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Today is the day of the photo. The scene will be very significant and messages will be delivered in several directions. Today will mark the beginning of a new chapter and close an old one. A powerful man called Donald Trump will shake hands at the White House with another powerful man called Ahmad Al-Sharaa.
The American master of surprises will receive the man who took the Syrians, the Middle East and world by surprise. No Syrian president has entered the White House since the country gained its independence in 1946. The White House is where alarm, assurances, support and certificates of good conduct are handed out. Neither Hafez Assad nor his son Bashar ever received such a welcome or invitation. Al-Sharaa is treading where no one dared tread before.
Benjamin Netanyahu watches the screen. The date is worth waiting for and concerns him. He mutters to himself: this man would not be where he is now were it not for the tonnes of Israeli bombs that struck Iranian sites in Syria and were it not for the crackdown against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards that forced it to withdraw its factions, “advisers” and ambitions from Syria.
The successive strikes left Vladimir Putin’s forces helpless before the ensuing rapid developments. Saving “Mr. President” was no longer possible, like it was a few years earlier. All Russia could do was provide a plane that flew Bashar to his Russian exile on “humanitarian” grounds.
