Daily Inspiration Quote by Bashar al-Assad

Assad’s line is a small masterclass in manufacturing permanent emergency. By calling the expectation of an Israeli attack “natural,” he turns a political posture into something like weather: inevitable, unquestionable, always in the air. The sly pivot comes next: “even when it does not threaten.” That clause quietly admits the absence of an immediate danger while insisting the mindset of danger must continue anyway. It’s not a warning about an imminent strike; it’s a license for vigilance without end.

The intent is domestic as much as diplomatic. For regimes built on security architecture, the most valuable resource is not oil or votes but narrative: the story that the state is besieged and therefore must be obeyed. Israel functions here less as a specific military actor than as a symbolic engine of cohesion. If the attack is expected regardless of threat level, then any tightening of control, any suspension of normal politics, can be justified as prudence rather than repression.

Context matters. Syria’s self-presentation as a “frontline” state against Israel has long outlived the actual kinetic realities on the Golan, where deterrence and relative quiet often dominated. Assad’s phrasing keeps the conflict rhetorically hot even when the border is cold, sustaining legitimacy through resistance-talk while deflecting scrutiny from internal failures. The subtext is blunt: normality is a risk, skepticism is naivete, and dissent can be recast as carelessness in the face of an enemy who need not be attacking to remain politically useful.