French Colonisers Have Not Accepted The Loss Of Their Colony
History stutters: the new leader of the Syrian National Coalition, knighted by the West, is none other than the grand-son of one of the chief collaborators of the French occupation of Syria in the 20s. Formerly, the French colonial power resorted to religious leaders to teach submission to the people under its domination; today it relies on clerics to overthrow the secular regime of the Syrian Arab Republic.
- A photograph taken in 1941, when Syria was still under the rule of French colonisers, has recently been circulating on social networking sites. In the worn black and white photograph, French General Georges Catroux is walking next to an elderly man with cunning eyes, Nur-Eddin al-Khatib
More than 70 years has passed and the grandson of
this Nur-Eddin – Mouaz al-Khatib, a former preacher at the Umayyad
mosque in Damascus and now a deserter and traitor – has been elected
head of the “Qatar Coalition” which was created on 11 November at a
meeting in Doha.
France has shown its gratitude to the third-generation collaborator
al-Khatib, whose grandfather collaborated with the colonisers, for his
faithful service. Namely the former colonial power has been the first to
recognise the “Qatar Coalition” as a legitimate representative of the
Syrian people. It is no surprise that the flag of the “opposition” –
green, white and black with three stars – is the same as the flag from
the time when Syria was under French mandate.
No sooner had Syria gained their freedom from Turkish rule than it
immediately fell under the authority of the French in 1920, and the
League of Nations gave France a mandate to control Syria. The French
occupation army, headed by General Henri Gouraud, faced weak opposition
from an armed Syrian army which had only just been formed and had
nothing except rifles and machine guns, while the French had heavy
artillery and aircraft. The conflict was one-sided.
- General Yusuf al-’Azma 1883-1920
The Syrian Minister of War Yusuf al-’Azma accepted the battle,
knowing it would be impossible to win, but being a true patriot of his
homeland, he was unable to allow the French to take Damascus without a
fight. The battle took place 23 kilometres from Damascus, in the
mountainous region of Maysalun. Yusuf al-’Azma personally took part in
the one-sided battle. The soldiers fought for a whole day, but the
superiority of the French was just too great. Only when all the Syrian
soldiers had been killed were the French able to advance on Damascus.
Syrians and Druses rose up against the French occupiers in 1925 and
even managed to liberate Damascus, but the French used their military
strength to quash the uprising in 1927. The first shot of the uprising
was fired on 7 June 1925 – a hero of the uprising, Hussein Murshid
Radwan, wounded a French officer when he ordered a peaceful anti-French
demonstration to be broken up.
Syria reveres its heroes and at the beginning of November, a
magnificent monument was erected in the city of Suwayda in Hussein
Murshid Radwan’s honour. The sculptor, Fuad Naim, has paid particular
attention to the hero’s enormous sword which he has clenched in his
mighty hand while challenging the French to battle.
In the centre of Damascus, meanwhile, there is a monument in honour
of the Syrian Defence Minister Yusuf al-’Azma, a hero of the Battle of
Maysalun Pass. Here we have genuine insurgents who fought for a free
Syria. Now, however, the word “insurgent” has been completely defiled
and is used today to refer to all sorts of rubbish recruited from all
corners of the world who are high on drugs and murdering Syrians for
money.
Until quite recently there was another monument in honour of al-’Azma
which stood near the General Staff building. On 3 September this year,
however, during an attack on the General Staff building, terrorists did
not spare this monument. The vandals destroyed it. Can Syria’s history
really be that dear to these mercenaries? Or to the descendants of those
who collaborated with the occupiers?
70 years has passed since France lost Syria as one of its colonies
and was forced to recognise its independence. As recent events have
shown, however, France just cannot ignore the colonial itch. It is doing
everything to regain its sovereignty, although this time around, even
if they conquer Syria, it would no longer be full sovereignty since
France would have to share it with the USA, Turkey and other NATO
partners. This is not troubling Hollande, however, who is backing every
reprobate in Syria so long as the reprobate’s position falls within the
neocolonial plans of France’s false socialists.
Back in the summer, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault did not
hesitate in saying that France was supplying Syrian fighters with
communication equipment and other technology. He spoke as though the
equipment was not for the purpose of killing. But it is all the same –
is it really not going to aid the murderers?
And now the pseudo-socialist François Hollande has held a meeting
with the old collaborator’s grandson, Mouaz al-Khatib. After the meeting
in Paris, the ambassador of the Syrian terrorists showed up – a certain
Munzir Makhous who, together with his boss, was part of the delegation
who visited the Élysée Palace and implored Hollande to supply the
fighters with heavy artillery. Hollande promised to bring the matter up
for discussion with the countries of the EU.
Earlier, Hollande had announced his intentions to create a “buffer”
zone and a “no-fly” zone in Syria. At that time, however, his own
foreign secretary threw cold water on his plans by announcing that such
zones could only be created by a decision of the UN Security Council.
And the position of the UN Security Council is clear – Russia and China
will not give the go ahead for yet more ventures like the ones that have
already ruined Libya. Knowing this, however, Hollande is trying to
raise the morale of the terrorists operating within Syria. In order to
do this, he is promising to create a “no-fly zone” – the relentless
bombardment of Syria, in other words – and this is the one thing that
the terrorists want. They are putting themselves at risk every time they
place an improvised explosive device near a school, a hospital, a
shopping centre, a mosque. Obviously they want to get support from the
air so that they no longer have to risk their lives.
While the Syrian government and the Syrian people are placing
monuments in honour of their heroes, the so-called “opposition members”
are collaborating with the neocolonialists, making much of the
colonialists’ flags while killing soldiers and civilians. France
recognises these murderers and terrorists as “legitimate representatives
of the Syrian people”. The only question is whether “representatives”
like these are what the Syrian people really need.
Elena Gromova
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