Baladi News – (Mona Ali)
Former Lebanese president Amin Gemayel said that the return of Syrian refugees is the "holiest of holies." He stated in an interview with Al Akhbar on Saturday: "We need to look at the return of the displaced as an urgent priority and as the holiest of holies for various reasons, including the avoidance of repeating the Lebanese experience for decades with the Palestinian displacement that led in the late 1960s to the collapse of Lebanon, although the situation of the Syrian displacement is much more serious than the previous case because of the different doctrinal, ideological and organizational affiliations of the displaced, which are the main threat to the country, the social fabric, and the security and economic situations. What is more dangerous is the unlimited support provided by the United Nations and non-governmental organizations that provide them with all kinds of financial, political and moral requirements without taking into account Lebanon's interests and stability in both its economic and security aspects. In this sense, we should do all that we can to achieve the return of the displaced and prevent the current situation from going on as it is, which presages doubled dangers. So we must not stop at sensitivities and complications."
By the sensitivities and complications, Gemayel meant rising above the past conflicts with Assad's regime and engaging in a dialogue to expel two million and a half Syrian refugees who had escaped to Lebanon from the brutality of Assad's regime, Iran, and Russia.
The statements of the former Lebanese president are part of the military, political and media campaign targeting 1.5 million Syrian refugees living in miserable conditions in Lebanon amid arrests, killings and trials on charges of "terrorism" in a systematic approach for sending them back to the hell of Assad's regime.
Jordan, which hosts a similar number of Syrian refugees, aims to implement a similar plan in principle, but with different details. With the completion of the "safe " or the "de-escalation" zone in southern Syria, Washington, Moscow and Amman announced on Friday that returning a large part of the refugees to Daraa is within reach, which is planned by Amman a long time ago according to the former Jordanian Information Minister "Samih Maayta" in a comment on the negotiations of the safe zone in the south of Syria two months ago, when he spoke about a "humanitarian condition" for sending back refugees to large camps in southern Syria.
Jordanian media sources indicated that the "safe zone" might encourage hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in the Jordanian territory, who place an enormous pressure on Jordan's infrastructure, to return to their villages and towns, especially since most of these refugees had fled to Jordan from the Syrian south nearby the Jordanian borders, which will be part of the "safe zone."
However, research centers' estimations disproved such an option and showed that those who want to return are a minority because of the uncertain fate of the safe zone as well as the possibility of the failure of its management due to the international conflict to control it.
Such estimations are proven by the abstinence of Syrian refugees in Turkey from returning to Idlib despite the current calm after receiving news that Astana negotiations failed to reach a solution revealing the fate of the province.
In Turkey, 3 million Syrian refugees are fully reassured because of not forcing them to return to either Assad's hell or the opposition's areas, whereas their counterparts in Lebanon, and to a less extent in Jordan, are extremely terrified while awaiting their fates to be written and decided without any possibility to protest even if their sentence is death.