schools, some of which they turned into centers for the detention, torture, and murder of those who reject their takfiri mentality. Al-Nusra targets towns and cities close to Idleb with rockets and shells, claiming the lives of dozens of civilians, most of them women and children, in Aleppo, Hama, Lattakia, Mhardeh, al-Suqailibiye, and other areas.
Idleb is a Syrian city and the Syrian state is the one in charge of protecting the city and its Syrian citizens from terrorism and the UNSC’s duty is to assist it in doing so.
Ending the suffering of Syrians in Idleb requires stopping hypocrisy and politicization and investment in terrorists and manipulating peoples’ destinies and lives. Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization, which controls the majority of Idlebcity, continues its aggressions on the neighboring regions and sites of the army, and it is the state’s right and duty to protect its citizens from terrorism. The international community should help the Syrian government and army in the battle against terrorists in Idleb and everywhere in the Syrian territory to restore security and stability to all Syrian territories.
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