Yes, she was a troubled child, but her parents ruined that girl. What odds that within the next five years she ends up accidentally killing an innocent bystander while firebombing a building in protest against whatever cause had caught her interest at that moment?
[NYPOST] Climate activist Greta Thunberg was filmed giggling as she declared ''f—k Germany'' and ''f—k Israel'' at an anti-Israel rally in Germany Friday, video shows.
The 21-year-old appeared as a speaker at the demonstration in the southwestern German city of Mannheim, which included a discussion focused on ''solidarity with Palestine and the climate movement.''
''F—k Germany,'' Thunberg says in the clip, before bursting into laughter. ''And f—k Israel,'' she adds to rapturous applause and whistling from the crowd.
Americans like to think of themselves as a can-do, pragmatic people uninterested in philosophy when they could be busy improving the world. Germans think of themselves as deep mountain lakes, steeped in philosophy and literature; this lot, though, never got past the comic book stage, or perhaps Max und Moritz.
A city spokesperson told German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur that 700 protesters attended the rally, which they described as peaceful.
Thunberg, however, has faced fierce backlash for the comments since the clip was shared on social media.
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A thought for the day: "In law we talk about the proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock, which is not only wrong in itself, but which calls into question everything that has come before. Most of our institutions have been chiming thirteen for quite a while, and people have noticed." - Glenn Reynolds
We're at the "people have noted" stage.
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Load a Super Soaker with Holy Water and see if she manifests.
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I give her 5 years before she's dead on an OD or self-darwinates out of existential dread of a phantom fear. Either that or she goes full Allen and gets passed around by a bunch of Isis donkey's of stinky doom.
[X] "We, alongside the Syrian people, will stand against any attack on the stability of the new Syrian administration or the integrity of Syria’s ancient lands."
A hint that the Ottoman province of Syria used to contain what is now Israel and the Palestinian territories?
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Days After Trump’s Victory, Biden Admin Quietly Granted Iran $10 Billion in Sanctions Relief
Just days after Trump’s 2024 victory, the Biden administration approved $10 billion in sanctions relief for Iran, according to a congressional notice reviewed by The… pic.twitter.com/ZfD1yNUIQW
… congressional notice reviewed by The Washington Free Beacon. On November 8, Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined it was in the “national security interest of the United States” to waive sanctions, allowing Iraq to transfer funds to Iran for electricity payments.
Despite Republican objections warning the funds could fuel terrorism and Iran’s aggression against Israel, the administration has repeatedly renewed the waiver. One renewal came just a month after Hamxs’s October 7 attack on Israel.
- Washington Free Beacon
Hey, Elon! D’you suppose any of your clever friends would like to try getting that back on January 20th, about 12:01pm ET?
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Going out of Business arrangement, perhaps just the beginning of the Biden exit fire-sale?
[IsraelTimes] A US indictment unsealed Monday charges two high-ranking Syrian officials under ousted President Bashar al-Assad with war crimes, the US Justice Department says in a statement.
The indictment, which was unsealed in the Northern District of Illinois, charges the former Syrian intelligence officials with engaging in a conspiracy to commit cruel and inhuman treatment of civilian detainees, including US citizens, during the course of the Syrian civil war.
[IsraelTimes] More than 4,000 Syrian army soldiers have crossed into Iraq since rebel forces seized Damascus and overthrew the government of Bashar al-Assad, a militia official in western Iraq says.
The official with the Anbar Tribal Mobilization Forces says that the soldiers had turned over their weapons, ammunition and armored vehicles and would be housed in a camp. He did not say where the camp was located.
Another security official says that the governor of the Syrian province of Hasakeh had come to the border late Sunday night with a convoy of Syrian army soldiers who wanted to cross into Iraq, and they were allowed in via the Qaim crossing.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
The Iraqi government has close ties with Iran and used to be one of Assad’s primary backers but Baghdad has taken a neutral position on the advance of the insurgents and Assad’s downfall.
[IsraelTimes] ‘If that’s a deal breaker, the deal will sink,’ far-right minister tells Bloomberg.
Timing is everything, and the Saudis waited too long. They’ll now have to start over even though Bibi has made it clear he would love to close the deal with them as his final legacy. But that was before he had the crushing of the Iran crescent as his legacy.
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[IsraelTimes] US defends Israeli decision to fill vacuum after Syrian soldiers fled posts along border but stresses that measure must be temporary
The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... accused Israel on Monday of having violated the 1974 Disengagement Agreement with Syria, after it informed the UN Security Council that it had taken "limited and temporary measures" in a demilitarized strip bordering Syria to counter any threats, particularly to residents of the Israeli side of the Golan Heights.
In a letter informing the 15-member council of Israel’s actions, UN ambassador Danny Danon stressed that it was "important to emphasize, however, that Israel is not intervening in the ongoing conflict between Syrian gangs" following the fall of Bashir al-Assad’s regime on Sunday. "Our actions are solely focused on safeguarding our security," he wrote.
Danon’s letter came after Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Monday morning that he had ordered the IDF to complete its takeover of the buffer zone between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights after it took up dozens of new positions a day earlier, bracing for potential chaos in the wake of the Syrian rebel offensive that toppled the Assad family’s 50-year rule.
The IDF has said that its deployment to the buffer zone is a defensive and temporary measure but acknowledged that it may end up staying there for the foreseeable future, depending on the developments.
The 235-square-kilometer demilitarized buffer zone was established in the 1974 Agreement on Disengagement between Israel and Syria, which concluded the Yom Kippur War, and has been manned for decades by UN peacekeepers. However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... Israel said Sunday that with the fall of the Assad regime, it considered the agreement void until order is restored in Syria, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to the border that the agreement had "collapsed."
Nevertheless, Danon told the UN Security Council that Israel remains committed to the framework of the 1974 agreement.
Shortly after Danon formally informed the UN of the steps taken by Israel, a spokesperson for the international body said the troops positioned in the buffer zone "constitute a violation" of the agreement.
The UN peacekeeping force deployed in the Golan Heights, known as UNDOF, "informed the Israeli counterparts that these actions would constitute a violation of the 1974 disengagement agreement," said Stephane Dujarric, front man for Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... He said that the Israeli forces that entered the zone were still present in at least three locations.
"There should be no military forces or activities in the area of separation. And Israel and Syria must continue to uphold the terms of that 1974 agreement, and preserve stability in the Golan," Dujarric said.
Echoing the UN’s condemnation, Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... slammed Israel’s seizure of the buffer zone, which it said was proof of Israel’s will to "ruin Syria’s chance of restoring its security."
"The seizure of the buffer zone in the Golan Heights... confirm Israel’s continued violation of the rules of international law, and its determination to sabotage Syria’s chances of restoring its security, stability and territorial integrity," the Saudi foreign ministry said in a statement.
The US, meanwhile, defended Israel’s takeover of the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, but at the same time sought to reassure opponents of the move that it would be a temporary one, as Israel has said it would be.
US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller explained during a press briefing that the Syrian army had abandoned positions on its side of the Golan Heights and noted that this created a potential vacuum that could have been filled by terror organizations that threaten Israel.
Justifying the move by the IDF, he said that any country would be concerned and want to take action to prevent such a vacuum from being created.
However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... he highlighted Israel’s public claims that the takeover was temporary and said that the US would be monitoring Israel’s presence and speaking to Israeli counterparts to ensure that the IDF takeover doesn’t become permanent.
He declined to set a timetable, however, pointing to the fast-changing situation on the ground in Syria.
"Israel has said that these actions are temporary to defend its borders. These are not permanent actions, and so ultimately, what we want to see is lasting stability between Israel and Syria, and that means we support all sides upholding the 1974 disengagement agreement," Miller said.
Hard to blame Israel for their reaction. by Leonid Tsukanov
[REGNUM] The fall of Bashar al-Assad's government and the triumph of his opponents have evoked a variety of emotions among Middle Eastern leaders. Some are looking to the future with fear; others with hope for mutually beneficial cooperation. There are also those who have rushed to emphasize their hidden contribution to the victory over Assad.
For example, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially stated that the change of power in Damascus was the result of Israeli strikes on Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah.
However, the Israelis do not trust those who are tipped to be part of the new Syrian elite too much. And so, taking advantage of the power vacuum, they are solving their own strategic tasks on Syrian territory.
SUPPRESSED RESISTANCE
Netanyahu is being very truthful when talking about the contribution of Assad's opponents to the victory. The Iranian "Axis of Resistance" was indeed seriously traumatized by the long-term confrontation with Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, as well as in Syria, where Iranian proxies regularly became targets for Israeli aircraft.
Traumatized? What a delightful word.
It is not surprising that Hezbollah, one of the key conductors of Iranian interests on Syrian territory, was weakened by the onset of the regime’s opponents’ offensive and was not ready to bear the brunt of the defense.
Next time don’t start a war you can’t finish, guys.
General Javad Ghafari, who was hastily sent to Syria, was able to organize the withdrawal of combat-ready Hezbollah units, but he never received permission to launch a counterattack.
At the same time, as the Iranians themselves note, Tehran was ready to support official Damascus in the conflict to the last, if an official request had been made by the Assad government. Iranian military advisers did not dare to take responsibility for organizing the defense - given the increased friction with part of the Syrian elite.
SPONTANEOUS DECISION
Against the backdrop of the final disintegration of the Syrian army – and, more importantly, the prospect of the opposition taking up arms in the border regions – Israel decided to act preemptively.
Tel Aviv has sent ground troops into Syria for the first time in 50 years. Israeli army (IDF) officials said a limited contingent had taken up key positions on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, breaking the status quo established after the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
The exact number of the contingent is not disclosed by the Israeli side.
More than you guys can handle — that’s all you need to know.
According to fragmentary reports and footage from the field, it is known that at least two infantry brigades (not at full strength) have been deployed, supported by tanks. At the same time, there has been no report on the deployment of elite paratroop units, and information on the deployment of the Shaldag special forces has also not been confirmed.
Possibly they’re off where you can’t see them, doing things it would greatly upset you to know about…
In addition, the IDF receives constant support from aircraft, which strike at border garrisons and warehouses of Syrian troops, allowing the Israelis to indicate their presence with minimal forces.
Indicate their presence — what a charming locution.
Tel Aviv positions its presence on Syrian territory as purely temporary, due to threats to national security.
That is what the cognoscenti refer to as being diplomatic.
Initially, the General Staff announced the creation of a “security zone” up to 15 km deep, but the IDF quickly went beyond the announced zone.
Israeli units occupied parts of the provinces of Daraa, As-Suwayda and Al-Quneitra, and the geography of airstrikes expanded to the Syrian capital.
Eh? The IAF have been freely bombing sites in and around Damascus for ages.
At the same time, the nature of the Israelis' actions shows that the decision to intervene in Syria was made spontaneously. It seems that the Netanyahu government was not prepared for such a rapid collapse of the Syrian defense and is now trying to squeeze the maximum benefit out of the power vacuum.
President-elect Trump did challenge them to finish things before his swearing in January 20th…
In parallel with the advance of Israeli units, Tel Aviv has launched a dialogue with the Druze communities. It is possible that the Israelis will try to create a semblance of a puppet regime in the new areas in order to shift the task of protecting the border area to the leaders of the Druze religious minority, who live compactly in this area.
Israel gets on well with its own Druze. No reason not to share the joy, especially when the Syrian lot know the territory and the players — and would probably be happier managing their own defence than depending on Israel to get it right.
Official Tel Aviv, apparently, does not believe in the honesty of the leaders of the armed opposition, who publicly demonstrate a desire to peacefully coexist with Israel.
Seriously? The Russians are pulling out, suggesting they strongly don’t believe in HTS honesty on the subject.
DIFFICULTIES FOR TEHRAN
The Israeli invasion of Syria, contrary to expectations, did not provoke a strong reaction from the international community. Many countries chose to ignore Tel Aviv's operation. Some chose to provide the Israelis with the necessary assistance.
For example, the Russian side transferred to Israel two facilities in the Syrian province of Daraa, as well as an observation observatory on Mount Tel Al-Hara, to ensure continuous monitoring of the situation in the border areas.
Really?! How pragmatic.
Only the Iranian authorities have criticized the Israeli intervention, calling it a “violation of the rights of the Syrian people.” However, Tehran’s displeasure is easily explained: Israeli troops are rushing along the Syrian-Lebanese border, trying to cut off the routes of Hezbollah fighters into the territory of the former republic.
To think that only a little over a year ago it looked like all the Mad Mullah’s nefarious plots were coming true. How are the mighty smashed to bouncing rubble.
Given the general instability of the ceasefire in Lebanon, Iranian authorities see what is happening as a marker of imminent Israeli revenge in southern Lebanon.
There is no reason to expect Tel Aviv's enthusiasm to wane anytime soon. After establishing a new status quo in Syria (and eliminating the threat from that direction), Israel is preparing to deploy forces not only against Hezbollah, but also against the Yemeni Houthis - in retaliation for the ballistic missile strikes on Israeli territory.
Under current conditions, Iran will have to take into account not only the threat from the Israelis, but also the risk of the new Syrian authorities participating in the conflict on the side of Tel Aviv, in exchange for the return of part of the border territories.
It is not a fact that such an alliance will be durable (like the Druze puppet state that some Israeli politicians and scholars propose to build in the border area), but it is quite capable of creating tactical difficulties for Tehran and the “Axis of Resistance” it leads.
*Happy sigh* Was that as good for you, dear Reader, as it was for me?
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"two infantry brigades (not at full strength)"
Well duh. You forward deploy 2 battalions and hold one back, and rotate them on duty, so everybody eventually gets time off. Also gives you a reserve.
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[NYPOST] Israel and Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... have reportedly exchanged a list of names as negotiations that would secure the release of some Israeli hostages continue — with one Israeli bigwig optimistic that a deal could happen ''within a week or two.''
A Hamas delegation was in Cairo over the weekend and presented a list of sick and elderly hostages who would be released during the initial phases of a proposed two-month truce, sources familiar with the recent developments told the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i-owned news outlet al-Araby al-Jadeed.
Hamas additionally provided the names of four US hostages, who are not sick or elderly, who would be included in the deal.
''Conditions are ripe for a hostage deal. It could happen within a week or two,'' one bigwig told Israeli newspaper Ynet.
[IsraelTimes] Government pointman dismisses Arabic paper’s claim that would indicate advanced stage of talks; FM Sa’ar says he is more optimistic than before, ‘but we are not there yet’
Families of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip were told Monday that an Arabic news report claiming serious progress in negotiations for a ceasefire-hostage deal in Gaza was incorrect, even as Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said chances for an accord were more positive than before.
Earlier, the Qatari-owned, London-based al-Araby al-Jadeed news outlet reported that Hamas had sent negotiators a list of hostages it was willing to release as part of a deal and the names of Palestinian security prisoners it wanted in return.
Citing a source familiar with developments, the paper said a Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Sunday and delivered a list of elderly or medically unwell hostages who would be released during the initial stages of a proposed truce. In addition, the delegation was said to give the names of four hostages with US citizenship who did not fall into the previous category, but who would be freed.
Discussions about who would be set free are considered an advanced stage of negotiations, with earlier stages relating to the terms of a truce.
However, a statement sent to the families of hostages by the government coordinator for the hostage talks said: “In recent hours, reports emerged in the Arab press regarding negotiations to bring the hostages home. These reports, that have also been published in Israel, are not correct.
“We continue to take all measures to secure the return of the hostages and take great care to keep this information secured. We urge you to continue to rely only on information coming from authorized sources,” the statement said.
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I suppose all that remains is for Hamas to submit room and board receipts.
[NAHARNET] U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will travel to Israel this week for talks on Syria following the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and on a truce deal in Gaza, the White House said Monday.
Sullivan will meet Israeli officials to discuss "efforts to reach a hostage release and ceasefire deal in Gaza, the latest developments in Syria, and for discussions about Lebanon and Iran," National Security Council spokesman Sean Savett said.
[IsraelTimes] Arab media reports that the Syrian transitional authority will be headed by Mohammed al-Bashir, who ran the administration in a small pocket of rebel-held territory before the 12-day lightning offensive that swept into Damascus and toppled the Assad regime yesterday.
Bashir is reportedly meeting with outgoing Syrian prime minister Mohammed al-Jalali in Damascus, who said yesterday that he would cooperate with "any leadership chosen by the Syrian people."
[IsraelTimes] People express joy over end of brutal regime, as Turkish officials hope many will return home; Germany and Austria suspend Syrian asylum requests
Hundreds of Syrian refugees gathered at two border crossings in southern Turkey on Monday, eagerly anticipating their return home following the fall of President Bashar Assad’s government.
Footage shared online purported to show thousands driving toward the border and into Syria to return to their homes.
Many arrived at the Cilvegozu and Oncupinar border gates at daybreak, draped in blankets and coats. Some camped by the barriers of the border crossing, warming themselves with makeshift fires or resting on the cold ground. The border crossings correspond to the Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salameh gates on the Syrian side of the border.
Among those waiting at Cilvegozu was 28-year-old Muhammed Zin, who voiced excitement at the prospect of returning to his homeland. He fled Damascus in 2016 and has been living and working in Istanbul.
“Assad was shooting us, killing us,” he told the Associated Press. “I will return to Syria now. Thank God, the war is over,” he said.
Seer Ali, 18, who left Damascus six years ago, had been working in the nearby city of Gaziantep to support his mother and siblings back home.
“We are very happy, very happy. Not just me, but everyone, all of us Syrians here are very happy,” he said. “Everyone will return; no one will stay here. They will all go to their families.”
Turkish officials have not said how many Syrians have returned since Assad’s downfall. Authorities set up a checkpoint some five kilometers (3 miles) from Cilvegozu, only allowing Syrians with adequate documentation to advance to the border gate, HaberTurk television reported.
Assad’s fall has sparked widespread joy among Turkey’s 3 million Syrian refugees, with many taking to the streets of Istanbul and other cities to celebrate. On Sunday, Syrians also removed the Syrian government’s flag from the Syrian Consulate in Istanbul, replacing it with the opposition’s flag.
Turkey welcomed Syrian refugees with open arms in the early years of the Syrian civil war that broke out in 2011 — becoming host to the largest number of refugees in the world. Ankara believed that the conflict would end quickly and the refugee influx would be temporary.
But as Turkey faced economic challenges, public opinion toward the refugees soured, forcing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government to seek ways to ensure their safe and voluntary repatriation.
Turkish officials now hope that a significant number of Syrians will return voluntarily.
“We will continue our efforts to ensure the safe and voluntary return of Syrians and to rebuild the country,” Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Monday.
Hundreds of displaced Syrians were also returning Monday to Syria from Lebanon, with dozens of cars lining up to enter. The day before, Lebanese residents had handed out congratulatory sweets to Syrians waiting to go back to their country.
Sami Abdel-Latif, a construction worker and refugee from Hama who was heading to Syria to join his wife and four children, said while the future in Syria is still uncertain, “anything is better than Bashar.” He said he expected some chaos initially but that eventually the situation would settle down.
“Look at Aleppo now,” Abdel-Latif said, referring to the first major city taken over by opposition forces more than a week ago, where life has continued more or less as normal. He said he is also hoping that there will now be plenty of work in Syria to rebuild.
Malak Matar, who was preparing to return to Damascus, said: “This is a feeling we’ve been waiting 14 years for.”
“You feel yourself psychologically free — you can express yourself,” he said. “The country is free, and the barriers have been broken down.”
Now, he said, “Syrians have to create a state that is well organized and takes care of their country. It’s a new phase.”
A HALT TO ASYLUM REQUESTS
Germany and Austria, which took in some one million and 100,000 Syrians respectively, have suspended their decisions on asylum requests amid the developments.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said that “the end of the brutal tyranny of the Syrian dictator Assad is a great relief for many people who have suffered from torture, murder, and terror.”
“Many refugees who have found protection in Germany now finally have hope of returning to their Syrian homeland and rebuilding their country,” she added.
But she cautioned that “the situation in Syria is currently very unclear.”
“Therefore, concrete possibilities of return cannot yet be predicted at the moment, and it would be unprofessional to speculate about them in such a volatile situation.
“In view of this unclear situation, it is right that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees has today imposed a freeze on decisions for asylum procedures that are still ongoing until the situation is clearer,” she said.
The interior ministry says there are now 974,136 people with Syrian nationality residing in Germany.
Of these, 5,090 have been recognized as eligible for asylum, 321,444 have been granted refugee status and 329,242 have been granted subsidiary protection, a temporary stay of deportation, with tens of thousands of other cases still pending.
German foreign ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer on Monday highlighted the changing events and ongoing fighting in Syria.
“The fact that the Assad regime has been ended is unfortunately no guarantee of peaceful development,” he told a regular media briefing.
“Whether this new situation will result in new refugee movements or whether, on the contrary, if the situation stabilizes, displaced persons and refugees will have the opportunity to return to their homeland in the long term, remains to be seen,” Fischer said.
Meanwhile, Austria’s Conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer on Monday instructed his interior ministry “to suspend all ongoing Syrian asylum applications and to review all asylum grants,” the ministry said in a statement.
“From now on, open [asylum] proceedings of Syrian citizens will be stopped,” a statement said.
Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner added he has “instructed the ministry to prepare an orderly repatriation and deportation program to Syria.”
Family reunification — allowing Syrians in Austria to bring relatives to the country — will also be suspended, the statement added.
“The political situation in Syria has changed fundamentally and, above all, rapidly in recent days,” the ministry said, adding it is “currently monitoring and analyzing the new situation.”
“It is essential to reassess the situation, which is necessary for further processing of the cases,” the ministry added.
Around 7,300 Syrians whose asylum applications are in the first stage of consideration “are affected” by the suspension, the ministry said.
Since 2015, some 87,000 Syrians have been given asylum.
Austria’s anti-migration far right topped national elections in September, though they have been unable to find partners to govern, leaving the runner-up conservatives trying to form a new government.
[IsraelTimes] Gaza terror groups hope Syrians will continue to back Palestinians after regime change; in footage from Damascus, rebels call for people of Gaza to be ‘patient’ for their aid
The Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... terror group congratulated the Syrian people on Monday for achieving their "aspirations for freedom and justice" after toppling the regime of Bashir al-Assad.
It was Hamas’s first public comment on the matter since rebel forces swept into the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday, after a lightning advance that sent Assad fleeing to Russia following a 13-year civil war and six decades of his family’s autocratic rule.
"Hamas congratulates the brotherly Syrian people on their success in achieving their aspirations for freedom and justice, and we call on all components of the Syrian people to unite their ranks," the terror group said.
"We stand strongly with the great people of Syria... and respect the will, the independence, and the political choices of the people of Syria."
Hamas said it hoped that post-Assad Syria would continue "its historical and pivotal role in supporting the Paleostinian people."
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's knife out of his hand...... footage from a mosque in Damascus aired by Hebrew media Monday showed Syrian rebels vowing to march on Jerusalem.
"This is the land of Islam, this is Damascus, the Moslem stronghold. From here to Jerusalem. We’re coming for Jerusalem. Patience, people of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , patience," vowed an Islamist rebel, surrounded by a group of button men who responded with cries of "holy shit! Allahu akbar!" ("God is greatest" in Arabic.)
It was not clear which rebel group the fighters represented.
Also Monday, Ziad al-Nakhala ...In 1971, al-Nakhalah was sentenced to life imprisonment in Israel because of his militant activities with the Arab Liberation Front. He was one of the 1,150 security prisoners released by Israel on 21 May 1985 in an ill-advised prisoner swap under the Jibril Agreement. After his release from Israeli prison, then-PIJ secretary-general Fathi Shikaki tasked al-Nakhalah with establishing in the Gaza Strip the group’s military wing, the Al-Quds Brigades. He was detained again by Israel in April 1988 for his role in the first Intifada, and was exiled to Leb in August 1988 with other PIJ leaders. Ihe longtime Paleostinian Islamic Jhad Number Two was called back from the organization’s base in Damascus in 2018 to take over the top spot until supremo Ramadan Shalah recovers from a coma with complications caused by rigor mortis... , head of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , an Iranian-backed terror group and an ally of Hamas, said that events in Syria were "a Syrian affair."
"The Islamic Jihad hopes Syria will remain a real supporter of the Paleostinian people and their just cause, as it has always been," said Nakhala.
The Kan public broadcaster reported Sunday that Nakhala fled from his Damascus residence to Tehran ahead of the rebels’ takeover, while his deputy fled with the PIJ leadership to Iraq, to avoid potential liquidation by Israel.
Hamas publicly endorsed the 2011 Sunni Moslem street uprising against Assad’s rule and vacated its Damascus headquarters in 2012, a move that angered Iran, an ally of both Assad and the Paleostinian terror group.
Hamas, whose ideological roots stem from the Sunni Islamist Moslem Brüderbund, distanced itself from Assad — a member of the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam — as he cracked down on the mainly Sunni Moslem protesters and rebels.
The Paleostinian terror group decided in 2022 to restore ties with the Assad government and sent a delegation to Damascus, where leaders met Assad in the hope of repairing relations.
Assad’s Syria and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... formed an "axis of resistance" with Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s Hezbollah terror group and Paleostinian terror groups to oppose Israel.
According to the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, UNRWA, some 438,000 Paleostinians registered as refugees resided in Syria in 2022.
Hamas’s positive response to the fall of Assad contrasted with that of Shi’ite Moslem Hezbollah, which played a major part in propping up Assad through years of war. Assad’s Syria long served as a vital conduit for Iran to supply arms to the group.
A senior Hezbollah politician on Monday described events in Syria as a "major, dangerous and new transformation."
Some among those who overthrew Assad have vowed to aid the people of Gaza, which has been locked in a war with Israel since Hamas launched its October 7, 2023, massacre of southern communities.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Under murderous dictator Bashar al-Assad, Syrians faced massive crackdowns for alleged drug use for years, often being handed long sentences in prisons where they would be subjected to horrific torture. But for years, the hypocritical tyrant's regime secretly netted three times more money than all of Mexico's cartels, by one estimate, with a small white pill that everyone from ISIS terrorists to construction workers chased after.
*Blink*
Captagon, known locally as the 'drug of jihad', and 'poor man's cocaine', was originally sold as a cure for attention deficit disorders, narcolepsy and depression when it was first developed by a German pharmaceutical firm in 1961. In 1986, Captagon was banned in almost all countries after it was listed as a Schedule II drug by the UN.
But junkies found the drug was a cheap and quick way to get massive bursts of energy and productivity, alertness and sometimes a sense of euphoria. As a result, it became the drug of choice for everyone from high-end revellers to construction site workers, and even terrorist rampagers. Israeli media reported that Hamas' fighters pumped themselves full of the drug right before they carried out their deadly October 7 massacre, in which they killed around 1,200 people and kidnapped a total of 251. ISIS fighters were also known for their use of the drug, with experts telling CNN in 2015 that it made people feel impervious to bullets.
Syria is responsible for around 80% of the world's production of Captagon, and for years Bashar al-Assad, who has now been deposed thanks to a lighting offensive led by an Islamist rebel group, was a key player in the industry.
'You can stay awake for days at a time. You don't have to sleep,' Dr. Robert Keisling, a psychiatrist at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, told the outlet.
'It gives you a sense of well-being and euphoria. And you think that you're invincible and that nothing can harm you.'
Syria is responsible for around 80% of the world's production of Captagon, and for years Bashar al-Assad, who has now been deposed thanks to a lighting offensive led by an Islamist rebel group, was a key player in the industry.
In 2021 alone, $5.7 billion of the pills were sold.
Experts estimate that Assad's illict trade of Captagon was worth 'approximately 3 times the combined trade of the Mexican cartels.'
An investigation by the New York Times in 2021 revealed that much of the country's production and distribution of the drug was supervised by the Fourth Armoured Division of the Syrian Army, an elite unit commanded by Maher Assad, Bashar's younger brother.
Intelligence sources based in the region say Captagon is still produced in small factories along the Syrian-Lebanese border as well as larger ones closer to Syria's frontier with Jordan.
Perhaps Israel can knock those out, along with Syria’s weapons factories, storage depots, and army bases.
Some quantities are also produced in Lebanon, with the help of Hezbollah, according to security sources.
Despite its lucrativeness, Assad began stepping away incrementally from the trade in the years before his regime fell in a bid to build up his fractured relationships with other Arab states.
Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have long seen Captagon as a scourge on their nations, and spent considerable resources cracking down on smuggling operations.
In February 2022, Jordan's army said it killed 30 smugglers in just two months, and foiled attempts to smuggle 16million Captagon pills from Syria, an amount that was far beyond the entire volume seized in 2021.
Months later, in August 2022, Saudi Arabia said they had uncovered 46million pills that were smuggled in a shipment of flour.
And in February 2023, a man was arrested in Abu Dhabi, in the UAE, for trying to get 4.5million Captagon pills in cans of green beens.
Last May, Assad reportedly gave Jordan consent to kill a well-known Captagon dealer, Merhi al-Ramthan, in southern Syria with an airstrike, and allowed a Captagon factory near the Jordanian border to be destroyed.
The strikes came just a day before Syria was formally readmitted to the Arab League, which it was kicked out of in 2011 over Assad's brutal crackdown on protesters in the leadup to the Syrian Civil War.
'Assad gave assurances that he would stop the regime from supporting and protecting smuggling networks,' a former brigadier general of Jordan's intelligence service, Saud Al-Sharafat, told The Associated Press. 'For example, he facilitated the disposal of al-Ramthan.'
Al-Ramthan was considered 'the most prominent drug trafficker in the region, and the number one smuggler of drugs, including Captagon, into Jordan', the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.
But for all the money Assad was netting, he simply couldn't stop power from slipping out of his hands.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin;
[ColonelCassad] 1. The militants who seized power have begun to form a transitional government. It will be something in the spirit of the NTC in Libya. The Taliban insist theirs is merely a transitional government, too, awaiting the as-yet unscheduled national election for the final shape to emerge.
2. Some representatives of the old government are assisting in the transfer of power.
3. Israel continues to occupy territories in southwestern Syria, taking advantage of the total power vacuum. Continues? It’s like what, Day 2?
4. Pro-Turkish militants are storming Manbij. The Kurds from the SDF are resisting and the militants were unable to immediately take Manbij.
5. The Russian Armed Forces are leaving their bases in Rojava. After the collapse of the Assad government, staying in Rojava has become meaningless.
6. Regarding the bases in Latakia - negotiations are currently underway on the possibility of preserving them. There is no decision on withdrawal yet.
7. Russia and Iran are already in contact with the militants who seized power. The "green" flag has already been raised at the Syrian embassy in Moscow.
8. Assad with his family in Moscow. Putin has granted them political asylum. According to some reports, our forces also helped evacuate Suheil.
Hamas politburo member Suheil al-Hindi?
9. Maher al-Assad
…Bashir’s younger brother, the major general commanding the Syrian Army's elite 4th Armored Division …
left for Iraq along with some of his soldiers. A large number of soldiers and equipment were abandoned in Eastern Syria.
10. The West is already preparing to legalize HTS and Julani, presenting them as "progressive rebels", although in fact they are "Al-Qaeda".
Precisely.
11. ISIS is now actively recruiting personnel, taking advantage of the fact that militants have been released from prison and a power vacuum has formed. ISIS will get stronger.
Goody.
12. Hamas congratulated the militants on seizing power in Syria. This should not be surprising, Hamas was on the side of the militants until 2016.
13. Lebanon and Iraq continue to strengthen the border, expecting an increase in the flow of refugees and possible attacks from militants.
14. Robberies and looting continue throughout the country. There are also reprisals against security forces who served Assad.
15. The US and Israel continue to bomb warehouses and positions of the former Syrian army, trying to destroy some of the SAA military equipment.
Can’t leave it for the new guys, after all. And at the moment the new guys are too busy to do anything about it.
16. The economic situation in the country is deteriorating sharply. The local currency has collapsed, problems with fuel and lubricants are growing (which existed before).
In general, after dividing up the corpse of the killed SAR, we can expect the start of a war for these remains with a very likely dismemberment of a united Syria.
[NAHARNET] Across Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , the Middle East, and beyond, the fall of Syria's authoritarian government at the hands of Islamist-led rebels set off waves of jubilation, trepidation and alarm.
Many Lebanese exulted at the overthrow of the Syrian leader while others worried about more instability rocking a region in turmoil.
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati called for a strict control of the border with Syria and for distancing Lebanon from the developments there. He urged the Lebanese "of all affiliations" to be "wise" and "avoid emotional reactions."
Mikati also asked Secretary-General of Council of Ministers Judge Mahmoud Makiya to communicate with the National Commission for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons in Lebanon and with the relevant authorities regarding the release of Lebanese prisoners from Syrian prisons.
- LEBANESE IN SYRIAN PRISONS -
During 15 years of civil war in Lebanon, an estimated 17,000 people went missing. Many were held captive or were killed in detention centers operated by Syrian forces in Lebanon and Syria, but their fates remain unknown.
Since a Lebanese man, who was missing for 40 years, was freed by Syrian rebels from a prison in Hama last week, many Lebanese families are demanding to know the fate of their loved ones who are thought to be detained in Syrian prisons since Lebanon's civil war when Syrian troops were in Lebanon.
- GEAGEA SAYS 'NOTHING WORSE THAN ASSAD' - Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ....Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005.... congratulated all Lebanese on the fall of Bashir al-Assad's regime, saying that "over the past 50 years, the regime of Hafez and Bashir al-Assad was the biggest obstacle to the building of a state in Lebanon."
"It's impossible for the situation in Syria to be worse than Assad. There is noting worse," Geagea said.
- JUMBLAT SAYS 'JUSTICE ACHIEVED' -
Former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Wally Jumblat ...Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... saluted the Syrian people and celebrated Assad's ouster "after a lengthy wait."
Jumblat also called former PM Saad Hariri ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... and told him that by Assad's fall "justice was achieved" for his slain father Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and other March 14 figures.
Al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...
... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... Movement, founded by Hariri, for its part, congratulated the Syrian people in a statement and called on the Lebanese to preserve national unity.
- ASSASSINATIONS BLAMED ON SYRIA -
Hariri was assassinated in 2005 by a bomb in Beirut, blamed on Syria and Hezbollah. His liquidation sparked protests that ousted Syrian troops from Lebanon. Following Hariri's killing, several anti-Syrian figures were assassinated, including Samir Qassir, George Hawi, Gebran Tueni, Pierre Amine Gemayel, Antoine Ghanem and Walid Eido. Others escaped liquidation attempts including Elias Mur, May Chidiac, and Samir Shehade.
Jumblat's father, Kamal Jumblat was assassinated in 1977 in his car near Baakline by unidentified button men suspected to be members of the pro-Syrian faction of the Lebanese Syrian Social Nationalist Party, in collaboration with the Ba'ath Party.
In 1982, President Bashir Gemayel was killed with 26 other politicians by a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party who detonated a bomb from a few miles away using a remote detonator. He said he killed Gemayel because of his collaboration with Israel, which invaded Lebanon in 1982.
- GEMAYEL HAILS 'TYRANT FALL' -
Kataeb leader and Bashir's nephew Sami Gemayel wrote on X that "the criminal tyrant has fallen". "But Lebanon remains and the Kataeb remains."
He added that the names of his uncle Bashir, his brother Pierre Gemayel, and other deaders "stand tall, pulsating with freedom, illusory sovereignty and independence."
- BASSIL HOPES IT'S FOR THE GOOD OF LEBANON AND SYRIA - Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... leader Jebran Bassil hoped that the developments would be for the good of Syria and Lebanon and lead to a swift return of displaced Syrians to their country and to "positive and balanced relations" between the two countries.
- SYRIA STABILITY IMPACTS LEBANON -
Son of Hezbollah's presidential candidate and Assad's friend Suleiman Franjieh, Marada MP Tony Franjieh hoped, in a statement posted on the X platform, for a peaceful transfer of power that would preserve the country's stability and protect the rights of all Syrians.
"The stability of Lebanon has always been deeply affected by the stability of Syria," Franjieh said.
- BLOW TO HEZBOLLAH -
For Hezbollah, who had long used Syria as its key conduit for weapons and supplies from Iran, Assad's fall could further weakens the group, after the staggering losses it suffered in its own recent war with Israel.
"What's happening in Syria is a major, dangerous and new transformation," Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah said.
"No one can downplay its impact but we draw our presence and strength from God, from our faith before anything else, and from our people — and the existence, presence, formations, capabilities and high competencies of the resistance, despite everything that has been inflicted on it in this war," Fadallah added.
Early in Syria's civil war, when it appeared Assad might be tossed, Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and its ally, Hezbollah, rushed fighters to support him. Russia later joined with a scorched earth campaign of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s.
For Israel, breaking Iran's regional network has been a major goal, though it is wary over jihadi fighters among the hard boyz who toppled Assad. Israel on Sunday moved troops into a demilitarized buffer zone with Syria by the Israel-held Golan Heights in what it called a temporary security measure.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Assad's fall a "historic day," saying it was "the direct result of our forceful action against Hezbollah and Iran, Assad's main supporters."
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[NAHARNET] MP Hassan Fadlallah announced Monday that ''what's happening in Syria is a major, dangerous and new transformation,'' in the first comments by a Hezbollah official on the fall of Bashir al-Assad's regime at the hands of Islamist-led rebels.
''As to why it happened, that needs an evaluation, but the evaluation will not take place on podiums,'' Fadlallah added.
''Regardless of everything that has happened in Syria, some have started to talk about its impact on Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , the resistance and Hezbollah. Not to reassure but rather to state the truth, what happened is very big and no one can downplay its impact, but to us Hezbollah, the resistance and the people of the resistance, we draw our presence and strength from God Almighty and from our faith before anything else,'' Fadallah said.
''We also draw our strength from our people — and the existence, presence, formations, capabilities and high competencies of the resistance, despite everything that has been inflicted on it in this war,'' the MP added.
''As for Syria's future situation, developments and domestic alliances and problems and what will happen later, we will leave that to when it happens and we won't rush in judging things,'' Fadlallah went on to say.
''We know how to protect our country, face the challenges and overcome difficulties, no matter what they are. We passed through harder and more bitter experiences in our history and we overcame them,'' the politician reassured.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Under murderous dictator Bashar al-Assad, Syrians faced massive crackdowns for alleged drug use for years, often being handed long sentences in prisons where they would be subjected to horrific torture. But for years, the hypocritical tyrant's regime secretly netted three times more money than all of Mexico's cartels, by one estimate, with a small white pill that everyone from ISIS terrorists to construction workers chased after. 
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
