Dying Nazis of the Near East

With the heartbreak that Syria has become, it must be getting harder for the followers of the Near East Nazi Party, a.k.a. the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) these days because the entire construct of their Fascist ideology rests upon the artificial country of Syria as its nucleus, and on the racial and cultural superiority of Syrians (i.e. the northern Semites) over the Arabs (i.e. southern Semites). And now in Lebanon's latest parliamentary elections in May 2022, the SSNP Nazis were crushed and lost the only seat they were hanging their future on. They are no longer represented in Lebanon's Parliament. The Lebanese people rejected these Fascist idiots and discarded them in the garbage where they belong.

Lest people forget, this Syrian Nazi Party was founded at exactly the same time - 1932 - that the German Nazi Party (Nazi = Nationalsozialist in German) was emerging in Germany. So, one plagiarist pseudo-intellectual named Antun Saadeh fell in love with Fascism and Nazism, and decided to clone the German Nazis in the Lebanon of the 1930s. You see, the Lebanese are very good at imitating others: copycat monkeys, copy-paste plagiarists. Whatever cultural trash the West leaves behind is picked up by the Lebanese as if it were gold. Too bad they don't pick up the good stuff from the West, the reason being that good stuff requires hard work (democracy, scientific literacy, etc.) and the Lebanese in general don't like hard work that requires thinking. They prefer sitting in cafés, smoking the hookah, stuffing their faces, driving fancy cars, and having others marvel at their "genius".

Here are some parallels between the German Nazis and the Syrian SSNP idiots:
1- Nazis: Racial superiority of northern Europeans over southern Europeans--> SSNP: Racial superiority of northern Semites (Syrians) over southern Semites (Arabs).
2- Nazis: Continuity of a German culture across vast swaths of central Europe --> SSNP: Continuity of a Syrian culture across vast swaths of the Near East.
3- Nazi flag: Swastika with red and black tones --> SSNP flag: Swastika with red and black tones
4- Brainwashed SSNP members salute their leaders with the Hitlerian Nazi salute.
5- Nazis: Worship "leader for life" Adolf Hitler --> SSNP: Worship Antun Saadeh as a "leader for life". Saadeh himself was an admirer of Hitler.
6- The anthem of the SSNP is sung to the tune of Das Deutschlandlied.
7- Nazis: glorified an ancient pre-Christian Aryan past and "One" German Aryan nation that needed to be re-united by force --> SSNP: glorifies an ancient pre-Christian Syrian past and "One" Syrian nation that must be re-united by force.
8- Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf" as a bible for his followers, and of course the plagiarist Antun Saadeh wrote his own bible, "The Rise of Nations".


Flag of the Syrian Nazi Party (SSNP)                      Flag of the German Nazi Party

Now that the artificial fake country of Syria has unraveled into the multitudes of ethnicities, languages, peoples, religions and races from which it was cobbled together, it must be increasingly difficult to sustain Antun Saadeh's fantasy racist idea of a united glorious Syria spanning from Iraq into Cyprus (Yes, Cyprus. The hallucinating Saadeh claims Greek and Turkish Cyprus to be Syrian!). 

There is no "nation" of Syria. There never was a nation called Syria. "Syria" always referred to the geographical desert region beyond the Lebanon mountains. As a desert it always had undefined borders which often overlapped with other historical Near Eastern regions like Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Phoenicia, etc.  Between 1920 and 1945, an artificial state called Syria was stitched together by the French Mandate, joining together culturally disparate desert cities (Damascus, Aleppo, Raqqa, Idlib, etc.). That state has now evaporated to no return. The French Mandate colonials fashioned this Doctor-Moreau monster to satisfy their Arab nationalist lackey, the self-proclaimed King Faysal, as a way to counter British influence. Never mind that the Kurdish people never got their state, even though they were the most deserving of one, and that many of the communities that make up the Near East have nothing to do with Arab or Syrian nationalism.

But just like the infamous Baath party (gone in Iraq, but extant in Syria), the SSNP thinks it can impose a monolithic identity on people, from the top down, by force. Jut read their founding texts: You are Arab because I (Michel Aflaq, founder of the Baath ideology) say so, and you are Syrian because I (Antun Saadeh, founder of SSNP ideology) say so. You have no other identity, and if you dare say that you are anything other than Syrian, then you are a traitor and you deserve death. If you do not know that you are Syrian, then we will make sure to indoctrinate you into knowing that fact. Luckily, the SSNP has never even touched the fringes of political power because it is such a fucked up idea to begin with. It even mounted a failed coup against the Lebanese government in the early 1960s. Unfortunately, however, the Baath Party in power in Iraq and Syria has wrecked these two states into the cesspools they are today, and Syria has been ruled for more than 50 years by the vulgar tyranny of the Assad family regime.

History always has a way to rectify things, and this is happening before our eyes. Forget Arab and Syrian nationalisms, and the Baath and the SSNP. They are as dead now as when they were born less than 100 years ago from the dense plagiarist copycat brains of Aflaq and Saadeh. What these racist Fascists do not understand is that genuine cohesive national identities emerge voluntarily from the bottom up, from local self-governments to larger aggregated federated entities in a willful act of gradual and painstaking unification. That is how civilized nations (e.g the European Union, the United Arab Emirates) with built-in diversity do it, which is why tiny Andorra, Lichtenstein, San Marino, Monaco, Luxembourg, etc. are sovereign nations respected and accepted by their European fellow members of the European Union. Not like Hitler who forced the Austrians, the Scandinavians and others to declare themselves "German" by force of brutality and occupation. Or like the defunct USSR that forced a whole bunch of ethnicities to become Russian. One example of how Arabs tried to unite from the top down is when the idiot dictator Abdel-Nasser of Egypt and his counterpart in Syria decided in the 1950s to unify Syria and Egypt, just like that with a stroke of a pen and over a cup of coffee. Naturally, the experiment failed within a few months. In contrast, the Europeans have been working on their union since the 1950s and they are far from achieving it. It takes very hard work, time, courage, discipline, commitment and most of all the buy-in of the peoples concerned with consultations, elections and referendums.

The heartbreak of Syria has many silver linings, one of them is the evidence of the death of racial nationalism in the politically primitive Near and Middle Easts. Thanks to the French revolution, Christian nationalism is already dead in civilized Europe but is still extant in culturally-backward countries like the US, Brazil and others. One more to go - Islamic nationalism - and perhaps the area will finally begin its journey to civilization and decency.