The refugee crisis in Europe brought to you by the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia

[Contumacious]

The Refugee Crisis


So to re-cap: 1) US (and allies) unleashes total hell on Syria to overthrow Assad, with many/most fighters being foreign jihadists; 2) Assad fights back against foreign-backed insurgency; 3) resulting civil war produces circumstances not unlike those in Libya after “liberation” yet somehow Assad manages to hold off advance of al-Qaeda and ISIS; 4) with Syria back to near stone-age levels, anyone who can leave is trying to leave.


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[Contumacious]

The Refugee Crisis


So to re-cap: 1) US (and allies) unleashes total hell on Syria to overthrow Assad, with many/most fighters being foreign jihadists; 2) Assad fights back against foreign-backed insurgency; 3) resulting civil war produces circumstances not unlike those in Libya after “liberation” yet somehow Assad manages to hold off advance of al-Qaeda and ISIS; 4) with Syria back to near stone-age levels, anyone who can leave is trying to leave.


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before the US launched its “regime change” policy against Syria (with US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford admitting presence of jihadists from the very beginning — as he was meeting with and encouraging them) there were no refugees fleeing the country.

 

[Contumacious]

Where are they going and why?

Most people attempting the perilous crossing are fleeing poverty or violent conflict in their native countries and are attempting to reach Europe, where they seek asylum and better employment opportunities.

 

[jwoodie]

Another foreign policy success for the Obama Administration, or are we still blaming Bush?

 

[Contumacious]

Another foreign policy success for the Obama Administration, or are we still blaming Bush?

IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE BUSH-BLAIR AXIS OF EVIL. AND CONTINUED BY OBAMA.


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[Contumacious]

Our Treasonous Foreign Policy


"Yet it wasn’t Assad who created the power vacuum in the region that the “caliphate” is rapidly filling. It wasn’t Assad who disbanded the Iraqi military and installed a Shi’ite majority regime in Baghdad. It wasn’t Assad who decided it was time to “drain the swamp” of the Middle East in response to the 9/11 attacks. These acts were carried out by the US government – and the Islamic State is a classic case of “blowback,” i.e. of the unintended consequences of a supremely wrong-headed policy."

 

[Contumacious]

Our Treasonous Foreign Policy


"Yet it wasn’t Assad who created the power vacuum in the region that the “caliphate” is rapidly filling. It wasn’t Assad who disbanded the Iraqi military and installed a Shi’ite majority regime in Baghdad. It wasn’t Assad who decided it was time to “drain the swamp” of the Middle East in response to the 9/11 attacks. These acts were carried out by the US government – and the Islamic State is a classic case of “blowback,” i.e. of the unintended consequences of a supremely wrong-headed policy."

"It’s fairly obvious why the terrorist-supporting Saudis would want to sanitize Al Qaeda, their longtime sock puppets, but who are the US officials who back this lunatic policy?"

 

[Contumacious]

As it turns out, however, Nusra has left the Israelis alone – and, indeed, it looks like there is a de facto alliance between bin Laden’s boys and Bibi’s bombardiers. As the Wall Street Journal reports:


"Nusra Front, however, hasn’t bothered Israel since seizing the border area last summer – and some of its severely wounded fighters are regularly taken across the frontier fence to receive treatment in Israeli hospitals."

We are told by the Israelis that they don’t check the identities of these injured fighters: "We don’t ask who they are, we don’t do any screening… Once the treatment is done, we take them back to the border and they go on their way," says one Israeli military official. This from a country one can’t enter from the United States without an extensive interrogation at the airport.


Like most reporting on Israel, this story is chock full of hasbara, with the disturbing news of terrorist fighters treated in Israeli hospitals leavened with a touching tale of a young Syrian boy given a prosthetic arm due to the beneficence of his Israeli hosts. Yet this is overlaid with some darker overtones. While reporter Yaroslav Trofimov is careful to note "it would be a stretch to say that the U.S. and Israel are backing different sides in this war," he goes on to write:


"But there is clearly a growing divergence in US and Israeli approaches over who represents the biggest danger – and who should be seen, if not as an ally, at least as a lesser evil in the regional crisis sparked by the dual implosion of Syria and Iraq."

 

[Blackrook]

Do you doubt that Israeli doctors are giving medical care to their enemies. All doctors are obliged to do that by the Hippocratic Oath. I'm sure American doctors do the same.

We need to keep in mind: we have to better than the enemy we are fighting. We can't let them drag us down to their level.

 

[Contumacious]

Do you doubt that Israeli doctors are giving medical care to their enemies. All doctors are obliged to do that by the Hippocratic Oath. I'm sure American doctors do the same.

We need to keep in mind: we have to better than the enemy we are fighting. We can't let them drag us down to their level.

Bullshit



Israel bombs Damascus – and the cat is out of the bag

by Justin Raimondo,

It’s seems counterintuitive, to say the least. Indeed, it seems quite mad. And yet we now have all the evidence we need to point to a de facto Israeli alliance with Al Qaeda. The bombing of Damascus suburbs by Israeli jets – purportedly in order to prevent the Syrians from supplying Hezbollah with long range missiles – at precisely the moment when the Syrian “rebels” are demanding Western intervention on their behalf highlights one of the most bizarre alliances in history.

Bizarre, yes, but inexplicable? Not at all.

The Syrian government is claiming the Israelis “coordinated” their attack with the rebels, but this seems problematic – and is largely irrelevant. Yes, a rebel spokesman “blessed” the Israeli strike, but I rather doubt there’s ongoing communication between the rebel leadership and Tel Aviv. It’s simply not necessary: after all, their goals in the region are complementary, if not identical. The Sunni extremists who comprise Al Qaeda have been in the front lines in the battle against Bashar al-Assad, and are also bitterly hostile to the mullahs of Tehran, whom they consider heretics: Israel, for its part, has launched its own holy war against Iran for quite different reasons, and is eager to take out Assad: regardless of motives their goals do coincide. Both want chaos in Syria – the Israelis, in order to eliminate a longstanding thorn in their side, and the jihadists because they thrive in failed states, like Lebanon.

Why would the Israelis aid a “rebel” army made up almost exclusively of hardened jihadists who supposedly hate Israel and want to see its non-Arab inhabitants driven into the sea? For the same reason they initially nurtured Hamas – because they believe it serves their long range purposes. The reason the Israelis granted official legal status to the group that eventually morphed into one of the Jewish state’s most implacable enemies was simple: to divide the Palestinian resistance, and therefore weaken it. At the time, Fatah, the largest component of the secular Palestinian Liberation Organization, was the most effective opposition to the Israeli occupation. The Israelis thought aiding an Islamist competitor would achieve certain desired ends: the decline of the PLO’s influence, the alienation of Arab governments from the Palestinian cause, and the marginalization of that cause in Western eyes. All three goals have since been achieved.

The Israelis are assisting the Syrian jihadists for similar reasons: because it fits in rather neatly with their long-range goals. For a look at those goals, all you have to do is peruse a 1996 document prepared for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by leading neoconservatives, proposing a radical new Israeli “defense” strategy. Reading “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” is like reading a timeline of events in the Middle East for the past ten years. As I wrote in October of 2003, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War – a day when Israel bombed alleged “terrorist camps” in Syria:

“The paper, co-authored by Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser, portrayed Syria as the main enemy of Israel, but maintained the road to Damascus had to first pass through Baghdad:

“‘Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq – an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right – as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions. Jordan has challenged Syria’s regional ambitions recently by suggesting the restoration of the Hashemites in Iraq.'”

 

[Contumacious]

Because the US is 100 % responsible for the situation in Syria , it should exempt Syrians from its official political asylum policy.

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[Contumacious]

Because the US is 100 % responsible for the situation in Syria , it should exempt Syrians from its official political asylum policy.

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Thousands of desperate Syrian refugees seek safety in Turkey after outbreak of fresh fighting
Added: 17 Jun 2015
Renewed fighting in northern Syria since June 3 has sent a further 23,135 refugees fleeing across the border into Turkey's southern Sanliurfa province. Some 70 per cent of these are women and children, according to information received by UNHCR this week. Most of the new arrivals are Syrians escapin