The National Leadership of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party: ‎‎The winner of the current war will not recede, but will rush to expand the Arab space. The need to fill the vacuum has become urgent with the launch of the Arab national project. ‎

The National Leadership of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party: ‎‎The winner of the current war will not recede, but will rush to expand the Arab space. The need to fill the vacuum has become urgent with the launch of the Arab national project. ‎

‎The national leadership of the Arab Socialist Baath Party stressed that the ongoing military confrontation between the United States and the Zionist entity on the one hand and the Iranian regime on the other hand is a confrontation that takes place in the Arab space and at the expense of national security, and that the winner of it will not return to it but will expand its influence in the Arab space. ‎

‎This came in a statement by the National Leadership, which reads as follows: ‎

‎“The war that is taking place today between the Zionist-American alliance and the Iranian regime is not a limited confrontation between conflicting powers, but rather a new episode in a conflict that is taking place on the land of the Arab world at the expense of its people, wealth and future, and it is a moment in which the reality of the clash between imperial and regional projects that are all competing over the Arab geography is clearly revealed, while the Arab system is suffering from an unprecedented state of fragmentation and weakness.‎

‎The Arab world has never been just an ordinary geographical space. Still, it has always been a strategic center whose geography controls the world’s most important energy sources and the most vital sea lanes, especially the Arabian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. For this reason, this homeland has been a constant target of imperial projects that seek to control it and its strategic corridors, as well as the nodes of the global economy. For this reason, the extensive American military deployment in the region and the construction of military bases and naval fleets were not temporary security arrangements but part of a long-term strategy to ensure that the strategic decision in this region remains under American control. This project culminated with the invasion of Iraq in 2003. This event constituted the major breaking point in the contemporary Arab system, and with the overthrow of the Iraqi state, one of the most important pillars of the Arab strategic balance was destroyed, and the door was opened to a long phase of regional chaos.‎

‎Accordingly, the national leadership of the party strongly condemns the American administration and its behavior, which is outside any legal or international legitimacy controls, constituting a flagrant violation of the rules of international order and a direct threat to international peace and security, as well as the principle of the sovereignty and independence of states. ‎

‎The American imperial project has converged with the Zionist project, embodied by the Zionist entity in occupied Palestine, which is the most aggressive and expansionist in the region, and which has not stopped committing crimes against the Palestinian people in particular and the Arab people in general, whether in Palestine or in the wars it has waged against Lebanon and the rest of the Arab countries, as it in essence goes beyond the borders of the existing occupation of Palestine to reach the borders of what it calls “Greater Israel”, taking advantage of its deep strategic alliance with the current represented by the neoconservatives in the The United States, which sees the expansion of the Zionist entity in the region as a simulation of a religious and political perception that seeks to reshape the map of the region to serve the Talmudic vision. ‎

‎In parallel with this danger, which is represented in the role of the Zionist entity as an advanced site of the Zionist-colonial alliance in the heart of the Arab world, the Iranian project emerged as a targeted project for Arab national security and the national identity of the nation through its destructive role in many Arab countries, which achieved what the Zionist enemy could not achieve in terms of dismantling the structures of some Arab countries and turning them into failed states, meeting and complementing the results of its role unless the Zionist enemy could achieve it, which it would not have been able to achieve had it not been for the Zionist enemy’s An American and Zionist view of its deepening of its penetration in the Arab reality, and its destruction of Arab cities, especially in Iraq and Syria, which was wrapped in the raising of bright slogans centered on supporting Palestine and the resistance, while the truth is that everything it did in this regard fell within the framework of investing in the Palestinian cause due to the position it occupies in the Arab collective conscience, which quickly revealed the true dimension of its incursion, which is the expansion in the Arab field and the exploitation of sectarian and political divisions in Arab societies in the service of In addition to the fact that the Arab masses do not forget the alliance relations that existed between the two parties on the basis of hostility to Arabism, “Iran Gate” is still fresh in mind, as well as the official Iranian acknowledgments that the American occupation of Iraq would not have succeeded without the direct cooperation between the Iranian regime and the United States of America. ‎

‎In the midst of this dangerous clash between the conflicting projects, the Arab world in general and the Arab Gulf in particular have become at the center of the storm, as its countries, which represent the center of Arab economic gravity, have become a direct arena for military pressures and regional conflicts, especially in light of attacks targeting their vital facilities or navigation routes in their waters. These attacks are governed not only by the background of the targeting of foreign military bases, but also by the broader targeting of infrastructures and targets of an economic and civilian nature, so that this should be used as a strategic pressure card in the conflict between the parties involved in the military confrontation, to drag these countries into the ongoing conflict and push them to engage directly in the military confrontation leading to the depletion of their economic and military capabilities.‎

‎Bringing the Arab Gulf states into the spiral of war will ultimately weaken their internal security and jeopardize their vital economic structures. It will make them bear the burdens of a conflict that does not serve their national interests as much as it serves the projects of the conflicting powers for influence in the region. When the territories of Arab countries turn into arenas of confrontation between international and regional powers, the first loser is always Arab national security and the stability of Arab societies.‎

‎The party’s national leadership considers the ongoing military confrontation between the Zionist-American alliance and the Iranian regime to be a confrontation between parties supported by a background of hostility to the Arab nation. The Zionist enemy is engaged in an existential struggle with the nation. The Iranian regime has practiced a policy of open hostility against the Arabs since the mullahs took over the reins of power. If it had not presented itself from a position of hostility to Arabism and translated this into practical vocabulary at the political, social, and security levels, it would have found the Arab nation in a position to support Iran in the open war in which it is engaged. The Arab world will not be immune to its effects and repercussions after its transformation into an arena over which foreign projects, both international and regional, are struggling. ‎

‎Regardless of the outcome of today’s war, the reality that Arabs must consciously and responsibly realize is that the nation stands at a pivotal stage in its contemporary history. All conflicting projects involving the United States, Zionist, Iranian, and Turkish sides entail, in their essence, grave risks that threaten the interests of the Arab nation and its national security. Each party involved in this confrontation seeks to expand its influence within the Arab sphere and to reshape the regional balance of power to serve its own interests.‎

‎The party’s national leadership, in light of its appreciation of the dimensions of the current confrontation, considers that the explosion of the military situation on a large scale has accelerated the level of inflation of the roles of the forces involved in it, especially the Zionist role after the war of extermination on Gaza and the expansion of its aggression against Lebanon and Syria with the absolute American support for it, and the swelling of the Iranian role, which has become incapable of American containment, which necessitated its re-inhibition within the limits of what is decreed by the United States, either through a soft confrontation through the sanctions regime and negotiations on the nuclear file The regional round is not a rough one, which is taking place in a second round of military confrontation after last year’s round. ‎

‎Hence, the party’s national leadership sees the Arab nation as concerned with this confrontation as much as the negative repercussions on it, as the winner of this confrontation will not relapse into it, but will rush to expand its circle of influence in what it considers to be a vital area of its project, influence and dominance, which is embodied in the Arab space.‎

‎ Therefore, in light of the threat to national security, the Arab nation, with its official system and popular forces, must be at the highest level of vigilance and prepare to face the dangers posed by the repercussions of this war on the nation’s security, regardless of who wins it. The way out of this dangerous historical moment with the least possible losses and the negative repercussions on national security lies in the nation’s possession of its own project that unites its forces and mobilizes its capabilities to fill the vacuum in the national reality, and prevents it from remaining a scene for the clash of foreign projects on its land and in its space. ‎

‎Accordingly, the national leadership of the party believes that the need has become urgent today and more than ever to launch the Arab project that puts an end to the permissibility of the Arab world, starting with serious official and popular steps that fall under the following headings:‎

‎First: Rebuilding the Arab National Security System‎

‎Through the establishment of a joint Arab framework for military and security coordination aimed at protecting Arab countries from external threats and preventing the transformation of their territories into regional conflict arenas, this dictates the activation of the Arab Joint Defense Agreement signed in 1950, which the Egyptian Foreign Minister called for to be activated, which must be accompanied by a decisive stance rejecting the establishment of foreign military bases on Arab soil and not relying on the protection of foreigners who barter the issue of protection by imposing their political guardianship and control over the natural Arab resources. ‎

‎Second: Building a Strong Arab Economic Bloc‎

‎It is based on integrating Arab economies and linking Arab markets and resources within a common economic system that reduces dependence on foreign countries.‎

‎Third: Protection of the Arab National State‎

‎As the first line of defense for the unity of Arab societies, and preventing their collapse or disintegration under the pressure of wars or internal conflicts‎

‎Fourth: Immunizing Arab societies from sectarian divisions that have been used by foreign projects as a tool to penetrate and dismantle Arab societies from within.‎

‎Fifth: Unleashing the energies of the Arab masses ‎

‎To stop the siege and fight against the mass and popular energies and to release these energies through the establishment of democratic institutions and civil societies.‎

‎Sixth: Reviving the Arab Renaissance Project ‎

‎It restores the idea of Arab unity and rebuilds the common national consciousness of the new Arab generations.‎

‎The Arab nation, which produced the greatest civilizations in history, is not a nation unable to regain its role; it must only regain its national will and build its independent Arab project. ‎

‎National Leadership of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party ‎

Note: Translated from Arabic by Ibrahim Ebeid, March 2026