This is the hidden side of the Syrian coin at the Arab League summit, held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Friday, May 19. With a big smile on his face, greeted by Arab leaders with all honors, Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian executioner, has resumed his place in the club from which he had been expelled in November 2011 because of the bloody repression of the rebellion, as naturally as possible in the world. As if all his crimes had been erased with a brushstroke. At the time of his country's exclusion, Foreign Minister Walid Moallem warned: "Syria will not give in, it will emerge stronger." After twelve years of diplomatic sidelining, the "butcher of Damascus" is enjoying what is first and foremost a personal victory, before being that of Russia and Iran. The page of war has been turned. Bashar has won it and the Arab countries are assuming it.
A bitter-tasting pill
The rehabilitation of the Syrian president, on the other hand, poses a dilemma for Westerners, caught off guard and...
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