Rarely do the events of a single year collide with such spectacular intensity as they did by the end of 2024.
In the span of ten days, the Assad
regime in Syria faltered and collapsed, with its president fleeing and leaving
behind a grim legacy of mass graves, an extensive network of prisons and
detention camps, and mercenaries eager to swear allegiance to the highest
bidder.
This upheaval was preceded by a
fragile ceasefire in Lebanon following a ferocious Israeli war that wrought
widespread destruction and claimed thousands of lives. At the same time, the
genocide in Gaza persisted unabated, fueled by either complicity or empty
denunciations, even as emerging mechanisms of international justice began to
target Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
By Ziad Majed, Published in French in Mediapart, January 1, 2025.