Syrian President shows his true hatred of Israel

One is almost tempted to feel a pang of sympathy for the new Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa. After all, the man has only just finished overthrowing one of the Middle East's most durable dictatorships, and already he finds himself on the conference circuit, dispensing wisdom to the assembled worthies at the Doha Forum. Yet any such sympathy evaporates the moment the Jew hating scumcrumpet opens his mouth.

Al-Sharaa, formerly known by his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, was the leader of al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra. In other words, he is a jihadi terrorist commander in the Syrian Civil War, and now wears a suit and meets with world leaders.

"Israel has become a country that is in a fight against ghosts," Sharaa told the Qataris, with all the confidence of a man who has never had to worry about rockets falling on his own cities. 

"Israelis," he continued, use "their security concerns, and they take October 7 and extrapolate it to everything happening around them." One cannot imagine a more tone-deaf formulation. The events of October 7 were not some collective hallucination cooked up in a Tel Aviv focus group; they were the largest single-day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust and for this thug to call it an hallucination is an obvious lie. To describe Israel's perfectly rational determination never to let it happen again as "fighting ghosts" is the sort of moral inversion that has become the regional specialty of the Jew haters.

But Sharaa was just warming up. 

Israel, he informed his admiring audience, "often brings its crises to other countries and tries to evade taking responsibility for the 'horrifying massacres it committed in Gaza'." This from the leader of a regime whose forces have, in the mere blink of an eye since seizing power, been accused by the United Nations and Syria's own minorities of targeting Druze in Sweida and Alawites in Latakia. 

Naturally, the Syrian president presented himself as a paragon of peaceable intent, much like the scorpion convincing the frog to carry him across the pond. Since toppling Assad, he has sent a "positive message regarding regional peace and stability," and his regime "does not seek conflict, including with Israel." How unfortunate, then, that Israel has repaid this olive branch with "extreme violence," a thousand air strikes, four hundred incursions, and so forth. 

One might ask why, if Damascus is so very peaceful, Israel feels compelled to treat Syrian airspace as its own private highway. Perhaps because the new Syrian authorities have shown no particular eagerness to evict the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hezbollah remnants, or any of the other charming guests who made Syria such a delightful neighborhood under the previous management.

The Doha Forum, of course, is laughably billed as a "neutral platform." Its Qatari hosts insist it exists to promote dialogue on everything from conflict resolution to economic inequality. This year's theme, "Justice in Action: Beyond Promises to Progress" has a pleasantly earnest ring to it. Yet when the star speakers include a Syrian warlord lecturing the region's sole democracy on "horrifying massacres," a Turkish foreign minister pondering how best to separate Israelis and Palestinians "along the border," and a Qatari prime minister explaining that the current pause in Gaza is not a ceasefire because Israeli forces have not yet withdrawn completely, one begins to suspect that "neutrality" in Doha is rather like "peace" in Damascus: a word with highly elastic meaning.

Qatar's Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani was particularly instructive. "We are at a critical moment," he intoned. "We cannot consider it yet a ceasefire. A ceasefire cannot be completed unless there is a full withdrawal of the Israeli forces, (until) there is stability back in Gaza, people can go in and out, which is not the case today." 

In other words, Hamas may fire rockets and bullets whenever it pleases, but Israel must retreat unconditionally, or the whole thing is invalid. The same Qatar, let it never be forgotten, that has bankrolled Hamas for years, housed its leaders in five-star hotels, and now presides over a conference where Israel is ritually denounced by every speaker who matters.

And yet, in a final touch of surrealism, this same gathering, funded by a state that remains Hamas's principal financial and diplomatic sponsor is playing host to prominent American conservatives, including Tucker [Tuck You] Carlson. For many in Israel and the Jewish world, the spectacle of Western figures lending their presence to an event staged by a regime that has October 7's blood on its checkbook is simply incomprehensible. Senator Ted Cruz's sardonic “#QatarFirst” hashtag rather said it all.

One leaves the Doha Forum with the distinct impression that "justice in action" means something very specific in that part of the world: the continued demonization of the Middle East's only liberal democracy, the rehabilitation of its enemies, and the polite preterence that none of this has anything to do with the pogrom of October 7, 2023. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose – only now with better canapés and a more expensive backdrop.

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The Mask Slips: Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Regime and the Return of Syrian Duplicity

One need hardly be surprised. The same Syrian president who, only weeks ago, was being feted in certain Western quarters as a moderate, tolerant reformer (Ahmed al-Sharaa, once known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani) has now been credibly linked to direct attacks on Israeli soldiers and, even more grimly, to the organized persecution of Syria's ancient Druze minority.

According to a report by Israel’s public broadcaster KAN, citing informed sources, it was none other than "Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa's general intelligence" that orchestrated Thursday night's ambush of an IDF arrest raid in southern Syria, as well as earlier assaults on Druze communities in the country's east. The very same regime operatives who opened fire on Israeli reservists as they withdrew from Beit Jinn, wounding six, are said to be the identical group that has been terrorizing the Druze in Khader.

Let us be clear about what happened. In the early hours of Friday, soldiers of the IDF's 55th Reserve Paratroop Brigade entered the Syrian town of Beit Jinn to detain two brothers affiliated with the terrorist organization Al-Jama'a al-Islamiya. These men had planted roadside bombs and had participated in launching a high-altitude missile toward Israel. The arrests themselves were textbook: the brothers were taken quietly from their beds. It was only as the Israelis withdrew that regime-linked gunmen opened fire, triggering a fierce exchange in which several terrorists were killed and six Israeli reservists wounded (one of them the brigade commander who had raced forward to extract his trapped men). Syrian media, with their customary regard for truth, promptly claimed thirteen "civilians" had been slaughtered.

All of this, we are now told, was directed by the intelligence apparatus of the man who assured the world he had broken with jihadism.

One struggles to recall a more rapid unmasking. Barely had the champagne corks stopped popping in Washington and certain European salons (where al-Sharaa was hailed as the acceptable face of the Syrian opposition) than his regime began doing precisely what the Assad apparatus did for decades: using proxy militias to bleed Israel while simultaneously waging low-intensity genocide against religious minorities inconveniently parked along the new ruler's path to absolute power.

The Druze of southern Syria, who have already endured years of siege and starvation at the hands of Islamist factions, now find themselves targeted by the very government in Damascus itself. Syrian Druze who have spoken to The Jerusalem Post have been unequivocal: Israel's buffer zone, so noisily condemned by Damascus as a "violation of Syrian sovereignty," is the only thing that currently allows humanitarian aid to reach their villages and prevents their complete annihilation.

Yet the al-Sharaa government continues to denounce the zone, even as his own militias fire on the soldiers who keep it functioning. The cynicism is breathtaking.

Meanwhile, reports multiply that Hezbollah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are quietly rebuilding their infrastructure inside Syria with the new regime's tacit blessing. The old Iranian playbook (use Syrian territory as a forward base against Israel) has evidently been dusted off and handed to the new management.

Western governments that rushed to embrace al-Sharaa as a bulwark against ISIS and a potential partner for peace would do well to study the photographs emerging from Damascus: crowds waving portraits of a man whose intelligence service now shoots Israeli soldiers in the back and drives the Druze toward extinction. Those images tell a simpler and truer story than any number of carefully stage-managed interviews.

The lesson, as ever, is that jihadist movements do not moderate; they merely learn to smile for the cameras while reloading. Israel, having learned that lesson the hard way across decades of betrayal, will continue to do what it must: arrest terrorists in their beds, return fire when ambushed, and maintain the thin buffer that stands between Syria’s minorities and the abyss.The rest of the world is free to keep pretending that the new boss in Damascus is fundamentally different from the old boss he replaced. The Druze, and the wounded paratroopers of the 55th Brigade, know better.

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Crickets when Muslims kill Christians, Hindus, Druze and Jews, but there's screaming when Jews defend themselves

This is what Hamas wants to see

Isn't it bewildering how the geniuses at Ivy League schools like Columbia and Harvard demonstrate in the streets and on campuses in support of barbaric extremists who seek to destroy Israel, even after the Jewish States was attacked on October 7, 2023 by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and others? They believe that they are the virtuous ones all while hiding their Jew hatred. Some hide it from themselves, some don't hide it at all.

No matter what "the Jews" do, they are always in the wrong. Even the attack on young people dancing at a music festival, killing 378 individuals, 344 who were civilians and 34 security personnel, according to The Times of Israel, wasn't enough to gain the sympathy of the haters. 

Then there was the kidnapping of 251 individuals, 221 of whom were civilians including foreign nationals, 24 soldiers, and Negev Bedouins.

The breakdown of the captives: 92 women and 36 children were among the hostages, including 9-month-old Kfir Bibas and his 4-year-old brother Ariel along with their mother, Shiri. There was another baby under a year old but the exact identity is not revealed.

Several elderly people were also kidnapped but the exact numbers vary.

But somehow it was the fault of the Jews, the so called 'occupiers' of a land they occupied before the geo-political religion of Islam was invented by a man who terrorized the Middle East, committed pedophilia, and hated the Jews.

Israel has been accused of genocide by the same dolts and propagandists who either hide the truth or refuse to see it. In the year Israel gained its independence, 1948, the non-Jewish population (mostly Arab Muslims, Arab Christians and Druze) was 156,000, By 1970, this population nearly tripled and by 1970 had climbed to 1,413,900. By 2015 it reached 2,078,000 and last year hit 2,653,000. If that's genocide, then we need to change the definition.

On the other hand, when you look at the countries in the Middle East, there are no Jews in most of them and so few in others you can get them all on a bus and head them out to Israel for relative safety.

Meanwhile, there are terrorist atrocities going on in the world like the ones perpetrated by Hamas against Israel and not one large US protest, to my knowledge, has taken place.

Just last month, on April 22nd, there was a jihadi attack at Pahalgam in the Jammu-Kashmir district in which 25 people were murdered and 20 injured. Most of the victims were tourists, one was Christian the others Hindu. There were no cries or demands for retribution at Columbia, Harvard or at any campus or street corner. Crickets.

In Nigeria during Easter, over 72 Christians were slaughtered by Muslims during a church service and earlier that month, over 60 Christians were murdered in the Plateau State. Again, nobody said 'boo.'

And we all know about the Syrian Civil War that began in 2011 that nobody at home here protested in spite of the fact that between 580,000 to 656,493 people were killed, as per the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). The groups we know that were responsible was ISIS, al-Qaeda affiliates such as Jabhat al Nusra and Hayat Tahrir al Sham. 

Still the silence was deafening.

But boy oh boy, when Israel returns fire at missile launch sites that are embedded in civilian areas, and Hamas' human shields are killed or injured, it's the fault of the Jews. 

What are they supposed to do when fired upon? After all, they even warn civilians when the IAF plans to strike a building in Gaza, which probably gave the terrorists time to move hostages. 

People feel sympathy for dead Jews and hatred for the living ones. 

Jews are hated when they're poor; they're hated when they're rich. They are hated when they have no place to go--"those wandering Jews"--and they're hated when they have their Biblical land returned to them.

And the biggest haters of them all are the extremist Muslims. They will come for the Jews now and come for everyone else later if we sit back and watch.

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Bibi and Katz order IDF to protect Syrian Druze

The Druze, with the support of Israel, now fully control the southern Syrian region of Sweida, the first overwhelming majority non-Muslim state in the Middle East since Israel, as the Jewish state is partnering with other minorities under the violent rule of Muslims in the region. The goal is to defeat the jihad armies and live in peace.

The Druze, with the support of Israel, now fully control the southern Syrian region of Sweida with its nearly half a million people. Of these, more than 85% are Druze and nearly 10% are Christian. This is undoubtedly the safest land for Druze and Christians in Syria.

Sweida would become the first overwhelmingly non-Muslim state in the Middle East since Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have instructed the IDF to prepare to protect the Druze village of Jaramana, Syria, following an attack by Syrian government forces on the area. Jaramana is approximately three kilometers southeast of Damascus, Syria’s capital.

In a strongly worded statement, Netanyahu and Katz said that Israel will not allow harm to the Druze in Syria.

“We will not allow the extreme Islamist terror regime in Syria to harm the Druze,” they said. “If the regime harms the Druze – it will be harmed by us.”

In accordance with Netanyahu and Katz’s instruction, the IDF was instructed to send a harsh warning message to the Syrian regime, and prepare to respond in case of an additional attack against the Druze in Jaramana.

“We are committed to our brothers, the Druze in Israel, to do everything in order to prevent harm to their brothers, the Druze in Syria,” they stressed. “We will take all of the necessary steps to protect their security.”

This comes after a military escalation in southern Syria as reports say there is increasing fighting between the Syrian regime forces and the Druze residents who oppose the Assad regime. 

Israel is closely watching what happens, due to concerns for the civilian population and the disruption of stability on Israel’s northern border.

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IDF will stay in parts of Lebanon and Syria indefinitely says Netanyahu

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) will remain stationed in key areas of Lebanon and Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu said Sunday. He stated that Israel demands full demilitarization of southern Syria and refuses to tolerate any threat to the Druze community in the region.

Bibi spoke at a graduate ceremony of IDF combat officer's course and said,  “In Syria, IDF forces will remain in the Mount Hermon area and the buffer zone for an indefinite period to protect our communities and counter any threats. We will not allow forces from HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, led by Syria’s new ruler Abu Mohammad al-Julani) or the New Syrian Army to enter areas south of Damascus.”

He said regarding Lebanon, that the IDF would maintain control over strategic areas on the northern border inside of Lebanon territory until the Lebanese government and military totally uphold their commitments under the ceasefire agreement.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said that “[O]ur eyes are on the entire region today, especially Syria. We are committed to ensuring that October 7 never happens again. As the prime minister said, there is a new reality in southern Syria. The IDF will not allow hostile forces to establish a presence in the security zone from here to Damascus, and we will act against any threat.”

Katz also highlighted Israel’s commitment to strengthening ties with friendly populations in the region, particularly the Druze, whom he called “brothers in arms.” He reassured that Israel is dedicated to ensuring their safety and preserving their historical connections, thus reinforcing Netanyahu's statement.

Israeli troops entered the Syrian buffer zone immediately after the fall of Bashar "The Chin" Assad's regime came to a crashing end. The troops were concerned about armed groups moving into the area and put soldiers in key positions to protect Israeli communities in the Golan Heights, while stressing that Israel will not interfere with Syrian affairs, but will operate as needed to secure the buffer zone to safeguard Israel.

After the Syrian rebels took control of the Golan and removed Assad from power, the IDF warned them not to cross the Alpha Line, marking the start of the demilitarized zone. The Northern Command raised its alert level and activated emergency defense plans in anticipation of a potential invasion from the east.

Now with almost six months after the start of what has become the Third Lebanon War, Israel is reestablishing a partial presence inside Lebanese territory. This is the first time in 25 years it has done so and five outposts will be established several hundred meters beyond the border fence. Each outpost will be manned by hundreds of IDF soldiers and they will maintain this presence until a new political directive is issued.

A similar forward defense strategy is being implemented along the Gaza border, with ongoing coordination between the Southern and Northern Commands to apply lessons from recent operations.

Netanyahu, love him or hate him, means it when he implies that never again means never again.

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