Syria | Assad flees to Moscow as rebels capture Damascus

[Prestwich_Blue]

1974 buffer zone update

Do you ever criticise Iran for destabilising the whole region?

 

[grunge]

Yep, looks like they’ve taken the official 1974 defined demilitarised buffer zone for the time being.

They had already claimed the heights ( the 2/3rds they covered ) in the 80’s so it’s not a buffer anymore to them. Only Israel and the US recognise there claim mind you.

Golan Heights Law - Wikipedia

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They have now taken control of the other 3rd. I fully expect more will be taken to protect the height. Only time will tell.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Syria = Jihadists good

Afghanistan = Jihadists bad

I'm confused????

Assad was a ****. Is he being replaced by bigger cunts that are going to destabilise the country like Iraq whilst the yanks 'protect' the oil.

Meanwhile the Israeli fascist has taken over Syrian land protected by the UN and that's not a story.

This world is fucked up.

What's right or wrong anymore?

No wonder people go mad trying to comprehend everything that's going on the world.

Enemy of our enemy is our friend etc. the thing about tyrants like Assad and Saddam is that you can generally do business with them while you turn a blind eye to their 'leadership style'. Religious nutters are harder to deal with because they are motivated by the perceived wishes of their choice of sky fairy rather than their bank balance - unless you are helping to fund their jihad/crusade etc.

 

[MadchesterCity]

Israel claim that as there own so I was thinking a buffer past that.

In a perfect world Syria will become part of the Israeli state

 

[MadchesterCity]

Do you honestly believe they will ?

Zero chance, benefits too good here

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

In a perfect world Syria will become part of the Israeli state

LOL. If my ultra-religious fellow Jews are to believed, when the Messiah comes we'll all be part of the Israeli state.

The problem with states like Syria & Iraq is that they were carved out of the French & British colonial empires, with little regard for things like tribal loyalties. As James Barr said in the title of his excellent book, they just drew a line in the sand.

In the French-controlled post-Ottoman territory. Syria was divided into theee or four separate areas, with the Alawite tribe (which the Assads belong to) having an area in the west, on the coast. the Aleppo region was separate from the Damascus region.

These will never be stable democracies, at least not for many, many years. I sometimes wonder if we shouldn't have stayed as colonial powers.

 

[johnny crossan]

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

LOL. If my ultra-religious fellow Jews are to believed, when the Messiah comes we'll all be part of the Israeli state.

The problem with states like Syria & Iraq is that they were carved out of the French & British colonial empires, with little regard for things like tribal loyalties. As James Barr said in the title of his excellent book, they just drew a line in the sand.

In the French-controlled post-Ottoman territory. Syria was divided into theee or four separate areas, with the Alawite tribe (which the Assads belong to) having an area in the west, on the coast. the Aleppo region was separate from the Damascus region.

These will never be stable democracies, at least not for many, many years. I sometimes wonder if we shouldn't have stayed as colonial powers.

I do think that the world may be a better place if English public school boys over the last couple of centuries had been told that drawing lines on maps was poor etiquette.

 

[Postman Pep]

Do you ever criticise Iran for destabilising the whole region?

That would involve accepting the ridiculous premise of your question so no. I do remember when the snooker coveage was destabilised by that embassy siege and forming a simplistic view about Iran. In my defence I was 11.

 

[york away to this!]

How about we introduce religious freaks into the mix?...