In its last resolutions regarding Syria, the Arab League seemed to be proceeding along a parallel course that cannot intersect with the ongoing developments in the country, while it was unable to catch up with the wheel of the security solution that was hastened by the regime in Damascus. Indeed, the call to dispatch Arab and international peacekeeping troops under the tutelage of the United Nations appears to be impossible to meet for the time being, due to the definite Russian-Chinese veto which will prevent its ratification, in addition to the required Syrian approval of the step. On the other hand, settling for calls to open contact channels with the Syrian opposition under the pretext that it is not unified, came below the expectations of the oppositionists to earn clear recognition by the mother Arab institution of their legitimate representation of the Syrian people. As to the threat related to some Arab countries' possible armament of the opposition “in case the killing continues,” it marks the prolongation of the presumption of innocence offered to the Syrian regime for free. In the meantime, this regime is doing the only thing it masters, i.e. proceeding with the killing which will not stop because this regime cannot – based on its security structure – coexist with the opposition, whichever one that may be, without crushing it as it is currently trying to do. If we were to take the example of what happened in Libya, we would see that the world rushed to help its people when Gaddafi's regime mobilized its army and arsenal to attack the liberated Benghazi, thus preventing an inevitable massacre. How is that any different from what is currently happening in Homs, Hama, Daraa and Al-Zabadani? Is the Syrian military machine's implication in the methodic destruction of entire neighborhoods over the heads of their inhabitants less violent, brutal and threatening than what was done and what was meant to be done by Gaddafi? True, the Arab and international forces that rushed to help the Libyans did so based on a Security Council assignment. But what can be done if Moscow and Beijing are preventing the international organization from carrying out its obligations toward the Syrian civilians? Will the world stand idle and continue to give Al-Assad's regime one deadline after the other? The Friends of the Syrian People will meet in Tunisia within a few days to discuss the possible bypassing of the Security Council predicament to offer direct support to the oppositionists. What is hoped is to see the convened putting an end to their reluctance and agreeing over the fact that there is no solution except for the armament of the opposition to handle the great flaw affecting the balance of powers – i.e. between the tanks, the cannons and the aircrafts on one hand and the protests on the other – and the establishment of safe zones inside Syrian soil to protect the civilians from a regime that is waging a wide-scale war against its people. It is also hoped that the convened will exit the prevailing state of loss on the Arab, regional and international levels and present practical solutions to lead the country out of its crisis, considering that no one can predict the outcome of the situation in light of the violence endured by the Syrians at the hands of the biggest oppression machine in the region, and without any deterrence. No one should be duped by the “plastic surgeries” that the regime in Damascus has launched by announcing the imminent staging of a referendum over a new Constitution which was said to be free from any reference to a leading role by the Baath party, as though this party was the one currently ruling Syria and was not a frame without any prerogatives, used as a cover for the rule of the individual and the family. It is also as though the Syrians and the world are expected to believe that the decisions in Syria are adopted by the partisan committees and constitutional institutions, which are merely fictional and settle for applauding or nodding in approval to validate the decisions of the president and his entourage. The oppression and the killing will continue and even escalate, while the international institutions are still chained. Why the reluctance to rescue the Syrians from outside the United Nations?
