Vanessa Beeley

1. Vanessa Beeley Interview - Ethnic Cleansing In Syria Carried Out By US/Israeli-backed Extremists

Apologies for the internet issues which were probably from my side - the video, sound synch is not great but hope you can still get something out of our conversation.

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2. With the Syria Nakba ongoing, what kind of "multi-polar" world are we heading for - with Fiorella Isabel

conversation about the recent tragic events in Syria and the repercussions for BRICS and the non-aligned axis. We cover Russian potential collaboration with Israel in the region and the upcoming war against the Resistance Axis.

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3. My visit to Akkar and meeting with Syrian refugees from Takfiri-project slaughter - the alleged White Helmet organ trafficking in Syria

On Tuesday I went to Akkar in northern Lebanon to speak with recently arrived and severely traumatised Syrian families fleeing the Zionist-Takfiri genocide in Syria that is targeting minority sects with extermination - Alawites, Shia, Christian and even Sunni that reject Takfiri sectarianism. I will be writing up my report on the visit to Akkar - where we recorded chilling testimony, some of which I share in my UK Column segment. We could not film faces or share names because of the high risk to families that remain trapped inside Syria. I did audio record all conversations.

The sectarian killing is not isolated in the coastal areas as Western media would have you believe. It is not targeting the so-called "regime remnants" or "Assadist resistance" - it is targeting children, women, elderly, disabled civilians without remorse. Today this video is circulating, filmed in Damascus - the murder of a Syrian civilian walking in the street because he is "Alawite":

The smuggling crossing point in Akkar that the Syrian families are using to cross into Lebanon:

Testimony from a young woman in Syria:

A post from Marwa Osman on Telegram explaining the sectarian history to the "revolution" Syria flag:

My friend AbdulMunem Zo'bi wrote on FB:

"In reality, the green flag was originally the flag of the French Mandate, imposed on Syria by France. It was part of a Franco-British scheme, with the three stars symbolizing three sects that were meant to govern Syria. It was a clear attempt to enforce sectarian division through legal means, effectively constitutionalizing sectarianism in the country.

The first star represented Sunnis, the second the Druze, and the third the Alawites.

However, these sects, along with the broader Syrian society, rose up against this imposed order, led by figures such as Saleh Al-Ali (an Alawite), Ibrahim Hananu (a Sunni), and Sultan Al-Atrash (a Druze).

Later, during the era of Arab unity—the formation of the United Arab Republic between Syria and Egypt—a new red flag emerged, symbolizing unity and the call for Arab solidarity.

This flag was later repurposed to represent the short-lived union between Syria and Iraq, which ultimately failed in its final stages.

So, who is truly sectarian? Who, whether knowingly or out of ignorance, contributes to Syria's division? And who calls for unity? Sometimes, all it takes is a look at the flag to find the answer."

Hillary Clinton email: Israeli Intelligence says collapse of Syria will spark a Sunni-Shiite war that will benefit Israel:

Finally these are all the slides from Maxim Grigoriev's White Helmet presentation at the UN Panel in 2018:

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4. Genocide in Syria: Al-Qaeda Terrorizes Minorities, West Ignores Atrocities | Vanessa Beeley

My recent conversation with journalist Rachel Blevins

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5. An Al Qaeda genocide in Syria and the West is silent

As the massacres of ethnic minorities continues in Syria, the so-called international community is not only silent but endorsing the Al Qaeda slaughter of men, women and children described as "regime remnants". We all have a responsibility to do everything in our power to hold our regimes and media criminals accountable, they all have blood on their hands for legitimising the Jolani Takfiri project that is now shedding Syrian blood across the land.

Image on the podcast:

The Damascus-born Sunni Sheikh, Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Dula', was brutally murdered for condemning the Alawite genocide in Syria.

His humanitarian stance was unforgivable to them. Terrorist militias stormed his home, subjected him to humiliation and brutal torture, and then executed him in front of his children.

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6. The Zionist war against Turkey in Syria - David's Corridor and the Kurdish alliance

I have published the news in full above with my sections covering the balkanisation of Syria, the expansionist rivalry between Turkey and Israel and the growing collaboration between Israel and Russia to stave off Erdogan's neo-Ottoman ambitions in the region. I also cover David Miller's recent detention at Heathrow Airport (under section 7 of the Anti-terrorist Act UK) and the increasing anti-Iran policies under Starmer's Zionist-aligned tenure.

Published by Hebrew Channel 14 - map of David's Corridor which will link with the Kurdish settler factions in the north-east to give Israel control of the entire eastern Syrian border with Iraq and Jordan and connect to the Euphrates in Iraq.

Mazlum Kobane, the commander-in-chief of the SDF aka Zionist/US-backed Kurdish separatists in Syria - says they welcome support from anyone, including Israel.

Here is the link to the oral statement by the UK "Security" Minister, Dan Jarvis, on the alleged threat from Iran.

Excerpt:

This work will focus on further protecting the UK from Iranian infiltration, including those who promote Iranian interference in the UK.

I am clear that our response must be a UK-wide effort. So I welcome the Charity Commission's statutory inquiries into both the Islamic Centre of England and the Al-Tawheed Charitable Trust.

I have also asked officials to review where any Iranian interference is being conducted in the UK and FIRS will shine more light on any undisclosed relationships between the Iranian state and UK-based institutions and individuals.

Finally, the National Protective Security Authority and Counter Terrorism Policing will continue to provide protective security advice and support to individuals and organisations threatened by the Iranian regime and its criminal proxies, including Persian language media organisations and their employees.

And we will continue to maintain funding for protective security measures to synagogues, Jewish community centres and schools, ensuring we do all we can to keep our Jewish communities safe.

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7. The Last Sky - full documentary

The earth is closing in on us

Pushing us through the last passage

Where should we go after the last frontiers?

Where should the birds fly after the last sky?

Mahmoud Darwish

"If I were to die today, 1000 would take my place"

Nick Hanna, a lawyer based in Sydney Australia, has produced what is a very moving documentary released in April 2024. It is an honest portrayal of life for Palestinians in the occupied territories and in the ramshackle refugee camps in Lebanon. It also conveys the importance of armed resistance for these displaced and occupied people and the solidarity felt with Hezbollah:

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8. When the world held its breath - the funeral of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

There are some events that mark us for life. The assassination of Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was an event that cast a dark pall over the entire region as soon as it was announced. I was in Syria at the time and it was a palpable gut-punch for the Syrians who had fought for their liberation from Zionist, US, UK, Turkish, Gulf State proxy terrorist groups for more than a decade. Hezbollah had been instrumental in that war of liberation. Sayyed Nasrallah had been a voice that all regional Resistance members had looked to for guidance, strength and the wisdom that would bring victory against oppression.

The loss of this icon of victory over tyranny created a wound that does not heal and it left a void that cannot be filled, at least not for a considerable length of time. For many who attended the funeral, it was the crushing of the last hope that Sayyed would miraculously reappear and mock his Zionist assassins.

In the morning I walked with some friends for more than an hour to the outskirts of the stadium where the funeral ceremony would take place. As we moved closer to the venue, cars carrying the yellow Hezbollah flags were stopping and offering a lift. Even at 7am the crowds were immense. The stadium had been 50% filled within 10 minutes of the doors opening at 6am. Mourners from all over the world had flown in and slept in freezing temperatures outside the doors all night to ensure their place inside.

We clambered up onto the concrete walls outside the stadium and watched as the car parks and surrounding roads began to fill with the yellow flags and crush of people coming to pay their last respects to their universal father, guide, leader and confidant.

I was not the only person from the West at the event and those I have spoken to since have all remarked on the incredible groundswell of grief and collective sorrow - something you will never see in the West because we do not have any leader who represents the will of the people or epitomises the Humanity we all respond to when we are finally confronted by it, not in the halls of Parliament or Congress but in a region long dehumanized and discarded by those who rule us and take us to endless wars against these generous, kind and courageous people.

From out vantage point I watched one lady with two children, a daughter and son, as the ceremony progressed, her tears fell freely as she held the photo, presumably of the children's father, a martyr in the latest Zionist war against Lebanon. Her daughter buried her head in her mother's lap, her son, a little older, held back his tears to comfort his mother. Everywhere around us the grief, the loss and the anger was on full display.

Journalist Marwa Osman posted this on her Telegram channel one day after the ceremony:

I don't know who made this video, but I swear, you made me break down in tears all over again—just as if Sayyed's coffin was passing before us right now. Especially because of a deeply personal reason tied to the very first moment I learned of the martyrdom of this great leader.

Thank you to the one who filmed it, to the one who edited it, and a heartfelt thanks to Dr. Ahmed Yassine for sending it.

I will keep it, just as I keep the memory of Sayyed… until my last breath.

It has been admitted that senior officials in the Trump Zionist administration were keen for the Zionists to bomb the funeral where more than 1.4 million people had gathered to pay their last respects, from all over the world. Yemeni resistance leaders were among the potential targets designated by the Washington hawks.

There were rumours from various Yemeni and Iranian social media accounts that Israel decided against such action when they received messages from intermediaries that Yemen and Iran had missiles trained on the occupied territories which would be launched should Israel commit such a crime.

Despite the Emirates and Air France cancellation of flights to Lebanon on 23rd February and flights from Istanbul being subject to unusual long delays - the turn out was indicative of the support for the Resistance against the Israeli genocide in Palestine, the land grab and devastation in southern Lebanon and the annexation of Syrian territory since the international coup toppled the Syrian government in December 2024.

Israel did fly over the ceremony at low altitude twice. The roar of the jet engines was immediately drowned by the roar of the crowd. 1.4 million voices raised against the Zionist supremacists. No fear, even from the children whose fists were raised in defiance.

In many ways this demonstrated the impotence of force against an ideology that does not die with each martyr but lives on in every fibre of every being that has dedicated themselves to an end of occupation, apartheid and the disenfranchisement of their people in the region. The following video from Hoopoe media gives an idea of the scale of the ceremony:

When the Zionist jets passed low over the ceremony there was one man who flung himself on the coffin of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to protect him in death as he did for three decades in life. Abu Ali as described by Enemy Watch:

Abu Ali Jawad "Husayn Khalil" (H) is the son-in-law of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (r) and his chief security officer. He was also known as "Sayyid's Shield" due to his exceptional dedication to protecting the Secretary General of Hezbollah.

Not only is he the son-in-law of the Secretary General of Hezbollah (r), but he is also responsible for the first line of security protection for Sayyid Hassan (r). He holds a position of complete trust within Hezbollah's leadership and is one of the 19 elite commanders tasked with ensuring Sayyid Hassan's (r) safety. Despite his young age, he is at the top due to his extraordinary loyalty and ability to execute highly sensitive missions.

Abu Ali (H) is one of Hezbollah's most important special commanders and one of the closest figures to the leader of the resistance. He has faced multiple assassination attempts and plays a critical role in Hezbollah's security operations. His relentless commitment to protecting Sayyid Hassan (r) has earned him the title of "The Shield of the Leader" or "The Leader's Armor" within Hezbollah.

For years, he has played a key role in ensuring Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah's (r) safety through meticulously designed security plans. Despite persistent Zionist efforts to assassinate him, Abu Ali (H) has successfully kept Sayyid Hassan (r) out of harm's way.

The Zionist regime had previously claimed that Abu Ali (H) was martyred in an assassination attempt on Sayyid Hassan (r), but in reality, he survived and continued his mission. However, on one of the rare occasions when he was separated from his constant companion, he was left behind in the convoy of martyrs, a loss that was deeply felt by Sayyid Hassan's (r) closest aide.

For the last 15 years, Abu Ali (H) has been considered the most important security figure in Hezbollah, tasked with protecting Sayyid Hassan (r). This makes him a prime target for the Zionist regime.

Abu Ali (H) is known for his meticulous planning and seriousness in missions. In Lebanon, it is said: "No one has ever seen Abu Ali (H) smile."

His close relationship with Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (r) is evident, as Sayyid Hassan (r) spends most of his time with him, both day and night. Abu Ali's (H) security advice is always taken seriously, and he has completed advanced security training, making him one of Hezbollah's most skilled operatives.

In Lebanon, rumors spread about the martyrdom of "Abu Ali Khalil (H)" in the "Pager" bombings. This news was neither confirmed nor denied by Hezbollah's official sources at the time. However, his sudden appearance at Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah's (r) funeral refuted this news.

In a defining moment, Abu Ali (H) was with Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (r) when he attained martyrdom. He himself was badly injured but did not try to leave the battlefield. Later, he recovered from his injuries, but he remains deeply affected by the loss of his leader.

To this day, Abu Ali (H) carries the sorrow of being the last survivor from the martyrdom convoy of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (r). May Allah protect him.

One of the most poignant elements of the ceremony was the moment the Zionist pager-attack victims came to pay their respects and to grieve the loss of their leader who had stood with them through every hardship they had faced in the long war against the threat to their very existence. The majority lost their sight, their faces scarred and burned, their hands missing fingers or completely amputated - their own disability forgotten in their grief. Their dignity intact despite the ravages of an entity that has no regard for Humanity.

As the vehicles transporting the coffins of Sayyed Nasrallah and Safieddine moved to the final burial site for Sayyed Nasrallah, the crowds moved with them. The hours it took to arrive at the final resting place testament to the people not wanting to let them go. People weeping and clinging to the last physical imprint of a leader who has never deserted them and has always been their safe place in the harshest of times. The chants of allegiance echoed throughout Beirut during the ceremony and affirmed the continuance of Resistance.

"Labbayka Ya Nasrallah" (At your service, Nasrallah), "We remain committed to the pledge, Nasrallah," and "Far from us is humiliation."

As journalist Myriam Charabaty stated in her latest article covering the funeral:

No words of consolation will ever suffice—our only solace is in continuing the struggle, in standing firm upon this path, until the day the sun of liberation rises over our lands.

The following eulogy from Marwa Osman expresses perfectly the chasm of grief left behind by the final departure of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah from this earth. Sayyed's legacy is one of a journey that does not end until liberation is achieved and dignity restored and it is a legacy that will not die with the frail human body because those that follow the coffin are the ones who will take up the torch of Resistance and ensure that it is never extinguished:

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9. CODEPINK ignored sanctions that suffocated Syria since 2011 but NOW they want to visit Syria under control of Al Qaeda

2016 - CODEPINK promote CIA, MI6 White Helmet organisation embedded with Al Qaeda in Syria since 2013

You can find a fairly extensive archive of my investigative journalism on the MI6-midwived White Helmet organisation at this link.

Rick Sterling - Vanessa Beeley has revealed the organization in more depth in articles such as "Who Are the White Helmets?" and "War by Way of Deception".

Yesterday, Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK went on X with the following announcement:

A small group of us are heading to Syria in mid-March to learn firsthand about the political situation and the impact of U.S. sanctions. We're eager to meet with journalists, academics, and organizers to strengthen advocacy efforts for lifting these harmful sanctions. If you or someone you know can help with logistics, connections, or insights, please DM me!

For those who are not yet aware of CodePink, this is how they describe themselves:

CODEPINK is a feminist grassroots organization working to end U.S. warfare and imperialism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming* programs. Join us!

Life-affirming programs are investments in social programs that uplift human dignity instead of tear it down. We believe universal health care must include the right to an abortion, access to education must not be determined by income bracket, and housing is a human right.

While CODEPINK may have done some good work for Palestine over the years, their record on Syria has been abysmal.

Since 2011 when the regime change war began to destabilise Syria and overthrow the Syrian government, CODEPINK has been largely oblivious to the collective punishment of the Syrian people by military and economic means. Suddenly, with Al Qaeda in control of the country and ethnic cleansing operations ongoing against all ethnic minorities in all regions of the country - CODEPINK suddenly want to inform themselves, on the ground, about the debilitating effects of economic coercive measures that have stripped the Syrian people of their dignity and their most basic human rights?

Where were CODEPINK for the last 15 years, one may ask? The answer is they were regurgitating Muslim Brotherhood aka CIA, MI6 talking points that sustained the regime change war and permitted US occupation of oil and agricultural resources, the expansion of ISIS and the destruction of Syrian health, economic, industrial, humanitarian and education infrastructure since 2011.

In 2017 I published the following on Facebook:

I am boycotting Code Pink, despite their viral videos re Yemen. Code Pink are cleverly packaged controlled opposition. Would anybody be able to show me where CP have actually attacked the UN for its illegal sanctions on Yemen that are enabling the mass starvation of 27 million Yemeni people. A repeat of Iraq.

CP have done nothing but support US intervention since Libya. Please remember they supported sanctions against Iraq that led to the deaths of 500,000 children. Prof. Francis Boyle described it as genocide.

Sanctions are economic terrorism.

Code Pink have also supported the White Helmets in Syria and they have promulgated colonial media propaganda that has maintained the conflict and the suffering of the Syrian people while, of course, saying they care about the Syrian people.

Here is one message to CP from Henry Lowendorf of the US Peace Council about CP support for the White Helmets:

"I am blown away by this latest from Code Pink. Like Clinton, Medea protested Bush and asked for sanctions against Iraq not overt invasion. Now she promotes the child beheaders and heart eaters of the Al Queda Medic/PR support the White Helmets. Please White Women 4 peace, I know you care more than just about the women of your race and passported country. Why have you forgotten to protest HRC "Killary" and get your country, your Democratic party, out of other less wealthy folks. We know you are comfortable and bless your public relations. But your support for the Iraq sanctions killed all too many Iraqi children. Your support now for the Nusra Front that during photo ops wear white helmets and at other times use dull knives to cut into the necks of 12 year old Syrian children until their cries muffle by sick gargle and the blood spurts as the child dies.

Please Medea, you can't continue your advertisement as a comfortable well compensated world traveller and attention getter, poster child for the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, aiding and abetting child murder, torture and rape of civilian Syrians. Please consider opposing your government's funding arming of these moderate child killers. We all don't support President Assad but he was elected by Syrians, and would any member of Code PINK be brave enough to help the secular Syrian army against the terrorist barbarians organized funded and lethally armed by your USA government who snipe kill and death squad teachers, journalists and other Syrian civilians? The White Helmets and their patrons in the foreign war against Syria are not Syrians generally. They are the PR face of the US war against Syria. Please know that while you continue in this way the justice of history may find you guilty of war crimes like a good German during the NAZI actions. But know that even as you are guilty, I will ask that no penalty be advocated against my former volunteer lecturer from my student organized Central America class.

It's never too late, please help the children of Syria or at least stop killing and harming them."

From Eva Karene Bartlett on CP support of MSM propaganda on the Al Qaeda occupation of Madaya south of Damascus:

"Well that's a nice turn of events, since Benjamin and Codepink earlier this year put forth a petition blaming the Syrian govt "the "Assad regime") for the Madaya 'crisis'--in which terrorists within stole, hoarded and sold food for exorbitant prices.

Glad that Benjamin is now organizing a lawn protest. Hope that redeems she and Codepink for their war propaganda.

This was pure war propaganda. [Below is the CODEPINK narrative push that aligns perfectly with the US, UK media universal propaganda complex.]

"The regime of Bashar al-Assad, with support from its allies, has cut off the people of Madaya, Syria, from the rest of the world and is depriving them of badly needed supplies like food and humanitarian aid. As a result, people are starving to death or have resorted to eating bugs and leaves to survive. Videos have surfaced of children who look like skeletons from malnourishment. This horrific situation constitutes a form of collective punishment –– violating international law.

Our hearts break for the Syrian people who have endured so much violence over the past five years. The people of Syria need our help, but more war and violence is not the answer."

[You can read the on-the-ground reality of Madaya from journalist Eva Bartlett here. ]

Here is the CP reply ref their support of the Al Qaeda-White Helmets, maintaining anti-Syria propaganda:

"We at CODEPINK shared the story of the White Helmets as an example of a group of people doing what they can to support life in the midst of death, destruction and war. In response to thoughtful criticisms,

We realized that some assert that the story of the White Helmets has become a tool for propaganda by one side of the ongoing civil/regional war in Syria. It was not our intention to endorse any side of this conflict, nor to promote messages in favor of military intervention in Syria by the United States or any other nation.

We stand in solidarity with our Syrian brothers and sisters who are suffering from violence, whether it is at the hands of the Assad regime, the opposition, ISIL, or any foreign intervention by the US or Russia. We remain, as always, committed to peace in Syria and around the world."

Peace at what cost?

"Coverage of the Syrian war will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the American press." Stephen Kinzer

Journalist Rick Sterling took a softer line with CODEPINK:

"Alternative media" in the West has sadly echoed mainstream media regarding the Syria conflict. The result is that many progressive individuals and groups are confused or worse. For example, the activist group CodePink recently issued a media release promoting the Netflix White Helmets propaganda video.

The White Helmets video is produced by Grain Media and Violet Films/Ultra-Violet Consulting. The latter advertises itself as a marketing corporation specializing in social media management, grant writing, crowd building and campaign implementation. The only question is who paid them to produce this video.

There is growing resistance to this manipulation and deception. In response to a petition to give the Nobel Peace Prize to the White Helmets, there is a counter petition at Change.org. The Right Livelihood Awards have just been announced and there will soon be a petition demanding retraction of the award to the White Helmets.

According to CODEPINK, Assad and ISIS were equally "murderous", a line peddled by the Western regimes leading regime change operations. The following was a response to the CODEPINK anti-Syria propaganda by Indian activist Feroze Mithiborwala:

Dear Code Pink,

Greetings,

Its really high time that you re-looked your understanding and your analysis of Syria and your position on President Bashar al Assad.

By all indicators, Bashar al Assad has the support of between 70-80% of the Syrian nation.

Thus by constantly buying into the Western-imperialist narrative of Assad the Dictator and the Assad Regime, you are doing a lot of damage to the global peace and anti-war movement.

You are also insulting the Syrian People who have accepted a new Constitution in 2012, after a national referendum, all 56% of the population that voted. Syria is evolving into a multi-party democracy. That is the way that nations need to evolve and Syria responded to the voices that emanated from Tunisia and was negotiating the process, till the Saudi-Qatari-Turkish-Nato backed Islamists decided to wreck mayhem and chaos.

Kindly run through a copy of the Syrian Constitution if you still haven't. Even that of Tunisia. Whilst Tunisia was allowed to evolve, Syria was not given that chance at all. There are both strategic and economic reasons here as you well know.

You are also insulting the intelligence of the Syrian People, where again in June 2014, more than 73% of the Syrian nation went to the polls, despite the threats from terrorists, despite being warned not to vote, with suicide bombers and shoot-outs promised, yet the people voted in droves.

They voted to say, give a message to the world that Syria will not be divided, that Syria will remain secular, that Syria is a multi-religious plural society, that Syria rejects theocracy and stand for a modern secular democracy.

You would at least agree that it is finally for the Syrian people to decide who their elected leader would be.

For now that is President Bashar al Assad. Both his worst detractors have given him numbers that cannot be discounted - Al Jazeera stated 56% for Assad way back in 2012, whilst Nato itself says that Assad has 70% ....

Then how can these Western Morons keep on saying "Assad Must Go"...??

This is the result of pompous impetuosity that goes with a colonial mindset. We know better, we will decide your leaders for you. Someone that Riaydh, Doha, Tel Aviv and Ankara love ...

Thus here the only solution is that after once the scourge of terror is contained and defeated (and not merely degraded .... for perpetual controlled chaos), as the Russians have demonstrated in less than 45 days, the way ahead is very simple.

The political solution that is being discussed must be supported.

Finally after a new secular constitution is negotiated, as agreed in Vienna, let the Elections be held under the auspices of UN Monitors and observers from the UNSC, G20 and BRICS, Arab League, African Union, Shanghai cooperation Organization, ASEAN, the Bolivarian Nations.

In short, let the whole world come and observe, monitor, place CCTV cameras at each polling booth, have CNN-FOX-BBC-Al Jazeera at every street corner asking people if the elections were free and fair.

And after the elections results are out, we shall know.

In short, let the Syrian people decide.

In solidarity with the Global Resistance, the Global Intifada

CODEPINK supported the narrative that "Assad gassed his own people" which underpinned the regime-change efforts and were events staged by none other than the White Helmet organisation, also supported by CODEPINK. This entire narrative has been debunked multiple times but not by CODEPINK whose protection of the Syrian people does not, apparently, run to actually countering the narratives that are causing the most damage to the Syrian people in the long term.

Did CODEPINK condemn the final international coup in Damascus? The coup that led to Zionist occupation of Syrian territory and the obliteration of Syrian defence and military capability? The coup that led to the Al Qaeda Junta and the dissolution of the Syrian Arab Army, constitution, Parliament and legislative structure? The coup that has enabled the mass extermination of ethnic minorities including Alawites, Shia, Christians and any who challenge the HTS fanaticism? Does CODEPINK condemn the rape, murder, kidnapping and execution of women who refuse to comply with HTS diktats on dress code and behaviour? No.

Instead this is the statement CODEPINK issued after the fall of Assad:

It's shocking to see what once felt impossible change so suddenly. Over the last few days, I've seen Syrian political prisoners run freely through the streets for the first time in decades as people celebrate the end of the Assad regime. Syrians in exile talk about returning home for the first time. I can't help but feel joyful with them. How can I not, when the right of return is something I wish for my people every day? [..]

So, now, CODEPINK feel motivated to go to Syria, not when it was safe and protected by the Syrian Arab Army and enjoying relative peace from 2019 onwards but now it is ruled by an illegitimate Muslim Brotherhood-dominated and foreign mercenary-infiltrated, sectarian, unelected regime backed by Turkey that is occupying Damascus and paving the way for further Zionist annexation of Syrian territory.

Please do look at the comments on Benjamin's post.. people are really not as dumb as CODEPINK think they are:

You should have done this 10 years ago, when The U.S. Empire and its vassals were already crippling the Syrian people with colonialracist, brutal sanctions, as part of their dirty war against Syria. Pieter de Rooij

In 2022, UN Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan did challenge the punitive sanctions that were suffocating the Syrian people.

"I am struck by the pervasiveness of the human rights and humanitarian impact of the unilateral coercive measures imposed on Syria and the total economic and financial isolation of a country whose people are struggling to rebuild a life with dignity, following the decade-long war." Alena Douhan

Where were CODEPINK?

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10. The Zionist 'loot unit' strips Gaza, south Lebanon and Syria of weapons and valuables

Artillery unit looted from southern Lebanon by the IOF

A recent article published in Hebrew in Ynet has outlined the mass theft carried out by the Zionist 'loot unit" that has stripped Gaza, Lebanon and Syria of their assets during their genocidal land-grab campaigns that began post 7th October 2023.

According to the article - silver boxes worth more than NIS 100 million ( USD 28 million) were stolen alongside cash, gold bullion and jewellery from homes in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Tens of thousands of weapons and artillery units were stolen from southern Lebanon, Gaza and Lebanon, including Soviet era tanks, French and German weapons from the world wars, air-defence systems, missile launchers and missiles. Enough weapons to form a "small army" according to Ynet.

Allegedly some of the motorcycles used by Hamas during the 7th October Al Aqsa Flood operation

Not only did the IOF detonate entire residential sectors in Gaza and south Lebanon, they stripped neighbourhoods of any valuables residue that the displaced Gazans were unable to take with them, fleeing under bombing, sniping and drone attacks, their homes reduced to rubble as they fled.

The Hebrew news outlet stated that Israeli commandos were given dozens of clandestine missions in southern Lebanon to locate and seize caches of weapons and ammunition allegedly to be used by Hezbollah's elite Radwan force for an invasion of the Galilee in northern occupied Palestine on the border with Lebanon.

The Loot Unit comprises a force of 500, the majority reserves, under the command of the Zionist military central supply centre in the Technology and Logistics Division. However, it is estimated that 2400 Zionist soldiers assisted in the looting operations that stripped assets from Palestine, Lebanon and Syria (since the international coup that finally toppled the Syrian government and leadership).

Some of the jewellery stolen from Gaza by the Zionist loot brigades.

According to Ynet the theft of such items has multiple purposes:

1: Intelligence gathering on the weapons available to the Resistance

2: Re-use of the weapons by the Zionist brigades or the re-sale of the weapons to regional proxies that include the current regime in Damascus made up of Turkish nationality HTS terrorists. It has been suggested to send the weapons to Ukraine for use in the war against Russia but this project, according to Ynet, has been shelved for the time being.

Following the fall of Damascus, the IOF entered southern Syrian territory without any protests from the incoming HTS Al Qaeda Junta and in Quneitra close to the border with the occupied Golan, the IOF seized two Soviet era T-55 tanks. A feat that had been unimaginable since the 1973 October War (Yom Kippur war).

Although the tanks were old technology the Loot Unit noted that they had been upgraded and maintained to a relatively high standard. This was the MO of the Syrian Arab Army that fought against well equipped and armed terrorist factions provided with sophisticated weapons and equipment by their backers in the West, Gulf States, Turkey and Israel - despite the shortcomings of the Syrian Arab Army they fought such odds for 14 years and won because of their ingenuity and resourcefulness.

It is interesting that Ynet does not publish any photos of the captured Syrian tanks.

Israeli tank from the 1982 Battle of Sultan Yacoub in the First Lebanon War seen on display at a Moscow museum.

In September 2015, Russia joined the Syrian war against Western-incubated terrorism inside Syria. In 2016, after discussions between President Putin and Netanyahu in Moscow, Russia returned a Zionist tank that had been captured by the Syrian Arab Army during the 1982 Lebanon-Israel war.

The battle of Sultan Yacoub was widely recognised as a resounding defeat for the Zionists at the hands of the Syrian forces on June 11th 1982. Thirty IOF soldiers were killed and another three, assigned to the Magach-3 tank disappeared.

The tank had been sent to the Soviet Union to stand on display at the Kubinka Tank Museum after being captured by Syrian troops in 1982.

During his visit to Moscow, Netanyahu had made an impassioned plea for the return of the tank:

My wife Sarah and I participated in an emotional ceremony to return a tank which was captured (by Syrian forces) during the battle of Sultan Yacoub during the First Lebanon War...this tank is the only evidence we have of our boys who went missing in that battle: Zacharia Baumel, Tzvi Feldman, and Yehuda Katz. For 34 years we've been searching for our soldiers, and we won't stop until we bring them back to be buried in the State of Israel. For 34 years the Katz, Feldman, and Baumel families haven't had a grave to visit. But now they will have this tank – a remnant of the fighting at Sultan Yacoub which the families can visit in Israel, touch, and remember their children by.

This gesture of "goodwill" from Putin should perhaps have alerted the Syrian security forces that even in 2016 Russia was prepared to ignore the fact that Israel not only supported the Syrian "rebels" and overthrow of the Syrian government in favour of a Muslim Brotherhood alternative - the reports of Zionist hospitals treating so-called Free Syrian Army injured fighters had emerged since 2013/14 onwards:

During periods of heavy engagement with Syrian forces, [rebel groups] transferred 89 wounded persons across the ceasefire line to the IDF," a May 2014 dispatch reads, adding later that "the IDF handed 19 treated and two deceased individuals" back to the insurgents.

On another occasion, also dated May 2014, UN monitors observed IDF troops "handing over two boxes to armed members of the opposition" on the Syrian side.

The reports use "armed members of the opposition" as a blanket term to describe rebel and jihadi groups operating against the Syrian government.

The fact that Israel was arming the Syrian terrorist armed groups from the outset of the regime change operations became public domain knowledge in 2019 but had been known by the regional players since 2011/12. It is impossible that Russia was not aware of the Zionist role in both criminalising and undermining the Syrian government.

Fast forward to February 2025, three months since the shock fall of Syria during the December 2024 international coup and Israel is lobbying the US to allow the Russian bases to remain in a weakened Syria.

Israel is lobbying the United States to keep Syria weak and decentralised, including by letting Russia keep its military bases there to counter Turkey's growing influence in the country, four sources familiar with the efforts said. (Reuters)

The inevitable rift between Erdogan and Israel is coming to light despite their collaboration in the overthrow of the Syrian military and government. Erdogan has been pushing for a Muslim Brotherhood alliance to counter "the growing threat of expansionism" from Israel, while plotting his own neo-Ottoman regional expansion.

While the US apparently views Turkey as the better NATO member state option to caretake the Syrian issue which the US, under Trump, has largely washed its hands of - Israel, in an effort to contain Turkey, are pushing the concept that Russia should be allowed to maintain its Mediterranean naval base in Tartous and its Hmeimim air base in Latakia province.

Zionist Foreign Minister, Gideon Saar, has even gone so far as to claim that Israel was concerned Turkey was supporting efforts by Iran to rebuild Hezbollah and that Islamist groups in Syria were creating another front against Israel.

The regional alliances continue to shift and maneuver as the sectarian tensions inside Syria come to a boiling point with ongoing and heinous massacres being carried out by extremist factions under the HTS umbrella.

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