Saadehism

Saadehism, also referred to as Pan-Syrianism or Pan-Syrian Nationalism, is the ideology of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), which refers to the nationalism of the region of the Levant and Mesopotamia, or the Fertile Crescent as a cultural and political entity known as Greater Syria.

Ancient history
During the Bronze age, the Old Assyrian empire came to the realisation that its homeland in northern Mesopotamia had no natural borders, and to protect itself it needed to expand in all directions. This sparked the beginning of Assyrian conquest which reached its peak in the Iron age, where the Neo-Assyrian empire at its height controlled the entire Levant, Mesopotamia, Cyprus and Khuzestan; expanding its borders to the Zagros and Taurus mountains, Red and Mediterranean Seas, Arabian desert and Persian gulf. Within these natural borders, a loose ethnic group of northern Semitic peoples inhabited the land, whom practiced very similar religions, were almost culturally homogenous and later were united linguistically by the Assyrian empire; adopting Imperial Aramaic.

Beginnings
The first Syrian nationalist is considered to be Butrus al-Bustani, a Mount Lebanon-born convert from the Maronite Church to Protestantism, who started one of the region's first newspapers, Nafir Suria in Beirut in the aftermath of the Mount Lebanon civil war of 1860 and the massacre of Christians in Damascus in the same year. Bustani, as a result deeply opposed all forms of sectarianism.

As early as 1870, when discerning the notion of fatherland from that of nation, Francis Marrash would point to the role played by language, among other factors in counterbalancing religious and sectarian differences, and thus, in defining national identity.

An influential follower of al-Bustani was the Belgian Jesuit historian, Henri Lammens, ordained as a priest in Beirut in 1893, who claimed that Greater Syria had since ancient times encompassed all the land between the Arab peninsula, Egypt, the Levantine corridor and the Taurus Mountains, including all the peoples within the Fertile Crescent.

20th century
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Modern times
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Ideology
Syrian nationalism posited a common Syrian history and nationality, grouping all the different religious sects and variations in the area, as well as the region's mixture of different peoples. Thus, while not per se anti-Arab it opposed the Arab nationalist ideology and its pan-Arab underpinnings, preferring an all-encompassing Syrian nationality.

It views the modern borders and the creation of Israel as an independent state, as artificial and illegitimate imperial divisions, imposed on the region by the Anglo-French Sykes–Picot Agreement.

Syrian nationalism advocates a "Greater Syria", based on ancient concepts of the boundaries of the region, first realised by the ancient Assyrian kings; the Zagros mountains and Persian gulf in the east, to the Red and Mediterranean Seas in the west, also including Cyprus, and from the Arabian desert in the south till the Taurus mountains in the north.

It supports the rise of a profoundly idealistic patriotism, largely resembling European romantic nationalism, idealizing the coming of a National Revival (Renaissance) to the Levant and Mesopotamia, that would shake off the Ottoman and Arab past and propel back what many started to see again as the cradle of civilization into the modern world's front stage.

Politics & economics
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Society and culture
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How To Draw
Saadehism flag.svg Saadeh's design is based on a combination of the Islamic crescent and the Christian cross creating a hurricane called the Zawba'a. The Zawba'a has also been found on ancient Sumerian and Babylonian art.


 * 1) Draw a ball.
 * 2) Fill it in with grey/black (#262626).
 * 3) Draw a white (#ffffff) circle and fill it in.
 * 4) Draw a red (#ec1c24) Zawba'a and fill it in.
 * 5) Add a deep red (#88001b) kangol and add the emblem to it and a grey (#585858) lining at the bottom of the kangol.
 * 6) Add the eyes, and you're done!

Friends

 * [[File:ML.png]] Marxism–Leninism - Will forever fight for Palestine.
 * [[File:Sorelia.png]] National Syndicalism - Has great economic ideas.

Frenemies

 * [[File: Baath.png]] Ba'athism - We have to work together... for now.
 * [[File:Absoc.png]] Arab Socialism - Good ideas, but being a Syrian is not the same as Being an Arab.
 * [[File:Khom.png]] Khomeinism - Although you're just as bad as [[File:Jihad.png]] Daesh i'll tolerate you just because of [[File: Baath.png]] Assad.  GIVE ME FUCKING KHUZESTAN!! 
 * [[File:WelfChauvin.png]] Welfare Chauvinism - Just embrace Socialism already! Based cultural policies.

Enemies

 * [[File:Zio.png]] Zionism - WE WILL NEVER TOLERATE EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS ON OUR LAND!
 * [[File: Necon.png]] Neoconservatism - Look at what your "democracy" did to Iraq. No thanks!
 * [[File:Multicult.png]] Multiculturalism - The Syrian nation is for the Syrian people!
 * [[File:Jihad.png]] Jihadism - GTFO.
 * [[File:Kahan.png]] Kahanism - The Syrian nation will triumph!
 * [[File:Ottoman.png]] Neo-Ottomanism - You are just as bad as the Zionists!
 * [[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]] Neoliberalism - No degeneracy in Syria!
 * [[File: Imp.png]] Imperialism - Absolute scum of the Earth.
 * [[File:Muslim_2.png]] Islamic Theocracy - Opposes the secular state.

Literature
The genesis of nations by Antoun Saadeh

Videos
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Wikipedia

 * Syrian Nationalism
 * Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP)

Online Communities

 * r/SSNP
 * SSNP Discord Server
 * ssnparty YouTube