Opinion: Who Is United?

After examining having reached a certain point of no return, the one striving for for the regain of freedom, justice and dignity, I‘ll have an explicit look on the Achilles‘ heel locating at the actual point:

Wa7eda.

Unity.

Still witnessing it on the ground during the anti-regime rallies and in existing resistance groups I‘m missing the general huge reply on the ongoing campaigns trying to dismantle the opposition by declaring them simply as not being united. A serious situation, and please understand my words not as an accusation not being able to maintain this unity but as a loud call of my own thoughts towards defending this unity, fighting for this unity.

I‘m not in the endangered position inside Syria down on the ground expecting each moment a deadly strike of the regime forces or getting caught and arrested  and tortured to death in the worst case. I‘m not in the position of those Syrian expats worldwide organizing themselves, discussing about possibilities to engage by spending their time and creativity or donating for their fellows or getting active to raise the needed awareness among the global community. I‘m not a native Syrian (well, in my heart I‘ve become one even if I‘m only nearly one year old).

Wen wa7eda?

Where is the unity?

I‘m sure almost everyone is keeping it inside if it goes about the one common goal, regaining freedom. But on the lower levels it is almost endangered by certain aspects of interests. Again, don‘t take it as an insult or an offensive approach of paternalization, at maximum it is a thought-provoking thought refering to the necessity of realizing problems and beginning to solve them. Those interests are natural, different groups mean different points of view due to the details of a common existence. Even in the idolized democracies the different interest groups are battling each other in a political way under the common roof of a main law which grants not getting killed for a personal opinion. And because those kind of interests are substructured details they have to be kept under the one main goal as long as it is not reached or fulfilled.

I don‘t know why the reports and releases are tending in the meantime towards the image of a fragmented opposition, I can only propose why it is so: maybe it is a kind of mirror the global coalition being self deeply fragmented is holding in its‘ hands. Maybe this view is being forced by the so-called ,territory gains‘ of Assad‘s troops - which are in reality murderous occupations. Both stances would be a kind of daggerstab in the back of the revolution committed by those all the hopes for support were invested in. Or maybe - what I really not hope or even want to believe - because there is in fact a kind of lack of unity. Every Syrian striving for freedom and a nation without Assad has to ask him- or herself now if the revolutionary unity is strong enough to withstand the wave of doubts now swallowed over the movement -we all know who‘s the only one profitting from a lack of unity among the revolutionaries and we don‘t want him and his cronies taking over.

Min wa7ed?

Who is united?

An essential question for all, from the individual to the smaller and the bigger groups to the whole movement. I‘m expecting a very loud shoutout in the next time so the whole world will hear it:

Asha7b issouri wa7ed!

The Syrian people are one.

To all those doubting on the unity by giving them the right and only answer.