The Fight for Syria’s Soul is Not Over

Letter to Syria

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.  
June twenty third, 2026

Howdy, expensive pal.

Thanks in your message. I’m all the time delighted to learn from you, as this tells me you’re alive. Actually! What sort of world is that this that I’ve to assume and write that!

Identical to my late Syrian pal, F.O., the Girl from Aleppo, had instructed me: Safety is an phantasm.

You wrote:

“Life in Syria is sort of a particular person preventing towards a powerful storm and saying to himself, ‘Oh, thank God it’s not a hurricane.’”

That could be a neat image, nevertheless it additionally makes one really feel unhappy in regards to the bleak actuality it describes.

Actually, expensive pal, I have no idea what to say. Your folks, after a 14-year-long wrestle, in any case that they needed to endure, have fallen into the palms of the filth of the universe. Think about a toddler born in 2011 in Syria — what has this baby, now grown right into a 15-year-old teenager, skilled in its life? Destiny has been brutal to you, and I really feel sick and heartbroken about that.

God really gave your folks an unlimited process to deal with. And I really feel sick excited about what this implies to atypical folks. In fact, there needs to be a wrestle to liberate Syria from this plague — that can not be debated. However who am I to let you know this? Your folks had already struggled sufficient when December 2024 got here. Your folks had already suffered sufficient hardship when that killer Al-Julani entered Damascus and usurped the presidency. What a grotesque fraud, what a stinking farce that’s. Perhaps that is the explanation why Trump, internet hosting his thug Al-Julani on the White Home, sprayed him with fragrance: to cowl the odor of blood? I have no idea. However simply the picture of him doing so tells us what sort of flipped world we live in — a demonic, vile, brutal clown present, run by bloodthirsty, grasping psychopaths. You can not think about my emotions in the direction of these creatures — and I don’t solely imply Al-Julani, however particularly the “German” politicians and media figures who helped to make him.

I have no idea what else to say to you, Syrians, apart from: attempt to survive. This example won’t endure. No evil lasts eternally. The mob operating Damascus now’s commanded by alien forces, and this can’t be a state of affairs sustained indefinitely. There can be resistance — I assume there already has been resistance since December 2024 — and we are able to solely assist these forces as finest as attainable. You understand that I can solely function with the phrase; I’m no soldier and in no situation to battle. However I can assist just a little to make actuality identified to people who find themselves often saved in utter ignorance. So far as I can, I’ll go on supporting the reason for Syria — and that I imply the Syria of the Syrian folks, not the Jihadi Disneyland that they plaster all around the media.

You probably have learn my articles during which I depict the state of affairs of my nation, Germany, you understand how a lot I despise the alien assemble of repression that the victors of World Conflict II have imposed on us and that has been ruling right here ever since. Properly, one way or the other I concern it’s attainable that Syria might go an identical method — with, after three generations, the bulk being compliant with the regime out of ignorance and opportunism. However for that to occur, the present regime in Syria lacks all the required means. A compliant inhabitants means the bulk earnings from the state of affairs sufficient that the detrimental results of the regime are seen as bearable. How might such a stabilizing state of affairs ever come up when the nation is dominated by psychopaths, overseas mafias, and opportunists? Given the present state of affairs, such a chance appears unlikely. In fact, Al-Julani can use sheer terror to climate crises for some time and maintain on to energy; in fact, Tel Aviv’s aggression will prop up the system by redirecting hatred and power towards an alleged exterior enemy — however to do this, Al-Julani must take motion towards Israel, and that will imply angering his masters. At current, he’s using the tried-and-true technique of consolidating energy: sowing hatred and discord inside the nation. There are sufficient inner enemies — Alawites, patriots — to maintain his clearly intellectually restricted followers occupied and away from Damascus.

You wrote:

“Nothing in our lives is enhancing… Every thing in Syria is getting worse, from the safety state of affairs to the dwelling situations to the rampaging thugs of Al-Julani’s followers. And even when we’re nonetheless alive, that’s not as a result of his followers are respectable folks, however as a result of he’s finishing up a plan to exterminate us quietly and in the long run… The worldwide neighborhood, represented by America, is basically impressed along with his efficiency, and for him, that’s all that issues.”

At current, the mainstream media listed below are reporting just about nothing from Syria. I believe that is a part of the plan devised by the regime and its overseas backers in Tel Aviv, Ankara, Brussels, and Washington: they are not looking for an viewers to witness what this plague is doing to you. The veil of silence that the Western media has solid over Syria is the curtain behind which blood is being shed — simply as “Syriangirl Partisan” mentioned: “The resistance was betrayed. From Gaza, to Lebanon, to Syria.” (supply)

In German, we are saying: “Lass das Gras darüber wachsen” — let the grass develop over a matter — which means: folks will overlook it if we cease speaking about it. And the opportunistic lots, raised to be passive, are solely too glad to overlook that billions of their tax cash have been spent to unleash essentially the most bloodthirsty monsters upon a individuals who did no hurt to People or Europeans. Nor have the lots grasped that the billions invested in sinister mass murders and coups in West Asia — simply as they’re now being invested within the bloody battle in Ukraine — are exactly what’s missing for faculties and hospitals again residence. And so, public companies are being radically eroded, hard-won social rights are being whittled away, and the privatization and commercialization of previously public companies are filling the pockets of personal overseas companies, whereas the folks — those that finance the entire operation — are being impoverished and stripped of their rights. One might cynically name this poetic justice, couldn’t one? In any case, for over 30 years, these folks didn’t deem it obligatory to face as much as their murderous authorities.

So whereas I have to acknowledge the decline and impoverishment of my very own nation underneath its present foreign-aligned colonial administration, Syria finds itself in a state of affairs the place issues apparently can not get a lot worse — which, alternatively, might have a decisive affect on the momentum for change.

You acknowledged: “So long as an individual is respiration, they must face life with all of the power they will muster to withstand it.” I agree insofar as we must always commit all our power to overcoming life’s challenges.

On this respect — and I hope you’ll forgive me for this — I’m depressed by the present state of affairs of your folks, however I’m not pessimistic about their prospects for the long run. As a result of, , I agree with SyrianGirlPartisan, who additionally wrote:

“The Axis could also be over, however the resistance will stay. The genocidal terror state of Israel is Syria’s everlasting enemy and can all the time pose an existential risk. The battle for Syria’s soul shouldn’t be over, neither is the battle towards the better Zionist scourge worldwide. Thanks to those that stood with us. We’ll always remember your sacrifice. I hope you gained’t overlook about us because the wrestle goes into its subsequent section. Tahiya Suria — Lengthy Dwell Syria!”

With all my coronary heart, I want a vibrant future for you and for all upright Syrians. You really deserve it.

This letter was written to a Syrian pal. For causes I regard as apparent, any content material giving hints to her identification has been omitted. Sure, we live underneath such situations.

The letter was first printed at: stefanhheuer.substack.com

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.
Historian, born in 1964. Has labored as a lecturer in grownup schooling and, amongst others, in human sources improvement for a US-American firm in Germany.

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