Damascus-SANA
No person is able to address, talk about, and draw lessons from eras from our contemporary history, as someone who lived through them, observed them closely, and was active in their details, which is what Dr. Najah Al-Attar, Vice President of the Republic, has been doing for many years. To this end, she issued a set of books that includes documentation of her years of official work. And the national, cultural and literary field, the latest of which is the book “Days We Lived and Now for History.”
And because history repeats itself in various ways, Dr. Al-Attar found it useful to republish articles she wrote since the second half of the seventies and the first half of the eighties, because of what they carried of the vows of the present and the reference to the features of a conspiracy they were planning that turned into practice, after which claims of dismantling Arab solidarity and normalization spread. Public relations with the Israeli occupation entity.
Al-Attar says, “These articles have been republished because they embody the conscious awareness of the conspiracies they plotted against our nation, not only against Syria, and they drew their lines and networks as a prelude to everything they are achieving in the present,” considering that these articles written in the past represented the first beginnings of the events that followed in their various forms and shed light on what What is going on in the present is what the enemies have prepared for, forgetting that history will not be theirs, that peoples will inevitably rise up for their homelands and their rights, and that our nation will return to its positions carrying its lofty message.
The opening of the book’s articles was with a material written by Dr. Al-Attar entitled “Message and its Answer.” It came in a sentimental style full of patriotism and defiance during the occupation army’s siege of Beirut in 1982, in which she says, similar to our conversation today, “In this time when Syria remains alone and fights (Israel) alone and remains in it.” The Palestinian resistance is alone and it fights (Israel) alone.. In this time, my country, you have grown up like a genie in legend, like a rook in a myth, and like a truth in the age of nations.”
In a second article she wrote on the third anniversary of the October Liberation War in 1976, al-Attar spoke of what resembles a prediction of the plans implemented by the United States in our region by presenting a study by the Institute for Strategic Studies in London that the American settlement of the Middle East crisis requires creating new preoccupations for the Arabs that distract them from confronting the Israeli enemy and isolating the resistance. Palestine politically and militarily.
When Dr. Al-Attar writes in her field of specialization, she does not compromise and calls things by their names with an article she published in 1979 entitled “To the Heroes of Egypt We Will Not Kneel and We Will Not Kneel” when she refers by name to Arab intellectuals and writers who pacified the occupation entity and called for normalization with it and forgot that it is an occupying enemy that usurps our rights and displaces our people .
Al-Attar affirms Syria’s self-deterrent force in an article published in 1979, indicating that the burden of steadfastness rests on Syria alone, which throughout the history of the Arab struggle has been bearing the largest share of the confrontation with the Israeli enemy and with America, and global imperialism is proven in the long struggle it waged that it is capable of resisting Enemies are all to keep the Arab cause alive, even if everyone abandons it.
And because the conspiracy against Syria, whose events Al-Attar lived in the eighties of the last century, was repeated in another way in the past decade, it confirms to today’s readers the unparalleled stability and steadfastness that Syria possesses. In an article she published in 1980, she says, “Let the enemies know that all enemies know that our internal national unity despite Arab fragmentation, despite the frenzied attacks on Syria, and despite all the conspiracies and slanders, is a solid national unity.. Those who discovered that our self-strength is in our national unity and rushed to call this unity from inside and outside will also discover that this already established unity is more firmly entrenched than anything and is stronger than anything else. To weaken it is debilitating and dearer to hearts and souls than to be affected by machinations.”
In a language full of passion and love for pure soil for a precious Syrian spot, Dr. Al-Attar described, in an article she published in 1982 entitled “I was in Majdal Shams,” her visit to the city of Quneitra and the Syrian side of the occupied Golan borders, with the company of women from Syria and Arab countries, and her impressions of the spirit, place and people’s feelings in a subtle but literary style He was crucified, and she said, “The cheers rise, the pace accelerates, the enthusiasm hijacks us, and among the green people and wildflowers, red spots are scattered, you see and do not see.
It remains to point out that the book, the first part, was issued by the Syrian General Book Organization and is located in 335 of the large pieces.
Samer Alshghari