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Israel's Love Affair with Syrian Jihadis
For years, Zionists have backed the most radical elements in Syria
By Keith Woods | December 8, 2024
Zionist apologists commonly present support for Israel as a necessary extension of opposition to radical Islam and the threat of Jihadi terrorism. "Support us fighting them here, so you don't have to fight them there" is a common plea to the West from Zionist spokespeople within Israel. Yet when it comes to the Syrian Civil War, the conflict which sparked the major refugee crisis responsible for flooding Europe with millions of Muslims, Israel has been firmly on the side of Jihad, even and most particularly Al-Qaeda.
Israel portrayed this as a principled humanitarian response, but in 2015, the Wall Street Journal reported that only a third of those treated by Israel were women and children. Electronic Intifada:
In 2019, an outgoing Israeli army commander Gadi Eisenkot confirmed suspicions that as well as medical aid, Israel had been providing lethal material support for Syrian Jihadists. Eisenkot said that Israel had been years providing light arms weapons to rebel groups along the Syrian/Israeli border. Eisenkot also acknowledged that "we carried out thousands of attacks [in recent years] without taking responsibility and without asking for credit."
Israeli support for these groups actually went well beyond the "light arms" Eisenkot acknowledged. In September 2018, Foreign Policy magazine reported that Israel had funded "at least 12 rebel groups in southern Syria", based on reports from "more than two dozen commanders and rank-and-file members of these groups." The transfers included:
In a year and a half period from 2017 to 2018, Israel carried out over 200 airstrikes in Syria, mostly directed at Iranian forces assisting the Syrian army. In a 2015 interview, Bashar al-Assad responded to the question of Israel's agenda in Syria:
Although the US publicly claimed it did not intentionally support Islamists like Al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria, leaked internal documents have repeatedly shown that US officials were aware that these groups dominated the Syrian opposition and were often the chief beneficiaries of their aid. For example, a declassified 2012 memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) revealed that, from the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, the US believed that "The Salafist, the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria". AQI being a reference to Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which later evolved into ISIS.
The DIA also foecasted "the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in Eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime".
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Israel Says It Launched 480 Strikes in Syria Since Fall of Assad
Israel's Love Affair with Syrian Jihadis
For years, Zionists have backed the most radical elements in Syria
By Keith Woods | December 8, 2024
Zionist apologists commonly present support for Israel as a necessary extension of opposition to radical Islam and the threat of Jihadi terrorism. "Support us fighting them here, so you don't have to fight them there" is a common plea to the West from Zionist spokespeople within Israel. Yet when it comes to the Syrian Civil War, the conflict which sparked the major refugee crisis responsible for flooding Europe with millions of Muslims, Israel has been firmly on the side of Jihad, even and most particularly Al-Qaeda.
Israeli support for Jihadis in Syria first became known in the West when reports circulated of Israel providing medical care to anti-Assad fighters on its contested border with Syria.
Israel portrayed this as a principled humanitarian response, but in 2015, the Wall Street Journal reported that only a third of those treated by Israel were women and children. Electronic Intifada:
The rest have been fighters who Israeli officials admit are not screened and likely belong to al-Nusra.Efraim Halevy, a former head of Mossad, defended the aid on humanitarian grounds, but confirmed there was a "tactical consideration". In a 2016 interview, Halevy dismissed the idea that Israel would suffer any blowback from supporting Al-Nusra, the Syrian offshoot of Al-Qaeda. While rejecting the idea Israel might also offer medical assistance to Hezbollah fighters on similar humanitarian grounds, he explained that the difference between Hezbollah and Al Nusra Front was that Israel was "not specifically targeted by Al-Qaeda".
Once it became undeniable, Israel confessed it was treating fighters, but claimed that they were moderates.
But after al-Nusra captured and ejected UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights last August, there was no longer any doubt that al-Nusra was the dominant force among opposition fighters in the area.
In 2019, an outgoing Israeli army commander Gadi Eisenkot confirmed suspicions that as well as medical aid, Israel had been providing lethal material support for Syrian Jihadists. Eisenkot said that Israel had been years providing light arms weapons to rebel groups along the Syrian/Israeli border. Eisenkot also acknowledged that "we carried out thousands of attacks [in recent years] without taking responsibility and without asking for credit."
Israeli support for these groups actually went well beyond the "light arms" Eisenkot acknowledged. In September 2018, Foreign Policy magazine reported that Israel had funded "at least 12 rebel groups in southern Syria", based on reports from "more than two dozen commanders and rank-and-file members of these groups." The transfers included:
Assault rifles, machine guns, mortar launchers and transport vehicles. Israeli security agencies delivered the weapons through three gates connecting the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to Syria—the same crossings Israel used to deliver humanitarian aid to residents of southern Syria suffering from years of civil war.Israel also carried out numerous airstrikes in the region which exclusively benefited groups like Al-Nusra front. In one incident, Israel responded to some rebel group firing rockets into the occupied Golan Heights by launching airstrikes on Syrian army artillery positions.
Israel also provided salaries to rebel fighters, paying each one about $75 a month, and supplied additional money the groups used to buy arms on the Syrian black market, according to the rebels and local journalists.
In a year and a half period from 2017 to 2018, Israel carried out over 200 airstrikes in Syria, mostly directed at Iranian forces assisting the Syrian army. In a 2015 interview, Bashar al-Assad responded to the question of Israel's agenda in Syria:
They are supporting the rebels in Syria. It's very clear. Because whenever we make advances in some place, they make an attack in order to undermine the army. It's very clear. That's why some in Syria joke: "How can you say that al-Qaeda doesn't have an air force? They have the Israeli air force."As far back as 2015, senior Israeli military figures had justified Israeli support for Al-Nusra front in Western media. Michael Herzog, a former chief of staff for Israel's defense minister, told The Wall Street Journal:
Nusra is a unique version of al-Qaida. They manage to cooperate with non-Islamist and non-jihadi organizations in one coalition … They are totally focused on the war in Syria and aren’t focused on us. But when Hizballah and Iran and others are pushing south, they are very much focused on us.The same article quotes Amos Yaldin, a retired Israeli general, who reasoned that:
There is no doubt that Hizballah and Iran are the major threat to Israel, much more than the radical Sunni Islamists, who are also an enemy…Those Sunni elements who control some two-thirds to 90 percent of the border on the Golan aren't attacking Israel. This gives you some basis to think that they understand who is their real enemy — maybe it isn't Israel.Also in 2015, the Pentagon acknowledged that the "moderate rebels" who were being armed and trained by the United States and its allies were passing their equipment to Nusra Front.
Although the US publicly claimed it did not intentionally support Islamists like Al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria, leaked internal documents have repeatedly shown that US officials were aware that these groups dominated the Syrian opposition and were often the chief beneficiaries of their aid. For example, a declassified 2012 memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) revealed that, from the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, the US believed that "The Salafist, the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria". AQI being a reference to Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which later evolved into ISIS.
The DIA also foecasted "the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in Eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime".
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The bombing runs by Israel on Syria are now well over 600 since 2017:
When Trump takes over in January it is going to be all out war in the Middle East considering the vote for Trump was a vote for Israel:
It's magic:
A Jew in a turban with the name Abe Goldman who looks like Fidel Castro takes over leadership of Syria:
This is not "bombing". This is a construction project and bombs are used in place of bulldozers:
It is going to get brutal for Syrians:
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