By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

His surname is Arabic for lion, and the way the Syrian President strode into the conference hall of the Arab League Summit in Jeddah to deliver a speech on the necessity of unity and cognizance of the common enemies, after the standing ovation he received from host Saudi Arabia and heads of participating countries, is still sending shivers down the spines of the cowardly hyenas in the US and Israel – predators that prey on the rich resources of the weaklings.
It is wrong to say Dr. Bashar al-Assad was isolated for the past dozen years and his country suspended from the Arab League, and now he and Damascus have been readmitted because of the new spirit of reconciliation.
As a matter of fact, it were the pro US regimes of the Arab world that isolated themselves from the progressive developments in the region by being duped by the West to fund the bid of a few traitors in Syria to conspire with terrorists created by the Americans and the Zionists, to overthrow the government of the principal frontline state for the Palestinian cause by boycotting a leading founding member of the League in violation of the clauses of its own charter.
From the outset it was clear the macabrely murderous Takfiris whose western weaponry, including chemical gasses, killed over 300,000 Syrian people, displaced hundreds of thousands from their homes, and drove into exile many others, will never succeed – because of the support the Alawite President enjoys from his overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim army and citizens.
They even failed to understand the defence of Prophet Abraham’s legacy in Syria by Islamic Iran (and also by Christian Russia) vis-à-vis the ‘Nimrod’ accord Washington and Tel Aviv were imposing on the Arabs to trap them into a huge Zionist blaze.
Assad the lion, however, triumphed over the terroristic jackals whom Turkey also unwittingly reared and now rues its historic blunder, with Tayyeb Rajab Erdoghan struggling to retain the presidency of a traditionally pro-Palestinian Muslim country in the elections which are now headed for the second round.
It is against this backdrop that the pro-West Arab states seem to have finally woken up from their decade-long slumber and summoned up the courage to ignore the US by resuming relations with Syria and its legitimate leadership which held two general elections during the eleven-year conflict, to win the public vote.
Thus, better late than never, and now not just photo sessions with President Assad but concrete efforts are required to restore to the Arab world its unity after the squandering of hundreds of billions of dollars for purchase of US weaponry that despite the destruction caused in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, has utterly failed to dampen the indomitable spirit of the Resistance Forces.
Perhaps, this is the reason for the reconciliation of Saudi Arabia and its allied states, first with Iraq, then with the Islamic Republic of Iran, and now with Syria, with prospects of peace in Yemen through recognition of the legitimate government in Sana’a led by the Popular Ansarullah Movement.
Complete reconciliation, however, is not possible even if a single US soldier remains on Arab soil and if the entire region is not mobilized for liberation of al-Aqsa Mosque through solid support for Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and all other Palestinian freedom fighters.
This is possible, not just through closure of all Zionist trade and diplomatic missions in Arab countries, but taking of the most courageous step by removing the US imposed ‘terrorist’ tag from Lebanon’s legendry anti-terrorist movement, since without the devotion, dedication, discipline, and defensive means of Hezbollah, Arab solidarity will remain a distant dream.
So, let us hope the rich Arab countries will now compensate their expensive errors by contributing to the reconstruction of Syria by realizing that their common enemy is not any Arab or non-Arab Muslim country, but the US, which over the past decades has sowed seeds of dissension and posed as a friend in order to permanently put them under the yoke of a spurious entity.