“The prospects for an Israel-Iran proxy confrontation in the near future seem significant,” which is not surprising. Iran has been working through its proxies for years with the goal of regional hegemony and the destruction of Israel. Currently: Iran is entrenched in Syria in a clear campaign aimed at extending its fundamentalist tentacles to Israel’s […]
Trump orders airstrikes against Syria
1. Is it certain that Assad’s regime really used the chemical weapons? There is so much manufacture of atrocities in that region, it cannot be taken for granted that he has, especially since there is no clear benefit to him in doing so. 2. What is the endgame? The removal of Assad? No doubt Assad […]
Obama’s legacy: Iran-backed Hizballah says it will have nearly 500,000 missiles aimed at Israel within a year
Paid for by Barack Hussein Obama’s pallets of cash delivered to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Treason is defined as giving aid and comfort to the enemy. How is Obama not guilty of treason? “Iran-Backed Terror Group Claims Half-a-Million Missiles Aimed at Israel,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, February 14, 2018: An Iranian-backed terror […]
Trump ends program to arm anti-Assad jihadis in Syria
The Washington Post casts this story as evidence that President Trump is a pawn of the Russians, which is more of the Left’s ridiculous campaign to portray the 2016 election as having been stolen by Vladimir Putin. But this is the right decision. These “rebels” are mostly jihadis; arming and aiding them is arming and […]
“Short-sighted”: Trump hits Assad airbase in response to chemical weapons attack
There is no question that Assad is a scoundrel. That is not in dispute. The problem with this action is the same as it was when Obama wanted to strike Assad: who benefits? The Assad regime said this strike “can only be described as short-sighted.” Right. The Islamic State (ISIS), although weakened, is still there. […]
Syria’s Assad: Some refugees are “definitely” terrorists
When Isikoff presses him about whether the terrorists constituted a significant percentage of the refugees, Assad noted correctly that the number didn’t matter, because a small number could do great damage, as on 9/11. Assad is right, of course, but his words will be dismissed as those of a bloody dictator, and misrepresented as if […]
Obama says Russian campaign in Syria a sign of Putin’s weakness
This is as delusional as Obama’s insistence that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam. Acting decisively in defense of an ally is not a sign of weakness, but of reliability — something Obama has never been with America’s allies. “Obama says Russian campaign in Syria a sign of Putin’s weakness,” EFE, October […]
Islamic State has Damascus in its crosshairs
“For the most part, fighting in areas of Damascus has not reached the downtown section, though it does spill over there on occasion. That happened last Thursday, when a mortar shell landed in the heart of Damascus, killing six inhabitants.” “Islamic State has Damascus in its crosshairs,” by Avi Issacharoff, Times of Israel, August 22, […]
Syria: Assad orders release of “revised” Qur’an to stop “distortion”
It would be very interesting to see how exactly Assad’s Qur’an is revised, but this article contains no specific information. If it changes any of the wording, it is unlikely to be accepted by any Muslims, in part because Assad is himself not an orthodox Muslim but an Alawite, and primarily because Muslims consider the […]
Is What’s To Come In Syria Still Unsure?
Oh, by that I don’t mean who’s in and who’s out and who “will win.” This month, we are told, the Islamic State in eastern Syria is now unstoppable, or it’s the Al-Nusra Front that is on first in Homs — or is Aleppo? — and a few months ago, it was Assad, aided ably […]