#anti daesh

[straynoahide]

The War on Christmas has begun early this year. The advance of rebel forces into and beyond Hama, a very recent development, could also mean the Crac de l'Ospital region (a coastal corridor between Turkey and Lebanon), whose population is majoritarily eastern Christian, falls under DAESH Jihadist rule. Fuck Assad, but we have to be watchful for human rights and minority rights abuses. The region and situation are volatile. All Westerners must denounce these things, not just Christians, don't sleep on Jihadists.

[elumish]

Sort of related to the post I just reblogged about the anti-abortion movement, but:

I think that some people have an impulse in recent times when writing antagonists and villains to shy away having them be acting based on truly held beliefs or even beliefs based on reality.

They have to be grifters or incorrect or misunderstand the world. If they truly believe in something right (correct and/or morally good by whatever standard), if they truly hold their beliefs, then they can be an anti-hero or a minor antagonist but eventually they are revealed to Have Been Right All Along and someone else is the Big Bad of the story.

And there's nothing wrong with doing that, with having the villain be someone who is taking advantage of average people or is lying about their beliefs or whose belief is based in something inaccurate. The villain can be mistaken or confused or just wrong.

But the thing is that, in real life, many people who we see as villains are acting under truly held beliefs that are based largely in reality. The things that make them villains in our view are what they want to do about it.

Part of what galvanized Stewart Rhodes to begin to take action against the U.S. government was his opposition to what he saw as unconstitutional overreaches of the surveillance and detention powers/efforts taken by the federal government in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. It galvanized a lot of people and faced a huge amount of opposition in the years following the attacks. In that sense, not only was this belief "real" but it also would considered "morally good" by many people, including probably most people here on this site.

The problem is that Stewart Rhodes founded the Oath Keepers and has since been convicted of seditious conspiracy, obstructing an official proceeding, and evidence tampering for his part in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The leaders of Islamic State/Daesh are acting based on truly held beliefs. Bin Laden's demands were based in reality. Many anti-abortion people operate based on an internally-consistent logic and belief system--it may just not be one that makes much sense to or fits the belief of people who disagree with them.

My point here is that you don't need to shy away from villains who have extremely strong beliefs, where "proving them wrong" isn't possible or isn't relevant because they are also acting based on facts, where the problem isn't the validity of the beliefs but the actions they are taking.

In many ways, those can be the hardest villain to stop in stories, because they can't be talked out of what they're doing any more than the protagonist can.

[tamamita]

I see a lot of people who seem otherwise to have normal politics (are not zionists) say really wild things about Hezbollah, claiming that they love to kill Syrians, that they are following Iran's commands, and will take over Palestine (??? Why would they want to do that) after "Israel" is done. Do you know what causes such Hezbollah (and Iran) derangement? Is it mostly/entirely anti-Shia discrimination? These people don't seem religious either. Idk. I've also seen people claim both that Majdal Shams residents were pro and anti Assad. I'm guessing they hold a range of opinions as do Syrians in other places.

It's the Anti-Shi'i sentiments and the fact that Hezbollah was a major player in the Syrian Civil War in which they allied themselves with Assad's regime against the Islamist rebel groups. Hezbollah feared that there would be a spillover of Sunni and Salafi islamists into Lebanon that could have stoked a subsequent sectarian conflict, given that DAESH had one of its strongholds near the Golan Heights at that time and was aided by Israel.

[captain-price-unofficially]

The official tier list of globally recognized terrorist organizations based off of their flag designs

This is 100% scientific fact based off of my personal research into the field of vexillology. Argue with me if you want to in the comments. There groups in order from left to right are: (S): Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hezbollah, People's Defense Units, Khalistan Liberation Force (A): Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham, People's Anti-Fascist Front, Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front, Oromo Liberation Front, Free Papua Movement, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Tigray People's Liberation Front, United Liberation Front of Asom, Balochistan Liberation Army, Ogaden National Liberation Front (B): Al-Qaeda, The Base, Daesh, Hurras al-Din, Congress of the Peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan, Lord's Resistance Army, People's Liberation Army of Manipur, Syrian Revolution, Kurdistan Workers' Party, National Liberation Army (Colombia) (C): Jamiat-e Islami, Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Badr, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, United National Liberation Front, National Liberation Movement of Ahwaz, Kamtapur Liberation Organisation, Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (D): Taliban, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hamas, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Liwa Fatemiyoun, Dukhtaran-e-Millat, al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent, Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (F): Houthi, Kurdistan Freedom Hawks, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Kata'ib Hezbollah, Tehreek-i-Taliban, Turkistan Islamic Party, Shining Path

[soup-mother]

Australia has never and probably will never reckon with it's islamophobia and anti SWANA racism, throughout i's entire history as a colonial nation and especially during the syrian civil war and Daesh periods. (at least that's the strongest periods of my lifetime anyway)

like it barely even died down, ppl were just a bit more quiet about it and more ppl considered migrants from the area to be "part of Australian life" now and then everyone got to stoke up the islamophobia again because our best pal israel decided to be more brazen about it's genocide. (which we'd never criticise as a nation because we'd have to think about our own historical and ongoing genocides)

like we use diversity for like the prestige and cachet of the blatantly colonial "anyone can make a life here in the lucky country" australian dream schtick but the average Australians immigration politics are still stuck in the fucking gold rush and apparently we'd all rather die than be anything more than a racist colony.

[the-cunt-of-montecristo]

October 15th 2023

The major Italian newspapers are flat out lying about the peaceful pro-Palestine march that happened yesterday in Milan.

They describe it as attended by relatively few Palestinians, and the bulk of the protesters being "Arabs from North Africa" and "radical leftist fringes". The interviewed protesters - all brownTM - characterized as "Tunisian raised in Milan" and "resident of [italian town] from Egypt".

All of this to avoid saying the word "Italian".

The march was full of Italians. We were all Italians, regardless of the other nationalities some people might also hold.

The press focused on the "veiled girls" which are one of the scariest thing to ever happened to the west. They completely ignored the sheer amount of FAMILIES with CHILDREN, both white and brown Italians, marching peacefully.

They claimed we "insulted Netanyahu" and "shouted anti-semitic slogans". Bibi was called a murderer, which is not an insult but an adjective that describes someone who does what he does. Israel was called criminal, fascist and genocidal, all things it manifestly is. Not a word was said against the Jews; it was often remarked by the organizers how this was not a matter of religion, how Palestinians ARE semites, and how Judaism =/= Zionism.

The press pretended there were no "true" italians at the march, all the while openly comparing Hamas to alQuaeda and Daesh (always Isis on their papers), criticizing the choice of holding the march "on Shabbat" as if that was an intentional choice and not an organizational necessity, and publishing interviews to the Israeli ambassador about how "other democratic countries banned these protest in favor of terrorism, why doesn't Italy?" with heavy implications that it's because italy is antisemitic. All the while equating Jew and Israeli, and claiming that Israelis feel unsafe in Europe because of the widespread pro-Palestine sentiment.

The march was criticized for the absence of peace flags and lack of "focus on the part of the organizers on the matter of peace."

Peace WAS discussed. The first day of peace will be the last day of the occupation.

As the organizers spoke, they received news that in that very moment a hospital in Gaza had been flattened. People were dying as we marched. An organizer, a girl named Filastin, lost her voice from crying out her people's pain and anger and commitment to justice, until someone else had to take over to lead a "free Palestine" chant.

As Filastin said, people in revolt are those whp write history. Intifada until victory.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

[fursasaida]

[Excerpts from this piece on the particular German psychosis and relationship to an imagined Jewish life that props up the German repression, islamophobia, and racism against Arabs and Palestinians we've seen explode from their previous levels in the last few months]

Since October 7, German politicians have proposed rescinding the nationality of German citizens, restricting the civil rights of non-EU foreign residents, and limiting the number of children with a migration background who can attend any given school, which have been promoted as means for preserving and supporting “Jewish life” in the country. A German politician credibly accused of harboring neo-Nazi sympathies in his youth blamed the country’s antisemitism on immigration. Germany’s largest newspaper published a fifty-point manifesto on what it means to be German; number forty-seven reads, “Germany has a heart for children. They are not beaten but promoted.” A prominent German journalist published an article with the title: “The Jews or Aggro-Arabs: we have to decide who we want to keep.” The Anti-Semitism Commissioner of Baden-Württemberg, who is not Jewish, wrote, “The Nazis were still hiding their mass murders, whereas Hamas celebrated them in the media, like Daesh before them.”

Not everything is as it seems in Germany. That tree? It used to be a Jew. That building was once a Jew. That streetlamp was a Jew. And the Jews? It seems they’re all Germans. [...]

In the eyes of many German critics, Wolff’s greatest sin was to argue, in the guise of a Jewish identity, that supporting a boycott of Israel is not necessarily antisemitic, even though he did not support such a boycott himself. Wolff was subsequently castigated as a costume Jew (Kostümjude) by Germany’s largest Jewish and gentile newspapers. He’s been called an aspiring Kronzeugejude (key witness Jew). Contra Wolff’s complaints about German, this is a language with an astonishingly nimble capacity for creating neologisms on the word Jew:

Alibijude: an alibi Jew, one who provides cover for antisemitic (or anti-Israel) rhetoric

Berufsjude: a professional Jew, a Jew by profession

Faschingsjude: a carnival Jew

Großvaterjude: someone who has one Jewish grandfather

Kostümjude: a costume Jew

Kronzeugejude: a key witness Jew, providing testimony for antisemitic (or anti-Israel) rhetoric

Meinungsjude: An opinion Jew? Or a Jew by opinion??

Modejude: A fashion Jew??? Or fashionably Jewish????

Schmusejude: a cuddly Jew, one who presumably cuddles up with Germans

Vaterjude: someone who has a Jewish father

Vorzeigejude: a model Jew

With the possible exception of Vaterjude, these constructions are pejoratives about giving the appearance of being Jewish or utilizing your Jewish identity for gain. Far from an aberration, the revelation of Wolff’s fabricated Jewish identity turns out to be something of a German tradition. Not a year seems to pass without a scandal involving the identity of a prominent German Jew. [...]

Not everyone assumes a Jewish identity; some are satisfied with appearances.

The television journalist Lea Rosh was the public face and most vocal proponent of the campaign to build Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Rosh has cultivated a Jewish aura—a Scheinbarjüdin, perhaps. “I don’t look so Aryan,” she once enthused during an interview. Rosh changed her name from Edith to Lea, and unsuccessfully sued the (Jewish) author Ruth Gay for writing that she had done so to sound more Jewish. She once fiercely rejected a proposal to place the Holocaust memorial across from the Reichstag: “Did the ‘German people’ murder the Jews? Hardly.”

Then there are the literal costume Jews. I have twice witnessed large groups of Germans wearing kippot. Once at a rally against antisemitism and once marching with a large police escort down Sonnenallee, the hub of Arab life in Berlin, chanting pro-Israel slogans. To hold a sign that said “Stop Genocide” or “From the River to the Sea” on that same street today would invite certain arrest and potentially criminal prosecution. The police violently suppressed demonstrations and even basic symbols of Palestinian identity on Sonnenallee in the weeks following October 7; I had to extricate a friend, a prominent (Jewish) journalist, from one such demonstration after he was pepper-sprayed for filming the brutal arrest of a man whose crime was to hold a Palestinian flag. But few here are trying to co-opt a Palestinian identity.

Some years ago, a friend of mine was invited to a Shabbat dinner. The attendees all gave the appearance of being religiously observant. They knew the hymns, the men wore kippot, one even had payot. The hosts insisted that my friend recite the various blessings. Through a chance comment during dinner, he discovered he was the only Jew in attendance. They were Germans who enjoyed enacting Jewish rituals, and wanted a Jew to unwittingly give his blessing.

Many more Germans than Wolff, Hingst, and Seibert “feel Jewish.” Jewish community archives evidence that many Germans attempted to “discover” their Jewish heritage after the war. Everyone seems to have a Jewish aunt here. Or their grandparents were in the resistance. Or maybe it was their great-aunt. Others have simply converted. [Note from me: obvious parallel to Americans' "Cherokee princess" great-grandmothers here.]

[...] German television recently ran an award-winning talk show called Freitagnacht Jews (Friday Night Jews) that featured a roundtable of Jews talking about what it’s like growing up Jewish in Germany. Vogue Germany once ran a column called “Jewish Today”—subhed: “The everyday life of a German Jewess, who takes us on a journey through a world we hardly know”—where readers could learn about Jewish bodies, Jewish sex, Jewish doubt, Jewish decision-making and why Jewish men can’t come as quickly thanks to circumcision. Germans love the peculiarity of Semitic sorrows, the specificity of Jewish joys. They love klezmer music. They will solemnly nod their head when you tell them, “My grandfather is a tree.”

The great beneficiaries of this funereal interest, assuming they don’t criticize Israel too much, are Israelis. In common perception, Israeli is synonymous with Jewish. The reality is more complicated inside of Israel, but Israelis are nonetheless regarded as the summa of all things Jewish by a German public whose thinking is still fundamentally characterized by a nation-state framework. And the cultural predilections of Israeli society—an obsession with interrogating Israeli identity as a sort of special existential condition, an enormous capacity for self-aggrandizement and self-pity—conveniently align with German expectations of “Jewish culture,” and largely mirror those of German society. Germany is the largest market for translated Israeli literature in the world.

[...] To be German is to be a Täter, a perpetrator. But the crux of Germany’s national identity, its famed memory culture and the “overcoming of the past,” is, paradoxically, its relationships with Jews, the universal victims. Through empathizing with and supporting Jews, conveniently embodied in the state of Israel, Germans can expiate the evil inherent in being German, passed down from generation to generation as though it were in their blood. Jews become the bearers of an inherited virtue as victims.

Yet far from overcoming the past, this dynamic seems to demand its constant reenactment. Non-Germans can only become German by checking their own histories at the door. Minister of Culture Roth recently told the new Cameroonian-born director of a state cultural institution: “You have become part of the Täternation.” Cameroon was formerly a German colony.

These prevailing tendencies have become ever more apparent in the wake of the horrifying violence in Israel and Palestine over the past months. Germany’s political, media, and cultural elites have rushed to demonstrate who can stand closest to Israel. The identification has been so intense and Israel’s security so frequently invoked as a matter of Staatsräson that at times I have wondered if some Germans don’t believe Hamas’s attack wasn’t obliquely directed at Germany. Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck gave a much-lauded speech in which he called on Muslims in Germany to “clearly distance themselves from antisemitism so as not to undermine their own right to tolerance.” No similar imperative was given to Germany’s good Christian citizens. Friedrich Merz, the leader of the CDU (Angela Merkel’s party) who is widely presumed to be the frontrunner to become the next chancellor, proposed mandating recognition of Israel’s right to exist as a condition of acquiring German citizenship. His proposal has become reality in the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

This formulation of German identity does not offer an inclusive vision for a diversifying country. A friend’s partner, the descendant of Kurdish “guest workers” who arrived after the war, was so impressed by her vociferous school lessons about the misdeeds of Germany’s prior generations that she briefly believed her own grandfather had likewise slaughtered Jews in Europe during the war. Germanness as such has no aspirational, positive content. It’s not hard to understand why some would want to escape this cycle of pathologized guilt, just as it’s not surprising that some would take identification with Jews a step further.

[...] The “I am Jew in Germany” essays articulate something like the opposite: a brittle, uncertain identity in a country that offers Jews many assurances and no certainty. They mark out “Jewish” and “German” as dichotomy of distinct, irreconcilable identities. These essays celebrate “Jewish humor” and are chronically unfunny. They nod to the profundity and factiousness of Jewish culture and hew to the schema of the local Weltanschauung. Profoundly awkward social mannerisms abound. It is almost as though they were . . . German.

The farce of this situation is readily apparent. But the tragedy has never lingered far from the surface, and that tragedy has come into clearer view since October 7, which occurred a few weeks after I initially turned in a draft of this essay to a different magazine. Since October 7, German politicians have authorized breaches in the country’s constitutional order on the basis of nebulous sensitivities, unwittingly setting a ruinous precedent for when the far-right Alternativ für Deutschland comes into power. Since October 7, German arms shipments to Israel have risen so substantially that the total for 2023 represented a ten-fold increase from the previous year, and now account for 30 percent of Israeli arms imports (another report puts it as high as 47 percent). And since October 7, those munitions have been used by Israeli forces to kill more than fourteen thousand children in Gaza. Germany has a heart for children.

[taraljc]

I always knew Holocaust deniers were psychos and whackjobs but today I found out there are Partition and The Nakba deniers, and no fucking wonder the Daesh has been able to fan the flames of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hatred so easily in the western world. what the actual fuck.

[ritchiepage2001newaccount]

#CorpMedia #Idiocracy #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #DemExit #FeelTheBern #JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava SDF: 47 ISIS terrorists killed, 300 civilians freed [UPDATE]

https://anfenglish.com/rojava-syria/sdf-47-isis-terrorists-killed-300-civilians-freed-32216

The SDF press center has presented its current 24-hour record of the offensive against ISIS in Deir ez-Zor region Accordingly, 47 ISIS terrorists were killed and about 300 civilians rescued...

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FURTHER READING:

[life-kaan]

what happened in syria in 13 years?

— when the dates show march 15, 2011, the popular movement, which started with a group of students writing "o doctor (bashar al-assad) now it's your turn" on the school wall in dera in southern syria, on the morning of december 8, 2024, the 61-year bloody rule of the ba'ath party ended when the rebels took control of damascus, accompanied by exuberant masses.

— on the morning of november 27, the footsteps of the armed groups led by the anti-regime delegation tahrir damascus (hts) were heard in syria, and a clash with regime forces began in the western countryside of aleppo.

— first, the groups that dominated aleppo took control of idlib, hama and homs for a short time, and this morning the capital damascus.

syria in short

— oil, the greatest economic symbol and the most effective weapon of the 20th century, was also emerging in this region. western imperialist powers were also aware of the situation. the west's constant desire to own oil determined the fate and grief of the middle east.

— 13 years of development in syria chronologically;

march 15, 2011: the syrian civil war began with anti-regime peaceful demonstrations organized by a group of young people in the southern province of dera. the demonstrations quickly spread across the country.

january-february 2012: clashes between the regime-rebels intensified.

april 26, 2011: the regime army entered dera, where the fuse of the uprising was ignited.

june 30, 2012: political transition negotiations began in geneva.

july-december 2012: the terrorist organization ypg/pkk took over the districts of aynularab (kobani) and afrin and the amude district of hasaka from the regime without conflict.

may 2013: turkey presented a 3-stage plan for the u.s. to declare a no-fly zone in syria, the establishment of a safe zone for civilians and a joint ground operation with coalition forces.

august 21, 2013: the assad regime massacred more than 1400 civilians with chemical weapons in eastern ghouta. the united states agreed with russia to destroy the regime's chemical weapons by not approaching military intervention.

january 2014: as the regime began to collapse, iran began to bring shiite militias into syria. daesh took raqqa from the opposition.

june 30, 2014: daesh declared the so-called caliphate.

september 22, 2014: the us-led coalition launched an airstrike on isis.

january 26, 2015: ypg/pkk took aynularab from daesh with the intensive air support of the usa for 4 months. thus, the us-ypg/pkk alliance began.

march 2015: idlib fell into the hands of military rebels and anti-regime armed groups.

may 21, 2015: isis captured the city of tedmur (palmyra) and dominated about half of syria.

september 30, 2015: russia directly involved in the civil war. it cornered the opponents with the air support it provided to the regime.

december 18, 2015: bmgk accepted its decision numbered 2254. the roadmap of the political transition has been determined.

august 24, 2016: turkish armed forces and the syrian national army launched the euphrates shield operation. it cleared 2 thousand 55 square kilometers of area in the north of syria from daesh.

the capital of damasks!

23-24 january 2017: the first astana meeting was held with the initiative of turkey and russia.

april 4, 2017: the regime killed at least 100 civilians in the chemical weapons attack it organized in the town of khan seyhun.

october 2017: the terrorist organization deas withdrew and handed over most of raqqa and deyrizor to the terrorist organization ypg/pkk.

january 2018: turkey linked the olive branch operation against the terrorist organizations ypg/pkk-deas in afrin.

may 21, 2018: başkent sam completely came under the control of the regime.

15-31 july 2018: the southern provinces of the country, jordan and the israeli border, completely fell into the hands of the regime.

september 17, 2018: president recep tayyip erdogan and vladimir putin signed the sochi agreement to protect the ceasefire in idlib, but the regime's violations did not slow down.

march 25, 2019: former u.s. president donald trump signed the resolution to recognize the golan heights as israeli territory.

may 6, 2019: the increasing attack and harassment by the assad regime forces against the south of idlib turned into a ground operation.

october 9, 2019: turkish armed forces launched the syrian national army and the peace spring operation against the ypg/pkk and daesh terrorist organizations in northern syria.

12-13 october 2019: within the scope of the operation, tsk and smo soldiers rescued the rasulayn district center on october 12 and tel abyad on october 13.

october 27, 2019: abu al-baghdadi, the leader of the terrorist organization daesh, was killed in the operation organized by the usa in idlib.

december 2019: the assad regime and its supporters launched ground attacks on the idlib tension reduction region.

27 february-5 march 2020: turkey carried out the spring shield operation against the regime elements who martyred 34 soldiers carrying out a ceasefire observation mission in idlib.

march 5, 2020: after the meeting between president recep tayyip erdogan and russian president vladimir putin, an agreement was reached on the ceasefire in idlib. according to the agreement, the ceasefire entered into force on march 6 at 00.01.

april 15, 2021: the assad regime halved the value of the syrian lira with the devaluation.

may 26, 2021: the assad regime organized the so-called presidential election despite the opposition of the international community. the regime claimed that assad received 95.1 percent of the votes from the election, in which more than half of the people did not participate.

18- 22 october 2021: the sixth round of the meetings of the syrian constitutional committee at the un office in geneva was chaired by the bm's special representative for syria geir o. pedersen.

february 3, 2022: u.s. president joe biden announced that u.s. forces killed daesh leader abu ibrahim al-hashimi al-kurayshi in an operation in syria.

hama was reborn from the ashes

baas party and 13 years of massacre

the baath party was founded in 1947 in sam, the city of syria. in 1950, it merged with the arab socialist party in syria and continued its political existence as the "arab socialist ba'ath party".

— the arab socialist baath party seized power in the country as a result of a coup in 1963.

then, hafiz asad, the father of bessar asad, who has been operating in the party since the geng yagils, came to power with an intra-party coup in 1970 and became the state of the country in 1971. thus, hafiz assad became the oppressive period in the country after he came to power. so much so that the hama massacre revealed the whole world that the arab socialist baath party was a bloody government.

on february 2, 1982, the special forces under the command of hafiz assad's brother, rifat assad, surrounded the city to suppress the uprising launched by the muslim brotherhood in the hama province in the central part of the country against the regime.

— the bloody assad regime first bombered with his troops from the air, then massacred tens of thousands of people in 27 days with artillery fire and mass executions in hama.

man with glass character

according to the report organized by the snhr, that is, the syrian human rights net, at least 30 thousand civilians were killed in the massacre in the city center of hama on february 2-28, 1982, and there was no news of at least 17 thousand civilians who were detained.

— tedmur in hummus (palmyra)

the people who were thought to have been taken to the prison and those who were not heard from think that their relatives were slaughtered.

again, according to snhr's report, on the one hand, districts such as al-asida, es sehhane, al-kilayniyye, ez zenbak, al-hayriya and al-basuriyye were heavily targeted in attacks and bombings carried out by the regime forces from the air and land, while about a third of the city center was destroyed.

in the # massacre, 88 mosques, 3 churches and high historical monuments were destroyed.

— on march 12, the swiss federal prosecutor's office announced that a criminal complaint had been filed with the federal criminal court for war crimes and crimes against humanity and that he would be tried for "war crimes and crimes against humanity".

— more than 6.7 million people were displaced within the country. about 217 times, the regime carried out chemical weapons attacks on the people and an estimated 14 thousand 449 people were tortured to death.

with whom is israel in aleppo?

zalim asad was born in syria in 1965. he graduated from the faculty of medicine of sam university in 1988 and then served as a doctor in the syrian army.

while the killer was studying specialized in ophthalmology in london, the capital of england, in 1992, he returned to syria when his brother basil al-asad died in a traffic accident in 1994. the cruel five-assad, as soon as he returned, began to study at the military academy and prepared for the government of the country until the death of his father.

on june 10, 2000, the bill was adopted to reach the age of 40 in order to become president in the country. in this way, beşshar al-assad came to power with 97 percent of the vote in the presidential referendum.

— when assad came to power, the opening period in the fields of democratization, human rights and freedom of expression, which began in syria, called the "spring of damascus", ended in february 2001.

the future in aleppo is pregnant with history

when "damascus spring" came to an end, syria moved away from political reforms by citing foreign policy issues. many opponents who demanded democracy and reform in syria signed the "damascus declaration" in october 2005.

— then five assad, "damascus

he imprisoned some of these opponents who signed the declaration. some had to leave the country.

the demonstrations that started in dera after the "arab spring" wave in the middle east spread to syria spread throughout the country as of march 16, 2011.

— the syrian regime described the people who demanded a freer and more democratic syria as "terrorists aimed at disrupting the peace and stability of the country". they began to suppress these demands by using extreme violence. as a result, the civil war broke out. since 2011, hundreds of thousands of syrians have lost their lives in the civil war that broke out, millions of people have been displaced or taken refuge in neighboring countries.

[sethshead]

This piece is a week old, which may as well be a millennium given the pace of the rebel advance and government collapse. There is much interest here in the description of shifting alliances and the biography of Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a, AKA Abu Mohammad al-Julani.

The good news is that he’s a pragmatist more motivated by power-seeking than by ideology. He has doublecrossed all his affiliations, including Daesh and al-Qaeda and communications from his new government appear to safeguard minorities and journalists. If he’s moderated into a Morsi- or Erdoğan-style Islamist after his years as an extremist, that would be a best-case scenario. Syria was not going to emerge from this war a liberal democracy.

The bad news is that he has been affiliated with both Daesh and al-Qaeda. His troops have abused Christian and Shiite civilians, although not with the brutality Baathists (or Daesh) ever visited upon their foes. What he has been he can be again if the circumstances are right. Al-Shar’a is not to be trusted, and will have to prove himself over a span of many years. This is why Israel bombed Syria’s known chemical weapons stockpiles and the US is using the opportunity to keep up the pressure on Daesh. In a vacuum of power it is good to deter extremists, and it should also serve as a warning to Shar’a not to return to his old form.

At the moment, Iran is completely out of Syria (and feeling internal pressure both from anti-theocracy liberals and radical Revolutionary Guard elements humiliated by the withdrawal) while Russia will likely be allowed to retain its naval base at Latakia. It’s not a complete coup de main, but Russia has ties to Syria dating back to the ‘50s: those are too long to sever immediately. The Kurds of the Syrian Democratic Forces are the most decent of all the actors in Syria, but with Trump taking over the White House, they are likely to be left in the lurch against both Turkey’s Islamist (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, al-Shar’a’s faction) and secular (Syrian National Army) proxies. The likelihood is that fighting will continue for some time, if only to suppress the long-suffering and -stateless Kurds.

Meanwhile, HTS is calling for an eventual advance on Jerusalem and Medina. That is not particularly comforting to any of Syria’s neighbors. Time will tell, but in this neighborhood, fanatics tend to triumph over moderates, and violence over peace. The Syrian people deserve a respite from deadly strife, but I am skeptical they will see it anytime soon.

[straynoahide]

human beings really be like: i just beheaded💀 someone we have just captured BUT *tawhid*☝️ i have the Book☪️ so it was good actually. and then think they're part of a proto-Caliphate that's gonna usher in a golden age under a virtuous philosopher-king

[scentedchildnacho]

That creepy lower bunk lady for several hours now has not shut up .....it's illegal to refuse medical care but they just leave her going and going and going like a crack head does

All coke freak is all it does and that's how they leave her or threaten to call the cops

My german instructor told me comfortability is the worst thing....so it's really wrong to refuse adequate means to people not fighting or who have stopped fighting

So I think allied security mostly steals stuff till death penalty privileges

I think they don't kick out that creepy little old lady in the lower bunk because they cant actually call people a criminal without premeditated intent to harm....she hasnt recieved adequate intelligent health care to call her intentioned though she confesses in all ways that she is a rapist

She confesses in all ways sympathy with Africans i met in mckinney texas who get their own pharmaceutical business.....and i find people maybe daesh sad though as a terrorist group and maybe wanted in the green belt also

She tells on people for any activity they have if she can't comatose us all on her pharmaceutical budget she won't have enough in life

So i think to the shelter staff she is an old creepy rapist....and has never given anyone in her life a trial and adequate means and so does not deserve constitutional rights here

McKinney Texas was a satanic place for Africans....and they want the large plates of missing beef rations for others and to watch other prostitutes collapse and people can sit and have coffee jitters instead of food stamps and they can collapse us of anti biotics meant for African green belt children so

Did you not pass your military exams and refuse to bring things to African crisis....

Be good just sit there with it still bothering your cologne

Just kicking people out is leaving people to die potentially....and a form of deliberate incarceration and it's wrong to unjustly accuse others

I don't know her identifiers just creepy old lady....she is discolored.. .yellerd kind of which can be mexicanism could be Italian could be white black but it's intent is to find her very weird....covered in feces till discolored hygiene

The public art exhibit in riverside california told me my best peace culture for weapons would be cosmetology school......most desirable weapons are from Africa I don't want to go to gun combat when the conflict can viewed as surgically mediated....

And that's learning how to cause penitential complex about that skin film that can be shown through microscopic film ...

[tamamita]

I know that there were jewish people who hunted down nazi officers after world war 2 do shias have a similar concept during isis invasion?

Most of the Shi'as who fought against DAESH in Iraq formed into one militia called the Hasdh al-Shaabi or the Popular mobilization force. The main purpose of this group was to purge Iraq from any Sunni Islamist and Baathist elements. Of course, this did lead to sectarian tension, especially in places like Fallujah, Mosul and other cities in the Sunni Triangle. While some Sunnis and Christians made up sections of the PMF, they were mostly overshadowed by vast number of Shi'as.

PMF is split into several factions due to ideological differences between the Shi'as. You had the Pro-Iranis, the Anti-Iranian Sadrists, the al-Sistani followers and etc. One thing they had in common was that they were driven by vengence and reprisal attacks were not uncommon. Unfortunately, that meant that even innocent Sunnis were harassed.

[thepoliticalvulcan]

This is a real monkey’s paw too because to the surprise of essentially no one except a particular kind of liberal who memory holed Afghanistan and Iraq after falling back in love with the security establishment when it became #resistance, Israel is not going to occupy Gaza long term. It’s simply not economically feasible. It’s unclear it has the political will to even maintain an occupation long enough to set up a proxy government that it can hand off day to day administrative and low level security control to.

Now some may cheer this. I don’t blame them. A halfassed occupation sucks to be on the receiving end of. Us gray beards who remember the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan know how much of a shit show it is when no one is actually that invested in hearts and minds and the people who are have no real support. Everything built under those conditions is built on sand.

That also means Israel will likely do very little of consequence to make Gaza suitable for human habitation again if it’s not directly controlling the rebuilding.

So where does that leave Israel and Palestine? Probably back to the status quo. Whatever entity fills the power vacuum in Gaza may not call itself Hamas but it’s probably more likely to have more in common with Daesh than Mandela’s reformed ANC. Israel gets its pound of flesh after 10/7 but it’s unlikely in the extreme to know peace. West Bank Palestinians will likely experience ever greater levels of unfreedom and Gazans will spend years grappling with hunger, disease, the elements, and probably a small civil war as assorted Diadochi sort out who is going to rule.

So what was this all for in the end? Atavistic violence. Vengeance. The shoring up of the foundations of legitimacy for two religious fundamentalist supremacist movements that have always had a perverse symbiotic relationship and absolutely knew it all along.

And diddly squat otherwise. And it was so predictable. I remember antiwar OpEds before Israel crossed over into Gaza that were not even anti-Zionist, let alone shills for Hamas, predicting this would be the outcome.

The economy in the fourth quarter was impacted by a 26.9% drop in private spending - the main growth driver - an 18.3% fall in exports and 67.8% slide in investment in fixed assets, especially in residential building. Government spending, mainly on war expenses and compensating businesses an

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