Reporting of F.F.
The envoy ofIndependent Robert Fish, recently returned from a reportage in Syria, ha written that wars, when they are about to end, they become more dangerous. The Syrian case is an example of this. As we wrote some time ago, Bashar al Assad, except for sensational events, he has now won the war. The game against the Islamic State is now over and the rebels are essentially barricaded in the province of Idlib, a Daraa et al border with Jordan.
The Turkish operation”Olive branch“, started on 20 last January, continues also thanks to the low workforce of theFree Syrian Army, first used by Recep Tayyip Erdogan to fight against Damascus and now recycled against the Kurds.
The Syrian Kurds they believe that the green light for this operation came after an agreement between Putin and Reis which would give Moscow the green light to eliminate the rebels barricaded in Idlib. In this way, according to Alberto Negri, “The Kurds would have been betrayed twice. From the Americans who, after having used them in the siege of Raqqa against ISIS, are now leaving them as targets for Turkey. But also from Russia which has always provided historic support to the Kurds, especially the PKK, historic Marxist-Leninist party which for some time has abandoned the most orthodox ideological version to embrace a vision more in line with the social reality of the Middle East".
Diplomacy, pragmatism and cynicism come together dangerously in this phase of the conflict, where Assad thinks about the future and writes, according to what he reports Fire, to the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reassure him: “I'm not looking for war. All I want is to focus on reunifying Syria and rebuilding the ruins caused by the war." (Here is an analysis by Davide Malacaria for our site). An outstretched hand, welcomed with amazement and hope by many.
Today, but, Tel Aviv Air Force launched a missile attack against a Syrian military position a Jamraya, in the northern suburbs of Damascus. Among the targets affected there would also be a section of the Study and Research Centre Syriait is. It is not the first time that Israel has bombed government positions and, Perhaps, this could be a message sent to Assad: the time is not yet ripe for a negotiation.
The knot to untie, as has been highlighted several times, concerns the presence of Iranian troops (and similar to Tehran, like the Lebanese Hezbollah) on the borders of the Jewish state. Although Assad has assured that he will not hand over the limes Syrian to forces other than those of Damascus, However, it is clear that, sooner or later, his government will have to pay a price to Iran (and to Russia).
It is now clear that Syria will be "divided" into zones of influence (and in fact it already is). But the new balance risks opening the hardest phase of the conflict.
