Thus, correcting concepts and expressions becomes the entryway to clarifying the course of the relationship and determining the duties and rights. The Syrian presence in Lebanon becomes asylum and not displacement from one region to another within the same homeland. Accordingly, the nature of rights takes on a different character and the right of return becomes logical, even if it would take a long time to accomplish, just as is the case with the Palestinian refugees.
But the reality is that the Syrian people and we are in the same adversity. The damned war brings us together. Civil war or the war of others on our lands, the one that we went through for 15 years and still are not done with. We are still experiencing its effects to this day because we did not purge our memory and did not reconcile with the true sense of the word reconciliation. We turned the page on the dross. So, the specter of war still lurks around the corner and rears its head at every turn.
The Syrians today are not better off. Trying, along with a part of the international community, to find a settlement, which will probably be political and not military. Each party of them wants to have the last word. You realize that they are not drawing lessons from the experience of the country nearest to them. Lebanon, which ended 15 years of war, without anyone having the last word, and has not been able to build a real peace to this day.
Syrian citizens, in Syria or Lebanon, have to fully realize that their fate is one: if their homeland is lost, they will be lost, and if they wrong their hosts in Lebanon, they will only attract enmity and make their stay hell instead of it being genuine hospitality and an opportunity to strengthen brotherly relations between the two peoples.