The Syrian people are fine, despite the blood, the limbs and the lack of support to the innocent children and the women. The Syrians defied the whizzing of the bullets, the gangs of thugs and howlers, the tanks of killing and the aircrafts of bombardments. They defied the intimidating expressions and the authorities of torture and broke the prison barriers with Takbir, poetry, beautiful sentiments and singing. They defied the massacres through resistance and beat the slaughters with their steadfastness. They stopped the tears in the ducts and buried the pain with sacrifices, while insisting on calling for freedom, dignity, justice and the reinstatement of the missing rights, although they are taking to the streets without knowing whether they will return to their children and families or meet their doom. The men, children and women thus took to the streets despite the cold, the snow and the security siege as though doves of peace were flocking over their heads and not as though bloodbaths were awaiting them. The crowded Mazze demonstration organized last Saturday in the heart of Damascus revealed that the security solution failed to extinguish the popular uprising, but rather enhanced it, mobilized it and fueled its momentum, along with the hatred toward the regime. The events are unfolding day after day. However, the regime's problem does not reside with Homs, Hama, Qamishli or Daraa, but rather with all of Syria, and the next few days will feature the scenario of the regime's fall and show the extent of the frailty of the so-called resistance and rejectionism regime. Syria will free itself from the grip of the killers and the tyrants will be toppled, just like Libya's revolutionaries toppled Gaddafi's regime and like the Tunisians and Egyptians toppled Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak. What is certain is that the Syrians' staging of a demonstration by the thousands in the heart of Damascus and in the Mazze neighborhood, which is one of the capital's most exclusive areas, despite the extreme cold and the siege imposed by the security apparatuses and the thugs, sends numerous messages. Some of them are directly addressed to the regime and others to the media thugs and mouthpieces in Syria and Lebanon, as the latter are still defending the regime and promoting its accusations to the people of being infiltrators and armed gangs. Others are also directed toward Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah, in light of the demonstrations' proximity to the presidential palace, the Iranian embassy and the air force intelligence headquarters, the military intelligence headquarters and the political security branch. This reveals the success of the domestic opposition before the opposition abroad, the expansion of the popular revolution, the people's interaction with it and the non-surrender to threats. But “Did the regime read the Damascus message?”, as it was headlined by this newspaper on yesterday's front page, knowing that this question carries numerous meanings. Did the Damascene Mazze message reach the presidential palace? Has the regime heard about the increasing numbers of dissidents and the shouts of the demonstrators calling for its toppling? The message was delivered, but the regime is still insisting on turning a blind eye and a deaf ear, because it does not wish to hear the complete truth and learn about its imminent fall! Even in New York, the regime's ambassador at the United Nations tried to steal the poetry of Nizar [Qabbani] who continued to rebel for his country until his death in his London exile. Nizar wrote his poetry to liberate the country from the gangs of the Baath party. The regime's men are thus trying to hijack the truth and promote their lies to mislead the people. However, the facts are besieging them, the voices are flagellating them, the people are exposing their lies, and the nations are looking down on their criminal practices. This is a criminal regime led by a tyrant and defended at the United Nations by the ambassador of falsification! I believe that the action on the Syrian street and the hastening of the events during the last couple of days clearly show the ability of the opposition to blockade the regime prior to its toppling, which prompted Russia's diplomacy to speed up the arrangement of an urgent meeting with the Gulf Cooperation Council to explain its viewpoint and reach understandings in regard to the Syrian issue, as it was stated by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov to Al-Hayat (last Sunday). Finally, the Russians felt they were losing their positions in the Arab countries after they downplayed the importance of the Syrian blood and gave Al-Assad's gang a license to kill via the veto. I think that the Syrian regime is performing the dance of the slaughtered and the greatest gift offered to it and its friend – the Russian bear – is the Arab Gulf states' recognition of the Syrian national council before the staging of Syria's Friends meeting in Tunisia on February 24, in order to block the way before Moscow's attempts to save the regime and facilitate the president's departure from power. What is certain is that the Syrian people will embrace freedom and that the banners of dignity will be raised on the Omayyad Square. For their part, the men of the regime will embrace the noose, the free will laugh at the lies and troubles of the regime and the children will sleep on the stories of the conspiracy and the infiltrators! In the meantime, the Homs massacre will continue to fuel the Syrians' love for their country, and will keep giving them strength and enhancing their unity, just as they repeated altogether “One, one, the Syrian people are one.” [email protected] twitter | @JameelTheyabi
