@1 – I think there is a high likelihood that is fake news. Only because I cannot find anything else about it in the press, and certainly the Biden administration would try to play up such a development.
At any rate, Netanyahu will never agree because he wants to keep the war going until at least Jan. 21 when Trump takes office.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Dec 1 2024 14:06 utc | 3

Alan M. is quite correct, you don’t need to like guys like Assad, Qaddafi, and Hussein to see that they were screwed around with by the Western powers, and two of them taken out, because they wouldn’t kneel before the altar of USA world-wide hegemony, economic and political.
https://x.com/alon_mizrahi/status/1862996037297905734
Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi
You don’t need to support Assad to realize his critical role in maintaining Syria’s integrity and political independence (against Western colonialism and theft). You can even hate Assad and still see that. Very similar to Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi. There is a reason why the US goes after those leaders, and not after leaders of other Arab and Muslim countries.
It’s Arab independence and pride they don’t want. So first they break you politically, then they make you their capitalist whore, eternally dependent on their weapons and protection, and hated by the people, therefore always repressive and paranoid.
There’s almost nothing I would love more than seeing free and Democratic Arab countries where equality, dignity, and human rights are guaranteed for all. But the way to do it is not through surrender to Western imperialism and its corruptive influences. The way to do it is through resistance and maintaining a humane vision for all native people of the Middle East
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Be sure that Israel and the US support the mercenary groups because they promised them that once they hold power they will relinquish Syria’s demand for a return of the occupied Golan Heights, and some other very beneficial arrangements. How would you like that?

Posted by: michaelj72 | Dec 1 2024 15:14 utc | 5

There’s almost nothing I would love more than seeing free and Democratic Arab countries where equality, dignity, and human rights are guaranteed for all.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Dec 1 2024 15:14 utc | 5
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Except for the nonsense about democracy, that is how Islam already works. See Syria when it is at peace. See Russia under Putin. Multi-ethnic, multi- religion. Jews living in Iran.
It took too long into my life to truly understand what the Iranians mean when they call America the Great Shaitan. So much evil comes from Americanism.
Everyone America opposes usually has a pro human view of things. The CIA will introduce elements to fracture and agitate well run places. It’s not China or Russia that does color revolutions. That’s America and Britain. The French try to do a lesser version of it in Africa and the Pacific.
Democracy is a mechanism by which people lose control of their country to special interests that have no sense of patriotism or loyalty to that nation.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 1 2024 15:28 utc | 7

Posted by: Susan | Dec 1 2024 15:53 utc | 8
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I presume you mean in order to educate Westerners because much of the ROW knows well.
I don’t think it matters when or if Americans figure out what America actually is and why the world sees it that way. The rest of the world is in the process of moving beyond hegemony.
I have sympathy for some Americans. They are the Eloi. They don’t want to know how the Morlocks provide their gilded existence and at what cost to others (including other Eloi).

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 1 2024 16:11 utc | 9

Larry quotes a Russian special forces commander who invokes the call of Palestine to illuminate the hypocrisy of pseudo-Muslims working for USrael, in Syria.
Apti Aludinov, who is a Muslim, aptly defined the situation:

I watch with concern the events unfolding in the long-suffering Syria. Friends, I want to emphasize that no matter what slogans certain groups and forces use in different regions of the world (even if they identify themselves as Muslims), in the end, everything boils down to two opposing sides in irreconcilable opposition to each other — the party of God and the party of the Antichrist (Dajjal). Why is it that none of those who today once again drag the Syrian people into bloodshed, pompously claiming the Islamic banner, have ever spoken out or condemned the actual genocide being perpetrated by the minions of Satan against the poor Palestinian people? This speaks volumes. Not everyone is what they claim to be. If they were able to gather so much strength and resources, why didn’t they go to fight against Israel, but instead directed their efforts toward killing Muslims again? This is exactly what the Antichrist (Dajjal) wants.

https://sonar21.com/takfiri-muslims-desperate-attempt-with-western-support-to-defeat-syria/

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Dec 1 2024 16:16 utc | 11

Yes Donbass
I am just amazed how many people still think our actions are driven by concern for others. Like Ukraine HK Iraq Libya Afghanistan the cia driven bs that americans love to eat up. I correct people but they have been brought up to believe we saved the world. You would think dropping nukes and Vietnam would have been enough, Korea is not even mentioned in our education, nor Indonesia. Slavery and. Native slaughter are issues we glom onto but never really address

Posted by: Susan | Dec 1 2024 16:35 utc | 13

12
Israel has lost the plot.

Posted by: Giyane | Dec 1 2024 16:49 utc | 15

What are terrorists in Syria trying to achieve?
Eva Bartlett for RT
“By Friday, the Syrian Arab Army had re-taken many points breached by terrorists, Al Mayadeen reported, noting that intense fighting continues on two fronts in rural Aleppo, and that on the Idlib front, “armed groups are attempting to open a new axis after their failure to advance further toward the M5 international highway for all traffic from the south to Aleppo, through Hama and SE Idlib.”
…
As of late Friday, citing the Russian Coordination Center in Syria, Al Mayadeen reported that more than 600 terrorists had been killed. This update went on to detail Syrian and Russian airstrikes on terrorists in the northern Aleppo and Idlib countryside.”
https://www.rt.com/news/608503-syria-terrorists-attack-aleppo/

Posted by: David G Horsman | Dec 1 2024 17:07 utc | 17

‘Moderate Rebels’
https://x.com/angeloinchina/status/1863072984455598543
“Hate doing this but will post only this one video on what the West likes to call Syrian ‘moderate rebels’, funded, trained, equipped by Europe, Turkey, US and Israel.”
‘I Blame the Western Publics’
https://reason2resist.substack.com/p/in-syria-turkish-backed-jihadists
Laith Marouf – Palestine TV.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 1 2024 17:14 utc | 19

Loss after loss after loss but you still fantasize that victory is right around the corner…it’s quite amusing to see (and laugh at)…
Posted by: Johnny Johnston | Dec 1 2024 16:32 utc | 12
On that note I hear the SAA has taken back Hama and a couple of villages around Aleppo.
Your takfiri ‘rebels’ are all gonna die in a few weeks (if not days).
We can have a long conversation about “loss after loss” then.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 1 2024 17:26 utc | 21

Democracy is a mechanism by which people lose control of their country to special interests that have no sense of patriotism or loyalty to that nation.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 1 2024 15:28 utc | 7
In a capitalist economic context, this is undoubtedly true. But that is only one possible socioeconomic context. The failure of democracy within a Capitalist society really says more about Capitalism and less about democratic attempts to run a nation of by and for the people (read wage slaves).
Democracy is great, but can only really function where private property in the social means of production has been totally eliminated. Without the economic polarization of Capitalism, democracy would work well.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Dec 1 2024 17:38 utc | 23

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Dec 1 2024 17:38 utc | 23
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If you’re talking about a one-party state like China’s democracy, I agree.
The Western conception of “democracy” is a racket for the Hoi Polloi to keep them paying taxes (which are unnecessary given money printing) and feeling like they have an outlet for their discontent.
Give people room to bitch and moan, and they will, to the detriment of any progress or social cohesion.
You can blame capitalism but capitalism is really just a manifestation of individualism. America is premised upon extreme and radical individualism. Me instead of We.
It should surprise no one that American “leadership” has divorced itself morally and ethically from humanity given its sense of self-supremacy, which also makes the case that at its root, America has become a Zionist society.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 1 2024 17:54 utc | 25

1/ REPORT: Smoke was seen bursting from the head of a Palestinian victim of an Israeli attack in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza today. Witnesses likened it to the release of steam from a pressured engine — the latest in a horrifying pattern linked to new Israeli weaponry.🧵
WTF????
https://x.com/i/status/1863064745063948521

Posted by: ld | Dec 1 2024 18:01 utc | 27

not sure if this has posted but good read from Julian McFarlane
This shows the rebel offensive in Syria. Notice the extended supply lines which are highly vulnerable to aerial interdiction. The rebels are overextended. And strategic Hama is well-defended. As I mentioned yesterday there are good reasons not to go all out in Aleppo.
In an excellent and timely article i the Cradle on the jihadist attack on Aleppo, Haidar Mustafa writes “
Military expert, Brigadier General Haitham Hassoun, confirms that preparations to launch this operation began “a long time ago,” and that the participating groups established a joint ops room about a month and a half ago. He believes that the militants benefited from “misdirection” and electronic warfare media operations carried out by Turkish intelligence to camouflage their intentions and movements and by Turkish occupation forces inside Syria during the days preceding the shock offensive. The militants further benefited from sophisticated intel that helped them exploit existing loopholes on the ground and were aware of vacuums in the Syrian army’s positions, which then led to this breach and confusion in the defense lines.
In other words, Turkey’s pretense at not being party to the attack is just that — pretense.
The Russians will not be pleased.
Of course, they have never much trusted the fickle, fiddling Turks, but Putin has a known dislike for those who renege on agreements.
You can expect him to find ways to punish the Turks, who are generally unpopular throughout the Middle East, especially now that Syria being welcomed back into the Islamic fold.
But one must consider if Putin knew that this operation — or something like it — was coming. After all, the situation has been unstable for a long time. Maybe, maybe he anticipated that it provided:
a .) a way for Syria to regain sovereigntnow that more and more Middle Eastern nations are making peace with Assad.
b.) a way to put the Americans, Israelis, and Turks in their place— all at the same time and restore balance to the north west of the Middle East.
In a preliminary estimate, what is happening is a return to the situation before 2019, a re-invasion that effectively seeks to derail all the achievements of the Astana peace process.
In turn, this deserves nothing less than an equally brash and unexpected response: a Syrian military counter-offensive that not only reclaims the positions held by Syrian army forces a few days ago but one that decisively pushes all the way to Darat Izza and beyond up to the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkiye, cutting off communications routes between the militants in the Aleppo and Idlib regions, and restoring the entire governorates under Syrian government control.
What began as a shock assault may have created an opportunity to end the state of limbo in the country’s north at the end of the Syrian war, provide Damascus and its allies a way to sidestep unproductive de-escalation understandings, and hand the Syrian state a legitimate, legal and moral justification to liberate all territories from terror organizations.
In other words, Astana is history.
Now the Russians and Syria will take back much of the territory occupied by Turkey in 2019. It is the Turks who broke the agreement — and the peace.
The Turks are denying that of course. but the mercenaries fighting on Aleppo appear to have crossed over into Syria from Turkey— Uighurs, jihadis from Turkestan and assorted terrorists from ISIS-K. Maybe even militants from Ukraine.
With many taken prisoner, the truth cannot be hidden.
This will give a boost to SDF the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces, the Axis of Resistance, and put pressure on the US’s illegal occupation of Syrian oil fields which were pumping oil to Turkey who resold it to Israel.
So far, estimates are between 500 and 1000 jihadi casualties. But the MSM are cheering the apparent “fall” of Aleppo as Syrian forces withdraw and regroup. The strategy will be to attack the rebel’s bases and supply lines so that forces in the city will be cut off.
The jihadi offensive cannot be maintained — no matter what the MSM would like to think.
And the Russians have pretty good intelligence, without which they could not have made the attack recounted below.

Posted by: ctiger | Dec 1 2024 18:30 utc | 29

Johnny Fuckface wins his inaugural, “The Most Retarded Post I Have read Today”:
“I can always tell by the increased censorship at MOA that things aren’t going well for the self-styled “geopolitical experts” here.
Loss after loss after loss but you still fantasize that victory is right around the corner…it’s quite amusing to see (and laugh at)…”
Posted by: Johnny Fuckface | Dec 1 2024 16:32 utc | 12

Posted by: canuck | Dec 1 2024 18:55 utc | 31

We can have a long conversation about “loss after loss” then.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 1 2024 17:00 utc | 16
Fighting a war of attrition worked during Soviet times, when influence in both superpowers worked to Israel’s advantage. But now? The Russian advantage has become significant even for asymmetric warfare, and VVP is very unhappy with the “Russian” elites who abandoned their country.
Even if Israel can gain brief advantage against some proxies at some points of the new war, Iran must be delighted. The whole point of proxies is to weaken your opponent while losing little of importance. And if you’re making your opponent play Hitler Speed Chess to get only stalemates, you have reached peak asymmetry.

Posted by: They Call Me Mister | Dec 1 2024 19:21 utc | 33

29 – It was reported that the Russian commander in Syria has been recalled and replaced, which doesn’t sound like a response to expected events.
It’s going to take ground fighting to reverse gains, even if air strikes appear to have achieved some successes.

Posted by: Waldorf | Dec 1 2024 19:28 utc | 35

Journalist Youssef Fares
“Israel, led by its war criminal – according to the international description – is carrying out an ongoing blood-drinking party in Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, in full view of the entire world, the world that we think it is wise to ask to protect us, neither protects nor speaks. What is happening in the northern Gaza Strip, according to what Moshe Ya’alon, the former Israeli Minister of War, said, is “a crime of ethnic cleansing.” People’s bodies are evaporating as a result of the use of strange and terrifying weapons.”
“O Messenger of Allah, our children came to you in thousands upon thousands. They were not sad because Al-Nughair – a baby bird they were raising died, but because dreams, lives, families, homes and warm nests were burned inside them. Be kind to them, O beloved of our hearts. The fathers in our city have become orphans of their children, and their children have become your loving guests. You are the one who was preoccupied with the sadness of your friend Abu Omair’s son, when Al-Nughair died, and you spent days visiting him to relieve him. We thought that you are preoccupied with our orphan children. Place them, O beloved of our hearts, under the cloak of your house, so that we, the outsiders, may all be honored to be in the position of your household.
Take care of our orphan children, so that they may be your children.”
Below the stillness of the night
Where the water once chuckled and laughed
The dry stream and its rocks sat quiet
Empty and without meaning, amongst the reeds that chaffed.
If there was a breeze it must bring rain
But none came and again and again
So much despair that could not be
Was heard by Al-Nughair the small and free
None saw him come and none saw him go
But Al-Nughair sang of the river’s flow
He sang of emptiness when it was full
And he sang of the moon and the season’s lull
None saw him come and none saw him go
But his song is still there
As those who heard know.
https://xeno-canto.org/924485
https://x.com/missfalsteenia/status/1722030305232523734

Posted by: Ornot | Dec 1 2024 19:37 utc | 37

Folks have to stop projecting their desire for a political Messiah onto Putin.
Putin’s job is to protect Russian interests, not solve the problems of Syrians, Germans, Americans, or Brits. It isn’t his fault they have shitbirds who lie, steal, and kill for money running the show.
Western citizens who want an end to governments that lie, manipulate, round up terrorists and turn them into weaponized zombies to attack any government they please, and generally shit all over the Bill of Rights, Constitution, and rule of law, need to rise up and take matters into their own hands. Relying on Putin to solve their dilemma isn’t going to work. It has never worked in recorded history.
Now, as a turd in the punchbowl that makes the likes of Sholz, Erdogan, Bibi and Biden choke, Putin is quite useful.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Dec 1 2024 20:01 utc | 39

Random observation: If the IDF could fly sorties into Syria unopposed, they’d surely be offering air cover for the astroturfed CIA assets terrorizing Aleppo. I guess those S-400s work, as deterrence, after all.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Dec 1 2024 20:07 utc | 41

Posted by: Christian J Chuba | Dec 1 2024 20:02 utc | 40 “Hezbollah’s lackluster missile / rocket force”
It think the size of Hezbollah’s missile / rocket force was over hyped. It size was not 150,000 or even 100,000. Still it was a respectable size but the IDF was able to the largely destroy Hezbollah at top and enough of the ‘middle management’ that Hezbollah was largely unable to coordinate large strikes. There have been some stories out of southern Lebanon since the ceasefire that a significant parentage of Hezbollah fighters there had only intermittent communications with their command chain in the final two months or so.
Overhead in Lebanon the IDF likely had close to 24-7 coverage and able to respond very quickly to strike the launch area. And yes, Iron Dome can be overwhelmed. I don’t know the depth of the Iron Dome magazine but it have mostly been used up in this conflict. And is currently being replenished. Same goes for Arrow-3 magazine.

Posted by: Ed4 | Dec 1 2024 20:28 utc | 43

@41
IOF can’t fly in Syria. They launch standoff weapons from Lebanon or over the sea.
I have often wondered why Syria does not retaliate.

Posted by: Suresh | Dec 1 2024 20:39 utc | 45

As you stated above, it requires large salvos to overcome Israel’s ‘best of the West’ air defense. Widespread use of Hezbollah’s ballistic missiles will be saved for a further escalation of the conflict. Despite the horrific extent of the entity’s violence, things can and will get worse, and Hezbollah’s ballistic missiles are an important capability in the case of a full-scale US/Israeli attack on Iran.
Posted by: S.P. Korolev | Dec 1 2024 20:38 utc | 44
Yes. I watched the Second Lebanon War(2006, Israeli nomenclature) as closely as one can out here in TV-land, and I think Hezbollah gave a very good account of themselves this time around, and Hamas as well. The genocidal excess of the Izzies is not new. The Izzies are not acting like mad dogs because they think they are winning. Same as the USA.

Posted by: Bemildred | Dec 1 2024 20:53 utc | 47

A contrarian view of the current status: An accurate model of events in the Ukraine and West Asia would be that the Axis of Resistence carefully coordinates actions using systems of communication outside the read of the pervasive Five Eyes. That events flow in a system with the overall strategic platform being death by a thousand cuts, none (with the exception of Oct 7) being so great as to become a causus bellum, as well as to maintain the high moral ground (crucial to the psychology of war). For example, were Iran and Hezebollah to bomb all Israel’s fighting planes, which they could easily do, would be sufficient to put US/UK/NATO boots on the ground in West Asia.
Meanwhile, inquiring minds are curious about the dogs that are not barking: Although Erdogan is widely pilloried in the media which asserts with all authority that AlQaeda actions took place under his aegis, there has been no official statement from him that I can find. Also, there are other proxy militias, supporting the resistance, which have not been heard from, nor provided any resistence??? Not only did AlQaeda race across the desert far beyond their supply lines to attack Aleppo – their headquarters were so poorly defended that Russian planes simply flew over, untrammeled, to blow away their leadership.
And the contrarian conclusion: The Axis of Resistance now has a

Posted by: abierno | Dec 1 2024 21:34 utc | 49

https://x.com/mhdksafa/status/1863166255676399735
Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa
Child deaths in wars:
Iraq: 3,100 in 14 years.
Syria: 12,000 in 11 years.
Yemen: 3,700 in 7 years.
Ukraine: +520 in 2 years.
Palestine: +20,000 in 1 year.
Does the world condemn the killing of children or is it complicated when it is Middle Eastern children?
https://x.com/caitoz/status/1863043826509869544
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz
They Lied About Gaza, And They’re Lying About Syria
If you saw through the lies about Gaza, don’t stop there. Keep going. Keep pulling on threads. Keep learning. Stay curious. They lied about Gaza, they lied about Iraq, they lied about Libya, and they’re lying about Syria too.
Reading by Tim Foley.
https://x.com/mtracey/status/1863085029934481498
Michael Tracey @mtracey
Speaking of Assad, Trump said in September 2020 that he had wanted to assassinate Assad, but Defense Secretary James Mattis was against it

Posted by: michaelj72 | Dec 1 2024 21:46 utc | 51

Over 1000 dead Takfiris. NATO’s demilitarization continues.
About Syrian forces hasty withdrawals.
Syria is unable to afford a large professional standing army. Small units are deployed in villages/small hamlets and towns. When faced with overwhelming forces, these units fall back to more defensible locations under artillery/air cover.
Aleppo is just Kursk 2.0.

Posted by: Suresh | Dec 1 2024 22:36 utc | 53

Posted by: michaelj72 | Dec 1 2024 21:46 utc | 51
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Of course, Trump wanted to assassinate Assad. He’s a man of peace, after all. 😂
Assassination is the Judeo-MAGA way.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 1 2024 22:54 utc | 55

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Dec 1 2024 21:52 utc | 52
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I don’t revere any man, certainly not the workers or bosses.
The average man has average intelligence, average wisdom, and average discernment.
Doesn’t seem wise to let a cohort of them chart the direction for a nation of people. If the best expected result is average, entropy may lead to extinction over time.
It’s also a refutation that exceptional people exist and can be positive (necessary) difference makers.
I mean, it might be fine if you want an agrarian society that rejects much technology like the Amish or Mennonites. I can’t see it working in a global digital/nuclear paradigm.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 1 2024 23:02 utc | 57

Posted by: RJPJR | Dec 1 2024 22:56 utc | 56
I think you’ve completely missed the point. Klarenberg isn’t purporting to be presenting brand new information. He specifically says that it’s been reported on (often if not always dishonestly) before. The point is that contrary to the “western” media-governmental … ahem … interpretations of the so-called “Assad Files”, they don’t implicate his government, but instead implicate those same “western” actors.
The “bombshell” to which you refer in his piece was never alleged to be something brand new…he straight up said it circulated in 2011.
Hence, the article is a REMINDER that what we saw before, we are seeing again. And rather than throw around silly names like “lightweight” why don’t you recommend a source for newer/younger readers who – ya know – could easily have been in their teens or early 20s in 2011 since – ya know – that was 13 years ago!

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Dec 1 2024 23:23 utc | 59

Posted by: RJPJR | Dec 1 2024 22:56 utc | 56
P.S. I think most of the older people here are familiar with the wikileaks tranche and Ambassador Roebuck’s role in sparking the Syrian “civil war” – but if you don’t like Klarenberg’s free reports, why don’t you just ask for your money back? /sarc

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Dec 1 2024 23:27 utc | 61

Tehran makes overtures to Trump, as he prepares to escalate Washington’s war on Iran
Keith Jones
30 November 2024
Iran’s bourgeois-clerical regime is making overtures to the incoming Trump administration, in the hopes that it can strike a “peace” deal with the billionaire fascist. When he was last in the White House, Trump scuttled the Iran nuclear deal, waged economic war on Iran, and brought the US and Iran to the brink of war with the illegal drone strike assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander Qasem Soleimani.
Tehran is signaling its readiness to bargain with Trump, even as he makes clear that he intends to deal with Iran even more ruthlessly than during his first term, and that he will do so working in the closest concert with Israel, which is already waging war against Iran in all but name.
From wsws.org

Posted by: Lengai | Dec 1 2024 23:53 utc | 63

Anybody notice the complete absence of the OPCW in Gaza or South Lebanon?
Not a peep from these guys about the possibility of banned weapons.
Not a whisper about the possibility of dimona coming under missile strike …
O-rganisation for the
P-romotion of
C-olonial
W-eapons against humanity

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 2 2024 0:35 utc | 65

Ruth Sherlock
@Rsherlock
A top Syrian opposition militiaman tells me the “political timing” is the key to this lightning advance. Some factors:
– Russia distracted in Ukraine
– Hezbollah/Iran backed groups distracted in Lebanon
– Intense Israeli airstrikes on Iran backed militias in Syria
More 👇
Ruth Sherlock
@Rsherlock
·
Dec 1
– Israel escalates in recent weeks rhetoric against Assad (calculation had previously been “better the devil you know” – but now Israeli leaders threatening him publicly to stop allowing Iranian arms transfers to Hezbollah in Lebanon.)
Ruth Sherlock
@Rsherlock
·
Dec 1
– Turkey (who supports some of the rebel factions in this advance) angry at Assad blowing off its approach for talks.
– UAE still strong relationship with Israel
– Assad regime a problem for Saudi, with captagon drugs flooding into Saudi from Syria
– Syria economy destroyed
https://x.com/Rsherlock/status/1862994546587496828

Posted by: Menz | Dec 2 2024 2:02 utc | 67

Seyed Mohammad Marandi
@s_m_marandi
Zionists starve and bomb Palestinians in Gaza.
They terrorize and kill Lebanese and Syrian citizens.
They displace and murder Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
So what does Erdogan do?
He sends cheap Baku oil to Netanyahu and uses Al-Qaeda and ISIS to invade Syria.
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1863389055465214385

Posted by: Menz | Dec 2 2024 2:05 utc | 69

asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل
@asadabukhalil
When the US government says “we are closely monitoring” it can only mean: we are deeply and heavily involved in various conspiracies in that country and we support, always, the worst side in the conflict.
https://x.com/asadabukhalil/status/1863381174930100314

Posted by: Menz | Dec 2 2024 2:07 utc | 71

Link for previous:
https://x.com/AssalRad/status/1863048806960685209

Posted by: Menz | Dec 2 2024 2:19 utc | 73

Oxford Union descends into chaos over vote on Israel ‘genocide’
By RYAN PROSSER
Published: 02:12, 2 December 2024 | Updated: 02:41, 2 December 2024
A debate at the Oxford Union descended into shouting and chaos as students passed a motion branding Israel an ‘apartheid state responsible for genocide’.
Pro-Israel speakers were loudly heckled by opponents while a Palestinian activist stormed out in protest at the presence of a former Hamas member turned Israeli informant on Thursday evening.
The contentious motion, ‘This house believes Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide,’ passed by 278 votes to 59 amid hostile exchanges within and outside the university chamber.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14147167/Oxford-Union-descends-chaos-vote-Israel-genocide.html

Posted by: Don Firineach | Dec 2 2024 3:22 utc | 75

Don Firineach 75
We had Jack Straw who was made of straw.
Now we got Stramer who’s made of polystyrer.

Posted by: Giyane | Dec 2 2024 4:17 utc | 77

This is the opening of Chomsky’s new and last book
wow
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GdxXxG_aYAA7yt9?format=jpg&name=900×900

Posted by: ld | Dec 2 2024 7:53 utc | 79

Posted by: Giyane | Dec 2 2024 4:09 utc | 76
“Turkey has to dance when she’s told to dance.”
Interesting comment.
Indeed, why would Erdogan do something blatantly against the interests of his country? It is natural to assume that he was somehow ‘incentivised’.

Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Dec 2 2024 8:43 utc | 81

Seen on Kevork Almassian’s Syriana Analysis podcast titled “The Fall of Aleppo”, the HTS jihadists are terrorizing Christians in Aleppo who don’t dare leave their homes. Celebrating the Christmas holiday looks dangerous in Aleppo, considering that the US- funded HTS is publicly denigrating that holiday . What will the US Zionist Christians think when they learn their government pays for the suppression of the Christmas celebration

Posted by: Lavieja | Dec 2 2024 9:45 utc | 83

@Suresh | Dec 1 2024 22:36 utc | 53
Saying that
Aleppo = Kursk
is like saying that
Syria = Russia
which is obviously not the case. Russia has unlimited escalation dominance so dictates the pace and intensity of the conflict, Russia can up the tempo any time it wants to, Syria does not have that ability. Right now Syria is hoping that Iraqi, Iranian and even Hezbollah forces can take Aleppo back. Syria should have kept a strong force in Aleppo as its right next to Idlib, the head chopper paradise. Syria should not take chances, Russia can afford that luxury.

Posted by: gT | Dec 2 2024 10:17 utc | 85

(4)
Turky /Erodigan dream of a new Ottaman Empire, The west would have dangled that fake ficticous carrot in front of his nose.
To devide and rule Turky /Russia.
The west knows the price of everyone but the value of no one.
An attempted Land /terratory grab.

Posted by: Mark2 | Dec 2 2024 10:33 utc | 87

Typo ….would’nt it.

Posted by: Mark2 | Dec 2 2024 10:44 utc | 89

Biden or Trump… it will be much of a muchness.
Ryan Rozbiani
@RyanRozbiani
Only in America do you get FIRED for Condemning a Gعnocidع
Jen has been speaking about the gعnocidع of Gaza since October 2023 and has been fired from her job.
https://x.com/RyanRozbiani/status/1863266818250744317

Posted by: Menz | Dec 2 2024 11:32 utc | 91

a much more intellectually gifted philosopher than yourself,
Posted by: canuck | Dec 2 2024 10:22 utc | 86
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I suspect Canuck’s identity has been usurped. Would he take a cheap shot like that at a fellow barfly?

Posted by: Gene Poole | Dec 2 2024 12:52 utc | 93

Posted by: canuck | Dec 2 2024 10:22 utc | 86
Plato also had the political solution: Philosopher Kings.
Perhaps one day we’ll elect AI to that throne.

Posted by: MrH | Dec 2 2024 13:45 utc | 95

What will the US Zionist Christians think when they learn their government pays for the suppression of the Christmas celebration
Posted by: Lavieja | Dec 2 2024 9:45 utc | 83
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They will think “They’re the wrong kind of Christians, so they should die.”
Standard Christian thought for almost two millennia.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 2 2024 13:57 utc | 97

Evidence that ‘Israel’ is in the process of catastrophic collapse:
Exhibit 14 of 1000:
“Hezbollah terrorises the IDF and it’s US backers into a ceasefire.”
While the debate rages as to who begged first for a ceasefire one thing is certain: The Zionists would neither grant nor accept a ceasefire if they still felt confident of continuing their invasion of Southern Lebanon.
The very fact of a ceasefire declaration, under American pressure, means that either or both the Zionists and their American counterparts were sufficiently terrorised to change tack and halt the assault on Southern Lebanon.
It is certain that were the Zionists secure in their ability to take the Litani they would have not stopped where they are now.
Why is this evidence of “collapse”? Simple: When a military backed by the entire West must agree to terms with a tiny resistance group it is manifest weakness. A symptom of an over-fuelled but under-powered military machine.
Exhibit 13 of 1000:
“Hezbollah guerrilla forces prove more powerful than IDF tank groupings.”
In a notable development, the Israeli army withdrew from the town of Biyyadah on Sunday following an attack on Merkava tanks by Hezbollah forces. It is notable that the ‘IDF’, with all its heavy machinery, surveillance technology and air support is driven out of locations for any period of time by small formations of guerrilla forces.
This suggests a military which would essentially be naked without an overwhelming equipment advantage. Man for man, they are not the equal of the Hezbollah fighter.
Exhibit 12 of 1000:
“The occupier publicly attempts to strangle the media. The occupier’s own media glories the occupied.”
Israeli government sanctions Haaretz, severs all ties. The decision comes in response to comments made by the newspaper’s publisher referring to Palestinian ‘freedom fighters’.
Exhibit 11 of 1000:
“Extremist ‘Settler’ on Army Violence. The Colonizers turn on their own army.”
Extremist settlers (and they’re all extremists and all colonizers) are attacking the very IDF soldiers put there to protect them and facilitate colonization of Palestinian land.
Scott Ritter raised a very interesting point yesterday: If any non-Western country had exhibited the problems listed in this post they would have been deemed by the West to be on the brink of collapse. It is only because ‘Israel’ is being referred to that the West ignores these accumulating cracks in the fragile construction that is ‘Israel’.
Exhibit 10 of 1000:
“Increasing single-attack IDF casualty counts.”
Over the past 3 weeks Hezbollah in South Lebanon and AQB in Gaza have engaged IDF groupings in direct combat and inflicted the highest single-attack casualties in more than 1 year.
For Hamas and Hezbollah to still be capable of inflicting casualties against the IDF in direct firefights indicates the IDF has not made any advances in their ground-fighting capabilities.
This is gradually turning into a classic war of attrition, which the IDF does not have the manpower to sustain.
Exhibit 9 of 1000:
“Loss of material political credibility in the eyes of Western institutions”
Loss of Israeli credibility of both it’s leaders and narrative among the elite institutions of the West. The issuance of ICC arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Gallant, coupled with the public rectification by Dutch politicians of the role israeli soccer hooligans played in the football violence of November 2024 and the admission that Israel had distorted the narrative in amsterdam, indicates that Israel is losing credibility within the same elite Western institutions that previously could not bring themselves to criticise it.
Loss of political will in these institutions to support Israel is a slippery slope on the way to full blown rejection of the Israeli narrative (in the West).
Exhibit 8 of 1000:
“Israelis are terrorised even in their most secure places.”
Missile strikes on Tel Aviv have become more frequent in the past week demonstrating Hezbollah’s ability to hit the intelligence headquarter’s of the Israeli occupation regime.
Video evidence of strikes and chaotic scenes in Tel Aviv indicate the population is in shock and are experiencing a high degree of “terror”.
Moreover, these strikes underscore the inability of the Israeli air defence system to protect even it’s most sensitive assets should Hezbollah decide to go after them with determination.
Exhibit 7 of 1000:
“The generals resort to women.”
For the first time in history, female Israeli combat soldiers embarked on a high-stakes mission into southern Lebanon. Facing intense challenges, they carried gear weighing 40% of their body weight, uncovered hidden Hezbollah weapon sites, and guided crucial tank and helicopter strikes. A sudden fire cut their mission short, forcing a grueling retreat through dense vegetation.
Exhibit 6 of 1000:
“The IDF death rate increases regardless”
IDF ‘soldiers’ are still dying, tanks, bulldozers are still being destroyed or damaged and ambushes are still being conducted in almost every area of Gaza previously claimed as “cleared by the IDF”. Palestinian resistance fighters are still emerging from tunnels long after the IDF vowed to uproot all the tunnels in Gaza.
This is at least 400 days after the 7 October Uprising when the IDF has mercilessly executed its plan to commit genocide in the strip using some of the most sophisticated and powerful Western weapons of mass destruction.
What this illustrates is the Israeli Occupations inability to leverage it’s technological advantage against a much smaller, less organised less well supplied opponent even when the enemy is confined to a well defined area.
Exhibit 5 of 1000:
“The Politicians turn on each other. The state subverts itself”
The political and security framework of ‘Israel’ is fracturing to an extent unseen before in it’s 80+ year history:
A large number of ‘israeli’ Jews have been charged with spying for Iran in the last month, a general has been fired and replaced with a more fanatical and less technical substitute. Moreover, as in the time of Olmert, Netanyahu is coming under even more legal pressure.
The presence of such a large, unprecedented nest of Jewish (not even Arab israeli) spies hints at internal fracture within the security apparatus of ‘israel’.
Exhibit 4 of 1000:
“The army is impotent”
Despite spurious claims by the IDF to the effect having driven Hezbollah out of South Lebanon, having captured or cleared various villages south of the Litani, the rockets are still being fired from the exact areas the IDF claims to have “cleared” and various military analysts claim the IDF to be in occupation of.
If the rocket fire has increased from those very same locations then the IDF is lying not only about clearing and occupying territory but also about having degraded Hezbollah’s control over the area.
Any claims of military progress by the IDF are thus totally bogus.
Exhibit 3 of 1000:
‘israel’ is forcing orthodox Jews into the occupation army in increasing numbers and with increasing desperation, as indicated by current legislation in progress to mandate the draft of haredi Jews against their will.
Drafted ultra religious Jews forced to fight alongside mercenaries alongside genocidal maniacs. If you think this makes for a unified fighting force you need your head examined.
Exhibit 2 of 1000:
“The defences are ineffective”
Increasing and consistent failure of the Iron Dome, Arrow, David’s Sling air defense matrix to defend IDF Bases against missiles and rockets fired by Hezbollah, Hashd Al Shaabi and Ansarallah.
Exhibit 1 of 1000:
“Lacking manpower, the army needs merchants to fight for it”
Increasing use of foreign mercenaries in the IDF to fight within the Gaza strip and Southern Lebanon indicates that the IDF is beginning to run out of military manpower resources. This indicates that the low casualty counts reported by the IDF over the past 13 months are false.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 2 2024 14:02 utc | 99