Video Infoblog: Israel Launches Massive Assault on Syria with Tanks Near Damascus

Late news: 11 Dec 2024

Three days after Bashar al-Assad was overthrown, Israel is doing whatever it wants in Syria, including openly stealing more land, destroying Syria’s air defense capabilities, and launching hundreds of strikes. Its ongoing assault has also included reports that Israeli tanks were within 25 kilometers of Damascus. Despite Israel’s blatant and repeated violations of international law in Syria, the international community has done… absolutely nothing to stop them. While Saudi Arabia and Qatar have released statements condemning Israel, they have yet to take action (and it’s not expected). Meanwhile, the U.S. and Turkey are openly joining in on the assault on Syria with strikes of their own, claiming they’re “protecting their interests” in the region. Clearly, those interests are NOT the Syrian people.

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it is December 10th 2024 and Israel is

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doing literally whatever it wants in

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Syria right now including stealing even

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more land destroying Syria's air defense

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capabilities launching hundreds of

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strikes oh and Israeli tanks have gotten

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within 25 kilometers of Damascus yet

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another reminder that the fall of Assad

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has only been good for the US Israel and

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Company we are going to be getting into

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all of the latest that is being reported

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here in today's video but just a quick

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note that I have a new episode of my

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exclusive series for paid subscribers

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called sanction available now episode 13

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is out and in it we are talking about

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what led up to the fall of Bashar

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al-assad in Syria and how there are

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still countless questions remaining

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about what happened behind the scenes

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right what happened with Russia and Iran

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and of course turkey they're another big

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player here and what it means for the

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country

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where it leaves things as you have this

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new attempt at a transitional government

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but you still have so many different

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factions competing for power in this one

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country we discussed all of that in the

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latest episode of sanction if you want

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to check it out as well as all of the

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other available episodes you can do so

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now over on my page on substack that's

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rachel. substack

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Rachel bevens all right let's get back

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to today's video so Israel is having an

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absolute free-for-all in Syria right now

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and it's wasting no time in doing so I

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mean it was literally on Saturday that

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you had the rebranded version of

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al-Qaeda sweeping across Syria you had

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the Syrian Arab Army standing down not

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putting up a fight then it was early

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Sunday when you had the confirmation

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that Bashar al-assad had left the

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country had stepped down as the

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president ENT or been removed whatever

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way you look at it and now you have

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Israel in a position where it's

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apparently trying to break every

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international law in the book with

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reports noting that beginning late

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Sunday Israel targeted around 100 sites

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in Syria including military bases air

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defense stations intelligence

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headquarters long and short range

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missile Depots weapons production

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centers and unconventional weapons

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stockpiles Israeli media then reported

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that early Tuesday Israel launched

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around 300 in Syria mainly targeting

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army bases in the South and around the

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capital of Damascus with an emphasis on

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air defense systems apparently Israeli

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security sources are claiming that these

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strikes have significantly helped to

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expand the Israeli Air Force's

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operational Freedom uh yeah because

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that's what happens when you go after

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any possible way that Syria has to

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defend itself and that seems to be the

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message here is Israel is clearly trying

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to prevent any sort of comeback that the

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Syrian Arab Army could have to then come

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back and Target Israel because we know

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that this new rebranded version of

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al-Qaeda called HTS that they're

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certainly not targeting Israel right now

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in fact they leader has said that they

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want to befriend Israel as Israel is

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openly committing a genocide against the

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Palestinians which is yet another

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reminder that this so-called moderate

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diversity friendly version of al-Qaeda

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however the West is currently trying to

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sell it that their allegiance is not to

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the sovereignty of their own country

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it's to the foreign powers who are

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currently helping them out right now oh

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and if you ask Israel they will insist

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that the strikes are quote limited and

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temporary with Israel's ambassador to

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the UN telling the security Council on

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Monday that quote Israel is not

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intervening in the ongoing conflict

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between Syrian armed groups our actions

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are solely focused on safeguarding our

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security I swear only Israel would carry

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out an allout genocide targeting the

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Palestinians in Gaza and claim that

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they're just defending themselves and

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then turn around and rain down hundreds

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of bombs on Syria and claim that they're

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not intervening in the conflict there

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and by all accounts the UN Security

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Council is buying it because the only

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thing that we've heard from them

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following the emergency session on Syria

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on Monday is that they plan to come

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together to release a strongly worded

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statement to show just how unified they

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are got it so nothing is going to change

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there's going to be no accountability

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for Israel I mean what else is new

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speaking of what's not new you've also

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got Israel using the complete lack of

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leadership in Syria right now also

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notably the lack of foreign help for the

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Syrian people of any kind Israel is

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using that chaos to continue on with the

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age-old tradition of stealing more and

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more Syrian land of course Israel is

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claiming that they have to do this that

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they have to expand the quote unquote

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buffer zone further into Syria as a way

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to help protect themselves as if this

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rebranded version of al-Qaeda is coming

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after Israel which spoiler alert they

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clearly are not but if you look at the

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map you see that Israel is going after

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territory that is about more than just

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Syria because Israel has expanded its

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occupation to the highest point of Mount

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Herman which is the highest point in

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Syria not only does it give them a good

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point for targeting Damascus which is

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around 50 kilometers away oh but it's

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also on the border with Lebanon with

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reports noting that it gives Israel more

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access to spying on and targeting

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Hezbollah this as Israel is actively

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working to cut off these supply lines

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running from Syria to Hezbollah and

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really any form of support that there

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could be for the resistance well at

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least as much as Israel can get their

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hands on oh and if that's not enough you

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also o have reports that Israeli tanks

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got within 25 km of Damascus and that

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Israeli ground troops overtly crossed

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the demilitarized border Zone and

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invaded Syrian territory for the first

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time since

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1973 and as usual the International

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Community is doing absolutely nothing

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about it I mean there's no talk of

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sanctions of arms embargos of cutting

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off supply lines to Israel now they're

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just sitting back and watching as Israel

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openly steal more Syrian territory oh

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but they are throwing in some strongly

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worded statements there at least a few

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of them such as Qatar which is calling

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it a blatant attack on Syria's

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sovereignty and unity as well as a

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flagrant violation of international law

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and Saudi Arabia saying that Israel's

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latest attack show its continued

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violation of the rules of international

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law and its determination to sabotage

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Syria's chances of restoring its

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security stability and territ torial

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Integrity okay Saudi Arabia and Qatar

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it's all fine and good for you to put

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out statements like that but what are

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you actually doing about it right what

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are you actually doing to help the

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Syrian people to stop Israel's expand

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nothing you're doing absolutely nothing

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and so the results of that because

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Israel knows that it can get away with

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whatever it wants right now oh well

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they're putting statements out like this

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one where they're openly claiming to

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have destroyed Syria's military Fleet

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and saying that they will set up a

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sterile defensive Zone in southern Syria

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so the rest of the world is just kind of

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sitting back and watching this happen

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unless of course you're the United

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States and Turkey in which case you're

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actively helping Israel to further

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destabilize Syria even more with strikes

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of their own joining in on the freefor

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all and claiming that they're just

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protecting their interest in the region

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and if that's not bad enough you have

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the US openly cheerleading Israel's

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latest violations of international law

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because I mean what else are they going

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to do at this point you've got good old

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State Department spokesman Matt Miller

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insisting that Israel is just defending

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itself and trying to prevent the impact

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of the power vacuum that they literally

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created oh and speaking of power in

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Syria there is a current attempt at a

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transitional government and they have

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announced the new caretaker prime

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minister who is opposition leader

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Muhammad Al Bashir who has been leading

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the so-called Syrian salvation

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government in idlib since January and is

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a close Ally of HTS leader Abu Muhammad

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alalani which is so interesting because

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you're telling me that for the last four

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years this group Al-Qaeda was allowed to

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just you know kind of chill out in idlip

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right they were allowed to have their

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own stronghold there it was openly known

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that it was an Al-Qaeda stronghold there

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was a deal that was made between Russia

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and Turkey clearly not to Syria's

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benefit here made back in 201 20 they're

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allowed to be there not only did this

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group plan out this whole offensive that

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they've carried out over the last two

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weeks oh but they also had whole Shadow

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government that they were just waiting

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to implement interesting I I don't know

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what countries looking at the us know

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exactly how to do this exactly how they

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approach these government overthrows but

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it definitely sounds like something the

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us would have cooked up and right on Q

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you've got the mainstream media

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reporting here in the US that the Biden

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Administration is considering lifting

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the terrorist designation they have on

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HTS and its leader because they're not

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Al-Qaeda anymore and that comes as we've

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started to see videos on social media

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showing gruesome attacks carried out by

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these so-called moderates who don't seem

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to be very diversity friendly targeting

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the people of Syria and if we've learned

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anything from the last several times

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that we've been through this it's that

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they are are just getting started when

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it comes to the violence targeting the

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civilian population it's also important

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to keep in mind that any violence that

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is carried out towards civilians on the

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ground while largely supported by Israel

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oh well guess what it's also going to be

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used by Israel to claim that they need

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to keep expanding their influence into

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Syria more and more in order to say it

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with me protect themselves and all the

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while it's these Syrian people who

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continue to pay the price the Syrian

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civilians who have endured more than a

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decade of their country being targeted

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by the world around them right you think

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of all of these different countries from

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the US to Israel to Saudi Arabia to

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Turkey to Qatar all of these different

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countries that have done everything in

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their power to make the Syrian economy

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and the Syrian government collapse and

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those are the people who have suffered

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through so much already who are

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continuing to suffer right in front of

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our eyes man the US and Israel and

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Turkey and others entire International

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Community really that's doing absolutely

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nothing they are the ones who are

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continuing to further the suffering of

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the Syrian people and that's something

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