He compared Assad to the “strong” before … Abd al-Masih al-Shami calls for a “new era” in Syria

“This system is robbing Syria.” “Syria needs a new era.” “The current system is not decent and is not authorized to be part of the future of Syria.”

These statements were received by the Syrian investigator, known to be loyal to the regime, Abd al-Masih al-Shami, as part of the “opposite direction” program broadcast by Al-Jazeera yesterday, Tuesday, May 12.

Al-Shami’s position has fluctuated in the past nine years, despite his work alongside the government of Europe’s regime, until it immediately attacked him yesterday.

Years of defending the system.

Nine years ago, in 2011, Syrian activists distributed a video clip of Abd al-Masih al-Shami during his fall to the ground, in the reverse direction program, on social media, after an episode in which al-Shami defended the Syrian regime.

In September 2011, al-Shami appeared on the show, describing regime president Bashar al-Assad as the “last bulwark of Arab nationalism” and “the representative of Syrian territorial integrity,” a phrase that has been repeated. by loyalists of the Syrian regime throughout the years of the war in Syria.

Abd al-Masih al-Shami defines himself as a “Syrian writer and researcher”, and in 2015 he was appointed by the Minister for National Reconciliation Affairs, Faisal Qashash, to form a committee to oversee reconciliation in European cities.

The committee’s mission is “to facilitate the return of displaced persons to their homeland and to help people from homeland in the expatriate for their conditions,” according to the commission statement, which emphasized that the committee “is committed to providing periodic bi-monthly reports on his work. “

Al-Shami posted on his personal page on “Facebook” at the time, that the committee “is a very important announcement for all Syrians abroad in Germany and Europe,” and said: “The time for relief came and opened the way for a solution for all Syrian expatriates, who dreamed of establishing their legal status and returning to their homeland. ” And communicate again with loved ones. “

Criticism of Iran

Al-Shami continued his defense of the regime for six years, but criticized Assad’s most prominent ally, Iran, in 2017 through a Facebook post.

He then accused Iran of being a direct cause of stealing Syrian money, occupying their lands and controlling rulers, describing it as the “strategic treasure of the United States and Israel”, and also warned that the Syrian regime loses its ” loyal. “

Abd al-Masih’s position was not at a time of anger, as his attack on Iran and the Syrian regime began to take a growing trend since 2017, and he repeated his attack several times.

Continuous criticism

Al-Shami continued his attack on the Syrian regime directly and indirectly, unlike his position in 2011.

The Syrian researcher mocked the Assad regime and considered rainwater flooding some of the streets of Damascus in 2018 as a “global plot at the axis of resistance”, and criticized “spending the public budget on the Awqaf Ministry instead of repairing the infrastructure. “

In 2019, Al-Shami attacked the Syrian director and member of the Popular Assembly, Najdat Ismail Anzur, in the context of the movie “Blood of the Palms”, which sparked anger among supporters of the Sweida governorate in the south from Syria, due to the representation of the people of the region as “cowards” during the military operations in Palmyra against the Islamic state.

Positions included

Between the two episodes of the opposite direction program between 2011 and 2020, it is possible to monitor the change in Abdul-Masih al-Shami’s attitudes.

The man who defended Rami Makhlouf and the Assad regime in 2011, in an episode that brought him together with the director of the Center for Justice and Accountability, Muhammad al-Abdullah, turned radically and considered that “the regime is a mafia that loots the country”.

Al-Shami’s acute position did not appear in public for the first time last night, as he had previously written on his Facebook page in February that “the worst thing in Syria is the absence of clear borders on the internal and external political scene.”

Al-Shami described in his publication the Syrian regime “a mixture of various heterogeneous components, the remnants of the regime, the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, Iran, Hezbollah and Russia.”

On all occasions when al-Shami attacked the Assad regime, the name of the latter was not explicitly mentioned, despite mentioning the words “regime, mafias, corruption”.

But Al-Shami, who is changing his position recently, attacked many opponents, including Ghiath Matar and Hamza Al-Khatib in 2011, separately.