Kassioun Editorial 1171: The Iranian Attack and “Tom & Jerry”
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Two opinions are being promoted in some media outlets, and within Syrian political and general public circles, regarding the Iranian attack on “Israel” on April 14. The first opinion considers what happened to be mere theatrics directed by the US an…
Kassioun Editorial 1170: The “Israeli” Predicament is Deepening Daily
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Over 190 days have passed since the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation started, followed by the barbaric aggressive war on the Gaza Strip, and all that is happening in parallel of criminal retaliatory behavior in the West Bank and strikes on Syria and Lebano…
Kassioun Editorial 1169: In What Direction Should We Move Internally?
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The most important starting point for getting out of the Syrian tragedy is knowing the reasons that led us into it, and particularly knowing and understanding the mistakes of the past and learning from them so as not to repeat them. Only then can we…
Kassioun Editorial 1168: A Repeated Mistake is… a Decision!
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There is a novelist who said: “When you repeat a mistake… it is a decision”. This is true of the behavior of successive Syrian governments in the way they deal with the IMF and the World Bank formulas for the countries of the Global South, as there…
Kassioun Editorial 1167: “If a Sinner Gives You News, Verify its Truthfulness”
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On March 22, a website named “al-Markazia” published an article entitled: “A paper of an American-Syrian understanding paving the way for the settlement phase”. The article claimed being based on a former minister with close knowledge of the paper…
Kassioun Editorial 1166: The Syrian File Must Get Moving Immediately!
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The sides that say the solution to the Syrian crisis should be through Syrian-Syrian dialogue and that it is ultimately an internal Syrian matter are right. This opinion is the crux of UNSC Resolution 2254, which states that the Syrian people have t…
Kassioun Editorial 1165: How Do We Confront the Risk of Fragmentation?
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Syria faces – in light of the circumstances it has gone and is going through – the risk of fragmentation as a serious and realistic risk. This risk grows as a result of the prolongation of the crisis, the de facto division, and the process of sweepi…
Kassioun Editorial 1164: The Constitutional Committee in Damascus, Politically Necessary and Practically Possible
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The recent briefing the UN Special Envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, presented on February 27 before the UN Security Council, showed that the Constitutional Committee meetings’ venue “dilemma” still exists. This is despite the fact that he ultimately s…
Kassioun Editorial 1163: They Do Not Want a Solution!
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Kassioun’s last editorial took an initial look at the US bill titled the “Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Act”, which passed in the US House of Representatives on February 14th, with completion of the process of its enactment requiring the Senate’s…
Kassioun Editorial 1162: Why Are They Celebrating the “Anti-Normalization Act”?
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A few days ago, the US House of Representatives passed a bill titled the “Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Act”, which would guarantee preventing US federal officials from undertaking any activity that recognizes the Syrian government. The Act, which…