BEHIND THE LINES: Renewed protests in Syria show regime and Iran vulnerable to economic pressure

By JONATHAN SPYER, JPOST 3.8.23

Large-scale protests against the regime of President Bashar Assad have entered their second week in southern Syria. The protests originated in – and are focused on – the majority Druze province of Sweida. However, other parts of the country have also witnessed protests and strikes.

Among these areas is Deraa province, which adjoins Sweida, and where the original demonstrations that sparked the Syrian civil war took place in early 2011. Rallies have also taken place in Jarama, areas of Idlib Province, neighborhoods of eastern Aleppo, and in the coastal Latakia Province, host to a large Alawi population – and often considered the heartland and cradle of Assad’s rule.

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The hostage deal warrants reassessment in light of these significant shortcomings.

By Saeed Ghasseminejad, Senior Iran and Financial Economics Advisor

Only Writers Who Support “Official Narratives” Are Tolerated.

Americans are blue pill people

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Global Research, September 01, 2023

Because of the organized suppression of facts and because of the campaigns against truth-tellers, it is increasingly difficult and risky to provide truthful accounts. Only writers who support the official narratives are tolerated.

Retribution is becoming commonplace. The level of retribution depends upon the level of threat the writer is perceived to present.

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By Pamela Geller – on September 1, 2023

Another major news story buried literally and figuratively.>

by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  September 2, 2023 at 4:00 am

• The Biden administration continues to ratchet up its appeasement policies with the ruling mullahs probably to revive the disastrous nuclear deal which would pave the way for the Islamist regime of Iran legally to have as many nuclear weapons as it likes; lift sanctions against the theocratic regime; strengthen the ruling mullahs with additional billions of dollars — for terrorism, nuclear weapons, the missiles to deliver them, “exporting the Revolution”, and suppressing their own people — and allow them to rejoin the global financial system and enhance their legitimacy on the global stage.

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The judicial reform and the protest movement are headed to a historic junction where the Supreme Court will have to decide if it is going to create even greater chaos, or whether to show responsibility and pull everyone back from the brink.

By  Dror Eydar, ISRAEL HAYOM  29.6.23

1. Is Supreme Court President Esther Hayut planning a constitutional crisis? Will she cross the red line and dismiss Basic Laws or declare incapacitation of a sitting prime minister? For 30 years, MKs mostly remained silent in light of the erosion of the Knesset’s standing and the Supreme Court’s dismissal of laws it had passed without any explicit legal authority to do so – it does so only through the power of its own controversial interpretation. The Aharon Barak school of thought took upon itself the authority to oversee the laws passed by the Knesset through its own powers – as if “God is the Place of the world, and the world is not the Place of God.”

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T. Belman. Mark, though a gentile,  devoted his life to defending and telling the truth about Israel. We often corresponded. I wasn’t aware of his tale of woe until I received this letter.

By Mark Vandermaas

This will be my final email to you. After it is sent, I will be deleting my Israel Truth Week database as I have decided to end my formal Israel advocacy work, although I will be maintaining my website at IsraelTruthWeek.org for now which has my training about Israel’s modern land title deed, the Mandate For Palestine. I thought it only right that I explain my reasons given that you have supported my work on behalf of Israel and her land rights for so long.

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The distinction between hating Jews and hating Israel is bogus

MELANIE PHILLIPS

Posters carried on pro-Palestinian march, London 2019; courtesy of UK Campaign Against Antisemitism

Antisemitism is a rotten term for the “longest hatred” that targets the Jewish people. For a start, there is no such thing as “semitism” to be “anti”.

The word “antisemitism” was invented by a 19th-century Jew-hater, Wilhelm Marr, who wanted to invest this prejudice with the spurious characteristic of race in order to appeal to a society that increasingly defined itself in scientific terms.

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T. Belman.  I posted the map so that you could see the proximity of the Druze City of As Suwayda to Jordan. As this city gains its independence, it will protect the northern Jordanian border. The same for Nawa to the north of it.

The second article at the bottom mentions Daara as part of the uprising. Perhaps the uprising will go further north to Quinetra thereby protecting Israel’s border. I believe this area is populated by the Druze who are friendly to Israel.

The Jordan Option may be waiting on this development.

by Hadeel Oueis, ALL ARAB NEWS | August 31, 2023

As the Syrian conflict enters a new phase, recent events in the southern Druze city of As-Suwayda have reignited the attention of both the Syrian opposition and international observers. Once frustrated by the slow pace of change in Syria, opposition groups are now closely monitoring the unfolding protests in As-Suwayda. The city, still under the control of the Assad regime, has become a focal point of calls for change amid a challenging backdrop of economic deterioration and shifting regional dynamics.

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https://rumble.com/v3dlfiw-the-palestinian-authority-must-be-declared-an-enemy.html

Another terror attack this morning, another dead Jew :

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https://rumble.com/v3dnlle-former-proud-boys-organizer-sentenced-to-17-years-for-seditious-conspiracy-.html

T. Belman.  Just imagine if Israel protected Judaism the same way as the EU protects Islam, there would be hell to pay. Nevertheless, Judaism deserves to be protected, Islam doesn’t. Meotti points out that this development is due to Muslim pressure. It is this same pressure that causes the EU and its member states to protect Palestinians and threaten Jews and Israel.

In Pakistan it is a ten year sentence, so there is still a difference between the West and totally Muslim countries. So far. 

By Giulio Meotti, INN

European Court of Human Rights

How we got there.

The European Court of Human Rights sentenced a woman in Austria because her statements represent “an attack on the Prophet of Islam which could arouse prejudice and threaten religious peace”. In a seminar in 2011, Sabaditsch Wolff , basing her words on Islamic texts, called Mohammed a paedophile because of his marriage to Aisha. An Austrian court convicted her of “denigrating” Islam.

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T. Belman. Abed Amaala, tweeted,  “Change will start from Syria and move in all directions. Soon the new Syria, the new Jordan, and the new Iraq”.  Earlier he had tweeted that Assad will gone Sept 20, 2023.

After 12 years of conflict, anger over growing economic hardships has boiled over. Protesters are demanding the ouster of the authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad and an end to the war.

By Raja Abdulrahim, NYT 31.8.23

Rare protests in Syria calling for the ouster of the authoritarian government have gathered momentum over the past two weeks, in scenes reminiscent of the Arab Spring uprising that began more than 12 years ago and morphed into a multisided war.

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T. Belman. I reposted this because its more important than you know. Abed just tweeted that “Change will start from Syria and move in all directions. Soon the new Syria, the new Jordan, and the new Iraq”. A few days earlier he tweeted the Sept 20, 2023 as the day Assad will fall. So I will be following this story to see how it unfolds. Click on the picture to see the video.

Redacted interviews Vanessa Beely

V. Beely. “In my most recent interview with Clayton Morris of Redacted, I briefly try to summarise the military situation in all areas of Syria.”

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T. Belman. The author is an attorney who previously wrote for Haaretz. Nevertheless he does a good job in describing the HC ruling on the Nationality Law. This is a Google translation of the Hebrew article. I found the article by first getting Google  to translate what I wanted to search for and then I put their Hebrew translation into the Google search.

According to him, the HC  is acknowledging there is no “equality” in the Nation State Law,  “but trust us that this equality exists in our ruling and we will already apply it.”

Two major problems were faced by the High Court of Justice,  how to overcome the lack of equality in the law and how to deal with the controversial authority to interfere with the Basic Law. The High Court bypassed both when it decided yesterday that both supremacy and inequality can exist side by side

By Moshe Gorli, CALCALIST 7.9.21

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Donald Trump Defiantly Declares ‘WE WILL NOT COMPLY’ in Response to Efforts to Reinstate COVID Lockdowns and Mask and Vaccine Mandates GATEWAY PUNDIT

Trump Declares ‘We Will Not Comply,’ Says He Will Punish COVID Mandates https://t.co/xYVnpfASXb

— Crossroads with Joshua Philipp (@crossroads_josh) August 31, 2023

By  David Israel, JEWISH PRESS

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Monday night ordered Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai to terminate the cooperation of the Israel Police with the Wexner Foundation. Ben Gvir ordered the commissioner to freeze the enrollment of senior officers in the foundation’s training, which he claimed was affiliated “with the extreme left,” and cooperates “with distinct left-wing organizations such as Breaking the Silence.”

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