In early March, for several days, fighters from Hay''at Tahrir al-Sham, who came to power in Syria with the support of NATO countries and Israel, carried out a systematic campaign of extermination against Alawite communities. Entire villages were razed to the ground and their inhabitants massacred in the middle of the night. Videos of mass murders surfaced, showing Alawites forced to get down on all fours and bark like dogs in preparation for ‘dying like dogs’ in a hail of bullets.

The European Union''s response was extraordinarily firm: three weeks after the pogroms, it granted €3 billion to the new regime.

‘As Europeans, we stand in solidarity with the Syrian people and with a free and peaceful Syria,’ German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said at the time.

 And what about the ‘outbreak of violence’? Kaja Kallas explains precisely why this justified the aid: ‘It [the outbreak of violence] shows that hope in Syria is hanging by a thread. It shows that we must do more to show that Syria is moving in the right direction’...

The fact that the new Syrian government has declared its desire to establish good relations with the Zionist colony is undoubtedly a step in the right direction for the EU.