It’s behind closed doors so shouldn’t be any travellers.
They also wouldn’t give express permission to let Israel do whatever they want, which is looking more and more likely under Trump. In this situation, it literally was the lesser of two evils.
You know my views on the occupation and genocide are way to the left of the democrats, but I don’t think not tacking further left on Israel’s leash cost them many votes. If people were expressing frustration on that issue, they were likely going to vote for Jill Stein, who picked up a decent swing, but not enough to make a dent in the presidential race of any states AFAIK. People who didn’t turn out for the democrats most likely did so on the other key domestic issues, especially economic.
I’m no expert but I think 99% of Americans couldn’t give a rats about what is happening outside of the US. I really don’t think what is happening in Gaza would have a significant impact either way on the election
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Trump has told Israel that he will remove any blocks on the types of weapons being sent from the US to Israel.
Bibi has the Epstein tapes.
Obviously claims of anti semitism etc etc
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Unfortunately it means absolutely nothing.
The Israeli’s have claimed that they have killed the Hamas leader so he won’t face trial for the October 7 massacre.
As for Netanyahu and Gallant, they’re hardly going to visit a country that is a signatory of the ICC. They can travel to the US and not fear being arrested as the US hasn’t signed up to the ICC.
The best we can hope for is a Slobodan Milosevic situation. After he was ousted from power in 2000, the new Government of Serbia handed him over to the ICC. I can’t see any Israeli Government doing the same thing though.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DCpn_NXtr3H/?igsh=dWVpaHJiM2J0OTdi
The US likes the ICC… when it suits them.
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Normal one for the Golani brigade, desecrating Lebanese churches
I mentioned a few months back in another thread that in the last few years a lot of attention has been taken off Syria especially with the Russia and Ukraine war, and most recently in the last 12 months over the border with Israel & Palestine.
The Syrian Civil War really simmered down when Russia stepped in and their air support (aka indiscriminate bombings) allowed Assad to gain the upper hand and retake the majority of the country. Combined this with many opposition groups simmering down, the defeat of ISIS etc, and the withdrawal of US financial and weapons support it looked like Assad had all but won. He didn’t hold the entire country but he held the majority, allowing him to restructure and rebuild up his military which had taken severe losses.
Well, ISIS is on the rise again. Not to the extent they were but their attacks and activities have increased over the last year in Syria.
With Russia pulling back the vast majority of its land and air forces and redistributing them to Ukraine a lot of opposition forces have been once more getting bolder and more active again.
Over the last few days, HTS, a rebel opposition and terrorist group (they’re a offshoot of Al-Qeada) has launched a massive offensive against Assad regime forces and taken the entirety of Aleppo (which was practically destroyed in the earlier years of the war) and neighbouring Idlib province. Apparently Assads forces didn’t put up too much of a fight and completely withdrew from the regions allowing HTS to take a massive swarth of territory.
They’ve captured a couple of military bases, couple of airports and a Syrian air force base, and killed approx 300 government troops. They also ambushed a Russian special forces unit, killing 1)
There’s been some retaliatory air strikes from Russia and Syria but nothing major that looks like an attempted counter offensive yet. The HTS forces are now moving towards Hama (the scene of several atrocities in the main phase of the war) with Syria rushing reinforcements to the area.
With Russia having limited assets in country, I wonder if they will be able to muster enough force to enable Syria to counterstrike without massive casualties.
Posted something on this in the World News Thread. I think it’s too difficult to actually label them specifically as ISIS. The main group is an old offshoot of ISIS, granted, but there’s also a very large number of other groups that have joint forces as well. It generally feels like they’ve realised it’s smarted to combine forces and then sort out their differences at the end. In general, it’s a ridiculously complicated situation there. Assad himself has been accused of using chemical weapons and some absolutely horrible atrocities. The rebel forces in this case, seem to be a bit more tempered. Reportedly an area of Aleppo is still under Syrian control and there’s been talks with the troops there to allow the safe passage down South. Something that would have never occurred under ISIS.
Terrorist group. This “rebel” designation was hilariously given to ISIS as well. All sponsored by the west, Israel & Saudi Arabia.
Looks like old man Joe trying a bit of unfinished business regime change before he disappears.
They’ll start beheading & acting like the psychopathic pieces of shit that they all are. Again proudly brought you by the west, Israel & Saudi Arabia.
I think the situation at the moment is so complicated that it’s almost impossible to label the entire group. They’re a conglomerate of rebel groups at the moment that have joined forces. The main group, granted, is an offshoot of Al-Qaeda however they’ve done their best to distance themselves from their past. Like I said in my other post, they’re currently negotiating with forces in Aleppo to allow them passage down south. There’s also not really been stories of atrocities occurring in or around Aleppo. It’s an area that has interests from Israel, Türkiye, Russia, Saud Arabia, Iran, Europe and the US and each of the rebel groups has been labelled terrorist but at least one of the countries that’s involved.
I don’t think ISIS was ever labelled rebels?
They were.
There’s no accusation.
It’s been proven plenty of times of Assad has used chemical weapons on his people.
Russia has been complicit in some of these attacks.
Don’t be surprised if Assad responds with brute force.
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I haven’t really seen any sources on that? ISIS in it’s current form though, wouldn’t have been labelled as rebels per sei, based on the fact that they first got territory in the US supported Iraq. I mean you can go back to the late 90’s, but it depends on what you classify as ISIS. They definitely weren’t supported by the US when they took over Northern Iraq
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My philosophy is if they’re lying about Gaza then they’re lying about Syria.
As they’ve lied about the dozens of conflicts over the proceeding decades.
All in the name of freedom & democracy.
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Fair call, the difference is though, the Assad is 100% a dictator in his own rights. There’s definitely pro-democracy groups fighting against him, while also other extremist groups involved as well. Labelling them all with one sweeping designation is definitely not the right thing to do. It’s the equivalent of just stating that Gaza is purely Hamas, or South Lebanon is Hezbollah. There’s too many nuances and in Syria, it’s even crazier. Have a look at this map to see how just weird the situation is there:
At this stage, it definitely feels like they’ve had to go with “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”
It’s essentially the reason ( besides oil ) that Saudi Arabia & USA are buddies. 