Syria: Questions that can not be Answered?

[Hasbara Buster]

Here is your answer;

SAVE SYRIA: Demand An End to US-NATO Supported Sectarian Terrorists | Global Research

 

[Syrian Lion]

Here is your answer;

SAVE SYRIA: Demand An End to US-NATO Supported Sectarian Terrorists | Global Research

Great Explanation I recommend everyone read it... it explains everything...

Thank you for sharing...

 

[Solomon2]

I don't think my value system or perception of global affairs would be much different than yours. However, most definitely war is more of a reality for me than Americans who have no clue -

If our value systems are truly similar than you should do more factual research. Then you have to ponder what to do about the results.

Americans who have no clue about the problems their wars are causing world over. Libya, Syria, Yemen and African skirmishes are in some ways just a continuation of American wars.

The French have it good: they initiate 3/4 of these but America gets the blame.

So I can understand when you see solutions that suggest "no war" how it would hurt the preconceptions of a warring nation.

Except America doesn't really want to be a warring nation. You're projecting Pakistan's culture onto America's and that doesn't fit.

 

[Syrian Lion]

The French have it good: they initiate 3/4 of these but America gets the blame.

Well if France jumps off a cliff, does that mean America have to follow France and jump off the cliff??
France starts something, but the USA joins in, and it does terrible job, that why America gets the blame...

 

[White Lightning]

Op-Ed: Israeli Air Force make preparations for large Combat Air Exercise

 

[nForce]

huh.. Syrian Lion banned ??

Its a shame...

 

[White Lightning]

Israel 'bombs weapons convoy on Syrian border' prompting fury from Russia

 

[Syrian Lion]

I have been gone for a while, and still no answers... people don't want to admit the reality... they fear the truth...

 

[KRAIT]

Here is your answer;
SAVE SYRIA: Demand An End to US-NATO Supported Sectarian Terrorists | Global Research

Thanks for the link. Good take on the situation from other side.

 

[Hasbara Buster]

Thanks for the link. Good take on the situation from other side.

You're welcome. It's not the other side though, just reality.

 

[PeaceGen]

Israel 'bombs weapons convoy on Syrian border' prompting fury from Russia

With all due respect to the Russian government, I think Russian's recent bout of bravado is taking on meglanomaniac proportions now, from a team of technocrats/aristocrats/KGB-crats.

Israel has a right to defend itself, Israel has been under constant attack from all sides with NATO being their one true ally.

So if the Israelis decide to take out some weapons deliveries that are likely to criple them militarily in the next round of conflict with the often very UNREASONABLE hamas leadership, then please do not think we of NATO are now wimps who will let the neo-communist machine march right over us.

Russians, I issue a friendly yet serious warning here: tone down the war rethoric a bit. Everyone knows you don't play nice towards smaller countries under your control / sphere of influence, either.

Hamas and Muslim Jihadists: Don't think for a moment Russia is your prime defender. They simply seek influence over NATO and are willing to play games of support until the USA and the EU are in severe distress. Just trust me for a change, and remember how annoying those Russians can be when they feel totally confident.
In fact, this is the first sign of mental instability in the KGB(=FSB) leadership, in the form of meglanomania.
Translated more accurately, the Russian government is trying to regain idealogical and moral highground territory at a way too fast pace. I suggest Russia tone down their warmongering rethoric a bit, and practice the art of DEFENSE instead of the art of BLITZKRIEG.

 

[Hasbara Buster]

Israel has a right to defend itself.

They are not defending, Israel is a Zionist expansionist state. Zionist ideology cannot be seperated from expansionism. If there is no expansionism there is no Zionism, do you understand? They have no borders, the sole aim of Zionism is expansionism, stealing more lands (as much as possible), as well as creating instability in the entire region in order to accomplish this goal. They won't succeed of course, but that's irrelevant.

 

[somebozo]

It is hard to belive that thousand of Syrian's rendered homeless and in refugee will thank the revolution for destroying their livelihoods and giving them the menace of salafacism in in exchange of removing Al Assad!

 

[Arya Desa]

I have been gone for a while, and still no answers... people don't want to admit the reality... they fear the truth...

These rebels are terrorists that hope to overthrow a functioning and just government.

 

[Solomon2]

They are not defending, Israel is a Zionist expansionist state. Zionist ideology cannot be seperated from expansionism. If there is no expansionism there is no Zionism, do you understand? They have no borders, the sole aim of Zionism is expansionism, stealing -

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Zionism Isn’t a Dirty Word

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan

James Kirchick
8th March 2013 - Haaretz

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has provoked yet another international diplomatic stir with Israel. Speaking, (where else?), at a United Nations conference in Vienna last week, Erdogan listed "Zionism" alongside "fascism" and "Islamophobia" as "crime against humanity." The remark promptly drew criticism from Secretary of State John Kerry, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, and a host of governments. Erdogan has yet to apologize, and it's unlikely that he will.

Erdogan's outburst has induced a feeling of eerie nostalgia. It was also at the UN, where, in 1975, the General Assembly passed a resolution declaring Zionism "a form of racism and racial discrimination." As the late U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the greatest Ambassador ever to serve at that ignominious body, declared from the well of the General Assembly in New York, it was not Zionism that was "racist" but rather the resolution condemning it as such, the passage of which would be remembered as an "infamous act."

Though the "Zionism is racism" resolution was repealed in 1991, little has changed in popular discourse. For many, the word has a cruel, ugly tinge, evident in the way it is deployed as a slur in the same way that George Orwell once described fascism as having "no meaning except insofar as it signifies 'something not desirable.'" The reason for this, I believe, has less to do with Zionism's ideological underpinnings or the actions of the state upon which it was founded, than with the cynical, decades-long campaign to discredit it as a concept.

Two personal anecdotes help illustrate my point. Last year, I visited Budapest with a Slovak friend. Outside the magnificent Dohany Street Synagogue, the largest house of Jewish worship in Europe, we encountered a memorial to Theodore Herzl, a native of the Hungarian capital. My friend, who bears no ill-will towards Jews or the state of Israel, was shocked to see the word "Zionist" attached to Herzl's name. Why would he be taken aback that the founder of political Zionism was straightforwardly identified as a Zionist?

For my Slovak friend, "Zionist" was always an epithet used by anti-Semites to describe members of the non-existent, worldwide Jewish conspiracy known as "Zionism." Believing that the word had originated from the 19th century Czarist fabrication, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," this was the only context in which he had ever heard the word used in Slovakia, a country that now has less than 2,000 Jewish inhabitants. "Zionism," he told me, was usually uttered in the same breath as "George Soros," the Hungarian-born Jewish financer who is a hate figure of the neo-fascist right across Central and Eastern Europe (and who, for what it's worth, is rather outspoken about his non-Zionism).

Then there was the Canadian acquaintance, whom I also have no reason to believe feels any prejudice whatsoever against the Jewish people or the State of Israel. When I mentioned Erdogan's remark, he did not understand the fuss. Zionism, as he understood it, was a form of Jewish nationalism embraced by the furthest right elements of the Israeli political spectrum: those who favor territorial expansion, the dispossession of Palestinians and their transfer into neighboring Arab countries.

Both of my friends were surprised when I explained to them the definition of Zionism: The belief that Jews, like every other people on earth, deserve the right to self-determination in their ancient homeland. The Slovak, not thinking me the cloak-and-dagger type, was at first puzzled when I confessed myself to be a proud and unapologetic Zionist. And the Canadian, originally conceiving of Zionism to be the exclusive province of theocratic Jewish supremacists, was perplexed when I explained to him that some of the most ardent Zionists have been starry-eyed, communist atheists. Indeed, what makes Zionism a subject of rich academic study and a source of fierce contention in present-day Israel, is the fact that it's expansive enough an ideology to encompass those on the far left and far right: Both Meretz and Habayit Hayehudi can claim to be Zionist parties (even if neither acknowledges the Zionism of the other).

Can I blame my friends for not knowing what the word "Zionism" means? As easy as it is to fault their ignorance, doing so fails to appreciate the massive effort that Israel's enemies have poured into defaming the very idea of Jewish nationhood. What began decades ago as a propaganda campaign by Arab and Muslim interests to render "Zionism" inseparable from words like "racism," "imperialism," and "apartheid," later gained support from elements of the international left, which had largely backed Israel before its founding only to abandon it after the 1967 Six Day War.

It will not be easy to combat this singling out the national aspirations of the Jews for censure. A start would be for individuals who are not themselves Israeli or even Jewish, yet who support the existence of a Jewish State, to express their Zionism. Such declarations can range from public declarations by political leaders like Vice President Joe Biden, who told an interviewer in 2007, "I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist," to private conversations among friends. Only then will this corruption of language be overcome.

James Kirchick is a Berlin-based fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Follow him on Twitter @jkirchick
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