Mudar Zahran
Dr. Mudar Zahran (@Mudar_Zahran), a writer and Secretary General of the Jordanian Opposition Coalition, joined @Channel8English to discuss the Popular Mobilization Commission (PMC) bill, its potential integration into Iraq’s armed forces, the pressures from Iraqi factions, U.S.… pic.twitter.com/hjM9NRjiC1
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THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS COMMITTED TO ELIMINATING EXTREMIST GROUPS DESTABILIZING THE REGION, CHIEFLY THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND HASHD AL-SHAABI; BOTH SET TO BE ADDED TO WASHINGTON’S TERROR LIST.
- –A U.S. military intervention remains possible if Baghdad continues to collude with or ignore US demands.
- –Hashd al-Shaabi is a terror militia responsible for horrific massacres against Sunni Arabs in Iraq and Syria. It now poses an existential threat to regional security, having breached the borders of neighboring countries, including Jordan.
- –Iraqi Prime Minister al-Sudani’s attempts to rebrand Hashd al-Shaabi fighters as “military personnel” or “civilian employees” are obvious and will not fool Washington.
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“THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS COMMITTED TO ELIMINATING EXTREMIST GROUPS DESTABILIZING THE REGION, CHIEFLY THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND HASHD AL-SHAABI; BOTH SET TO BE ADDED TO WASHINGTON’S TERROR LIST.”
That is why Trump.put the savage Isis in power in Syria which proceeded to the recent murder of Druze and enslavement of its women
What kind of garbage are you pushing now Peloni?
@fquigley
And yet, Trump’s Syria policy is not exactly working out, is it. Nor is his policy of keeping the Mullahs in Iran. The pendulum swings as time passes, and no one is so well disposed towards repaying betrayal in kind as Trump, so perhaps common sense will replace these glaring mistakes. Time will tell.
Kedar is right. In these multi-ethnic/tribal Arab countries, elections only lead to the tyranny of the majority ethnic group. Iraq, like Syria, both of which were created by the French and British out of the wreckage of the Ottoman Empire, need to be partioned into separate countries, clearly.
Sebastien an example is the tragic fate of the Alawites who were mortally afraid of the jihad as Daniel Pipes insisted
@fquigley
So mortally afraid of the Jihdists that they took up with the Iranian Jihadists?
Notably, Assad had a hard choice to make, but he, like so many in the region, made the wrong choice and bet on the Sunni Jihadists as they made the land bridge to Lebanon a reality, and in doing so, Assad wrote the path of his own demise.
Peloni
That is what Daniel Pipes wrote in his article. This is the choice given to minorities in islam going back to the Pact of Omar. Caught eventually between that, and the cruel modern imperialists. You obviously don’t know what you are talking about.
@Sebastien
Something to consider about the emirates plan. Do you think it would be better for Israel to deal with a hundred self proclaimed Muktar’s as opposed to one Arab leader, within Israel’s own borders? Where small tribes could make themselves the squeaky wheel to gain support of the radicals? Or would it be better to deal with a single leader, one which might banish the radicals, not from a single clan, but from the entire collective of Arab Pal areas within Israel’s borders, hopefully soon to be called the formerly PA territories?
Outside of Israel, smaller states based on tribes are better for Israel because no matter who runs one or another region, they will none of them control what was formerly the entire state of Syria, for instance.
But inside Israel, it seems it would be better to find a single leader, one who will cooperate with Israel, one whose survival requires the banishment of radicals such as the Muslim Brotherhood to be both sincere and conditioned upon his own survival. Or so it seems reasonable to me. The fact that under Oslo the leadership was the personification of the radicals who needed to be banned should not cloud the rational for dealing with someone who will work on Israel’s behalf, in a top down, rather than a bottom up fashion, as is the design of the Emirates plan.
@Peloni A single leader for all the clans in different cities? But there is no such individual, to my knowledge.
I read all your comments and you’ve been busy till quite late!
The Pact of Omar is the basis for a lot of trouble and potential trouble everywhere that Muslims achieve a status of leadership or power. We need look no further than Saudi Arabia or Turkey to see what that does to once “mostly peaceful” countries.
However, the Jews, most of them at least, have manage to slip out from under the umbrella of Muslim dhimmitude and are doing quite well as a result, much to the chagrin of their erstwhile “owners”, who demanded a Jizya or head tax just to allow them to continue carrying their heads on the shoulders.
If we look at the selection of a coalition for the Knesset, it should be obvious that there is no way to keep everybody happy at the same time, much less for a legislation period or a century. The Muslim countries around Israel have the same Middle Eastern mentality. They must permanently try to improve their lot by devious or forceful methods – a form of one-upmanship – otherwise they are unhappy and take up their Kalashnikovs and go out into the streets looking for someone, anyone, they can beat up. If we now look at the colleges and universities in USA, we see exactly the same mentality at all levels.
One of the non-obvious facts, especially in the USA, is that most people couldn’t care less about the “free, free Palestine” screaming hordes. They went to higher education institutes to get a degree and maybe play ball for a while. When they are indoctrinated with this garbage, they tend to repudiate it until they are forced into action. We have seen the results.
Finding a single, useful, reliable and worthy leader for all of these Muslims is an impossible task. The only figure that most of them would consider is the legendary Mahdi, but we don’t expect him to turn up any time soon. Of course, everybody is waiting for their favorite Messiah under whatever name he comes, and that is the only guideline we have to a peaceful future.
Am Israel chai!!
@dreuveni
The Pact of Omar is the basis for a lot of trouble…Finding a single, useful, reliable and worthy leader for all of these Muslims is an impossible task.
I never said anything about the Pact of Omar and it isn’t relevant to what I did say. Felix brought this into the conversation regarding the minorities in Syria, which is quite a different situation to what should be pursued in Israel.
I tried to be clear that inside Israel, Israel should not try to split the governance of the Pals, but to create a situation which supports the governance of the Pals with the elimination of the Jihadi radicals living their.
Hence, Israel needs to find or create a leader within the Pals who can act on their behalf, one which will banish the extremists, which will be the policy going forward, thus tying the success of this governor to matters which are consistent with Israel’s own interests/security, irrevocably.
Otherwise, we are left with the conviction that Israel must deal with the dozens or more self appointed clan leaders, who either have the support of, or who are chosen by, the clan members of each of the relevant clans, including the radicals who need to be banished from all the clans, preferably at once. Israel will suddenly become responsible for the survival of these many dozens of clan leaders, or deal with the rise of Jihadi radicals in their place.
Notably, this has nothing to do with the situation outside of Israel, where smaller states are a better gambit, more conducive towards ending the growing power of coalescing nations under either a single man or even a single ideology, and support the individual needs of the relevant minority in question.
None of this is relatable to the Pact of Omar.