The situation in Syria remains unchanged: the new authorities are examining two main files—the lifting of sanctions on Syria, and the pursuit of a security agreement with the Zionist entity. And what does reality indicate?
There has been a start to prosecuting those responsible for serious security violations in the coastal region, attempts to exploit the easing of sanctions under the Caesar Act, and considerable efforts to regain the trust of the Syrian people in all their components, especially after the recent understanding to integrate the Kurdish element into the Syrian army.
However, security concerns remain, particularly regarding Zionist penetration, expansion, and their continued violations in the occupied part of the Golan Heights. The enemy’s leadership repeats the same rhetoric heard in the Lebanese file: that any Syrian or Lebanese threat to the Zionist entity must be eliminated. As though the situation has been reversed—who threatens whom? Syria and Lebanon threatening the Zionists, or is the opposite the actual truth? In reality, we can expect anything from the enemy, and this is not surprising.
We have already seen in Lebanon that the Lebanese army is not eager to rush into disarming Hezbollah. Thus, Lebanon’s situation, compared to Syria, remains better, because Hezbollah’s weapons constitute an essential guarantee against Zionist aggression. In Syria, however, the matter is different; the legitimate government cannot enter into a confrontation with the enemy, simply because it lacks the capacity, and its southern region remains fragile as long as there is a treacherous Druze element capable of supporting any advanced Zionist incursion into Syrian territory.
The Arab environment surrounding Syria is unable to lend effective support, the Syrian people are exhausted, and the options of the legitimate authority are limited.
