Marwa Osman - Transformation of the Axis of Resistance at the Syrian Crossroad (2017)

Marwa Osman: First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Marwa Osman. I come from Lebanon. I'm Lebanese. I am a university instructor at Lebanese International University and Marif University as a media instructor. And I am a PhD candidate in management. My dissertation is about the intergenerational differences in the Lebanese workplace, how that affects the productivity, given that our employment Is according to sectarian basics. So I am here to talk about the transformation of the axes of resistance at the Syrian crossroads, because I'm a political commentator and a political writer as well for a number of news websites. I am also a mother of 2. I'd like to say that at the beginning. I want to start talking about my paper, which was thankfully accepted at to be hopefully published, and my abstract was accepted, about the transformation of the Axis of Resistance at the Syrian Crossroads. Now, the abstract of my paper has the following, which concludes what my paper is going to be about. The paper attempts to describe the announced and the disclosed positions of the Axis of Resistance stands with the government in Damascus during the overwhelming war on Syria since the insurgency of 2011. I will explain what the Axis of Resistance is. The Axis of Resistance is basically the resistance against the Israeli entity's occupation of Palestine. It is against the US and NATO imperialism and the imposing of capitalism on sovereign states in the Arab world, especially sovereign states that have been fighting the Zionist entity in our region. This paper also sheds light on the steadfastness of the Axis in more recent developments in the region, With the liberation of large swaths of land that have been happening specifically after the intervention of the Russian Air Force in the Syrian conflict, the war on Syria, and from obviously the Takfiri groups in Aleppo and the enclosing on Daesh or ISIS in other areas of Syria. Now, the content of this paper will be basically divided into 2 parts. The first part The second part will cover the transformation of Syria's regional allies, mainly Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, known as the Axis of Resistance, from advisors to significant allied forces on the ground inside Syria. Now, because I don't have time a lot today, I'm going to focus on Hezbollah's role, basically because first of all they started first, and second of all because I'm from South Lebanon and I'm proud of it. Second part is— covers the military effect of this transformation on the gains against the various Takfiri groups. How this military involvement or military intervention alongside the Syrian government helped in gaining ground against the jihadi groups and liberating areas, giving them back to the Syrian government. Now, the ultimate objective of the paper should be that it's going to discuss the evolving visions And the long-term plans of this axis, given that international negotiations obviously have failed to establish a path forward for ending this war in Syria. We were so happy more than two weeks ago that the Syrian Arab Army was retaking swaths of land back from ISIS, back from the Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra and Ahraar al-Sham brigades. And at that specific time, when The Syrian government was gaining ground when the Astana talks were about to happen and have a breakthrough in political resolution inside of Syria. Oops, chemical attack. I'm not going to go there. You can watch my videos to know what I think about that. But after that, we had the illegal U.S. airstrike on the Homs military base, the Shayrat military base, which, by the way, I always like to emphasize on that, that base was the base where S-200 missiles were fired against the Israeli air forces that were working as the al-Qaeda air forces inside of Syria by bombing, intentionally bombing Syrian Arab Army posts and their allies' posts as well. Now basically, let us talk about Hezbollah. I'm sure that a lot of you know what is Hezbollah, what kind of an organization it is, and I'm sure a lot of you also know what Hezbollah is as well. I'm here to talk about Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a Lebanese group. It was a group of southerners and a group of youth from the Bekaa region in Lebanon. The Bekaa region is closer to Syria. The southern part is on the northern part of occupied Palestine. We all know what happened. We all know the civil war. We all know the invasion starting in the 1979 invasion of Israel up until it invaded and reached Beirut. The Lebanese capital. We all know the horrific acts. I'm not going to talk about that. I'm not going to talk about the war, but I'm going to talk about this group of young men, just the age of a lot of men that I see in this room today, that decided that no, we're not going to take that. We're not going to just sit and watch our land be stolen. We're not going to sit and watch our families be killed and driven out of their lands. So basically, they started resisting And at that time, resisting means if you don't have a gun, you resist with your stone. You don't have a stone, you resist with your shoe. We all have shoes. So that's how it began. I'm serious. That's how it began. After that, we had help from regional allies who became friends and now are companions. And now I am even compelled to say that we are even more than allies. We are more than brothers. We are humans facing the same destiny.

Speaker 2: If we fall, we will fall all. If we rise, we will rise all.

Marwa Osman: Thank you. We rise all. What happened is we had allies from Iran to Iraq to Syria that helped us stand in the face of the Zionist entity's dream of expansion, and we fought back. These young men fought back, and they fought hard. They endured a lot of losses, and in the end, in the year 2000, we proudly liberated and retook our land, and we revenged for all the martyrs that have fallen. In 2006, it was not okay for the Zionist entity to keep the resistance growing. So they decided to wage a war against Lebanon. We all know what happened then. And later on came the 2011 insurgency or the war against Syria. Now, what happened after that? And what is the role of Hezbollah in all of this? And why would Hezbollah actually go inside of Syrian territory and fight for another state's government? That's a legitimate question. I'm here to answer that. First of all, the resistance axis represented by Hezbollah in Lebanon refused and opposed Western interests, specifically the US and Israeli/NATO interests. We all can talk for hours about the capitalist dreams, about the imperialism, about the global economy, globalization, whatever you want. Basically, 2— there are actually 3 main reasons why Syria is in the war-torn state it is in right now. Basically because they refused to comply to the U.S. demands of becoming part of the global economy. They refused to use the U.S. currency. And they basically refused to give their backs to their Axis of Resistance friends. Including in the global economy is the pipelines, the gas, and all that included in the—

Speaker 3: Oil.

Marwa Osman: The global economy. But the third part was refusing to turn backs to the resistance of— the assets of resistance. Right now, I'm not saying this for the first time. If you go back and listen to all our speeches from leaders of the resistance, you could know. And from President Bashar al-Assad himself, if President Bashar al-Assad was given the option that he would become the next Nobel Peace Prize winner if he turns his back to the resistance, if he stops the Iranian influence in the region and if he stops the backing and the arming of Hezbollah as a resistance group. You can find that anywhere. I'm not making that up. After that, Syria, as I told you as well, it is essential for the military supply, for the weaponry supply for Hezbollah in its fight against the Zionist entity. Now Hezbollah's intervention in Syria, which began late 2012, beginning 2013, Hezbollah's intervention in Syria has been criticized by a lot of people, basically people who are maybe best friends with certain Gulf states and with certain imperial powers. It was criticized by many in the Arab world as a sign that they have abandoned resistance to fight fellow Muslims, bold Muslims, italic Muslims, Whatever you want to call it. I'm going to just negate that thing by saying one, giving one evidence, if you will. My evidence is that the number of Hezbollah commanders that were assassinated by the Israeli entity inside of Syria serves as a reminder that the movement has not shifted its focus away from Israel, but in fact it is fighting Israeli proxy groups inside of Syria. Otherwise, explain why the Israeli occupying air force has launched airstrikes against Palmyra, for example, after the Syrian Arab Army and the allies had liberated that land from ISIS. Explain why they have been treating, helping, arming, and training Nusra, al-Qaeda affiliate Nusra, in the southern part of Syria, right on the borderline with occupied Palestine. Explain why they have been bombing Certain roads and areas in Damascus, way up in Damascus, which does not inflict any sort of risk on the Israeli entity, which were shipments coming to both the resistance and the Syrian army, moving them from one part to another. So if that's not the case, then please prove me wrong. Explain to me. Now these are the photos of some of the commanders that were assassinated inside of Syria. We all remember Samir al-Quntar, Amil Asrasi al-Quntar. He is the Head of the liberated, if you will, I mean, Aslam Harani, because he was liberated after the 2006 war. He spent 32 years behind Israeli bars because he was a resistance fighter. He was liberated after 2006. He was assassinated inside Syria. Mustafa Badreddine, the long famous, trying famous Mustafa Badreddine, we all know about him. If you don't, I advise you to Research this great man. He was also assassinated lately inside of Syria, and Jihad Mughniye, the son of Ahmad Mughniye, they both got assassinated inside of Syria. Ahmad Mughniye was assassinated in Damascus, and in 2015, Jihad, the son of Ahmad, was also assassinated in Qumaytra, which is. bordering occupied Palestine.

Speaker 2: Why?

Marwa Osman: Because he was basically included in training and giving— passing knowledge on to the resistance groups, the Syrian resistance groups that were being formulated on that area facing the Israeli army to be prepared for the liberation of the Golan Heights, which soon, inshallah, will happen. Now, why is Hezbollah fighting in Syria? I will also cover that, but why should I talk about it if the head of Hezbollah Can talk about it better than me. Let's watch together.

Speaker 2: يجي الخطر الثاني والتهديد الثاني الذي أيضا تعلمت تحدثنا عنه خلال فترة الماضية الذي يهدد كل دول المنطقة. مثل ما إسرائيل خطر وتهدد كل دول وحكمات شعوب المنطقة. اليوم هذا الخطر يهدد كل دول وشعوب المنطقة وهو الخطر اللي هو هذا التكفير. بصراحة تشوفوا التكفير وبحجزاته ولحاله ما مشاكل كتير خطيرة أنا لو واحد وتجي يقول لي أنت كافر بستوفي يعني أنا ما طالب شهادي منه أنه يقول لي أنا كافر أو مؤمن يكفر ويبدو إياه هذا شأن يعني إذا كان الأمر يبقى في الدائرة الفكرية القانونية بستوفي بالنسبة للدنيا ما طالبين شهادي منه ما حدا طالب شهادي منه حدا لأن احنا ولا غيرنا وفي الآخرة مفتاح الجنة ليس جيد ليسوت البدويات وطلع البدويات مفتاح الجنة معروف وين المشكلة ليس فقط في التكفير المشكلة أنهم عندما يكفرون لا يقبلون هذا الآخرة الذي يختلف عقائدياً أو فكرياً أو مذهبياً معهم أو حتى سياسياً وإنما يذهبون مباشرةً إلى الاستباحة لا يوجد حل ثاني استباحة الدماء والأعراض والأموال إلى الإقصاء إلى الإلغاء إلى الشطب إلى الحدث وهذا العمل بات معروفاً لا يحتاج مني الآن إلى وقته ولا استذلال ما يحتاج لأنه شيء معروف بالبلد بكل المنطقة بات معروفاً هلأ نحكي عن السياق كمان ببين شواهد طبعاً هذا الإرهاب التكثير اليوم هو موجود في كل منطقة يتشكل من جماعات مصلحة موجودة في أغلب دول المنطقة بل يمكن في كل دول المنطقة هذا التيارات أو الجماعات تنتهج منهجاً تكفيرياً إقصائياً إلغائياً تستبيح في كل من عداها حتى هنا الموضوع ليس موضوع سنة ولا سنة أو مسلمين ومسيحيين مسيحيين مفهوم حتى في الطيارة الإسلامية شيعة علويين دوز إسماعيلية زيدي كل من غير السنة محسوم عندما نأتي إلى السنة كل من عداهم كل من عداهم من السنة أيضا هو في دائرة التكفير وأسهل شيء عندهم يطلع يقول له أنت كافر مرتد طيب ألم تحكم قبل أسابيع داعش على جماعة النصرة داعش اللي هي هي وجماعة النصرة فكرة واحدة منهج واحد كانوا تنظيم واحد أمير واحد بيعة واحدة نفس واحد أخلاق واحدة واحد تماماً بكل شيء بالزيغ وبالشاكل وبالمنطق وباللغة وبالأدبيات وبالعقل وبالقلب لما اختلفوا بموضوع سياسي ممكن يختلفوا على بيان النصر في سوريا يمكن على اقتسام الغنائم حكم عليهم بالكفر والاعتدال بسهولة جدا يعني وما يستقبل ذلك من محكمة هذا الأمر ينص الواضح بكل ممكن.

Marwa Osman: Basically what leader of Hezbollah, the leader of the Islamic Resistance Hezbollah saying that we decided to intervene in Syria because of these sectarian groups. You might say that what is it to him? Why would he go intervene in a war going on next door? Why would he do that? Well, that's why. This is one of the bomb sites that happened in Beirut, not the stronghold of Hezbollah. It is called the Beirut suburbs. It has Shias, Sunnis, Christians, and Druze living in it. It's not a Shia stronghold, as it is portrayed in the mainstream media by a little bit of I know what I'm talking about. This is one of the major sites of explosions. As you may see, this had the fingerprint of ISIS and ISIS affiliates. This had been going on since 2012, all till the end of 2014. It started at the beginning of 2012, which is why Hezbollah cleaned the area around Beirut and larger Beirut and the borderline. They started working On the borderline before they went into Syria. Now basically, before I start talking about how the Hezbollah military role shifted dramatically inside of Syria, now you know why Hezbollah entered. It needed to take the risk out because the risk was getting into— spilled over into Lebanon. By the way, I hate the word spilled because it all started in Lebanon. If you have forgotten, I could remind you that in 2008 in Nahar al-Beyt, we had more than— I think it's more than 100 martyrs for the Lebanese Army and more than 1,000 injured fighting al-Qaeda affiliates in the northern part of Lebanon known as al-Qaeda, which became known as al-Nusra factions who fled from that area after the Lebanese Army took control of it. So it started there. So it's not—

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Marwa Osman: A good term, I should say, spilled over. But at that point, Ismail decided, that's it, we cannot just remain sitting there waiting for these people to come and kill us. So basically, what happened, what you just saw, just happened again and again and again in Syria. And sadly, it happened again 2 days ago.

Speaker 3: Is there a—

Marwa Osman: These would be the scenes of my kids had it not been for my party who's defending me. I went inside of Syria to protect me. This is the bus stop in Ras al-Din, west Aleppo, where people from Kafra Ya Tra were besieged for 2 days by the Syrian al-Qaeda affiliates. Here, they were still waiting for the negotiations For the people from Madaya to go to Egypt and for them to commemorate it. And then the Western-backed terrorists did this. I'm sorry you had to see this. Have you heard about this in the mainstream media? It happened 2 days ago. If you haven't seen what Kefraya Farah was, Before this happened, this is Kufriyan Far.

Speaker 3: Fawa and Kufriyan are two villages located on the outskirts of Idlib in North Syria, with a mostly Shia Muslim population. Since March 2015, 40,000 civilians have been under siege by Tabata al-Nusra, Jaysh al-Fatah, and other terrorist factions. The terrorists, who deem Shia Muslims as heretics, have vowed to wipe out and kill everyone in the 2 villages. Isolated villagers have been bravely defending themselves with little access to water, food, medicine, and electricity. The terrorists have carried out daily indiscriminate rocket attacks, killing hundreds of civilians, including women and children. I'm from the village of Meanwhile, in the south of the country, the Syrian Arab Army alongside Hezbollah forces have sieged the Syrian stronghold of Zabadani. However, progress in Zabadani has been stalled as militant factions are using the 2 villages as a pawn, threatening a massacre in the 2 villages.

Marwa Osman: Despite the fact that I won't be talking about this in my. Paper, but I found it vital for us to see what happened because it just happened 2 days ago. And to show you that this was happening inside of Lebanon at the time after that decision was made by the resistance group Hezbollah to go into Syria, first of all to clean the borderline with Syria, the Lebanese villages, and then to go forward into Lebanese— into Syrian land.

Speaker 3: What happened?

Marwa Osman: 2013, Hezbollah's military role in Syria shifted dramatically from a small advisory mission to a direct combat role involving a large number of fighters. Starting with Qusayr, Hezbollah expanded its military. You can see the map of Qusayr. They expanded their military presence, helped obviously by the Syrian government, to regain traction in areas which had been lost to terrorist In fact, ground assaults in Qusayr and Qalamoun were essentially led by Hezbollah forces while the Syrian Arab Army provided artillery and air cover for its senior partner. Moreover, Hezbollah also took the initiative to lead both Syrian fighters, Syrian army fighters, and Iranian forces at that time also came into Syria at the demand of the Syrian government to help. They initiated the lead for these forces in the triangle territory linking Daraa Quneitra, and the southwest of Damascus province. Now, in other areas such as parts of Damascus, east of Ghouta, and Kasab, Hezbollah forces engaged in direct combat. We heard the doctor and also Ms. Amaran talk about Kasab. Hezbollah forces engaged in direct combat alongside the Syrian Arab Army, improving the latter's combat performances with their guerrilla tactics which they gained in the 2006 war. Because as an army, you have a special systematic form of traditional fighting, whereas Hezbollah, it's not a state, it's not an army. So they have gained their guerrilla warfare because of the engagement with the Israeli entity. Now, in Homs, Aleppo, and the Golan Heights, Hezbollah deployed special operation forces to assist, train, advise, and organize Syrian regular forces and paramilitary NTF, which are the National Defense Forces. As I told you before, we saw the picture of the son of the commander who was also a commander, Ayman, Jihad, the son of Ayman, who was killed in that area by the Israeli entity. Given the movement's combat experience in unconventional warfare and its training in urban warfare as well, Hezbollah special forces unit has served as a significant force multiplier for the Syrian troops. Here, where in my paper I'll be talking more about how they shifted their work on the ground, helping pushing these groups, especially for the National Defense Forces. Now, my paper will also highlight Hezbollah's role in Syria, given Hezbollah's continued prioritization of its resistance activity while entangled in multiple military theaters across the region. Because I started by saying that a lot of Arabs were saying, oh look, Hezbollah— Israel is no longer the enemy of Hezbollah, it's now fighting its Muslim brothers. So while entangled in multiple military theaters across the region, it indicates that it has transcended its original singular mission of resisting the Israeli entity, and confronting Israel is now one role Among several others, Hezbollah has assumed in its post-uprising, so-called uprising, regional political order, which has ushered in the rise of Takfirism, Jihadism. You can call it whatever you want. It's terrorism. Now, outgrowing its resistance role, Hezbollah now assumes responsibility for guarding Lebanon's borders because we saw what happened. He went into the Beqaa region, the Baalbek. the, um, Hermann region as well, and now part of the, uh, the village that is up further than—

Speaker 2: Arsal.

Marwa Osman: Arsal. In Arsal as well, which is also half, partly still occupied by al-Qaeda terrorists. Now, it's a responsibility also for guarding Lebanon's borders, facilitating homeland security and counterterrorism. As well as counterinsurgency operations in Syria, and some even say in Iraq, despite the fact that we don't have still evidence about that, but maybe there was certain coordination and training. Now the resistance is no longer confined to expelling Zionist occupiers and preventing Israeli aggression, but it is now intent on preserving the political territorial framework and the strategic environment that it requires for its continued operational integrity. Now, the destabilization of both spheres by the Takfiri jihadis has compelled Hezbollah to transform itself to a post-resistance movement. This post-resistance movement has been talked about a lot, especially by academics in Lebanon, and I advise you to read more from Dr. Amal Saad, who spoke about this. Extensively. Now, by saying the post-resistance movement, she doesn't mean— when she used that term, she didn't mean that it denotes the end of the resistance, not at all. It should be understood that in much the same way of the concept when we say post-colonial can be interpreted as the continuation of colonialism, although through different or new relationships concerning power. This This is what we mean by saying the post-resistance movement. Now the resistance by no means over has now morphed into a transnational— more than a transnational resistance army whose core identity and mission remain tied to its raison d'être, its own purpose, the first purpose of resisting Israel, but which is also committed to protecting the resistance backbone. Where is the resistance backbone? Syria. So it is committed to its— to defend its resistance back, not just as, say, Hassan Nasrallah said— we will hear a bit longer— he described it. This is how he described it: to that end, Hezbollah has sought to wrest Syrian and Lebanese territories from jihadist control. He has to do it, or else we will turn into an Aleppo, an Idlib, and possibly also a Fallujah. Just as the movement conventionalized its guerrilla warfare in 2006 First, before I go there, in essence, Hezbollah now is confronting a transnational insurgency that seeks to expand its so-called influence or proto-state or maybe its presence in the area. So by transnationalizing its resistance in turn— what do I mean when I say that? Just as the movement, it took and it gained its guerrilla warfare in 2006 with its This new, if you will, the hybrid resistance paradigm which uses conventional and unconventional methods together. As I said, the SAA has conventional methods, Hezbollah has unconventional methods. They fuse this. It has now created a new model of counterinsurgency in which its own irregular hybridized resistance army seeks to suppress the insurgency or the insurgent activity of another hybridized irregular force backed by US, by NATO, by allied Gulf states, and by Sultan Erdogan. Now, the war with ISIS and with al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front is viewed as an existential battle. It is an existential battle for this resistance group. With an— it has an annihilative and uncompromising force that is hell-bent On eliminating all Shia. We have heard everyone talk today that they are calling Shias that they are more infidels than Christians or whatever. Everyone is an infidel for Wahhabis, but mainly they are focusing on Shia, which by extension is focusing on the resistance, the resistance against the Israeli entity. I emphasize that. Now, while Taklila Jalchi is not politically delegitimized in the same way that Zionism is, There's a difference in there. Nor is its right to exist as a religious doctrine questioned. Now, Takfiri militancy or jihadism is very much acquainted with Israel. Some people might be nodding their heads now, but let me tell you why. Hezbollah's discourse likens the danger posed by ISIS and Nusra to Israel. How is that possible, you might say? Well, in one speech, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah Invoked Israeli oppression as an analogy. It is an— he put it in comparison to the potential loss of land, to the destruction of homes, to the capture of women, to the killing of children, to the humiliation. If I say all of these 5 things, what do you remember? ISIS.

Speaker 3: I say ISIS.

Marwa Osman: But go back before 2011 and I say these 5 words, What do you think of? More? I am heartbroken. Palestine. I think about Palestine. Qana, Mansouri were avenged. Who's going to avenge for them? Who's going to get Palestine back to its people? Who's going to stop the annihilation? Who's going to stop the murder? Who's going to stop the killing of children, the capture of women? Do you hear about that anymore? Have you heard about that? In his Resistance and Liberation Day speech of 2000 and the head of the resistance movement, Husbollah, Sayyid Nasrallah, went beyond this analogy when he drew parallels between the mass migration of Jewish Zionist colonials, colonial settlers to Palestine sponsored by colonial powers in the 20th century and the mobilization and deployment of jihadists in the region, which he argued had been facilitated by modern-day Imperialists. How on earth has Nusra got its hands on TOW missiles? How on earth did ISIS have accidentally get from the sky— it was dropped by the US Air Force and US coalition. They keep saying, you can go and search for them, say we accidentally dropped aid, aka weapons, to ISIS. Oh my God, how on earth How on earth did the US satellites, the US Air Force, not see the convoys and convoys of Toyota, the white Toyota that was crossing over from Syria— from Iraq into Syria? By the way, thank you, Japan. They were crossing over from Iraq into Syria. How on earth did they not see it? It was televised on Al Jazeera, but live. You know, you want more than that. How on earth did they not see that? Well, they did, but they were just Okay. Pretending not to see it. Jihadists are not just morally and politically equated with Israel according to the interpretation presented by Hezbollah, but strategically linked as well. ISIS is portrayed as being the willing or unwitting servant of the US-Israeli scheme to divide the region and foment strife, while Nusra, whose military and intelligence cooperation with Israel has now been well documented by the UN, by the Western mainstream media and by the Zionist media itself. You can say I'm lying, well, go and read what the Israelis are writing about. It's considered the jihadist incarnation of Israel's collaborationist South Lebanon Army. If you don't know it, it's called Jish Lahad. It's the exact same thing that happened in South Lebanon before the liberation during the occupation of South Lebanon where they had Jish Lahad To take control over it, and they called it ironically the South Lebanon Army. It is on the basis that Hezbollah does not view the U.S.-led coalition strike on ISIS targets in Syria and Iraq as anything more than, quote, a decloaking, decloaking operation designed to contain the organization rather than defeat it. Need I say more? Is there any proof For what I'm saying, well, you could research it and see what happened in Mosul, what happened in Fallujah, Anbar Province, what happened in Deir ez-Zor, what is happening in Raqqa, what happened in the Tabqa Dam. The Tabqa Dam, the Syrian Arab Army was blocked from taking control of the area and advancing towards Raqqa where the ISIS stronghold is to try and liberate it.

Speaker 3: Why?

Marwa Osman: Because, oh no, no, we're going to liberate that. How are you going to do that? Well, we are going to bomb civilians. This is what's going on. If you don't know, read about it. Each strike that is being bombed, there are more than 100 civilians dying by each strike, exactly like what happened in Mosul 4 weeks ago. In Mosul, the U.S. targeted one building supposedly that has ISIS on its roof, killing 245 civilians. 2 days later, the Pentagon said it were 4 civilians. Well, we had a count, we spoke with the families, we saw the funerals. It was not 4. Ending off how Israel is linked to these proxies inside of Syria and why Israel is actually linked, not NATO or the US. Well, they are all connected, and the closest base for the US in the region is Israel. It's practically the 51st state of the US being funded Thank you, Obama. $38 billion of US tax money going to Israel before you leave office. What, how, and what are they linked exactly together with? Oh my God, where's the video? Can I link it to my laptop? No, I don't have the video.

Speaker 2: نعملون مباشرة عند الإسرائيلي ماشي الحال. حلفناكم وسنعرفكم وفي دولة مطلوب تعتذركم وتقاصصكم وتقاضيكم وفي كل الأحوال أيدينا ستصل إليكم إذا الدولة أهملتكم أيدينا ستصل إليكم نحن لست نعمل أي عمل بعد إذا اتفقنا ولا ولكن في كل مرحلة أو مجال الدولة لن تتحمل مسئوليتها أنا لا أجامل أحد يبدو يعطيه ويقتل نحن سنتحمل مسئوليتها إذا كنتم كمان خليني أكون شفاف إذا كنتم تدعون أنكم تدافعون هكذا كما تدعون عن الشعب السوري سيكون موضوع حتى منها أنه أنتوا عم تعاقبوا حزب الله ما يوحدن الفرضيات والتحليلات أنتوا عم تعاقبوا حزب الله على تدخله في سوريا ما ديقولش هالكلمة الشغلة الأولى أنتوا جماعات تكفيرية كعب السورية مش بس بموالدين نظام حتى بمعايدين نظام أشد فتكاً بالشعب السوري أنتوا رجال الدين المسيحيين اللي معاكم بأي معارضة عم تحطفوهم وعم تقتلوهم أنتوا عم تفجروا مساجد أنتوا عم تقتلوا أطفال أنتوا عم تبعثوا سيارات مفخخة إلى المدن السويوية دون حساب ولا كتاب ألستم كذلك؟ أنتم الذين تدعون أنكم تدافعون عن الشعب السويوي أنتم الأشد والأكثر فكاً وقتلاً بأبناء الشعب السوري هذا واحد اثنين بالنسبة لنا كمان بشفافية وضوح نحن دخلنا في مكان ما أو ألكنة محددة وبحدود ما إلى القتال في سوريا ولأول ما باش طيبة احكي بهالوضوح الشديد هذا نحن حيث نقاتل نقاتل بقيامنا وبدوابطنا نحن لم نجهد على جميع وانتم تجلسون على الجرح نحن لم نقتل اسيرا وانتم بتواقف الاسرة على الحيطان والدام الكنوات وبتعدموهم في وضح النهار نحن لم نقتل المدنيين نحن في بعض معاركنا من اجل تجنب المدنيين سقط لنا المزيد من الشهداء وكل ما قيل خلال الاشهر الماضي ويقال عبر بعض الفضائيات العربية من أننا قصفنا وقتلنا وفعلنا وانتكفنا مجازب هي أكاذيب وافتراعات أنتم لا تترافعون عن الشعب السويوي ولكن إذا كنتم تظنون أنكم بقتلكم لنسائنا وبقتلكم لأطفالنا وبقتلكم لأدنيائنا وبقتلكم وتدميركم لأحيائنا وفوانا ومدورنا يمكن أن نتراجع عن رؤية أو بصيرة أو موقف اتخذناه أنتم مشتبهون أيها الحلقة اقرأوا تجنبتنا خلال ثلاثين عاماً مع إسرائيل That is how I intend to conclude.

Marwa Osman: What are the plans? What are the future plans of— where's the PowerPoint presentation? What are the future plans of the Axis of Resistance? How it will end? Despite the fact that I am a researcher, an academic, and a political commentator and writer about Syria, I first and foremost and proudly love Syria, and I will always say, long live Syria, united, undivided, and Secular. And if you Google that— I just did this morning, I showed it to Marwan— if you Google that, along with Syria United, Undivided, and Secular, I accidentally found myself right next to Chocolate Cake, you know, and Miss Spice Girl, Hailey. So I end off with this.