The events which are unfolding in the Golan Heights, in the buffer zone between Syria and Israel, are difficult to explain at first glance. The first question is why the terrorist groups of the Syrian opposition are trying to seize positions in the Golan Heights and kidnap UN peacekeepers. What sense does that make if it has no direct influence on the course of the armed conflict within the country? Read More »
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has told the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who wants to boost the support for the armed terrorists within Syria even while he knows that the majority of them are either jihadists or uneducated and dangerous thugs, that an increase of the U.S. military support for the armed “forces”, which are fighting in Syria against the secular nation and government, could stoke the level of violence in the entire Middle East. Read More »
Western politicians, and their Gulf counterparts, are engaged in a concerted campaign to portray Hezbollah’s recent involvement in Syria as a main cause of the overt sectarian nature of the Syrian ‘opposition’, and are using Hezbollah to subvert the opposition’s sectarian origins and inherent ideologies. Several underlying factors need to be addressed as to why this campaign is being pushed forward, and why it is important for Western and Gulf nations to exacerbate the demonization towards Hezbollah in the Middle East. This campaign can be construed as part of the US/Saudi (KSA)/Israeli agreed policy of “choking the resistance”. That resistance being: Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, otherwise falsely labelled as the “Shi’ite crescent”. Read More »
By the end on May Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shiite guerilla group, said his fighters would help bring victory to President Bashar Assad in Syria’s civil war. On May 25 he said in a speech marking the 13th anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon that Syria and Lebanon faced a threat from radical Sunni Islamists. Hezbollah helped push Israel to withdraw from southern Lebanon in 2000 and confronted the Jewish state in a short war in 2006. There are media reports saying the group amasses thousands of militants around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. The Washington Post reports in detail about it (1). Hezbollah’s engagement in combat near the Lebanon-Syria border significantly raises the stakes in the war. The newspaper quotes Emile Hokayem, a Middle East-based analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, «A deployment so deep into Syria and in such a crucial place would be a clear indication that Hezbollah’s role in Syria was never limited to defensive aims but is geared toward helping Assad score major victories». Hezbollah formations have spearheaded the offensive against the rebel forces, primarily al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, to restore the control over the town of Qusair near the Syria-Lebanon on border. The increased presence of the militant group has helped to change the balance in favor of Syria’s government and gain victory. The government’s victory at Qusair solidifies its control over the central province of Homs, the linchpin linking Damascus with the pro – Assad strongholds on ... Read More »
In Mafia terms, it’s called «making an offer that can’t be refused». The «offer» is not one of free choice between options that may benefit the object party. In reality, it is about setting up a scenario of duress, under which the object party is coerced to capitulate to detrimental terms of extreme prejudice determined cynically by the other party. This is the scenario that Washington and its NATO allies are contriving for the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad… Read More »
Soon, we may see history repeating itself, and this time, Syria has a much better chance for its strategies to work more effectively and at a much faster pace. When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 and occupied Beirut, the Syrian Army was unable to stop this attack for many reasons. Read More »
The Foreign Minister of Iran, Mr. Ali Akbar Salehi, warned in a recent statement that the ongoing crisis and conflict in Syria is able to engulf the entire region and, thus, the Syrian conflict is already threatening the security of some neighboring countries of Syria, while some of these neighboring countries like e.g. parts of Lebanon and Jordan are deeply involved in the conflict in Syria. Read More »
The permanent envoy of Russia to the United Nations (UN), Vitaly Churkin, said in his speech during the so-called UNSC debates about the situations in the Middle East, that any help for the armed Syrian opposition in order to overthrow the Syrian regime will just result in the rise of terrorism in the neighboring countries of Syria. Read More »
The Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, PMOI and NCR), which do everything to act against Iran, has offered the US administration some help to boost and spark an unrest in Iraq that is similar to the boosted conflict in Syria. This offer by the MKO to the US administration was unveiled in a new report by the Didehban Center The report by the Didehban Center states that the terrorist organisation MKO (Mojahedin-e Khalq) has asked the administration of the United States even several times and on many occasions to provide them with financial support in order to make Iraq more and more insecure and to boost the level of violence there. The report also states that these proposals by the terrorists of the MKO (Mojahedin-e Khalq) have been put forth to some officials of the United States through former and also retired Washington officials who are known to be now among the advocates of the MKO. According to the report by the Didehban Center, among them are the former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton, the former presidential candidate John Mc Cain and the old US Attorney General Michael Mukasey, of course. The terrorist organisation MKO (Mojahedin-e Khalq) has claimed that it is also able to quickly recruit other terrorist groups, extremists and religious fanatics in Iraq due to its long stay (three decades) in this country. This long stay gave them, so the MKO, an in-debt knowledge of this Arab country. The terrorist organisation suggested ... Read More »
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