Between the clarion and the Jihad, the Syrian crisis is taking odd political turns. America is thus fearing the despair of the regime in Damascus, while Israel is showing compassion towards the besieged Syrians amidst the massacre! Indeed, according to Washington, only despair would push the Syrian regime to use chemical weapons, while the victims are not just from the Free Army and the Al-Nusra Front. As for Israeli President Shimon Peres who spoke about the massacre, he did not go as far as to address a warning to the Arab League, saying “either you interfere to stop it, or we will act save the Syrians". The predicament of the brave people in Syria prevents us from laughing over the public relations masquerade practiced by Israel around the world through its show of sympathy towards the victims, at a time when its own victims are dying with a racist weapon that is no less fascist than the Arab dictatorships which instilled new ideologies of hatred and sectarian bigotry. This reached the point where the collapse of the authority can provoke the division of nations into mini-states, on ethnical or religious-sectarian bases. Two years into the Syrian revolution epopee, Barack Obama's administration discovered what Kremlin had already figured out, i.e. that Bashar al-Assad should sit with the opposition, including the fighting brigades, in order to end the tragedy. It is as though American Secretary of State John Kerry, who was convinced by his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov of the magical solution, has not yet heard about Al-Assad's insistence on the oppositionists' relinquishing of their weapons, or the proposals presented by the Syrian National Coalition and the Free Army for a dialogue that would complete the burial of the regime. Once again, Kerry did not come up with a settlement, just like the Russians who are renewing their protection of the regime and insisting on morally condemning the opposition which they are accusing of undermining the chances of dialogue. They are trying to give the world the impression they wish to protect international law and reject any interference in the affairs of an independent state, but are falling in the schizophrenia trap. Hence, the Al-Nusra Front is said to include millions of fighters, while the Syrian people – or most of them –is said to include groups of thousands of armed men. As for the French, they are finding out that the only way towards negotiations would be through a balance of power between the regime and its opponents, in order for it to become convinced that its victory is impossible to achieve. And while it is said that the opposition's victory is also impossible – despite the recognition by the American intelligence chief of the astuteness of Al-Nusra Front that is on the United States' terrorism list – it does not seem that the Americans, the Russians or the Iranians who are allied with Al-Assad's regime are able to promote the "no winner, no loser" equation. The first reason for that is the impossibility of this equation within both the regime and the opposition. Indeed, the first has reached a level of schizophrenia that it pushing it to believe that Syria is stronger after two years of killings, massacres and wide-scale destruction, that it can eradicate the opposition as an intruder on the Syrian map and claim to be sacrificing the lives of 70,000 Syrians to achieve victory in the cosmic war. The "no winner, no loser" formula is also off the table among the oppositionists, considering that they are not fighting to achieve partnership with the dictatorship. So what choice is there if the logic of dialogue according to the regime's specification collapses, at a time when it is unlikely that the French's efforts to draw up a list featuring the names of the interlocutors on behalf of the authority will be accepted by the regime and the National Coalition? Among the Syrians, some are reformulating the question as follows: Which interlocutor will be appointed by the regime to announce its death? Also among them, some are seeing the repetition of the vicious circle whenever it turns out that the transitional government card is yet another means to divide the armed opposition, after it has toppled the meetings of the National Coalition. Once again, the West is washing its hands of the abandonment of the Syrian civilians between the regime's aircrafts and missiles, and the relief of Al-Nusra Front. But is there a third option? UN-Arab Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is still warning against the Somali model, while Israel is not excluding the establishment of an Alawite entity. In the meantime, it is hastening its mobilization – as per its announcements - in preparation for any wide-scale confrontation, as though the Syrian regime is collapsing tomorrow or as though it is ready to lure Hezbollah into this confrontation. Between the regime's rockets and the Al-Nusra Front's relief, the leaders of the Coalition are differing over the ghost of division and whether or not the transitional government will fuel it. The Front has no time to waste with political ambushes, and is consequently "paving the road and filling its holes for the Muslims." For its part, Washington is busy pressuring the opposition to overcome its disputes, while Kremlin is busy lurking for its breaches to ruin its reputation. As for Tehran's silence following a diplomatic campaign aiming to promote the Iranian formula for the solution in Syria, it is a temporary retreat, because the regime's arming has not stopped and is only missing Jihad in favor of Al-Assad! With a clarion in the face of Jihad, the friction lines are ready for wide-scale escalation and infighting. In the meantime, Washington and Moscow will be revising an amended version of the fictitious solution for the stillborn dialogue.
