Israel just bombed Damascus with huge explosions:

BREAKING:

This is not Gaza.

This is not Beirut.

This is Damascus.

Israel is raining bombs on Syria’s capital, targeting civilian neighborhoods and government sites, in one of the oldest cities on Earth — a city that has stood for over 11,000 years. pic.twitter.com/7iPm4WwPZg

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Israel is claiming that they are attacking Syria because Druze have been fighting Bedouins and government forces and they want to protect this minority. According to the New York Times:

The fighting started on Sunday after members of an armed Bedouin tribe attacked and robbed a Druse man along Sweida’s main highway, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor based in Britain.

That incident prompted an exchange of attacks and kidnappings between the Druse militias that control Sweida province and armed Bedouin groups there, some of which are seen as pro-government.

As the unrest escalated, the Syrian government deployed military forces on Monday to quell the conflict, Syrian officials said. But given the deep-seated mistrust of the new government, many in the Druse militia groups thought that the government forces were coming to aid the Bedouins and to attack the Druse, according to Druse militia leaders.

In response, Druse militias mobilized to repel the government forces and clashed with them, Druse militia leaders said.

However, US intelligence says that it sees no evidence that Syrian government forces committed atrocities, as we read in Axios: “the senior U.S. official said U.S. intelligence does not show any involvement of the Syrian government in atrocities in Suwayda.”

Israel has bombed Syria to supposedly protect the Druze. Really? When al-Nusra was butchering the Druze in 2015, why wasn’t Israel fighting al-Nusra? As we read in a 2015 BBC article:

At least 20 Druze villagers have been shot dead by the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front in north-western Syria, activist and opposition groups say.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said elderly people and a child were among those killed in Qalb Lawzah in Idlib province on Wednesday afternoon.

In 2018, ISIS massacred 250 people in the Druze area of Sweida, as we read in the Guardian:

Under the cover of darkness, the militants infiltrated Druze towns and villages in the east and north-east of Sweida, some using local Bedouin as guides.

The militants knocked on doors – sometimes calling out locals by name – and slaughtered families. Meanwhile, they deployed snipers outside the town limits, and took up entrenched positions in the towns.

In most homes the militants left a single survivor as a witness to their brutality, said Monther. Some of the Isis fighters had tied their legs together in what appeared to be a symbolic statement that they would fight to the death without fleeing.

Now, Israel all of a sudden is doing a military operation in Syria to defend the Druze, when it could have done this against Islamist rebels years ago?

The Trump administration told Israel to back off Syria, as we read in Axios:

The Trump administration has asked Israel to halt its strikes on Syrian government targets and to open direct talks with Damascus, a senior U.S. official told Axios on Wednesday.

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U.S. officials are highly concerned that the Israeli attacks — including on Syrian military headquarters in Damascus and near the presidential palace — could destabilize the new Syrian government.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters Wednesday that the U.S. was “very concerned” about the Israeli strikes in Syria and wants the fighting to stop.

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U.S. special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack conducted several calls on Tuesday and Wednesday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top adviser Ron Dermer to push for deescalation.

“We told the Israelis to stand down and take a breath,” the senior U.S. official said, adding that the administration is pushing for direct talks between Israel and Syria to solve the crisis.

Why did the US tell Israel to back off? The US does not want the tension between Turkey and Israel to deepen. Turkey is essential for NATO to control Russia’s access into the Mediterranean from the Black Sea. The US does not want to lose Turkey. The problem is, Israel does not care about what the US wants and will continue to defy American interests. Turkey is expectedly angry over the Israeli attacks since it sees Syria as part of its sphere of influence (just like Russia is upset with NATO for encroaching Ukraine which Moscow sees as its sphere of influence). Turkey’s foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, told Thomas Barrack (the USA’s envoy to Syria) that Israel’s attacks on Syria must stop, as we read in Middle East Eye:

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan launched on Wednesday a comprehensive diplomatic initiative, reaching out to regional counterparts to coordinate a unified response to Israel’s attacks on government buildings in Damascus.

Fidan spoke with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani, conveying Ankara’s deep concerns over the Israeli strikes.

Minister Fidan also held a call with the US Envoy for Syria, Thomas Barrack, stressing that both the Israeli attacks in Syria and the ongoing violence in Sweida must be brought to an immediate halt.

Eventually there will be a clash between Turkey and Israel over who will be the biggest dog in the neighborhood of the Middle East. This is very obvious just given what was declared by the Israeli government’s Nagel Committee, as we read in the Jerusalem Post:

Israel must prepare for a direct confrontation with Turkey, according to the Nagel Committee’s latest report on the defense budget and security strategy.

The committee, established by the government, warns that Turkey’s ambitions to restore its Ottoman-era influence could lead to heightened tensions with Israel, possibly escalating into conflict.

The report highlights the risk of Syrian factions aligning with Turkey, creating a new and potent threat to Israel’s security.

“The threat from Syria could evolve into something even more dangerous than the Iranian threat,” the report states, warning that Turkish-backed forces might act as proxies, fueling regional instability.

If Turkey would be a bigger threat to Israel than Iran, then its not going to be pretty for Israel, just look at what Iran did to Tel Aviv.

After Israel launched its war against Gaza as a response to the October 7th massacre, Erdogan made a hint as to his desire to invade Israel:

“We are such a great nation and state that our strength, our problem, our struggle is not only limited to our borders. … From now on, we will continue on our path with the motto that we may suddenly knock on your door one night.”

Turkey wants to establish a new order against the established one: an Islamic order led by Turkey. This was expressed by Nejat Ozden, the vice-chairman of ASSAM — a front group for Erdogan’s paramilitary organization, SADAT. Once Israel began bombing Gaza, Ozden wrote that what is needed is an Islamic Union: “The Idea of Islamic Union is the search for a way of salvation and resurrection of the Islamic world from its weakness, helplessness and inferiority complex in the face of Westerners. In this respect, the Islamic Union, or in other words, the Islamic Union proposal, is an alternative to the current order in one aspect, and reactive in another aspect. It aims to improve the situation of Muslims against the West.” 

In 2021, Erdogan proposed the creation of an international peacekeeping force to enter Israel to protect Palestinians, stressing the need for “the international community to give Israel a strong and deterrent lesson”.  

And regardless of the fact that Turkey has been in a rivalry with Iran, both of these countries will unite in the case of a war with Israel. In November of 2023, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Ibrahim Reisi discussed in a phone conversation about how they both have a common stance against “Israel’s brutality in the Palestinian territories”. 

In Turkey, there is even a love for Adolf Hitler. An example of this was seen in Suleyman Sezen, an AKP (Erdogan’s party) city councilman at Samsun’s Atakum District. In October of 2023, he prayed for the soul of Hitler and praised the German Reich leader who committed the biggest genocide of the Jews:

“Historically, everybody has been angry with Hitler, and called him a racist. Hitler said: ‘You will curse me for every Jew I did not kill.’ This is true. Once again I pray for God to bestow mercy and grace upon Hitler. [I pray for this] because of the Jewish Zionist Israel –  those people who are spreading confusion throughout the world, and emerge from under every rock and from behind any evil.”

There will be a second Shoah, sadly.