“Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s historic participation at the 32nd Arab Summit in Jeddah”

On the other hand, the opponents of al-Assad’s participation in the summit also had a prominent presence on the communication sites, and many of them shared clips and pictures of the victims of the war that lasted in Syria for 12 years. With the participation of the Syrian President in the summit.

The pioneers of the communication sites also circulated a snapshot in which Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appeared to speak with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi quickly, before taking the official photo of the summit.

Some of the tweeters transmitted a picture of the Syrian delegation during the speech of the Ukrainian President Zelensky, in which they appeared without wearing the translation headphones. Some activists linked this behavior to the existence of a close relationship between the Bashar al-Assad regime and Russia, and Syria’s position in support of the Russian position on the war in Ukraine.

Some of the pioneers of the communication sites talked about the absence and presence of some Arab leaders at the summit, as the King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz and the Emir of Kuwait Nawaf Al-Sabah were absent due to health conditions, and the President of Lebanon was absent due to the presence of a presidential vacuum, as the Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq and the King of Morocco’s Mohammed VI, Algerian President Abdel Majid Tebboune, Emirati President Mohammed bin Ziyad, and Sudanese President Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, while Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad left after the opening session of the summit.

The absence of Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune from the summit sparked the interaction of some activists in Algeria, the host country of the previous Arab summit, as the Algerian journalist Ahmed Hafsi described that this behavior comes with the principle of “reciprocity”, referring to the absence of the Saudi monarch from the last summit, and said that it reflects Algeria’s decision-makers are disturbed by attempts to “exclude it from its leading role in some Arab issues,” as he described it.

The absence of a Lebanese president from attending the summit was also part of the talk of the pioneers of communication sites in Lebanon, and some of the tweeters considered that the absence of Lebanon as a main file on the agenda of the current summit and the previous summit gives an impression of a lack of interest in the Lebanese issue. Lebanese journalist Karen Bustani said that Lebanon remains the “weakest link”, as she described it.

The pioneers of the communication sites also circulated news of the withdrawal of the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad, and his departure from Jeddah after attending the summit and participating in the group photo prior to the opening session.

It was interesting on social media to comment on the presence of Ukrainian President Zelensky as a guest of honor at the Arab summit, and Dr. Sam Youssef spoke, saying that his presence is evidence of the continued strength of the American influence on the countries of the region, as he described it.

Some of the tweeters praised the Saudi role in organizing the summit, and content creator Abdullah Al-Bandar considered that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had restored “Arab weight in front of the world,” as he described it, in its role in returning Syria to the Arab League, and hosting the Ukrainian President’s peace initiative.