A New Look at Syria, for the 14 Members of the International Court of Justice

Soon after the death of Bassel, Hafez al-Assad decided to make Bashar the new heir apparent. Over the next six and a half years until his death in 2000, Hafez prepared Bashar for taking over power. Preparations for a smooth transition were made on three levels. First, support was built up for Bashar in the military and security apparatus. Second, Bashar's image was established with the public. And lastly, Bashar was familiarised with the mechanisms of running the country.

To establish his credentials in the military, Bashar entered the military academy at Homs in 1994 and was propelled through the ranks to become a colonel of the elite Syrian Republican Guard in January 1999.To establish a power base for Bashar in the military, old divisional commanders were pushed into retirement, and new, young, Alawite officers with loyalties to him took their place.

In 1998, Bashar took charge of Syria's Lebanon file, which had since the 1970s been handled by Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam, who had until then been a potential contender for president. By taking charge of Syrian affairs in Lebanon, Bashar was able to push Khaddam aside and establish his own power base in Lebanon. In the same year, after minor consultation with Lebanese politicians, Bashar installed Emile Lahoud, a loyal ally of his, as the President of Lebanon and pushed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri aside, by not placing his political weight behind his nomination as prime minister. To further weaken the old Syrian order in Lebanon, Bashar replaced the long-serving de facto Syrian High Commissioner of Lebanon, Ghazi Kanaan, with Rustum Ghazaleh.

Parallel to his military career, Bashar was engaged in public affairs. He was granted wide powers and became head of the bureau to receive complaints and appeals of citizens, and led a campaign against corruption. As a result of this campaign, many of Bashar's potential rivals for president were put on trial for corruption. Bashar also became the President of the Syrian Computer Society and helped to introduce the internet in Syria, which aided his image as a modernizer and reformer.

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Military hospitals? Rumors of millions of Syrians killed as reported by extremely reliable and truthful Syrians whom I know well and trust? Russians bombing the rebels? What does all of this point to?

Before even beginning to answer those questions, we must learn about the 6000-year history of civilization in one of the earliest cultures to develop writing, and that will be in the very near future.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and to share it with those who will benefit and learn from it, especially the young and otherwise uninformed youth of every jurisdiction outside of the Middle East. The loss of historical knowledge to young people's minds who are trained by putting video games in front of them rather than books: this alarms me, because when those children grow up they will have zero comprehension of any part of the world's history and thus will be incapable of any reasonable decision-making free of propaganda and yet with a fully accurate perception of any nation's history, let alone their own. Such will be the price of dumbing down the multinational society of the future, unless we change that.

Such a mission of thorough historical comprehension is at the core of the United Nations Santa Fe, of which I am the Founder. Early on, suffice it to say that historical knowledge, from all spans of time, especially the recent past, since the end of World War II with its premonitions of thermonuclear warfare to come: historical knowledge can prevent World War III, and I don't mean the genocidal depredations of Gates and his pandemic profiteering, which is being exposed and broken down by intelligent people all over the world who will work together to prevent his destruction of the poor peoples, especially and above all, those in Africa, always the target for the creation of guinea pigs for more medical experimentation, so reminiscent of Mengele in the German concentration camps.

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