"Assad won the war, he's always there, love him or hate him, you have to live with it."
Just like this Saudi diplomat who had acquired a cold realpolitik, the Arab enemies of the dictator of Damascus, who had taken up the cause of his opponents at the start of their revolt in 2011, are now opting, one after the other, for a reintegration of Syria into the Arab fold.
In 2012, while Bashar al-Assad had engaged in a bloody repression of his opponents who then seemed capable of overthrowing him, the Arab League had excluded Syria from its ranks.
Even if he is accused of war crimes,
"Assad is the de facto ruler of Syria, we must be realistic, we can not dispense with Syria if we want to ease the situation in the Middle East,"
says the
Figaro,
a close friend of the Iraqi Prime Minister, Moustapha Kazemi, active behind the scenes for the Arab countries to resume language with Damascus.
Reconnect with Damascus
Within a few weeks, signs of a thaw between the block
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