News of the day when the Arabs fell into the trap of Hafez al-Assad

On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty on March 26, 1979, US President Donald Trump has chosen to announce the United States' recognition of the sovereignty of the United States. Israel on the occupied Syrian Golan. This paradox is only evidence that some people took advantage of the war of October 1973 to return to their lands, and there were some who used the war to win their people in Syria, Lebanon, Lebanese and Palestinians.

Because of the Syrian regime's emphasis on the takeover of Lebanon and the control of the Palestinian decision, the American recognition of what Israel wants, namely that the Golan be an Israeli territory and be an integral part of it. defense of his security.

The 1979 Israeli-Egyptian treaty became a reality after Anwar Sadate's decision to travel to Jerusalem in November 1977, where he delivered a speech to the Knesset: "I have come to you to bring peace to the people. brave, not the peace of the people. " Anwar al-Sadat does not balance all of the Middle East. He paid dearly what he did during his assassination in 1981. But no doubt, no matter what the assessment of the man, the other Arabs did not understand the meaning Arab states emerging from the conflict with Israel and its consequences. More clearly, there was no Arab understanding of the meaning of Anwar Sadat's visit to Jerusalem without going into the positive aspects of such a movement or its disadvantages. Most of the Arabs at the time dealt with the issue without understanding or understanding its dimensions.

Sadat finally imposed a reality that needed to be handled in a practical way, far from any form of romance and amusement – the words of tears about the division of Arab rank. Well, what did Sadat do? So what? What is the point of crying over the ruins and seeking to isolate Egypt, unless solidarity with Hafez al-Assad, the Syrian Minister of Defense in 1967, is needed for that? state of war and the peace that reigns in the infinity continue.

What can not be ignored in the American justification for the recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan is the reference to the Iranian threat to Israel by Syrian territory.

Unfortunately, the understanding by the Arabs of the significance of the Exodus of Egypt could have done nothing under the threats of the Syrian and Iraqi Baathists who suddenly agreed to isolate him. Egypt, even though there was nothing that united them. What the Arabs are paying today, it is the price to pay to isolate Egypt because of the signing of a peace treaty with Israel. Egypt has been isolated and the headquarters of the League of Arab States has been transferred from Cairo to Tunisia. Has this contributed to the liberation of Palestine or other occupied Arab territories, in the forefront of which is the Golan?

Nobody asked in 1977, during the Egyptian president's visit to Jerusalem, did Anwar Sadat have any other choice than to go to peace with Israel at the end? Muammar Gaddafi and Hafez al-Asad took the initiative and dragged Algeria, South Yemen and the PLO, who are on their side, to establish a "front of resistance and confrontation" to which Iraq has quickly adhered, who first acted with great caution before putting himself at the service of the Syrian regime. It is unclear until today that Iraq has taken up an allied stance of the Syrian regime while it was to leave Hafez al-Asad to occupy itself. Anwar Sadat, who had fought in Syrian political language and the October war in Egyptian political language.

Over all these years, the Egyptian president has found himself in an enviable position. Moreover, no Arab party could help Egypt, which experienced a serious economic crisis in early 1977 that provoked internal disturbances that the army was to be used to contain. My mind is concerned about saving Egypt, the spirit of Anwar Sadat and the spirit of another kind, that of Hafiz al-Asad, concerned about the continuation of the state of war and the non-peace in the region. He chose Arabs threatened and extorted to submit to Syrian and Iraqi bahites. Have simply been victims of this spirit that never wanted to reclaim the Golan, but to exchange it.

We are witnessing today the Arab fall in the trap of Hafiz al-Asad, who then knew how to manipulate Muammar Gaddafi and Huari Boumediene and to threaten Yasser Arafat, at a time when South Yemen was only one of the few. a Soviet instrument. It is not yet known how Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and Saddam Hussein fell into the arms of Hafiz al-Asad and played his game instead of asking a very simple question. This question is why was the 1973 war? Has anyone thought that the war of October or October would lead to the liberation of Palestine?

Sadat was using the results of the war in a certain direction, while the Syrian regime was using it, which instead of replacing his old alliance with Egypt by a new alliance with Iran from Iran. One side and tighten control over Lebanon from the other.

What can not be ignored in the US justification for the recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan is the reference to the Iranian threat of Israel from Syrian territory. Iran has taken the region to another place, not a beneficiary, to another opinion, only the Israeli right

The US position to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights reveals a flagrant bias for the Israeli right wing, which is betting on the creation of a new fait accompli on the ground. The first ally of this Israeli right seems to be the expansionist project of Iran. This Iranian project has rendered Arab interest in the Palestinian cause very weak, especially in the shadow of the fall of Iraq and what has happened and is still happening in Syria, in addition to the great change in balance of forces in Lebanon and the situation in Yemen.

What can not be ignored in the US justification for the recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan is the reference to the Iranian threat of Israel from Syrian territory. Iran has transported the region to another location, benefiting only from the Israeli right wing, which is backed by an American administration that attaches no value to international law and Security Council resolutions.

Forty years after the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian treaty in those days of 1979, it is clear that the Arabs were victims of the trap set by Hafez al-Assad. Palestinians were the first victims of this fall. When the Camp David Accords were signed in September 1978, one of those deals concerned Palestinians, at a time when the number of settlers in the West Bank was limited, not hundreds of thousands, like today. .

As for Syria, it is profitable to take it in the arms of Iran, far from Egypt. Hafez Assad was a victim of his belief that he could practice with Iran the game he had played with other Arabs. The difference between him and Anwar Sadat is that the dead Egyptian president was interested in Egypt and in the restoration of the occupied Egyptian territories in 1967, while Father Assad was devoting calm to the occupied Golan and was turning to victory against Lebanon and the Palestinians …

Khairallah Khairallah – The Arabs of London