On the occasion of the battle of Al-Hasakah prison about the concept of vexation

The sounds of battles in the city of al-Hasakah faded, without disappearing yet, or their echoes faded here and there. And addressing those echoes with evaluation does not wait long, because its effects will increase the damage that occurred before, in the Syrian structure and its fragility in the face of emergency transformations due to the struggles of others, sometimes blind. A fierce battle erupted when ISIS forces attacked the so-called Industrial Prison there, which contains a large number of prisoners of that infernal organization since the end of the fierce battles between it and the International Coalition and the Syrian Democratic Forces on the other hand, with the end of the Baghouz battle.

These forces (SDF) were based mainly on a more solid core of the Kurdish Democratic Party fighters and its closest allies, before expanding with many Arab and Syriac fighters, without compromising the main Kurdish influence in it and its leadership in practice. In the eyes of some of the Arabs of the region and beyond, what happened was not a victory for the Kurds over ISIS alone, but rather over the Arabs/Sunnis through a solid hegemony that extended far, outside the Kurdish regions or the difference in the proportion of their ethnic composition.

This may be embodied in some cases embracing ISIS, or sympathizing with the Kurds, sweeping in its way the issue of terrorism and its danger, and refusing to recognize it, to see it as targeting Arabs in general, or Arab Sunnis. This is not a one-way action, but rather has a corresponding increase in Kurdish fanaticism that boasts victory, weapons, and the strength of an ally.

Numerous media reports, statements and social media posts focused on the Kurdish side of the issue and neglected the main conflict, arguing that we have two equal dangers, and two terrorists no less than the other, strongly motivated by the Turkish government’s insistence on highlighting the Kurdish danger represented by the PKK in a way that seems to marginalize A little bit of the danger of ISIS and its sisters, and it equates them. As if the attack on Al-Hasakah prison - crowded with captured ISIS fighters - was a Kurdish attack on the Arab/Turkish/Sunni nation; As if the role of the international coalition here is just proof of the cosmic conspiracy as well!

In some aspects of political action, the prevailing hadith that “relatives are first to do good” seems to be mistaken, giving the place to another confirming that they are the most deserving of evil, vexation and exasperation. Political forces and organizations have always been divided, so that one monitors the other the basis of its political life and daily bread, instead of paying more attention to the opposing political opponent as required by common sense and common sense, in addition to political interest.

I remember well how we were university students coming from two sides in one party that was rapidly dividing in the early seventies in Damascus, and the victory in the elections over the candidate of the other side had previously become more important than the importance of success or defeating the opponent in the actual political sense. We have also lived a lot with the divisions of the Palestinian resistance and its organizations as well, and we witnessed how the left and the right, the radical and the soft, are forgotten in front of a brother who has recently defected. This happened, for example, in the frequent splits of the Popular Front, for example. It is recorded here that this phenomenon was more prominent on the left than on the right. This phenomenon was a source of sustained weakness in the field of strategy, in terms of understanding, research, and practice. Its presence diminishes the most important, largest, and main goal, in order to focus on the immediate, daily and transient goal. This is a school that we may have inherited from our naive readings of the legacy of Lenin and the Russian revolutionary movement, which was the source of knowledge and intellectual-political culture for many of our generation.

It is also a primitive phenomenon, the product of delays and omissions, and symptoms of a psycho-neurological state that does not refer to science, values ​​and principles, as much as to a state of quarrels and scramble over hunting and booty with those closest to us. Perhaps it was inherited from the times of savagery and primitivism, as it appears more rooted than the new emerging from science, knowledge, logic, sociology, law... and modernity. This could also be a wide entrance to opportunism and charlatanry, to achieve victory over those who are close to them. Then comes the fabrication and abandonment of honesty with eyes wide open. It can be asserted that whoever loves these “facts” often believes them, and fights with deep faith those who seek to prove their wrongness and harm.

, and apparently in our practice of politics. This is what comes to mind when one sees how some Syrians represent each other, in every field and field. They did not reach this level until after the exacerbation of the phenomenon of extreme Islamism, extremist - violent - isolationism. Here, “revenge” overlapped with “disgrace”… Was that the country’s return to the desert, and its people back to the first Bedouin - pre-Islamic era? After they were cities, civil kingdoms filled sight and hearing.

Contemporary jihadists - and what they are not - contemporaneously delve into in researching the forms and types of jihad, and many of them separated in "Jihad of Disapproval", "Management of Savagery" and "Jihad of Empowerment". The first was the stage of practicing terrorism and angering the enemy with single suicide or immersion operations or bombings, which were small and might even grow to the size of the “Battle of New York,” for example. And when the jihad of spite leads to the weakening of authority in a certain geography where chaos prevails, “management of savagery” becomes necessary, with the need to prepare for the subsequent victory by creating stable positions of authority with rules, jurisprudence and judges. And all of this is in the direction of “empowerment” and the establishment of the legitimate government, whether it is a caliphate, a emirate, or a state. In the last stage, this requires a different form of fighting and arming, and a preparation, as was secured through the “conquest” of Mosul previously.

In this is a return to nature that recalls Hobbes and his companions after him, a return to sociology long before Ibn Khaldun, and psychology to the days of our grandmothers. We are looking for what helps in the awareness of the phenomenon in general, and when the lies are embodied and reproduce in the field of Syrian politics, they multiply during the time of jihad, brutality, empowerment, isolated caves, and extreme masculinity, as it becomes a terrorism whose bloodshed has no limits.

In wars in general, and wars whose factors and parties have disintegrated with their length in particular, what is forbidden and what is hated in normal circumstances becomes superfluous and annoying, while the popularity of taking strange actions and sayings increases. Any call for dialogue and disclosure becomes ridding the opponent of his weapons. Those weapons would then have become an ally, supporter, financier, or even an investor or an employee, or just a lost fanaticism that should have been thrown out in the first place. There is a lot that can and should be said in criticism of the “SDF” and “SDF” and especially the “self-management” relentlessly, while errors are reflected on the ground that sow negativity, rejection, opposition and reaction, but this does not call for what appears to be an “ideology of vexation” and has been embodied An additional danger to the dangers facing the fate of Syria itself. Of all the dangers, occupations, ruptures, mortgages and dispersal, the greatest danger remains that this country will become a mere boil on the planet, filled with the pus of ISIS and the various forms of terrorist forces. The manifestations of that ideology among the Sunni Arabs in the Syrian Peninsula vary in intensity and colors between centers and parties in all its social, geographical and cultural meanings. It flourishes a little more in some natural and innate environments, which by themselves can be more advanced and reject all forms of extremism, when the causes and instigators of vexation are absent or weaken.

With another local note, that the prison battle may have ended the possibility of “empowerment” and the return of the “caliphate state” after the supposed defeat of ISIS, especially after the killing of its leader Qardash, where he was hiding; And an international note that this danger - with its focus on Syria and the Syrians - represents a danger to the world as well, and the dangers of war in Ukraine, or the crisis of gas supplies, are not something in front of it. This is also a fact. It does not concern the Biden administration alone, but it concerns us, the Syrians, first!

General Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the SDF, recently added a new task that cannot be accomplished without a comprehensive political solution in Syria - such as reconstruction, refugee return, and general elections - which is the final defeat of ISIS.