Era of Delusion gave way to Age of Heroism

Excerpt of President Bashar al-Assad’s speech to the People’s Assembly, Damascus, Syria, 25.08.2024.

🇸🇾 Syria President Assad: “The resistance in Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Yemen are a role model, an example that we follow in the path of liberation, the path of dignity, honor and successful independence. pic.twitter.com/ziYQ0fZwqQ

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🇸🇾 Syria President Assad: “Gaza awakened younger generations, which began to see reality differently from what the West worked on for centuries. An era of delusion, felled by hours of heroism and months of steadfastness, because they were based on centuries of belonging.… pic.twitter.com/mBDR4EWXcE

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🇸🇾 Syria President Assad: “Gaza awakened younger generations, which began to see reality differently from what the West worked on for centuries. An era of delusion, felled by hours of heroism and months of steadfastness, because they were based on centuries of belonging.

Therefore, the reaction of the West was an unprecedented hysteria, which confirmed that ‘Israel’ is just part of a colonial project. If it falls, the project falls with it.

This project, which has always been called the project of the ‘end of history’, which they began marketing after the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades ago, aims to achieve the absolute and perhaps eternal submission of the world to the West, led by the United States.

But they discovered that history did not end in the liberation of Lebanon in 2000, and in the breaking of their throne in Lebanon in 2006, and in the steadfastness of Syria in the face of the most brutal war facing a homeland, and in Gaza when the image of the criminal Israeli army fell.”

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25 Aug, 20:14 TASS

Syria’s relations with Turkey can be restored after settling what severed them — Assad

According to Assad, to settle the conflict, the sides need to be open and sincerely want to find out what hampers the restoration of relations

CAIRO, August 25. /TASS/. Relations between Syria and Turkey cannot be restored without settling problems that caused their severance, Syrian President Bashar Assad said.

“Amid the current global crisis <…> we tried to consider all the initiatives proposed to us in the context of restoring relations with Turkey as soon as possible and in a positive manner. But no problem can be resolved if it real causes are ignored and relations cannot be restore without settling the problem that caused their reverence,” the SANA news agency quoted him as saying in his address to the new People’s Assembly (parliament).

According to Assad, to settle the conflict, the sides need to be open and sincerely want to find out what hampers the restoration of relations. The Turkish side, in his words, “continues to persist” in this matter. He recalled that the initiatives on the normalization of relations between Damascus and Ankara he mentioned had come from Russia, Iran, and Iraq.

“Syria will not waive its rights at any talks,” the Syrian president stressed, adding that current non-direct consultations between his country and Turkey lack “fundamental principles the sides might be guided by in the negotiating process.” The cornerstone for Damascus on this issue is “Turkey’s withdrawal from the Syrian territory and its non-support for terrorist groups,” as well as demonstration of respect to Syria’s sovereignty, Assad stressed.

Speaking with voters at a polling station in Damascus on July 15, Assad said that Syria welcomed all initiatives that are geared toward normalizing relations with Turkey, but would make this step only if the principles of international law are observed. He said back then that he did not know why his Turkish counterpart wanted to meet with him.

On June 28, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara was ready to resume diplomatic relations with Damascus, which had been severed in 2012. On July 12, he said that he had asked Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to draft a roadmap of the normalization process. He stressed that Syria’s territorial integrity was in Turkey’s interests.