tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61232846785152013262024-03-20T08:12:02.712-07:00SyrianGirl PartisanGeopolitics, War, News and Analysis.Syriangirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932182034520005307noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123284678515201326.post-17724524267579458772017-05-01T12:10:00.001-07:002017-05-01T12:10:34.986-07:00Why A Syrian Kurdistan Is A Very Bad Idea<h2 itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serifl; font-size: 24px; line-height: 35px; margin: 10px 15px 13px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Why A Kurdish Enclave in Syria Is a Very Bad Idea</h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The region of Al Hasakah, which the Kurdish Nationalist Party (PYD) and their military wing YPG have declared a federal kurdish state, does not have a majority Kurdish population. Al Hasakah Governorate is a mosaic of Assyrian christians, Armenians, Turkmens, Kurds and Bedouin Arabs. Of the</span><a href="https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/the-battle-for-syrias-al-hasakah-province" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 1.5 million</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> population of Al Hasakah only</span><a href="http://sahipkiran.org/2014/08/05/kurdish-population-in-syria/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">40</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">% are ethnically Kurdish. Moreover, parts of Al Hasakah Governorate, such as AL Hasakah district is less than</span><a href="http://sahipkiran.org/2014/08/05/kurdish-population-in-syria/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15%</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">kurdish. The other large minorities in the Area, the Arabs and Assyrian Christians together make a majority. Declaring a small area with a wide array of ethnic groups as belonging to a specific ethnic minority is a recipe for oppression.</span></div>
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Kurdish immigration to Syria began in the 1920’s and occurred in several</span><a href="http://araborthodoxy.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/as-safir-on-history-of-persecution-of.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">waves</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> after multiple failed kurdish uprisings against Turkey, and continued throughout the century. In 2011 the Kurdish population in Syria reached </span><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29702440" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1.6 to 2.3 million</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 420,000 of this have left Syria for </span><a href="http://www.fmreview.org/syria/sood-seferis.html#sthash.gIzVJaRV.dpuf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Iraq</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="http://syrianrefugees.eu/?page_id=80" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Turkey</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as a result of the current conflict. Some Syrian kurds have lived in Homs and Damascus for hundreds of years and are heavily assimilated into the Syrian society. However Kurdish illegal immigrants who mostly reside in north Syria, and who could not prove their residence in Syria before</span><a href="https://books.google.com.au/books?id=g4f54qsU618C&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=census+kurds&source=bl&ots=-ZV9mYrveX&sig=NXovGH3KSQROmiQJKhhQ3UjKzfM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivkPuAt_LLAhXCNxQKHUqpDyE4FBDoAQgdMAE#v=onepage&q=census%20kurds&f=false" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 1945</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> complain of oppression when they were not granted the rights of Syrian citizens. Syrian law dictates that only a blood born Syrian whose paternal</span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/27/refugee-crisis-creating-stateless-generation-children-experts-warn" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lineage</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is Syrian have a right to Syrian citizenship. No refugee whether Somali, Iraqi or Palestinian has been granted Syrian citizenship no matter how long their stay. In spite of this, in 2011 the Syrian president</span><a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-04/07/c_13817925.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">granted</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Syrian citizenship to 150,000 Kurds. This has not stopped the YPG from using the fact illegal kurdish immigrants were not granted citizen rights in the past as a rationale to annex Syrian land. Those who promote Federalism are imposing the will of a minority of Al Hasakah’s population, some of which are not of Syrian origin, on the whole of Al Hasakah’s population and on the whole of Syria.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unilateral declaration of federalism carries no legitimacy since federalism can only exist with a constitutional change and a Referendum. Federalism is unlikely to garner much support from the bulk of Syria’s population,</span><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29702440" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">90-93</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">% of which are not kurdish. Knowing this, PYD have banned the residence of Al Hasakah from voting in the upcoming</span><a href="http://aranews.net/2016/04/kurds-vow-prevent-assad-regime-holding-parliamentary-elections-rojava/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parliamentary</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> elections. This shows the will of the people in Al Hasakah is already being crushed by PYD. It is undemocratic to continue to discuss federalism as a possibility when it has been rejected by so many segments of Syrian society. Ironically we are told the purpose of the US's Regime change adventure in Syria is to bring democracy to the middle east.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Salih Muslim leader of the PYD openly</span><a href="http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/24112013" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> declared</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> his intention to conduct an ethnic cleansing campaign against Syrian Arabs who live in what he now calls Rojava. "One day those Arabs who have been brought to the Kurdish areas will have to be expelled", said Muslim in an interview with</span><a href="http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/24112013" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Serek TV</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Over two years since that interview he has fulfilled his word, YPG begun</span><a href="http://syriadirect.org/news/ypg-hopes-to-%E2%80%98change-the-demographic-map%E2%80%99-in-al-hasakah/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">burning</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arab villages around Al Hasakah Province hoping to create a demographic shift. It is estimated that</span><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/10000-arabs-driven-out-by-kurdish-ethnic-cleansing-in-syria/news-story/49a7e1c8241248964a65535fb6d97377" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ten thousands</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Arabs have been ethnically cleansed from Al Hasake province so far. The villages around Tal Abayad have suffered the most as Kurdish expansionists seek to connect discontiguous population centres in Al Hasakah and Al Raqqa. “The YPG burnt our village and looted our houses,” said Mohammed Salih al-Katee, who left Tel Thiab Sharki, near the city of Ras al-Ayn, in December.</span></div>
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The YPG and PYD have made it a formal policy to</span><a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20151102170051.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">loot</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and confiscate the property of those who had escaped their villages after an ISIS attack, in the hopes of repopulating Assyrian villages with Kurds. The Assyrians residents of the Khabour area in Al Hasaka province formed a militia called the Khabour Guard in the hopes of defending their villages against ISIS attacks. The khabour guard council leaders protested the practice of Kurdish YPG militia members</span><a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=256_1431537234" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">looting</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Assyrian villages that were evacuated after ISIS had attacked them. Subsequently the YPG</span><a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=256_1431537234#8PPbpje0EKEdr6tm.99" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">assassinated</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the leader of the Khabour Guard David Jindo and attempted to Assassinate Elyas Nasser. At first the YPG blamed the assassination on ISIS but the survivor Elyas Nasser was able to</span><a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20150522205619.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">expose</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the YPG’s involvement from his hospital bed. Since the assassination YPG has forced the Khabour guard to</span><a href="http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/official-statement-from-the-khabour-assyrian-council-of-guardians/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">disarm</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and accept YPG ‘protection’. Subsequently most Assyrian residents of the Khabour, who had fled to the Syrian Army controlled areas of Qamishli city could not return to their villages.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Assyrian christian community in Qamishli have also been harassed by YPG Kurdish militia. YPG attacked an Assyrian checkpoint</span><a href="https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/revisiting-kurdish-tolerance-ypg-attacks-assyrian-militia/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">killing</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> one fighter in the Assyrian militia Sootoro and wounding three others. The checkpoint was setup after three Assyrian restaurants were bombed on </span><a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20151230181909.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 20, 2016</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which killed 14 Assyrian civilians. Assyrians</span><a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20160112034707.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">suspected</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that YPG was behind these bombings in attempt to assassinate Assyrian leaders and prevent any future claims of control over Qamishli.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It would be foolish to ignore the signs that a more widespread ethnic cleansing campaigns may occur if Kurdish expansionists are supported, especially since other ethnic groups are not on board with their federalism plans. It has only been 90 years since the Assyrian </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_genocide" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">genocide</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which was conducted by Turks and Kurds. This history should not be allowed to be repeated. Assyrians have enjoyed safety and stability in the Syrian state since this time. Forcing the Assyrians to accept federalism is not going to ensure their safety. Establishment of a federal Kurdish state in Iraq has not protected Assyrian villages which have been</span><a href="https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/questioning-kurdish-secularism/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">attacked</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Kurdish armed groups. The campaign of ethnic cleansing against both Assyrians and Arabs in Al Hasakah has begun and may only escalate. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While Kurds make up only</span><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29702440" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7-10%</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the Syria’s total population, PYD demands 20% of Syria’s land. What’s more, the region of Al hasakah that YPG want to annex has a population of only</span><a href="https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/the-battle-for-syrias-al-hasakah-province" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1.5 million</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">people. Much of syria’s Agriculture and oil wealth is located in Al Hasakah, which is shared by Syria’s 23 million people. Al Hasakah province</span><a href="http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/pdfs/Syria/Syria_January2009_Monthly_Report.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">produces</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 34% of Syria’s wheat and much of</span><a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/15221" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Syria’s Oil</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This oil pumping stations are now being</span><a href="http://www.thearabweekly.com/?id=661" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">shared</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by ISIS and YPG Kurds to fund their war effort and the Syrian people are deprived.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While</span><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2016/01/syria-starvation-weapon-war-160115084832001.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">headlines</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> abound about Syria’s starving population, there is little talk of how federalising Syria could entrench this starvation into law for generations to come. Instead promoters of Federalism talk about how giving the resources shared by 23 million people to 1.5 million people can lead to peace.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since the majority of Syria’s population and Syria’s government oppose Kurdish annexation claims, PYD will not be able to achieve federalism through legal means. The only way the PYD and YPG can achieve federalism is through brute force. This brute force may backed by the US air force and special forces invasion which contradicts international law. Head of PYD Saleh Islam has already threatened to</span><a href="http://www.shaamtimes.net/news-detailz.php?id=52261" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">attack</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Syrian troops if they attempt to retake Raqqa from ISIS. A Kurdish state in Syria like the Iraqi kurdistan ensures US hegemony in the region. Like the KRG, the YPG are already attempting to build a</span><a href="http://m.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/01/23/us-illegally-build-military-base-syria-preparation-ground-war.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">US base</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on Syrian soil. Russia which has been a long time ally of Syria will be further isolated as a result. This will once again tip the balance of power in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All of Syria’s neighbouring countries are also opposed to an ethnocentric Kurdish state in Syria. The YPG is linked to the PKK, which is active in Turkey and which the</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_groups" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">United Nations</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has designated a Terrorist organisation. Turkey will see YPG’s federalism claims as strengthening the PKK. Turkey may invade Syria as a result, guaranteeing at the least a regional war. This regional war could involving Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Israel wants to establish a Kurdistan, as a Sunni-Iranian rival to Shi’ite Iran. They hope such a Sunni state will block Iran’s access to Syria and Lebanese resistance against Israeli invasion. This was all outlined in Israel’s Yinon</span><a href="http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/29/kerry-s-plan-at-balkanising-syria/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">plan</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> published in 1982. Israel is an extension of US influence and hegemony in the region, the Israeli lobby holds much sway over US politics. Strengthening Israel in the region will strengthen US influence over the region, once again shrinking Russian influence, pushing the nuclear power into a corner. Journalists who show a sense of</span><a href="https://gianalytics.org/653-why-should-the-kurds-have-a-federal-region-in-syria" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">confusion</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> about the reason the west is supportive of Kurdish expansionism should consider this point.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally, a designated ‘Kurdish Area’ in Syria is deep routed in ethnocentric chauvinism. A US state strictly designated for Hispanic, White or Black ethnicity would be outrageous to suggest and would be considered racist. But the use of ethnicity as a means to divide and conquer is the oldest and most cynical form of imperialism. Syria must remain for all Syrians not just one minority. Voices who oppose this should be discouraged. The Syrian constitution should continue to resist all ethnocentric religious based parties. If there is a change to the Syrian constitution, it should be the removal of the word Arab from Syrian Arab republic. In spite of the fact that the vast majority Syrians speak the Arabic language the majority of Syrian are historically</span><a href="http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/the-assyrians-of-syria-history-and-prospets-by-mardean-isaac/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not ethnically Arab</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. All sections of Syrian society should be treated equally under the Syrian flag.</span></div>
Syriangirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932182034520005307noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123284678515201326.post-6661726605972819432016-05-18T09:41:00.002-07:002016-05-18T09:42:08.806-07:00PORQUE É QUE UM ENCLAVE CURDO NA SÍRIA É UMA IDEIA MUITO MÁ<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1">Algumas razões simples que explicam porque é que a reivindicação da autonomia federal e a anexação de território sírio pelo PYD/YPG são ilegítimas, antidemocráticas e podem conduzir ao genocídio.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">A região de Al Hasakah, que o Partido Nacionalista Curdo (PYD) e sua ala militar YPG têm declarado ser um estado federal curdo, não tem uma maioria curda. A província de Al-Hasakah é um mosaico de cristãos assírios, arménios, turcomanos, curdos e beduínos árabes. Dos 1.5 milhões da população de Al Hasakah apenas 40% é etnicamente curda. Além disso, em partes da governadoria de Al Hasakah, tais como o distrito de Al Hasakah, os curdos são menos de 15% (!). Nos outros grandes grupos de minorias na área, árabes e cristãos assírios constituem a maioria. Declarar uma pequena área com uma grande variedade de grupos étnicos como pertencente a uma minoria étnica específica é receita para opressão.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">A população curda de Al Hasakah também tem sido fortemente infiltrada pela imigração ilegal curda proveniente da Turquia. A imigração curda para a Síria iniciou-se na década de 1920 e ocorreu em várias vagas após múltiplos levantamentos falhados dos curdos contra a Turquia. Continuou ao longo do século. Em 2011, a população curda na Síria chegou aos 1.6-2.300.000, mas 420.000 deles foram da Síria para o Iraque e Turquia, por causa do presente conflito. Alguns curdos sírios vivem em Homs e Damasco desde há centenas de anos e foram absolutamente assimilados pela sociedade síria. No entanto, os imigrantes ilegais curdos que na sua maioria residem no norte da Síria, e que não conseguiram provar que já eram residentes na Síria antes de 1945, queixam-se de opressão por não lhes terem sido concedidos os direitos atribuídos aos cidadãos sírios. A lei síria determina que apenas têm direito à cidadania síria os nascidos na Síria filhos de pai sírio. Não foi atribuída a cidadania a nenhum refugiado, palestino, da Somália ou do Iraque, independentemente de qual tenha sido o tempo de estadia no país. Apesar disso, em 2011, o presidente sírio, concedeu a cidadania síria a 150.000 curdos. Isso não impediu o YPG de usar imigrantes curdos ilegais a quem não foi concedida a cidadania como justificação para a anexação de território sírio. Aqueles que promovem o federalismo estão a impor a vontade de uma pequena minoria - que não é de origem síria – à totalidade da população de Al Hasakah e de toda a Síria.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">O PYD não se preocupou em consultar outras facções da sociedade síria antes da sua declaração unilateral de federalismo. As outras étnias que residem na governadoria de Al Hasake, que o PYD afirma ser agora um estado curdo autónomo, têm claramente rejeitado o federalismo. Uma assembleia de clãs sírios e tribos árabes em Al Hasaka e a Organização Democrática Assíria (ADO) rejeitaram a declaração de federalismo do PYD. Em Genebra, tanto o governo sírio como oposição rejeitaram a declaração federalista do PYD. Além disso, o PYD não representa toda a população curda da Síria. A facção curda da coligação nacional síria condenou a declaração de federalismo do PYD. A maioria dos curdos da Síria não vive em Al Hasakah e muitos dos que lá vivem trabalham fora. Milhares de curdos juntaram-se ao ISIS e estão a lutar por um estado islâmico e não por um estado curdo.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">A declaração unilateral de federalismo não tem qualquer legitimidade uma vez que a federação só pode existir através de uma mudança na ordem constitucional e de um referendo. É improvável que o federalismo angarie apoio substancial da maior parte da população da Síria, da qual 90-93% não é curda. Sabendo disso, o PYD proíbiu os moradores de Al Hasakah de votar nas próximas eleições parlamentares que decorrerão em todo o país. Isto demonstra que a vontade do povo de Al Hasakah já está a ser esmagada pelo PYD. Não é democrático continuar a discutir o federalismo como uma possibilidade futura quando tem sido rejeitado por muitos segmentos da sociedade síria. Irónicamente, é-nos dito que o propósito da aventura da mudança de regime preconizada pelos EUA para a Síria é trazer a democracia ao Médio Oriente.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Uma vez que a população curda não é maioritária nas áreas que o PYD está a tentar anexar, os últimos anos têm revelado que PYD/YPG não excluem conduzir uma limpeza étnica das minorias não-curdas, numa tentativa de conseguir uma alteração demográfica. A principal ameaça às reivindicações territoriais etnocêntricas curdas sobre a área provém das outras grandes minorias, os árabes e os cristãos assírios.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Salih Muslim, o líder do PYD, declarou abertamente a intenção de conduzir uma campanha de limpeza étnica contra os sírios árabes que vivem onde ele agora chama Rojava. "Os árabes que foram trazidos para as áreas curdas terão de ser um dia expulsos", disse Muslim numa entrevista à Serek TV. Dois anos após esta entrevista cumpriu a sua palavra, pois o YPG começou a incendiar aldeias árabes em redor da província de Al Hasakah, esperando conseguir uma mudança demográfica. Estima-se que até agora tenham sido étnicamente removidos da província de Al Hasake dez mil moradores árabes. As aldeias ao redor de Tal Abayad foram as que mais sofreram, uma vez que os expansionistas curdos procuram ligar os centros populacionais não contíguos de Al Hasakah e Al Raqqa. "O YPG queimou a nossa aldeia e saqueou as nossas casas", disse Mohammed Salih al-Katee, que em Dezembro deixou Tel Thiab Sharki, perto da cidade de Ras al-Ayn.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">O YPG também iniciou uma campanha de intimidações, homicídios e expropriações contra a minoria cristã assíria. YPG e PYD fizeram disto uma política formal de saque e confisco dos bens dos que escaparam das suas aldeias depois de um ataque do ISIS, na expectativa de repovoamento das aldeias assírias com curdos. Os moradores assírios da área de Khabur na província de Al Hasaka formaram uma milícia chamada Guarda Khabour na esperança de defender as aldeias dos ataques do ISIS. Os líderes do conselho Guarda Khabur protestaram contra os saques dos milicianos curdos do YPG às aldeias assírias evacuadas após os ataques do ISIS. Posteriormente, o YPG assassinou o líder da Guarda Khabur, David Jindo, e tentou assassinar Elyas Nasser. O YPG procurou inicialmente atribuir a responsabilidade ao ISIS, mas Elyas Nasser, que sobreviveu e se encontrava hospitalizado, conseguiu expor o envolvimento do YPG. Desde o assassinato, o YPG tem forçado a Guarda Khabour a desarmar-se e a aceitar a sua “protecção”. Subsequentemente, a maioria dos residentes assírios do Khabour que tinham fugido para as áreas sírias da cidade de Qamishli controladas pelo Exército não puderam regressar às suas aldeias.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">A comunidade cristã assíria em Qamishli também tem sido assediada pela milícia curda do YPG. O YPG atacou um posto de controle assírio matando um combatente da milícia assíria Sootoro e ferindo outros três. O posto foi criado depois de três restaurantes assírios terem sido bombardeados em 20 de Dezembro de 2015 num ataque que matou 14 civis assírios. Os assírios suspeitaram que o YPG estava por detrás desses atentados, numa tentativa de assassinar líderes assírios e prevenir quaisquer reivindicações de controle sobre Qamishli.</span></div>
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Seria tolice ignorar os sinais de que poderão ocorrer campanhas de limpeza étnica mais alargadas se os expansionistas curdos forem apoiados, especialmente desde que outros grupos étnicos discordaram dos seus planos de federalismo. Só ainda passaram 90 anos desde o genocídio assírio conduzido por turcos e curdos. Essa história não pode ser repetida. Desde então os assírios têm desfrutado de segurança e estabilidade no estado sírio. Forçar os assírios a aceitar o federalismo não lhes vai garantir a segurança. A criação de um estado curdo federal no Iraque também não tem protegido as aldeias assírias de ataques de grupos armados curdos. A campanha de limpeza étnica contra ambos, assírios e árabes, em Al Hasakah, já começou e agora só pode escalar.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Enquanto os curdos constituem apenas 7-10% da população total da Síria, o PYD exige 20% do território da Síria. Além do mais, a região de Al Hasakah que o YPG quer anexar tem uma população de apenas 1,5 milhões. Grande parte da riqueza da Síria em agricultura e petróleo está localizada em Al Hasakah e é compartilhada por 23 milhões de pessoas. A província de Al Hasakah produz 34% do trigo da Síria e muito do petróleo do país. As estações de bombeamento de petróleo estão agora a ser utilizadas pelo ISIS e curdos do YPG para financiar os seus esforços de guerra, privando dele o povo sírio.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Enquanto as manchetes abundam sobre a população faminta da Síria, pouco se diz sobre como a federalização da Síria poderia legitimar a fome das próximas gerações. Em vez disso, os promotores do Federalismo discorrem sobre a forma como a entrega dos recursos compartilhados por 23 milhões a 1,5 milhões de pessoas conduzirá à paz.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Uma vez que a maioria da população da Síria e o governo da Síria se opõem às reivindicações de anexação dos curdos, o PYD não será capaz de implementar o federalismo através de meios legais. A única forma de PYD e YPG poderem chegar ao federalismo é através da força bruta. Esta força bruta pode ser apoiada pela força aérea dos Estados Unidos e por uma invasão de forças especiais, o que contraria o direito internacional. O líder do PYD, Saleh Muslim, já ameaçou atacar as tropas sírias se tentarem retomar Raqqa ao ISIS. Um estado curdo na Síria à semelhança do Curdistão iraquiano garante a hegemonia dos EUA na região. Como o KRG [1], o YPG já está a tentar construir uma base dos EUA em solo sírio. A Rússia, que tem sido aliada da Síria desde há longo tempo, ficará consequentemente ainda mais isolada. Isto afectará mais uma vez o equilíbrio de poder no mundo.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Os países vizinhos da Síria também se opõem todos a um Estado curdo etnocêntrico na Síria. O YPG está ligado ao PKK, que está activo na Turquia e que as Nações Unidas designaram uma organização terrorista. A Turquia verá nas reivindicações de federalismo do YPG o reforço do PKK. Como consequência, a Turquia poderá invadir a Síria, gerando pelo menos uma guerra regional. Esta guerra regional poderia envolver o Irão, a Síria, o Hezbollah e Israel.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Israel quer criar um Curdistão, como rival sunita-iraniano para o Irão xiita. Esperam que um tal estado sunita vá bloquear o acesso do Irão à Síria e que impeça a resistência libanesa de se opor à invasão israelita. Tudo isto foi realçado no Plano Yinon de Israel publicado em 1982. Israel é uma extensão da acção e hegemonia dos Estados Unidos na região, o lobby israelita tem muita influência sobre a política dos Estados Unidos. Reforçar Israel na região irá reforçar a influência dos EUA sobre a região, mais uma vez, diminuindo a influência russa e encurralando uma potência nuclear. Os jornalistas que se mostram baralhados com a razão pela qual o Ocidente apoia o expansionismo curdo devem considerar este ponto.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.38;">Washington Institute fellow <a href="https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/experts/view/aaron-y.-zelin">Aaron Y.Zelin</a> sent a private message through his twitter account <a href="https://twitter.com/azelin">@Azlan</a>, to the leader of Al Qaeda of shoot <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/01/statement_from_zawah.php">Ahrar Al Sham</a>, suggesting that he may help relay a message to his supporters in the US State Departement.</span><br />
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"Any personal message you want to send to the people in the state department who want to support you? I'm talking with them in the morning my time"</blockquote>
<span style="line-height: 1.38;">The Ahrar Al sham's leader answered with "My reply to your message will be in public", and followed through by leaking out the private message in a <a href="https://twitter.com/HassanAbboud_Ah/status/421230871572938752">tweet</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This tells us two things, first that there are people within the State Department that support ALQaeda and Zelin knows who they are.</span><span style="line-height: 1.38;"> Secondly,think tanks like the Washington Institute , are acting as mouth pieces for Al Qaeda to stir up support in the US State Department.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: center;">This would not be the first time a think tank suggests that ALQaeda become the US's new best friend. In January 2014 the <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/syria/2014-01-23/good-and-bad-ahrar-al-sham">CFR</a> wrote an article headlined " The good and Bad of Ahrar Al-Sham: An Al Qaeda-Linked Group Worth Befriending"</span><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: center;">. But it is the first time an american analyst has shown his links and support for ALQaeda so directly, and exposed members of the State Department along with him.</span></div>
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Syriangirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932182034520005307noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123284678515201326.post-9243473451046305122015-07-02T17:20:00.003-07:002015-07-02T17:23:13.069-07:00ISIS Destroys Palmyra Artefacts<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In what the UNESCO are calling 'Cultural Cleansing' ISIS is continuing to destroy Syrian artefacts, this time in the ancient city of Palmyra. While we watch thousands of years of history get destroyed by ISIS barbarians, we should remember how we got here. In 2011 the US destabilised Syria by backing the muslim brotherhood and alQaeda linked insurrection, just enough that it would cause a protracted war. Without the US intervention, non of this would have happened.<br /><br />What ISIS is doing in Palmyra is much deeper than broken Statues in the desert, and in fact is part of the US's plan to balkanise and dissolve the Syrian and Iraqi Nation states. By destroying these ancient artefacts in the city of palmyra and earlier nimrod old artefacts, ISIS are wiping out any tangible evidence of Syrian and Iraqi ancient civilisations and national identity.<br /><br /> But ISIS are just tools in this endeavour and in fact the systematic destruction of middle eastern artefacts was happening before ISIS even existed. The Taliban who the US supported into power in Afghanistan destroyed the ancient Buddha statues The looting of Baghdad museums at the start of the Iraq war in 2003 is an example of this. Many of Iraq's artefacts ended up in new York and Israel. Before ISIS was even a presence in the Syrian crisis the US backed FSA were digging up archeological sites and selling artefacts for guns. Jabhat al nusra was busy wiping out historical sites well before ISIS became a presence. But perhaps the Syrian content within Jabhat Al Nusa caused some of them to have a semblance of a conscience left, which prevented them from the extent of the destruction that ISIS has been responsible for. Perhaps that's why ISIS was needed by the powers who want to balkanise Syria.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />ISIS shares the US's destain for middle eastern nationalism. Furthermore Islam forbids Idolatry, and in ISIS extremist mind that translates as 'statues are forbidden', even though no body worshiped these statues in Palmyra. That doesn't explain why they destroyed walls and buildings in Nimurd, does the site of a pre-islamic civilisation offend them or do they get their orders from above?<br /><br />Does this sound far fetched? In response to ISIS destruction of Palmyra, US think tank Middle east Briefing mention an <a href="https://twitter.com/MEBriefing/status/616638933250641920">idea</a> to dissolve Iraq and Syria. In order to break a part a country, you have to first dismantle its national identity, and our history is a key to this identity. This plan was laid out by Condoleezza Rice in the project for a new middle east. By destroying or simply removing artefacts from Iraq and Syria they destroy any tangible evidence our civilisation even existed. It is then far easier to deny the history ever happened, or at least detach that history from current Iraq and Syria. They hope the world will forget its existence as difficult as that sounds to do. But the history of 'cultural marxism was' removed form wikipedia last month in response to GamerGate .The history of our civilisation is being memory holed. They don't just want to destroy us, they want to destroy any evidence that we ever existed, and ISIS is but a tool in this endeavour.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">November 27, 2014 (Maram Susli - NEO) Many mainstream media websites helped a fake video go viral this month. The video showing a young Syrian boy running through sniper fire to save a little girl, was exposed as a fake when the Norwegian producer Lars Klevberg made the fact public. One of the stated aims of the Norwegian film makers was to “<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-30057401"><span class="s2">see how the media would respond to a fake video</span></a>." This article examines how that experiment went. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">The western press very quickly accepted the video as real and used it to support the US administration's narrative on Syria. Many top US news sources began to spread the story. Even though the producer said he explicitly added big hints that the video was fake, like the children surviving multiple gun shots.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Propagating false stories on Syria, is nothing new for the western press. In the lead up to the conflict many stories were exposed as frauds, such as the Anti-government activist “<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/gay-girl-in-damascus-is-a-man-called-tom-20110613-1fzmw.html"><span class="s2">Gay Girl in Damascus</span></a>” which turned out to be a middle-aged American man in Scotland. Syrian Danny Abdul Dayem which was frequently interviewed by <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/post/are-syrian-citizen-journalists-embellishing-the-truth/2012/03/27/gIQAPaoMeS_blog.html"><span class="s2">CNN</span></a> was using fake gun fire and flames in his interviews.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The fake sniper video wasn’t enough to support US government narratives by itself, as the now <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cceu478rN_c"><span class="s2">deleted</span></a> original upload didn’t suggest the identity of the snipers. So the west’s media suggested that it was Syrian military snipers that were targeting the children without any evidence. Journalists failed to mention how they reached the conclusion that an actor in Malta was shot by the Syrian military. It may be that the western press is quick to trust pro-rebel sources, as the video was uploaded by the pro-rebel Sham Times along with their own twist.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The Guardians <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/nov/12/syrian-boy-saves-girl-from-army-sniper-video?CMP=share_btn_tw"><span class="s2">headline</span></a> for the video was ‘Syrian boy saves girl from army sniper’ and the Telegraph delicately <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/404/404.html"><span class="s2">suggested</span></a> Syrian military were responsible for fake bullets. The International Business (IB) times <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.in/syria-hero-8-year-old-boy-saves-younger-sister-sniper-fire-risking-own-life-video-613671"><span class="s2">stated</span></a>, “the snipers, who reportedly are said to be the government forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.” IB Times never explicitly mention who reported this information. They then took it a step further and concluded the article with “The incident certainly is not the first time that Pro-Assad gunmen have targeted children”. Well it is at least not the first time the mainstream media has presented false reports as fact. In 2012, <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/03/world/meast/syria-desperate-family/"><span class="s2">CNN</span></a> claimed a bullet that killed a four year old girl in Aleppo was shot by government snipers even whilst admitting the bullet came from rebel held buildings.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">These tweets inline with an official State Department twitter account @ThinkAgain_DOS which <a href="https://twitter.com/ThinkAgain_DOS/status/532528709014937601"><span class="s2">blamed</span></a> Assad for the fictitious bullets in the film. This casts doubt on how deeply the US administration scrutinizes information it bases it’s policy on. In 2013 they relied heavily on video footage provided by rebels to support its planned attack on Syria in the wake the Ghouta chemical attack.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">But it isn’t just the mainstream media that was easily duped by the convenient propaganda film. The video experts that were asked to scrutinise the video, failed to recognise that the video was a fraud. The Telegraph <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/11/11/syrian-boy-purportedly-fakes-death-to-save-girl-in-viral-video/"><span class="s2">stated</span></a> that upon enquiry ‘experts told them they had no reason to doubt that the video is real”. International Business Times went a step further spinning the statement to “experts told The Telegraph that they have no doubts on the authenticity of the footage.”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HRW employed so called video expert Eliot Higgins and his colleague Daniel Kaszeta to investigate the August 21 chemical attack in Ghouta, and quickly reached the conclusion the Syrian government was behind the attack. Daniel Kaszeta was referred to as a fraud by prominent physicist and MIT Professor Theodore Postol. HRW’s CEO Kenneth Roth recently used a report by Eliot Higgins to make unfounded <a href="https://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/531680694284865536"><span class="s3">claims</span></a> about Ukrainian rebels shooting down Malaysian flight MH17. Heather Saul did not respond to questions on whether Eliot Higgins was one of the expert she asked for advice. However the mainstream media’s most often quoted video expert, did not recognise that the video was a fraud, <a href="http://www.apple.com/"><span class="s3">tweeting</span></a> that he wasn’t sure if it was authentic but gave the video a reaction non the less.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Maram Susli also known as "Syrian Girl," is an activist-journalist and social commentator covering Syria and the wider topic of geopolitics. especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.</span></div>
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Journalist Steven Sotloff who was kidnapped and beheaded by ISIS believed the Syrian rebels possessed and possibly used chemical weapons on Aleppo and wanted to report it leaked conversations show. American foreign fighter Matthew Vandyke who fought along side the Libyan insurgency and also went to Syria on a pro Syrian Rebel mission, revealed to Sotloff that he had information that Syrian rebels posed chemical weapons before they were used in Aleppo.</div>
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In another conversation Sotloff told Vandyke that he believed being kidnapped by AlQaeda group Jabhat Al Nusra would be a way to earn their trust. Vandyke agreed claiming some of the best connections he made with Al Qaeda groups were after being 'arrested'. In another conversation Vandyke was very eager to meet with the AlQaeda group Jabhat AL Nusra and network with them.</div>
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Dangerous acquaintances - meeting with Jabhat Al Nusra<br />
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The moment the James Foley beheading video was released, Twitter had begun to ban accounts for posting it. This would be the first time <a href="http://www.thewrap.com/graphic-photos-of-journalist-james-foleys-beheading-prompt-suspension-of-twitter-accounts/">Twitter Ban</a> the dissemination of a beheading video, after years of allowing videos of Syrians and Iraqis being beheaded. It also seems to be the only beheading video Twitter is currently banning, since users continue to post other beheading videos with no problem. It appears that so long as non-American's are being beheaded Twitter doesn't really care.<br />
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Even more shockingly LiveLeak, known for it's long standing anti-censorship policy, said they would no longer allow "<a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/08/22/liveleak-bans-islamic-state-beheading-videos-after-james-foley-murder">future islamic state beheading</a>" videos on their site. Odd that they would specify beheadings from the Islamic state alone. The new policy came as a shock to all it's users, this was a site people referred back to, when Youtube would refuse to show the world the true horrors of war and the Syrian insurgency the west was supporting. After years of openly displaying the beheading of Syrians why the censorship now? Does LiveLeak believe Americans are human whilst Syrians are sheep for the slaughter?<br />
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After Facebook <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-24998833">openly defended their</a> policy of allowing beheading footage on their site. They turned a full 180 degrees and <a href="http://www.fox17.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/facebook-twitter-tries-block-gruesome-images-journalist-james-foley-beheading-22996.shtml">helped censor</a> the James Foley video. Philip Smyth, researcher of Jihadist media, said he was impressed at the speed at which the video was censored, having seen nothing like it before.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Sanchez; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;">Philip Smyth, researcher of activity of jihadists on social media, who has been monitoring the developments of the James Foley beheading video released by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and has found that tech corporations such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube were integral in stopping the viral spread of this content on the internet. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Sanchez; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;">This “rise in speed” with which the video was removed from the web impressed Smyth who remarked: “It’s happening. I can tell you first hand because I look at this stuff every day.”</span></blockquote>
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Obama said that James Foley's beheading <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28867627">shocked the world</a>. Indeed, mainstream media journalists contributed to the censorship of the video, by using the a hashtag #ISIS media blackout . In an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/27/open-letter-journalists-james-foley-murder-ken-bigley">open letter</a> Phil Bigley of the guardian asked other journalists not to even show screen grabs from the James Foley video out of respect for the man and his family. Meanwhile the beheading of Syrians didn't seem to shock these journalists, nor do they feel that Syrians deserve the same respect. Far from censorship, Time Magasine gave their photographer Emin Ozmen <a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/20/time-picks-the-top-10-photos-of-2013/photo/top10_syria/">an award</a> for filming the beheading of a young Syrian soldier. Why has Time not featured Foley's beheading in a similar fashion? Perhaps the idea to desensitise the wests population to the slaughter of Syrian, the more of dead Syrians shown the less valued their lives become.<br />
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Even UK police have joined the crusade, by <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/james-foley-police-warn-watching-beheading-video-terrorist-offence-1461974">claiming</a> that merely watching the video would constitute an act of terrorism. Lawyers have <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/watching-james-foley-beheading-video-not-terrorist-offence-says-lawyer-1462061">pointed out </a>there is no legislation to support this statements. Again no such claims have made about any video before.<br />
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One may argue the reason for the journalists disproportionate shock is based in a sense of camaraderie for fellow journalist. If that is the case then why was there no outcry when Syrian news anchors were kidnapped, tortured and killed, by Obama backed rebels.<br />
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The irony is the violence seen in the Foley beheading video, is nothing compared to the violence shown against the Syrian people, since the Foley video doesn't contain an actual beheading. It seems even the brutal ISIS who supposedly killed James Foley, are in on the censorship of his beheading, the group has never censored their crimes. Does ISIS also feel that american's lives are worth more than Syrian lives, and the american people should be spared the brutality? That is highly doubtful.<br />
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This fact along other discrepancies in the video has led experts to conclude that the <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/video-of-james-foley-beheading-may-have-been-staged-20140825-1082n4.html">video was staged</a>. A fact whilst pointed out by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U20MhBPekt8&list=UU4unV5BVmWubfAF0Al_AVdw&bpctr=1409237229">my video</a> analysis, was mocked by mainstream media so called Eliot Higgins a.k.a Brown Moses. <br />
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ISIS is too strong not to have a powerful state backer, it's difficult to believe they have achieved their air of invincibility through simple mosque donations. To answer the question which state is backing ISIS, one must first reach the obvious conclusion that Iran stands to lose the most from the ISIS take over of Iraq. Iran influence in Iraq stretches through the Maliki government. So we ask 'who benefits' in reducing Iran's influence in the region, the usual suspects arise again, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United States.<br />
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Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been competing for influence over the Syrian insurgency, which may indeed be reflected in the rebel infighting. Jabhat Al Nusra (JAN) and the Islamic Front (IF)) are fighting ISIS, in spite of the fact all groups are linked to AlQaeda. Saudi Arabia is openly supporting the Islamic Front and by extension Jabhat Al Nusra. It is therefore more likely that ISIS is being supported by Qatar and Turkey. This is consistent with the fact that ISIS suppresses the Kurdish militias, Turkey has always benefited from this fact. It has been Turkey after all that have allowed so many foreign fighters to flood through their borders and into Syria.<br />
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But these countries are merely the children of the United States squabbling between each other. The US will allow this so long as it's objectives are still met. The Mainstream media having been pushing the Idea that ISIS is on the verge of taking Baghdad. This will in turn cause panic within the Iraqi government who will ask for US assistance. The strength and speed of the ISIS may appear humiliating to the US in the short term, but it fits long term US objective and vision in Iraq. The incorrect assumption that many make is that the US wanted to establish a viable State in Iraq, they see the descent of Iraq into a failed state as a 'failure' of US policy. However those who have examined US actions closely over the last two decade know, that the objective has always been to turn Iraq into a failed state. It was after all the pursuit of the el Salvador option that stroked sectarian violence in Iraq. It was the US empowering of sectarian Shi'ite militia's and Kurdish Separatists Peshmerga that resulted in the psuedo-balkanisation of Iraq. The balkanisation of Iraq was stated openly as an objective by the Zionist backed Bookings institute. The ISIS take over of Al Anbar province is the last part of this plan playing out. It worth noting, that ISIS, (originally called ISI), was created in 2006 as a sectarian alternative to the mainly nationalist resistance to occupation, by of Negreponte to divide and conquer any united Iraqi front against occupation<br />
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It is extremely unlikely that the US government will send in troops, it is far more likely that they will be flying drones over Iraqi Skies. This breach of Iraqi sovereignty will be used as a corridor to cross over onto Syrian land, in the supposed "search of ISIS". Al Qaeda will be used as an excuse to for the US to intervene once again., not only Iraq but in Syria. The US will not pass up the change to once again undermine the Syrian state and it's military. They will interfere with Iranian airlift of supplies into the country. Like in Pakistan their objective is not to destroy the militants, but to maintain the illusion that they are fighting them, while at the same time allowing them to grow. It should not be forgotten that ISIS would not have reached the strength that it did if the US had not undermined the Strength of the State in ISIS exists, nor supported Jihadi groups in Syria and Libya. AlQaeda would not have existed had the US not created it in Afghanistan. Like the Mafia charging a protection fee, the US strengthens AlQaeda to take over countries.Syriangirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932182034520005307noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123284678515201326.post-44620921942120965392014-06-10T14:39:00.001-07:002014-06-10T14:39:24.616-07:00<div class="p1">
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<b>BREAKING: ISIS takes over Mosul</b></div>
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ISIS have taken over Mosul a large City in the northern Part of Iraq, and in the process have captured US military equipment. They have used the attack as a spring board to take over Kirkuk and its oil fields. The attack also has ramifications for Syria as the emboldened terror group ISIS is also attacking Hassakeh city with it's new found power. The attack could be a push towards Baghdad.</div>
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As ISIS captures more areas which contain military bases they have mechanised and begun rapidly advancing. Some of the equipment has already wound up in Syria.<br />
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I appeared on UK's Islam TV to debate the legitimacy of the Syrian presidential Elections, and Syria's right to have them. With me for and two against not counting the host, It was a lively debate.</div>
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I was interviewed by the exemplary Paul Joseph Watson from PrisonPlanet. <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/">http://www.prisonplanet.com/</a><br />
We discuss NATO's AlCIAda puppets, as well as the Arab spring.Syriangirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932182034520005307noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123284678515201326.post-65722738604289788242012-05-21T19:58:00.002-07:002012-05-21T19:58:28.668-07:00Interview on the Iraqi resistance with 108Morris108Maurice interviewed me on the Iraqi resistance.<br />
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I did my best to explain their heroism and defiance.Syriangirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932182034520005307noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123284678515201326.post-48704423432506009922012-05-18T18:45:00.000-07:002012-05-19T04:08:13.846-07:00Left-gatekeepers Serve Zionist Agenda in The Middle EastSyrianGirl is back for another interview by NonAlignedMedia with Josua Blakeney. (<span class="watch-video-date" id="eow-date">14 May 2012</span>)<br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123284678515201326.post-82970261920713723262012-05-09T19:59:00.002-07:002012-05-19T04:13:26.041-07:00Weapons for Syrian Rebels interceptedA shipment of weapons and artillery was intercepted by the Lebanese Navy as the ship was on route to Syrian rebels on April 28 2012.<br />
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Lebanese authorities have confiscated three shipping containers of weapons and ammunition to supply Syrian opposition forces in the ongoing slaughter of civillians. It contained heavy machine guns, artillery shells, rocket launchers and other explosives. The repeated claims made by the Syrian government about the smuggling of weapons to Syrian opposition groups as the FSA are confirmed by this interception yet again.<br />
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A total of eleven crew members from the Luftfallah II have been detained for questioning. Further research revealed the ship was registered in Sierra Leone, but departed from Lybia to its final destination in the city of Tripoli, northern Lebanon. Via the Syrian border the weapons are being dispersed into the hands of rebels to destabilize the country, risking further military intervention by the U.N. and NATO wich have been consistently focusing on the Assad regime as the sole perpetrator in the agression against the Syrian people.<br />
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As international authorities continue to apply pressure on the Syrian government to stand down during the ceasefire proposed by Kofi Annan and the U.N. Council, the Syrian people are still fearing for their lives against the random killings perpetrated by the armed rebels that remain active in Syria.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123284678515201326.post-34839671159676899532012-05-09T15:22:00.002-07:002012-05-18T18:46:19.237-07:00The Elections, Assimilation and the ZiosSyrianGirl is back for another interview by 108morris108. (<span class="watch-video-date" id="eow-date">8 May 2012</span>)<br />
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