The historical shift to democracy did not take place in Syria. Looking for a recipe for trust

After the overthrow of the half -century of the Assad clan in Syria, the first expected step to create a new government came. The two-day session directed by the interim insurgent alliance Haját Tahrir Aš-Sham (HTS) promised to form a new political chapter of the country. His name « National Dialogue » has already woke up a downhill in Syrians.

But she was far from filled with hope, but as if the action was a hot needle. The Presidential Palace's Office sent the invitations only two days before the start. Although community leaders, academics and religious leaders arrived, key groups, such as America supported by Kurdish militia, which controls a large part of Northeast Syria. This despite the December promise Provisional President Mahmad Shara that they will be included under the Ministry of Defense.

According to one of the hundreds of participants in the Ibrahim conference, the Professor of the Law at the University of Damascus, the office did not send invitations according to any clear criteria. « I am a professor of right 22 years and I can say this is not a real national dialogue, » said For The New York Times.

Before the rebel group, there is a difficult task to create a government by the end of February, as he announced in previous statements. Mahmad Shara took a diplomatic meeting with Qatar Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Ál Thani, Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Saudi from Saudi Arabia, and met with Turkish President Erdogan, who had a major share in the collapse of Assad's regime.

But Arab and Western leaders put a clear condition for cooperation with the new Syrian government – they want an inclusive policy that will respect the ethnic and religious diversity of the country. Without this, they do not intend to release Western sanctions that brought the Syrian economy to the brink of collapse. This is bound by the much needed financial injection from the international community to help at least partially put Syria on its feet. But HTS has to prove that it has been cut off from its jihadist past.

According to the conference reverberations, the Shar's January splaces seem to be not feasible for the real political participation of all Syrians. On the other hand, the bar at the Syrians, who are tired of dictatorship and a fourteen -year -old civil war, is not very high. “For more than 50 years, we have not participated in political life. At least people have the opportunity – though small – to express their views on the government, ”said Dana Šubatová, a 30 -year -old doctor from Damascus.

In response to the criticism of the conference, its organizers stated that the meeting was only the beginning of an inclusive political procedure that « involves a wide range of experts. » But Shara's people have not yet offered a promised detailed plan of continuing the dialogue, a temporary court system, or the elaboration of a new constitution that the non -free public has been expecting so far.

Problems on the southern border

In addition to domestic policy, a new set must be resolved by the submachine guns instead of suits, and resolve neighborly disputes. The fall of the Bashar Assad regime also used neighboring Israel to weaken the Syrian military capacities and take over control of the bumper zone at the Golan Heights, including the peak of the Biblical Mountain Hermon. However, the request of HTS to download Israel skeptically refused.

“We will not allow HTS forces or the new Syrian army to enter the territory south of Damascus. We require complete demilitarization of South Syria, in the provinces of Kunajra, Dare and Suvajda, ”Netanyahu said. On the contrary, the Jewish state introduced in December plan To double the local population.

A few hours after the participants condemned the presence of Israel in the bumper zone at the conference, the shelling of South Syria came. According to security sources, the Israeli Air Force focused on the city of Kisvá, located about 20 kilometers south of Damascus. The aim of the attack was a military object. Other air raids, according to witnesses and Syrian television, focused on the province of Dará.

« The Air Force is hard in South Syria as part of a new policy, which we defined as a reassurance of South Syria – and the message is clear: we will not allow South Syria to become South Lebanon, » said Israeli Defense Minister Jisrael Kace.