syria-weasel govt

I pissed myself laughing at that.

I understand your plight FT and would expect nothing less than a long winded reply,there is a lot going on in the world and greed by the few and all the rest of it will not go away.perhaps a worldwide revolution will do the job.To be honest i cannot see it changing in the future either cos those with money,wealth,call it what you want do not want change even if it was for the good of the people.

Back to Syria,perhaps Asad does not mind people leaving,less to look after.With Russia apparently beefing up their presence on the the border perhaps more will flee to Europe,after all with all the sanctions with Russia and a disjointed Europe would suit the Russians very nicely thank you very much.

Syria and Russia are allies,how many of his people go there,maybe some do but you never hear anything on that one.Drone strike kills two brits who joined isis and now the government is under scrutiny from the opposition,what do you make of that if anything.

FellowTraveler:

I can agree with you on capitalism, but not about what you are saying about Israel, ''and Israeli's century long policy and agenda of expansion and state criminality towards an occupied people in the region.''

After the war of 1967. Israel gave up much of its strategic depth in the Sinai, returning the area to a neighbour that had repeatedly used it as a launching point for attacks. More than 7,000 Israelis were uprooted from their homes and businesses, which they had spent years building in the desert.

The war of 1967, still effects events today. Prior to that time Egypt, Iraq and Syria were making plans to attack Israel. At this stage Israel told Jordan not to enter in a war. But Jordan took notice of Egypt ,attacked Israel and lost. Concerning the West Bank, the UN Resolution 242 does not require Israel to withdraw from all the territories gained as a result of the 1967 war, as the Arab regimes claim. Instead, the resolution delibe

Balan: The apologist position for Israel is a tired position.

The Israeli impacts there are major factors = in Palestine and elsewhere throughout the region. The forced diaspora of now millions upon Palestinian's there; the expansionist colonial (historical and currently being instituted )nature of Zionist Israel and the general Israeli government's regional brinkmanship have in the past and continue to play a major role in contributing to the destabilization of the entire region. To try and deny these facts is not being objective or truthful about what has or is going on there .

You can rest assured, the Israeli question has not gone away from the collective minds of the people's of the region and will not for a long time to come for these regional victims - who are living with the lasting impacts past colonialism and the currently being applied outside exploitation.

Sandpit: It was not my intention to exclude Russia from the list of outsiders guilty interfering in the region. Though I would suggest and believe, they have played a lesser role since the fall of the Soviet Union in the region.

I would take that farther, that the Russians (today) are there being reactive to other's presences there. And to, their own "at home" pressures and attacks (mostly economically and diplomatically) that they have received from these same global forces.

I do not see Russia as a good guy. Far from it. They are a reactionary force and nation state IMO.

But I do see them, as a nation state and as a regional power in its natural/historical sphere of influence, who have been and continuing to be subjected to a barrage of not well intended attention from the outside. The globalist neo-liberals being the proactive perpetrators - both in the Levant and greater Middle East as well as in Russia itself, Eastern Europe, the Trans-Caucasus and greater cent