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🚫 طفلة سورية ترسل رسالة إلى خالها وتقول: “أنا خرجت من المدرسة لأنهم بدأوا الاحتفال… وهذا الاحتفال لا يعنينا.” نعم… هذا الاحتفال لا يعني أي إنسان سوري شريف. فاليوم الذي كان يجب أن يكون يومًا وطنيًّا جامعًا لكل السوريين، تحوّل إلى يومٍ مشؤوم، يومٍ أسود في تاريخ هذا الوطن....

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للنشر… كي لا تُمحى الحقيقة، وكي لا يُغسل الدم بتقارير صاغها القاتل نفسه… نوجّه هذا النداء إلى المجتمع الدولي، وإلى كل الحقوقيين، الإعلاميين، والقانونيين حول العالم، وإلى لجان حقوق الإنسان والمنظمات الدولية: 🔻 نُعلن رفضنا الكامل لما ورد في تقرير لجنة تقصي الحقائق في الساحل السوري، تقريرٌ كُتب بيد الجلاد، لا لتوثيق الحقيقة، بل لتبرئة القاتل وإدانة الضحية. 🔻 هذا التقرير لن يُضمد جراح السيدة المكلومة بابنها غدير، بل زاد ألمها وألم آلاف العائلات التي تنتظر الحقيقة والعدالة. 🔻 ونطالب بتشكيل لجنة أممية مستقلة ومحايدة، تضم نخبة من الخبراء الحقوقيين والقانونيين تحت إشراف الأمم المتحدة، لإجراء تحقيق دولي شفاف في مجازر الساحل والسويداء. ما حدث ليس شأناً محلياً، ولا فصلاً عارضاً في مأساة مستمرة، بل جريمة ضد الإنسانية لا يُغلق ملفها بتقرير مزوّر صادر عن الجاني. 🔴 فعّلوا هذا الهاشتاغ: #نطالب_بلجنة_تحقيق_دولية_في_سوريا To be published… So that the truth is not erased, and the blood not washed away by reports authored by the killers themselves… We address this call to the international community, to all human rights defenders, journalists, and legal professionals around the world, and to human rights committees and international organizations: 🔻 We categorically reject the findings of the so-called Fact-Finding Committee on the Syrian Coast — a report written by the executioner himself, not to document the truth, but to absolve the killer and condemn the victim. 🔻 This report will not heal the wounds of the grieving mother of Ghadeer — on the contrary, it has only deepened her pain, as well as the pain of thousands of families still waiting for truth and justice. 🔻 We demand the formation of an independent and impartial international committee, composed of top legal and human rights experts, under the supervision of the United Nations, to conduct a transparent investigation into the massacres in the Syrian coast and Sweida. This is not a local matter, nor a passing chapter in a prolonged tragedy — it is a crime against humanity, and its file cannot be closed with a falsified report issued by the perpetrator. 🔴 Activate this hashtag: #WeDemand_An_International_Investigation_In_Syria #مجزرة_الساحل #مجازر_الساحل_السوري #الابادة_العلوية #الابادة_الجماعية_العلوية_2025 #الطائفة_العلوية_الكريمة #الجولاني_الارهابي #الامن_العام_الارهابي #لجنة_تقصي_الحقائق #جريمة_ضد_الانسانية #سوريا #توثيق #حماية_الأقليات #SyrianCoastalMassacres #StopAlawiteGenocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #JolaniCrimes #HTSCrimes #JolaniIsAGlobalTerrorist #AlawitePersecution #SyriaMassacres #IndependentInvestigation #MinorityProtection #UN #UNSC #UN_HRC #EU #HRW #AmnestyInternational #InternationalCriminalCourt #SaveSyria #JusticeForSyria
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للنشر… كي لا تُمحى الحقيقة، وكي لا يُغسل الدم بتقارير صاغها القاتل نفسه… نوجّه هذا النداء إلى المجتمع الدولي، وإلى كل الحقوقيين، الإعلاميين، والقانونيين حول العالم، وإلى لجان حقوق الإنسان والمنظمات الدولية: 🔻 نُعلن رفضنا الكامل لما ورد في تقرير لجنة تقصي الحقائق في الساحل السوري، تقريرٌ كُتب بيد الجلاد، لا لتوثيق الحقيقة، بل لتبرئة القاتل وإدانة الضحية. 🔻 هذا التقرير لن يُضمد جراح السيدة المكلومة بابنها غدير، بل زاد ألمها وألم آلاف العائلات التي تنتظر الحقيقة والعدالة. 🔻 ونطالب بتشكيل لجنة أممية مستقلة ومحايدة، تضم نخبة من الخبراء الحقوقيين والقانونيين تحت إشراف الأمم المتحدة، لإجراء تحقيق دولي شفاف في مجازر الساحل والسويداء. ما حدث ليس شأناً محلياً، ولا فصلاً عارضاً في مأساة مستمرة، بل جريمة ضد الإنسانية لا يُغلق ملفها بتقرير مزوّر صادر عن الجاني. 🔴 فعّلوا هذا الهاشتاغ: #نطالب_بلجنة_تحقيق_دولية_في_سوريا To be published… So that the truth is not erased, and the blood not washed away by reports authored by the killers themselves… We address this call to the international community, to all human rights defenders, journalists, and legal professionals around the world, and to human rights committees and international organizations: 🔻 We categorically reject the findings of the so-called Fact-Finding Committee on the Syrian Coast — a report written by the executioner himself, not to document the truth, but to absolve the killer and condemn the victim. 🔻 This report will not heal the wounds of the grieving mother of Ghadeer — on the contrary, it has only deepened her pain, as well as the pain of thousands of families still waiting for truth and justice. 🔻 We demand the formation of an independent and impartial international committee, composed of top legal and human rights experts, under the supervision of the United Nations, to conduct a transparent investigation into the massacres in the Syrian coast and Sweida. This is not a local matter, nor a passing chapter in a prolonged tragedy — it is a crime against humanity, and its file cannot be closed with a falsified report issued by the perpetrator. 🔴 Activate this hashtag: #WeDemand_An_International_Investigation_In_Syria #مجزرة_الساحل #مجازر_الساحل_السوري #الابادة_العلوية #الابادة_الجماعية_العلوية_2025 #الطائفة_العلوية_الكريمة #الجولاني_الارهابي #الامن_العام_الارهابي #لجنة_تقصي_الحقائق #جريمة_ضد_الانسانية #سوريا #توثيق #حماية_الأقليات #SyrianCoastalMassacres #StopAlawiteGenocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #JolaniCrimes #HTSCrimes #JolaniIsAGlobalTerrorist #AlawitePersecution #SyriaMassacres #IndependentInvestigation #MinorityProtection #UN #UNSC #UN_HRC #EU #HRW #AmnestyInternational #InternationalCriminalCourt #SaveSyria #JusticeForSyria

NEMESIS – نيميسس

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‼️الله يعزك مثل ما عززتنا يا أبو محمد… الله يرحم الداية التي أنجبتك!! هكذا استقبل بعض السوريين ومعهم الأميركيون الإرهابي الجولاني، القاعدي والداعشي، وقائد جبهة النصرة الإرهابية التي بات اسمها “هيئة تحرير الشام”. المستقبلون، وغالبيتهم من الطائفة السنية المعتدلة، يرفعون السؤال الكبير: بماذا أعزكم هذا الإرهابي؟ هل بتفتيت الجغرافيا السورية؟! أم بتحريض الشعب على بعضه البعض؟! هل بتكفير معظم الطوائف الدينية وإباحة دمها؟ أم بزرع الخوف وانعدام الأمن في كل زاوية من سوريا؟! هل بتهميش الطبقة المتعلمة والمثقفة، واستبدالها بجهلاء لم يكملوا حتى الصف الخامس، لا يملكون سوى دورة شريعة في إدلب؟! بأي عزٍّ تتغنون؟! أن يصبح لسوريا رئيس “سني” فقط؟! أهذا هو معيار الكرامة عندكم؟! أي عزٍّ هذا الذي يُصنع على أكتاف قاتلٍ ومرتكبٍ للفتن؟! وأي كرامة في أن يُرفع شأن من باع الوطن ومزّق نسيجه؟! May God grant you the same honor you gave us, Abu Muhammad… and may God have mercy on the midwife who delivered you!! This is how some Syrians, along with the Americans, welcomed Jolani — the Qaeda affiliate, the ISIS follower, and the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra, now rebranded as “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.” The crowd, mostly from the moderate Sunni community, raises the big question: What honor has this terrorist brought you? Was it by fragmenting Syrian geography?! By inciting the people against one another?! By declaring most religious sects as infidels and permitting their blood to be shed? By planting fear and stripping away security in every corner of Syria?! By marginalizing the educated and experienced, and replacing them with the ignorant — people who never finished even fifth grade, armed only with a shallow religious course in Idlib?! What kind of honor do you boast about?! That Syria should simply have a “Sunni” president?! Is that your measure of dignity?! What honor is built on the shoulders of a killer and a sower of discord?! And what dignity lies in glorifying someone who sold the homeland and tore apart its social fabric?! #سوريا #الجولاني #هيئة_تحرير_الشام #الطائفة_السنية_المعتدلة #الامن_العام_الارهابي #توثيق #مجازر_الساحل #Syria #Jolani #HTS #ModerateSunniCommunity #SyriaMassacres #StopAlawiteGenocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity
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‼️الله يعزك مثل ما عززتنا يا أبو محمد… الله يرحم الداية التي أنجبتك!! هكذا استقبل بعض السوريين ومعهم الأميركيون الإرهابي الجولاني، القاعدي والداعشي، وقائد جبهة النصرة الإرهابية التي بات اسمها “هيئة تحرير الشام”. المستقبلون، وغالبيتهم من الطائفة السنية المعتدلة، يرفعون السؤال الكبير: بماذا أعزكم هذا الإرهابي؟ هل بتفتيت الجغرافيا السورية؟! أم بتحريض الشعب على بعضه البعض؟! هل بتكفير معظم الطوائف الدينية وإباحة دمها؟ أم بزرع الخوف وانعدام الأمن في كل زاوية من سوريا؟! هل بتهميش الطبقة المتعلمة والمثقفة، واستبدالها بجهلاء لم يكملوا حتى الصف الخامس، لا يملكون سوى دورة شريعة في إدلب؟! بأي عزٍّ تتغنون؟! أن يصبح لسوريا رئيس “سني” فقط؟! أهذا هو معيار الكرامة عندكم؟! أي عزٍّ هذا الذي يُصنع على أكتاف قاتلٍ ومرتكبٍ للفتن؟! وأي كرامة في أن يُرفع شأن من باع الوطن ومزّق نسيجه؟! May God grant you the same honor you gave us, Abu Muhammad… and may God have mercy on the midwife who delivered you!! This is how some Syrians, along with the Americans, welcomed Jolani — the Qaeda affiliate, the ISIS follower, and the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra, now rebranded as “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.” The crowd, mostly from the moderate Sunni community, raises the big question: What honor has this terrorist brought you? Was it by fragmenting Syrian geography?! By inciting the people against one another?! By declaring most religious sects as infidels and permitting their blood to be shed? By planting fear and stripping away security in every corner of Syria?! By marginalizing the educated and experienced, and replacing them with the ignorant — people who never finished even fifth grade, armed only with a shallow religious course in Idlib?! What kind of honor do you boast about?! That Syria should simply have a “Sunni” president?! Is that your measure of dignity?! What honor is built on the shoulders of a killer and a sower of discord?! And what dignity lies in glorifying someone who sold the homeland and tore apart its social fabric?! #سوريا #الجولاني #هيئة_تحرير_الشام #الطائفة_السنية_المعتدلة #الامن_العام_الارهابي #توثيق #مجازر_الساحل #Syria #Jolani #HTS #ModerateSunniCommunity #SyriaMassacres #StopAlawiteGenocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity

Syrian Witness شاهد سوري

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كي لا ننسى… ولن ننسى هؤلاء الأطفال الذين سقطوا في مجازر الساحل السوري لم يكونوا مقاتلين، ولم يكونوا طرفًا في أي نزاع. لكنهم وُصِموا بعبارة “فلول النظام” وقُتلوا بدمٍ بارد فقط لأنهم ينتمون إلى بيئة مستهدفة، إلى طائفة كريمة أراد المتطرفون إبادتها باسم الثورة والدين زورًا. هؤلاء ليسوا أرقامًا ولا سطورًا من الماضي. هم شهداء السابع من آذار 2025، ذُبحوا على يد جماعات تكفيرية متطرفة، جاءت تحمل مشروعًا طائفيًا دمويًا لا يشبه سوريا ولا شعبها. واليوم، الجلاد نفسه — الجولاني ومرتزقته — يقدّم ما يسميه “تحقيقًا” لتبرئة نفسه وإعادة كتابة الجريمة برواية مفبركة. تحقيق بلا عدالة، ولا شرعية، ولا ضمير. نحن نرفض هذه المهزلة. ونطالب بـ تحقيق دولي عاجل، مستقل، شفاف، بعيدًا عن أي تدخل من الجناة أو سلطاتهم. دم الشهداء أمانة في أعناقنا، وقضيتهم ليست شأنًا محليًا، بل جريمة ضد الإنسانية، تُدين من قتل، ومن صمت، ومن تواطأ. Lest We Forget… and We Will Not Forget The children who fell in the Syrian coastal massacres were not fighters. They were not part of any conflict. But they were branded as “remnants of the regime” and executed in cold blood simply because they came from a targeted community, from a noble sect that extremist militants sought to erase — falsely in the name of revolution and religion. They are not numbers. They are not forgotten lines in history. They are the martyrs of March 7, 2025 — slain by sectarian jihadist groups who brought with them a bloody project of extermination that has nothing to do with Syria or its people. And today, the butcher himself — Jolani and his militias — offers what he calls an “investigation” to clear himself and rewrite the crime in a fabricated narrative. An investigation with no justice, no legitimacy, and no conscience. We categorically reject this farce. We demand an urgent, independent, and transparent international investigation, free from any interference by the perpetrators or their authorities. The blood of the martyrs is a sacred trust. Their case is not a local issue, but a crime against humanity — one that condemns not only the killers, but also those who were silent, those who justified, and those who colluded. #مجزرة_الساحل #مجازر_الساحل_السوري #الابادة_العلوية #الابادة_الجماعية_العلوية_2025 #الطائفة_العلوية_الكريمة #الجولاني_الارهابي #الامن_العام_الارهابي #لجنة_تقصي_الحقائق #جريمة_ضد_الانسانية #سوريا #توثيق #حماية_الأقليات #SyrianCoastalMassacres #StopAlawiteGenocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #JolaniCrimes #HTSCrimes #JolaniIsAGlobalTerrorist #AlawitePersecution #SyriaMassacres #IndependentInvestigation #MinorityProtection #UN #UNSC #UN_HRC #EU #HRW #AmnestyInternational #InternationalCriminalCourt #SaveSyria #JusticeForSyria
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كي لا ننسى… ولن ننسى هؤلاء الأطفال الذين سقطوا في مجازر الساحل السوري لم يكونوا مقاتلين، ولم يكونوا طرفًا في أي نزاع. لكنهم وُصِموا بعبارة “فلول النظام” وقُتلوا بدمٍ بارد فقط لأنهم ينتمون إلى بيئة مستهدفة، إلى طائفة كريمة أراد المتطرفون إبادتها باسم الثورة والدين زورًا. هؤلاء ليسوا أرقامًا ولا سطورًا من الماضي. هم شهداء السابع من آذار 2025، ذُبحوا على يد جماعات تكفيرية متطرفة، جاءت تحمل مشروعًا طائفيًا دمويًا لا يشبه سوريا ولا شعبها. واليوم، الجلاد نفسه — الجولاني ومرتزقته — يقدّم ما يسميه “تحقيقًا” لتبرئة نفسه وإعادة كتابة الجريمة برواية مفبركة. تحقيق بلا عدالة، ولا شرعية، ولا ضمير. نحن نرفض هذه المهزلة. ونطالب بـ تحقيق دولي عاجل، مستقل، شفاف، بعيدًا عن أي تدخل من الجناة أو سلطاتهم. دم الشهداء أمانة في أعناقنا، وقضيتهم ليست شأنًا محليًا، بل جريمة ضد الإنسانية، تُدين من قتل، ومن صمت، ومن تواطأ. Lest We Forget… and We Will Not Forget The children who fell in the Syrian coastal massacres were not fighters. They were not part of any conflict. But they were branded as “remnants of the regime” and executed in cold blood simply because they came from a targeted community, from a noble sect that extremist militants sought to erase — falsely in the name of revolution and religion. They are not numbers. They are not forgotten lines in history. They are the martyrs of March 7, 2025 — slain by sectarian jihadist groups who brought with them a bloody project of extermination that has nothing to do with Syria or its people. And today, the butcher himself — Jolani and his militias — offers what he calls an “investigation” to clear himself and rewrite the crime in a fabricated narrative. An investigation with no justice, no legitimacy, and no conscience. We categorically reject this farce. We demand an urgent, independent, and transparent international investigation, free from any interference by the perpetrators or their authorities. The blood of the martyrs is a sacred trust. Their case is not a local issue, but a crime against humanity — one that condemns not only the killers, but also those who were silent, those who justified, and those who colluded. #مجزرة_الساحل #مجازر_الساحل_السوري #الابادة_العلوية #الابادة_الجماعية_العلوية_2025 #الطائفة_العلوية_الكريمة #الجولاني_الارهابي #الامن_العام_الارهابي #لجنة_تقصي_الحقائق #جريمة_ضد_الانسانية #سوريا #توثيق #حماية_الأقليات #SyrianCoastalMassacres #StopAlawiteGenocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #JolaniCrimes #HTSCrimes #JolaniIsAGlobalTerrorist #AlawitePersecution #SyriaMassacres #IndependentInvestigation #MinorityProtection #UN #UNSC #UN_HRC #EU #HRW #AmnestyInternational #InternationalCriminalCourt #SaveSyria #JusticeForSyria

Syrian Witness شاهد سوري

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🔴 ريف دمشق | حي البحدلية.. في بلدٍ تهان فيه الأرواح، أقدمت امرأة على الدفاع عن كلبٍ أطلق عليه النار عنصر من “الأمن العام الارهابي”، فأرداه قتيلًا.. وعندما احتجّت، هددها الجاني بإلقاء قنبلة!! أي وطنٍ هذا الذي صار فيه الدفاع عن حياة كائن ضعيف جريمة، والمجرم يعلو بالسلاح لا بالحق.. إلى منظمات حقوق الإنسان التي صمّت آذانها عن نداءات السوريين لشهور… لم نعد نرجو منكم شيئًا.. نوجّه نداءنا الآن إلى منظمات حقوق الحيوان، فلعلّ صراخ كائنٍ أعزل تُطلق عليه النار في شوارع سوريا يحرّك ضميرًا لم يتحرك لمقتل آلاف الأبرياء.. في بلدي يُهان الإنسان… ويُقتل الحيوان! #سوريا #حقوق_الإنسان #حقوق_الحيوان #جرائم_الأمن_العام 🔴 Damascus Countryside | Al-Bahdaliyah Neighborhood... In a country where lives are humiliated, a woman defended a dog that was shot and killed by a member of the "terrorist General Security." When she protested, the perpetrator threatened to throw a bomb!! What kind of country is this, where defending the life of a weak creature has become a crime, and criminals rise up with weapons, not with justice? To human rights organizations that have turned a deaf ear to the calls of Syrians for months... we no longer expect anything from you... We now direct our appeal to animal rights organizations. Perhaps the screams of a defenseless creature being shot in the streets of Syria will stir a conscience that has been unmoved by the killing of thousands of innocents. In my country, humans are humiliated... and animals are killed! #Syria #HumanRights #AnimalRights #PublicSecurityCrimes #UN #UN_HRC #eu_eeas #StateDept #francediplo_EN #FCDOGovUK #ISIS #Trump #StopAlawiteGenocide #StopAlawiteGenocideInSyria #The_Alawite_Holocaust_in_Syria #محرقة_العلويين_في_سوريا #الابادة_الجماعية_العلوية_2025 #محاكمة_الجولاني_الارهابي_الدولي #التهجير_جريمة #حماية_الأقليات #الساحل_السوري #الجولاني_سفاح_سوريا #تسقط_حكومة_الجولاني_الأرهابية #أوقفوا_الإبادة_الطائفية #ابادة_علوية #الشرع_من_دون_شرعية #الهولوكوست_العلوي #الجولاني_ليس_رئيسي #استقلال_الساحل_السوري #مجزرة_الساحل Donald J. Trump Donald J. Trump CNN CNNPolitics Agence France-Presse Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office UK Prime Minister European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺 EU in Syria UN in Syria UN Human Rights U.S. Embassy Syria Department of State جامعة الدول العربية وزارة الخارجية 🇸🇦 محمد بن سلمان بن عبد العزيز (Informal) HH Sheikh Mohammed Elon Musk Mazloum Abdî مظلوم عبدي Joe Wilson 🇺🇸 Pamela Geller 🇮🇱 Dr Walid Phares Kaja Kallas Liz Throssell Michael Ohnmacht محمد علي الحسيني はうはう Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸
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🔴 ريف دمشق | حي البحدلية.. في بلدٍ تهان فيه الأرواح، أقدمت امرأة على الدفاع عن كلبٍ أطلق عليه النار عنصر من “الأمن العام الارهابي”، فأرداه قتيلًا.. وعندما احتجّت، هددها الجاني بإلقاء قنبلة!! أي وطنٍ هذا الذي صار فيه الدفاع عن حياة كائن ضعيف جريمة، والمجرم يعلو بالسلاح لا بالحق.. إلى منظمات حقوق الإنسان التي صمّت آذانها عن نداءات السوريين لشهور… لم نعد نرجو منكم شيئًا.. نوجّه نداءنا الآن إلى منظمات حقوق الحيوان، فلعلّ صراخ كائنٍ أعزل تُطلق عليه النار في شوارع سوريا يحرّك ضميرًا لم يتحرك لمقتل آلاف الأبرياء.. في بلدي يُهان الإنسان… ويُقتل الحيوان! #سوريا #حقوق_الإنسان #حقوق_الحيوان #جرائم_الأمن_العام 🔴 Damascus Countryside | Al-Bahdaliyah Neighborhood... In a country where lives are humiliated, a woman defended a dog that was shot and killed by a member of the "terrorist General Security." When she protested, the perpetrator threatened to throw a bomb!! What kind of country is this, where defending the life of a weak creature has become a crime, and criminals rise up with weapons, not with justice? To human rights organizations that have turned a deaf ear to the calls of Syrians for months... we no longer expect anything from you... We now direct our appeal to animal rights organizations. Perhaps the screams of a defenseless creature being shot in the streets of Syria will stir a conscience that has been unmoved by the killing of thousands of innocents. In my country, humans are humiliated... and animals are killed! #Syria #HumanRights #AnimalRights #PublicSecurityCrimes #UN #UN_HRC #eu_eeas #StateDept #francediplo_EN #FCDOGovUK #ISIS #Trump #StopAlawiteGenocide #StopAlawiteGenocideInSyria #The_Alawite_Holocaust_in_Syria #محرقة_العلويين_في_سوريا #الابادة_الجماعية_العلوية_2025 #محاكمة_الجولاني_الارهابي_الدولي #التهجير_جريمة #حماية_الأقليات #الساحل_السوري #الجولاني_سفاح_سوريا #تسقط_حكومة_الجولاني_الأرهابية #أوقفوا_الإبادة_الطائفية #ابادة_علوية #الشرع_من_دون_شرعية #الهولوكوست_العلوي #الجولاني_ليس_رئيسي #استقلال_الساحل_السوري #مجزرة_الساحل Donald J. Trump Donald J. Trump CNN CNNPolitics Agence France-Presse Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office UK Prime Minister European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺 EU in Syria UN in Syria UN Human Rights U.S. Embassy Syria Department of State جامعة الدول العربية وزارة الخارجية 🇸🇦 محمد بن سلمان بن عبد العزيز (Informal) HH Sheikh Mohammed Elon Musk Mazloum Abdî مظلوم عبدي Joe Wilson 🇺🇸 Pamela Geller 🇮🇱 Dr Walid Phares Kaja Kallas Liz Throssell Michael Ohnmacht محمد علي الحسيني はうはう Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸

Syrian Witness شاهد سوري

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When Judge Napolitano asked me on his show how Syria ended up with Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as its “president,” I could almost hear the cognitive dissonance on the other side of the screen. How does a man who was once the emir of al-Qaeda in Syria, a co-founder of ISIS by any reasonable historical reading of his trajectory, become Washington’s chosen man in Damascus? For me, the answer is not a mystery. It is the logical end of a dirty war that began not with Syrian protesters in 2011, but in an American-run prison camp in Iraq years earlier. And if anyone still suspected this was “just a conspiracy theory,” a former CIA officer – John Kiriakou, who went to prison for exposing CIA torture – has now said publicly what many of us have long argued: Jolani is, in all likelihood, a CIA asset. Let’s start with the timeline, because the timeline alone already screams “intelligence operation.” Abu Mohammed al-Jolani was in a CIA-run prison in Iraq – Camp Bucca – alongside another familiar name: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Both men were released in early 2011. “Coincidentally,” that is exactly when the regime-change war in Syria begins. Within weeks, Baghdadi goes on to lead what becomes ISIS, and Jolani crosses into Syria to found Jabhat al-Nusra – officially al-Qaeda’s franchise in my country. Washington designates Nusra a terrorist organization. The UN follows suit. On paper, Jolani is the enemy. The State Department even slaps a $10 million bounty on his head. But bounties are cheap. Cruise missiles are expensive. And for over a decade, while the US flattened cities in Iraq and Syria allegedly to fight “terrorism,” it somehow never found the time, or the coordinates, to seriously target Jolani or his core command structure, even though he controlled large swaths of Syrian territory from Aleppo countryside all the way to Idlib. Because Jolani and his men were fighting the one government Washington had already decided must go: the Syrian state under Bashar al-Assad. This is where Operation Timber Sycamore comes in: a multi-billion-dollar CIA covert program that funneled weapons, money, and training to so-called “rebels” in Syria. They were sold to Western audiences as “moderate opposition.” On the ground, those moderates were a disappearing species. What existed in reality were hardline Salafi-jihadist factions, with Nusra at the top of the food chain. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) was the mask, the logo on the paperwork, the brand name you could sell to Congress and CNN. The real muscle on the ground was Jolani’s men and other takfiri groups, who did the actual fighting, took the actual territory, and imposed their version of rule. Weapons went “to the moderates.” The moderates magically handed them to al-Qaeda. Everyone in Washington pretended to be surprised. No one stopped the pipeline. Over the years, the mask slipped. US officials themselves began to speak of Jolani as something more than just a former enemy. James Jeffrey, Washington’s former envoy to Syria, openly called Jolani “an asset” for US strategy – not my word, his. Robert Ford, the former US ambassador to Syria, has publicly admitted that he personally worked with Jolani to “take him out of the world of terrorism” and polish him into a politician. Think about what that means: the same US that claims to be fighting an endless war against al-Qaeda quietly devotes diplomatic energy to rehabilitating the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda into a partner, a useful strongman, a future head of state. I said on the show, and I repeat it here: I believe Jolani was recruited in Camp Bucca. The timeline makes no sense otherwise. You don’t walk out of an American-run prison and, weeks later, magically have the networks, the money, the arms, and the logistical capacity to found al-Qaeda in Syria, right at the moment when Washington and its allies need a battering ram against Damascus. Recently, former CIA director David Petraeus even sat with Jolani and told him, “Your success is our success.” What more do people need? A signed employment contract? But let’s assume, for a moment, that you still think this is a stretch. Enter John Kiriakou. Kiriakou is not a YouTuber chasing clicks. He is a former CIA officer who went to prison because he exposed the torture program and named the torturers. His loyalty is clearly not to the Agency’s PR department. Recently, on Unfettered Speech, he described the Jolani situation bluntly. Here is the essence of what he said, which Judge Napolitano played on air: -The “new president” of Syria is a former al-Qaeda member and a co-founder of ISIS. -This same man is welcomed at the White House. -Senior US officials, including the Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East, travel to meet him. -President Trump suddenly lifts sanctions on Syria as Jolani consolidates power, prompting Syrians – desperate and exhausted – to dance in the streets. The only thing that makes sense is that Jolani is a CIA asset, per Kiriakou’s. When a former CIA officer who has already sacrificed his career and freedom to tell the truth looks at the pattern and says, “This is our guy,” it is not a conspiracy theory anymore. Now, you may ask, why would the United States and its allies back such a man? The answer lies in what Syria used to be, and what it has now been turned into. Before this war, Syria, for all its flaws, was a horizontally integrated state. People identified themselves as Syrian first and then Armenian, Druze, Christian, Alawite, Sunni, Shi’a, Kurdish, and so on. The state’s foreign policy aligned with Iran and Hezbollah, supported Palestinian factions, and kept a real deterrent posture toward Israel. For Washington and Tel Aviv, this was unacceptable. The goal was not “democracy”; that word is just wrapping paper. The real objective was to remove a government allied with Iran and replace it with a fragmented landscape: a weak central authority in Damascus, surrounded by sectarian cantons and warlord enclaves, all dependent on foreign patrons. Jolani is perfect for this role. For Israel, he brings vertical division. A man with a long al-Qaeda pedigree ruling Syria is a nightmare for minorities: Christians, Druze, Alawites, Shi’a, many Kurds, and other smaller communities. They will not accept al-Qaeda rule. So they retreat into their own militias, their own cantons, their own de facto mini-states, exactly in line with old Israeli strategic doctrines like the Yinon Plan, which openly advocated fragmenting neighboring states along sectarian lines. On the ground, we already see it: -Druze militias running their own affairs in the south with quiet Israeli backing. -Kurdish forces in the northeast under US protection, managing their own autonomous zone. -Alawites discussing an autonomous coastal enclave. -Christians living in silence and fear. You don’t need formal borders on a map to balkanize a country. When I, as a Syrian of Armenian origin, stop thinking of myself as Syrian first and start thinking purely as Armenian, when I instinctively fear my neighbor because he is from another sect, the balkanization has already happened in the mind. For Washington, Jolani is equally “useful.” He has promised to normalize relations with Israel, to open Syria’s markets to Western capital, and to hand over the country’s resources from the hydrocarbons east of the Euphrates to the gas fields under the Mediterranean to American and allied companies. A 24-million-person country reduced to a reconstruction market: $300 billion worth of contracts, infrastructure projects, and “investments.” But for investors to feel safe, they need a strongman in Damascus who can project the illusion of stability while remaining utterly dependent on foreign protection. That strongman, in their design, is Abu Mohammed al-Jolani. But Jolani is not acting alone. Around him is a constellation of Western intelligence veterans and “conflict resolution” NGOs acting as intermediaries. British MI6 circles, under figures like Jonathan Powell – former chief of staff to Tony Blair – are central in managing this process. Powell runs an organization called Inter Mediate, which specializes in “talking to armed groups.” Behind the humanitarian language lies political engineering. One of Inter Mediate’s operatives, a woman named Clare Haigh, is now said to have an office inside the Syrian presidential palace, advising Jolani on how to talk, how to dress, how to handle journalists, how to sell himself as a reformed jihadist turned statesman. And then there is Qatar. Ahmed Zaidan – once Osama bin Laden’s favorite journalist, photographed sipping tea with him and broadcasting his tapes on Al Jazeera – is now a personal adviser to Jolani. Make it make sense. An al-Qaeda emir, handled by US and British intelligence veterans, advised by bin Laden’s favorite media man, massaged by Western PR consultants, welcomed in Washington, and crowned in Damascus as “president.” If you wrote this as fiction, an editor would tell you it’s too on the nose. Since Jolani took power through an international and regional deal that pushed Assad aside, over 11,000 people have been killed. Many of them are from the very minorities the West loves to mention in speeches but abandons in practice. Videos circulate of his fighters asking terrified villagers at gunpoint, “Are you Muslim or not?” and executing those who give the “wrong” answer, including Druze and Alawites who are not recognized as “true Muslims” by their extremist ideology. Christians, who had already suffered massive emigration between 2011 and 2024, are being squeezed further. They have no organized armed force, no foreign sponsor. They are expected either to live under the mercy of an al-Qaeda-bred regime or to leave the land of their ancestors. This is what Washington’s “asset management” looks like in human terms. If you are an American reading this, you might be tempted to say: “This cannot be. My government would never knowingly empower al-Qaeda.” But it already has, repeatedly. From Afghanistan in the 1980s, when US intelligence backed the Mujahideen (and, indirectly, their Arab foreign fighter allies), to Libya and Syria in the last decade, where jihadist factions were instrumentalized against secular or nationalist governments, the pattern is clear. The names and acronyms change. The logic does not. The same establishment that lectures the world on “democracy” and “human rights” is perfectly willing to install a man like Jolani as the ruler of one of the oldest civilizations on earth, as long as he delivers strategic gains: -breaking the Iran–Syria–Hezbollah axis; -fragmenting Syria into weak, controllable pieces; -opening its resources and markets to Western and Gulf capital; -and giving Israel unprecedented strategic depth and security. Everything else – the massacres, the ethnic cleansing, the collapse of national identity, the destruction of ancient communities – is treated as collateral damage. I am often asked what Syria will look like in five or ten years. I wish I could answer with optimism. Right now, the forces pushing to turn my country into a permanent vassal state – ruled by a former al-Qaeda emir, policed by foreign intelligence, exploited by foreign capital – are incredibly strong. But nothing in this region is permanent. People who come to power by cutting off other people’s heads often lose their own. If there are still sane voices left in Western politics – people like Tulsi Gabbard 🌺, whom I mentioned on air – they must at least recognize this insanity: backing an al-Qaeda emir as “our man in Damascus” is not just immoral; it is ultimately self-destructive. Syria does not need Jolani. The West does not need Jolani. There are Syrians who can have friendly relations with the United States without being former al-Qaeda commanders, without murdering their own people, without turning an ancient nation into a laboratory for extremist social engineering. The question is not whether such alternatives exist. They do. The question is whether Washington and its allies want a sovereign, stable Syria, or whether they prefer a shattered, cantonized carcass kept alive just enough for the next “asset” to feed on.
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When Judge Napolitano asked me on his show how Syria ended up with Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as its “president,” I could almost hear the cognitive dissonance on the other side of the screen. How does a man who was once the emir of al-Qaeda in Syria, a co-founder of ISIS by any reasonable historical reading of his trajectory, become Washington’s chosen man in Damascus? For me, the answer is not a mystery. It is the logical end of a dirty war that began not with Syrian protesters in 2011, but in an American-run prison camp in Iraq years earlier. And if anyone still suspected this was “just a conspiracy theory,” a former CIA officer – John Kiriakou, who went to prison for exposing CIA torture – has now said publicly what many of us have long argued: Jolani is, in all likelihood, a CIA asset. Let’s start with the timeline, because the timeline alone already screams “intelligence operation.” Abu Mohammed al-Jolani was in a CIA-run prison in Iraq – Camp Bucca – alongside another familiar name: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Both men were released in early 2011. “Coincidentally,” that is exactly when the regime-change war in Syria begins. Within weeks, Baghdadi goes on to lead what becomes ISIS, and Jolani crosses into Syria to found Jabhat al-Nusra – officially al-Qaeda’s franchise in my country. Washington designates Nusra a terrorist organization. The UN follows suit. On paper, Jolani is the enemy. The State Department even slaps a $10 million bounty on his head. But bounties are cheap. Cruise missiles are expensive. And for over a decade, while the US flattened cities in Iraq and Syria allegedly to fight “terrorism,” it somehow never found the time, or the coordinates, to seriously target Jolani or his core command structure, even though he controlled large swaths of Syrian territory from Aleppo countryside all the way to Idlib. Because Jolani and his men were fighting the one government Washington had already decided must go: the Syrian state under Bashar al-Assad. This is where Operation Timber Sycamore comes in: a multi-billion-dollar CIA covert program that funneled weapons, money, and training to so-called “rebels” in Syria. They were sold to Western audiences as “moderate opposition.” On the ground, those moderates were a disappearing species. What existed in reality were hardline Salafi-jihadist factions, with Nusra at the top of the food chain. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) was the mask, the logo on the paperwork, the brand name you could sell to Congress and CNN. The real muscle on the ground was Jolani’s men and other takfiri groups, who did the actual fighting, took the actual territory, and imposed their version of rule. Weapons went “to the moderates.” The moderates magically handed them to al-Qaeda. Everyone in Washington pretended to be surprised. No one stopped the pipeline. Over the years, the mask slipped. US officials themselves began to speak of Jolani as something more than just a former enemy. James Jeffrey, Washington’s former envoy to Syria, openly called Jolani “an asset” for US strategy – not my word, his. Robert Ford, the former US ambassador to Syria, has publicly admitted that he personally worked with Jolani to “take him out of the world of terrorism” and polish him into a politician. Think about what that means: the same US that claims to be fighting an endless war against al-Qaeda quietly devotes diplomatic energy to rehabilitating the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda into a partner, a useful strongman, a future head of state. I said on the show, and I repeat it here: I believe Jolani was recruited in Camp Bucca. The timeline makes no sense otherwise. You don’t walk out of an American-run prison and, weeks later, magically have the networks, the money, the arms, and the logistical capacity to found al-Qaeda in Syria, right at the moment when Washington and its allies need a battering ram against Damascus. Recently, former CIA director David Petraeus even sat with Jolani and told him, “Your success is our success.” What more do people need? A signed employment contract? But let’s assume, for a moment, that you still think this is a stretch. Enter John Kiriakou. Kiriakou is not a YouTuber chasing clicks. He is a former CIA officer who went to prison because he exposed the torture program and named the torturers. His loyalty is clearly not to the Agency’s PR department. Recently, on Unfettered Speech, he described the Jolani situation bluntly. Here is the essence of what he said, which Judge Napolitano played on air: -The “new president” of Syria is a former al-Qaeda member and a co-founder of ISIS. -This same man is welcomed at the White House. -Senior US officials, including the Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East, travel to meet him. -President Trump suddenly lifts sanctions on Syria as Jolani consolidates power, prompting Syrians – desperate and exhausted – to dance in the streets. The only thing that makes sense is that Jolani is a CIA asset, per Kiriakou’s. When a former CIA officer who has already sacrificed his career and freedom to tell the truth looks at the pattern and says, “This is our guy,” it is not a conspiracy theory anymore. Now, you may ask, why would the United States and its allies back such a man? The answer lies in what Syria used to be, and what it has now been turned into. Before this war, Syria, for all its flaws, was a horizontally integrated state. People identified themselves as Syrian first and then Armenian, Druze, Christian, Alawite, Sunni, Shi’a, Kurdish, and so on. The state’s foreign policy aligned with Iran and Hezbollah, supported Palestinian factions, and kept a real deterrent posture toward Israel. For Washington and Tel Aviv, this was unacceptable. The goal was not “democracy”; that word is just wrapping paper. The real objective was to remove a government allied with Iran and replace it with a fragmented landscape: a weak central authority in Damascus, surrounded by sectarian cantons and warlord enclaves, all dependent on foreign patrons. Jolani is perfect for this role. For Israel, he brings vertical division. A man with a long al-Qaeda pedigree ruling Syria is a nightmare for minorities: Christians, Druze, Alawites, Shi’a, many Kurds, and other smaller communities. They will not accept al-Qaeda rule. So they retreat into their own militias, their own cantons, their own de facto mini-states, exactly in line with old Israeli strategic doctrines like the Yinon Plan, which openly advocated fragmenting neighboring states along sectarian lines. On the ground, we already see it: -Druze militias running their own affairs in the south with quiet Israeli backing. -Kurdish forces in the northeast under US protection, managing their own autonomous zone. -Alawites discussing an autonomous coastal enclave. -Christians living in silence and fear. You don’t need formal borders on a map to balkanize a country. When I, as a Syrian of Armenian origin, stop thinking of myself as Syrian first and start thinking purely as Armenian, when I instinctively fear my neighbor because he is from another sect, the balkanization has already happened in the mind. For Washington, Jolani is equally “useful.” He has promised to normalize relations with Israel, to open Syria’s markets to Western capital, and to hand over the country’s resources from the hydrocarbons east of the Euphrates to the gas fields under the Mediterranean to American and allied companies. A 24-million-person country reduced to a reconstruction market: $300 billion worth of contracts, infrastructure projects, and “investments.” But for investors to feel safe, they need a strongman in Damascus who can project the illusion of stability while remaining utterly dependent on foreign protection. That strongman, in their design, is Abu Mohammed al-Jolani. But Jolani is not acting alone. Around him is a constellation of Western intelligence veterans and “conflict resolution” NGOs acting as intermediaries. British MI6 circles, under figures like Jonathan Powell – former chief of staff to Tony Blair – are central in managing this process. Powell runs an organization called Inter Mediate, which specializes in “talking to armed groups.” Behind the humanitarian language lies political engineering. One of Inter Mediate’s operatives, a woman named Clare Haigh, is now said to have an office inside the Syrian presidential palace, advising Jolani on how to talk, how to dress, how to handle journalists, how to sell himself as a reformed jihadist turned statesman. And then there is Qatar. Ahmed Zaidan – once Osama bin Laden’s favorite journalist, photographed sipping tea with him and broadcasting his tapes on Al Jazeera – is now a personal adviser to Jolani. Make it make sense. An al-Qaeda emir, handled by US and British intelligence veterans, advised by bin Laden’s favorite media man, massaged by Western PR consultants, welcomed in Washington, and crowned in Damascus as “president.” If you wrote this as fiction, an editor would tell you it’s too on the nose. Since Jolani took power through an international and regional deal that pushed Assad aside, over 11,000 people have been killed. Many of them are from the very minorities the West loves to mention in speeches but abandons in practice. Videos circulate of his fighters asking terrified villagers at gunpoint, “Are you Muslim or not?” and executing those who give the “wrong” answer, including Druze and Alawites who are not recognized as “true Muslims” by their extremist ideology. Christians, who had already suffered massive emigration between 2011 and 2024, are being squeezed further. They have no organized armed force, no foreign sponsor. They are expected either to live under the mercy of an al-Qaeda-bred regime or to leave the land of their ancestors. This is what Washington’s “asset management” looks like in human terms. If you are an American reading this, you might be tempted to say: “This cannot be. My government would never knowingly empower al-Qaeda.” But it already has, repeatedly. From Afghanistan in the 1980s, when US intelligence backed the Mujahideen (and, indirectly, their Arab foreign fighter allies), to Libya and Syria in the last decade, where jihadist factions were instrumentalized against secular or nationalist governments, the pattern is clear. The names and acronyms change. The logic does not. The same establishment that lectures the world on “democracy” and “human rights” is perfectly willing to install a man like Jolani as the ruler of one of the oldest civilizations on earth, as long as he delivers strategic gains: -breaking the Iran–Syria–Hezbollah axis; -fragmenting Syria into weak, controllable pieces; -opening its resources and markets to Western and Gulf capital; -and giving Israel unprecedented strategic depth and security. Everything else – the massacres, the ethnic cleansing, the collapse of national identity, the destruction of ancient communities – is treated as collateral damage. I am often asked what Syria will look like in five or ten years. I wish I could answer with optimism. Right now, the forces pushing to turn my country into a permanent vassal state – ruled by a former al-Qaeda emir, policed by foreign intelligence, exploited by foreign capital – are incredibly strong. But nothing in this region is permanent. People who come to power by cutting off other people’s heads often lose their own. If there are still sane voices left in Western politics – people like Tulsi Gabbard 🌺, whom I mentioned on air – they must at least recognize this insanity: backing an al-Qaeda emir as “our man in Damascus” is not just immoral; it is ultimately self-destructive. Syria does not need Jolani. The West does not need Jolani. There are Syrians who can have friendly relations with the United States without being former al-Qaeda commanders, without murdering their own people, without turning an ancient nation into a laboratory for extremist social engineering. The question is not whether such alternatives exist. They do. The question is whether Washington and its allies want a sovereign, stable Syria, or whether they prefer a shattered, cantonized carcass kept alive just enough for the next “asset” to feed on.

Kevork Almassian

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50 years ago yesterday: U.N. General Assembly adopts initial draft resolution declaring Zionism to be “a form of racism.” U.S. Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan delivered this historic speech when the infamous act was ratified on Nov. 10, 1975: 🇺🇸 “There appears to have developed in the United Nations the practice for a number of countries to combine for the purpose of doing something outrageous, and thereafter, the outrageous thing having been done, to profess themselves outraged by those who have the temerity to point it out, and subsequently to declare themselves innocent of any wrong-doing in consequence of its having been brought about wholly in reaction to the “insufferable” acts of those who pointed the wrong-doing out in the first place. Out of deference to these curious sensibilities, the United States chose not to speak in advance of this vote: we speak in its aftermath and in tones of the utmost concern. The United States rises to declare before the General Assembly of the United Nations, and before the world, that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act. Not three weeks ago, the United States Representative in the Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Committee pleaded in measured and fully considered terms for the United Nations not to do this thing. It was, he said, “obscene.” It is something more today, for the furtiveness with which this obscenity first appeared among us has been replaced by a shameless openness. There will be time enough to contemplate the harm this act will have done the United Nations. Historians will do that for us, and it is sufficient for the moment only to note the foreboding fact. A great evil has been loosed upon the world. The abomination of anti-semitism — as this year’s Nobel Peace Laureate Andrei Sakharov observed in Moscow just a few days ago — the Abomination of anti-semitism has been given the appearance of international sanction. The General Assembly today grants symbolic amnesty — and more — to the murderers of the six million European Jews. Evil enough in itself, but more ominous by far is the realization that now presses upon us — the realization that if there were no General Assembly, this could never have happened. As this day will live in infamy, it behooves those who sought to avert it to declare their thoughts so that historians will know that we fought here, that we were not small in number — not this time — and that while we lost, we fought with full knowledge of what indeed would be lost. Nor should any historian of the event, nor yet any who have participated in it, suppose, that we have fought only as governments, as chancelleries, and on an issue well removed from the concerns of our respective peoples. Others will speak for their nations: I will speak for mine. In all our postwar history there had not been another issue which has brought forth such unanimity of American opinion. The President of the United States has from the first been explicit: This must not happen. The Congress of the United States in a measure unanimously adopted in the Senate and sponsored by 436 of 437 Representatives in the House, declared its utter opposition. Following only American Jews themselves, the American trade union movements was first to the fore in denouncing this infamous undertaking. Next, one after another, the great private institutions of American life pronounced anathema in this evil thing — and most particularly, the Christian churches have done so. Reminded that the United Nations was born in struggle against just such abominations as we are committing today — the wartime alliance of the United Nations dates from 1942 — the United Nations Association of the United States has for the first time in its history appealed directly to each of the 141 other delegations in New York not to do this unspeakable thing. The proposition to be sanctioned by a resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations is that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” Now this is a lie. But as it is a lie which the United Nations has now declared to be a truth, the actual truth must be restated. The very first point to be made is that the United Nations has declared Zionism to be racism — without ever having defined racism. “Sentence first — verdict afterwards,” as the Queen of Hearts said. But this is not wonderland, but a real world, where there are real consequences to folly and to venality. Just on Friday, the President of the General Assembly, speaking on behalf of Luxembourg, warned not only of the trouble which would follow from the adoption of this resolution but of its essential irresponsibility — for, he noted, members have wholly different ideas as to what they are condemning. “It seems to me that before a body like this takes a decision they should agree very clearly on what they are approving or condemning, and it takes more time.” Lest I be unclear, the United Nations has in fact on several occasions defined “racial discrimination.” The definitions have been loose, but recognizable. It is “racism,” incomparably the more serious charge — racial discrimination is a practice; racism is a doctrine — which has never been defined. Indeed, the term has only recently appeared in the United Nations General Assembly documents. The one occasion on which we know the meaning to have been discussed was the 1644th meeting of the Third Committee on December 16, 1968, in connection with the report of the Secretary-General on the status of the international convention on the elimination of all racial discrimination. On that occasion — to give some feeling for the intellectual precision with which the matter was being treated — the question arose, as to what should be the relative positioning of the terms “racism” and “Nazism” in a number of the “preambular paragraphs.” The distinguished delegate from Tunisia argued that “racism” should go first because “Nazism was merely a form of racism.” Not so, said the no less distinguished delegate from the Union Soviet Socialist Republics. For, he explained, “Nazism contained the main elements of racism within its ambit and should be mentioned first.” This is to say that racism was merely a form of Nazism. The discussion wound to its weary and inconclusive end, and we are left with nothing to guide us for even this one discussion of “racism” confined itself to world orders in preambular paragraphs, and did not at all touch on the meaning of the words as such. Still, one cannot but ponder the situation we have made for ourselves in the context of the Soviet statement on that not so distant occasion. If, as the distinguished delegate declared, racism is a form of Nazism — and if, as this resolution declares, Zionism is a form of racism — then we have step to step taken ourselves to the point of proclaiming — the United Nations is solemnly proclaiming — that Zionism is a form of Nazism. What we have here is a lie — a political lie of a variety well known to the twentieth century, and scarcely exceeded in all that annal of untruth and outrage. The lie is that Zionism is a form of racism. The overwhelmingly clear truth is that is it not. The word “racism” is a creation of the English language, and relatively new to it. It is not, for instance, to be found in the Oxford English Dictionary (appears in 1982 supplement to Oxford Dictionary). The term derives from relatively new doctrines — all of them discredited — concerning the human population of the world, to the effect that there are significant biological differences among clearly identifiable groups, and that these differences establish, in effect, different levels of humanity. Racism, as defined in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, is “The Assumption that . . . traits and capacities are determined by biological race and that races differ decisively from one another.” It further involves “a belief in the inherent superiority of a particular race and its right to dominate over others.” This meaning is clear. It is equally clear that this assumption, this belief, has always been altogether alien to the political and religious movement known as Zionism. As a strictly political movement, Zionism was established only in 1897, although there is a clearly legitimate sense in which its origins are indeed ancient. For example, many branches of Christianity have always held that from the standpoint of biblical prophets, Israel would be reborn one day. But the modern Zionism movement arose in Europe in the context of a general upsurge of national consciousness and aspiration that overtook most other people of Central and Eastern Europe after 1848, and that in time spread to all of Africa and Asia. It was, to those persons of the Jewish religion, a Jewish form of what today is called a national liberation movement. Probably a majority of those persons who became active Zionists and sought to emigrate to Palestine were born within the confines of Czarist Russia, and it was only natural for Soviet Prime Minister Andrei Gromyko to deplore, as he did in 1948, in the 299th meeting of the Security Council, the act by Israel’s neighbors of “sending troops into Palestine and carrying out military operations aimed” — in Mr. Gromyko’s words — at the suppression of the national liberation movement in Palestine.” Now it was the singular nature — if, I am not mistaken, it was the unique nature — of this national liberation movement that in contrast with the movements that preceded it, those of that time, and those that have come since, it defined its members in terms not of birth, but of belief. That is to say, it was not a movement of the Irish to free Ireland, or of the Polish to free Poland, not a movement of the Algerians to free Algeria, nor of Indians to free India. It was not a movement of persons connected by historic membership to a genetic pool of the kind that enables us to speak loosely but not meaninglessly, say, of the Chinese people, nor yet of diverse groups occupying the same territory which enables us to speak if the American people with no greater indignity to truth. To the contrary, Zionists defined themselves merely as Jews, and declared to be Jewish anyone born of a Jewish mother or — and this is the absolutely crucial fact — anyone who converted to Judaism. Which is to say, in terms of International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, adopted by the 20th General Assembly, anyone — regardless of “race, colour, descent, or nationally or ethnic origin …..” The state of Israel, which in time was the creation of the Zionist Movement, has been extraordinary in nothing so much as the range of “racial stocks” from which it Orient and Jew from the West. Most such persons could be said to have been “born” Jewish, just as most Presbyterians and most Hindus are “born” to their faith, but there are many Jews who are just converts. With a consistency in the matter which surely attests to the importance of this issue to that religions and political culture, Israeli courts have held that a Jew who converts to another religion is no longer a Jew. In the meantime the population of Israel also includes large numbers of non-Jews, among them Arabs of both the Muslim and Christian religions and Christians of other national origins. Many of these persons are citizens of Israel, and those who are not can become citizens by legal procedures very much like those which obtain in a typical nation of Western Europe. Now I should wish to be understood that I am here making one point, and one point only, which is that whatever else Zionism may be, it is not and cannot be “a form of racism.” In logic, the State of Israel could be, or could become, many things, theoretically, including many things undesirable, but it could not be and could not become racism unless it ceased to be Zionist. Indeed, the idea that Jews are a “race” was invented not by Jews but by those who hated Jews. The idea of Jews as a race was invented by nineteenth century anti-semites such as Houston Steward Chamberlain and Edouard Drumont, who saw that in an increasingly secular age, which is to say an age made for fewer distinctions between people, the old religions grounds for anti-semitism were losing force. New justifications were needed for excluding and persecuting Jews, and so the new idea of Jews as a race — rather than as a religion — was born. It was a contemptible idea at the beginning, and no civilized person would be associated with it. To think that it is an idea now endorsed by the United Nations is to reflect on what civilization has come to. It is precisely a concern for civilization, for civilized values that are or should be precious to all mankind, that arouses us at this moment to such special passion. What we have at stake here is not merely the honor and the legitimacy of the State of Israel — although a challenge to the legitimacy of any member nation ought always to arouse the vigilance of all members of the United Nations. For a yet more important matter is at issue, which is the integrity of the whole body of moral and legal precepts which we know as human rights. The terrible lie that has been told here today will have terrible consequences. Not only will people begin to say, indeed they have already begun to say that the United Nations is a place where lies are told, but far more serious, grave and perhaps irreparable harm will be done to the cause of human rights itself. The harm will arise first because it will strip from racism the precise and abhorrent meaning that it still precariously holds today. How will the people of the world feel about racism and the need to struggle against it, when they are told that it is an idea as broad as to include the Jewish national liberation movement? As the lie spreads, it will do harm in a second way. Many of the members of the United Nations owe their independence in no small part to the notion of human rights, as it has spread from the domestic sphere to the international sphere exercised its influence over the old colonial powers. We are now coming into a time when that independence is likely to be threatened again. There will be new forces, some of them arising now, new prophets and new despots, who will justify their actions with the help of just such distortions of words as we have sanctioned here today. Today we have drained the word “racism” of its meaning. Tomorrow, terms like “national self-determination” and “national honor” will be perverted in the same way to serve the purposes of conquest and exploitation. And when these claims begin to be made — as they already have begun to be made — it is the small nations of the world whose integrity will suffer. And how will the small nations of the world defend themselves, on what grounds will others be moved to defend and protect them, when the language of human rights, the only language by which the small can be defended, is no longer believed and no longer has a power of its own? There is this danger, and then a final danger that is the most serious of all. Which is that the damage we now do to the idea of human rights and the language of human rights could well be irreversible. The idea of human rights as we know it today is not an idea which has always existed in human affairs, it is an idea which appeared at a specific time in the world, and under very special circumstances. It appeared when European philosophers of the seventeenth century began to argue that man was a being whose existence was independent from that of the State, that he need join a political community only if he did not lose by that association more than he gained. From this very specific political philosophy stemmed the idea of political rights, of claims that the individual could justly make against the state; it was because the individual was seen as so separate from the State that he could make legitimate demands upon it. That was the philosophy from which the idea of domestic and international rights sprang. But most of the world does not hold with that philosophy now. Most of the world believes in newer modes of political thought, in philosophies that do not accept the individual as distinct from and prior to the State, in philosophies that therefore do not provide any justification for the idea of human rights and philosophies that have no words by which to explain their value. If we destroy the words that were given to us by past centuries, we will not have words to replace them, for philosophy today has no such words. But there are those of us who have not forsaken these older words, still so new to much of the world. Not forsaken them now, not here, not anywhere, not ever. The United States of America declares that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act.”
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50 years ago yesterday: U.N. General Assembly adopts initial draft resolution declaring Zionism to be “a form of racism.” U.S. Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan delivered this historic speech when the infamous act was ratified on Nov. 10, 1975: 🇺🇸 “There appears to have developed in the United Nations the practice for a number of countries to combine for the purpose of doing something outrageous, and thereafter, the outrageous thing having been done, to profess themselves outraged by those who have the temerity to point it out, and subsequently to declare themselves innocent of any wrong-doing in consequence of its having been brought about wholly in reaction to the “insufferable” acts of those who pointed the wrong-doing out in the first place. Out of deference to these curious sensibilities, the United States chose not to speak in advance of this vote: we speak in its aftermath and in tones of the utmost concern. The United States rises to declare before the General Assembly of the United Nations, and before the world, that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act. Not three weeks ago, the United States Representative in the Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Committee pleaded in measured and fully considered terms for the United Nations not to do this thing. It was, he said, “obscene.” It is something more today, for the furtiveness with which this obscenity first appeared among us has been replaced by a shameless openness. There will be time enough to contemplate the harm this act will have done the United Nations. Historians will do that for us, and it is sufficient for the moment only to note the foreboding fact. A great evil has been loosed upon the world. The abomination of anti-semitism — as this year’s Nobel Peace Laureate Andrei Sakharov observed in Moscow just a few days ago — the Abomination of anti-semitism has been given the appearance of international sanction. The General Assembly today grants symbolic amnesty — and more — to the murderers of the six million European Jews. Evil enough in itself, but more ominous by far is the realization that now presses upon us — the realization that if there were no General Assembly, this could never have happened. As this day will live in infamy, it behooves those who sought to avert it to declare their thoughts so that historians will know that we fought here, that we were not small in number — not this time — and that while we lost, we fought with full knowledge of what indeed would be lost. Nor should any historian of the event, nor yet any who have participated in it, suppose, that we have fought only as governments, as chancelleries, and on an issue well removed from the concerns of our respective peoples. Others will speak for their nations: I will speak for mine. In all our postwar history there had not been another issue which has brought forth such unanimity of American opinion. The President of the United States has from the first been explicit: This must not happen. The Congress of the United States in a measure unanimously adopted in the Senate and sponsored by 436 of 437 Representatives in the House, declared its utter opposition. Following only American Jews themselves, the American trade union movements was first to the fore in denouncing this infamous undertaking. Next, one after another, the great private institutions of American life pronounced anathema in this evil thing — and most particularly, the Christian churches have done so. Reminded that the United Nations was born in struggle against just such abominations as we are committing today — the wartime alliance of the United Nations dates from 1942 — the United Nations Association of the United States has for the first time in its history appealed directly to each of the 141 other delegations in New York not to do this unspeakable thing. The proposition to be sanctioned by a resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations is that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” Now this is a lie. But as it is a lie which the United Nations has now declared to be a truth, the actual truth must be restated. The very first point to be made is that the United Nations has declared Zionism to be racism — without ever having defined racism. “Sentence first — verdict afterwards,” as the Queen of Hearts said. But this is not wonderland, but a real world, where there are real consequences to folly and to venality. Just on Friday, the President of the General Assembly, speaking on behalf of Luxembourg, warned not only of the trouble which would follow from the adoption of this resolution but of its essential irresponsibility — for, he noted, members have wholly different ideas as to what they are condemning. “It seems to me that before a body like this takes a decision they should agree very clearly on what they are approving or condemning, and it takes more time.” Lest I be unclear, the United Nations has in fact on several occasions defined “racial discrimination.” The definitions have been loose, but recognizable. It is “racism,” incomparably the more serious charge — racial discrimination is a practice; racism is a doctrine — which has never been defined. Indeed, the term has only recently appeared in the United Nations General Assembly documents. The one occasion on which we know the meaning to have been discussed was the 1644th meeting of the Third Committee on December 16, 1968, in connection with the report of the Secretary-General on the status of the international convention on the elimination of all racial discrimination. On that occasion — to give some feeling for the intellectual precision with which the matter was being treated — the question arose, as to what should be the relative positioning of the terms “racism” and “Nazism” in a number of the “preambular paragraphs.” The distinguished delegate from Tunisia argued that “racism” should go first because “Nazism was merely a form of racism.” Not so, said the no less distinguished delegate from the Union Soviet Socialist Republics. For, he explained, “Nazism contained the main elements of racism within its ambit and should be mentioned first.” This is to say that racism was merely a form of Nazism. The discussion wound to its weary and inconclusive end, and we are left with nothing to guide us for even this one discussion of “racism” confined itself to world orders in preambular paragraphs, and did not at all touch on the meaning of the words as such. Still, one cannot but ponder the situation we have made for ourselves in the context of the Soviet statement on that not so distant occasion. If, as the distinguished delegate declared, racism is a form of Nazism — and if, as this resolution declares, Zionism is a form of racism — then we have step to step taken ourselves to the point of proclaiming — the United Nations is solemnly proclaiming — that Zionism is a form of Nazism. What we have here is a lie — a political lie of a variety well known to the twentieth century, and scarcely exceeded in all that annal of untruth and outrage. The lie is that Zionism is a form of racism. The overwhelmingly clear truth is that is it not. The word “racism” is a creation of the English language, and relatively new to it. It is not, for instance, to be found in the Oxford English Dictionary (appears in 1982 supplement to Oxford Dictionary). The term derives from relatively new doctrines — all of them discredited — concerning the human population of the world, to the effect that there are significant biological differences among clearly identifiable groups, and that these differences establish, in effect, different levels of humanity. Racism, as defined in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, is “The Assumption that . . . traits and capacities are determined by biological race and that races differ decisively from one another.” It further involves “a belief in the inherent superiority of a particular race and its right to dominate over others.” This meaning is clear. It is equally clear that this assumption, this belief, has always been altogether alien to the political and religious movement known as Zionism. As a strictly political movement, Zionism was established only in 1897, although there is a clearly legitimate sense in which its origins are indeed ancient. For example, many branches of Christianity have always held that from the standpoint of biblical prophets, Israel would be reborn one day. But the modern Zionism movement arose in Europe in the context of a general upsurge of national consciousness and aspiration that overtook most other people of Central and Eastern Europe after 1848, and that in time spread to all of Africa and Asia. It was, to those persons of the Jewish religion, a Jewish form of what today is called a national liberation movement. Probably a majority of those persons who became active Zionists and sought to emigrate to Palestine were born within the confines of Czarist Russia, and it was only natural for Soviet Prime Minister Andrei Gromyko to deplore, as he did in 1948, in the 299th meeting of the Security Council, the act by Israel’s neighbors of “sending troops into Palestine and carrying out military operations aimed” — in Mr. Gromyko’s words — at the suppression of the national liberation movement in Palestine.” Now it was the singular nature — if, I am not mistaken, it was the unique nature — of this national liberation movement that in contrast with the movements that preceded it, those of that time, and those that have come since, it defined its members in terms not of birth, but of belief. That is to say, it was not a movement of the Irish to free Ireland, or of the Polish to free Poland, not a movement of the Algerians to free Algeria, nor of Indians to free India. It was not a movement of persons connected by historic membership to a genetic pool of the kind that enables us to speak loosely but not meaninglessly, say, of the Chinese people, nor yet of diverse groups occupying the same territory which enables us to speak if the American people with no greater indignity to truth. To the contrary, Zionists defined themselves merely as Jews, and declared to be Jewish anyone born of a Jewish mother or — and this is the absolutely crucial fact — anyone who converted to Judaism. Which is to say, in terms of International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, adopted by the 20th General Assembly, anyone — regardless of “race, colour, descent, or nationally or ethnic origin …..” The state of Israel, which in time was the creation of the Zionist Movement, has been extraordinary in nothing so much as the range of “racial stocks” from which it Orient and Jew from the West. Most such persons could be said to have been “born” Jewish, just as most Presbyterians and most Hindus are “born” to their faith, but there are many Jews who are just converts. With a consistency in the matter which surely attests to the importance of this issue to that religions and political culture, Israeli courts have held that a Jew who converts to another religion is no longer a Jew. In the meantime the population of Israel also includes large numbers of non-Jews, among them Arabs of both the Muslim and Christian religions and Christians of other national origins. Many of these persons are citizens of Israel, and those who are not can become citizens by legal procedures very much like those which obtain in a typical nation of Western Europe. Now I should wish to be understood that I am here making one point, and one point only, which is that whatever else Zionism may be, it is not and cannot be “a form of racism.” In logic, the State of Israel could be, or could become, many things, theoretically, including many things undesirable, but it could not be and could not become racism unless it ceased to be Zionist. Indeed, the idea that Jews are a “race” was invented not by Jews but by those who hated Jews. The idea of Jews as a race was invented by nineteenth century anti-semites such as Houston Steward Chamberlain and Edouard Drumont, who saw that in an increasingly secular age, which is to say an age made for fewer distinctions between people, the old religions grounds for anti-semitism were losing force. New justifications were needed for excluding and persecuting Jews, and so the new idea of Jews as a race — rather than as a religion — was born. It was a contemptible idea at the beginning, and no civilized person would be associated with it. To think that it is an idea now endorsed by the United Nations is to reflect on what civilization has come to. It is precisely a concern for civilization, for civilized values that are or should be precious to all mankind, that arouses us at this moment to such special passion. What we have at stake here is not merely the honor and the legitimacy of the State of Israel — although a challenge to the legitimacy of any member nation ought always to arouse the vigilance of all members of the United Nations. For a yet more important matter is at issue, which is the integrity of the whole body of moral and legal precepts which we know as human rights. The terrible lie that has been told here today will have terrible consequences. Not only will people begin to say, indeed they have already begun to say that the United Nations is a place where lies are told, but far more serious, grave and perhaps irreparable harm will be done to the cause of human rights itself. The harm will arise first because it will strip from racism the precise and abhorrent meaning that it still precariously holds today. How will the people of the world feel about racism and the need to struggle against it, when they are told that it is an idea as broad as to include the Jewish national liberation movement? As the lie spreads, it will do harm in a second way. Many of the members of the United Nations owe their independence in no small part to the notion of human rights, as it has spread from the domestic sphere to the international sphere exercised its influence over the old colonial powers. We are now coming into a time when that independence is likely to be threatened again. There will be new forces, some of them arising now, new prophets and new despots, who will justify their actions with the help of just such distortions of words as we have sanctioned here today. Today we have drained the word “racism” of its meaning. Tomorrow, terms like “national self-determination” and “national honor” will be perverted in the same way to serve the purposes of conquest and exploitation. And when these claims begin to be made — as they already have begun to be made — it is the small nations of the world whose integrity will suffer. And how will the small nations of the world defend themselves, on what grounds will others be moved to defend and protect them, when the language of human rights, the only language by which the small can be defended, is no longer believed and no longer has a power of its own? There is this danger, and then a final danger that is the most serious of all. Which is that the damage we now do to the idea of human rights and the language of human rights could well be irreversible. The idea of human rights as we know it today is not an idea which has always existed in human affairs, it is an idea which appeared at a specific time in the world, and under very special circumstances. It appeared when European philosophers of the seventeenth century began to argue that man was a being whose existence was independent from that of the State, that he need join a political community only if he did not lose by that association more than he gained. From this very specific political philosophy stemmed the idea of political rights, of claims that the individual could justly make against the state; it was because the individual was seen as so separate from the State that he could make legitimate demands upon it. That was the philosophy from which the idea of domestic and international rights sprang. But most of the world does not hold with that philosophy now. Most of the world believes in newer modes of political thought, in philosophies that do not accept the individual as distinct from and prior to the State, in philosophies that therefore do not provide any justification for the idea of human rights and philosophies that have no words by which to explain their value. If we destroy the words that were given to us by past centuries, we will not have words to replace them, for philosophy today has no such words. But there are those of us who have not forsaken these older words, still so new to much of the world. Not forsaken them now, not here, not anywhere, not ever. The United States of America declares that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act.”

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The Modern Day Tatar Invasion carried out by the Syrian Ministry of Defense forces under the so-called Jolani government has targeted wheat silos in Sweida in a deliberate campaign of starvation. All crossings have been sealed, and any attempt to deliver food, medical, or humanitarian aid has been brutally blocked. What injustice is this? What level of criminality? What kind of government does this … and why are nations still granting them legitimacy? Sweida is dying of hunger and thirst under a suffocating siege, with water and electricity cut off for days. The coastal region is choking in darkness, famine, and isolation. No medicine. No flour. No way out. No way in. The only sound is the sound of collapse. Where is human conscience? Where is international law? Declare these regions disaster zones immediately. Strip this regime of its legitimacy. Return its leaders to where they belong: behind bars, as internationally wanted criminals. Is “stability” still more important than human lives? Has international legitimacy been reduced to a façade maintained through iron and fire? Has crime been granted the shield of sovereignty, simply because it aligns with your interests? Sweida is being silently exterminated. The coast is slowly starved to death. And you watch. You analyze. You issue empty, ineffective statements. هجوم تتار العصر الحديث قوات وزارة الدفاع السورية التابعة لحكومة الجولاني على صوامع القمح في السويداء، يأتي في سياق خنق ممنهج لتجويع السكان بعد إغلاق جميع المداخل ومنع مرور أي مساعدات غذائية أو طبية أو إنسانية. أيّ ظلمٍ هذا؟ أيّ إجرامٍ هذا؟ أيّ حكومةٍ هذه؟ ولماذا لا تزال الدول تمنحهم الشرعية؟ السويداء تموت من الجوع والعطش، تحت حصار خانق، وانقطاعٍ مستمر للماء والكهرباء. الساحل يختنق في الظلمة والجوع والعزلة. لا دواء، لا طحين، لا خروج، لا دخول، ولا صوت إلا صوت الانهيار. أين الضمير الإنساني؟ أين القانون الدولي؟ أعلنوا هذه المناطق مدنًا منكوبة فورًا. اسقطوا الشرعية عن هذه الحكومة المجرمة. أعيدوهم إلى مكانهم الطبيعي: خلف القضبان، كمجرمين مطلوبين دوليًا. هل ما زال الاستقرار أهم لديكم من حياة الناس؟ هل اختُزلت الشرعية الدولية في واجهة شكلية تحكم بالحديد والنار؟ هل باتت الجريمة تُمنح غطاء السيادة، فقط لأنها لا تعارض مصالحكم؟ السويداء تُباد بصمت، والساحل يُجَوَّع بهدوء. وأنتم تراقبون، تحلّلون، وتصدرون بيانات قلقة بلا أثر. Department of State President Donald J. Trump U.S. Embassy Syria European Commission Josep Borrell Fontelles Israel Foreign Ministry Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו EU in Syria Office of Congressman Abe Hamadeh ماهر شرف الدين مجازر السويداء || sweida massacres Secretary Antony Blinken The White House Mossad Commentary الموساد بالعربي Israel Defense Forces إيدي كوهين אדי כהן 🇮🇱 Dr Walid Phares Wahid Yazbk وحيد يزبك Sebastian Gorka DrG #SaveSweida #LiftTheSiege #EndStarvation #SyriaInDisaster #NoLegitimacyForKillers
2:07

The Modern Day Tatar Invasion carried out by the Syrian Ministry of Defense forces under the so-called Jolani government has targeted wheat silos in Sweida in a deliberate campaign of starvation. All crossings have been sealed, and any attempt to deliver food, medical, or humanitarian aid has been brutally blocked. What injustice is this? What level of criminality? What kind of government does this … and why are nations still granting them legitimacy? Sweida is dying of hunger and thirst under a suffocating siege, with water and electricity cut off for days. The coastal region is choking in darkness, famine, and isolation. No medicine. No flour. No way out. No way in. The only sound is the sound of collapse. Where is human conscience? Where is international law? Declare these regions disaster zones immediately. Strip this regime of its legitimacy. Return its leaders to where they belong: behind bars, as internationally wanted criminals. Is “stability” still more important than human lives? Has international legitimacy been reduced to a façade maintained through iron and fire? Has crime been granted the shield of sovereignty, simply because it aligns with your interests? Sweida is being silently exterminated. The coast is slowly starved to death. And you watch. You analyze. You issue empty, ineffective statements. هجوم تتار العصر الحديث قوات وزارة الدفاع السورية التابعة لحكومة الجولاني على صوامع القمح في السويداء، يأتي في سياق خنق ممنهج لتجويع السكان بعد إغلاق جميع المداخل ومنع مرور أي مساعدات غذائية أو طبية أو إنسانية. أيّ ظلمٍ هذا؟ أيّ إجرامٍ هذا؟ أيّ حكومةٍ هذه؟ ولماذا لا تزال الدول تمنحهم الشرعية؟ السويداء تموت من الجوع والعطش، تحت حصار خانق، وانقطاعٍ مستمر للماء والكهرباء. الساحل يختنق في الظلمة والجوع والعزلة. لا دواء، لا طحين، لا خروج، لا دخول، ولا صوت إلا صوت الانهيار. أين الضمير الإنساني؟ أين القانون الدولي؟ أعلنوا هذه المناطق مدنًا منكوبة فورًا. اسقطوا الشرعية عن هذه الحكومة المجرمة. أعيدوهم إلى مكانهم الطبيعي: خلف القضبان، كمجرمين مطلوبين دوليًا. هل ما زال الاستقرار أهم لديكم من حياة الناس؟ هل اختُزلت الشرعية الدولية في واجهة شكلية تحكم بالحديد والنار؟ هل باتت الجريمة تُمنح غطاء السيادة، فقط لأنها لا تعارض مصالحكم؟ السويداء تُباد بصمت، والساحل يُجَوَّع بهدوء. وأنتم تراقبون، تحلّلون، وتصدرون بيانات قلقة بلا أثر. Department of State President Donald J. Trump U.S. Embassy Syria European Commission Josep Borrell Fontelles Israel Foreign Ministry Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו EU in Syria Office of Congressman Abe Hamadeh ماهر شرف الدين مجازر السويداء || sweida massacres Secretary Antony Blinken The White House Mossad Commentary الموساد بالعربي Israel Defense Forces إيدي كوهين אדי כהן 🇮🇱 Dr Walid Phares Wahid Yazbk وحيد يزبك Sebastian Gorka DrG #SaveSweida #LiftTheSiege #EndStarvation #SyriaInDisaster #NoLegitimacyForKillers

Sally Obeid

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#رصد نتائج الزيارة الإيرانية تظهر يوماً بعد يوم، وهذا يؤكد ما نردده دائماً: أن النظام السياسي الحالي في بغداد لا يمتلك زمام الأمور، وأن قرار نزع سلاح الفصائل وحصره بيد الدولة لا يُتخذ في بغداد، بل يُبحث ويُحسم في إيران. والأهم من ذلك أن هذا التصريح صدر عن المتحدث الرسمي باسم الحكومة العراقية، وليس عن صحفي أو إعلامي، ما يجعله تعبيرًا عن موقف النظام السياسي في بغداد، وليس مجرد رأي إعلامي. ولا يمكن إخراج العراق من دائرة الهيمنة السياسية ما لم توضع خطة حقيقية لإعادة تشكيل النظام السياسي، بعد أن أصبحت إيران مهيمنة على مفاصل أساسية فيه، وتمتلك نفوذاً واسعاً على قراراته. The consequences of the Iranian visit are becoming increasingly evident day by day, confirming what we have consistently argued: that the current political system in Baghdad does not have control over its own affairs, and that the decision to disarm the armed factions and place their weapons under state control is not being made in Baghdad, but is instead being discussed and decided in Iran. More importantly, this statement was made by the official spokesperson of the Iraqi government, not by a journalist or media commentator, which makes it an expression of the position of the political system in Baghdad rather than merely a media opinion. Iraq cannot be freed from the grip of political influence unless a genuine plan is developed to restructure the political system, after Iran has established influence over key institutions and become capable of controlling a significant part of its political decisions. So, is it time to replace Iran’s political arm in Baghdad? The armed wing will not change as long as political leaders loyal to Iran continue to control the key levers of political decision-making in Iraq. While the United States, along with Syria and other concerned parties, continues to watch the Iraqi scene without decisive action, Iranian leaders continue to shape Iraq’s future through bloodshed, forcing us, as Iraqis, to pay the price for their conflicts and influence. The alternative exists, and the tools are available to the United States. All that is missing is the political decision. So, is it time to make that decision and help Iraq reclaim its sovereignty and its own political decision-making, rather than simply watching what is happening? Ambassador Tom Barrack Department of State Secretary Marco Rubio
1:18

#رصد نتائج الزيارة الإيرانية تظهر يوماً بعد يوم، وهذا يؤكد ما نردده دائماً: أن النظام السياسي الحالي في بغداد لا يمتلك زمام الأمور، وأن قرار نزع سلاح الفصائل وحصره بيد الدولة لا يُتخذ في بغداد، بل يُبحث ويُحسم في إيران. والأهم من ذلك أن هذا التصريح صدر عن المتحدث الرسمي باسم الحكومة العراقية، وليس عن صحفي أو إعلامي، ما يجعله تعبيرًا عن موقف النظام السياسي في بغداد، وليس مجرد رأي إعلامي. ولا يمكن إخراج العراق من دائرة الهيمنة السياسية ما لم توضع خطة حقيقية لإعادة تشكيل النظام السياسي، بعد أن أصبحت إيران مهيمنة على مفاصل أساسية فيه، وتمتلك نفوذاً واسعاً على قراراته. The consequences of the Iranian visit are becoming increasingly evident day by day, confirming what we have consistently argued: that the current political system in Baghdad does not have control over its own affairs, and that the decision to disarm the armed factions and place their weapons under state control is not being made in Baghdad, but is instead being discussed and decided in Iran. More importantly, this statement was made by the official spokesperson of the Iraqi government, not by a journalist or media commentator, which makes it an expression of the position of the political system in Baghdad rather than merely a media opinion. Iraq cannot be freed from the grip of political influence unless a genuine plan is developed to restructure the political system, after Iran has established influence over key institutions and become capable of controlling a significant part of its political decisions. So, is it time to replace Iran’s political arm in Baghdad? The armed wing will not change as long as political leaders loyal to Iran continue to control the key levers of political decision-making in Iraq. While the United States, along with Syria and other concerned parties, continues to watch the Iraqi scene without decisive action, Iranian leaders continue to shape Iraq’s future through bloodshed, forcing us, as Iraqis, to pay the price for their conflicts and influence. The alternative exists, and the tools are available to the United States. All that is missing is the political decision. So, is it time to make that decision and help Iraq reclaim its sovereignty and its own political decision-making, rather than simply watching what is happening? Ambassador Tom Barrack Department of State Secretary Marco Rubio

أحمد العلواني

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I would like to wish all my compatriots a happy Independence Day, happy Independence Zimbabwe. The independence of our country, unlike many other African countries, came through blood that was shed. There are so many Zimbabweans who lie in unmarked graves from Tanzania to Zambia to Botswana to Mozambique, and they put their lives on the line so that you and I could have the independence that we did not have under colonial rule. There is a distinct difference between those who fought for the independence of our country and died, never seeing an independent Zimbabwe, and those who took over from colonial rule and then destroyed our country through incompetence, corruption, and many other afflictions that should never have been there. I am in no doubt at all that had our country not become independent, I and many Black citizens would probably not be where we are today, thanks to the early gains of independence. Sadly, I now find myself as a journalist and a Zimbabwean with NO freedom to speak, to write, and to exist as a full citizen in my country post independence after the derailment of the independence dream. Many of our people did not have the opportunities that I personally got, and many others got, to advance our lives. It is unfortunate that we find ourselves where we are today, not because independence is bad, but because we ended up with selfish, corrupt, and incompetent individuals who abandoned the principles and aspirations that inspired many Zimbabweans to go out there and fight so that their country could be free. So on this day, when we celebrate 46 years of independence, the same zeal and drive that defined those who died fighting for our country must be carried forward by those who are alive today, to make sure that the country is restored to where it is supposed to be. Zimbabwe is one of the richest countries under the sun. It has almost every mineral that you can think of, and it has some of the best soils in the world. There is no reason for any Zimbabwean to be unemployed, to fail to earn an income, or to go to bed on an empty stomach. There is absolutely no reason for any Zimbabwean to struggle if the country is led by people who know what they are doing and who put the country first, the national interest first, ahead of their own selfish needs. Whilst colonialism was a terrible stain on the history of our country, there are lessons that can be drawn from that period. Rhodesia was run like a business, not like a fiefdom. The fact that most of the central hospitals that exist today were built during the colonial period, with the exception of Chitungwiza, tells us that infrastructure was prioritised, even if it was designed to serve a minority. That reality does not excuse colonial injustice, but it exposes the scale of failure after independence. Forty-six years later, the government has built only one central hospital. Around 2,500 women die every year during childbirth due to a lack of adequate maternity facilities. The largest hospital in Zimbabwe still relies on a maternity theatre built in 1977, and even then only one of its two theatres is functional, with the working one having been refurbished by a South African bank. That is a damning indictment on the current leadership. The fact that millions of Zimbabweans have been forced to leave the country to take up menial jobs in South Africa, as waiters or farm workers, is an indictment on the current leadership. The fact that people like myself and many others have had to leave home out of fear for our lives is an indictment on the current leadership. Whilst the leadership has failed, we as citizens of Zimbabwe also carry a responsibility towards our country, in whatever space we occupy. We must stop following personalities and start following ideas, whether in the ruling party or in the opposition. Our country has been destroyed because we follow personalities, many of whom are vacuous and empty, and when they fail, they drag the nation down with them as our leaders have done. We must not wait for a Messiah to come and save us from the afflictions we face today. We have a responsibility to do what is right for our country. During the liberation struggle, leaders were changed at different points because the struggle was never about personalities, it was about an idea, an independent Zimbabwe where every Zimbabwean, black, white, green, or yellow, has the same rights and opportunities to pursue a better life. So as we celebrate, and we should celebrate, we must also reflect on our responsibilities going forward. We celebrate because independence itself was a noble idea and remains a noble idea. When things are bad, you do not burn down the house, you fix what is broken. We must honour and remember those who lost their lives so that people like myself could go to college, become journalists, and be recognised internationally, as many Zimbabwean professionals have been, some even advising presidents across the continent and beyond. Zimbabwe has some of the most accomplished people anywhere in the world, and it should not be where it is today. It is therefore up to us, as Zimbabweans, to make sure that we do what is right for our country. Once again, happy Independence to my compatriots, and thank you to all the stalwarts who laid down their lives for us to be independent and to the countries that supported our struggle. We could not have achieved independence in 1980 without Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana, and many others who stood with us. They did well for us and we thank them. It is those who destroyed the country who should hang their heads in shame today. My heart bleeds when I see so many young Zimbabweans with university degrees, yet ending up as victims of drug abuse because there is no work to go to. There are no opportunities available that are aligned with what they went to university to study. It is a tragic indictment of the situation we find ourselves in today. Today we have become a nation where boreholes are being drilled in the middle of cities because the rulers have failed to do something as basic as delivering water into people’s homes. Today we have become a nation where the rest of the region laughs at us because our roads are riddled with potholes, yet the leadership drives Ferraris on those same roads. Today we have become a nation where even our O-level pass rate has not gone beyond 34% because of the failure of leadership to do what needs to be done. Today we cannot even feed ourselves. We have to rely on food aid, and yet we were once colloquially referred to as the breadbasket of the region. These are some of the realities we should reflect on. I could go on and on, but at this point, it is not necessary. To our leaders, I say, how does it feel when you hear the very people you lead saying Ian Smith was better, when they say colonialism was better? How do you feel? Or do you even feel anything at all when those words are spoken? Of course, colonialism was brutal. Of course, Ian Smith was a racist leader who upheld a minority regime built on exclusion and oppression. But it is a damning indictment of your failed leadership that some of our own people now feel pushed to the point of romanticising that dark past. Independence was meant to usher in dignity, opportunity, and shared prosperity for every Zimbabwean, regardless of colour or creed. It was meant to restore ownership of our future to the people. Yet today, you cannot deny that a small, privileged few are the primary beneficiaries of that independence, while the overwhelming majority are trapped in poverty, penury, and relentless suffering. That is not what liberation was fought for. However, nothing can justify a failure to be grateful to those who fought and died for the independence of our country. They did their part. It is now up to us to do our part and ensure that our country becomes what it is meant to be. Happy Independence Zimbabwe.
2:26

I would like to wish all my compatriots a happy Independence Day, happy Independence Zimbabwe. The independence of our country, unlike many other African countries, came through blood that was shed. There are so many Zimbabweans who lie in unmarked graves from Tanzania to Zambia to Botswana to Mozambique, and they put their lives on the line so that you and I could have the independence that we did not have under colonial rule. There is a distinct difference between those who fought for the independence of our country and died, never seeing an independent Zimbabwe, and those who took over from colonial rule and then destroyed our country through incompetence, corruption, and many other afflictions that should never have been there. I am in no doubt at all that had our country not become independent, I and many Black citizens would probably not be where we are today, thanks to the early gains of independence. Sadly, I now find myself as a journalist and a Zimbabwean with NO freedom to speak, to write, and to exist as a full citizen in my country post independence after the derailment of the independence dream. Many of our people did not have the opportunities that I personally got, and many others got, to advance our lives. It is unfortunate that we find ourselves where we are today, not because independence is bad, but because we ended up with selfish, corrupt, and incompetent individuals who abandoned the principles and aspirations that inspired many Zimbabweans to go out there and fight so that their country could be free. So on this day, when we celebrate 46 years of independence, the same zeal and drive that defined those who died fighting for our country must be carried forward by those who are alive today, to make sure that the country is restored to where it is supposed to be. Zimbabwe is one of the richest countries under the sun. It has almost every mineral that you can think of, and it has some of the best soils in the world. There is no reason for any Zimbabwean to be unemployed, to fail to earn an income, or to go to bed on an empty stomach. There is absolutely no reason for any Zimbabwean to struggle if the country is led by people who know what they are doing and who put the country first, the national interest first, ahead of their own selfish needs. Whilst colonialism was a terrible stain on the history of our country, there are lessons that can be drawn from that period. Rhodesia was run like a business, not like a fiefdom. The fact that most of the central hospitals that exist today were built during the colonial period, with the exception of Chitungwiza, tells us that infrastructure was prioritised, even if it was designed to serve a minority. That reality does not excuse colonial injustice, but it exposes the scale of failure after independence. Forty-six years later, the government has built only one central hospital. Around 2,500 women die every year during childbirth due to a lack of adequate maternity facilities. The largest hospital in Zimbabwe still relies on a maternity theatre built in 1977, and even then only one of its two theatres is functional, with the working one having been refurbished by a South African bank. That is a damning indictment on the current leadership. The fact that millions of Zimbabweans have been forced to leave the country to take up menial jobs in South Africa, as waiters or farm workers, is an indictment on the current leadership. The fact that people like myself and many others have had to leave home out of fear for our lives is an indictment on the current leadership. Whilst the leadership has failed, we as citizens of Zimbabwe also carry a responsibility towards our country, in whatever space we occupy. We must stop following personalities and start following ideas, whether in the ruling party or in the opposition. Our country has been destroyed because we follow personalities, many of whom are vacuous and empty, and when they fail, they drag the nation down with them as our leaders have done. We must not wait for a Messiah to come and save us from the afflictions we face today. We have a responsibility to do what is right for our country. During the liberation struggle, leaders were changed at different points because the struggle was never about personalities, it was about an idea, an independent Zimbabwe where every Zimbabwean, black, white, green, or yellow, has the same rights and opportunities to pursue a better life. So as we celebrate, and we should celebrate, we must also reflect on our responsibilities going forward. We celebrate because independence itself was a noble idea and remains a noble idea. When things are bad, you do not burn down the house, you fix what is broken. We must honour and remember those who lost their lives so that people like myself could go to college, become journalists, and be recognised internationally, as many Zimbabwean professionals have been, some even advising presidents across the continent and beyond. Zimbabwe has some of the most accomplished people anywhere in the world, and it should not be where it is today. It is therefore up to us, as Zimbabweans, to make sure that we do what is right for our country. Once again, happy Independence to my compatriots, and thank you to all the stalwarts who laid down their lives for us to be independent and to the countries that supported our struggle. We could not have achieved independence in 1980 without Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana, and many others who stood with us. They did well for us and we thank them. It is those who destroyed the country who should hang their heads in shame today. My heart bleeds when I see so many young Zimbabweans with university degrees, yet ending up as victims of drug abuse because there is no work to go to. There are no opportunities available that are aligned with what they went to university to study. It is a tragic indictment of the situation we find ourselves in today. Today we have become a nation where boreholes are being drilled in the middle of cities because the rulers have failed to do something as basic as delivering water into people’s homes. Today we have become a nation where the rest of the region laughs at us because our roads are riddled with potholes, yet the leadership drives Ferraris on those same roads. Today we have become a nation where even our O-level pass rate has not gone beyond 34% because of the failure of leadership to do what needs to be done. Today we cannot even feed ourselves. We have to rely on food aid, and yet we were once colloquially referred to as the breadbasket of the region. These are some of the realities we should reflect on. I could go on and on, but at this point, it is not necessary. To our leaders, I say, how does it feel when you hear the very people you lead saying Ian Smith was better, when they say colonialism was better? How do you feel? Or do you even feel anything at all when those words are spoken? Of course, colonialism was brutal. Of course, Ian Smith was a racist leader who upheld a minority regime built on exclusion and oppression. But it is a damning indictment of your failed leadership that some of our own people now feel pushed to the point of romanticising that dark past. Independence was meant to usher in dignity, opportunity, and shared prosperity for every Zimbabwean, regardless of colour or creed. It was meant to restore ownership of our future to the people. Yet today, you cannot deny that a small, privileged few are the primary beneficiaries of that independence, while the overwhelming majority are trapped in poverty, penury, and relentless suffering. That is not what liberation was fought for. However, nothing can justify a failure to be grateful to those who fought and died for the independence of our country. They did their part. It is now up to us to do our part and ensure that our country becomes what it is meant to be. Happy Independence Zimbabwe.

Hopewell Chin’ono

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شهد شاهد من أهل الارهابيين! انكشفت حقيقة هذه الثورة، و التي بدأت اساسا بالمجازر و الطائفية القذرة. اين هم الثوار في أوروبا الآن ؟ تفضلو و عيشو في سوريا طالما حققتم الحرية التي تريدون !؟ أم أنكم بعد ما خربتم البلد اكتشفتم انكم لا تستطيعون العيش مع ابو عمشة و ابو قتادة ؟ ما ذنب الشعب السوري بعد أن سلطتم عليه شياطين الأرض و أنتم الآن تعيشون في أوروبا العلمانية المتحررة الآمنة بينما تروجون للحكم الإسلاميّ المتطرف في سوريا ؟ 14 سنة و نحن تقول إن اسقاط النظام بالسلاح و بالتعاون مع الغرب سيجعل البديل هو الأرهاب، و هو ما نراه اليوم من دبح و تنكيل يومي. اذا كان الساروت رمز هذه الثورة فمالذي تتوقعه منها ؟ الساروت الذي غنى لذبح العلويين و ذبح 13 شخص بيده باعترافه!! و الفيديوهات موجودة و سنكست كل طائفي يدافع عنه و عن ثورته و ستكونون في المحاكم الدولية يا من دعتم الارهاب. هذا كلام السيدة في الفيديو.. A witness from the terrorists' family has testified! The truth of this revolution, which began with massacres and dirty sectarianism, has been revealed. Where are the revolutionaries in Europe now? Go ahead and live in Syria as long as you have achieved the freedom you want!? Or, after you destroyed the country, did you discover that you cannot live with Abu Amsha and Abu Qatada? What is the fault of the Syrian people after you unleashed the devils of the earth on them and you are now living in a secular, liberated and safe Europe while promoting extremist Islamic rule in Syria? For 14 years, we have been saying that overthrowing the regime with weapons and in cooperation with the West will make the alternative terrorism, which is what we see today of daily slaughter and abuse. If Sarout is the symbol of this revolution, what do you expect from it? Sarout is the one who sang about slaughtering the Alawites and slaughtered 13 people with his own hand, by his own admission!! The videos are there and we will bring down every sectarian who defends him and his revolution and you will be in international courts, you who called for terrorism. These are the words of the lady in the video.. #UN #Trump #UN_HRC #eu_eeas #arableague_gs #StateDept #francediplo_EN #FCDOGovUK #ISIS #syria #Tartus #Latakia #Damascus #Homs #لا_للتغيير_الديموغرافي #التهجير_جريمة #السعودية #محمد_بن_سلمان #حماية_الأقليات #الساحل_السوري #حقوق_الانسان #طرطوس #اللاذقية #حمص #سوريا #سوريا_الجديدة #داعش #دمشق #شاهد #هيئة_تحرير_الشام_الإرهابية #StopAlawiteGenocide #StopAlawiteGenocideInSyria #الجولاني_سفاح_سوريا #تسقط_حكومة_الجولاني_الأرهابية #الشرع_ليس_رئيسي #أوقفوا_الإبادة_الطائفية #EUSolidarity #ابادة_علوية #London #Paris #Roma #NewYork #الشرع_من_دون_شرعية #الجولاني_ليس_رئيسي #استقلال_الساحل_السوري Donald J. Trump محمد بن سلمان بن عبد العزيز (Informal). UK Prime Minister Agence France-Presse CNN CNNPolitics Donald J. Trump جامعة الدول العربية وزارة الخارجية 🇸🇦 Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office محمد علي الحسيني Elon Musk HH Sheikh Mohammed U.S. Embassy Syria Kaja Kallas Liz Throssell Michael Ohnmacht European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺 @ABaerbock UN Human Rights EU in Syria Mazloum Abdî مظلوم عبدي UN in Syria #israel Israel ישראל Israel ישראלiPM Amnesty International
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شهد شاهد من أهل الارهابيين! انكشفت حقيقة هذه الثورة، و التي بدأت اساسا بالمجازر و الطائفية القذرة. اين هم الثوار في أوروبا الآن ؟ تفضلو و عيشو في سوريا طالما حققتم الحرية التي تريدون !؟ أم أنكم بعد ما خربتم البلد اكتشفتم انكم لا تستطيعون العيش مع ابو عمشة و ابو قتادة ؟ ما ذنب الشعب السوري بعد أن سلطتم عليه شياطين الأرض و أنتم الآن تعيشون في أوروبا العلمانية المتحررة الآمنة بينما تروجون للحكم الإسلاميّ المتطرف في سوريا ؟ 14 سنة و نحن تقول إن اسقاط النظام بالسلاح و بالتعاون مع الغرب سيجعل البديل هو الأرهاب، و هو ما نراه اليوم من دبح و تنكيل يومي. اذا كان الساروت رمز هذه الثورة فمالذي تتوقعه منها ؟ الساروت الذي غنى لذبح العلويين و ذبح 13 شخص بيده باعترافه!! و الفيديوهات موجودة و سنكست كل طائفي يدافع عنه و عن ثورته و ستكونون في المحاكم الدولية يا من دعتم الارهاب. هذا كلام السيدة في الفيديو.. A witness from the terrorists' family has testified! The truth of this revolution, which began with massacres and dirty sectarianism, has been revealed. Where are the revolutionaries in Europe now? Go ahead and live in Syria as long as you have achieved the freedom you want!? Or, after you destroyed the country, did you discover that you cannot live with Abu Amsha and Abu Qatada? What is the fault of the Syrian people after you unleashed the devils of the earth on them and you are now living in a secular, liberated and safe Europe while promoting extremist Islamic rule in Syria? For 14 years, we have been saying that overthrowing the regime with weapons and in cooperation with the West will make the alternative terrorism, which is what we see today of daily slaughter and abuse. If Sarout is the symbol of this revolution, what do you expect from it? Sarout is the one who sang about slaughtering the Alawites and slaughtered 13 people with his own hand, by his own admission!! The videos are there and we will bring down every sectarian who defends him and his revolution and you will be in international courts, you who called for terrorism. These are the words of the lady in the video.. #UN #Trump #UN_HRC #eu_eeas #arableague_gs #StateDept #francediplo_EN #FCDOGovUK #ISIS #syria #Tartus #Latakia #Damascus #Homs #لا_للتغيير_الديموغرافي #التهجير_جريمة #السعودية #محمد_بن_سلمان #حماية_الأقليات #الساحل_السوري #حقوق_الانسان #طرطوس #اللاذقية #حمص #سوريا #سوريا_الجديدة #داعش #دمشق #شاهد #هيئة_تحرير_الشام_الإرهابية #StopAlawiteGenocide #StopAlawiteGenocideInSyria #الجولاني_سفاح_سوريا #تسقط_حكومة_الجولاني_الأرهابية #الشرع_ليس_رئيسي #أوقفوا_الإبادة_الطائفية #EUSolidarity #ابادة_علوية #London #Paris #Roma #NewYork #الشرع_من_دون_شرعية #الجولاني_ليس_رئيسي #استقلال_الساحل_السوري Donald J. Trump محمد بن سلمان بن عبد العزيز (Informal). UK Prime Minister Agence France-Presse CNN CNNPolitics Donald J. Trump جامعة الدول العربية وزارة الخارجية 🇸🇦 Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office محمد علي الحسيني Elon Musk HH Sheikh Mohammed U.S. Embassy Syria Kaja Kallas Liz Throssell Michael Ohnmacht European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺 @ABaerbock UN Human Rights EU in Syria Mazloum Abdî مظلوم عبدي UN in Syria #israel Israel ישראל Israel ישראלiPM Amnesty International

NEMESIS – نيميسس

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🚨NEW - House Speaker Mike Johnson delivers first floor speech on border catastrophe, accusing President Biden of intentionally creating a "clear and present danger to our national security." "Since I was elected Speaker less than 100 days ago, more than 700,000 illegals have been welcomed into our country illegally by the Biden administration. American schoolchildren have been forced into virtual schools so migrants can sleep in their school buildings. Korean War veterans have been booted from nursing homes that were sold to house migrants. Our streets are being flooded with fentanyl. Hundreds of thousands of children and adults are being poisoned and losing their lives. Vulnerable children and women are being exploited and trafficked by cartels. Since President Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas assumed office, there have been more than 7 million encounters with illegal aliens just at our southern border alone. 35 of our 50 states, including my home state of Louisiana, don't have a population that large. More than 300 individuals who are on our terror watchlist have been apprehended on the southern border. The frightening question is, how many have entered undetected? We know there are at least 1.8 million gotaways that have escaped. Understand that the situation at our border presents a clear and present danger to our national security, and it demands that it be addressed. FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Homeland Security Committee in November that these gotaways are a great concern for the agency, and all 56 of our Joint Terrorism Task Forces are trying to identify who these people are. We don't know how many terrorists are inside our borders. We do know that fentanyl is pouring into our communities like an open sewer. Right now, the leading cause of death of death in America for Americans aged 18 to 46 is fentanyl poisoning. To make matters worse, we've learned that the Biden administration is now simply just releasing 85% of the illegals who come across that border right into the country. For reference, by the way, in 2013, the Obama administration detained 82% of illegal aliens. How do we go from detaining 82% to releasing 85%? It only happens if this is by design. It only happens if it's an orchestrated intentional effort by the administration to do exactly that, and that is what the evidence shows. Earlier this month, I released a memo documenting 64 specific actions that the Biden administration has taken to undermine our border security and to promote the mass release of illegals and dangerous persons into our country. The very first day President Biden walked into the Oval Office, he revoked Executive Order 9844. Do you know what that did? It ended the construction of the border wall that Congress had already paid for. Everybody has seen the images of the materials out there rotting in the sun. Why? Because Joe Biden decided unilaterally that he didn't want a wall. In February 2021, the administration stopped applying Title 42 expulsions to children and incentivize by doing that incentivize families to send unaccompanied children through Mexico under the watch of cartels and traffickers. Since then, the administration admits to losing track of more than 80,000 unaccompanied children somewhere in the US. We don't know where they are. Have they been put into trafficking rings? We know that some of these kids are being trafficked for free labor and being forced to do things that are too appalling for us to articulate on this floor. Everybody here knows that's happening, and we're not demanding the President stop it? He can. He has the power to do it. In October 2021, the Biden administration revoked the migrant protection protocols that had been instituted under President Trump. That's the policy that we all know colloquially as Remain in Mexico. The Remain in Mexico policy kept asylum seekers in a safe haven third country while they were seeking asylum in the United States. Do you know why that works magically so well? Because it sent a message around the world that you shouldn't pay your life savings to a cartel to traffic you through Mexico and drop you over the US border because you're not going to be dropped over the US border. The word goes out on social media to countries all around the world. They are not going to let you in. Man, is that the most common sense rule you've ever thought of? President Biden doesn't agree because he stopped it. He issued an executive order to stop that common sense rule. A senior border patrol officer told us on that trip to Eagle Pass that if President Biden, by the stroke of a pen, would issue an executive order today to just simply reinstate Remain in Mexico, they think that would stop the flow by 70%. One stroke of the pen by the President. He does not seem to care. I told President Biden this myself on multiple occasions, most recently, a couple of weeks ago on the phone, I read him the law that says that he has all this authority, but he refuses to act. And even that's even despite court orders, by the way that instructed the administration to reinstate the institute remain in Mexico while the litigation was going on. You know what they did? They ignored it. The Biden administration is actively incentivizing illegals to come to the United States. We have laid out the welcome mat. We told everybody around the world, come on, you know what? The US taxpayer will take care of you. It's costing the American people billions and billions and billions of dollars to provide for people who are intentionally breaking our laws, billions and billions of dollars to house them and educate them and clothe them and take care of them. Why should we bear the burden when they break our laws? In January 2023, the Biden administration expanded the use of the Customs and Border Patrol One App so illegal aliens could just make appointments and then be released immediately right into America's interior. Guess what? 95% of all illegals who simply scheduled appointments through the app were released right into the United States. That's right. All you have to do is just download the app because they all have smartphones, make an appointment, and the President of the United States will release you into a network of NGOs who will put you on a plane to the destination of your choice. Without identification, by the way, while Americans are waiting in line to get through TSA. All on the dime of the American taxpayer. In December 2023, CBP recorded more than 302,000 encounters, almost double the population of my hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. In just one month 302,000 people just walked right into the country. I could go on and on about the 64 actions we've documented that President Biden has specifically taken to open our border wide up, but it's crystal clear his policy choices and Secretary Mayorkas refusal to comply with the law are driving this border catastrophe. They have chosen disorder and chaos for us rather than securing the homeland. They've ceded the homeland to cartels and traffickers. In the Del Rio sector alone in Eagle Pass, Texas, the cartels are making an estimated $3.5 million dollars a day trafficking human beings into our country. Do the math. They are making billions of dollars a year trafficking undocumented children and victims into this country. The Department of Homeland Security has effectively become a taxi driver to just help traffickers complete the last few miles of their human smuggling operation, and they're making billions of dollars in the process. It's absolute madness, and it is dismantling the safety of our communities. More than half a million known criminals and illegal aliens are in the US in our communities, free to re-offend and victimize American people. When we were at Eagle Pass in the Del Rio sector earlier in January, they told us that 60 to 70% of the people coming across the border right there at that epicenter are single adult males. They're military-aged. These are not huddled masses of families seeking refuge and asylum. These are people coming into our country to do only God knows what. The Biden administration is allowing it, and we've noted that they are coming from adversarial nations and from terrorist regions. We have no idea what they're planning. But in fiscal year 2023, border patrol encountered illegals from 170 different countries, including hundreds from Iran and Syria, thousands from Russia, and tens of thousands have come in from China. Tell me that's not dangerous? Law enforcement and intelligence leaders are warning us that we may very well suffer a preventable terrorist attack here in the homeland if we don't immediately secure that border and remove these dangerous terrorists from inside our borders. I read the black letter law to the President of the United States on the phone about two and a half weeks ago. I said, Mr. President, it says very clearly that you have all the tools and the executive authority necessary to reverse the catastrophe that you have created. He has those tools right now, and he has since day one. We have to decide if we believe in the rule of law or not. We have to decide if we're a sovereign nation or we're not. I believe that border security is part of our solemn obligation to safeguard the well-being of our citizens and uphold the principles that define who we are as a nation. A weak border weakens America, and a strong border is good for America, and a stronger America is good for everybody around the world. And everybody in this chamber should acknowledge that. Just as we lock our doors at night to protect our homes, we secure our borders to protect our homeland. And my friends, that is our sacred obligation." Speaker Mike Johnson
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🚨NEW - House Speaker Mike Johnson delivers first floor speech on border catastrophe, accusing President Biden of intentionally creating a "clear and present danger to our national security." "Since I was elected Speaker less than 100 days ago, more than 700,000 illegals have been welcomed into our country illegally by the Biden administration. American schoolchildren have been forced into virtual schools so migrants can sleep in their school buildings. Korean War veterans have been booted from nursing homes that were sold to house migrants. Our streets are being flooded with fentanyl. Hundreds of thousands of children and adults are being poisoned and losing their lives. Vulnerable children and women are being exploited and trafficked by cartels. Since President Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas assumed office, there have been more than 7 million encounters with illegal aliens just at our southern border alone. 35 of our 50 states, including my home state of Louisiana, don't have a population that large. More than 300 individuals who are on our terror watchlist have been apprehended on the southern border. The frightening question is, how many have entered undetected? We know there are at least 1.8 million gotaways that have escaped. Understand that the situation at our border presents a clear and present danger to our national security, and it demands that it be addressed. FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Homeland Security Committee in November that these gotaways are a great concern for the agency, and all 56 of our Joint Terrorism Task Forces are trying to identify who these people are. We don't know how many terrorists are inside our borders. We do know that fentanyl is pouring into our communities like an open sewer. Right now, the leading cause of death of death in America for Americans aged 18 to 46 is fentanyl poisoning. To make matters worse, we've learned that the Biden administration is now simply just releasing 85% of the illegals who come across that border right into the country. For reference, by the way, in 2013, the Obama administration detained 82% of illegal aliens. How do we go from detaining 82% to releasing 85%? It only happens if this is by design. It only happens if it's an orchestrated intentional effort by the administration to do exactly that, and that is what the evidence shows. Earlier this month, I released a memo documenting 64 specific actions that the Biden administration has taken to undermine our border security and to promote the mass release of illegals and dangerous persons into our country. The very first day President Biden walked into the Oval Office, he revoked Executive Order 9844. Do you know what that did? It ended the construction of the border wall that Congress had already paid for. Everybody has seen the images of the materials out there rotting in the sun. Why? Because Joe Biden decided unilaterally that he didn't want a wall. In February 2021, the administration stopped applying Title 42 expulsions to children and incentivize by doing that incentivize families to send unaccompanied children through Mexico under the watch of cartels and traffickers. Since then, the administration admits to losing track of more than 80,000 unaccompanied children somewhere in the US. We don't know where they are. Have they been put into trafficking rings? We know that some of these kids are being trafficked for free labor and being forced to do things that are too appalling for us to articulate on this floor. Everybody here knows that's happening, and we're not demanding the President stop it? He can. He has the power to do it. In October 2021, the Biden administration revoked the migrant protection protocols that had been instituted under President Trump. That's the policy that we all know colloquially as Remain in Mexico. The Remain in Mexico policy kept asylum seekers in a safe haven third country while they were seeking asylum in the United States. Do you know why that works magically so well? Because it sent a message around the world that you shouldn't pay your life savings to a cartel to traffic you through Mexico and drop you over the US border because you're not going to be dropped over the US border. The word goes out on social media to countries all around the world. They are not going to let you in. Man, is that the most common sense rule you've ever thought of? President Biden doesn't agree because he stopped it. He issued an executive order to stop that common sense rule. A senior border patrol officer told us on that trip to Eagle Pass that if President Biden, by the stroke of a pen, would issue an executive order today to just simply reinstate Remain in Mexico, they think that would stop the flow by 70%. One stroke of the pen by the President. He does not seem to care. I told President Biden this myself on multiple occasions, most recently, a couple of weeks ago on the phone, I read him the law that says that he has all this authority, but he refuses to act. And even that's even despite court orders, by the way that instructed the administration to reinstate the institute remain in Mexico while the litigation was going on. You know what they did? They ignored it. The Biden administration is actively incentivizing illegals to come to the United States. We have laid out the welcome mat. We told everybody around the world, come on, you know what? The US taxpayer will take care of you. It's costing the American people billions and billions and billions of dollars to provide for people who are intentionally breaking our laws, billions and billions of dollars to house them and educate them and clothe them and take care of them. Why should we bear the burden when they break our laws? In January 2023, the Biden administration expanded the use of the Customs and Border Patrol One App so illegal aliens could just make appointments and then be released immediately right into America's interior. Guess what? 95% of all illegals who simply scheduled appointments through the app were released right into the United States. That's right. All you have to do is just download the app because they all have smartphones, make an appointment, and the President of the United States will release you into a network of NGOs who will put you on a plane to the destination of your choice. Without identification, by the way, while Americans are waiting in line to get through TSA. All on the dime of the American taxpayer. In December 2023, CBP recorded more than 302,000 encounters, almost double the population of my hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. In just one month 302,000 people just walked right into the country. I could go on and on about the 64 actions we've documented that President Biden has specifically taken to open our border wide up, but it's crystal clear his policy choices and Secretary Mayorkas refusal to comply with the law are driving this border catastrophe. They have chosen disorder and chaos for us rather than securing the homeland. They've ceded the homeland to cartels and traffickers. In the Del Rio sector alone in Eagle Pass, Texas, the cartels are making an estimated $3.5 million dollars a day trafficking human beings into our country. Do the math. They are making billions of dollars a year trafficking undocumented children and victims into this country. The Department of Homeland Security has effectively become a taxi driver to just help traffickers complete the last few miles of their human smuggling operation, and they're making billions of dollars in the process. It's absolute madness, and it is dismantling the safety of our communities. More than half a million known criminals and illegal aliens are in the US in our communities, free to re-offend and victimize American people. When we were at Eagle Pass in the Del Rio sector earlier in January, they told us that 60 to 70% of the people coming across the border right there at that epicenter are single adult males. They're military-aged. These are not huddled masses of families seeking refuge and asylum. These are people coming into our country to do only God knows what. The Biden administration is allowing it, and we've noted that they are coming from adversarial nations and from terrorist regions. We have no idea what they're planning. But in fiscal year 2023, border patrol encountered illegals from 170 different countries, including hundreds from Iran and Syria, thousands from Russia, and tens of thousands have come in from China. Tell me that's not dangerous? Law enforcement and intelligence leaders are warning us that we may very well suffer a preventable terrorist attack here in the homeland if we don't immediately secure that border and remove these dangerous terrorists from inside our borders. I read the black letter law to the President of the United States on the phone about two and a half weeks ago. I said, Mr. President, it says very clearly that you have all the tools and the executive authority necessary to reverse the catastrophe that you have created. He has those tools right now, and he has since day one. We have to decide if we believe in the rule of law or not. We have to decide if we're a sovereign nation or we're not. I believe that border security is part of our solemn obligation to safeguard the well-being of our citizens and uphold the principles that define who we are as a nation. A weak border weakens America, and a strong border is good for America, and a stronger America is good for everybody around the world. And everybody in this chamber should acknowledge that. Just as we lock our doors at night to protect our homes, we secure our borders to protect our homeland. And my friends, that is our sacred obligation." Speaker Mike Johnson

KanekoaTheGreat

14,479,355 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

This video has been extremely painful to watch for any sane Zimbabwean. It has made Zimbabweans the butt of jokes across the region, especially in Southern Africa and other African countries on social media. I have written extensively about the father of this child, Paul Tungwarara, who is President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s so-called Presidential Investment Adviser. You see, this is what shows just how detached President Emmerson Mnangagwa has become from the realities of the lives Zimbabweans are living and how ordinary citizens actually feel about him. I do not know whether his intelligence services are failing to give him the correct information, whether he receives the correct information and simply ignores it, or whether this is now a reflection of a deeply dysfunctional system in which people around him are too afraid to tell him the truth. What is clear is that a cartel of opportunists like Paul Tungwarara has formed around him, abusing proximity to power while lacking the emotional intelligence to understand what should and should not be done in public. They think these comical stunts are pleasing him, when in reality they are humiliating him, destroying his image, and ensuring that no meaningful legacy remains behind him. You cannot go to one of the biggest hospitals in Zimbabwe and humiliate nurses by asking them to dance for US$100 as if they are beggars. It is degrading and insulting in a country where healthcare workers are already suffering because of economic collapse and poor governance. It does not end there. Paul Tungwarara’s daughter, Tinotenda Tungwarara, went to the Mbudzi Interchange in Harare, threw around US$500, and asked desperate Zimbabweans to scramble for the money. People went because they are suffering. They have been pushed into abject poverty, humiliation, and economic desperation by years of economic failure under President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government. This is precisely why many Zimbabweans are rejecting any attempt to extend the Constitution to give him an extra two years in office. If Zimbabwe had a functioning economy, if citizens had jobs, dignity, decent salaries, and functioning public services, people would not care much about political manoeuvres. Across Africa, citizens tolerate many things from politicians as long as their quality of life is improving or at least stable. But this is different. This is public humiliation of citizens by people connected to power. And if somebody close to the President is reading this, please whisper this into his ear that the people around him are damaging him politically every single day with these idiotic and comical antics. If there is ever an attempt to remove him from office, these actions are creating the emotional atmosphere that would make citizens support such a move. It is almost as if the people around him are deliberately creating a body of evidence to justify his political downfall. Nothing destroys a leader faster than surrounding himself with arrogant people who mistake public suffering for entertainment, and who are detached from public opinion. As for these nurses, journalists cannot continue writing about these things forever. We do not have an opposition or a political opposition leader, so we have reached a point where Zimbabweans need to use their own heads and decide what kind of society they want to live in. If nurses are prepared to be abused and humiliated like that, then they have become part of the problem. A society that normalises the humiliation of professionals, especially healthcare workers who are already working under terrible conditions, has much deeper problems than it is prepared to admit. At some point, you also have to reflect on what some South Africans have been saying, that Zimbabweans have chosen a timid path of enduring abuse and humiliation. I do not think that in any normal society people would be made to dance like that for crumbs, it is deeply dehumanising. There comes a point where people must ask themselves difficult questions about what they are prepared to tolerate and why they continue tolerating it. The excruciating level of unsophisticated behaviour is shocking. Chibharanzi chaicho. I cannot believe that a state with intelligence services would allow something like this to happen publicly. The level at which President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule has sunk is absolutely staggering. I know there are people inside that government who fully understand exactly what I am saying, that this has now reached a point where the entire country is being embarrassed and humiliated by these antics. Zimbabwe is being laughed at across the region, on the continent, and beyond. And the frightening part is that a President who is supposed to be the first citizen of the country, either cannot understand, is failing to understand, or has completely lost the capacity to understand that this is wrong. That is what makes this situation so alarming. I want to speak directly to President Mnangagwa. If any one of your soldiers were to decide to go into the streets and move against you because of this behaviour, which you have failed to curtail and stop, I want to assure you, sir, that the majority of Zimbabweans would support such a person. I do not know whether that is what you want, or whether you understand that things have now sunk that low, from the gutter into the sewer. And to all the people who are behaving like this, humiliating Zimbabweans, making them dance for trinkets, putting money under the interchange and asking people to go and look for it, preying on their poverty, the abject poverty that has been induced by your actions, I want to assure you that when the day comes that the President is no longer there, you will be dragged into the streets. Some of you will face brutal consequences, and unfortunately, many Zimbabweans will celebrate because of your behaviour and the humiliation you have subjected people to. You are not the first people to have access to state money, and you will not be the last. Across the continent, there are many people with access to state resources, but they are far more sophisticated than you are. They understand how to behave, how to carry themselves, and how not to embarrass their principal and dehumanise suffering citizens. When elites begin turning citizens’ suffering into entertainment, they should never forget that history has a brutal way of eventually humiliating those who humiliate others.
5:57

This video has been extremely painful to watch for any sane Zimbabwean. It has made Zimbabweans the butt of jokes across the region, especially in Southern Africa and other African countries on social media. I have written extensively about the father of this child, Paul Tungwarara, who is President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s so-called Presidential Investment Adviser. You see, this is what shows just how detached President Emmerson Mnangagwa has become from the realities of the lives Zimbabweans are living and how ordinary citizens actually feel about him. I do not know whether his intelligence services are failing to give him the correct information, whether he receives the correct information and simply ignores it, or whether this is now a reflection of a deeply dysfunctional system in which people around him are too afraid to tell him the truth. What is clear is that a cartel of opportunists like Paul Tungwarara has formed around him, abusing proximity to power while lacking the emotional intelligence to understand what should and should not be done in public. They think these comical stunts are pleasing him, when in reality they are humiliating him, destroying his image, and ensuring that no meaningful legacy remains behind him. You cannot go to one of the biggest hospitals in Zimbabwe and humiliate nurses by asking them to dance for US$100 as if they are beggars. It is degrading and insulting in a country where healthcare workers are already suffering because of economic collapse and poor governance. It does not end there. Paul Tungwarara’s daughter, Tinotenda Tungwarara, went to the Mbudzi Interchange in Harare, threw around US$500, and asked desperate Zimbabweans to scramble for the money. People went because they are suffering. They have been pushed into abject poverty, humiliation, and economic desperation by years of economic failure under President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government. This is precisely why many Zimbabweans are rejecting any attempt to extend the Constitution to give him an extra two years in office. If Zimbabwe had a functioning economy, if citizens had jobs, dignity, decent salaries, and functioning public services, people would not care much about political manoeuvres. Across Africa, citizens tolerate many things from politicians as long as their quality of life is improving or at least stable. But this is different. This is public humiliation of citizens by people connected to power. And if somebody close to the President is reading this, please whisper this into his ear that the people around him are damaging him politically every single day with these idiotic and comical antics. If there is ever an attempt to remove him from office, these actions are creating the emotional atmosphere that would make citizens support such a move. It is almost as if the people around him are deliberately creating a body of evidence to justify his political downfall. Nothing destroys a leader faster than surrounding himself with arrogant people who mistake public suffering for entertainment, and who are detached from public opinion. As for these nurses, journalists cannot continue writing about these things forever. We do not have an opposition or a political opposition leader, so we have reached a point where Zimbabweans need to use their own heads and decide what kind of society they want to live in. If nurses are prepared to be abused and humiliated like that, then they have become part of the problem. A society that normalises the humiliation of professionals, especially healthcare workers who are already working under terrible conditions, has much deeper problems than it is prepared to admit. At some point, you also have to reflect on what some South Africans have been saying, that Zimbabweans have chosen a timid path of enduring abuse and humiliation. I do not think that in any normal society people would be made to dance like that for crumbs, it is deeply dehumanising. There comes a point where people must ask themselves difficult questions about what they are prepared to tolerate and why they continue tolerating it. The excruciating level of unsophisticated behaviour is shocking. Chibharanzi chaicho. I cannot believe that a state with intelligence services would allow something like this to happen publicly. The level at which President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule has sunk is absolutely staggering. I know there are people inside that government who fully understand exactly what I am saying, that this has now reached a point where the entire country is being embarrassed and humiliated by these antics. Zimbabwe is being laughed at across the region, on the continent, and beyond. And the frightening part is that a President who is supposed to be the first citizen of the country, either cannot understand, is failing to understand, or has completely lost the capacity to understand that this is wrong. That is what makes this situation so alarming. I want to speak directly to President Mnangagwa. If any one of your soldiers were to decide to go into the streets and move against you because of this behaviour, which you have failed to curtail and stop, I want to assure you, sir, that the majority of Zimbabweans would support such a person. I do not know whether that is what you want, or whether you understand that things have now sunk that low, from the gutter into the sewer. And to all the people who are behaving like this, humiliating Zimbabweans, making them dance for trinkets, putting money under the interchange and asking people to go and look for it, preying on their poverty, the abject poverty that has been induced by your actions, I want to assure you that when the day comes that the President is no longer there, you will be dragged into the streets. Some of you will face brutal consequences, and unfortunately, many Zimbabweans will celebrate because of your behaviour and the humiliation you have subjected people to. You are not the first people to have access to state money, and you will not be the last. Across the continent, there are many people with access to state resources, but they are far more sophisticated than you are. They understand how to behave, how to carry themselves, and how not to embarrass their principal and dehumanise suffering citizens. When elites begin turning citizens’ suffering into entertainment, they should never forget that history has a brutal way of eventually humiliating those who humiliate others.

Hopewell Chin’ono

77,430 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

Ten years after the majestic, globally significant, yet betrayed NO Referendum of the Greek people – a personal message: On 5th of July 2015 the Greek people voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to say a big, beautiful NO to the Big Business and Big Finance who, through their centre right and centre left political representatives, were demanding of the Greek people that they shoulder the costs of the banking crisis which Big Business and Big Finance had caused, with the result that hundreds of millions of people in Europe and America were crushed under mountain ranges of banking losses which governments then turned into public debt, before shifting it to the shoulders of the weakest of citizens through universal austerity – the working classes, the poor, the elderly, the young, the women, people who lacked the power to defend themselves from the powerful plucking the very moneytree whose existence they denied. Churchill once said of the battle of El Alamein that, before it, the Allies had never won but that, after it, they never lost again. I could say something similar about that splendid and, at once, tragic day, of the Greek NO Referendum ten years ago today – the day when 62% of Greek voters ignored the financial terrorism of the European Central Bank (which had shut down the Greek banks to blackmail voters to accept the terms of surrender they were dictating to the Greek people). That same day when my former comrade, the PM I was serving as finance minister on behalf of the Greeks who were resisting, trashed their verdict and defected to the Big Finance and the Big Business in the name of the left. Before that day, before the magnificent NO Referendum outcome of 5th July 2015, and during the months and years leading to it, we could not imagine losing in the long run our fights against the Big Finance and the Big Business that blew up our social economies in 2008. But after it, since the PM I was serving under overturned our people and betrayed their referendum verdict, we cannot imagine winning ever again, at least not in our lifetimes, against the Big Finance and the Big Business whom the betrayal of the NO Referendum helped recover. It was THAT significant a day. It was THAT significant a defection. Now, I know it is not the done thing to sully the spirit of one’s fellow travellers, one’s comrades, to say things like that - to surrender in public to the admission not only of the size of our defeat but also of the possibility that we may not win again for the foreseeable future. Alas, now is the time for honesty – for without honesty amongst rebels no rebellion worth its salt can be staged. Indulge me friends, fellow travellers, comrades. My point is not to bring you down. My point is to acknowledge where we are not just in Greece, in Germany, in Britain, in Europe but globally. To take stock properly of our situation globally not to mourn nor for some perverted sense of inverted glory, certainly not for gain, but for the simple, stubborn hope of rising again. Somewhere to the North of where I am talking you from, the killing fields of Ukraine are devouring lives with a ruthless, mechanical precision. Where is the Peace Movement to stop this? Nowhere really. Instead Europe is sinking fast into Military Keynesianism, with large majorities in our parliaments voting for unspeakable amounts of new debt to go to weapons of mass destruction we neither need nor can afford – and certainly weapons that people with the slightest of sense left in their hearts and minds should not want. Meanwhile, needless to say, from my southeast, from the scorched land of Palestine, the acrid stench of genocide drifts on the wind. Yes, we have staged magnificent marches on our streets. Yes, our people have marched to Gaza, other comrades risked life and limb to sail to that coastal war crime scene. Yes we have made it possible to speak of the genocide without being treated as buffoons. Yes, we have shifted public opinion. But, nothing is changing on the ground where Palestinian life is eradicated at a steady, at an unbearable rate, or in the corridors of power. Where are the sanctions on Israel? Where is the UN Peacekeeping force that should have been parachuted in to stop the genocide in its tracks? Nowhere. The only people that are hounded are people like the UN’s Special Rapporteur, my friend Francesca Albanese, for daring to report on the political economy of genocide. Why has Brazil, Spain or Ireland, countries whose governments have been supportive of the Palestinians not joined the Hague Group that our Progressive International has brought together to isolate Israel? What are they waiting for? Friends, fellow-travellers, comrades, at the risk of saddening, maybe even angering you, I shall say it again: Since that NO referendum was overturned ten years ago, today, by the left’s own leadership, we are losing at every front. Who is winning? Not the liberal authoritarian establishment – Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz. No the pro-genocide radical centre they sensationally unpopular. Even if they are clinging onto power for the time being, they are thoroughly discredited, despised even. No, the winners nest elsewhere in even uglier echelons of the political spectrum. Have you not smelled its smell? Can’t you smell the fascism in the air? Can’t you feel its sour, metallic taste clinging to the back of your throat? What happened to our great hopes? Remember Woman-Life-Freedom? The whispered three-word promise Kurdish heroines carried like a fragile beacon in their hands, a promise that until recently seemed to shimmer just within reach? Well, take a look at the triumphant Donald Trump on the one hand – yes, he is winning on every front – and the pathetic Kamala Harris, or the even more pathetic Hillary Clinton, on the other. Between them, willingly in Trump’s case, they created the manosphere’s unyielding juggernaut, which trampled upon Woman-Life-Freedom, as if these precious little words, had never been spoken at all. Authoritarianism, that most insidious of plagues, has crept into every sinew of life. Along with the smell of pollution in the air, microplastics in our oceans, the insidious power of cloud capital hardwired into our brains, delivering our minds to the whims of our new techlords – this New Global Ecocidal Hyper-Exploitative Ruling Class is entrenching itself as the new order, its cold grip tightening with each passing day. I don’t know about you but, speaking personally, on this, the 10th anniversary of our Great Victory which was turned overnight into the Great Betrayal, it is ever so easy to surrender to the feeling, the sensation, that my political struggles, fuelled by a fierce and unyielding hope, are taking me from one defeat to the next, making me feel like a character in some twisted simulation, doomed to repeat the same futile actions over and over. BUT, I shall not surrender. And nor will you! Acknowledging our defeats, the overwhelming strength of the monsters in power, and the magnitude of the task, needs to be done so that we ground our disobedience, our activism, our sacred campaigns for Humanity and for Nature, on solid ground. So that we learn from the past, from what happened to the brave Greek people 10 years ago to this day, focussing with laser sharp precision not only on the economics and the politics of what needs to be done but, much more so, on the greatest solvent, the ugliest enemy, of solidarity: The tendency of our own side, our own comrades, to be lured by power into defecting to the other side – to the oligarchs who are ever so eager to co-opt us, to co-opt our leading figures especially. So, on behalf of DiEM25, today, the 5th of July 2025, exactly 10 years after the Greek people’s majestic, betrayed, but inspiringly courageous NO – that ethereal revolutionary little word – a word redolent of the only Freedom that matters, the freedom to turn down exploitative, extractive deals. On this day, I bid you farewell. Battle well, and let us all, grounded on facts, work joyously to devise acts that make the fascists, the radical centre, the genocide practitioners and the purveyors of all types of exploitation lose their sleep at night so that the many can dream again.
9:41

Ten years after the majestic, globally significant, yet betrayed NO Referendum of the Greek people – a personal message: On 5th of July 2015 the Greek people voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to say a big, beautiful NO to the Big Business and Big Finance who, through their centre right and centre left political representatives, were demanding of the Greek people that they shoulder the costs of the banking crisis which Big Business and Big Finance had caused, with the result that hundreds of millions of people in Europe and America were crushed under mountain ranges of banking losses which governments then turned into public debt, before shifting it to the shoulders of the weakest of citizens through universal austerity – the working classes, the poor, the elderly, the young, the women, people who lacked the power to defend themselves from the powerful plucking the very moneytree whose existence they denied. Churchill once said of the battle of El Alamein that, before it, the Allies had never won but that, after it, they never lost again. I could say something similar about that splendid and, at once, tragic day, of the Greek NO Referendum ten years ago today – the day when 62% of Greek voters ignored the financial terrorism of the European Central Bank (which had shut down the Greek banks to blackmail voters to accept the terms of surrender they were dictating to the Greek people). That same day when my former comrade, the PM I was serving as finance minister on behalf of the Greeks who were resisting, trashed their verdict and defected to the Big Finance and the Big Business in the name of the left. Before that day, before the magnificent NO Referendum outcome of 5th July 2015, and during the months and years leading to it, we could not imagine losing in the long run our fights against the Big Finance and the Big Business that blew up our social economies in 2008. But after it, since the PM I was serving under overturned our people and betrayed their referendum verdict, we cannot imagine winning ever again, at least not in our lifetimes, against the Big Finance and the Big Business whom the betrayal of the NO Referendum helped recover. It was THAT significant a day. It was THAT significant a defection. Now, I know it is not the done thing to sully the spirit of one’s fellow travellers, one’s comrades, to say things like that - to surrender in public to the admission not only of the size of our defeat but also of the possibility that we may not win again for the foreseeable future. Alas, now is the time for honesty – for without honesty amongst rebels no rebellion worth its salt can be staged. Indulge me friends, fellow travellers, comrades. My point is not to bring you down. My point is to acknowledge where we are not just in Greece, in Germany, in Britain, in Europe but globally. To take stock properly of our situation globally not to mourn nor for some perverted sense of inverted glory, certainly not for gain, but for the simple, stubborn hope of rising again. Somewhere to the North of where I am talking you from, the killing fields of Ukraine are devouring lives with a ruthless, mechanical precision. Where is the Peace Movement to stop this? Nowhere really. Instead Europe is sinking fast into Military Keynesianism, with large majorities in our parliaments voting for unspeakable amounts of new debt to go to weapons of mass destruction we neither need nor can afford – and certainly weapons that people with the slightest of sense left in their hearts and minds should not want. Meanwhile, needless to say, from my southeast, from the scorched land of Palestine, the acrid stench of genocide drifts on the wind. Yes, we have staged magnificent marches on our streets. Yes, our people have marched to Gaza, other comrades risked life and limb to sail to that coastal war crime scene. Yes we have made it possible to speak of the genocide without being treated as buffoons. Yes, we have shifted public opinion. But, nothing is changing on the ground where Palestinian life is eradicated at a steady, at an unbearable rate, or in the corridors of power. Where are the sanctions on Israel? Where is the UN Peacekeeping force that should have been parachuted in to stop the genocide in its tracks? Nowhere. The only people that are hounded are people like the UN’s Special Rapporteur, my friend Francesca Albanese, for daring to report on the political economy of genocide. Why has Brazil, Spain or Ireland, countries whose governments have been supportive of the Palestinians not joined the Hague Group that our Progressive International has brought together to isolate Israel? What are they waiting for? Friends, fellow-travellers, comrades, at the risk of saddening, maybe even angering you, I shall say it again: Since that NO referendum was overturned ten years ago, today, by the left’s own leadership, we are losing at every front. Who is winning? Not the liberal authoritarian establishment – Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz. No the pro-genocide radical centre they sensationally unpopular. Even if they are clinging onto power for the time being, they are thoroughly discredited, despised even. No, the winners nest elsewhere in even uglier echelons of the political spectrum. Have you not smelled its smell? Can’t you smell the fascism in the air? Can’t you feel its sour, metallic taste clinging to the back of your throat? What happened to our great hopes? Remember Woman-Life-Freedom? The whispered three-word promise Kurdish heroines carried like a fragile beacon in their hands, a promise that until recently seemed to shimmer just within reach? Well, take a look at the triumphant Donald Trump on the one hand – yes, he is winning on every front – and the pathetic Kamala Harris, or the even more pathetic Hillary Clinton, on the other. Between them, willingly in Trump’s case, they created the manosphere’s unyielding juggernaut, which trampled upon Woman-Life-Freedom, as if these precious little words, had never been spoken at all. Authoritarianism, that most insidious of plagues, has crept into every sinew of life. Along with the smell of pollution in the air, microplastics in our oceans, the insidious power of cloud capital hardwired into our brains, delivering our minds to the whims of our new techlords – this New Global Ecocidal Hyper-Exploitative Ruling Class is entrenching itself as the new order, its cold grip tightening with each passing day. I don’t know about you but, speaking personally, on this, the 10th anniversary of our Great Victory which was turned overnight into the Great Betrayal, it is ever so easy to surrender to the feeling, the sensation, that my political struggles, fuelled by a fierce and unyielding hope, are taking me from one defeat to the next, making me feel like a character in some twisted simulation, doomed to repeat the same futile actions over and over. BUT, I shall not surrender. And nor will you! Acknowledging our defeats, the overwhelming strength of the monsters in power, and the magnitude of the task, needs to be done so that we ground our disobedience, our activism, our sacred campaigns for Humanity and for Nature, on solid ground. So that we learn from the past, from what happened to the brave Greek people 10 years ago to this day, focussing with laser sharp precision not only on the economics and the politics of what needs to be done but, much more so, on the greatest solvent, the ugliest enemy, of solidarity: The tendency of our own side, our own comrades, to be lured by power into defecting to the other side – to the oligarchs who are ever so eager to co-opt us, to co-opt our leading figures especially. So, on behalf of DiEM25, today, the 5th of July 2025, exactly 10 years after the Greek people’s majestic, betrayed, but inspiringly courageous NO – that ethereal revolutionary little word – a word redolent of the only Freedom that matters, the freedom to turn down exploitative, extractive deals. On this day, I bid you farewell. Battle well, and let us all, grounded on facts, work joyously to devise acts that make the fascists, the radical centre, the genocide practitioners and the purveyors of all types of exploitation lose their sleep at night so that the many can dream again.

Yanis Varoufakis

255,162 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

BDS is what would have made the difference, turning an empty gesture - the recognition of Palestine - into an ethical, useful, game changer. Hello, I am Yanis Varoufakis here to discuss the (hugely) belated recognition of the State of Palestine by a number of Western governments – Britain’s, France’s, Canada’s and Australia’s. If only they had done this many decades ago, maybe Israel’s ethnic cleansing of a people whose existence Israel did not recognise, on a land that Israel was keen to expropriate from these unrecognised people, maybe that ethnic cleansing project would have been halted - maybe it would not have morphed into the genocide that is unfolding with untold cruelty as we speak. Is it not a good thing that the governments of Britain, France, Canada and Australia were forced by public opinion, by sensational losses in voter support, to recognise the State of Palestine. I suppose it is a good thing. But, friends, make no mistake. I am very much afraid that Keir Starmer, Emanuel Macron, Mark Carney and Anthony Albanese did not recognise Palestine so as to ensure that it comes into existence as a real, a sovereign state for a people Israel has put on death row but only so that they do not actually do what they can to end the genocide and to make the Palestinian state a possibility. In a nutshell, these Western governments, after decades of complicity, are suddenly falling over themselves to perform a performative act in a manner that does nothing to bring about that which they proclaim: a functioning Palestinian State. So: Let us not applaud them. Let us not be fooled by them. Theirs is not an ethical awakening. It is merely the calculated management of a genocide they are doing nothing to stop. It is hypocrisy polished to a fine sheen, designed not to end the suffering in Gaza, but to sanitise their role in perpetuating it. On the one hand, we observe the grand theatre of great power diplomacy. The press conferences, the solemn declarations, the recognition of a state that exists on paper. Meanwhile, on the ground, the very foundation of such a state – its people and its institutions – are being systematically erased. These governments—the Starmer, the Macron, the Albanese, the Carney administrations—they want you to be distracted by their "brave" and "principled" stand while they remain complicit in the war crimes, in the ethnic cleansing, in the genocide. And why now? Why, after the tens of thousands dead, after the schools and hospitals turned to rubble, after thousands of wounded children were forced to survive alone, without their families who now lie buried under blocks of cement? Because global outrage has reached a boiling point that can no longer be contained by their usual pro-Israeli propaganda. Their recognition of Palestine is a pressure valve, designed precisely to defuse that outrage, to save Israel’s legitimacy, safe in the knowledge that Israel will continue, with their tacit support, to block each and every move toward a viable Palestinian state. They are recognising a Palestinian state while tacitly conniving with Israel's leaders to ensure it never comes into being. How? By actively refusing to take the one set of actions that has a proven historical record of ending oppression and Apartheid: Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions on the perpetrator. Thankfully that’s not all. Mercifully, something else is going on. While Western leaders perform their diplomatic pantomime, hundreds of people are sailing right now in the Mediterranean Sea. The Global Sumud Flotilla. A flotilla of teachers, journalists, activists, dreamers, parliamentarians, carrying with them the global majority’s commitment that Israel’s Siege on Gaza, that the planned and meticulously implemented genocide of Palestinians will be terminated – that it will not continue in our name – that the impending acts of piracy by the Israeli state will be exposed for what they are: misanthropic violations of minimum ethical standards, of International Law. Israeli propaganda, echoed by its apologists, claims these brave souls are "choosing to enter a war zone, to violate prohibited security zones." This is a shameless lie. The flotilla's ships are not entering a war zone. They are heading towards a site of genocide on a land that Israel is illegally occupying—a fact confirmed by the International Court of Justice, which in June 2024 ordered Israel to vacate it. So, I ask you: if Starmer, Macron, Carney and Albanese really wanted to end the genocide, what would they do? They would not be issuing statements. They would be sending a naval vessel to protect the flotilla! They would be enforcing international law. But they will not. Because their recognition is an empty gesture, and actual solidarity requires a break with organised misanthropy and with the arms dealers who fund them and their political campaigns. This duality, this chasm between Western governments’ words and deeds, is the essence of their hypocrisy. They grant a piece of paper called ‘statehood’ with one hand, while with the other they continue to arm, fund, and diplomatically shield the very power that ensures this statehood remains a cruel fiction. They remind me of a monument I once saw in Canberra, Australia’s capital. Walking from the High Court to the National Library, you stumble in a unique monument — a monument celebrating a High Court of Australia judgment. On it are inscribed the magnificent words of Sir Gerard Brennan from the Mabo case: “The common law of this country will perpetuate injustice if it were to continue to persist in characterising the indigenous inhabitants of Australian colonies as people too low in the scale of social organisation to be acknowledged as possessing rights and interests in land.” A magnificent sentiment. A legal revolution. But what followed? Words on a monument. The recognition of native title was granted, but the power structures, the economic dispossession, the systemic inequality—they were largely left intact. The recognition became a shield *against* more substantive justice. This is the playbook of imperialist white settlers. Recognise a right in theory to avoid implementing it in practice. This is what is on offer today for Palestine. A state recognised on an imaginary map in a European capital, while on the ground, the apartheid reality is reinforced with every bomb, every bullet, every checkpoint. The key, the only key that unlocks the door to freedom, is not recognition. It is BDS: boycott, divest and sanction. And its goal? Its goal must be to bring about equal political rights from the Jordan to the Mediterranean. Recognition would have mattered at Oslo. It was the leverage that was squandered. Now, in the absence of any peace process, it is merely symbolic. And in its current form, it is worse than symbolic—it is a pacifier. We must understand the fundamental truth, so elegantly captured by that Mabo judgment but so tragically ignored in its aftermath: “Violent instability is baked into any system where one side has power and rights and the other has none.” You cannot have peace, you cannot have security, for anyone—Israeli or Palestinian—under a system of apartheid. The violence of the occupier begets resistance; the violence of the oppressed is then used to justify further, overwhelming state violence. It is a vicious cycle engineered by the powerful. So, when these Western leaders herald their recognition as a progressive move, ask them one question: Where are the sanctions? Where is the arms embargo? Where are the trade restrictions? Where is the protection for the flotillas? Until they answer you convincingly, their words are not just hollow. They are weapons. They are the grease for the machinery of genocide. They are the modern-day equivalent of the colonial administrator who acknowledges the humanity of the native in a London speech, while signing the order to clear their land. Let us not let them get away with it. See their recognition for what it is: a desperate attempt to save a crumbling system of oppression, not to end it. Our duty is clear. To amplify the call for BDS. To stand with the flotillas. To demand not words on paper, but justice on the ground. The Palestinian people do not need their hypocritical recognition. They need their freedom. And freedom only comes when the cost of oppression becomes too high for the oppressor to bear.
11:07

BDS is what would have made the difference, turning an empty gesture - the recognition of Palestine - into an ethical, useful, game changer. Hello, I am Yanis Varoufakis here to discuss the (hugely) belated recognition of the State of Palestine by a number of Western governments – Britain’s, France’s, Canada’s and Australia’s. If only they had done this many decades ago, maybe Israel’s ethnic cleansing of a people whose existence Israel did not recognise, on a land that Israel was keen to expropriate from these unrecognised people, maybe that ethnic cleansing project would have been halted - maybe it would not have morphed into the genocide that is unfolding with untold cruelty as we speak. Is it not a good thing that the governments of Britain, France, Canada and Australia were forced by public opinion, by sensational losses in voter support, to recognise the State of Palestine. I suppose it is a good thing. But, friends, make no mistake. I am very much afraid that Keir Starmer, Emanuel Macron, Mark Carney and Anthony Albanese did not recognise Palestine so as to ensure that it comes into existence as a real, a sovereign state for a people Israel has put on death row but only so that they do not actually do what they can to end the genocide and to make the Palestinian state a possibility. In a nutshell, these Western governments, after decades of complicity, are suddenly falling over themselves to perform a performative act in a manner that does nothing to bring about that which they proclaim: a functioning Palestinian State. So: Let us not applaud them. Let us not be fooled by them. Theirs is not an ethical awakening. It is merely the calculated management of a genocide they are doing nothing to stop. It is hypocrisy polished to a fine sheen, designed not to end the suffering in Gaza, but to sanitise their role in perpetuating it. On the one hand, we observe the grand theatre of great power diplomacy. The press conferences, the solemn declarations, the recognition of a state that exists on paper. Meanwhile, on the ground, the very foundation of such a state – its people and its institutions – are being systematically erased. These governments—the Starmer, the Macron, the Albanese, the Carney administrations—they want you to be distracted by their "brave" and "principled" stand while they remain complicit in the war crimes, in the ethnic cleansing, in the genocide. And why now? Why, after the tens of thousands dead, after the schools and hospitals turned to rubble, after thousands of wounded children were forced to survive alone, without their families who now lie buried under blocks of cement? Because global outrage has reached a boiling point that can no longer be contained by their usual pro-Israeli propaganda. Their recognition of Palestine is a pressure valve, designed precisely to defuse that outrage, to save Israel’s legitimacy, safe in the knowledge that Israel will continue, with their tacit support, to block each and every move toward a viable Palestinian state. They are recognising a Palestinian state while tacitly conniving with Israel's leaders to ensure it never comes into being. How? By actively refusing to take the one set of actions that has a proven historical record of ending oppression and Apartheid: Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions on the perpetrator. Thankfully that’s not all. Mercifully, something else is going on. While Western leaders perform their diplomatic pantomime, hundreds of people are sailing right now in the Mediterranean Sea. The Global Sumud Flotilla. A flotilla of teachers, journalists, activists, dreamers, parliamentarians, carrying with them the global majority’s commitment that Israel’s Siege on Gaza, that the planned and meticulously implemented genocide of Palestinians will be terminated – that it will not continue in our name – that the impending acts of piracy by the Israeli state will be exposed for what they are: misanthropic violations of minimum ethical standards, of International Law. Israeli propaganda, echoed by its apologists, claims these brave souls are "choosing to enter a war zone, to violate prohibited security zones." This is a shameless lie. The flotilla's ships are not entering a war zone. They are heading towards a site of genocide on a land that Israel is illegally occupying—a fact confirmed by the International Court of Justice, which in June 2024 ordered Israel to vacate it. So, I ask you: if Starmer, Macron, Carney and Albanese really wanted to end the genocide, what would they do? They would not be issuing statements. They would be sending a naval vessel to protect the flotilla! They would be enforcing international law. But they will not. Because their recognition is an empty gesture, and actual solidarity requires a break with organised misanthropy and with the arms dealers who fund them and their political campaigns. This duality, this chasm between Western governments’ words and deeds, is the essence of their hypocrisy. They grant a piece of paper called ‘statehood’ with one hand, while with the other they continue to arm, fund, and diplomatically shield the very power that ensures this statehood remains a cruel fiction. They remind me of a monument I once saw in Canberra, Australia’s capital. Walking from the High Court to the National Library, you stumble in a unique monument — a monument celebrating a High Court of Australia judgment. On it are inscribed the magnificent words of Sir Gerard Brennan from the Mabo case: “The common law of this country will perpetuate injustice if it were to continue to persist in characterising the indigenous inhabitants of Australian colonies as people too low in the scale of social organisation to be acknowledged as possessing rights and interests in land.” A magnificent sentiment. A legal revolution. But what followed? Words on a monument. The recognition of native title was granted, but the power structures, the economic dispossession, the systemic inequality—they were largely left intact. The recognition became a shield *against* more substantive justice. This is the playbook of imperialist white settlers. Recognise a right in theory to avoid implementing it in practice. This is what is on offer today for Palestine. A state recognised on an imaginary map in a European capital, while on the ground, the apartheid reality is reinforced with every bomb, every bullet, every checkpoint. The key, the only key that unlocks the door to freedom, is not recognition. It is BDS: boycott, divest and sanction. And its goal? Its goal must be to bring about equal political rights from the Jordan to the Mediterranean. Recognition would have mattered at Oslo. It was the leverage that was squandered. Now, in the absence of any peace process, it is merely symbolic. And in its current form, it is worse than symbolic—it is a pacifier. We must understand the fundamental truth, so elegantly captured by that Mabo judgment but so tragically ignored in its aftermath: “Violent instability is baked into any system where one side has power and rights and the other has none.” You cannot have peace, you cannot have security, for anyone—Israeli or Palestinian—under a system of apartheid. The violence of the occupier begets resistance; the violence of the oppressed is then used to justify further, overwhelming state violence. It is a vicious cycle engineered by the powerful. So, when these Western leaders herald their recognition as a progressive move, ask them one question: Where are the sanctions? Where is the arms embargo? Where are the trade restrictions? Where is the protection for the flotillas? Until they answer you convincingly, their words are not just hollow. They are weapons. They are the grease for the machinery of genocide. They are the modern-day equivalent of the colonial administrator who acknowledges the humanity of the native in a London speech, while signing the order to clear their land. Let us not let them get away with it. See their recognition for what it is: a desperate attempt to save a crumbling system of oppression, not to end it. Our duty is clear. To amplify the call for BDS. To stand with the flotillas. To demand not words on paper, but justice on the ground. The Palestinian people do not need their hypocritical recognition. They need their freedom. And freedom only comes when the cost of oppression becomes too high for the oppressor to bear.

Yanis Varoufakis

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