Description:
Top Adviser to the Syrian President, Bouthaina Shaaban, ridicules US demands for Syria to cut its ties with Iran, Hezbollah, and the various Palestinian factions present within Damascus, all members of what is otherwise known as the ‘Resistance Axis’.
Shaaban points out that these are matters of national sovereignty, and that Syrians are well aware that the huge ongoing ‘terrorist war’ against their nation is due to their relationship with the Palestinian cause and the Iran-led ‘Axis of Resistance’.
Source: Al-Mayadeen TV (You Tube)
Date: December 18, 2020
Transcript:
Host:
The Americans have shown you the way and laid down the conditions. (United States Special Representative for Syria Engagement) James Jeffrey has said it more than once, he said it when he was the (US) envoy to Syria and recently too after he departed from his position: (he said) you must remove Iran from Syria; sever your relations with Hezbollah; and denounce ‘terror’, in reference to the Palestinian factions that are present in Damascus. Fulfill these demands and (as far as the Americans are concerned) you will become the supreme examples of democracy, your country will be rebuilt etc. This is the real issue. How do you view these conditions and how do you respond to them?
Bouthaina Shaaban, Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s top adviser:
Mr. Kamal, when it is said that ‘these words are not worth the ink with which they were written’, this saying applies to what James Jeffrey said. Actually, he does not know that Syria has not and will not submit to their conditions, and we know very well that (our rejection of these conditions) is the actual reason behind this huge terrorist war being waged against Syria. They wish to confiscate Syria’s independent decision-making.
Neither James Jeffrey nor anyone else can decide for Damascus the nature of its relationship with Iran, Hezbollah and the Palestinian cause. All these issues are matters of sovereignty to be decided by Syria and the Syrian people. Therefore, frankly it would be better for (James Jeffrey) to remain silent.
Host:
Today, there is a new American administration Dr. Bouthaina. Do you have a message to Joe Biden’s administration?
Shaaban:
In reality Mr. Kamal, in the United States it is well known that every elected-president must pursue what they term in English ‘bipartisan policy’, meaning the policy designed by the two parties (the Democrats & Republicans).This means that no (American) president is capable of turning (totally) against the pre-designed political track for him.
However, we are looking forward to what the new administration will do, on top of which is the American military withdrawal from the territories of the Syrian Arab Republic, because this is the most important thing for us, for we cannot have relations with a country that occupies our land.
Let’s see what will happen, but we do not expect much (frankly), because the Middle East and our country have suffered from both administrations, from (both) Democratic and Republican (administrations), and hence we don’t have much reason for our hopes to be high in this regard.
it is a fact that the americans and israel brought war and distruction to syria to hasten regime change and kuck out assad for good. hezbolla and iranians came to help save the syrian patriots and their country. the troublemakers now are telling the syrians to sever ties with their defenders which is very hilarious. it is like telling the north koreans, stop making your nukes so we can nuke you!
James Jeffrey is just another stupid, arrogant Pindo who takes pride in his own ugliness. Another case in point is Steve Bannon and his piece of advice to the Chinese government.
Touching, yes. Convincing, nah.
My advice to the PRC leadership. Do what Bannon says, but fake it. Then you can be just like pindoland.Your people will grumble about “throwing the bums out” and you can continue to do as you like.
And please note that people like Rhoan Atkinson (Blackadder) did more to destroy the ideals of the British Upper Class than any politician.
Monty Python did a pretty good job:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxSM5y7Pfs&ab_channel=TheFiremen
Had it not been for Russia and Iran and Syria’s allies, whether they were ideal allies or not, Syria would have been under the misrule of ISIS or Al-Qaida, or swallowed up entirely by Turkey perhaps. This is not what regular people in the West would have wanted of course, but it’s what the Western elites want to this very day, it seems.
The Western elites would certainly prefer Syria being swallowed up by Turkey than remaining a secular, independent state fighting for the liberation of Palestine (’anti-semitism’ in Westish). I should feel inclined to say that the wet dream of the Western elites amounts to Syria, Lebanon, and God knows how many other countries being swallowed up by Israel.
Yes i Assad had gone down Turkey and Israel would have carved Syria up between them,no doubt about it.