How will the Syrian Baath leave Syria? Is it like the Iraqi Baath left Iraq before falling in the quotas trap and the Iranian space? Today, the situation in the Land of the Two Rivers cannot be compared to the tragedy in Syria. However, what is common between the two is the daily killing – despite the different rates – and the fire of division which might consume the land surrounding the Tigris and the Euphrates. There are two populations, or two human blocs including around 40 million Arabs, threatened with death, liquidation, retaliation operations and booby-trapped cars. But the difference is that many among the Syrians are hunted down by cannon shells and aircraft missiles in their own homes, whereas Iraq has already experienced civil war and is sliding towards it once again, even if there is no decision to that effect. The destruction of two countries the size of Iraq and Syria and enjoying their human depth and geography – which has always been averse to regional roles – would provoke cracks in the walls of the Arab home. This would happen at a time when this home is already being shaken by a spring that started off with slogans and transformed into slaughters and cleansing operations that have almost turned into cleansing affecting geographic unity and the revolutionaries. On a Black Tuesday in Syria, two hundred people died, half of whom in a massacre which targeted the students of Aleppo University. On a Black Wednesday in Iraq, dozens died and two hundred people were wounded, while mobile explosions are striking the heart of Kirkuk. Which message is being addressed to the university through its targeting, and which message is being addressed to the Kurds in Kirkuk, in light of the rift between the Iraqi government and President of the Kurdistan Province Massoud al-Barzani, and at a time when the division ball is returning to the court of the escalating crisis caused by the protests and Nouri al-Maliki's insistence on the existence of a hidden conspiracy to topple him? In parallel to the injection of sectarianism into some of the courses of the Syrian war, the ghost of division is becoming stronger the more the fighting and the killing rounds continue, especially under the headline of deterring the "cosmic conspiracy." Between two Baath parties and after them, there is destruction, not advancement and reconstruction. There is division, not unification. There is bestiality, not urbanization, despite the vast expansion of the cities. There are slaughters, burning, amputation, the killing of children, raping of women and detonation of funerary convoys in the name of deterring the new and old conspiracy. But this is fine, since victory is coming following the slaughtering of two people! And some dark melodrama is also fine: What is wrong with seeing the stay of the head of the regime for whose eradication the revolution erupted? As part of the dialogue of the deaf, Russia wants the Syrian opposition to present its ideas for dialogue with the regime. It is as though Kremlin has not yet heard why the revolution erupted and has not seen the opposition's statements. It is as though sixty thousand dead were a human surplus, and that the page was turned. But the greatest oddity in Putin's chronic paranoia policy is the condemnation of the West's and the Americans' hiding behind the Russian position, which closed the Security Council's doors to "morally" protect it against any suspicions of determining the fate of populations and toppling regimes by force from the outside. Also within the triangle of the blind and deaf is Iran, which is optimistic about a course for Syria "to render it a stronger and more stable country after overcoming the problems and crises," does not perceive the killing of a thousand Syrian per week as being anything but one of the facets of a temporary crisis, while what is constant is cooperation between the two country's regimes and their deterrence of the "conspiracies." This is why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is praying for the end of the "bad circumstances." Between the blind and the deaf, a question is being reiterated in regard to the core of the new Russian-American rapprochement, which could be wagered on to reopen the doors of the Security Council before a solution. Indeed, Washington and Moscow both agree over the fact that the solution should be political, but differ over the fate of the head of the Syrian regime. As for the other facet of the predicament, it is the opposition's and the revolutionaries' puzzlement towards the American administration's intentional disregarding of the fact that the command in Damascus will not back down. So what solution can be reached in light of its insistence on a military settlement that will never come? And because it will not come, the season of suicide-bombers is flourishing with the blind and the deaf, amid the retreat of funerary scenes. As for the killing machine, it is still active, along with all the horrors that are plowing the soil and planting the seeds of mini-states. Is this not the current situation in the East, to prevent any party from having the upper, cleanest and purest hand? And to those who are unconvinced about the "human surplus" theory in which the leaders of the land of civilizations believe, they should read the story of Syrian national Muhammad Melci, who fled the Yarmouk camp in Damascus to the Ain al-Helweh camp in South Lebanon, before ending his predicament between the two camps by hanging himself. Is the entire East of civilizations committing suicide?
