Framed as sectarian war, the Syrian genocide and assaults on Gaza and Yemen are part of a long-standing UK-U.S.-Israeli-Western strategy to dominate the region via the erasure of the Axis of Resistance.

Syria’s massacres can be defined by nothing less than genocide, having exceeded the slaughter of more than 10,000 dead souls.

The killings have been showcased on videos of the endless public, mass executions of children, women, civilians and entire families.

The world has been willing to watch yet another genocide unfold with most of the international media and the international community silent, excusing or down-playing the terrorist ethnic cleansing of Syrians by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

As Israel once again strikes Gaza, killing more than 400 people in the first day of the war’s renewal, and with the full backing of the Trump administration which is also bombing Yemen, people need to understand that these events are not singular but rather a collaborative effort by the Zionist-U.S. empire and its NATO partners to annihilate the region of its indigenous inhabitants, fulfill a Greater Israel and steal all the natural resources.

Most recently HTS militants illegally crossed from Syria into Lebanon and were confronted and killed by local forces. HTS responded by launching some 50 rockets into northern Lebanon’s villages full of families.

Israel simultaneously launched attacks in southern Lebanon, violating the cease-fire yet again, with the combined attacks killing dozens of people. In conjunction with Mohammad al-Jolani’s militants attacking the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, Israeli air strikes have targeted the same valley in support of Nusra front terrorists.

The Lebanese army was deployed to investigate, prompting locals to launch rockets at the terrorist HTS factions. In Bekaa, both tribes and the army have confronted these terrorists. Additionally, Lebanese tribes along the Lebanese-Syrian border are now using drones to monitor HTS movements in response to ongoing attacks on their villages.

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As these events unfold, some may feel embarrassed for having so quickly and eagerly normalized relations with the rebranded Western-Zionist intelligence puppet al-Jolani and his group of violent extremists. Others like those in the Gulf-funded Al Jazeera, who have been lying about Syria for the last 15 years, simply cannot turn back now and thus continue their lies, shifting blame to Assad and his supporters.

However, for anyone paying even a little attention, it is clear that this outcome was inevitable once the U.S.-backed Israeli-Turkish-Gulf plan to oust Assad and replace him with these al-Qaeda factions unfolded and Damascus fell.

It has now been clearly demonstrated that Assad’s government, often labeled as a violent and authoritarian regime, was in fact the safeguard against this very outcome. It prevented the current collapse of the former modern, free, secular Syria where diverse faiths co-existed harmoniously and residents identified simply as Syrian.

On March 6, pro-Resistance groups launched a rebellion against the oppressive terrorist regime that seized control of Syria two months prior, ambushing HTS military personnel in Latakia and nearby areas, resulting in the deaths of at least 16 security forces.

On the same day, radical Takfiri^[1] government troops began deploying to coastal cities—Latakia, Baniyas, Tartus, and Jableh—to confront what they labeled as “regime remnants,” or pro-Assad Resistance fighters. This ultimately led to mass executions and atrocities committed against every Syrian civilian who came into contact with these Wahhabi terrorist factions.

Most mainstream and international media, which tend to favor Israel and the West, have at best dismissed the numerous instances of harassment, assassinations, and executions of civilians in Syria as merely a “sectarian war”—implying it is driven by ethnic or religious motives. At worst, they engage in significant gaslighting by placing blame on the former Assad government and its remaining supporters.

The problem is not only that Alawites have been slaughtered, but also that Shia, Sunni, Christian, and even Mennonites as well as other ethnic minorities have been targeted. Christian relics have fallen prey to destruction. Even those who hated the Assad government have been speaking out against the atrocities targeting every single person, child or baby HTS encounters, while the mass media continue to talk about this as an “Islamic problem.”

Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Dala, head of the Center for Research and Studies on Islamic Unity in Syria, was assassinated by the terrorist HTS forces for condemning the ethnic cleansing of Syria’s Alawites.

Media and international human rights organization have also understated the slaughters to barely over a thousand instead of the more than 10,000 that Syrians and journalists in Lebanon who are getting information from those refugees managing to escape the genocide, are reporting.

There are also reports of water and bread being poisoned, a tactic also employed by Israel on Palestinians and by HTS and al-Qaeda in Syria long before this year. An article from 2019 outlines how ISIS and al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda affiliate, allegedly poisoned the water supply in Syria.

Meanwhile, the BBC has now given a number of more than 1,200 people killed in Latakia, Tartus, Hama and Homs provinces. Other numbers from NPR estimate 1,300, grossly understating the human toll.

The UN has welcomed a “promise” by Syria’s unelected “interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa,” aka Mohammad al-Jolani, to form an alleged “independent investigative committee” and to hold those responsible to account.

This is so even as the Ministry of Defense of the Syrian government has claimed that they plan to arrest “every violator who committed a crime against civilians on the Syrian coast during the military operation and orders that they be referred to the military court and the judiciary.” The account alleging this belongs to Mousa Alomar, a journalist for the new “free Syria” regime. He went on to state that what happened was “sad” and then blamed “Assad remnants.”

The obvious issue with this propaganda is that the current slayings continue and that the “Syrian government,” its military court and ministry are all made up of “former” al-Qaeda members. Any punishments supposedly coming to these terrorist factions will be slaps on the wrists, symbolic gestures to quell the outcry.

It is as unserious as serial killers investigating themselves for murder. We can anticipate that the Western-Israeli powers responsible for instigating this situation will quickly intervene, attempting to present themselves as the solution to the chaos they created decades ago, even as violence persists.

Syria’s Demise Follows a Western-Zionist-Intel-Orchestrated and Coordinated Blueprint Spanning Decades

The idea itself of “Assad remnants” itself should also be marked as exactly what it is, a Western-Zionist fabrication meant to dehumanize and diminish the very real genocide of all Syrians.

Recognizing this as valid legitimizes the notion that it is a genuine phenomenon when, in reality, the assassination of those who supported the former president for their political beliefs is not only wrong and fascistic but also fundamentally contradicts the “democratic free Syria” that al-Jolani and his Western backers claim to uphold. Moreover, this perspective disregards countless individuals who do not fit their criteria yet continue to be murdered.

Thousands are currently fleeing Syria with little and attempting to start over because, if they and their families stay, they will undoubtedly be massacred. No one is at this point denying Syria’s internal problems or even Assad’s alleged role in misdirecting them, but using the same Western-Zionist talking points does not stop the lies—it strengthens them.

Pushing the “Assad remnants” narrative empowers the long-prepared ethnic cleansing of Syrians as “sectarian” or a valid punishment when it is in fact a result of serious coordination, planning and decades-long execution by the West and its Zionist partners, seeking to isolate Iran, control the region and expand Greater Israel. Even now we are seeing some Westernized “but Assad” commentators pretend that the 2011 protests in Syria, done by the White Helmets and radical factions, were “unarmed” and were met with brute force from the Syrian army.

But the reality is that the Western-funded sectarian protests from 14 years ago were full of armed terrorist factions who attacked and murdered unarmed members of Syrian security forces in Daraa. All of this is reminiscent of what we are seeing today and never truly stopped in all of Syria’s efforts of opposing the violence for more than a decade.

The Zionist-Western war against Syria has been ongoing since before most of us reading this were alive. Journalist Vanessa Beeley carefully outlined the numerous CIA and MI6 interventions in Syria in her article from October 2021, 75 Years & Counting: A History of Western Regime Change in Syria Part I.

Back in 1969 Miles Copeland, a former CIA officer, outlined in a BBC interview how the CIA organized and directed the failed coup of 1949 after Syria ended the colonial Vichy French occupation. Washington then ousted elected secular President Shukri al-Quwatli, who supported the Palestinian cause, opposed Zionism, and refused to recognize the State of Israel established under U.S. President Harry Truman’s influence.

Al-Quwatli had also rejected the Trans-Arabian Pipeline (Tapline), a joint venture involving Standard Oil of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil), Standard Oil of California and Texaco (the latter two now part of Chevron), believing it would grant the U.S. excessive influence in Syria.

Of course, the covert interventions went on as was outlined and exposed by WikiLeaks via an email thread to Hillary Clinton from July 23, 2012, where Israeli intelligence noted that the collapse of Syria and fall of Assad would spark a Sunni-Shiite war that would benefit Israel.

Israeli intelligence also mentioned that, with the fall of Damascus under Assad, Iran would lose its only ally in the region and would thus be isolated. Zionist intelligence hoped that Iran would be drawn into the regional war, diverting its attention away from nuclear armament for some significant time, going so far as suggesting this could lead to the eventual fall of the current government of Iran.

In essence, U.S.-funded Israel backed by the West, primarily Washington and London, would use its intelligence-birthed terrorist proxies, including ISIS, al-Qaeda, White Helmets, and all spin-offs to destabilize Syria, remove Assad from power and continue supporting these groups until Syrians killed one another.

This is exactly what we are witnessing right now via HTS and other terrorist factions.

The reason why we are not seeing, and likely will never see, the terrorist groups attack Israel is clearly because this plan to destroy Syria originated in Western Zionism, with Israel as the main beneficiary to the generated sectarianism in Syria.

The email also mentioned how EU officials were concerned that the ongoing conflict in Syria would lead to uprisings in these countries that would bring “increasingly conservative Islamic regimes into power, replacing existing secular or moderate regimes.” Israeli intelligence also privately noted that, while they considered Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government hostile, it acted as a buffer between Israel and “more militant Muslim countries,” which was threatened by the “growing successes” of the Free Syrian Army (FSA).

Israel’s acknowledgment of the fact that the Western-funded groups were dangerous to everyone did not stop it from using them, but rather urged them to control and work with them to act against Assad. Israel also knew that attacking Iran at that moment was a bad idea that would have united the Axis against Israel, and instead, as we now know, chose to target Syria, Hezbollah, Palestine, Yemen and increasingly befriend and control the Gulf States, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt.

In the entirety of the most recent history of Western intervention and sabotage in West Asia, we can see that the goal is exactly to destroy Iran as it is the largest barrier to Israeli dominance in the entire region and to the finalization of Greater Israel.

The current Trump administration, the most Zionist in U.S. history, has repeatedly backed this foreign policy goal with their rhetoric against Tehran, their full support of Netanyahu’s policy on Palestine, their genocide in Gaza, their current slicing of Syria, the backing of HTS, the bombing of Yemen, their targeting of Hamas and Hezbollah, and the use of the Gulf to undermine Resistance.

Let’s not forget to mention the billions continuously sent to Israel while Washington claims Iran is interfering in elections and China is influencing the U.S. government. This administration is tasked to target Latin America, West Asia, and China, and we are seeing the steps toward these actions unfold now.

The Gulf As Means to Isolate Iran and Turkey vs. Russia-Israel in Syria

Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a Qatar-based, Sunni-Islam theologian and the unofficial chief ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood, who died on September 26, 2022, at the age of 96, was a prime example of the treacherous Gulf sentiment toward resistance factions. Journalist Eva Bartlett outlined how al-Qaradawi pushed the killing of Syrian civilians, “It is OK to kill one-third of the Syrian population if it leads to the toppling of the heretical regime,” he said.

This we saw echoed in many pro-Palestine accounts that push the Zionist line, not understanding or purposely misconstruing that the same puppet masters are pulling the strings in the destruction of Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Iran and beyond.

Saudi Arabia has long sold out to the West and Israel and the sectarianism manifested in Syria today was constructed and fueled by the Wahhabi, Muslim Brotherhood, and radical factions from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, with support from the Zionist West including NATO.

In reality, Syria was invaded with the help of more than 80 countries and thousands of terrorists from outside the country, all in attempts to divide people back then. Bashar al-Assad gave an interview in February 2016 to El Pais and said he did not know whether Syria would have succeeded without the help of Russia and Iran but said “we definitely need that help for a simple reason: because more than 80 countries supported those terrorists in different ways, some of them directly with money, with logistical support, with armaments, with recruitments. Some other countries supported them politically, in different international forums. Syria is a small country. We could fight, but in the end, there’s unlimited support and recruitment for those terrorists. You definitely need international support.”

The landscape of Russia’s interests in Syria changed in the years leading up to Syria’s fall. There were several factors behind this. One, Turkey is in control of the Black Sea grain corridor to which Russia needs access, as the war in Ukraine has made this a necessity. According to multiple sources Assad’s pivot to the Gulf, condemned by many, was largely pushed by Russia as Moscow had long engaged with both Saudis and Assad to bring them to have conversations.

This was because Putin wanted the Syria conflict to end as early as 2017 and, from Russia’s perspective, there was a need to bring stability to a region that was far too unpredictable, chaotic and disorganized. Additionally, Assad refused to have conversations with Erdogan which undeniably bothered Russia, who sought to resolve this conflict and move on.

At the meeting in Doha, Qatar, on December 7, i.e., before the official fall of Damascus, Iran, Turkey and Russia’s foreign ministers all met to discuss Syria in the Astana peace format, while they also met with the Saudi Foreign Minister.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov acknowledged Washington’s role and its geopolitical game in Syria, saying Damascus should not be taken over by terrorists, but said all legitimate opposition should be heard. Iran’s Foreign Minister echoed these statements, also advocating for dialogue between the Assad government and opposition groups. The very next day, on December 8, the Syrian Army command notified officers that President Assad’s rule had ended and Damascus fell.

About a week later, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told local TV channel NTV that Turkey played a pivotal role in ensuring Assad’s allies that Iran and Russia did not intervene in the offensive that toppled Assad’s government, admitting Ankara’s role in training the Syrian terrorists he referred to as “rebels.” He reiterated that the Turkish Foreign Ministry had worked to ensure that the Russians did not enter the equation and that they all discussed these issues in Doha, with both Iran and Russia seeing no point in continuing this further. While it is hard to rely on Turkey’s claims because of its tendency to manipulate wherever the wind favors them, such statements would not be made lightly so this is something to note.

The Russian government functions in a very pragmatic way, with bureaucratic tediousness in every facet of its institutions. While it understands the war in Ukraine is existential for it, it is fighting to survive and thrive not for an ideological purpose—which is directly opposite of how the Axis of Resistance functions. A Resistance fighter may die but they will fight on because the cause is greater than themselves.

While this sentiment is shared by many patriots in Donbas who were willing to die fighting neo-Nazis, for the Russian government the logical thing to do is find clarity and calm and to build up its economy, protect its national security interests and move forward in advancement as a nation not tied to anything other than belief in its own institutions, people and a desire to advance in the material. This is why you see Russia closely following the UN Charter and diplomacy at every turn, to attain tangible gains. Many spectators with their own agendas or misunderstandings prefer to see things as they wish rather than as they are.

According to Ynet (also echoed by other media), in January Benjamin Netanyahu sent his military secretary to Moscow for a series of security and diplomatic meetings aimed at strengthening cooperation with Russia. Israel’s position on Syria is becoming increasingly clear: It favors Russian influence over Turkey’s expanding presence and is actively working to limit Turkish involvement. A key goal of recent Moscow meetings was to encourage Russia to pressure Hamas—via intermediaries—to facilitate negotiations for the release of Israeli hostages, including Maxim Herkin, a dual Israeli-Russian citizen. Hamas had promised to follow through on the release of hostages, but is now in jeopardy due to Israel’s new strikes on Gaza.

Let’s not forget that more than one million Russians live in Israel and that there are those ties to Tel Aviv within Russia and outside as well.

Israel has also lobbied Washington to maintain a weak and decentralized Syria by allowing Russia to retain its military bases there, thereby countering Turkey’s expanding influence in the region. Netanyahu has escalated calls for the demilitarization of southern Syria and is pressing the U.S. to ensure that Syria remains “weak,” enabling Russia to keep its military presence as a counterbalance to Turkey’s efforts to forge a security alliance with Syria’s new leadership.

He reaffirmed Israel’s military position in key areas of Lebanon and Syria, stating, “We demand full demilitarization of southern Syria from forces of the new regime and will not tolerate any threats to the Druze population.” For Russia, this arrangement allows them to maintain their base in Syria while establishing one in Libya, and reducing dependence on Ankara, which currently holds an advantageous position in these negotiations.

After the fall of Damascus, Russia was among the first to recognize the flag of the new Syria in its embassies, and on February 12, Putin had a phone conversation with al-Jolani, discussing cooperation in trade, economic and educational sectors. According to Russian media, Moscow emphasized its position in support of “unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity” for Syria, pushing for dialogue between factions.

On the same day and almost immediately after Trump took office, he and Putin spoke on the phone for an hour and a half for the first time since he returned to the White House. The discussions marked the initial phase of negotiations between Russia, the U.S., and Ukraine aimed at ending that conflict, conversations that had been planned long before Trump took office.

These talks also encompassed issues related to the Middle East and Iran’s nuclear program.

Israel and Mahmoud Abbas, seen as a supporter of Zionist interests, were both invited to Russia’s Victory Day parade on May 9 this year. While the U.S. did not receive an invitation, Trump was invited to Moscow by Putin, along with representatives from China. Notably absent from the guest list were Venezuela and Iran.

What’s true is that, after al-Jolani handed southern Syria to Israel on a silver platter, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with al-Jolani and took northern Syria and now Turkish forces have begun building a base at the Menagh military airport in the Aleppo countryside.

Satellite images show extensive activity at the Menagh Air Base, north of Aleppo, confirming that the base has been transformed into a Turkish military facility just as orchestrated by Ankara. From this perspective it appears Israel, Turkey and Washington worked together to use the radical factions to partition Syria, but now Israel wants a larger piece of the pie.

Erdogan is eager to establish dominance in key areas, and Washington wants to oversee everything, leaving the carcass of Syria to the vultures. Enter Russia which desires to keep its base and, by siding with Israel, simultaneously create less reliance on Ankara, while still maintaining a relationship with Iran.

Fanning the flames further, Erdogan has just announced that Ankara will never recognize Crimea as Russian territory, even though it has been more than ten years since they voted themselves to join Russia. Strategic diplomacy in an era of delicate boundaries, dubious eyes and allies is all in a day’s work.

Iran has also been walking a fine line between current President Masoud Pezeshkian and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, both of whom have recently told Trump they will not be bullied into Washington’s threats and demands. While Pezeshkian is a reformist, the real power lies behind Khamenei and, even if Iran had backed off Syria perhaps because Assad had pivoted away, it is still seen as a potential problem for Israel—hence, the U.S. is increasingly building threats including using Iran as the excuse to attack Yemen.

While Iran embodies the spirit of Resistance for many, it is also a nation at risk of U.S. intervention, with political factions lurking in the shadows ready to alter the entire governmental landscape.

A significant criticism directed at Tehran is its tepid response to Israel’s attacks on Gaza, falling short of both expectations and its potential capacity to retaliate against Tel Aviv.

In truth, Iran faces a critical choice: to continue along the path of the Resistance struggle, potentially leading to all-out war with the United States, or to pursue normalization with the West, which would likely result in a radical and unfavorable shift in government that could ultimately destroy its national sovereignty.

Just days ago Israel struck Damascus with the Israeli military claiming that it was targeting “a command center belonging to Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” which it said was used to direct “terrorist activities” against Israel.

While there is no evidence of this, Israel was not met with any resistance from al-Jolani or HTS. There is increasing tension with HTS coming into Lebanon with the excuse of targeting Hezbollah, as Israel gets to freely take over the rest of Syria and attack Lebanon while the U.S is bombing Yemen and the excuse is the increasing “danger” of Iran to Washington.

Let’s recall the famous words of General Wesley Clark, relating to the post-9/11 plan made by the Bush administration for endless war: “We’re gonna take out 7 countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off with Iran.”

Iran is the last country standing on this list and this administration has been designated to carry out a plan to target it.

Recent events—including the collapse of Syria, the potential conclusion of the Ukraine war and its impact on alliances, the genocide in Gaza, the ethnic cleansing and rise of Wahhabi terrorist factions across Syria and the region, Israel’s aggression toward Lebanon, and U.S. and UK bombings in Yemen—represent a continuation of the War on Terror.

Conflicts do not cease; they merely change their appearance and dynamics, which is a fundamental aspect of U.S. foreign policy. The key takeaway for anyone engaging with Washington is to recognize that negotiating with these terrorists in expensive suits will only perpetuate conflicts in one form or another, as it is through such turmoil that they thrive.

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