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Typical Western antisemitic media makes it sound like Israel attacked a Syrian town without excuse. They neglect or downplay the attack on IDF soldiers that triggered the attack. They also neglect to mention who or what the real targets were.
Syrians perform funeral prayers for several victims killed in the Israeli strike on the town of Beit Jinn, Syria, Friday. The Damascus Countryside Health Directorate reported that 13 people were killed in the attack. These developments come amid escalating tensions near the Syrian Golan. Photo by Mohammed Al Rifai/EPA
Nov. 28 (UPI) --The Israeli Defense Forces launched an attack on Beit Jinn in southern Syria, which killed 13 residents, including two children, and seriously wounded some Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli military described the event as an "exchange of fire" in Beit Jinn, where three of its soldiers were seriously injured. It also said it arrested three people associated with Jamaa Islamiya, a Lebanon-based militant group.
The Washington Post reported that, according to their families, there were two girls, ages 4 and 17, and a 10-year-old boy killed.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry called it a "criminal attack carried out by an Israeli occupation army patrol in Beit Jinn. The occupation forces' targeting of the town of Beit Jinn with brutal and deliberate shelling, following their failed incursion, constitutes a full-fledged war crime," Al Jazeera reported.
Syrian civil defense said they weren't able to enter the city to rescue the wounded because the IDF continues to target any movement.
Since the civil war in Syria overturned the Bashar al-Assad regime, the Israeli military seized a demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights and in Syria. It has also launched hundreds of air strikes across Syria, including in Damascus. Human Rights Watch has declared some operations war crimes.
Earlier this month, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa met with President Donald Trump in the White House, and Trump paused all sanctions against the country for six months. But so far, Al-Sharaa has refused to normalize relations with Israel.
Of course, such a thing would be suicidal when you only have very tentative control over the various Islamic factions in Syria.
As I have mentioned in the past, Turkey is looking for an excuse to invade Israel, but it must wait until the USA has turned against its Middle East ally, or until there is a disastrous financial collapse. With the unpredictable Trump as President, anything is possible, but it's more likely to happen with a Democratic government in the USA.
Turkey Is Preparing For War Against Israel, While Qatar Takes Down The American Rightwing
With Israel’s Gaza City operation in full swing as ground troops enter the last major stronghold and Jihadist capital, something else is brewing in the Middle East.
It is no secret that after Israel attacked Hamas’s political leadership residing in Qatar’s capital of Doha on September 9th, the Qataris have been trying to rally the Arab world to their side. Qatar’s Emir called for an emergency summit that was held on September 15th, 2025. The Arab-Islamic emergency summit in Doha was convened to tackle the Israeli attack on Qatar, viewed as a breach of a GCC nation’s sovereignty. Key discussions were expected to focus on diminishing U.S. influence in the region after its failure to provide effective security assurances. The agenda reportedly included exploring new defense alliances with China and Turkey, evaluating the partial withdrawal of U.S. forces in favor of alternative security partners, and considering the termination of multi-billion-dollar U.S. arms agreements due to concerns over reliability and security.
So far, Qatar has not publicly left the US orbit, but cozying up to China and admitting what everyone already knows, that it is in partnership with its fellow Muslim Brotherhood country of Turkey for control over the region, can be seen as key outcomes of the summit.
For years now, the Qatari-Turkish partnership has formed the nucleus of the emerging Sunni Caliphate in the Middle East. The Al-Thani family of Qatar and Erdogan of Turkey had already long ago divvied up roles in the rising Muslim Brotherhood empire. Qatar essentially props up Turkey’s economy, while Erdogan provides the industrial output and army for Qatar’s Jihad in the region.
However, Qatar’s ambitions extend far beyond the Middle East. The Al-Thani’s want Islam to be global. So to do that, Qatar’s money is spent on not only influencing the American and European left, but when it comes to the US, splitting the conservative movement between pro-Israel and anti-Israel factions.
This can be seen openly on X on accounts like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. Whether Qatari money is directly behind them or not, the fact is, Qatari bots are promoting anti-Israel voices in the right-wing, the same way the Qataris infiltrated the left using the American universities.
Qatar’s strategy has always been to fund the Marxist-Islamist partnership (known as the Red-Green Alliance) to undercut American unity and support for Israel. Ultimately, it was a leftwing trans-activist, essentially a product of the Red-Green Alliance, who killed Charlie Kirk, and just when his assassination should have woken the country up to Qatar’s manipulation of Generation Z, the right continues its splinter with the Woke Right (or better called the Qatari right) diverting attention to Israel as the culprit.
Interestingly, Qatar’s manipulation of the American media, university, and conservative movement is exactly what those on the far right accuse Israel of doing. The result of all of this is a weakening of US support for Israel, as well as creating confusion and chaos on American streets.
Turkey Is Coming For The Holy Land
Turkey has made it clear that it wants to reassert itself over the Land of Israel and, as the main partner in the Qatari-backed Muslim Brotherhood caliphate, Erdogan’s Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) have been tasked with conquering the Jewish State.
A Turkish media outlet aligned with President Erdogan has disclosed a “target bank” of strategic sites in Israel that Turkey’s military would focus on in the event of a conflict with Israel.
As tensions escalate between Turkey and Israel, the outlet revealed a list of key military and strategic locations, including air force bases in Nevatim, Hatzerim, Ramat David, and the Tel Aviv suburbs, the ports of Haifa, Ashdod, and Eilat, the Tamar and Leviathan gas rigs, and the Dimona nuclear facility.
Israel has not been quiet as well, and in preparation for a potential conflict with Turkey, it has begun to shift anti-aircraft installations over to Cyprus, while increasing cooperation with both Greek and Cypriot armed forces. Alongside this, Israel has been bolstering its cooperation with Druze separatists in Sweida. According to reports, the Israeli government has been providing weapons and money to the pro-Israel Military Council in Sweida.
So is any of this enough to counter the Qatari-Turkish Muslim Brotherhood Caliphate? On the face of it, not at all - especially if the US fully descends into internal chaos and the coming generation is awash in anti-Israel propaganda. Israel must continue to strengthen its partnerships with Eastern European ethno-nationalist states like Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Austria. Alongside this, Israel should completely back Kurdish autonomy, if not full independence, in Syria.
Only a coalition of indigenous cultures in the Middle East and those Christian nations in Europe that have not yet succumbed to the Red-Green Alliance propaganda can counter the growing Muslim Brotherhood Caliphate. If not, Islam may be able to accomplish something it has never done in its 1400-year-old history – taking over the West – permanently.
A German court on Monday sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes in his Syrian homeland for killing two people and torturing nine between 2011 and 2012, under the Assad regime.
A German court on Monday sentenced a Syrian doctor to life in prison for crimes against humanity for torturing detainees at military hospitals under former ruler Bashar al-Assad.
The crimes committed by Alaa Mousa, 40, during the Syrian civil war were "part of a brutal reaction by Assad's dictatorial, unjust regime", said the presiding judge at the higher regional court in Frankfurt, Christoph Koller.
Mousa was accused of torturing patients at military hospitals in Damascus and Homs on 18 occasions between 2011 and 2012.
In one instance, Mousa was said to have set fire to the genitals of a teenage boy and in another case, to have delivered a lethal injection to a detainee who resisted a beating.
As well as crimes against humanity, the court found Mousa guilty of murder, torture and war crimes.
The defendant denied the charges in the trial, which came to a close a few months after Assad's ouster in December 2024.
Mousa arrived in Germany in 2015 on a visa for highly skilled workers at the same time as hundreds of thousands of Syrians were fleeing the civil war at home.
He continued to practise medicine in Germany, working as an orthopaedic doctor until he was arrested in June 2020.
A former employer told German media they knew nothing of his past in Syria's military hospitals, and that colleagues described him as "unremarkable".
According to prosecutors, Mousa worked at military hospitals in Homs and Damascus, where political opponents detained by the government were brought for treatment.
Instead of receiving medical assistance, the patients were tortured and "not infrequently killed", they said.
In one case, Mousa was accused of pouring flammable liquid on a prisoner's wounds before setting them on fire and kicking him in the face so hard that three of his teeth had to be replaced.
He also allegedly doused a teenage boy's genitals in alcohol before setting them alight.
Other inmates were kicked and beaten, sometimes with medical tools, according to prosecutors.
During the trial, the court heard testimony from colleagues and detainees, who said they recognised the accused, according to German weekly Der Spiegel.
One former inmate said he had been forced to carry the bodies of patients who died after being injected by Mousa, Der Spiegel reported.
Another witness said the military hospital where he was held in Damascus had been known as a "slaughterhouse".
At the opening of the trial in 2022, Mousa told the court he had witnessed beatings, but denied striking patients himself.
The accused however said he was too afraid of the military police "in control" at the hospital to speak out.
"I felt sorry for them, but I couldn't say anything, or it would have been me instead of the patient," he said.
Germany has tried several supporters of Assad's regime under the legal principle of "universal jurisdiction", which allows for serious crimes to be prosecuted even if they were committed in a different country.
The first global trial over state-sponsored torture in Syria under the Assad government opened in 2020 in Koblenz, in western Germany.
The accused in the trial, a former army colonel, was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in jail in 2022.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday, saying that the extent of atrocities committed in the country is hard to believe. Photo by Hasan Belal/EPA-EFE
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 15 (UPI) --U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said Wednesday that the extent of atrocities committed in Syria is hard to believe and emphasized that transitional justice is "crucial" after the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Türk, who described his visit to Damascus as "a historical first" after officials from the U.N. body and many other human rights groups had been denied access to the country under the Assad rule, said it was critical to address "the past wrongs" that have been committed by in Syria over the past five decades.
"The extent of the atrocity crimes truly beggars belief," he said during a press conference in Damascus. "Those responsible for serious human rights violations and crimes must be held to account."
He said "war crimes and even crimes against humanity" have been documented over the years of the Syrian conflict, stressing that "atrocity crimes," which include enforced disappearances, torture and the use of chemical weapons, must be fully investigated.
No doubt he is not exaggerating in the least the horrors that Assad committed. But there were many false flag operations that occurred involving chemical weapons, particularly just after the Arab Spring operation which failed completely in Syria. It would be nice if they were investigated too. Search this blog for 'false flag' for stories on this.
"Justice must be served, fairly and impartially. ... Revenge and vengeance are never the answer," Türk said.
He said that as the country moves forward, "transitional justice is crucial" to promote the rule of law and reinforce respect for human rights in post-Assad Syria.
Türk noted that he met Syria's new leader Ahmad Sharaa, who assured him of "the importance of respect for human rights for all Syrians and all different components of Syrian society."
Since his Islamist rebels took control of most of the country and deposed Assad on Dec. 8, Sharaa has been seeking to reassure the various sects and minorities of their safety, rights and participation in rebuilding the war-ravaged country.
While the challenges facing Syria are "immense," the U.N. official said the first task must be "saving lives," with 90% of the population living in poverty and millions still displaced inside and outside the country.
He then called on the international community to urgently reconsider the lifting of the "sectoral sanctions" imposed on the country.
Assad's fall revealed a shocking reality about tens of thousands of detainees when rebel forces stormed his regime-run jails in Damascus and other Syrian regions and freed them. However, a great number of them remain unaccounted for.
Türk, who visited the notorious Sednaya prison, where the U.N. body has been documenting violations for years, said one former soldier jailed on suspicion of being a defector told him of the "cruel treatment" he endured.
"I cannot even bear to share his stories of beatings and torture," he said.
The U.N. top official also visited the residential neighborhood of Jobar, in Damascus, which he described as "an apocalyptic wasteland" in which no building was spared of bombardment.
"It is inconceivable that such mass killings and destruction took place. Equally, that banned chemical weapons were used against civilians elsewhere in the country, and not just once, says a lot about the extreme brutality of the tactics used by the former regime," he said.
"Such acts constitute some of the most serious crimes under international humanitarian law."
Türk warned that "still very real threats" exist because of the ongoing conflicts and hostilities that "must end."
The unidentified assailant subsequently killed himself outside a courthouse in Tehran
Two Iranian Supreme Court justices have been killed by an unknown assassin in Tehran, IRNA News reported on Saturday, citing the media center of the judiciary. The perpetrator reportedly committed suicide on the spot after an attempt was made to arrest him.
The two victims were identified as Hojjat al-Islam Razini and Hojjat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen Moqisseh, who each presided over a different branch of the court. The two judges were heavily involved in combatting crimes against national security, the statement by the judiciary read, describing them as “brave and experienced.”
The judiciary’s media center said that the attack was a “planned act,” adding that initial indications are that the assassin “did not have a case in the Supreme Court nor was he a client of the court’s branches.”“Immediately after the terrorist act, an attempt was made to arrest the gunman, who quickly committed suicide,” officials said, noting that an investigation is underway.
While Iranian officials stopped short of assigning the blame to any actor, they pointed out that “over the past year, extensive measures have been taken by the judiciary to identify, arrest, and prosecute agents and elements affiliated with the infamous Zionist regime and the US agents, spies, and terrorist groups.”
Razini was the target of an assassination attempt in 1998, when assailants on motorcycles attached a magnetic bomb to his vehicle, injuring the judge. Razini was presiding over the Tehran judiciary at the time.
The two judges were reportedly involved in an alleged purge of dissidents in 1988 at the end of the protracted Iran-Iraq war. At the time, the main target of the Iranian authorities was the so-called People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), which invaded the country with a 7,000-strong force backed by Iraq.
MEK, which espouses an ideological mix of Islamic principles and revolutionary Marxism, has been based in Albania for decades. Iranian officials claim the group’s fighters have killed more than 12,000 civilians since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
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