Open Hand to All from the Beginning of the Crisis

 Since the outbreak of the ongoing crisis in Syria, largely imposed from the ewes and their masters, the Syrian Leadership has left no stone unturned as to satisfy more the Syrians and as to confront al-Qaeda Wahabi terrorists and cannibals from more than 80 countries. Actually, Syria long before the crisis has witnessed long strides and great achievements of reform, modernization, progress, development and openness. Some would say that the crisis was invented and enflamed as to stop and eliminate all the achieved in Syria since the late President Hafez Al-Assad’s Correction Movement.

H.E. President Bashar Al-Assad outlined in his recent inaugural landmark speech that the domestic factor has been partly part of the crisis citing some important and necessary measures and remedies:

• The state had extended on open hand to all from the beginning of the crisis.
• We will continue with dialogue and remain open to all ideas, opinions and perspectives especially since this dialogue should not be limited to the current circumstances.
• It needs to be a dialogue about the future of the country, the structure of the state and all aspects of our society related or unrelated to the crisis, and regardless of whether they preceded it or are a consequence of it.
• The dialogue will not include those who have proven their lack of patriotism by evading dialogue.
• The dialogue will not include those who bet on a change of the balance of power and when they lost, changed direction in the hope of not missing the train.
• The dialogue will not include those who claimed concern for the country whilst giving, through their positions cover to terrorists in exchange for favours or bribes received from abroad.
• As for the declared client forces, we do not engage in dialogue with them as Syrians but as representatives of the countries they swore allegiance to and became spokesmen for.
• Those who left as traitors, agents or corrupt individuals are of little concern; the country has been cleansed of those individuals and they no longer have a place or status among Syrians.
• Those who are waiting for a foreign solution to end the war are living in an illusion.
• The ‘political solution’, as it is called, can only be based on internal reconciliations, which save Syrian blood, restore security, and lead to the return of the displaced, the reconstruction of those areas and to thwarting any foreign schemes designed around internal shortcomings.
• National reconciliations are not contradictory with, neither do they replace, the national dialogue, which the state has started with various political forces and social actors.  
• The crisis has validated the strong social cohesion among Syrians and refuted the malicious claims about a civil war, which they tried to promote as a political cover for their foreign aggression with internal tools.
• We have surpassed the concepts of common or shared living, which prevailed before the events to a stage of full integration and social cohesion among Syrians.  
• Today, there is no coexistence or tolerance, but full integration and harmony.

Dr. Mohammad Abdo Al-Ibrahim