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Syria, center of the regional war
Al-Riyadh Editorial
Published in Alriyadh on 26 - 03 - 2014

We may not be surprised by any development occurring in the Syrian yard due to that it has become a region open for all possibilities. In spite of that running the war has been internal, in general, before being developed due to the intervention of Iran, its ally Hezbollah and militias from Iraq. The others who are fighting against the regime have been divided and formed groups that adopted names that have not been known before such as daesh (i.e. The Islamic State in Iraq & Sham) and Al-Nusra which killed many Sunni Muslims more than the same killed by the regime's army which led to the rise of doubts about their objectives. The Free Army has been, as well, suffering from conflicts. The declarations of Mr. Al-Jarba of that his army is fighting Iran on behalf of the Arabs remind us by Saddam Hussein who had considered that Iraq is the Eastern Arab gate for blocking the Iranian invasion. However, what is going on in Syria has transformed to wars with various faces and shapes.
The Syrian regime is trying to drag Israel into a war through either smuggling arms to Hezbollah which become discovered by the Israeli intelligence Agency that destroys them before a mutual silence between it and Syria or through launching some minor clashes from Golan which leads to receiving a strong Israeli response through destroying the missiles launchers or other targets. There are some declarations stating that Al-Assad is running a full agreement or understanding with Israel through which he has provided it with written guarantees of that there shall be no attack against it. Thus, the running clashes between them are just for fooling the others through a maneuver agreed about earlier.
The new matter in events development is that Turkey has shot down a Syrian (military) aircraft in a way that tensed the front between the two countries. This means that the situation may move towards a worse scenario if new breaches occur close to the Turkish borders. Moreover, due to Turkey's location close to the Black Sea which is witnessing a new crisis about Ukraine between Russia and the West resulting from that Russia combined Crimea to its lands; Turkey does not want any action done by it in Syria to be interpreted as a challenge to the Russians or an exploitation of the current situation. However, Turkey may find itself obliged to adopt any procedure if Al-Assad practiced any military challenges against it. Such intervention has not been desired by Russia which does not want to be a part of the crisis in spite of its being recursive in the condition and its consequences.
Syria has become a model for international and regional battles which are run inside it for "Settling of accounts" with the foes. In this regard, the most prominent phenomena may be the unlimited support (to the Syrian regime) by Iraq under the control of Al-Maliki who has become a deserted man in Iraq with no friendship relations with his neighbors except for Iran. Thus, He has considered the Syrian revolution, since its start, a danger on him which represents a coming alternative that may lead to breaking his alliance with Iran if the Sunnis power in Syria increase and add a support to the power of Iraqi Sunnis. This man does not think about the principles of coexistence and abandoning the intervention into an event in a country where he is supposed to be neutral. In a similar way to Al-Assad, Al0Maliki is being moved by the motives of his sect. This represents the reason behind the agreement and cohesion between these two regimes.
The Syrian crisis may last for years and may be extended to Iraq and Lebanon as long as the possibilities are raising such dimensions.
The reality of what had happened earlier
Torki Abdulla Al-Sadiri
The last Arab summit that I attended with the Arab Media Delegation has been in Qatar. The start that we read its news and heard briefs about its requirements suggestions has provided us with a lot of optimism and hope of that the Arab Summit, regardless of its place, shall be the only action capable of imposing the required objective behaviors and opening of the opportunities of rapprochement between all members. Unfortunately, this has not happened as it had never happened earlier.
All of us still remember how the strangest governor or leader in the whole Arab history known by "Muammar Ghaddaf" used to force all leaders to delay the start until he becomes awake enough to attend the meeting! However, he had received a reproof from some leaders whose characters do not accept such mental deterioration. People in Qatar had been satisfied then when Gaddafi's life had ended in a bad way.
One of the funny incidents in Qatar's Summit has been that speeches of states representatives used to be too long in a way that leaves no time for an objective dialogue that improves the level of relationships but this has not happened. What has never been expected then was that Mohammad Morsi, the Egyptian President, needed around an hour while most of the leaders who delivered their speeches earlier spoke for period of time ranging between 10 to 15 minutes only. He had been the only one who had extended the time up to continuous sixty minutes full of exaggerations and explanation of his state's situation as if it is witnessing no problem at all and enjoying multiple aspects of development.
Where is the reality in such close past? There has been nothing of this then, especially if we consider that what had happened in Qatar's Summit had not been a retreat but continuation of disputes. We know, as well, that there have been some meetings which witnessed an expression of concerns and annoyance in regard to the reality of the summits, then, which witnessed an interest in practice of speech delivery away from renovation.
There is no doubt the State of Kuwait enjoy high morals together with its being a society of permanent connection with the positive good relationships that does accept the domination of any disputes. However, the problem of the Arab World is the various reasons for disputes in addition to the worse aspect represented by including the religion through imposing a special worship that include political belongingness stronger than the doctrine belongingness together with refusing the others.
The Arab World is in Kuwait today for renewing the Summit meeting. We hope that there will be an objective trend of a group of conscious concepts and rational thought for paving the way for the realistic and logic Islamic relationships in the future.


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