Wat al lang bekend was, maar wat niet doordrong tot de massa en zelfs niet tot een deel van de politici*, is het feit, dat er in het geheel geen ‘gematigde rebellen’ hebben gevochten of vechten in Syrië….. Oorzaak van het niet op de hoogte zijn van deze feiten, is de propaganda (nepnieuws) berichtgeving in de westerse reguliere (massa-) media, berichtgeving veelal ingegeven door politici en geheime diensten…….
Al die zogenaamde ‘gematigde rebellen’ zijn psychopathische moordenaars en verkrachters, die via de sharia en de islam in het algemeen, hun gruweldaden rechtvaardigen, gruweldaden waaronder verder o.a. vreselijke martelingen……..
Toch bemoedigend te zien, dat zelfs een republikeinse politicus uit eigen ervaring hetzelfde distilleert……..
Op Information Cleariing House gisteren het ontluisterende en ogen openend verhaal van Gabbard, die zelf poolshoogte ging nemen in Aleppo en Damascus. Eerst ziet u een interview met Gabbard en daarna een verslag van Gabbard zelf (u kan voor een ‘Dutch vertaling’ klikken onder het verslag van Gabbard, al neemt dat wel wat tijd in beslag) :
Just
Back From Syria, Rep. Gabbard Brings Message: ‘There Are No Moderate
Rebels’
By
Susan Jones
By Susan
Jones |
January 26, 2017 | 5:43 AM EST
(CNSNews.com)
– Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Hawaii Democrat, says she made a secret,
four-day trip to Syria — meeting with ordinary people and even
President Bashar al-Assad — because the suffering of the Syrian
people “has been weighing heavily on my heart.”
“I
wanted to see if there was in some small way, a way that I could
express the love and the aloha and the care that the American people
have for the people of Syria, and to see firsthand what was happening
there, to see that situation there,” Gabbard told CNN’s “The
Lead” with Jake Tapper on Wednesday.
She
returned with a message:
“I’ll
tell you what I heard from the Syrian people that I met with, Jake,
walking down the street in Aleppo, in Damascus, hearing from them.
“They
expressed happiness and joy at seeing an American walking through
their streets. But they also asked why the U.S. and its allies are
providing support and arms to terrorist groups like al-Nusra,
al-Qaida or al-Sham, ISIS who are on the ground there, raping,
kidnapping, torturing and killing the Syrian people.
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“They
asked me, why is the United States and its allies supporting these
terrorist groups who are destroying Syria when it was al Qaida who
attacked the United States on 9/11, not Syria. I didn’t have an
answer for them,” Gabbard said.
“The
reality is… every place that I went, every person that I spoke to,
I asked this question to them, and without hesitation, they said,
there are no moderate rebels. Who are these moderate rebels that
people keep speaking of?
Regardless of the name of these
groups, the strongest fighting force on the ground in Syria is al
Nusra, or al Qaida and ISIS. That is a fact,” Gabbard said.
“There
is a number of different, other groups — all of them essentially are
fighting alongside, with, or under the command of the strongest group
on the ground that’s trying to overthrow Assad.
“The Syrian
people recognize and they know that if President Assad is overthrown,
then al Qaida — or a group like al Qaida, that has been killing
Christians, killing people simply because of their religion, or
because they won’t support their terror activities, they will take
charge of all of Syria.
“This is the reality that the people
of Syria are facing on the ground, and why they are pleading with us
here in the United States to stop supporting these terrorist groups.
Let the Syrian people themselves determine their future, not the
United States, not some foreign country.”
Gabbard
said initially, she didn’t plan to meet with President Assad: “When
the opportunity arose to meet with him, I did so because I felt it’s
important that if we profess to truly care about the Syrian people,
about their suffering, then we’ve got to be able to meet with anyone
that we need to if there is a possibility that we could achieve
peace, and that’s exactly what we talked about.”
Tapper
noted that Assad is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths
and millions of people being forced from their homes and even their
country during the five-year civil war:
“Did
you have any compunctions about meeting with somebody like that,
giving him any sort of enhanced credibility because a member of the
United States Congress would meet with someone like that?”
Tapper asked.
“Whatever
you think about President Assad, the fact is that he is the president
of Syria,” Tulsi replied. “In order for any peace agreement, in
order for any possibility of a viable peace agreement to occur, there
has to be a conversation with him,” Gabbard said.
“The
Syrian people will determine his outcome and what happens with their
government and their future, but our focus, my focus, my commitment
is on ending this war that has caused so much suffering to the Syrian
people.”
In
a speech on the House floor earlier this month, Gabbard criticized
America’s “interventionist wars.”
“Our
limited resources should go toward rebuilding our communities here at
home, not fueling more counterproductive regime change wars abroad.”
She
urged her fellow lawmakers to support her bill, the “Stop Arming
Terrorists Act,” legislation that would stop the U.S. government
from using taxpayer dollars to directly or indirectly support groups
allied with terrorist groups such as ISIS and al Qaeda in their war
to overthrow the Syrian government.
“The fact that our
resources are being used to strengthen the very terrorist groups we
should be focused on defeating should alarm every American,”
Gabbard said.
I
urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan
legislation and
stop this madness.”
Gabbard
supported Sen. Bernie Sanders for president, but after the election,
she was one of many people invited to meet with President-elect
Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York.
“President-elect
Trump asked me to meet with him about our current policies regarding
Syria, our fight against terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS, as
well as other foreign policy challenges we face,” Gabbard said
about the meeting.
“I
felt it important to take the opportunity to meet with the
President-elect now before the drumbeats of war that neocons have
been beating drag us into an escalation of the war to overthrow the
Syrian government — a war which has already cost hundreds of
thousands of lives and forced millions of refugees to flee their
homes in search of safety for themselves and their families.”
The
Syrian People Desperately Want Peace
By
Tulsi Gabbard
As
much of Washington prepared for the inauguration of President Donald
Trump, I spent last week on a fact-finding mission in Syria and
Lebanon to see and hear directly from the Syrian people. Their lives
have been consumed by a horrific war that has killed hundreds of
thousands of Syrians and forced millions to flee their homeland in
search of peace.
It
is clear now more than ever: this regime change war does not serve
America’s interest, and it certainly isn’t in the interest of the
Syrian people.
We
met these children at a shelter in Aleppo, whose families fled the
eastern part of the city. The only thing these kids want, the only
thing everyone I came across wants, is peace. Many of these children
have only known war. Their families want nothing more than to go
home, and get back to the way things were before the war to overthrow
the government started. This is all they want.
I
traveled throughout Damascus and Aleppo, listening to Syrians from
different parts of the country. I met with displaced families from
the eastern part of Aleppo, Raqqah, Zabadani, Latakia, and the
outskirts of Damascus. I met Syrian opposition leaders who led
protests in 2011, widows and children of men fighting for the
government and widows of those fighting against the government.
I
met Lebanon’s newly-elected President Aoun and Prime Minister
Hariri, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Elizabeth Richard, Syrian
President Assad, Grand Mufti Hassoun, Archbishop Denys Antoine Chahda
of Syrian Catholic Church of Aleppo, Muslim and Christian religious
leaders, humanitarian workers, academics, college students, small
business owners, and more.
Their
message to the American people was powerful and consistent: There is
no difference between “moderate” rebels and al-Qaeda (al-Nusra)
or ISIS — they are all the same. This is a war between
terrorists under the command of groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda and the
Syrian government. They cry out for the U.S. and other countries to
stop supporting those who are destroying Syria and her people.
I
heard this message over and over again from those who have suffered
and survived unspeakable horrors. They asked that I share their voice
with the world; frustrated voices which have not been heard due to
the false, one-sided biased reports pushing a narrative that supports
this regime change war at the expense of Syrian lives.
I
heard testimony about how peaceful protests against the government
that began in 2011 were quickly overtaken by Wahhabi jihadist groups
like al-Qaeda (al-Nusra) who were funded and supported by Saudi
Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, the United States, and others. They exploited
the peaceful protesters, occupied their communities, and killed and
tortured Syrians who would not cooperate with them in their fight to
overthrow the government.
I
met a Muslim girl from Zabadani who was kidnapped, beaten repeatedly,
and raped in 2012, when she was just 14 years old, by “rebel
groups” who were angry that her father, a sheep herder, would not
give them his money. She watched in horror as masked men murdered her
father in their living room, emptying their entire magazine of
bullets into him.
I
met a boy who was kidnapped while walking down the street to buy
bread for his family. He was tortured, waterboarded, electrocuted,
placed on a cross and whipped, all because he refused to help the
“rebels” — he told them he just wanted to go to school.
This is how the “rebels” are treating the Syrian people who do
not cooperate with them, or whose religion is not acceptable to them.
Although
opposed to the Assad government, the political opposition spoke
strongly about their adamant rejection of the use of violence to
bring about reforms. They argue that if the Wahhabi jihadists, fueled
by foreign governments, are successful in overthrowing the Syrian
state, it would destroy Syria and its long history of a secular,
pluralist society where people of all religions have lived peacefully
side by side. Although this political opposition continues to seek
reforms, they are adamant that as long as foreign governments wage a
proxy regime change war against Syria using jihadist terrorist
groups, they will stand with the Syrian state as they work peacefully
toward a stronger Syria for all Syrians.
Originally,
I had no intention of meeting with Assad, but when given the
opportunity, I felt it was important to take it. I think we should be
ready to meet with anyone if there’s a chance it can help bring
about an end to this war, which is causing the Syrian people so much
suffering.
I
met these amazing women from Barzi, many of whom have husbands or
family members who are fighting with al-Nusra/al-Qaeda, or with the
Syrian army. When they come to this community center, all of that is
left behind, as they spend time with new friends, learning different
skills like sewing, making plans for their future. They were
strangers before coming to this community center whose mission is
empowering these women, and now they are “ sisters” sharing
laughter and tears together.
I
return to Washington, DC with even greater resolve to end our illegal
war to overthrow the Syrian government. From Iraq to Libya and now in
Syria, the U.S. has waged wars of regime change, each resulting in
unimaginable suffering, devastating loss of life, and the
strengthening of groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS.
I
call upon Congress and the new Administration to answer the pleas of
the Syrian people immediately and support the Stop Arming Terrorists
Act. We must stop directly and indirectly supporting
terrorists — directly by providing weapons, training and
logistical support to rebel groups affiliated with al-Qaeda and ISIS;
and indirectly through Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and Turkey,
who, in turn, support these terrorist groups. We must end our war to
overthrow the Syrian government and focus our attention on defeating
al-Qaeda and ISIS.
The
U.S. must stop supporting terrorists who are destroying Syria and her
people. The U.S. and other countries fueling this war must stop
immediately. We must allow the Syrian people to try to recover from
this terrible war.
Thank
you,
Tulsi
Congresswoman
defends meeting Assad in Syria, says U.S. engaged in
‘counterproductive regime change war’:
Our counterproductive regime change war does not serve America’s
interest, and it certainly isn’t in the interest of the Syrian
people
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* Wat niet wegneemt, dat er voldoende westerse politici moeten zijn, die wel weten, dat er in Syrië geen ‘gematigde rebellen’ bestaan. Neem alleen al de VS politici die willens en wetens deze gematigde rebellen van wapens hebben voorzien en hen van o.a. Libië en Tunesië naar Syrië hebben laten transporteren. Dit alles daar de VS (en verder o.a. Turkije, Saoedi-Arabië en Groot-Brittannië) Assad weg wilde hebben, de eerste initiatieven daartoe nam de VS al in 2006!!
Klik voor meer berichten n.a.v. het voorgaande op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor de labels: Aoun, Gabbard S. Hariri en S. Jones.
