The US-Israeli monster is ripping Syria to pieces. Part II

The US-Israeli monster is ripping Syria to pieces. 

Part II. Israel’s policy vis-à-vis Syria is malice and revenge

《 NEO Viktor Mikhin, December 19, 2024 》

Israel’s nefarious plans for Syria, based on hatred, malice and revenge, are becoming clear days after the fall of the country’s government. Since Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham* (HTS) and other rebel groups took control of Damascus and overthrew President Bashar al-Assad, Israel has intensified its unprecedented attacks on Syrian territory.

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What is Israel bombing?

Israel does not strike militants and jihadists and their positions. The Pentagon is shamefully hiding behind the notion of ‘striking terrorist organisations’, whereas the IDF explicitly states that its main task in Syria is to destroy the country’s military structure and weapons. The Israeli military reported that it has carried out about 480 strikes on strategic military infrastructure in Syria in just 48 hours. “Over the past 48 hours, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have attacked most strategic weapons depots in Syria, preventing them from falling into the hands of terrorist elements”, the military said in a statement, adding that the targets were 15 warships, anti-aircraft batteries and weapons factories in several cities. At the same time, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said that the military “will destroy heavy strategic weapons throughout Syria, including air defence systems, surface-to-air, surface-to-surface, cruise, long-range and coastal missiles”. A senior Israeli official said the airstrikes would continue in the coming days.

Israel’s policy vis-à-vis Syria is hatred, malice and revenge

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights added that Israel “destroyed critical military infrastructure in Syria, including Syrian airports and their depots, aircraft squadrons, radars, military radar stations, as well as a multitude of weapons and ammunition depots in various locations in most Syrian provinces”. At this point, it is quite clear that Israel is seeking to destroy Syria’s defences and expand its presence in the Golan Heights – and possibly beyond – forever.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has brazenly declared that the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel almost 60 years ago, will remain Israeli “forever”. Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem, Netanyahu thanked US President-elect Donald Trump for recognising Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights (1981) during his first term as president and stated that “the Golan will be part of the State of Israel forever”. Israel occupied the Syrian Golan Heights after the 1967 Six-Day War. In 1981, Tel Aviv annexed the Golan Heights – a step not recognised by the international community. Netanyahu said that Israel’s control over the territory “ensures our security and sovereignty”. He personally ordered troops to occupy the UN-controlled buffer zone and move beyond it after rebels overthrew Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Now Israeli troops are only 25km from Damascus and could quickly ‘talk some sense’ into the new Syrian government.

The United Nations and Israel’s neighbours condemned the move. A UN representative stated that Israel’s actions are a “violation” of the 1974 agreement on the separation of forces between Israel and Syria. Netanyahu cynically replied that the collapse of the al-Assad government and the retreat of the Syrian army from their positions “annulled the agreement”. Earlier, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, in trying to sugar-coat another blatant injustice, said that the seizure of the buffer zone was “a limited and temporary measure that we took for security purposes”. US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller expressed understanding regarding Israel’s actions, which, in his words, “are not permanent” and “we ultimately want to see long-term stability in relations between Israel and Syria, which means that we support all parties that comply with the 1974 disengagement agreement”.

Israeli campaign aimed at eliminating scientists

Dr. Hamdi Ismail Nadi, scientist and former head of the research centre of the Syrian Ministry of Defence, located near Damascus, was found dead in his house. Dr. Nadi was a chemist and participated in chemical weapons development programmes. Zahra Hemsiya, a microbiologist involved in nuclear research programmes, was killed. She was found in her home with several bullet wounds. Dr. Shadia Habal, a physicist who participated in a number of international programmes, was killed in her home. The killers shot her and her husband and all of Dr. Habal’s research was stolen.

The deaths of Nadi, Zahra Hemsiyah and Shadia Habal are reminiscent of the murders of Iraqi scientists committed by the Israeli spy agency after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein more than two decades ago. After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, hundreds of Iraqi scientists, academics and intellectuals were either kidnapped or killed in the chaos caused by the US war against the Arab country. The killings are believed to have been a systematic attempt to eliminate or expel a group crucial to the reconstruction of Iraq.

At that time, according to reports, the Israeli Mossad, in cooperation with the United States, killed more than 500 Iraqi scientists and professors. They claimed that Israeli special forces operating against Iraqi scientists were active in the country after the fall of Saddam. On June 14, 2005, the Palestinian Information Centre reported that Israeli and foreign agents sent by Mossad to Iraq, in cooperation with the United States, killed at least 350 Iraqi scientists and more than 200 university professors and academics. It quoted a report compiled by the US State Department for then-US President George W. Bush. According to the report, Mossad agents operated in Iraq to eliminate Iraqi nuclear scientists and biologists, as well as other scientists and prominent university professors.

“Israeli special forces have been operating in Iraq for more than a year and the main purpose of their activities was to kill Iraqi scientists and intellectuals. The Zionists resorted to a large-scale campaign of assassinations after the failure of American efforts, which began immediately after the US occupation of Iraq and were aimed at attracting a number of Iraqi scientists to cooperate and work in the United States”, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.

Now it seems that Israel has similar plans for Syria. Currently, the nature of Israeli activities in Syria are like a scorched earth policy in the face of the inaction of the armed groups (as well as regional and extra-regional countries) that overthrew al-Assad. HTS* leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani said that the Syrian people are the “rightful owners” of the country, calling the fall of al-Assad “a victory for the Islamic nation”. For now, though, he remains silent about the escalation of Israeli aggression against Syria. The newly created ‘salvation government’ in Syria, to which Prime Minister Assad Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali agreed to transfer power, also did not comment on the increased ground and air attacks by Israel. Türkiye, which is considered the main sponsor of HTS*, also remains silent. Several Arab countries have expressed their disapproval of Israel’s military activities in Syria in recent days, but have not taken any concrete measures in response. Western countries are also looking the other way, as they are the sponsors of all these terrorist organisations.

It is now quite obvious that the current rulers of Syria, as well as the countries of the region, have given Israel carte blanche to continue its scorched earth strategy in Syria. This is consistent with Israel’s expansionist ambitions in the region. That is why Foreign Minister Sa’ar bluntly and cynically stated in an interview with the Times of Israel newspaper, which took place after Israel launched airstrikes on targets in Syria, that “the only thing we are interested in is the security of Israel and its citizens … that’s why we attacked strategic weapons systems, destroying the military structure”. This statement is, as they say, clear as day.⍐

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The US-Israeli monster is ripping Syria to pieces (Part 1)

The US-Israeli monster is ripping Syria to pieces (Part 1)

The US-Israeli monster is ripping Syria to pieces. 

Part 1. The US’ unprincipled policy of force in Syria

《 NEO Viktor Mikhin, December 16, 2024 》

US troops are remaining in Syria, as they have an ‘important mission’ there, stated US Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer in an interview at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York. He did not, though, specify the nature of this important mission.

US soldiers in Syria

In the Kurdish region, in the north of the country, there are about 10 US bases that control almost all of the sizeable oil production there. The black gold is then delivered by oil trucks to Türkiye, where it is quickly sold at discounted prices. The same oil supplies the needs of US bases in the north and 2 more in the south of Syria, near the city of al-Tanf. The money gathered from oil – or rather stolen from the Syrian people – is happily distributed among the ‘democratic’ US officers. Officially, the Pentagon states that there are only 900 military personnel in Syria, but this is hard to believe, as this would mean that only 75 military personnel service one base. Experts estimate the number of US military personnel to be more than three times as large and their number is constantly growing, taking into account the situation.

All of these terrorist groups and the United States are two sides of the same coin

The presence of a significant US military contingent is also indicated by the fact that the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced a massive number of airstrikes in the central regions of Syria. CENTCOM stated that on December 8 alone, as a result of a series of precision airstrikes, more than 75 military facilities were destroyed, which housed military equipment left there by the retreating Syrian army. In the largest operation in recent years, the US Air Force, including advanced B-52s, F-15s and A-10s, was deployed to “disrupt, weaken and defeat in order to prevent terrorist groups, including ISIS*, from conducting external operations and to ensure that these groups do not try to take advantage of the current situation for reconstruction in the central part of Syria”, CENTCOM said in a statement.

General Michael Erik Kurilla stressed that CENTCOM “will not allow terrorist groups to recover and take advantage of the current situation in Syria”, warning that any organisations cooperating with or supporting terrorists will be punished. The US was not able to provide any reliable evidence that the targets of the strikes were ‘camps and militants of terrorist groups’. Numerous US Air Force raids began immediately after the rapid overthrow of the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad by various groups, led by the terrorist Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham*.

A little about al-Jolani

Before launching his jaw-dropping offensive, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani was known in the West as the head of a terrorist organisation, recognised as such by the United Nations, and a $10 million bounty was placed on his head. However, the unexpected success of his attacks turned the situation upside down; now Western media presents him as a changed man who preaches pluralism and tolerance and wants only peace for the Syrian people.

The abrupt change in the tone of Western media vis-à-vis al-Jolani, on top of evidence that HTS* and allied groups are using modern Turkish and US weapons to capture cities abandoned by the Syrian army, indicates preliminary planning and coordination between the West and the new de facto rulers of Syria.

The leader of this group, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani (real name Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a), was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 1982 to a Syrian engineer. His family returned to Syria in 1989 and settled in Damascus. In 2003, Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a went to Iraq, where he joined forces fighting against the United States. In 2006, he was arrested and spent five years in prison. After that, having reached an agreement with the Americans and received appropriate instructions from them, he returned to Syria, where he gathered fighters under the brand ‘Jabhat al-Nusra’*. In Syria, al-Jolani met the terrorist al-Baghdadi, the infamous leader of ISIS*. He was later accused of involvement in the September 9, 2001, conspiracy against the United States and a $10 million bounty was placed on his head. It turns out, though, that he was just quietly sitting in Idleb and enjoying the protection of the US military – funny.

Thus, it turns out that it was the ‘democratic’ United States that became the midwife of all active terrorist organisations, starting from al-Qa’eda*, ISIS* and ending with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham*. And after that, who will believe General Michael Erik Kurilla and other long tongues in Washington that they are allegedly fighting against terrorist organisations? These terrorist groups and the United States are two sides of the same coin. 

The real motive of the US bombings 

Analysts questioned the timing of the attacks, saying that if the US mission in Syria is aimed at preventing ISIS* from coming to power, then why were these airstrikes against terrorists not carried out earlier? Small cells of the terrorist group have established themselves in the central part of Syria near areas under US control. Previously, the world accused the US of protecting terrorists in order to maintain instability in Syria and now, it turns out, the Americans have seen the light and have begun quietly destroying the military structure of Syria.

In May of last year, the Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Sergey Naryshkin, accused the United States of preparing ISIS* terrorists to engage in sabotage and carry out terrorist attacks both in Syria and in Russia. Then Naryshkin said that the US-occupied al-Tanf base on the border of Syria, Jordan and Iraq was used to train ISIS* terrorists. CENTCOM’s statement adds fuel to the widespread rumours that the US kept ISIS* under its control during the era of former President Bashar al-Assad to serve Washington’s security interests.

Critics of the occupation accuse the United States of denying Syrian government institutions access to fertile lands and oil fields in the northeast of the country. In addition to the sanctions imposed against Damascus, these measures have put Syrians in a difficult humanitarian situation, depriving government agencies of much-needed oil revenues for the reconstruction of the country, humanitarian assistance to households and salaries for civil servants, as well as the Syrian army. Experts say that most of Syria’s oil revenues are spent by Washington to finance the US military presence in Syria.

It is estimated that the amount of oil revenues appropriated by the United States amounts to billions of dollars. In other words, the United States is brazenly and by force plundering the peoples of the world anywhere they are allowed to do so. This greedy American robbery will progress, only on a larger scale, taking advantage of the current complete confusion and lack of power in Syria.⍐

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The US-Israeli monster is ripping Syria to pieces. Part II