As well as the real motives behind the refusal of many countries to provide Syria with the reasons that would make it able to stand on its feet, and whether this refusal to provide falls within the scope of political blackmail with the aim of imposing dictates from abroad.
Minister Raed Al-Saleh Al-Bahsa released his disappointment from the confines of the reservation he had kept within himself for a long time before revealing it in a rare moment of revelation, as the official statements indicated that everything was going well and that the entire international community was at the heart of the new Syria and that a decent life for Syrians was just around the corner.
Perhaps Al-Saleh realized that the Syrian citizen, who had been burned by rising prices with sparks of fire, no longer had the courage to listen to the bell of promises, while extreme poverty threatened him at every moment. He was even more astonished that the countries that gave the revolution money and weapons with unparalleled generosity had withheld financial and economic support, following the fall of Assad, except to the extent that made things stand at the gates of collapse without entering his world.
And because each minister has a share in the name of his ministry, the Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management declared a state of emergency when he asserted that the conferences of donor countries that are usually held in order to improve the situation of countries that have just emerged from the war did not take place in Syria, so the Syrians must manage their disasters themselves, and when a rich country like Qatar stops giving Syria the electricity grant that is supposed to be from the pocket of the Gulf jalabiya, then what is behind the hill is what is known about the Gulf emirate’s stinginess and it is not in its policy nor in the policy of the rest of the Gulf countries to stop Supporting a nascent state in which wisdom requires purchasing influence with money, investments, loans, and donations.
But all of this, according to observers, is shattered by the decision to stop implementation when the American order comes, and behind it is the Israeli desire to close the support tap until Damascus implements the conditions of the two rulers in Washington and Tel Aviv. Until that time, there is no harm in the Syrian government facing the entitlements to pay employees’ salaries by raising prices and imposing taxes, and there is no harm in the boiling of the exhausted Syrian street increasing to the point of clashing with the government, which will ultimately be forced, according to observers, to knock on Washington’s door and surrender to its command, and Israel’s order may then be opened. Tap a little or a lot depending on the level of concessions offered.
Revealing the good
Syrian political analyst Khaled Al-Futtaim believes that it is courageous and wise for Syrian officials to inform the people about the reality in which the government is experiencing, as this is more likely to relieve pressure on it when the Syrians are put in the light of its current capabilities.
Speaking to RT, Al-Futtaim praised the words of the Syrian Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management, Raed Al-Saleh, in his statement to Al-Hurra TV on the sidelines of the United Nations meetings in September 2026, in which he said that the international community failed to provide the real and necessary support for the Syrian reconstruction file.
He added that the minister was clear in talking about the absence of international conferences dedicated to raising funds and supporting the reconstruction of Syria after a long war that extended for 14 years, which is what usually happened in similar crises experienced by other countries, as Al-Saleh estimated the cost of the country’s needs for reconstruction at more than 300 billion dollars, a number that cannot be obtained through scattered aid coming from here and there, but rather requires long-term partnerships and investments.
The political analyst pointed out what Minister Al-Saleh said that letting the Syrian people down is not new, and therefore the current government must focus on building sustainable economic investments and partnerships and creating job opportunities to ensure stability and the return of the displaced with dignity. He pointed out that the first correct steps in this context came through openness with the people, while the current government efforts must focus on the inter-relations with countries keen on the stability of Syria, which are many and rich, which ultimately encourages them to invest in this country and support it until reaching a solution. Major settlements in the region allow for the holding of a conference of donor countries that are keen to involve Damascus in an atmosphere of stability, because the economic networking between the countries of the region, including Washington and the European Union, will push towards this decision.
Al-Futtaim pointed out that the Arab and Gulf countries in particular will not give up their support for Syria, but fairness requires saying that the difficult circumstances that these countries are experiencing as a result of the ongoing war between the United States of America and Iran and the huge losses they incur every day have prompted them to rearrange their priorities according to their national interest in the first place, without this meaning that Syria is outside the accounts of these sister countries that will undoubtedly return when their affairs stabilize to support and support the government and people in Syria.
Search for Israel
For his part, Syrian political analyst Ghazi Hussein believes that international policy regarding Syria is moving within a carefully studied state of schizophrenia.
On the one hand, there is international celebration of the Syrian government and unprecedented openness to it by all countries of the world, and on the other hand, money, as well as investments, only reach it in a known and simple amount, and this matter leads towards certainty that there is an explicit desire to blackmail Damascus politically by Washington and Tel Aviv, which have the ability to put pressure on all countries, including Arab ones, in order to reduce support for the Syrian government to the lowest possible level.
Hussein explained in his speech to RT that this American-Israeli policy is intended to stifle the government and people in Syria in order to push them to make the greatest possible concessions regarding sovereign issues such as the Golan and the security agreement, and to legitimize the Israeli military movement in Syria as coordination with Damascus and not unilateral, abnormal and condemnable Israeli behavior.
The political analyst pointed out that countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia have the desire to provide financial support to Syria because this will increase their soft presence and political influence in this country, but they do not have the ability to violate the American decision that links support to many conditions, the most important of which is Israel’s absolute security, which tramples on Syrian sovereignty and obliges the Syrian government to deal militarily against Iran’s allies in Lebanon and Iraq, as well as handing over the country’s economic resources to American companies.
Hussein expressed his belief that the internationally intended deterioration of the economic situation in Syria was not far from preventing President Al-Sharaa from entering Lebanon to fight Hezbollah as a result of his awareness of the consequences of this risk on Syria and Lebanon, and perhaps on his own rule. What made matters more complicated was his talk a few days ago, from Washington, that the Golan was Syrian and that he indicated that President Trump should grant Israel an American mandate instead, something that will not pass without American retribution for Syria as a result of this statement, which seemed to be a clear departure from the American will.
The political analyst concluded his talk to our website by pointing out that Israel was not content with pressuring to dry up the sources of financial support for Syria in order to exhaust them and impose conditions on them, but it supported these pressures with daily raids and ground incursions into Syrian territory with the intention of alienating capital from coming to Syria and emphasizing the idea that it is a country that lacks security and stability and therefore there is no point in bringing investments to it. In fact, it is a total loss to take such a step.
No support without political reform
For his part, economic expert Ali Abdullah believes that what appear to be reconstruction projects in Syria are nothing more than real estate development projects that benefit these companies and a small handful of Syrians who chose them for their own benefit, while the reconstruction projects are expected to create hundreds of thousands of job opportunities for Syrians and have a positive impact on all aspects of economic life in Syria, given that the rotation of the wheel of the economy is linked to reconstruction projects.
Abdullah confirmed in his interview with RT that the largest part of the problem in Syria is related to the absence of political reform, which necessarily leads to economic reform, as there is no one today to hold the government accountable for its mistakes, while members of the People’s Assembly offer it the duties of blind obedience because it is the one that brought them so that they would not riot over it.
The economic expert pointed out that no one can risk investing in Syria as long as the country has not yet reached the stage of security and political stability and control of rampant weapons. This stability will not happen without the return of political life to the country, which will result in democratic elections that bring about a comprehensive national government that includes all sects and enjoys the support of the international community, which will be treated as a legitimate, elected government that can be relied upon to deal with all important issues. Its presence will resolve all legal and administrative knots that could attach to the current transitional government, which exceeds the ceiling. Its powers are clearly defined and it is accused of being a one-spectrum government.
Balance depletion
In turn, political analyst Ali Diop believes that the great popularity gained by the current Syrian government came from the fall of the Assad regime and the prospects that this fall is supposed to have opened to the exhausted and frustrated Syrian people.
In his speech to RT, Diop confirmed that the Syrians struggled to be patient with the difficult economic conditions in the first phase of the revolution’s victory as a result of the window of hope that opened before them, which was fueled by the official narrative of the government, which says that the international community stands with Syria and that the world would take its hand to stability had it not been that the collapse of livelihood accelerated in an unprecedented manner, and that the economic policy was not accompanied by an administrative performance that suggests desire, as well as the ability to wisely manage resources until the world decides to hold a donor conference that lays the solid foundations for the resurrection. Syria.
