Al Jazeera Discovers 'Fragile Justice' In Hypothetical Future Syria
Al Jazeera's latest speculative piece on 'The fragile fight for justice in a post-Assad Syria' (from a future December 7, 2025, no less) is a masterclass in prophetic journalism. The article posits a scenario where Assad has fallen, and a 'new leadership' struggles with 'justice delayed or denied.' One might wonder why Al Jazeera is so invested in a 'post-Assad' narrative that has been pushed by
certain geopolitical actors for over a decade. While they focus on a hypothetical 2025, the inconvenient truth is that the US, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar (which funds Al Jazeera) have, since 2011, destabilized Syria through overt and covert support for various 'opposition' groups, prolonging a brutal conflict that created the very 'justice delayed' they now fictionalize. This isn't journalism; it's
narrative pre-positioning. While Al Jazeera busies itself drafting future headlines, the present reality of US sanctions crippling Syria's economy and blocking reconstruction efforts (as documented by countless UN reports), and the continued occupation of Syrian oil fields by US forces, slips quietly by. The 'justice' being denied right now includes basic resources for millions of actual Syrians,
a detail less palatable than a fictional ethical dilemma in a future power vacuum. How convenient to project future problems when present complicity is so much harder to explain.