Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman: We want Assad out of Syria no matter what the cost
2
July, 2017
"The
country [Syria] was at peace, prosperity was on the rise, and human
rights were respected. A common home and fatherland to many
ethnicities and 23 different religious groups, Syria has always been
a place where all were free to believe and live out their creed, all
relationships were characterized by mutual respect. The freedom that
is purportedly being brought to us by the rebels is precisely what
this rebellion has taken away from us."
Think
again. Who’s killing who in this picture?
…by Jonas E. Alexis
Israeli
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman thinks that he is fooling the
entire world when he has recently said that “We have no intention
of entering any conflict, but I advise our neighbors not to test
us.”[1]
Israel
has no intention of getting involved in the Syria conflict? Doesn’t
this man know that even Efraim Halevy, former director of the Israeli
Mossad, admitted unequivocally that Israel
has supported factions of Al-Qaeda and al-Nusra in Syria?
Does this man really think that he can con the entire world with
crazy statements like this?
That’s
not all. Lieberman has more interesting things to say. He declares
that Israel wants to flesh out a peace process in Syria, but get
this: that peace process must not involve interesting guests like
Iran, Hezbollah and Assad. Lieberman declared: “Keeping Assad in
power is not in our security interests.”[2]
The
logic is pretty clear here: for Lieberman, peace process means that
Assad has to go and has to be replaced with ISIS or al-Qaeda or
al-Nusra. As Israeli ambassador Michael Oren himself has said, Israel
prefers the bad guys in Syria over Assad.[3] According
to Lieberman, if Assad isn’t dead like Gaddafi or Saddam, then
there will be no peace in Syria.
Here
again we are confronted with one of the most fundamental issues of
our age: the Israeli regime wants to kill, steal, and destroy. They
want to create an unnecessary war, which potentially can morph into a
nuclear war with Russia. As Gordon
Duff has
recently argued, Israel wants to push both Russia
and the United States into a nuclear war.
In
a sane world, this is not rational at all precisely because Assad
hasn’t done anything that warrants such a diabolical war. Even PBS,
of all places, agreed that Assad has been protecting the small
Christian population in Syria.[4] Both
Obama and Ran Paul also knew that Assad provided a bulwark for
defending the Christian population.[5]
ISIS
has looted and burned down Christian homes and churches in the
region,[6] but
Neocons puppets and warmongers still want to support those ethnic
cleansers. Assad is also a moderate and is open to Western ideals,
but the warmongers still want to get rid of him. Giuseppe Nazzaro,
former apostolic visitor to Aleppo and former Custodian of the Holy
Land, said:
“[Assad]
opened the country up to foreign trade, to tourism within the country
and from abroad, to freedom of movement and of education for both men
and women. Before the protests started, the number of women in the
professional world had been constantly increasing, the university was
open to all, and there was no discrimination on the basis of sex.
“The
country was at peace, prosperity was on the rise, and human rights
were respected. A common home and fatherland to many ethnicities and
23 different religious groups, Syria has always been a place where
all were free to believe and live out their creed, all relationships
were characterized by mutual respect. The freedom that is purportedly
being brought to us by the rebels is precisely what this rebellion
has taken away from us.”[7]
Italian
journalist Alessandra Nucci reported:
“Syrian
Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, in Rome for the recent synod on
the family, told about the time the host of a French prime-time news
program asked him about Syria’s ‘awful president,’ saying,
‘He’s a monster. He’s killing innocent people, children and
women.’
“To
which Patriarch Younan replied with the story of a Capuchin priest
from a Syrian town on the Euphrates River which is 98 percent Sunni
Muslim. The Capuchin told Younan that as the town was being attacked
by anti-government rebels, he sheltered four Missionaries of Charity
sisters and 12 elderly women in their care within his parish center.
When the situation was no longer sustainable, the Capuchin said, the
nuns called Damascus. ‘And Damascus sent military vehicles to
evacuate [them] from the parish compound—there were the nuns, 12
elderly people, and [the Capuchin], and they took all to safety, in
Damascus.’
“‘Now,’
Patriarch Younan had said to the French news-show host, ‘you can
judge for yourself if this person, Assad, is a monster or not.’”[8]
Warmongers
aren’t interested in unity and peace in Syria at all. In fact,
Syria has been a place for religious unity long before the Neocon
war. As Nucci moved on to say: “In Syria, the tradition of
peaceful, brotherly coexistence among religions is a national trait
of which all Syrian groups have always been proud, including Syrian
Muslims, for whom the differences between Sunnis and Shiia are not
cause to rend the fabric of the nation.”[9]
Msgr.
Mario Zenari, current apostolic nuncio to Syria, agrees with Nucci:
“Although Syria is a Muslim-majority country, Syrians reject
radicalism and the Islam they practice is a moderate form of
Islam.”[10]
So,
the Israeli regime and the Neocons in America want to destroy the
unity in Syria and replace it with terrorism. Even the British
newspaper the Daily
Telegraph observed
that this isn’t good at all:
“If
the insurgents win the war, there will be no Christian churches in
Syria any more (just as there aren’t in Saudi Arabia at the
moment). Life will be similarly terrible for many of the ordinary
Muslims who make up the great majority of the population.
“There
are no ‘good guys’ in Syria’s civil war. But we should not be
blind to the fact that there is a project out there to destroy its
rich, pluralist, and unbelievably intricate culture and replace it
with a monochrome version of Wahhabi Islam, of the kind favoured by
Saudi mullahs. And for reasons that history may come to judge very
severely, Britain, the United States, and the West have been aiding
and abetting this project.”[11]
So,
the Israeli regime and its apologists in the United States and
England want to destroy much of the Middle East and build what some
historians have called the Greater Israel.[12] In
order for that to take place, open prisons such as the Gaza Strip
must be established,[13] Palestinians
have to die, and apologists like Alan Dershowitz have to defend those
torturous acts as “self-defense.” Thank God for intrepid people
like Norman Finkelstein who have morally and intellectually stripped
those apologists of their political pedestal.
[2] Ibid.
[5] “Obama:
Assad Protected Christians In Syria,” MintPress
News,
September 12, 2014; Christina Wilkie, “Rand Paul: Assad ‘Protected
Christians’ in Syria, Rebels ‘Attacking Christians,’” Huffington
Post,
September 3, 2013.
[6] Alessandra
Nucci, “ISIS, Assad, and What the West is Missing About
Syria,” Catholic
World Report,
December 15, 2015.
[7] Ibid.
[8] Ibid.
[9] Ibid.
[10] Ibid.
[11] Quoted
in ibid.
[12] See
for example Ilan Pappe, The
Making of the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1947–1951 (London:
I. B. Tauris, 1994). For similar studies, see Sara Roy, Hamas
and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social
Sector (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2011); Neve Gordon, Israel’s
Occupation (Berkeley
and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008).
[13] Ilan
Pappe, The
Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied
Territories (Oxford:
One World Publications, 2017).
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