Wael Al-Sawah
Worldcrunch, Dec. 2, 2024
“It is almost certain that the operation was directed, planned, and led by Turkey.”
There is no equivalent in Arabic for the phrase “Déjà vu,” which captures the feeling of seeing something and believing you’ve seen it before or experiencing something you think you’ve lived through in the past. What is happening in Syria feels like a kind of déjà vu.
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You can experience déjà vu without fully understanding it—a flood of memories surfaces, some beautiful but most painful, distressing, and bleak. Over a week ago, reports began emerging of movements among Syrian Islamist armed factions.
At the time, the most reasonable analysts suggested that any such movement, if it happened, would be limited in scope, aiming to stir up the stagnant swamp that has plagued the north for five years. These same years have seen Israeli forces repeatedly violate Syrian airspace to strike Iranian-linked targets, leaving them battered and exhausted.
But what transpired was monumental — in the literal sense of the word, not the metaphorical one. …Source
