Another mid eastern country (Syria) in trouble

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angsta wrote: Thu Dec 19, 2024 3:16 pm
Bluejeanbaby wrote: Wed Dec 18, 2024 6:44 pm



In April 2024, mass graves were discovered in the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war. Such graves were found in two large hospitals, Nasser Hospital and Al-Shifa Hospital, both of which were raided by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Mass graves had previously been established in the courtyards of both hospitals, and according to independent analysis the grave found in Nasser hospital was in the same location as one established by Palestinians months previously. Graves were also found in Beit Lahia, and used in Deir al-Balah. More than 300 bodies have been found as of 24 April 2024. By 11 May 2024, the number had risen to 520, per the Gaza Ministry of Health. As of May 31 2024, seven mass graves in Gaza had been discovered.

According to Hamas. The Gaza Ministry of Health is Hamas.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/isra ... rimes-gaza

An internationally recognised Israeli historian has concluded that his country is committing genocide in Gaza after compiling a vast, methodical report documenting a litany of war crimes committed since Israel’s invasion began last year following the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October.


Lee Mordechai, an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who has also held a fellowship at Princeton University in the US, has published a report titled “Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War” which, in its English translation, is 124 pages long and contains over 1,400 footnotes.

Using eyewitness reports, video footage, articles, photographs, eyewitness evidence and over investigatory material, much of it recorded by Israeli soldiers, the historian has produced what Haaretz calls “the most methodical and detailed documentation in Hebrew (there is also an English translation) of the war crimes that Israel is perpetrating in Gaza”.

Some of the most shocking incidents documented by Mordechai include a Palestinian woman with a child being shot while waving a white flag, starving girls being crushed to death while queuing for bread, a handcuffed 62-year-old Palestinian man getting run over by an Israeli tank and an air strike targeting people trying to help a wounded boy.

The database includes thousands of videos, photos, testimonies, reports and investigations documenting the atrocities Israeli forces are committing in Gaza, where over 44,500 Palestinians have been killed during the war.
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agree with the above assessment>
BUT not a dam thing will be done to make it right
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For those of you considering twisting this thread into being another Gaza/Israel debate, take a moment to reconsider. Tempting as it may be.
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No one focuses on Turkey, who has ‘annexed’ far greater territory in Syria. Nor the US, who has created a ‘safe zone’ for the minorities that used b”to be slaughtered by the Syrians.

The focus of some members of CEO is Israel = bad. Only Israel bad. Everyone not Israel =!pure saints. Especially the peace loving Muslim brothers and iron fisted dictators.

Oh wait, isn’t Burma ruled by a dictatorship similar to Syria?

For the first time, Syrians have a glimmer of hope at determining their own destiny.
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newkidontheblock wrote: Thu Dec 19, 2024 10:11 pm No one focuses on Turkey, who has ‘annexed’ far greater territory in Syria. Nor the US, who has created a ‘safe zone’ for the minorities that used b”to be slaughtered by the Syrians.

The focus of some members of CEO is Israel = bad. Only Israel bad. Everyone not Israel =!pure saints. Especially the peace loving Muslim brothers and iron fisted dictators.

Oh wait, isn’t Burma ruled by a dictatorship similar to Syria?

For the first time, Syrians have a glimmer of hope at determining their own destiny.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/worl ... kurds.html

The Kurds were abandoned by the orange felon and now are at the mercy of Turkey who is ruled by a strongman who Trump respects.

https://caspianpost.com/politics/trump- ... leadership
US President-elect Donald Trump said Türkiye is "very smart" Monday as he hailed his personal relationship with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Some forum members are more vocal with their disgust at the genocide Israel is participating in, while others sit silently and enjoy the wholesale murder of women and children because they are Muslim. I am a Jew, I am ashamed of what Israel is doing in Gaza. My people now commit the same atrocities that were committed against them. I am not a Zionist obviously.

Burma is infact ruled by a dictator, Vietnam is communist and in the northern hemisphere the days will continue to get shorter until they start to get longer. I don't see the relevance to the topic and if the situation in Burma upsets you, why not post a thread about it instead of sidetracking a thread about the middle east.

On a positive note, you did not bring your pet grudge China into the topic and I thank you for that
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newkidontheblock wrote: Thu Dec 19, 2024 10:11 pm No one focuses on Turkey, who has ‘annexed’ far greater territory in Syria. Nor the US, who has created a ‘safe zone’ for the minorities that used b”to be slaughtered by the Syrians.

The focus of some members of CEO is Israel = bad. Only Israel bad. Everyone not Israel =!pure saints. Especially the peace loving Muslim brothers and iron fisted dictators.

Oh wait, isn’t Burma ruled by a dictatorship similar to Syria?

For the first time, Syrians have a glimmer of hope at determining their own destiny.
First, leave Burma out of the middle east thread>> OK?

US says it has 2,000 troops in Syria, not 900 as previously declared
Pentagon says the additional forces have been in Syria for ‘a while’, before fall of President Bashar al-Assad, though they were not publicly disclosed.
After years of telling the public that the United States has about 900 troops in Syria, the Pentagon has revealed there are approximately 2,000 soldiers there — double the previous estimate.

Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Pentagon spokesperson Pat Ryder said the additional US forces have been in Syria since before the ouster of former President Bashar al-Assad this month, though he did not specify a timeframe.

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The US started sending troops to Syria in 2014 with the stated objective of defeating ISIL (ISIS), but US forces remained in the country after the group’s territorial defeat in 2017.

Washington has allied itself with the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which now control large parts of eastern Syria.

However, Turkiye, a NATO partner of the US, views the SDF as a threat to its national security over links to Kurdish armed organisations it labels as “terrorist” groups.

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Turkish-backed Syrian fighters and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which dominates the new government in Damascus, have captured areas previously held by the SDF over the past two weeks.

The prospect of an all-out war between Syrian forces supported by Turkiye and the SDF has raised questions about the future role of US troops in Syria.

On Thursday, Ryder said there are no planned changes to the US military presence in the country.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/ ... y-declared
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Me wrote: For those of you considering twisting this thread into being another Gaza/Israel debate, take a moment to reconsider. Tempting as it may be.
The thread has been tidied up of the irrelevant sniping.
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4 years !!!!
Syria's de facto leader says it could take up to 4 years to hold elections
Syria's de facto leader said Sunday it could take up to four years to hold elections in Syria, and that he plans to dissolve his Islamist group that led the country's insurgency at an anticipated national dialogue summit for the country.

Al-Sharaa said it would take time to hold elections because of the need for Syria's different forces to hold political dialogue and rewrite the country's constitution following five decades of the Assad dynasty's dictatorial rule. Also, the war-torn country's battered infrastructure needs to be reconstructed, he said.
Meanwhile:
Earlier, an Israeli airstrike in the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday killed 11 people, according to a war monitor, as Israel continues to target Syrian weapons and military infrastructure even after the ouster of Assad.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the airstrike targeted a weapons depot that belonged to Assad’s forces near the industrial town of Adra, northeast of the capital. The observatory said at least 11 people, mostly civilians, were killed. The Israeli military did not comment on the airstrike Sunday.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sy ... r-AA1wFdoi

anything can happen in that time frame
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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