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To show how concerned the world is to such events Assad is to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the appropriate use of chemicals & innovation in torture. Syrian Christians are to be charged by the ICC for causing mischief by living in a Muslin state. One can never forget the involvement of Jewish colonialists who dare to live! Blinken & Sullivan are to be awarded the Dunce Price for renowned stupidity. Did I leave anyone out?

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Arab leadership is a $!#& show. It does not matter if the country was artificially created or historically established. The brutal pathetic attemps at creating a homogenous civic culture is mind blowingly bad.

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/10/arab-spring-countries-assad

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50+ Islamic/Islamist states, the entire Arabian/Ottoman/Ummah/whatever Empire, are 99.9% Muslim. This is a new religion/identity from the seventh century. Younger than Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, you name it. But the adherents of those more ancient religions have been driven out. Or simply slaugtered.

And in their intolerance, these states are… conflictual, repressive, non- and anti-democratic… well you get the idea.

Syria now becoming a non-conflictual, tolerant, inclusive and generally democratic state now that Assad is gone?

Don’t hold your breath.

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Just when you think, things can get worse, along comes another individual who makes you eat your words. What makes an individual ike that tick? What is the reasoning for all the misery, the murders in the most creative ways. And this guy went where? To Russia? That says a lot for Putin and company. Birds of a feather flock together. SF

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Wow....so sad....

Israel should continue bombing them and taking land.

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Lol. It's cute The Free Press pretends to care about people in the Middle East who aren't Jewish/live in Israel.

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You know, I don't find much to laugh about, nor do I think its's cute. None of it is.

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Whether anyone can trust Jolani, at this point is unknown. On the positive side, he is saying and all doing all the right things to once again unite a nation. The negative side at this point is all based in his past, being a part of Al Qaeda. It would be advisable to both trust him, for the moment, and have an escape valve already planned, should things go south.

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Just a reminder for anyone who doubts the urgent reason for the existence of a Jewish homeland in Israel. If not for that, Assad's death camp and cemeteries would be full of Jews. So would refugee camps and cemeteries through the Middle East and many parts of Africa. Not to mention Russia.

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good point.

However the entire Muslim ummah is full of mass graves of the bodies of Jews. From east to west to north to South. Not to mention all of Europe including Ukraine.

Google Khaybar. It was the beginning of the Islamic relationship with the Jews of the Arabian and Ottoman empires. and the Hizbollah war against Israel started on 8 October 2023 was unsurprisingly called… Operation Khaybar.

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Why dos so many hereabouts blithely ignore the sub-title of this article:

"Syria's Christians fear what comes next."

No small matter. The region has always had coexistence of Jews, Christians, Muslims (in order of longevity) and only in the last few decades did this bring about mass bloodshed.

Look what happened to the 20,000-some Jews who long inhabited Syria?

Curb your celebration of recent events. Many will suffer, perhaps more than in the past.

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Now do the Gaza slaughterhouse. Thanks

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How about we stop all this crap, this murder, this insane hatred. There is nothing funny about this. As my father once told me with a tear in his eye at age 100, I think I want to stop the world from turning and get off now.

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The assessment of Gabbard quoted below (Newsweek, 8 Dec) applies to most of Trump's choices for his Administration. Instead of capitalizing on the opportunity that Assad's collapse offers, to weaken Putin and his ability to threaten American and European democracies and economies, Trump and Co want to appease Putin. Appeasement didn't work in the 1930s, & it won't work now.

"In a letter published on Thursday by the group Foreign Policy for America, almost 100 former intelligence and national security officials told Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator John Thune, the incoming Republican majority leader, that Gabbard "aligned herself with Russian and Syrian officials" and would be "the least experienced" person to ever lead national intelligence." Dec 08, 2024 at 6:45 PM EST

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Are those the same "100 former intelligence experts" who said Hunter's laptop was Russian election interference?!

Who would be foolish enough to trust these partisan hacks again?

"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me "

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"Almost a hundred" ?

Gee, that's twice as many as the number of experts warning us about Russia's "dis-information" on Hunter's laptop.

Are we expected to fall for their jiggery-pokery again?

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Yeah I’m totally shocked at Assads depredations

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'In the wake of Assad’s fall, Syria’s 500,000 Christians are living in limbo"

The Obama/Biden regime along with Hillary the henchwoman and neocons like Lindsey Graham tried and tried and tried for over a decade to get rid of Assad. Well, now they can all pat themselves on the back as they watch Erdogan, Turkey's president and card-carrying member of the Muslim Brotherhood and his Islamist bros cleanse Syria of Christians and Kurds.

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At the end of our revolution the many factions divided into 13 self-governing quasi nations, the Articles of Confederation- perhaps an intermediary step in Syria

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When will the ICC name Bashar al-Assad a criminal and haul him before their biased phoney court? When will the progressives in the US pour out into the streets and demand the Arab Muslims who committed these crimes be named perpetrators of crimes against humanity? Not a chance! It doesn't fit their narrative. Hal H

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I can’t get over that nagging feeling that anyone who doesn’t comply with HTS is in for a similar fate as the Yazidis in Iraq. Call it an Armenian sense for history.

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