The head of Palestine’s Hamas politburo Ismail Haniya said Tuesday that an end to Israel’s more than decade-long blockade of Gaza was “around the corner”, as talk of a possible truce deal intensifies.
Indirect negotiations between Gaza’s Hamas rulers and ‘Israel’ brokered by Egyptian and UN officials have reportedly included discussion on easing the blockade, but by no means a complete lifting of it.
Nasser Kandil wrote: Putin is setting the details of the truce
After the announcement of the resolution of the Security Council to ceasefire in Syria, the word of the Syrian Ambassador Bashar Al-Jafaari about the Syrian understanding of truce, the response to the American threat with a similar one, and the press conference of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov who has completed what Al Jafaari said and agreed upon it, the UN resolution became threatened to fall.
The interference of the French President and the German Chancellor has made the President Vladimir Putin put his terms and the lines of the truce.
The French President notified the Turkish President about what is related to him concerning the truce, that Afrin is included in the UN resolution and that unless he complies with the truce; the truce in Ghouta will fall.
The Russian President announced the details of the truce by stopping the Syrian and the Russian raids for five hours a day to allow the safe exit of the civilians from Ghouta through safe corridors and to continue the ground attack on the sites of the terrorist groups led by Al Nusra front.
With the Syrian and the Russian determination along with the allies the truce turns into a program of gradual resolving, which became clearer with the truce.
With the determination, the truce which is supposed to stop the resolving became a roadmap to achieve it.
ـ مع إعلان قرار مجلس الأمن عن وقف النار في سورية وكلمة السفير السوري بشار الجعفري حول الفهم السوري للهدنة والردّ على التهديد الأميركي بتهديد مماثل، ومع المؤتمر الصحافي لوزير الخارجية الروسي سيرغي لافروف الذي أكمل ما قاله الجعفري وأكد أنه متفَق عليه صار القرار الأممي مهدّداً بالسقوط.
ـ تدخل الرئيس الفرنسي والمستشارة الألمانية لدى الرئيس الروسي فوضع الرئيس فلاديمير بوتين شروطه ورسم خطوط الهدنة.
ـ أبلغ الرئيس الفرنسي الرئيس التركي الشق الذي يخصّه وهو أنّ عفرين مشمولة بقرار مجلس الأمن وأنه ما لم يلتزم بالهدنة فتسقط هدنة الغوطة.
ـ أعلن الرئيس الروسي برنامج الهدنة بوقف الغارات السورية والروسية في فترة نهاية لخمس ساعات لإفساح المجال لخروج المدنيين من الغوطة وتحديد ممرات آمنة لهم ومواصلة الهجوم البري على مواقع الجماعات الإرهابية وفي طليعتها جبهة النصرة.
ـ تتحوّل الهدنة مع العزيمة السورية والروسية ومعهما الحلفاء إلى برنامج للحسم المتدرّج والواضح بصورة أفضل مما لو لم تتمّ الهدنة.
ـ مع العزيمة صارت الهدنة المفترض انها لوقف الحسم مجرّد خارطة طريق لتحقيقه.
في شباط الماضي دخلت أميركا مع روسيا في اتفاق يرسي هدنة في سورية عوّل عليها الكثيرون لتكون بداية الخطوات الأولى لإنتاج البيئة الملائمة للذهاب الجدي الى الحلّ السياسي المتوازن الذي يحفظ وحدة سورية والقرار المستقل لشعبها. وعلى أساس هذه الهدنة تمّ التحضير لمباحثات جنيف على أساس القرار 2254 الذي وضع خطوطاً عريضة للحلّ السياسي في سورية.
ولكن أميركا التي تبيّن لها في تقييم معمق واطلاع شامل على الوضع انّ الميزان ليس في صالحها في الميدان، وبالتالي ان المفاوضات اذا انعقدت فإنها لن تفضي الى ما يسرّ النفس الأميركية الطامعة بالسيطرة على المنطقة، لذلك فانّ أميركا هذه استغلت الهدنة من اجل تعزيز أوضاع ارهابيّيها واعادة تنظيمهم وتسليحهم وتجهيزهم بأفضل ما يمكن إيصاله اليهم من سلاح وذخيرة، وقرّرت خوض المواجهة على كل الجبهات في سورية عامة وعلى جبهة حلب بشكل خاص، لانها رأت في حلب المكافئ الاستراتيجي النوعي الذي يعادل دمشق التي تحكم الدولة السورية الإمساك بها وتحصّن أمنها في المحيط بشكل يجعلها عصية على الاختراق.
وبالفعل أوقفت أميركا في نيسان/ ابريل 2016 الفائت مباحثات جنيف دون ان تحدّد موعداً جديداً وفجّرت الميدان وانطلقت في معركة حلب بشكل جعلها في الأيام الأولى تحقق مكتسبات ميدانية لا بأس بها من خان طومان الى العيس وتلتها الى خلصة وجوارها، وكادت أن تعلن انها امتلكت زمام المبادرة في حلب، وأنها نجحت في خدعتها في استثمار الهدنة التي أعلنتها في شباط، الهدنة التي أوقفت هجوم سورية وحالت دون استكمال تطهير حلب من الإرهابيين، ومكّنت أميركا من تحشيد الجماعات المسلحة وتنفيذ عمليات معاكسة غيّرت بعض الشيء في المشهد.
شعر معسكر الدفاع عن سورية بما في ذلك محور المقاومة وروسيا بأنّ أميركا غدرت وخدعت، فقرّر الردّ السريع وأطلق عملية تحرير حلب. العملية التي خطط لها على مراحل ثلاث أولها تحشيد وإعداد القوى اللازمة، ثانيها تطويق وتهيئة البيئة العملانية، والثالثة هي إنجاز التطهير النهائي للأحياء الشرقية. وقد نجح هذا المعسكر في عمليته إيما نجاح وأنجز المرحلتين الأولى والثانية ووضع أقدامه بثبات وثقة بالنفس على اعتاب المرحلة الثالثة. هنا خشيت أميركا أن تفقد ورقة حلب، وبعد ان لمست انّ أحداً لم ولن يصغي اليها في التهويل لمنع معركة حلب فارتضت ان تدخل في صفقة مع روسيا عنوانها هدنة حلب المتدحرجة. صفقة أبرمتها أميركا في مطلع أيلول/ سبتمبر الحالي وعوّلت عليها لمنع استمرار سورية في معركة حلب لتطهيرها.
وهنا ربّ قائل يقول كيف لمعسكر الدفاع عن سورية ان يعطي هذه الورقة الثمينة لأميركا وان يكرّر تجربة هدنة شباط الماضي. وهو سؤال محق وبكلّ تأكيد إذا قرأنا ظاهر الأمور فقط، أما إذا تعمّقنا في الصفقة فنجد أنّ العكس هو الصحيح.
ففي صفقة أيلول كان هناك تبادل بين ورقتين او مجموعتين من الموجبات والالتزامات ومن طبيعة مختلفة، ففي الصفقة التزمت روسيا وتالياً معسكر الدفاع عن سورية بالتزامات من طبيعة عملانية تشمل وقف عملية تطهير حلب، وتزويد المسلحين والأهالي في الأحياء الشرقية لحلب بالمؤن والاحتياجات المعيشية وهو ما أُسمي بالمساعدات الإنسانية، على ان يتمّ ذلك عبر طريق الكاستيلو التي يربط الأحياء تلك بتركيا بعد ان تخليه القوات السورية، ما يعني بالمفهوم الأميركي فك الحصار المحكم الذي فرضه الجيش العربي السوري على حلب خلال آب/ أغسطس المنصرم.
وفي المقابل التزمت أميركا بموجبات والتزامات ذات طبيعة استراتيجية هامة تشمل قبولها العلني والصريح بتصنيف جبهة النصرة إرهابية مع داعش، وتلتزم بإجراء الفصل الميداني بينها وبين مَن تسمّيهم معارضة معتدلة، كما وتلتزم بإنشاء غرفة عمليات عسكرية مشتركة مع روسيا وتوجيه ضربات مشتركة لهذين التنظيمين الإرهابيين. أيّ ببساطة كلية تكون أميركا التزمت بالتخلي لا بل بقتال جيشها السري الذي اعتمدت عليه للعدوان على سورية.
والسؤال هنا كيف كان لأميركا أن تدخل في صفقة غير متوازنة؟ وماذا يبقى لها في سورية من أدوات يعوّل عليها إذا شطبت النصرة وداعش من الميدان، وهما يشكلان أكثر من 65 من المسلحين؟ وهل أميركا لا تحسن التقدير حتى تتخلى عن اوراقها الاستراتيجية بهذه السهولة؟
الجواب، برأينا انّ أميركا كانت تعلم كلّ ذلك، ولكنها لم تكن تخشى منه، لأنها في لحظة توقيع الاتفاق كانت تضمر عدم تنفيذ التزاماتها، فكانت تريد ان تأخذ ما كسبته في الصفقة، أي فك الحصار وتثبيت المسلحين وان ترفض إعطاء ما التزمت به على عادتها في المماطلة والتسويف والخداع. ورتبت الأمر في أخبث عملية توزيع أدوار داخل الإدارة الأميركية، بدا فيها البنتاغون معارضاً للصفقة غير المتوازنة رافضاً تنفيذها، ومن أجل ذلك أيضاً رفضت أميركا نشر الاتفاق حتى لا تزداد إحراجاً في إظهار عدم التوازن في الصفقة وكذلك رفضت الذهاب لمجلس الأمن لاعتمادها من قبله.
لكن أميركا فوجئت بأنّ حساباتها هذه لم تطابق ما سيكون عليه الميدان، حيث إنّ معسكر الدفاع عن السورية الذي قبل بالصفقة كان حذراً وفطناً في مسألة التنفيذ، ولم يعط أميركا ما ابتغت دون ان تبادر هي الى تنفيذ ما التزمت به، وهنا تعطلت الصفقة فانتقمت أميركا من الجيش العربي السوري في دير الزور بعد أن حمّلته مسؤولية التعطيل ومسؤولية الوعي وفضح خدعتها وعدم الوقوع في شراكها.
انّ العدوان الأميركي على الجيش العربي السوري في دير الزور هدف الى تحقيق ثلاثة أهداف أميركية: أولها، الانتقام من الجيش الذي أفشل الخدعة الأميركية. ثانيها، إخراج الجيش من دير الزور لإلحاق المدينة بمنطقة النفوذ الأميركي المزعومة، وفي ذلك شيء من كسب اوراق ميدانية استراتيجية لصالح أميركا. وثالثها، رسالة الى روسيا بأنّ أميركا وحدها من يقرّر في الميدان السوري دون شراكة معها. وتكون بهذا عوّضت برأيها خسارة ما كانت تأمل به في حلب.
ولكن أيضاً كانت الحسابات الأميركية هذه المرة خاطئة، وارتدّ عليها عدوانها الوحشي خسارات ثلاث بدل الأهداف الثلاثة، حيث افتضحت وبدون أيّ مواربة او التباس العلاقة البنيوية العضوية بين داعش وأميركا، وظهر للعلن انّ داعش فصيل مسلح تشغّله أميركا، كما أنها فشلت في إخراج الجيش العربي السوري من دير الزور، بعد أن قام بعملية هجوم معاكس وتثبيت مراقعه فيها، ثم اتبع الموقف هذا بموقف بالغ الأهمية تجلى ببيان القوات المسلحة السورية إعلان وقف العمل بالهدنة في صفعة مدوية لأميركا، وأخيراً كان الموقف الروسي الحادّ الذي سخر وهزأ من أميركا علانية وخداعها وفضائحها.
بعد هذه المناورات والمبارزة تعود أميركا وتتمسك بالهدنة التي كانت هي سبب في فشلها وسقوطها، وهنا يُطرح السؤال عن أي هدنة تتكلم أميركا؟ عن هدنة رفضت او امتنعت هي عن تنفيذها أم عن خدعة كشفت ورفض معسكر الدفاع عن سورية الوقوع فيها؟
يبدو أنّ أميركا تريد العودة الى الهدنة لتطمس فضائحها وجرائهما في دير الزور ولتجرّب حظها في الخداع مرة أخرى، لأنّ النفس التي من طبيعتها الاحتيال والخداع تستصعب أن تصدق وأن تفي بالتزاماتها، كما انها تريد ان تثبت انها هي من يتحكم بمسار الأزمة السورية ميدانياً وسياسياً.
ولكن نرى انّ النيات والأهداف الأميركية هذه لن تتحقق وان على أميركا ان تعلم انّ زمن الاحتيال والخداع ولّى. وهي تستطيع ان تخدع مرة كما فعلت في شباط، لكنها لا تستطيع ان تخدع في كلّ مرة، وانّ معسكر الدفاع عن سورية الذي أسقط خطط أميركا الخمس السابقة وأبقى سورية صامدة في مواقعها الاستراتيجية والذي فضح وأسقط خدعتها الأخيرة، ان هذا المعسكر جاهز أيضاً وبكلّ صلابة وثقة لإسقاط أيّ خطة او خدعة جديدة مع علمه بأنّ أدوات أميركا في الميدان تتآكل واذا شاءت ان تأتي بجيشها فإنّ الأسلوب الذي خبرته في العراق سيتكرّر في سورية وفي النهاية فإنّ النصر لن يكون الا للشعوب التي قرّرت ان تدافع عن نفسها. والشعب السوري ومعه شعوب المنطقة يملكون هذا القرار.
كما أنني أرتاب في ربطات العنق الفاخرة والياقات البيضاء التي يرتديها ذوو السوابق واولئك الذين تقول سجلاتهم انهم لصوص وقوادون .. فانني أرتاب في الكلام الفخم الذي يرتدي المخمل الناعم والقماش الأنيق الذي يصنعه اللصوص والمنافقون ..
وكما أنني أرتاب بالرصاصة المصنوعة من الذهب فانني أرتاب بالكلام المرصّع بالذهب .. لأن الذهب يزين كل شيء الا جسد الكلام .. بل ان الكلام البديع هو الذي يزين جسد الذهب الشاحب الأصفر .. فما أقبح الكلمة التي يلبسها أصحابها الفضة والماس ويكسون جسدها الدافئ اللين البض بصفائح الذهب الباردة ويعرضونها في معارض الكلام ..
انني أرتاب بكل شيء جميل يتزين بالجمال .. بل انني أرتاب في الجمل المقدسة لكتب الله عندما تكتب بماء الذهب على جدران المعابد والكنائس والمساجد .. كما أرتاب في عبارات السماء كثيرا عندما تخرج مجوّدة مذهّبة من أفواه الطغاة والزناة والقتلة مخلوطة بالتكبير والدم .. فهل يحتاج كلام الاله ليكتب بماء الذهب ليكون جميلا وباهرا ولامعا كالبرق كما يكتب الله بالبرق والنجوم كلامه على دفاتر السماء؟؟ ..
فلا تلوموني لأنني لاأقرأ البيانات السياسية مثل أي سياسي .. بل أخضعها دوما لمعاييري الصارمة .. وأنزع عن البيانات الديبلوماسية الحرير والقماش الموشى بالقصب والذهب .. وأخلع عنها أطواق الماس والياقوت الأحمر ثم اتأمل وجوهها وأجسادها العارية .. وأقدر أن أقول بثقة أنني لذلك قلما أكترث بما يقال في البيانات التي تصدر عن الديبلوماسيين ومؤتمراتهم الصحفية وخاصة الأميريكيين .. فنحن من صنعنا الكلام واخترعنا وجه اللغة .. وهم دوما يفسدونها بما يلبسونها من حرير ويثقلونها بصفائح الذهب حتى لاتقدر ان تعوم في الروح .. فتغرق في مياه العقل ..
هذا هو مافعلته عندما قرأت تفاصيل الاتفاق الأخير بين الروس والاميركيين بشأن هدنة حلب .. فاتفاق آخر الليل مليء بالمساعدات الانسانية .. ومليء بالامنيات بالسلام للشعب السوري .. ومحشو بالجوز والعسل و”المعتدلين” .. وفيه وعود وعهود ومواثيق .. ولكن بعد أن نعري البيان الجميل ونجرده من أقنعته المسرحية ونستعيد الحروف التي ينبض فيها دمنا منذ زمن أوغاريت نكتشف الحقيقة التي تريد متاريس الذهب أن تخفيها .. وهي أن جيش الولايات المتحدة السري في سورية والمتمثل بالمعارضة المعتدلة والمتطرفة على وشك الانهيار في حلب .. وأن الوضع العسكري على الارض ينذر بشر خطير يقترب من جيش الفتح الذي تزدحم فيه الملائكة وطلاب الحور العين .. وان حملة الابادة الأفقية والعمودية التي تعرض لها اضطرت الولايات المتحدة الى أن تشتري الحياة له ولمن بقي في أحياء حلب الشرقية ساعة بساعة وتحقنه بالأمل والصبر .. سهر جون كيري حتى الصباح مع لافروف يطلب الرحمة بجيش الفتح ومقاتلي المعارضة اليائسين .. لم يعد جيش الفتح يريد الا استراحة من المجزرة والمقتلة التي تعرض لها وحفظ ماء الوجه ..
وصار المحيسني يبحث عن سلم من السماء ينزله من أرض الحور العين التي استحالت جحيما الى أرض الواقع .. فماذا سيفعل بالحور العين في السماء اذا لم يبق مقاتلون له في حلب ..؟؟
قبل السهرة الطويلة المضنية الروسية الاميركية بأيام لفت أنظارنا أن الاعلام الغربي يستيقظ فجأة على هدير الدبابات السورية وهي تطحن جيش الفتح في الراموسة وحول الكليات العسكرية وتبحث عن أي عظم بقي للمسلحين حول المنطقة .. وصار الاعلام يبحث قي ملفاته العاجلة عن ملف السلاح الكيماوي – الذي كان كالعظم الرميم الذي يراد احياؤه – ليهدد به ودفع به الى مجلس الأمن وتوعد وهدد .. بل انه دخل الى مستودعات الجيش السوري وجعل يدس فيها السلاح الكيماوي لتلفيق الاتهام الممل البليد باستعمال أسلحة محظورة .. وقد صارت لعبة السلاح الكيماوي ممجوجة ومستهلكة وذريعة لاتجد لها مشجعين مثل أي فيلم قديم يعرض في السينما من زمن الأبيض والأسود .. ونعرف كل الحبكات فيه التي لم تعد تفاجئ أحدا .. ولذلك تم رمي الذريعة الكيماوية لترهيبنا فيما سافر الاميريكيون على عجل الى جنيف لغاية أخرى تماما .. ففي كل ساعة تأخير يذوب جيش الفتح الذي تبين انه جيش مصنوع من الزبدة .. والزبدة الآن يطعمها الجيش السوري وحلفاؤه النار في حلقها وبطنها ..
من يقرأ الهدنة التي تلت تدمير قيادات الصف الأول لجيش الفتح ومفخرة القاعدة في غارة جوية قيل انها غامضة تركت جيش الفتح بلا رؤوسه “النووية” بعد ان سقط القادة المخضرمون الذين كانوا يقطفون المدن في سلال القاعدة فاذا برؤوسهم تسقط في سلة حلب الكبيرة بضربة واحدة .. وكل ماقيل عن دور اميريكا في قطف رؤوس جيش الفتح كعربون للروس على جديتهم في حرب القاعدة ليس مقنعا لأن من يهرول الى جنيف ليشتري ساعة من الحياة لمسلحي حلب لايقتل زعماء التمرد الذي يريد انقاذ حلب الشرقية قبل اي اتفاق بل ينتظر الاتفاق ويقدم الثمن الذي اتفق عليه بعده .. أما أن يدفع الثمن سلفا فانه لن يكون سياسيا اميريكيا .. فالاميركي تاجر ماكر ومراوغ وله عقل شايلوك وهو لايدفع الأثمان سلفا على الاطلاق وينتظر وصول الهدية بالبريد العسكري .. ولم يحدث عبر كل تاريخه انه دفع ثمنا الا بعد انجاز الصفقة التي يبحث عنها ..
ولذلك فان غالب الظن ان من أعدم نخبة قادة جيش الفتح هو نيران سورية لأن تكنيك العملية وطريقتها ذكرتنا بعملية تصفية قادة جيش الاسلام في الغوطة عند اجتماعهم الاخير مع زهران علوش .. وذكرتنا بتصفية حجي مارع في حلب ومن ثم قادة أحرار الشام في ادلب في الاجتماع الشهير الذي بتر رؤوس أحرار الشام .. وقد لفت نظري تحليل غربي يميل الى أن احتمال اقدام اميريكا على تصفية قادة جيش الفتح احتمال قوي في حال ثبتت المعلومات التي تقول ان الاميركيين لم يقدموا حلفاءهم عربون صداقة للروس بل تمت تصفيتهم لأنهم لمسوا في تقارير الاستخبارات وتناهى الى مسامعهم من مصادر عدة أن تغييرا وتمردا في قيادة جيش الفتح بدأ يتبلور بعد ان تبين للقيادات انهم دفعوا الى معركة يموتون فيها وحدهم دون أن يظهر الداعمون في الحلف الغربي اي بادرة عسكرية لردع الطيران الروسي عن المعركة .. وأن قادة جيش الفتح وخاصة السوريين منهم ربما كانوا في صدد تعليق معركة حلب واعلان انسحابهم منها واعلان براءتهم من دم آلاف المسلحين الذين ماتوا مجانا دون ظهير وعدوا به .. وهذا الاعلان لو حدث كان سيكسر الأمل في أحياء حلب الشرقية .. حيث ستنهار المجموعات المسلحة بسرعة وستنتهي معركة حلب خلال أيام دون أن يحصل الاميركيون على مايريدونه من اثمان .. فتمت تصفية قادة الصف الاول لاستبدالهم بقيادات اكثر مرونة وولاء وتقبل باستمرار المعركة وقد أدركت انها ستعاقب بقسوة اذا مافكرت بالتمرد .. واتجهت اميريكا في نفس الوقت الى محاولة اطالة المعركة فقط .. ريثما تحضر جبهة أخرى وتحرك آخر من الشرق او الجنوب قبل ان ينهار كل شيء في حلب كما صار متوقعا ..
والشكل الظاهري للصفقة الاميركية مع الروس هو انها اشترت بثمن ما ممرا للمساعدات الانسانية للمحاصرين لمدة 48 ساعة والبعض يراها ممرا خطيرا للسلاح لتأمين صمود المحاصرين في حلب .. ولكن البنادق المحاصرة لاتكفيها المساعدات بل تحتاج الى الأمل .. وقد يدخل الى مسلحي حلب كل شيء يطلبونه في الصناديق الا الأمل .. والأمل للمحاصرين لاتحمله الشاحنات بل تحمله الدبابات القادمة لنصرتهم والجيوش التي ستأتيهم بالنجدة .. ولكن من ذا الذي يغامر بتحدي الحلفاء على أرضهم وفي أجوائهم من أجل مسلحي حلب؟؟ ومن هو الجيش الذي سيركب الدبابات من أجل أن يموت من أجل مقاتلي حلب الشرقية؟؟
حتى اردوغان وقف يتفرج بعيدا في جرابلس وهو يدعو لهم بالنصر .. وماأرسله هو تصريحات عتيقة صدئة صارت اذا مرت من بين اسنانه سمع لها صرير الكلمات الصدئة .. وكأن فمه ناعورة تتحرك في نفس المكان وترتفع وتهبط وتغرف نفس الماء منذ ست سنوات ..
الروس والسوريون وحلفاؤهم ليسوا بالاغبياء ولا بالسذج كي ينجزوا انتصارات بالدم والجهد ثم يهدونها للمسلحين بمناسبة عيد الأضحى .. وفي نظر العسكريين من كل المدارس الغربية والشرقية تكاد تكون معركة حلب في خواتيمها .. وستنتهي .. اما على طريقة داريا أو على طريقة بابا عمرو .. وفي رأي البعض فانها قد تنتهي على الطريقة السوفييتية في برلين في ايار عام 45 .. فالحصار مطبق والممرات الانسانية لاتمنح للمنتصرين بل لمن ينتظر الاستسلام أو الموت .. وماقيل للاميركيين صراحة هو أن ادخال أي سلاح الى الاحياء الشرقية لن يعني الا أن تكون نيراننا أغزر وأكثر فتكا .. وان من يعطي السلاح للمحاصرين انما يعطيهم الموت السريع بسلاحنا .. فماذا يفيد الذئب الحبيس في قفص فولاذي ولو أطعمته لحم الذئاب؟؟
من يقرأ الاتفاق عاريا من تزيينات الاميركيين للثورجيين وانجازاتهم ووعدهم بالامل يعرف انه اتفاق توسل فيه الغرب الرحمة لمسلحي حلب .. وفيه اعتراف اميريكي أن كل اللحى هي اميركية الهوى وأن اميركيا تحاول انقاذ جيشها السري ..
وفي الاتفاق نفاذ صبر روسي سوري لأنه اعطي بالقطارة وبالساعات والايام .. وترك هامش الاتفاق الخاص بالحلفاء الروس والسوريين ليكون أكبر من أوراق الاتفاق نفسه .. وسيضع الاميركيون اللجام في فم المعارضة السورية وفي أفواه بنادقها خوفا عليها .. ولكن هذا سيصيب روح جبهة النصرة بالأسيد .. فتزيينها بشعارات الاعتدال وتذويبها في أحواض المعارضة السورية وغسيلها فيها لحمايتها يعني انه تمت هزيمة عقيدتها وطبعها وروحها المتأصلة فيها وحدث شرخ في كيانها وايديولوجيتها الجذابة للمتطرفين .. فتسييس جبهة النصرة وتذويبها يعني أنها تموت عمليا كايديولوجية جذابة للرفض اللاهوتي الصلف ..
ربطات العنق والياقات البيضاء وأطواق الذهب التي يسربها الاميركيون لم تغير من حقيقة الاتفاق بأنه استجداء للرحمة وحاول أن يخفي شكوى وانين المعارضة المسلحة وأحزان جيش الفتح الذي جاء الاتفاق ليحفظ ماء وجهه لينزله عن شجرة تحرير حلب التي صعد اليها ولايعرف كيف ينزل عنها .. لأنه الآن سيقول بأنه كان يريد تحرير حلب ولكن المتآمرين منعوه ..
ومن أجل ذلك .. أنصحكم أن ترتابوا بكل شيء يقال في السياسة .. ولكن اياكم أن ترتابوا بالجيش السوري لانه لايكتب كلام الاله بماء الذهب ليكون جميلا وباهرا ولامعا كالبرق بل يكتب كما يكتب الله بحبر البرق على دفاتر السماء .. وهو اليوم يكتب بالبرق على دفاتر حلب ..
Obama wants Assad’s government forcefully toppled, using ISIS and other terrorists fighters as imperial foot soldiers.
Sham peace talks are cover, resumed today after pausing for two weeks, going nowhere. Washington knows Syrians won’t tolerate surrendering their sovereignty to a foreign power.
They reject US-led Western interference in their internal affairs. Convincing them militarily is Washington’s Plan B – also known as Plan A, an escalated version with heavier weapons, giving ISIS and other imported death squads greater support to counter Russia, claiming cold-blooded killers are “moderate rebels.”
Evil lunatics run America, endless wars of aggression their core strategy, wanting all independent governments replaced by puppet regimes they control – millions of lost lives, vast destruction, unspeakable human misery and the greatest refugee crisis since WW II considered small prices to pay.
Washington and its rogue allies are assessing what type enhanced weapons to train terrorists to use – including greater numbers of man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) and others able to down warplanes.
ISIS and other terrorist groups already have small numbers of these weapons, supplied by CIA elements and Pentagon contractors training them.
According to an unnamed senior Obama administration official, “(i)f the ceasefire collapses, if the negotiations don’t go anywhere, and we’re back to full throttle civil (sic) war, all bets will be off.”
“The outside patrons will double and triple down, throwing everything they can into Syria, including much more lethal weaponry.”
Ceasefire never took hold as claimed. Peace talks are farcical by any standard going nowhere. Endless war will continue as long as Washington and its rogue allies keep supporting terrorists called “moderate rebels.”
Russia may have to rethink its drawdown and ramp up its presence to former or greater strength to counter Washington’s evil scheme.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”
Interviewed by Germany-based ARD television on March 1, his remarks were refreshingly straightforward and candid like always – polar opposite Obama’s demagogic rantings.
He pledged to go all-out to make cessation of hostilities work, knowing huge obstacles he faces.
Multiple opposition element breaches continue daily, US-supported terrorists masquerading as moderates entirely responsible.
“(W)e have refrained from retaliating in order to give” the agreement a chance to work, he explained. “(E)verything has a limit. It depends on the other side,” so far showing little inclination for diplomatic conflict resolution.
Days into the agreement, conflict continues raging. Assad hasn’t given up hope for things can work. At the same time, he knows what he’s up against – the power of America, Israel and their rogue allies wanting him ousted, Syrian sovereignty destroyed.
He minced no words, saying “(w)hoever holds armaments against civilians or against private or public property, legally is a terrorist.”
It’s the same everywhere. No nation tolerates armed opposition, massacring people, committing atrocities, responsible for vast destruction. It’s the obligation of state power to confront it forcefully, in defense of its people.
The term “rebels” is a misnomer, Assad stressed. A so-called “moderate opposition” doesn’t exist. Syria is combatting foreign-supported extremists – ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist groups.
Liberation requires defeating them. Half-way measures won’t work. “(T)here’s no civil war (ongoing) because the definition is wrong,” he explained.
“(I)t’s the (foreign backed) terrorists versus” civil society, ordinary Syrian wanting peace and stability, their sovereignty respected, their exclusive right to choose who’ll lead them.
“(M)y political fate is only linked to the will of the Syrian people,” Assad stressed. If they no longer want his leadership, he’ll “leave…right away, without any hesitation, because if you want to succeed as an official (in any position, including president), you need the support of the public.”
Legitimacy depends on it. Asked about early March 2011 demonstrations leading to war, he discounted the phony Western narrative. “The whole story didn’t exist,” he said. “It didn’t happen.”
“It was only propaganda…a fallacious narrative” used as a pretext for the horrors that followed, continuing daily, civilians suffering most.
When foreign-backed terrorists from scores of countries are slaughtering people and committing atrocities, “(w)e have only one option…stop them and prevent them from continuing the killing,” Assad explained.
He remains committed to serve his country, to preserve its sovereignty, to help his long-suffering people.
Dark forces in Washington continue waging war, wanting Syria entirely raped and destroyed.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”
Terrorists shelled Damascus with 20 mortar and rockets today, after the cessation of hostility agreement went effective.
The shelling came from Joubar, and Duma in Damascus Countryside, and targeted residential areas.
This was reported to the Russian coordination center in Khemim airbase, and in turn, the Russian side passed the information to the US Coordination center in Amman, Jordan.
The Syrian Military command did not give retaliation orders to the Syrian artillery as a sign of patience, and issued a statement asking the Syrian nationals in these locations to and everywhere to take advantage of the national reconciliation efforts.
Furthermore, the Syrian military asked the civilians in these locations to back up the Syrian commands national reconciliation efforts, knowing that they want to, and are being help human shields by the minority who are bearing arms against the Syrian government.
The Syrian military’s self control and patience should not be taken as signs of weakness, we are showing the whole world that we are will to make the peaceful and political solution work; but the Syrian Armed Forces will not hesitate once when it comes to their duties in defending the Syrian people.
Syrian Army destroys a terrorist truck loaded with weapons in Latakia
2 killed, 4 injured in ISIS’ suicide bombing in northeastern Hama
Footage of recently liberated road between Khanasser and Aleppo
Armed terrorist groups fire rocket shells against Damascus
27 February، 2016
Damascus, SANA
A military source said Saturday that some armed terrorist groups fired a number of rocket shells at safe residential neighborhoods of Damascus.
The source added, in a statement, that monitoring and following up operation proved that the source of these shells is Jobar neighborhood and Douma city in the Eastern Ghouta.
The source pointed out that the General Command of the Army and Armed Forces warns against such acts, and at the same time, renews its call for all citizens to join local reconciliations and expresses its confidence that the majority of the citizens is eager to do that.
The General Command also called on the locals of the Eastern Ghouta areas to use pressure against those few terrorists, who benefit from terrorism, to let them miss the opportunity of undermining the exerted efforts for restoring security and safety to these areas, the source added.
Barry
Ten civilians killed, scores injured in several terrorist attacks in Hama, Deir Ezzor, Aleppo
27 February، 2016
Provinces, SANA
One person was killed another was injured in terrorists’ attacks at al-Sheikh Maqssoud, and Suleiman Halabi neighborhoods in Aleppo city Saturday, a source at Aleppo Police Command told SANA.
The source added that one person was killed and another was injured by terrorists’ sniper fires at the outskirts of al-Sheikh Maqssoud neighborhood.
Terrorists, positioned in Bustan Basha neighborhood, also fired a rocket shell at citizens houses in Suleiman Halabi neighborhood injuring a woman who was hospitalized, the source added.
Deir Ezzor
Three children were killed and 12 other people were injured Saturday in ten ISIS terrorists’ mortar and rocket shells against al-Joura and al-Qosour neighborhoods in Deir Ezzor, a source at the governorate told SANA.
The attacks fired from al-Haweiqa neighborhood, also, caused material damage to citizens’ properties, the source added.
Hama
Six civilians were killed on Saturday and several others were injured in three terrorist explosions in Salamyieh area in the eastern countryside of Hama.
A Source at Hama Governorate told SANA that a suicide bomber blew himself up with a car bomb on Saturday at about 06:00 a.m., 1 km away from the eastern entrance of Salamyieh City in Hama countryside.
The source added that two civilians were killed and 4 others sustained serious injuries.
The terrorist attack also caused a material damage to the place and the hole at the site of the explosion proves that the car was a lorry and it was carrying about a ton of the explosive materials.
Later, the source said that a suicide bomber blew himself up with a motorcycle bomb at the entrance of al-Tayba village in the eastern countryside of Salamyieh, killing 4 civilians and injuring others.
The source added that a civilian was injured too in a terrorist bombing with an explosive device on the road of Salamyieh-Khneifes.
R.J/Mazen/ Barry
From Turkey, Raqqa; ISIS Launches Fierce Attacks On Tal Abyad
ROJAVA, Syria (February 27, 2016) – After an effective military campaign in the town of Shadadi enabled the Syrian Democratic Forces (S.D.F.) to inflict significant blows to the Daesh (ISIS), elements of that terrorist group last night, February 26, launched a series of coordinated attacks in and around the city of Tal Abyad (Gire Spi).
The massive assault – targeting south and east of Tal Abyad from two axis – was simultaneously carried out at 11 pm from Turkey and the occupied city of Raqqa.
From Turkey side, numerous terrorist units stormed the city center of Tal Abyad and the villages Nastal, Khiwera, Qanatra located at zero point of the borderlines to the east of Tal Abyad region. Leading a charge from Raqqa, the terrorists at the same time targeted the line of Gantari-Shergirat villages in east of town Ain Issa, and southern Siluk.
The People’s/Women’s Defense Units (YPG/YPJ) immediately responded to the attacks, and confronted the assailants in 15 different locations. Up to the time, those battles continue with all intensity. Detailed information on this fight and the results will soon be provided, but we insure our people and the public opinion these attacks will be defeated, and the terrorists will lose once again.
As the Syrian ceasefire agreement came into effect, militants of the al-Nusra Front continue to threaten peace in the country.
Despite the fact that the cessation of hostilities has just been declared, the reports of ceasefire violations across Syria have already started trickling in.
The residents of Aleppo interviewed by RT said that while the ceasefire is in fact needed due to a precarious humanitarian situation in the region, it is unlikely to succeed.
The main reason behind their skepticism is the fact that a significant number of opposition fighters deployed in the area belong to Jabhat al-Nusra, also known as the al-Nusra Front, which is a Syrian branch of al-Qaeda.
The leader of Jabhat al-Nusra, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, has already decried the ceasefire as a trick and called on his followers to continue fighting.
It should be noted that both the al-Nusra Front and Daesh (ISIL/ISIS) are considered exempt from the ceasefire deal and thus can be freely engaged by all parties involved in the Syrian conflict.
Bashar Ja’afari, head of the Syrian Permanent Mission to UN, has already said that Syrian forces have the right to retaliate against any violations of the ceasefire.
Earlier it was reported that militant groups allied with the al-Nusra Front carried out attacks against residential districts and military personnel in Homs and Aleppo.
“The militants opened mortar fire in the Sheikh, Ashrafiyeh and Kurdish neighborhoods of Aleppo. The shelling was conducted from the Bin Ziyad area, which is where groups that do not agree with the truce are located. Shelling from their side started right after midnight,” the source said, adding that in Homs “militants opened fire on [Syrian] army positions.”
The militants responsible for the attack in Aleppo belong to Liwa al-Sultan Murad group which is allied with al-Nusra Front and thus refused to abide by the ceasefire agreement.
Kurdish YPG Militia Says Daesh Launched Series of Attacks in Northern Syria
Terrorist groups stormed the city center of Tal Abyad and the villages Nastal, Khiwera, Qanatra located at zero point of the borderlines to the east of Tal Abyad in northern Syria, according to the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG).
MOSCOW(Sputnik –Middle East) — The Islamic State (ISIL or Daesh) militants have launched a series of attacks on Tal Abyad in northern Syria near the border with Turkey, the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG) said in a press release on Saturday.
“After an effective military campaign in the town of Shadadi enabled the Syrian Democratic Forces (S.D.F.) to inflict significant blows to the Daesh (ISIS), elements of that terrorist group last night, February 26, launched a series of coordinated attacks on the city of Tal Abyad,” the press release read.
According to the press release, the assault, which targeted south and east of Tal Abyad, was launched simultaneously from the Turkish side and the occupied city of Raqqa.
“From Turkey side, terrorist groups stormed the city center of Tal Abyad and the villages Nastal, Khiwera, Qanatra located at zero point of the borderlines to the east of Tal Abyad. Leading a charge from Raqqa, the terrorists at the same time targeted the chain of Gantari-Shergirat villages to the east of town Ain Issa, and southern Siluk,” the press release read.
The YPG said it had confronted the attackers in 15 different locations, assuring the population that the attacks would be defeated, and the terrorists would “lose once again.”
According to the press release, detailed information on the ongoing fight against terrorists and its results are due to be provided soon.
Kurds Drive Daesh From Syria’s of Tell Abiad
A spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces said that Kurdish militias drive Daesh militant group from the Syrian town of Tell Abiad located near the Syrian-Turkish border and killed 70 militants during the operation.
CAIRO (Sputnik –Middle East) —Kurdish militias drive the Islamic State (Daesh) militant group from the Syrian town of Tell Abiad located near the Syrian-Turkish border and killed 70 militants during the operation, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces said Sunday.
“All the attacks have been repulsed, and all the places where the terrorists have succeeded to gain a footing are mopped up,” Talal Salou (Salu) told RIA Novosti.
He added that Daesh, which is prohibited in many countries, including Russia and the United States, had lost some 70 militants during the operation.
Army foils ISIS attacks in Hama, Air Force destroys ISIS bases in Deir Ezzor
27 February، 2016
Hama/Deir Ezzor, SANA
A unit of the army and the armed forces on Saturday foiled a ISIS terrorist attack in the countryside of Salamyieh City in the eastern countryside of Hama Province.
A military source told SANA that a unit of the army destroyed a car bomb loaded with huge amounts of explosives that belongs to ISIS terrorists before reaching one of the military points in the surroundings of al-Mffaker village in the countryside of Salamyieh City.
Later, a military source said army units thwarted attempts by ISIS to attack military positions in al-Salamiya countryside in Hama province along the direction of Barri Sharqi/Aqareb/al-Bassel forest/Tal Abyad, inflicting heavy losses in personnel and equipment upon the terrorists.
The source said the clashes resulted in the death of 35 terrorists, injured scores of them, and destroyed 4 machinegun-equipped vehicles, a bulldozer, artillery pieces, and mortar launchers.
Earlier today, Six civilians were killed and several others were injured in three terrorist explosions in Salamyieh area in the eastern countryside of Hama.
Earlier Friday, army units, in cooperation with the popular defense groups, restored security and stability to Rasm al-Teineh and Mentar al-Hajaneh villages in the eastern countryside of Hama, inflicting terrorists’ heavy losses in personnel and equipment.
In Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Air Force eliminated a number of ISIS leaders in a series of concentrated airstrikes on their positions in the province’s countryside.
A military source told SANA that the airstrikes focused on ISIS hideouts, bases, and concentrations in al-Sfaira al-Foqani village 12 km northwest of Deir Ezzor city, which resulted in the death of a number of ISIS leaders and in destroying entire hideouts along with the weapons and ammo inside them.
The source added that airstrikes also destroyed ISIS hideouts and concentrations in al-Jafra village in the countryside east of Deir Ezzor city.
Heavy Fighting Underway Between Kurdish Fighters, Terrorists in Raqqa
TEHRAN (FNA)- Battlefield sources in the Northeastern province of Raqqa announced that the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) alongside the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have engaged in heavy fighting with the ISIL terrorists in the Northern part of the province.
The Kurdish forces stormed the ISIL positions near the town of Tal Abyadh and inflicted major losses on the terrorists.
Also on Friday, the YPG and SDF stormed the ISIL gathering centers near the villages of Marwaha in the Southeastern part of the town of Sarin, killed or wounded several terrorists and destroyed their military equipment and vehicles.
On Wednesday, the Kurdish fighters, after almost six day of intense battle against al-Nusra Front, the Free Syrian Army (FSA), Harakat Nouriddeen al-Zinki and Al-Shamiyah Front, imposed full control over the Bani Zeid Youth Housing Complex in Aleppo city.
The SDF that is comprised of mainly Kurdish fighters as well as a few hundred Syrian Arab dissident forces have received trainings from the US and have been provided with scanty US-coalition air support in their battles in Raqqa province in Northeastern Syria; but in Northern and Northwestern battlefronts, they have been operating alongside the YPG and received the Russian air backup in their Aleppo wars that started with the conquest of Tishrin Dam on the Euphrates early in February.
Assisted by the Syrian army – that has along with popular forces and Hezbollah conquered almost all militant-held regions in Eastern, Southern, Western and Northwestern Aleppo province – and Russian air support, the Kurdish forces fighting against the terrorists in North-Northeast Aleppo province have been making striking advances against the al-Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham and ISIL terrorists in February.
Earlier this month, the YPG and SDF fighters prevailed over the terrorists in the highly strategic city of Tal Rifat in Northern Aleppo and captured the city.
The YPG, who enjoyed the Russian air backup, prevailed the terrorists’ positions from the Western direction and shook hand with the Kurdish units of the SDF who entered the town from the North.
Kurdish Forces Kill 45 ISIL Militants in Raqqa Province
TEHRAN (FNA)- The ISIL terrorists sustained heavy casualties in clashes with the Kurdish forces in Raqqa province on Saturday.
At least 45 ISIL terrorists were killed in tough battle with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the town of Tal Abyadh in Raqqa province today.
In a relevant development earlier today, battlefield sources announced that the Kurdish forces had engaged in heavy fighting with the ISIL terrorists in Northern Raqqa.
The Kurdish forces stormed the ISIL positions near Tal Abyadh town and inflicted major losses on the terrorists.
Also on Friday, the YPG and SDF stormed the ISIL gathering centers near the villages of Marwaha in the Southeastern part of the town of Sarin, killed or wounded several terrorists and destroyed their military equipment and vehicles.
On Wednesday, the Kurdish fighters, after almost six day of intense battle against al-Nusra Front, the Free Syrian Army (FSA), Harakat Nouriddeen al-Zinki and Al-Shamiyah Front, imposed full control over the Bani Zeid Youth Housing Complex in Aleppo city.
The SDF that is comprised of mainly Kurdish fighters as well as a few hundred Syrian Arab dissident forces have received trainings from the US and have been provided with scanty US-coalition air support in their battles in Raqqa province in Northeastern Syria; but in Northern and Northwestern battlefronts, they have been operating alongside the YPG and received the Russian air backup in their Aleppo wars that started with the conquest of Tishrin Dam on the Euphrates early in February.
Assisted by the Syrian army – that has along with popular forces and Hezbollah conquered almost all militant-held regions in Eastern, Southern, Western and Northwestern Aleppo province – and Russian air support, the Kurdish forces fighting against the terrorists in North-Northeast Aleppo province have been making striking advances against the al-Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham and ISIL terrorists in February.
Earlier this month, the YPG and SDF fighters prevailed over the terrorists in the highly strategic city of Tal Rifat in Northern Aleppo and captured the city.
The YPG, who enjoyed the Russian air backup, prevailed the terrorists’ positions from the Western direction and shook hand with the Kurdish units of the SDF who entered the town from the North.
Syrian Forces Capture More Territories in Aleppo
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian Army and its popular allies continued to push the ISIL terrorists back from their positions Southeast of Aleppo province and imposed full control over one more key village and strategic hills in the region.
The Syrian army and the National Defense Forces, in a several hour battle, forced the ISIL to retreat from the surrounding of the village of Sallaleh al-Saghireh and Telal (Hills) al-Za’arour.
The ISIL left behind tens of dead or wounded members and fled the battlefield to evade more casualties.
The engineering units of the army, for their part, defused scores of bombs planted by the ISIL in the villages’ buildings.
In relevant developments on Friday, the Syrian government forces pushed the ISIL back from their strongholds near the villages of Man’aya, Joukheh and Sallaleh al-Kabireh in the Western side Rasma al-Nafal following hours of intense battle which ended in the killing and wounding of dozens of the terrorists.
Syrian Army Captures More Strategic Regions in Lattakia Province
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian army continued its advances in Lattakia against the Jeish al-Fatah (the Army of Conquest) terrorist group and seized back more key regions in the coastal province on Saturday.
The army units pushed back the Jeish al-Fatah militants from the surrounding areas of al-Saraf village after four-hour battle.
Fierce clashes are presently underway near the village of al-Navareh.
The army has sent several reinforcement forces to prevent the militants from making advances in the area.
On Friday, the Syrian army commandos stepped on the territories of the Northwestern province of Idlib after prevailing over the last defense lines of the militant groups and capturing of Ein al-Beidha in Lattakia province.
The Syrian commandos finally reached the strategic border with the Idlib province after several-month-long of nonstop fighting with the terrorists of al-Nusra Front and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in the Lattakia province’s Northeastern part.
Also yesterday, the Syrian army and National Defense Forces drove the militant groups back from more villages in the mountainous regions of Lattakia near the border with Turkey.
The pro-government forces, after several hours of tough battle, imposed full control over the villages of Ein al-Beidha, Shir al-Dhaba’a and Ruweisat Rasho.
Scores of the militants were killed or wounded in the army attacks.
The engineering units of the army have started to defuse bombs and other kinds of explosive devices planted with the militants in the newly-liberated villages’ buildings.
Syrian Army Advances against Militants Southwest of Damascus
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian Army is on the march in Western Ghouta, Damascus countryside, and seized back more lands after hours of heavy fighting against the militants.
The Syrian army pushed the militant groups back from their positions in the Eastern side of the city of Darayya and retook full control over at least 20 more residential building blocks near Kaziyeh Shmit on the axis of al-Ghariyeh al-Saghireh.
The militant groups left behind several dead or wounded member and fled the battlefield to find safer positions.
Earlier reports said that two notorious commanders of Ajnad al-Sham and Liwa Shohada al-Islam terrorist groups were killed in clashes with the Syrian Army troops and popular forces in Western Ghouta, Southwest of Damascus province.
Feisal al-Shami also known as Abu Malik al-Miqdad, a leader of Ajnad al-Sham, was killed in a heavy fighting with the Syrian government forces in Darayya.
Meantime, the militant group in its social media pages confirmed the death of Imad Abu Mohammad, a field commander of the so-called Liwa Shohada al-Islam terrorist group, alongside a number of his comrades in another clash with the Syrian army.
Syrian Soldiers Engage in Heavy Fighting with Militants in Dara’a
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian soldiers attacked the militant groups’ positions in the Southern districts of Dara’a city and pinned the terrorists down behind their lines of defense under heavy fire.
The Syrian army men stormed the militant groups’ strongholds in the neighborhood of Dara’a al-Balad in the Southern part of Dara’a city, killed or injured 20 of the militants and destroyed their machinegun-equipped vehicles.
Reports said also on Friday that the Syrian army troops and the popular forces continued to target the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front’s concentration centers East and Northwest of Dara’a province.
The Syrian army and the National Defense Forces stormed the ISIL strongholds in Um Walad region, in which several machinegun-equipped vehicles of the militants were set ablaze.
In the meantime, the army soldiers opened fire at one of the supplying lines of Nusra fighters in the Northeastern part of Yadouda, which ended in destruction of several military vehicles and the cutting of the supplying line.
Homs: Syrian Army Seizes More Weapons, Ammunition from Militants
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian army troops alongside Customs officials in the Central province of Homs seized a vehicle loaded with a large volume of ammunition heading to militant-held regions in the neighboring province of Hama.
The cargo of militants’ weapons and ammunition, including machineguns’ bullets and grenades, was seized by the Syrian authorities on a road to the town of Masyaf in the Southwestern part of Hama province.
On Friday, the Syrian Army and National Defense Forces stormed the ISIL militants’ lines of defense in the Eastern part of Hama province and forced them to retreat from their positions near at least two more villages in the region.
The Syrian pro-government forces continued to advance against the militant group and imposed full control over the villages of Rasm al-Teineh and Mentar al-Hajaneh following hours of intense battle.
The ISIL suffered a heavy death toll and its military hardware sustained major damage in the attacks.
Syrian Army Hits ISIL’s Armored Vehicles in Deir Ezzur
TEHRAN (FNA)- A column of ISIL’s military vehicles, mainly armored ones, sustained major damage after the Syrian army opened heavy fire at the convoy in the Eastern province of Deir Ezzur.
The Syrian army targeted the ISIL column of armored vehicles, including several tanks, deployed in the Southern part of Euphrates River near the village of al-Mura’yeh in the Eastern part of the province.
The Syrian army’s attacks inflicted major damage on the ISIL vehicles.
A reports said on Friday that the Syrian Army troops’ offensives across the Eastern province of Deir Ezzur ended in the killing of tens of ISIL terrorists, including Libyan and Iraqi nationals.
Wali al-Shaddadi, also called by the ISIL Abu Osama al-Iraqi and Abu Sayyaf al-Libi (the Libyan) were killed in the Syrian army attacks in Deir Ezzur.
In the meantime, the ISIL site near the town of Ayash was hit by the Syrian army, which ended in the destruction of the terrorists rocket-launching pads.
The army also engaged in fierce clashes with the ISIL terrorists in the surroundings of Deir Ezzur air port and the village of Beit Doqiem, which also inflicted major losses on the militants.
Ceasefire Day 1: terrorist attacks in Hama, Deir Ezzor, Aleppo, 10 civilians killed, scores injured
One person was killed another was injured in terrorists’ attacks at al-Sheikh Maqssoud, and Suleiman Halabi neighborhoods in Aleppo city Saturday.
A source at Aleppo Police Command added that one person was killed and another was injured by terrorists’ sniper fires at the outskirts of al-Sheikh Maqssoud neighborhood.
Terrorists, positioned in Bustan Basha neighborhood, also fired a rocket shell at citizens houses in Suleiman Halabi neighborhood injuring a woman who was hospitalized, the source added.
Deir Ezzor
3 children were killed and 12 other people were injured Saturday in ten ISIS terrorists’ mortar and rocket shells against al-Joura and al-Qosour neighborhoods in Deir Ezzor.
The attacks fired from al-Haweiqa neighborhood, also, caused material damage to citizens’ properties, the source added.
Hama
Six civilians were killed on Saturday and several others were injured in three terrorist explosions in Salamyieh area in the eastern countryside of Hama.
A Source at Hama Governorate said that a suicide bomber blew himself up with a car bomb on Saturday at about 06:00 a.m., 1 km away from the eastern entrance of Salamyieh City in Hama countryside.
The source added that two civilians were killed and 4 others sustained serious injuries.
The terrorist attack also caused a material damage to the place and the hole at the site of the explosion proves that the car was a lorry and it was carrying about a ton of explosive materials.
Later, the source said that a suicide bomber blew himself up with a motorcycle bomb at the entrance of al-Tayba village in the eastern countryside of Salamyieh, killing 4 civilians and injuring others.
The source added that a civilian was injured too in a terrorist bombing with an explosive device on the road of Salamyieh-Khneifes.
As of this Saturday February 27th a peace proposal brokered by Russia and the United States is scheduled to take effect in Syria for one week. But if last Monday both the US and Russian presidents expressed hopeful optimism that the war in Syria might be coming to an end this Saturday, then why on Tuesday would Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain issue warnings to all its citizens in Lebanon to immediately evacuate as well as impose a travel ban to Lebanon. Beirut, Lebanon is located only 54 miles from Syria’s capital Damascus. Hence, an invasion force through Lebanon seems a most plausible avenue given this scant piece of turf separating invading forces from their eyed prize – an overthrow of Assad.
To add weight to the high probability that neither US ally Turkey nor Saudi Arabia has any intention of complying with the truce, on Thursday Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu stated:
For us, the (Kurdish) YPG (militia) is a terror organization just like Daesh. The deal did not designate the YPG as a terrorist organization. That should have been done. But it should be known that this ceasefire deal is valid for Syria.
The Turkish leader in so many words is telling the world that the ceasefire only applies to Syria, not other nations like Turkey, Saudi Arabia or for that matter their 34-nation Sunni Arab coalition supplying 350,000 soldiers currently prepping in northern Saudi Arabia for the already declared Syrian invasion. The Machiavellian strategy of pure deception and attempted stealth deployed by a litany of US Empire lies and false flags would cunningly sign a truce just as its Arab allies pre-position themselves to move forward with a massive invasion by the Saudi-led Arab Antiterrorism Coalition (a misnomer if there ever was one) to invade Syria from all directions.
This presentation examines the realistic and probable underlying plans still in place yet transparently masked by America’s so called truce starting Saturday that the US will likely still permit its proxy nation allies Turkey and Saudi Arabia to spearhead their invasion of Syria already announced two week ago. It’s the old “good cop-bad cop” strategy. While Empire signs agreements for peace, its bloodthirsty allies are lustfully preparing for war.
As more evidence that Turkey and the Saudis are intent on expanding the war to unprecedented heights, earlier this week bigmouth Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir was at it again telling der Spiegel:
We believe that introducing surface-to-air missiles in Syria is going to change the balance of power on the ground.
Saudi Arabia plans to arm the terrorists with more antiaircraft weapons capable of shooting down Russian warplanes that have been providing the necessary air support that’s turned the tide in Syria’s favor to win the war against the foreign jihadists. Barring a US led Sunni invasion, the South Front group of geopolitical analysts expect the Syrian-Russian coalition to be finished defeating the terrorists possibly within weeks or at most a few more months. There’s good reason why Turkey and Saudi Arabia are Empire’s closest Islamic regional allies willing to sacrifice the slaughter of thousands of their own troops to save a few raggedy terrorists. More good cop-bad cop chicanery and deception at Empire’s behest sets the stage for more carving up Middle Eastern borders according to the Greater Israel Plan, not according to the delusional duo of the sultan and the prince in for a rude awakening.
Lavrov and Kerry at UNSC
Once news that a truce was agreed upon by Russia and the US this last Monday, on Tuesday before a congressional hearing US Secretary of State John Kerry immediately began hedging, bringing up a contingency plan B delineating a partitioned separate section in northern Syria (i.e., the designated terrorist safe haven stronghold) that would be the outcome should the truce not work out. As a second choice behind their “Assad must go” mantra, this has been what the US Empire and its terrorist loving allies have been supporting and have pretty much had all along during their five year war until recently, an autonomous region as a designated Islamic caliphate able to continue business as usual waging Empire’s regime change proxy war against the Assad government.
The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov’s puzzled response was that Kerry’s “Plan B” alternative was never even brought up during the negotiations. This discrepancy is typical of US diplomacy saying and agreeing to one thing and then doing another because the Empire, after all, can always claim “exceptionalism” allowing willful defiance toward any and all international law or agreement… just another unipolar hegemonic perk worth fighting for say the neocons in control of US foreign policy. The peace proposal that the US and Russia approved earlier this week will be presented to the UN Security Council for consideration as a formal UN resolution.
Saudi Arabia is where the largest military exercises in Middle East history involving those 350,000 troops from 20 different Arab nations are presently being conducted in the northernmost part of the country conveniently closest to the Syrian border. The war games dubbed Operation North Thunder include 20,000 tanks, 2,450 warplanes and 460 military helicopters. Participating nations are Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Bahrain, Senegal, Sudan, Kuwait, Maldives, Morocco, Pakistan, Chad, Tunisia, Comoro Islands, Djibouti, Oman, Qatar, Malaysia, Egypt, Mauritania, and Mauritius. The Northern Thunder twitter account specifies that the drills that began on February 14th will continue through March 10th, plenty of time to go live for their threatened invasion of Syria.
A Middle Eastern map at a glance illustrates the short distance across a narrow strip of Jordan less than 60 miles wide separating northern Saudi Arabia from Syria’s southeastern border. From Saudi Arabia passing through Jordan – a known training ground for terrorists, would be a potentially viable route and entry point into Syria for launching a major ground war invasion. A Saudi military spokesman general reiterated two weeks ago that his nation’s decision to invade Syria is both “irreversible” and “final,” and he’s backing it up with 350,000 troops from his Saudi-led 34-Sunni nation coalition currently participating in war games near the northern Saudi city of Hafar Al-Batin close to the Iraq border. As a longer route an enormous ground force invasion could also cut through Iraq’s southwestern corner into Syria. Because of the distance involved, it would be the first ground troop movement towards Syria to detect as a key part of a possible larger, multi-pronged attack on Syria from all sides.
When asked a couple weeks ago if the US will send GI boots on the ground in Syria (aside from the military advisors already there) in the wake of the Turkish-Saudi invasion pronouncement, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter replied that he would not rule it out, adding:
We do need to accelerate the campaign and we have a very clear operational picture of how to do it. Now we just need the resources and the forces to fall in behind it.
Hmm… a good-to-go Sunni army of 350,000 might just do it Ash. Then there’s the 18,000 soldiers Turkey currently has amassed at Syria’s northern border just waiting for their order to invade.
On Thursday Kerry mentioned anywhere from 15 to 30,000 troops necessary to create and secure a “safe zone” in northern Syria. More thinking aloud here – might those Turkish troops at the border plunging southward be conveniently used to establish John Kerry’s said Plan B? The elephant in his room is that safe zone would be for the terrorists, not the so called displaced Syrian civilian population the feds like to talk about. The old humanitarian excuse for military intervention is standard lying policy.
Meanwhile to try and soften up that northern border for an invasion, Turkey’s daily shelling is intended to push back the Syrian coalition forces that have recently made significant strides toward sealing off the border to Turkey. This would obviously be the quickest invasion route into Syria in last gasp effort to reverse militants’ recently lost territory in Latakia and Aleppo and a chance to reinforce and salvage the remaining terrorist stronghold in Raqqa. But superior Russian forces with airpower superiority, air defense superiority and very competent, battle-tested allies would defeat a Turkish incursion in Syria and the top generals in Ankara know this. But unfortunately their tyrannical leader is an unpredictable megalomaniac.
Though a cessation of violence and peace ending the five year bloody rampage of a war brought on by US Empire of Chaos and Destruction would come as a welcomed long-awaited Godsend to the long suffering people of Syria, it would be considered a disaster to the sinister anti-Assad forces bent on further treachery and bloodshed. In all likelihood they are only planning to misuse the truce as a deceitful attempt to gain an elemental trace of tactical surprise in launching their military offensive into Syria. Though a common enough pattern in history as numerous nations have used this deceptive Machiavellian “art of war” strategy to their advantage, it’s a tall order to preannounce your invasion and then actually surprise anyone. But signs still eerily portend that the pro-terrorist coalition of Sunnis, their Sunni terrorists fighting inside Syria and the West’s pro-terrorist US-NATO-EU-Israel alliance range from minimally complicit to actively plotting a massive, multi-pronged, protracted, costly campaign that couldrisk WWIII ending all earthly life.
So it all comes down to the US led pro-terrorists versus the Russian led antiterrorists. Should an invasion occur attacking the antiterrorist forces aligned on history’s moral high ground operating in good faith to cease military operations except against ISIS/al Qaeda/as-Nusra Front and any would-be invading terrorist nations, the winners will not be the pro-terrorists. The Saudis are already bogged down in a stalemate and losing busily cause committing crimes against humanity against the poorest Middle Eastern nation in Yemen. And the Turkish military is inexperienced at war compared to its seasoned opponents.
Image: US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter
Peace is but a longshot. The grey area challenge and likely source of disagreement between the US-led and Russian-led coalitions will be drawing fine line distinctions amongst numerous local armed militias to define who is actually a terrorist and who isn’t. Assad’s straightforward contention is any armed opposition group is a terrorist but the DC neocons rigidly hold onto the false notion that “moderate rebels” aren’t terrorists. Assumedly the US will be sharing intelligence information with the Russian military and its allies Syria, Iran, the Syrian Kurds and Lebanese Hezbollah forces. All week Putin has been actively communicating with foreign leaders not only in the US and Syria but also Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran, trying to win cooperation amongst disparate parties to maximize the chance for peace. Additionally he has set up a coordination center that will field and investigate any reports of ceasefire violations.
Middle Eastern expert and author Saeb Shaath pointed out this week that the pro-terrorist camp could resort to more trickery with deceptive name changing so that Daesh-ISIS-al Qaeda-al-Nusra suddenly could adopt a different name and logo claiming that the Syria-Russian coalition still firing on them after Saturday is violating the signed truce since the terrorists are a new organization not yet designated as terrorists. Though such absurd ploys are not inconceivable especially when it comes to Empire transgressions and twisted truth machinations, fabricating and attempting to gain any real traction from a foolish technicality like that would hardly deter the Russian-Syrian coalition from pursuit of victory against terrorists occupying Syrian territory.
Whenever a truce in any military conflict is announced, various warring factions will readily attempt to use it to their strategic advantage both militarily as well as politically through accusatory rhetoric with warnings crying foul that the enemy is exploiting the lull in violence only for false purposes of regrouping for more war. Look how Kiev disingenuously uses ceasefire agreements repeatedly to regroup for the next major offensive into Donbas. Critics of the US coalition accuse more of the same.
Truces have also been misused to deceptively launch surprise attacks, although Turkey and Saudi Arabia broadcasting their plan a couple weeks ago for a massive joint troop invasion into Syria would hardly come as a surprise now. Plus, deployment of Saudi military units and warplanes to Turkey and the largest military exercise in Middle East history (in early March the US and South Korea are engaging in their biggest ever joint military exerciseinvolving 105,000 troops incurring North Korea’s wrath) presently taking place in northern Saudi Arabia could easily be construed as invasion precursors. The precedent for military drills to suddenly go live in response to a deep state covertly planned and timed crisis has become a tall-tale sign of virtually every false flag terrorist operation.
Additionally, during this entire month of February from its side of the border Turkey has been brutally shelling northern Syria with heavy artillery mortar fire killing Syrian Arab Army soldiers, Syrian Kurd forces, at least one confirmed Russian advisor and Syrian civilians, flagrantly defying both the US and UN Security Council demands. Turkey has also been violating international law by sending Turkish soldiers and more terrorists inside Syria asreinforcements. Turkish madman President Erdogan is taking US backing the Syrian Kurds personal. A cessation of violence so that all the prime investors in terrorism on this planet currently amassed at the border with guns blazing are not about to passively sit by watching their billions worth of vested interest in an Islamic Wahhabi Caliphate or second Ottoman Empire be systematically destroyed. That simply will not happen and Russia, Syria and Iran must fully realize as well even if they are upholding the truce. No doubt Putin who’s outplayed, out-maneuvered and outclassed Obama, his neocons and Western vassals at every turn also sees through the US phony con job of a truce that has no chance at all to bring lasting peace, not when Armageddon’s knocking at the door.
All this escalating, mounting aggression recently by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and their Gulf State allies are overt provocative acts in preparation for triggering a much larger scaled war. This Turkish-Saudi led Arab coalition consisting of the Islamic State’s strongest, most fervent terrorist supporters have stated it will invade Syria as soon as the United States gives them the go-ahead. Of course this comes after recent weeks of the Russian-Syrian coalition’s dramatic success decisively cutting off the terrorist supply line from Turkey and soundly defeating the jihadist militants now running for their lives. Thus, in desperation the most pro-terrorist nations on earth representing by proxythe US-NATO-EU-Israel axis-of-evil are using the fork-tongued lie that they will invade Syria to fight against the terrorists when of course we all know they will be fighting against the only true anti-terrorist forces the Syrian-Russian coalition. It’s the pro-terrorists last ditch desperado effort to protect and save what’s left of their barbarian terrorists.
If you really believe that this truce will successfully halt all further aggressive actions by Turkey and Saudi Arabia et al after mobilizing such a massive military force into pre-invasion positioning at multimillion dollar expense when both the Saudi and Turkish economies have never been shakier, one would have to be blind to believe that on Saturdayonce the truce is in place they will all just simply pack up their arms and go home. It’s all too obvious that the war in Syria will turn in an instant from a regional conflict to a world war if US Empire gives the greenlight for the Arab invasion that’s really just another divide and conquer war pitting Sunni nations against Shiite nations Syria, Iraq and Iran. But even more significant, it will also initiate a West versus East showdown against Russia, China and North Korea, and of course this holds broader nuclear implications that could potentially end all life on this planet.
In their diabolical grand design to redraw the map of the Middle East and North Africa, the imperialistic US and Israel agenda is to partition (aka balkanize) all designated enemy nations into weakened, destroyed failed states. A trail of tears follows America’s every King Midas in reverse intervention. The neocons have been working nonstop on that Wesley Clark disclosed 7 nation regime change list with Iraq, Syria and Iran the final three, the same final three Shiite nations that back in 2012 went ahead with their own proposed natural gas pipeline rejecting Empire’s previously prescribed proxy offer submitted by Gulf puppet Qatar.
Because the Russian troop contingent fighting in Syria numbers only about 12,000 while the enemy forces amassing at or near the Syrian border could approach near half million, Russia has already warned Turkey and Saudi Arabia that it will not hesitate using its tactical nukes against any invading forces on Syrian soil. Yet because the 6-oligarch owned and controlled Western mainstream media corporations have kept Americans in the dark with 24/7 lies and disinformation throughout the Syrian war, next to no coverage of this impending Turkish-Saudi invasion of Syria has even been reported, so soon Americans may wake up one morning to the breaking news headline “Russia nukes US allies.” This will be exploited as the propagandized pretext for World War III and the modern day Armageddon may start on the Syrian battlefield.
The ruling elite has engineered through its servant lackey leaders of the West and their puppet governments Turkey and Saudi Arabia the perfect storm of events all converging, colliding and exploding in the days and weeks ahead. With Europe overrun and reeling from the globalist manufactured mass migration crisis, the EU is about to go bust. With virtually every honest economist and financial analyst unanimously predicting that the global economy is on theverge of total collapse starting with the Deutsch Bank, like dominoes all the major banks will fail once again while national economies crash. Covert legislation in both Europe and North America will ensure that this time around instead of a “too big to fail” buyout, a buy-in will steal citizens’ life savings from their private bank accounts. All the central banks, Homeland Security, FEMA and the rest of the treasonous Washington criminals have been methodically preparing for this moment in history for decades.
So as a weapon of mass distraction, the elite has manipulated the global chessboard for World War III. In the days leading up to Saturday’s truce we have been witnessing the predictable banter and squabbling. Regional kingpin bully and nuclear-powered antagonist Israel that borders war torn Syria from the south has war criminal Netanyahu phoning Putin on Wednesday soliciting assurances that Israel’s designated enemies – Syrian, Iranian and Hezbollah forces – as Russian allies will not attempt to take advantage of the truce by advancing into the disputed Israeli occupied oil rich Golan Heights that Israel stole from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War. It’s total hypocrisy for Netanyahu to even act like he’s so worried defensively when he along with US Empire has always been the longtime aggressor and secret supporter of jihadist terrorism. He knows that a world war about to erupt at his backdoor is all part of his Zionist Plan.
It was the US neocons and Israel’s unholy marriage that produced Muslim terrorists as their original twenty-first century baby, their manufactured mercenary stooges to scapegoat and falsely criminalize Islam for their own demonically evil purposes, enabling them to pull off their 9/11 inside job to spawn their “endless war on terror.” And since the neocons and Bibi share the same common enemies, they self-servingly made more unholy alliances dividing and conquering the Arab world with its fellow terrorist loving supporters Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and the rest of the Arab Gulf State monarchies. You can bet that any Arab Sunni invasion of Syria led by the Turks and Saudis is not only fully endorsed by the bloodthirsty Netanyahu but will be granted free access to Syria through the Golan Heights to the invading Sunni army as part of any ground offensive sweeping towards Damascus from Syria’s southern border.
As Willian Engdahl suggests, US Empire’s seemingly disastrous entanglements around the world and in particular the Middle East and North Africa may actually be by hidden design. In a recent article he states:
Washington policy – the policy of the USA military-industrial complex and their Wall Street bankers – has in no way changed… They plan to destroy Syria as a functioning nation, to finish the destruction of Iraq begun in 1991, and to spread that destruction now to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to Turkey, and across the entire oil and gas-rich Middle East.
The Israeli-American strategy to upend Putin’s success in Syria could well be setting the stage for the impending Saudi-Turkish-Sunni invasion as a trap where they become the sacrificial lunatic lambs to state-of-the-art war precision commanded by the chessboard master himself Putin. The neocons in Washington may claim that the Arab Sunni coalition is acting on its own accord defying all US directives to not invade Syria or interfere with the peace process in a Machiavellian attempt to wash their bloodstained hands clean from the bloodbath that may soon be spilled. This cunning diabolical endgame scenario also exemplifies how US Empire treats its two longstanding Muslim best buds in the Middle East, priming and setting them up for disaster while pretending to seek peace and harmony with its adversaries. And then like predatory sharks when it’s all over move in to redraw, partition and control what’s left. Let’s pray for peace and root for the good guys in Syria who know how to fight and defeat the terrorists of the world, including the terrorists behind the terrorists.
Joachim Hagopian is a West Point graduate and former US Army officer. He has written a manuscript based on his unique military experience entitled “Don’t Let The Bastards Getcha Down.” It examines and focuses on US international relations, leadership and national security issues. After the military, Joachim earned a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field with abused youth and adolescents for more than a quarter century. In recent years he has focused on his writing, becoming an alternative media journalist. His blog site is athttp://empireexposed.blogspot.co.id/.
The original source of this article is Global Research
لأول مرة أرى أن الحيرة حائرة .. وأرى المحللين على طرفي الحرب في سورية ينظرون الى هذا المخلوق الذي دخل عليهم فجأة واسمه “وقف الأعمال القتالية” كمن داهمهم زائر غامض تحت جنح الظلام بلا ملامح ولاهوية .. وهم لايعرفون ان كان ذكرا أم أنثى .. وأراهم يمدون أيديهم يتلمسونه ويبحثون عن علائم ذكورته أو علائم أنوثته .. بعضهم تحسس مخالبه وبعضهم رأى فيه دليلة التي خدعت شمشون لتتمكن من قص شعره الذي يمنحه القوة ..
وكعادتي عند كل مفصل من مفاصل الحرب على سورية لاأعبأ بما يكتبه الثوار لأنني اعتدت بعد أن أقرأه أن أرميه في سلة المهملات لأنه يندرج في اطار الأمنيات وخداع النفس قبل الخصم .. وكما توقعت فان بعضهم سارع على الفور للربط بين تصريحات المندوب الروسي في الأمم المتحدة فيتالي تشوركين – التي وصفت بأنها رسالة حادة للسوريين – وبين الاتفاق الروسي الاميريكي لوقف العمليات القتالية .. وعلى الفور جهز هذا البعض وليمة من السراب والأحلام الجميلة ودعا اليها الحالمين من المعارضين الذين اعتادوا أكل السراب والجراد والأحلام ثلاث مرات يوميا حتى تحولوا الى سراب من أشباه البشر تتبعهم أسراب من الجراد .. فعلى الفور استحال بوتين – وفق تحليلاتهم – الى رجل تخلى عن الأسد وصفعه .. ووصل الأمر بأحدهم أن درجة الحلم فاقت التصور وخرج بالبشارة بأن دور الأسد قد انتهى أخيرا من بعد طول انتظار واننا دخلنا في عهد مابعد الأسد وسقوط الرايخ !! وهكذا سقط الرايخ السوري في يوم وليلة .. وهذا يدل على أن هذا النوع من جهابذة المعارضة يشبهون من فقد قطعة نقود في شارع مظلم فخرج يبحث عنها في شارع مضيء لأن البحث هناك أسهل .. ويدل على أن من يكتب عن سقوط التاريخ السوري فانه يعتقد أن الكتابة هي فن من فنون طهي “المحاشي” .. أي املأ السطور بالكلام المحشو اللذيذ بالجوز والفستق والرز والمقارنات والاسقاطات المستحيلة وقدمه مع المخلل للقراء .. وبالصحة والهناء على قلوب المعارضين ..
حتى الآن رغم الحذر أو الترحيب لايعرف أحد كيف سيكون تنفيذ الاتفاق ولايعرف من الخاسر ومن الكاسب؟؟ وبسؤال من نوع مباشر يسأل البعض: من الذي خدع الآخر.. الروس أم الأميريكان؟؟ لأن هذا الاتفاق ينطوي حتما على خديعة أو ثغرة أو حصان طروادة .. وكل يبحث عن حصانه الخشبي وعن الثغرات ..
الوطنيون السوريون يتوجسون من أن يكون الاتفاق كابوسا لأنه سيعني أن عملية التحرير التي انطلقت بنجاح كبير سترغم على التوقف .. مما ينقذ المجموعات المسلحة من مصير محتوم ويعطيها الفرصة لكي تعيد تنظيم صفوفها وخطوطها الدفاعية ونوعية سلاحها والتواصل اللوجستي الذي تقطّع .. والحقيقة أن المعارضين كما بات واضحا مستميتون من أجل تحقيق الهدنة “الشاملة” ويرون فيها الخلاص بدليل أنهم يريدون أن يشمل هذا النعيم كل المجموعات والفصائل دون استثناء لأن حجم الضربات التي تعرض لها الجسم المسلح كان شديدا ومؤثرا للغاية .. ويدل الاصرار على الهدنة وشمولها جميع الفصائل أن الموقف العسكري للمعارضة صعب للغاية وأن معنوياتها في الحضيض وأنها تتوقع الأسوأ وتعرف يقينا أن صمودها في هذا المناخ العاصف بالسلاح الروسي وأعاصير السوخوي صار مهمة مستحيلة .. حبث تم تحييد التاو .. ويوفر التفوق الجوي الكاسح الذي يترافق مع تحرك بري مدروس وغزارة النيران كل الأسباب للانكسار العسكري للمعارضة الارهابية ..والحقيقة أنني لم أجد منذ بداية الحرب على سورية هذا التوق والاستماتة من قبل المعارضة على تحقيق هدنة تشمل الجميع .. ولايفسر ذلك الا بأن العملية العسكرية اقتربت من قصم ظهر المعارضة شمالا .. والمعارضون يرون أن التقاط الأنفاس سيكون فرصة لتضميد الجراح ونقل الدم والاسعافات وتدارك الثغرات .. خاصة أن المعارضة التي انتظرت سلمان وأردوغان وجدت أن الرجلين يتثاقلان ولاينفران رغم كل الدعوات الحثيثة والآمال العريضة في التحرك .. وهما يرميان بالمبررات تلو المبررات لتجنب التورط بالحرب ..
اذا عرفنا من الخاسر من أي اتفاق سنعرف من الذي خدع الآخر .. فهل تعيدنا الهدنة الى مرحلة خدعة مراقبي الجامعة العربية الذين أدخلوا في بداية الاحداث الى المدن السورية بحجة التحقق من ادعاءات النظام والمعارضة؟؟ ولكن وجود المراقبين في المدن في تلك المرحلة كانت لابعاد الأمن والجيش عن قلب الأحياء المتمردة للسماح لها للاستعداد لبناء الاستحكامات والتحصينات لاعلان التمرد العسكري المسلح بالعنف الأقصى كما حدث في داريا ودوما وحمص .. ورغم أن القيادة السورية كانت تدرك تلك الخدعة لكن في تلك المرحلة الصعبة كان من الصعب رفض التحدي كيلا يفهم جزء من الجمهور السوري الذي كان حائرا أن الدولة لديها أسرار لممارساتها تخشى كشفها .. وكانت المناورة الأفضل هي كسب الناس قبل أن تكسبهم الدعاية الشرسة ..
لكن التمعن في الاتفاق الحالي الذي يبدو ظاهره طوق نجاة للمسلحين الموالين لتركيا والسعودية ربما يكشف أنه طوق النجاة المفخخ لهم أيضا .. فالزمن ليس كذلك الزمن الذي كان من الممكن تمرير الخدع والحيل .. لأن الاتفاق سيعني أن المعارضة ليست كلها محمية بوقف الأعمال القتالية وأن الجيش سيتمكن الآن من تحييد مجموعة كبيرة من الفصائل المسلحة وهو يفتك بأشرس المسلحين الباقين .. فهذا الاتفاق ينسجم مع مبدأ تفكيك الجبهات وقضمها .. فنحن نواجه داعش والنصرة ومكونات أخرى مسلحة منها جيش الاسلام ونظائره .. وهؤلاء جميعا ينسقون معا في توقيت هجماتهم فعندما ينشغل الجيش مع داعش تطعنه النصرة شمالا وعندما يواجه النصرة تستغل داعش أن النصرة تشاغل الجيش فتضرب .. وفي عز معارك تدمر وادلب كان جيش الاسلام يحاول احداث اختراقات مهمة في العاصمة ..
ان استثناء جبهة النصرة في الاتفاق وبقاء مصطلح (مجموعات أخرى ارهابية) سيخلق الشرخ المطلوب الذي قد يتدفق منه الحل السياسي الذي تصنعه روسيا وسورية وايران .. لأن جبهة النصرة والمجموعات الأخرى ستواجه المعركة في ادلب وحلب وحيدة .. دون مساندة من أي فصيل مصنف أنه معتدل اذا تضمنه اتفاق الهدنة .. واذا قصم ظهر النصرة في الشمال فان جيش الفتح كله سيعاني من أنه جسم بلا عظام لأن النصرة هي العظم القاسي لجيش الفتح .. ودونها فان جيش الفتح سيكون رخوا .. ومن هنا فان هناك استماتة للدفاع عن جبهة النصرة من قبل جميع المعارضين التابعين لتركيا والسعودية .. وكأن مقتل المعارضة يكمن في مقتل جبهة النصرة .. ولذلك فان التفاعل في جبهة الشمال سيكون شديدا لأن الشقاق سيتفاعل بين النصرة وشقيقاتها .. فالنصرة ستكون أمام امتحان الولاء من قبل بقية الفصائل التي ستقبل بالنأي بالنفس عنها .. أو سترفض التزام الهدنة من دون النصرة .. وهذا سيعني أن هذه الفصائل ستعامل معاملة داعش والنصرة وهي التي ستملأ الفراغ الغامض المنضوي تحت عبارة (مجموعات ارهابية أخرى) .. وهناك من يترقب أداء ناريا هائلا للروس والسوريين في هذه المرحلة لجعل جبهة النصرة أثرا بعد عين حيث تستهدف .. وغياب النصرة سيفتح المجال أمام الحل السياسي لأن كتلة القوى الراديكالية ستضعف وستقبل بالحل السياسي دون تشنج لأن النصرة هي التي تقود عملية العناد والرفض معتمدة على تنسيق وتفويض سري له صفة الأوامر من تركيا والسعودية بالرفض..
واذا ماتخاذلت وانكفأت الفصائل الأخرى عن المعركة الى جانب النصرة فان ما قد يحدث هو أحد احتمالين:
1- أما ان تهاجر موجات المقاتلين من النصرة الى تلك الفصائل التي نأت بنفسها عنها تجنبا للابادة أو كنوع من التقية وتغيير الألوان مؤقتا تلبية لتوجيهات القيادة التركية التي ستفرغ جبهة النصرة من مقاتلبها وتجعلهم منتمين لأسماء أخرى بنقل ولاء مقاتليها ظاهريا الى فصائل معتدلة حتى تتغير الوقائع السياسية والميدانية .. وهذه خدعة محتملة من قبل الأتراك للحفاظ على النصرة بلباس جديد ..ولكن الخطر في هذا أن ذوبان النصرة في التنظيمات الأخرى “المعتدلة” سيجعل التنظيمات المضيفة تخوض بسرعة صراعا عقائديا مع الوافدين الذين سيحسون أنهم فقدوا القيادة وصاروا من الأتباع .. لأن الأمر هنا ليس مهاجرين وأنصارا بل صراع الخليفة مع الطامعين بالخلافة ..وهو مشروع تدمير ذاتي للطرفين ..
2- أو أن الهجرة بين المقاتلين ستكون معاكسة أي من الفصائل “المعتدلة” نحو النصرة كرد فعل على خيانة الداعمين للمعارضة لجبهة النصرة التي آزرتهم ومكنت حكم الله وصارت أكثر شرعية جهادية من الفصائل التي ستتهم أنها خانت الجهاد وانخرطت في كفر العمل السياسي الدنيوي والزندقة ..
ولكن في كلتا الحالتين فان هؤلاء المقاتلين المهاجرين الى أية جهة في الهدنة اما أنهم أخرجوا من المعركة نحو حالة اللاقتال او أنهم دخلوا منطقة الموت (المشروع والمبرر دوليا) التي حكم بها على النصرة .. وهذا يعني أن عملية التحرير ستستمر دون توقف وأن مطحنة الجيش ستسمع دون توقف وهي تسحق عظام المسلحين الذين لن يكون في مقدورهم استثمار هذا الوقت لبناء قوتهم واعادة التوازن كما يتوهمون .. فماذا ستساوي كل التنظيمات بعد نهاية داعش والنصرة؟؟
اذا خرجت الآن داعش والنصرة هما عماد القوة المحاربة ويشكلان ثلثيها تقريبا حيث منح الجيشان السوري والروسي تفويضا مطلقا بالقضاء عليهما .. فان هذا يعني أن بقية الفصائل المحاربة التي تقبل الهدنة – ومنها جيش الاسلام – ستكون وحيدة بعد فترة أمام قوة الجيش التي ستتفرغ له كليا بعد تحطيم القوة الضاربة لداعش والنصرة .. ويكون أمامه اما خيار التسوية أو معركة ضارية جدا لايقدر على الصمود فيها ..لأن كل جيش الاسلام لايساوي شيئا أمام أعصار الجيش الذي سيتكفل بابادته اذا انفرط عقد داعش والنصرة اللتين تشتتان جهد الجيش السوري وتمتصان ثلثي قوته شمالا وشرقا وتبعدانه عن الفتك بجيش الاسلام مما أطال عمره في دوما الى هذا اليوم ..
لذلك تبدو فائدة الهدنة للسوريين والروس كبيرة لأنها تعني باختصار تهئية الساحة لافراغها من القوى المسلحة القوية المعاندة .. وغياب القدرة على اللعب بالميدان سيليّن المواقف السياسية ويذيب الرؤوس الحامية المتشددة .. ويجعلها تميل لحلول سياسية منطقية عادلة في اطار حوار سوري سوري دون سيمفونيات عادل الجبير وصنجات رياض حجاب .. ماتفعله سورية وحلفاؤها ليس خدعة في الهدنة بل البحث عن تفاوض سياسي أو تهئية ظروفه من دون بقاء أسباب العناد والتشنج والمكابرة السعودية التركية ..أي بعد تجريدهما من القوة الارهابية تحت سقف محاربة الارهاب الدولية ..
الأتراك سيتنبهون الى المعضلة والمشكلة العويصة والتحدي في قبول الهدنة .. واذا قبلوا فانهم سيحاولون اللعب تحت الطاولة اما لاستثمار الهدنة لتعويض النقص في مقومات الصمود لدى المسلحين أو لتخريبها عندما يتبين أنها أكثر ضررا وقتلا من الحرب .. وخيار المناورة وكسب الوقت من قبل تركيا لسد ثغرات الصمود صعب التطبيق للغاية طالما بقي الطيران الروسي وأعمال الرصد والتنصت قائمة بفعالية وهي نشاطات غير مشمولة بالهدنة .. كما أن فقدان ورقة جبهة النصرة عبر تواصل ضربها سيجعل امداد تركيا للجسم المسلح غير ذي جدوى .. واذا تم تخريب الهدنة فان يعني أن الطرف السوري الروسي لن يلام في استخدام المزيد من القوة النارية الطاغية لاقتلاع المسلحين والاستيلاء على اورق تفاوض عزيزة على تركيا والسعودية ..
في الهدن اذن لاتبحثوا عن شمشون بل ابحثوا عن دليلة التي خدعت شمشون وقصت له شعره في “هدنة” .. وانتهى وقد أحرق الفلسطينيون عينيه وشغلوه في طحن الشعير ..
بعد الهدنة بفترة وجيزة ستأتينا الأخبار وسنرى من الذي لعب دور دليلة .. روسيا أم أميريكا؟؟ ومن الذي كان شمشون.. أبو محمد الجولاني أم محمد علوش؟؟ .. أم سلمان …. أم …. أردوغان؟؟ .. وقد قصت دليلة شعره أثناء الهدنة .. وربما شيئا آخر عزيزا عليه .. سلبه رجولته وفحولته .. وسيصير بعده “ثمثون الطيب” ..
Leader of Yemeni revolutionaries, Ansarullah, Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi asserted that the movement supports reaching a political solution in the country, considering that Riyadh Conference would fuel the conflict in Yemen.
Sayyed Houthi said that the Saudi regime has been exposed by its aggression on Yemen through committing the crimes of targeting the civilians and all the life necessities.
The Houthi leader stressed that the popular committees and the Yemeni army will keep fighting the terrorists courageously despite the Saudi intensive air raids.
“Who is betting on the Saudi aggression will lose,” Sayyed Houthi said.
The Yemenis are sacrificing all what they possess to face the brutal aggression which employed internationally prohibited weapons, according to Sayyed Houthi.
Yemen has been since March 26 under brutal aggression by Saudi-US coalition. Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
Source: Al Manar TV
20-05-2015 – 22:01 Last updated 20-05-2015 – 2:01
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The war on Gaza is now in its 49th day. The Resistance continues to fire rockets at the same rate as the first day of the conflict. Al-Akhbar, not without difficulty, was able to meet Abu Tariq, a field commander in the Nasser Salahuddin Brigades, the military arm of the Popular Resistance Committees.
“We ensured that [the location of] rocket storage facilities and platforms remained unknown to collaborators; we do not just have to deal with local spies and agents, but also with regional powers that collaborate with the enemy against us.”
The Nasser Salahuddin Brigades consist of approximately 3,000 fighters, and are the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees. The Brigades were formed in 2001 with the beginning of the second intifada, known as the al-Aqsa Intifada, and participated in many operations, most notably the bombing of the first Merkava tank, as well as the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2006. Its fighters have proven themselves in recent battles.
The following interview started before the most recent truce, and continued after the resumption of hostilities.
Al-Akhbar: The truce between the Palestinian Resistance and Israel has collapsed, and the war has now reignited. Were you in favor of granting the enemy repeated truces?
Abu Tariq: We in the Nasser Salahuddin Brigades, we were against granting the enemy a truce because we feared the enemy would take advantage to reactivate its agents, and gather intelligence on the whereabouts of Resistance fighters, leaders and rocket storage facilities. We said that the Israeli occupation would use this truce to update its intelligence, which may put us at risk. The assassination attempt against the general commander of al-Qassam Brigades, Mohammed al-Deif, proved the validity of this concern, but for the sake of the unity of the Palestinian ranks, we eventually agreed to it.
Al-Akhbar: For your side, how did you take advantage of the truce with the enemy?
AT: We ensured that [the location of] rocket storage facilities and platforms remained unknown to collaborators; we do not just have to deal with local spies and agents, but also with regional powers that collaborate with the enemy against us. This is in addition to field work, where we sought to preserve the morale of Resistance fighters, especially with the repeated ceasefires that could have weakened their morale. As is known, we depend primarily in our fight with the enemy on the resilience of our fighters, and for this reason, we would rotate the duty shifts of the Resistance fighters so that they could check on their families and relatives.
Al-Akhbar:There are reports about the possibility of a ground operation against Gaza. Are you prepared for this contingency, even after 49 days of fighting?
AT: We do not believe that the Israeli army is prepared to fight a ground battle in these circumstances. The outbreak of war in July, a hot month, has handicapped the fair-skinned [Israeli] soldiers. The images published by international agencies show just how comfortable their crowds on the border are.
Furthermore, the enemy’s lack of intelligence regarding the Resistance’s capabilities has denied enemy soldiers the ability to operate freely on the field, because we and the Resistance factions work in utmost secrecy, and work hard for the enemy not to known the nature of our locations and the ambushes that have been prepared. During the last round of ground combat, the soldiers opted to stay inside tanks for fear of sniper fire or capture.
So it seems that the enemy sought a truce to exploit the time factor, and perhaps even wait for temperatures to go down.
But if they return, then this, simply, is better for us than having to go to them. The operations we carried out behind the Green Line cost us tens of thousands of dollars just to reach a tank and attack it, starting with preparation, digging tunnels, and working secretly. With these operations, our best hope was to hit a soldier; so obviously, it is easier if tanks and soldiers came to us instead. In addition, a decision has been made regarding the need to kidnap soldiers. During the battle, we work hard to “sort” the soldiers, that is, classify them and set apart the Druze, Bedouin, and Lahdis [members of the collaborationist South Lebanon Army] embedded in the Israeli army, because the goal is to capture “100-percent Israeli” soldiers, so that we can swap them with our prisoners and guarantee the success of exchanges later.
Al-Akhbar: Are you represented in the joint operations room with the rest of the factions?
AT: There is coordination with all Palestinian factions. We have representatives in the joint operations room whenever it is operationalized, and we are apprised of any field or military developments.
Al-Akhbar: What range have the rockets you fired into occupied cities reached? For how long can you continue to fire rockets?
AT: The enemy does not know the quantity of rockets we have and which ranges they can reach.
“Furthermore, the enemy’s lack of intelligence regarding the Resistance’s capabilities has denied enemy soldiers the ability to operate freely on the field”
In the early days of the war, we bombed the settlements close to Gaza, and the range of the rockets reached 20 to 40 km. After 20 days of the aggression and as the battle on the field evolved, we launched rockets that reached 65 km. With the continuation of the war, the enemy will be surprised with longer ranges and fiercer ground operations. As for the stockpile, we have used less than 10 percent of what we have. With every rocket we launch, there will be one to replace it, because our manufacturing unit has not stopped producing rockets whether during the truce or under bombardment.
Al-Akhbar: How do you bring in raw materials to manufacture these rockets?
AT: The leaders of the Brigades are adamant about continuing to make and develop rockets despite the blockade, and although we know there are agents watching what we do. The development unit in the Brigades is resolved that no matter the cost in blood or treasure to develop our rocket capabilities, we will not stop. In addition to locally manufactured rockets, we use tunnels to bring in weapons and raw materials for manufacturing.
Al-Akhbar: Is there contact between you and Hezbollah?
AT: We feel great gratitude and appreciation for our brothers in Hezbollah, who do not withhold anything from us in the Brigade. They enrolled men and fighters from the Brigade in several military sessions for training with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Our fighters learned new combat skills, and gained a broader knowledge of the type of rocketry, their manufacturing techniques, how to specify coordinates, down to camouflage and planting bombs. We have now excellent knowledge on “cooking explosives” of all kinds. After the members returned to Gaza, carrying military know-how and ideas from Hezbollah, we used these techniques on the battlefield. They have proven their worth in the current war. We have also met with members of Hezbollah who trained our men on making and firing rockets, both inside and outside Gaza.
Al-Akhbar: How do you perceive your cooperation with Hezbollah and the statement its secretary general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, made during the war, saying that Hezbollah will support the Resistance in Gaza?
AT: We at the Nasser Salahuddin Brigades are not surprised by the generosity of the brothers in Hezbollah, led by the honorable Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah. We are not surprised by their continued support for our organization, which has not stopped for even a moment.
We pin great hopes on our brothers in Hezbollah, who never let us down, not even for a minute. As is known, the speeches of the honorable Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah are sincere, and he does not speak words in vain.
After his recent speech about supporting the Resistance, the enemy moved some soldiers from the south to the north of the entity [i.e. Israel], fearing a military intervention from Hezbollah in the final minutes. We, from Gaza’s borders, monitored the movement of Israeli vehicles, and had information that the enemy had moved some forces to the north as had happened in 2006. Finally, as is known, Hezbollah provides logistical, material, and moral support to the Resistance factions, and many know that this support has not stopped.
This article is an edited translation from the Arabic Edition.
The indirect talks between the Palestinian and the Israeli negotiators in Cairo are to be resumed today to conclude an agreement on a long-term truce in the light of an Egyptian suggestion in this regard.
Egypt suggested implementing a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and resuming the negotiations in a month.
Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said ‘Israel’ would not agree to any proposal which did not offer a clear answer to the entity’s security needs.
For their part, Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements announced that they are ready for all the possibilities and that the Zionist government has to accept the Palestinian conditions in order to reach a final agreement.
The Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank expressed their solidarity with their delegation to Cairo and asserted that they prefer war to a degrading agreement.
The Palestinians also accused the Israeli government of resorting to deception in order to shun implementing any agreement’s provisions which meet the humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people.
Source: Al-Manar Website
17-08-2014 – 15:45 Last updated 17-08-2014 – 15:45
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine mourns its comrade Anwar al-Za’anin, who was murdered on Sunday, August 10 after being targeted by a missile from a Zionist drone in his town of Beit Hanoun.
Za’anin was 47 years old (mistakenly reported as being 17 in some news stories.) The Front pledged to remain faithful to his commitment to his people and their liberation, and to all of the precious Palestinian lives who have been taken at the hands of the Zionist military machine.
The Popular Front, on behalf of General Secretary Comrade Ahmad Sa’adat, Deputy General Secretary Abu Ahmad Fouad, and all leaders, cadres and members of the Front, mourns the passing of Comrade Zuhair Abdel-Aziz al-Hindi, founding member of the Jordanian Popular Democratic Unity Party (Wihda party), who passed away on Sunday, August 10 in Amman.
Al-Hindi lived his life as part of the democratic national struggle in Jordan and in the struggle to recover the inalienable national rights of the Palestinian Arab people. He was always a solid fighter for the rights of the poor and oppressed, and committed to the central cause of the nation – Palestine, and the right of its people to resist the Zionist occupiers on the road to liberation and return.
His funeral will be held on Monday, August 11 after noon prayers from Abu Naseer mosque, and he will be buried in a cemetary in Sahab.
The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, continued its activities of resistance until the 72-hour ceasefire went into effect on the 35th day of the Zionist aggression, Sunday, August 10.
AAMB reported that it:
targeted the Kissufim military site east of Khan Younis with short-range missiles at 10:55 PM
targeted the military airstrip east of Gaza at 10:30 PM
targeted Eshkol east of Khan Younis at 7:48 PM
fired two missiles at Nahal Oz at 7:40 PM
targeted Asqelan with missiles at 7:00 PM
targeted Nahal Oz with “107″ missiles at 6:50 PM
Targeting Kfar Azza with “107″ missiles at 12:46 PM
Rough translation of the Arabic version posted at Sham Times
The meeting was held before the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, headed by Hussein Amir Abdollahian, the Assistant Foreign Minister of Iran, who visited Lebanon with a security and military delegation.
The meeting was attended by:
Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad Ramadan Shallah and his deputy Ziad Nakhali,
Hamas represented by Osama Hamdan, Mohammed Nasr and Mohammed Baraka,
Haj Tawfiq Safa the representative of the Lebanese Hezbollah,
According to the UAE “IRAM”, the Syrian Ambassador arrived with the Russian Ambassador refused to enter the meeting room because of the presence of Osama Hamdan.
Mohamad Nasr took Hamdan to shake hands with the Syrian Ambassador, but the latter refused and said:
“will not be met with someone who betrayed Syria “
The meeting was held without Hamdan,
The Russian ambassador delivered a message from Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the situation in Gaza.
According to Lavrov’s message, Paris conference, at the request of Israel, discussed one thing:
How to disarm the resistance in Gaza, and studied the prospects of NATO participation.
According to the message:
The Egyptian initiative must be accepted and Palestinians has the right to amend the initiative and Egypt would not oppose that.
Those who opposing the initiative should not use that an excuse to attack Egypt and to weaken the Egyptian role in the region
Lavrov called the resistance to accept the initiative and build on it because you can not defeat Israel by knockout in this war, but to score points and in stages, pointing out that Turkey and Qatar opposed Egypt without providing an alternative to the Egyptian initiative.
For his part, the Iranian Abdollahian supported Egypt’s initiative, and called on the resistance to take it and put its notes on it.
The Syrian ambassador, said that Syria, despite the contrast with the new Egyptian regime in some of the files, Syria supports the Egyptian initiative and stand in the ranks of the resistance.
For his part, Ramadan Shallah confirmed the need for consensus on the Egyptian initiative, and the necessity to return to the framework of the PLO to deal with the Egyptian initiative with a unified Palestinian position.
Shallah asked Abdollahian, to ask Hamas leaders in Gaza to study, in depth, the Egyptian initiative and warned of the dangers of the Qatari conspiracy.
Local Editor A 72-hour ceasefire between the Zionist entity and the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza strip came into effect, as the occupation military announced total withdrawal of the besieged territory. Shortly before the truce began the Israeli air force staged at least five raids on Gaza, which has been since July 7 under brutal offensive that killed nearly 1900 people and injured more than 9500 others most of them are civilians that included hundreds of children and women. Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation army announced it would withdraw completely from the Gaza Strip, when the agreed ceasefire takes effect. IOF would deploy outside Gaza in “defensive positions” when the three-day ceasefire begins, army spokesman Peter Lerner told journalists. It was the second time in four days that the two sides had attempted to observe a 72-hour humanitarian truce deal, with the last attempt on August 1 — brokered by Washington and the UN — shattering in an explosion of violence within just 90 minutes. The breakthrough emerged in Cairo where Palestinian and Egyptian mediators had been discussing a ceasefire with representatives of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, although Tel Aviv was not present. However, the Zionist entity would send a delegation to Egypt in the coming days, an Israeli official said. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said a delegation of the resistance movement’s Gaza-based leaders would head to Cairo on Tuesday to join representatives of its leadership who are based in Egypt. And Israel said it would also send a delegation to the Egyptian capital after earlier refusing to join the talks, an official told AFP on condition of anonymity. The official said Monday’s agreement was very similar to an earlier proposal by Egypt which had been accepted by Israel but rejected by Hamas. Hamas’ deputy leader Mussa Abu Marzuk had said Monday that the new proposal would involve a withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza.
Source: AFP
05-08-2014 – 09:59 Last updated 05-08-2014 – 09:59
The Israelis and the Palestinians have agreed a new 72-hour Gaza ceasefire that would start at 0500 GMT Tuesday, said a senior official in Egypt, which is hosting truce talks.
“Egypt’s contacts with relevant parties have achieved a commitment for a 72-hour truce in Gaza starting from 0500 GMT tomorrow morning, and an agreement for the rest of the relevant delegations to come to Cairo to conduct further negotiations,” the official told AFP.
A Palestinian delegation, including Hamas representatives, has been holding talks in Cairo with Egyptian mediators for a durable truce in Gaza, but It6he Zionist entity has not yet sent any negotiators to the Egyptian capital.
Source: AFP
04-08-2014 – 22:42 Last updated 04-08-2014 – 22:42
The Zionist entity announced on Friday that two of its occupation soldiers were killed, adding that a third one is feared captured by resistance in Gaza.
Tel Avivi named “missing” soldier as s Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, 23.
For its part, Al-Qassam Brigades declared that its fighters carried out a qualitative infiltration operation, targeting a house where Israeli Special Forces were positioning.
In a statement released by Hamas’ military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades announced “We have carried out an infiltration operation behind the lines of the occupation forces who were penetrating in eastern Rafah at around 6:30 (3:30 GMT).”
“Our group fired at the house which the IOF have stationed in. Immediately after, occupation forces struck the area before withdrawing its vehicles,” the statement added.
The latest deaths bring the Israeli toll to 63, the overwhelming majority of them are soldiers who took part in the deadly ground assault on Gaza.
Source: Agencies
01-08-2014 – 16:01 Last updated 01-08-2014 – 16:17
In a picture taken from the Israel-Gaza border, smoke rises from the coastal side of the Gaza Strip following an Israeli explosion of a tunnel, on August 1, 2014. (Photo: AFP – Jack Guez)
Updated at 2:39 pm (GMT+3): The Israeli army said one of its soldiers had been captured in Gaza on Friday, officially ending a ceasefire which had already been shattered mere hours after it had begun.
In response to a question from journalists about whether the truce had ended, army spokesman Peter Lerner said: “Yes. We are continuing our activities on the ground.”
“Our initial indications suggest a soldier has been abducted by terrorists in an incident where terrorists breached the ceasefire.”
Egypt told Palestinian officials Friday it is delaying ceasefire talks in Cairo after Israel said fighters captured one of its soldiers in Gaza, a senior Islamic Jihad official said.
“The Egyptians contacted the Islamic Jihad and said Israel told them that a soldier has been captured,” the group’s deputy leader Ziad al-Nakhale told AFP. “The talks have postponed.”
Deadly Rafah strikes as ceasefire shattered
Only two hours into a supposed 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Gaza fighters went into effect Friday, the truce collapsed, Israeli and Palestinian sources reported.
A Reuters photographer and the Gaza Interior Ministry said Israeli tanks opened fire in the southern Rafah area some two hours after the truce began.
It remained unclear whether the Israeli soldier was captured before the beginning of the ceasefire, or during the assault on Rafah.
At around the same time, Israeli media said that sirens could be heard in some Israeli towns, with Haaretz reporting that two mortar shells were fired from Gaza. There were no reports of casualties.
AFP correspondents said the artillery barrage of the southern city of Rafah was ongoing, preventing medics from recovering the dead and wounded.
The intensive shelling killed at least 35 people and injured 100, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.
When the humanitarian truce began at 8:00 am, the skies over the Gaza Strip fell silent, although in the preceding two hours there was heavy Israeli fire and the sound of outgoing rockets. At least 1,470 Palestinians have been killed in the 25 days of the conflict.
Earlier, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that once the ceasefire was under way, Israeli and Palestinian representatives, including from Hamas, would begin more durable truce talks in Cairo, in a move confirmed by Egypt.
But Israeli forces would remain inside Gaza, he added, after the Zionist state vowed it would not accept any ceasefire that did not allow troops to continue destroying tunnels used by Palestinian fighters.
It remained unclear whether Palestinian civilians would be allowed to return to villages where Israeli forces were still present during the truce.
Gaza doctor Belal al-Dabour tweeted around 8:00 am:
Hours earlier, Israeli tank and air fire killed 14 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and the Israeli army said five of its soldiers died in mortar fire near the border with the Palestinian enclave.
While the ceasefire was accepted by Hamas, the main power in Gaza, in the name of all militant groups, a spokesman for the Islamist movement stressed it was dependent on Israel reciprocating.
“Hamas and all the resistance movements have accepted a 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire from 8:00 am Friday which will be respected by all these movements if the other party also observes the ceasefire,” said Fawzi Barhum.
A source in the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “Israel has accepted the US/UN proposal for a 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire beginning 8:00 am Friday.”
The ceasefire was a joint US-UN initiative and would give civilians “a much needed reprieve,” Kerry said in New Delhi.
“This is a respite, a moment of opportunity — not an end. It’s not a solution,” he warned, saying Israel would still be allowed to carry out “defensive” operations to destroy tunnels.
“All the people involved in this have strong demands and strong visions on what the future should look like. Israel has to be able to live in peace and security, without terror attacks and rockets and tunnels and sirens going off in the day,” Kerry said.
“And Palestinians need to be able to live with the opportunity to educate their children and move freely and share in the rest of the world and lead a life that is different from the one they have long suffered,” he added.
UN political affairs chief Jeffrey Feltman said it took a massive diplomatic push to achieve the ceasefire.
“The Egyptians played an important role, the Qataris played an essential role in helping bring the parties on board, the Turks were in touch with all sides. This was a collective effort,” Feltman told CNN.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond HAD welcomed the halt to firing, the latest and longest of several.
“We should now redouble our efforts and leave no stone unturned, to ensure this is a lasting and durable ceasefire to make way for substantial discussions to resolve the underlying issues on both sides,” he said.
The 14 Palestinians who died included before the ceasefire at least two children killed by Israeli tank fire in the southern Gaza Strip early Friday, the emergency services said.
Six of them were killed in an Israeli air strike in the same area.
The toll on the Palestinian side has surpassed 1,480 since the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip began on July 8.
UN figures show about two-thirds of the victims were civilians, drawing sharp criticism from around the world.
Meanwhile the Israeli army said that “five soldiers were killed during operational activity along the border with the Gaza Strip when a mortar was fired at the forces.”
Their deaths bring the Israeli military toll to 61, since the beginning of the assault of Gaza.
The broken ceasefire came after the UN Security Council expressed “grave disappointment” that repeated calls for a truce had not been heeded, and demanded there be a series of humanitarian breaks to ease conditions for civilians trapped in the war-torn territory.
Egypt had invited Israel and the Palestinian Authority to send delegates to Cairo for longer-term truce talks. But the discussions were postponed after the ceasefire was broken.
Senior Hamas official Ezzat al-Rishq told AFP more talks were needed on finding a solution to the blockade of the coastal enclave. “More efforts are needed,” he said in a telephone interview from Doha, where Hamas’s political leadership is based.
“But now the whole world knows Gaza will not accept a siege.”
Despite rising international concern over the civilian death toll in Gaza, Washington said it had agreed to restock Israel’s dwindling munitions supplies.
As the Zionist entity accepted an Egyptian ceasefire proposal, the Palestinian resistance rejected it, vowing to intensify the battle with the enemy.
Israeli security cabinet on Tuesday accepted the Egyption proposal proposal, a government spokesman said.
“The cabinet has decided to accept the Egyptian initiative for a ceasefire starting 9am today,” Ofir Gendelman, spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Twitter.
Ministers in the security cabinet had begun meeting early on Tuesday to consider the Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire to start immediately from 0600 GMT.
For its part, the resistance voiced rejection to the initiative; with spokesman of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, Fawzi Barhum told AFP there would be no truce without a fully fledged deal to end hostilities.
“In times of war, you don’t cease fire and then negotiate,” he said.
Sami Abu Zuhri, another Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said earlier on Tuesday that the resistance group had not received an official ceasefire proposal, and he repeated its position that demands it has made must be met before it lays down its weapons.
The military wing of the resistance movement, Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades considered the truce as surrender, pledging to intensify the battle against the Zionist entity.
The al-Qassam Brigades said it had not officially received the text of the agreement but said excerpts published in the media showed it was “an initiative of kneeling and submission, and we reject it outright.”
“Our battle with the enemy continues and will increase in ferocity and intensity,” al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement.
Source: Agencies
15-07-2014 – 11:02 Last updated 15-07-2014 – 11:02
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has rejected a proposal by Egypt for a ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip, unless Israel meets a few demands including an end to the Gaza blockade.
The military wing of Hamas, Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, on Tuesday dismissed the proposal as “surrender” and vowed to “intensify” its battle against Israel.
On the same day, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum said, “A ceasefire without reaching an agreement is rejected. In times of war, you don’t cease fire and then negotiate.”
The resistance movement has said it will not hold its fire without Israel agreeing to a list of demands, including an end to its eight-year blockade on the Gaza Strip, along with the opening of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
On Monday, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry presented a three-step plan over the Gaza conflict, which starts with a 12-hour ceasefire that would take effect on Tuesday.
“0600 GMT has been set for the beginning of the implementation of truce arrangements between the two sides,” a statement said. The ministry added that the truce would be followed by the opening of border crossings, and talks in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, between the sides.
Tel Aviv has ignored the UN’s call for a truce and is continuing its intensive aerial bombing campaign against Gaza, which started on July 8. The overall death toll from the Israeli attacks on the coastal enclave has risen to nearly 190.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Tel Aviv will not stop its attacks on Gaza.
في شباط الماضي دخلت أميركا مع روسيا في اتفاق يرسي هدنة في سورية عوّل عليها الكثيرون لتكون بداية الخطوات الأولى لإنتاج البيئة الملائمة للذهاب الجدي الى الحلّ السياسي المتوازن الذي يحفظ وحدة سورية والقرار المستقل لشعبها. وعلى أساس هذه الهدنة تمّ التحضير لمباحثات جنيف على أساس القرار 2254 الذي وضع خطوطاً عريضة للحلّ السياسي في سورية.
Leader of Yemeni revolutionaries, Ansarullah, Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi asserted that the movement supports reaching a political solution in the country, considering that Riyadh Conference would fuel the conflict in Yemen.
The Israelis and the Palestinians have agreed a new 72-hour Gaza ceasefire that would start at 0500 GMT Tuesday, said a senior official in Egypt, which is hosting truce talks.
UPROOTED PALESTINIANS: SALAM ALQUDS ALAYKUM 