by Oui
Sun Dec 8th, 2024 at 06:36:50 PM EST
Sometime one experiences a naughty time delay ... nevertheless, today the Resistance states are more united and broadened in partnerships.
Mohammad Marandi: Syrian Civil War, Erdogan, Netanyahu,
Turkey, Israel, Russia, US, Iran, Palestine.
PUBLICATIONS OF NEARLY A DECADE AGO ...
Assad w Netanyahu Close to a Peace Deal in 2010
Report claims Netanyahu agreed to withdraw from Golan Heights | TOI - 12 Oct 2012 |
Yedioth Ahronoth cites US documents describing indirect talks between PM and Assad in 2010; PMO denies story
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed in principle to withdraw from the Golan Heights during indirect talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad in 2010, according to US documents cited by Yedioth Ahronoth.
Uzi Arad talks to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a 2009 cabinet meeting (Kobi Gideon / FLASH90)
The pertinent documents were written by Special Coordinator for the Middle East Frederick Hoff, an assistant to the then-US Special Envoy for the Middle East George Mitchell
The paper reported that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak opened secret negotiations with Assad over a full withdrawal from the Golan to the shores of the Sea of Galilee in exchange for a peace deal. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six-Day War in 1967.
Netanyahu had Israeli officials who were involved in the negotiations sign confidentiality agreements, according to Yedioth, in order to guard the secrecy of the talks, of which the rest of the Israeli government was apparently unaware. The negotiations reportedly ended in early 2011, with the outbreak of the popular uprising against the Assad regime.
Introduction
Saudi King Salman has refused an invitation from President Obama to attend a landmark summit at Camp David.
New King Salman has set aside the Saudi fatwa of the Muslim Brotherhood in order to gain strength in the region to take the fight to Iran and its proxy states ... Yemen, Lebanon and Syria. Turkey already is a great asset to the Saudis and is doing its utmost to get Pakistan on board as well. There are rumours the Saudi Kingdom has bribed Israel with funds above $10bn to get rid of Hezbollah and Assad. Remember that Putin told Saudi envoy Prince Bandar bin Sultan to go to hell when bribes were offered ...
Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud (Image credit: AP News)
Saudi Arabia and Israel have been working together on intelligence and foreign policy ever since the Lebanon civil war and closer since the Iraq invasion in 2003. Both states want to rid Hezbollah and Assad in the Levant. The United States has a dysfunctional Middle East policy, fully biased to protect a racist and fascist Jewish state. The US corporations (military-industrial complex) profit from massive arms contracts to the GCC states, this trumps any and all political oriented foreign policy.
The Middle East has become a powder keg ready to explode. The United Nations has been side-stepped due to intransigence of parties believing their military position is a better option. As we have seen in Syria for 5 years, you can't negotiate for a political solution while brandishing weaponry and upping intelligence and delivery of arms. A schizophrenic policy which has no credibility for all parties involved.
Turks and Sauds to Install Sunni Terror in Damascus, Syria
| by Oui @BooMan - 9 May 2015 |
At last someone is in agreement with me in what western-backed regime change in Syria has wrought and what will be the end game. Due to the Iraq invasion by the UK-US coalition of Labour leader Tony Blair and Republican president George W. Bush, the Sunni-Shia balance in the region shifted. Saudi king Fahd and crown-prince Abdullah had warned the White House for the consequences. Bush, Cheney and a united U.S. Congress decided otherwise. Egypt's dictator Mubarak warned for dire effects and called it opening Pandora's Box. We also know that NATO partner Turkey was reluctant and did not permit a front to be opened from its territory.
Israel was a strong partner of U.S. right-wing politicians and the Neocon theme of regime change in both Iraq and Syria. As I have written before, there was a political movement to bring Syria closer to the European Union by offering economic ties in exchange for a path to democratic principles and human rights. Even Israel was in secret negotiations with Assad for a peace treaty and a deal for the occupied territory of the Golan Heights as late as 2010.
When the Arab Spring ignited in Tunisia, all diplomatic principles and International Law of state sovereignty were pushed aside. The advisors to President Obama in the White House had found a principle to circumvent the U.N. Security Council to make war by other means: the fake R2P principle of interference by western powers. It had been successfully tried in Serbia and Kosovo.
Later under U.S. leadership - thanking Hillary Clinton [and Samantha Power] - NATO would intervene in Libya and would continue beyond R2P and see to the overthrow and death of dictator Gaddafi. The chaos as result we can witness daily here in Europe. Most likely the media offer no coverage of the hundreds of deaths, spread of arms and munitions as far as Boko Haram, the war in Mali and the Maghreb and the movement of jihadists from Algeria into Syria and Iraq.
During the ugly war of occupation in Iraq, the Saudi Kingdom began supplying arms and funds to their Sunni compatriots in Iraq's Sunni triangle of Anbar province. This Sunni movement against U.S. occupation and Shia dominance in Baghdad government led ultimately to the rise of ISIS. As western powers under Obama had encouraged and supported the revolt to overthrow Assad in neighbouring Syria, the ISIS fighters and thousands of foreign jihadists from Arab states, Chechnya and the AfPak border region swarmed to northern Syria. Money from the wealthy Gulf states and encouraged by NATO partner Turkey, the long process to destroy the secular state of Syria has begun. It is what it is today, and the end game is becoming clearer by the day.
The U.S. has played an intolerable role of being compliant although the motivation can only come from the chess game of regional and world powers. Israel is giving it's support by incidental bombing raids over Syria with the argument of destroying the Shia axis from Teheran-Baghdad-Damascus-Beirut. Israel lives by destruction of its neighbouring state and the creation of chaos. This is exactly why U.S. Republicans love Israel and its leadership from Peres to Barak to Sharon and today's populist Netanyahu. Why is Israel calling the shots in Washington DC? The White House wants to destroy Putin's Russia because of its reluctance in the Security Council on the intervention in Libya and Syria.
Both Israel and Turkey have a warm relationship with Russia.
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The Salafist uprising will not stop in Syria of course as the destruction won't be complete until the removal (death) of Hezbollah and the Shia in Lebanon. The days of the Jordanian Hashemite monarchy are numbered as well. Remember the first Gulf War and the alliance of Jordan and the Palestinians with Saddam Hussein?
There will come a moment these states will have to put boots on the ground in Syria to prevent the rebel forces to unite with the Islamic State. I doubt the Saudi Kingdom will offer it's sons for a ground war, so most likely armed forces will be delivered by more populated nations: Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan. It's even possible mercenaries will be sought in Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia.
More at original article @BooMan when different insights were accepted for debate.
Analysis and conclusion
AQ: Caliphate of the Levant Established
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SYRIA FALLS
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President Erdogan further underscored that the Damascus regime failed to comprehend the significance of the hand that Türkiye had extended and what it meant.
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IDF Welcome Committee for Its New Neighbors
IDF deploys in Golan buffer zone with Syria, girding for post-Assad regime chaos |TOI |
On Saturday, the IDF intervened with artillery shelling to repel gunmen who tried to attack a UNDOF post near the Syrian village of Hader, close to the border. Rebel forces announced they had taken the border regions of Quneitra and Daraa earlier in the day.
Also on Sunday morning, the IDF’s 98th Division with the Paratroopers and Commando brigades was dispatched to the Golan Heights, bolstering its already shored-up forces in the area.
The IDF also imposed closed military zones in the Golan Heights on the Israeli side of the border with Syria.
The military said agricultural areas near Merom Golan, Ein Zivan, Buq’ata and Khirbet Ein Hura would be off-limits for civilians until the end of the month.
