Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
from le Boulesversement, March, 2025
Editor’s note: This article is from what I assume is someone’s private blog. You might call him an Assadist, but that’s beside the point. I liked the title and the fact that he assembled the 2 speeches for comparison.
Al-Sharaa’s speech is all over the internet, but the contrast between al-Assad’s (hard to find) last speech at the Arab League and al-Sharaa’s first speech is worth preserving. Al-Sharaa notably complains about Israeli expansion into Syria while in the real world he has made no effort in word or deed to block, much less retaliate against Israel what-so-ever. In fact, he has repeatedly called them ‘friend’. Nor has he made any effort to support the Palestinians; in fact he has disarmed and disbanded all Palestinian activists in Syria and sent his own forces into Lebanon to “attack Hezbollah”. Good boy. He is walking it all back here.
Certainly the weak and submissive hypocrisy of al-Sharaa, commander in chief of the vicious Syrian head choppers for more than a decade, contrasts notably with al-Assad’s assertion that ‘I believe we have the tools to help the people of Palestine and Lebanon, and if we don’t use them we are indirect partners in the genocide‘. On his own, al-Assad has played his role in assisting Palestine through his entire presidency, a role that is currently dismissed because in the end he lost Syria due to the horrific price extracted from the Syrian people by the US and their greedy allies in the region because he refused to capitulate. To this day, al-Sharaa, or should I say al-Jolani continues, after more than a decade, to be responsible for massacres of Syrian citizens that are comparable to the Zionist slaughters in Palestine. In fact, one might compare the hypocritical submission of al Sharaa in the Arab League to the hypocritical submission of the seemingly more powerful members to their western masters.
It’s a shame that Bashar al-Assad could not see their true faces. But, in any case, I doubt that would have saved Syria. [jb]
At an emergency meeting of the Arab League in Cairo, convened following ‘Israel’s’ breaking of the ceasefire agreement on March 1st, there was an unexpected guest – the so-called ‘transitional president’ from Syria, Ahmed al Sharaa. For those who noticed the former leader of terrorist organisation HTS walking with the kings in Al Sisi’s flower-bedecked palace it was something of a shock – indicating an apparent acceptance of this unelected imposter-president at the leading Arab forum. Syria’s legitimate President Bashar al Assad was barred from the Arab League for a decade, only recently being welcomed back into the fold following Syria’s successful expulsion of foreign-backed takfiri militias from its key Western cities.
A far greater shock came however when Mohammed Jolani nee’ Ahmed al Sharaa gave a presentation to the forum and expounded on the need to stop the aggression against the people of Gaza, something on which he hasn’t previously seen the need to comment. The video below, posted by Middle East Eye, was headlined as “Israeli expansion threatens the whole region”, though this wasn’t quite the message Jolani was sending.
In fact when talking about Palestinian rights and the Gaza tragedy, he didn’t actually use the word ‘Israel’, instead calling on the ‘International community to stop the ‘aggression’. Even so, the ‘chutzpah’ of the man is incredible – as someone who has never before expressed any sort of sympathy for the Palestinian cause, and has also done all in his power to kill anyone in Syria who takes the side of the Resistance against the Zionist occupiers. In numerous statements since he usurped the legitimate President of Syria he has declared that Hezbollah and Iran are Syria’s main enemies, and vowed to hunt down anyone with sympathies towards them. Bear this in mind while listening to the first part of his presentation:
As if to make up for his three months of aberrant behaviour and complete subservience to the expansionary agenda of the Zionist entity, Al Sharaa followed his expounding of the Palestinian cause with a recitation of Syria’s position on the illegal occupation of the Golan by ‘Israel‘. By doing so he becomes a self-described traitor to Syria – though the title is a little meaningless; his whole performance merely confirming that he is a Western-controlled asset; we only need to figure out exactly which country or countries’ agenda he is best serving – Turkiye, ‘Israel’, the UK, France or Germany?
In fact Jolani’s appearance at the Arab League was clearly well organised in advance, as a wider view of the Syrian ‘delegation’ revealed, when his address was reported by another local station. In the screenshot below we can see five members of the delegation, including the ‘Foreign Minister’ Mohammed al Shabani, still enveloped in his cocoon of Blairite legitimacy:
The whole performance must have been deeply distressing to the ousted and exiled President Assad, along with all the millions in Syria currently fearing for their lives under Jolani’s reign of terror. That would include all those Palestinian ‘refugees’ who were living under Syria’s protection for decades, and who fought with the Syrian Arab Army against the insurgency to liberate Damascus back in 2014. Much of the propaganda spread by the ‘New Syria’ promoters has focused on what happened in the Southern suburbs of Damascus where various Palestinian groups lived – Tadamon, Yarmouk and Daraya – before the armed militias were mostly driven out to Idlib. (the remaining IS occupants in Hajaa al Aswad were only finally ‘bombed out’ by Russia in May 2018.)
As it happens – and it did happen – Syria’s President Assad delivered a speech to an ‘Extraordinary’ Arab and Islamic Summit’ held in Riyadh on November 11th 2024, merely two weeks before the ‘rough beast’ from Idlib – Tel Aviv, Kiev, Gaziantep, Tajikistan, Xinjiang.. moved in for the kill.
It was undoubtedly one of Bashar al Assad’s best and most forthright speeches, berating both the Zionist occupiers and their genocidal army and the gutless Arab states who failed to support the Resistance:
I’ve split the recording (which isn’t Assad’s full speech) into two parts for easier handling. A transcript will follow, as his delivery is sometimes rapid and the translator a little erratic. His speech is also available with subtitles from Syria Insider (without English subtitles). Below is the speech with English Subs:
