Assad or the US-Israel? We say all of them are accomplices

What the US academic and UN adviser Jeffrey Sachs said at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum about the war that has continued in Syria for 14 years was received like prompters rushing to the aid of those lamenting the Assad regime. As if the speaker's being American reinforces the truth of what he says all the more. As if the fact that the speaker is blaming both the US and Israel makes it even more credible. No one even asks what the speaker's quarrel with the US or Israel is, or why and how it is that the US can speak so openly and harshly about Israel.

He said the Syrian war was started not by Assad but by the US and Israel, and so we are asked to forget so many events that took place over 14 years before the world's eyes and right at our doorstep, and to see from where Sachs wants us to look. What is it? That Israel asked the US in 2005 for the overthrow of regimes in the Middle East opposed to it, and that only in 2011 did Obama act on this and set the Arab Spring process in motion and overthrow so many regimes thereby. The war in Syria, too, took place on that basis.

That is, Israel asked the US to overthrow the Assad regime. And everything that has happened for 14 years happened as a result of the US effort to overthrow Assad. So Assad, who minded his own business and had no concern but to offer service, prosperity, and happiness to his country and citizens, has no fault at all. He did not massacre the children in Daraa, he did not open fire on the people trying to claim the funerals of their own children, he did not subject hundreds of thousands of people to torture and barbaric slaughter in Sednaya, he did not criminally massacre 1 million of his own people, who set out asking for a little reform, with cannons, barrel bombs, and aid obtained from Russia and Iran, and as a result of these massacres 12 million people were not driven from their homes and homeland. And five million of them we did not see in our own country, we did not witness what they have lived through for 14 years.

Very clearly Sachs is mocking people's intelligence and talking nonsense.

But, but, are we not now to be accused by the mourners of the fallen Assad regime, who are ready to console themselves with Sachs's lullabies, of "covering up the US-Israel role in the Arab Spring" for having said this? Is not someone else to label us as "Islamist Evangelicals" and thereby also assign us the role of defending the US and even Israel?

With so many gullible customers for the nonsense Sachs sells, what is he to do? Is he not to enjoy it and fleece them with appetite?

For one thing, their chronic hatred of Islamists never ends. Seeing Islamists together with the US is their greatest fantasy. Islamists drive the US out of Afghanistan, inflict on both the US and Israel the greatest rout in their history in Gaza, uproot them, and these people are still aroused by the possibility of the sin of a US-Islamist alliance. Not enough; everywhere in the Islamic world right now, Islamists are coded as the strongest potential enemies of the US-supervised system, and are in prisons, in exile, under torture. If they had a little fairness, a little sense, they would see that Islamism is the only nightmare and the only alternative of today's US-Israel-axis Zionist system, but where is that eye, where is that intention.

I will say: you heedless ones! What we are doing here is not covering up the role of the US and Israel; if you consulted your reason a little, you would see that it is, on the contrary, exposing their role all the more. If you believe the US's role was to overthrow Assad, then of course you have been lulled to sleep for 14 years. And now that the Syrian people have made their revolution in the truest sense, which sent Israel jumping, panicking, and into a flurry, you try to attribute it to the US and taint it. Does not Israel's present flurry wake you up, make the penny drop?

We had asked a simple question: The US wanted Assad overthrown in Syria 14 years ago and has been unable to do it until now? It piled up so many weapons there, thousands of truckloads and cargo planes full of weapons. Had it given a tenth of them to the real regime opponents in Syria, the Assad regime would have fallen in the very first year. A little arithmetic, a little reason and understanding. But the US never wanted to bring down Assad during this process. In fact it had no role in the Arab Spring process either. The role of the US was in reversing the Arab Spring process, that is, in overthrowing it through coups. Because all those revolutions were anti-Israel. But all the regimes that came through coups were calibrated to reinforce Israel's old comfortable security zone. In Syria, above all, a similar Arab Revolution was prevented from happening. The uprising that took place was a link in the Arab Spring chain, but the satanic intervention of the US and Israel was brought into play in suppressing it, and it kept the Assad regime standing until December 8, 2024. Because the revolutionary forces that were Assad's alternative would be a greater nightmare for Israel, and so indeed it turned out.

Let me explain it as if to a fool: There is no covering up or ignoring of the role of the US and Israel in my article; on the contrary, there is a further underlining of their satanic roles. The US and Israel are accomplices in all the massacres that have taken place in Syria for 14 years. When the US gave thousands of truckloads of weapons to the SDF forces, it was not aiming at a regime change with them. On the contrary, it was aiming at a structure that, in cooperation with Assad, would prevent the people from coming to power in Syria and, on the other hand, pose a threat to Türkiye.

There is no whitewashing of the US and Israel on the Syrian field here; on the contrary, there is an explanation that their crimes are far greater than what Sachs tries to tell us. We are in no way deviating from justice or exaggerating. While those tortures, those oppressions, those genocides against his own people were being carried out in Sednaya, Tadmur, and Homs, the US was present in the field with all its power. It turned a blind eye to all of Assad's massacres. If it had wished, when the whole Syrian people, apart from a small minority, had risen against Assad, it could have toppled Assad with a flick of the finger; it did not. Because those who would come in Assad's place were the Syrian people, the Islamists, and they were a real danger to Israel.

Meanwhile, let us not fail to say that Wesley K. Clark, whom Jeffrey Sachs cites as a witness for his claims, is a witness of the kind where the juice seller's witness is the grape-juice maker. Let us also note that there are allegations against him of lying, fraud, and especially every kind of manipulation on US-China stock exchange lines. Whoever is curious can do a quick internet search and see everything.