Israel is communicating with rebels

From  World Israel News

An Israeli source says Israel is carrying out indirect talks with Syrian rebels, Israel National News reported.

The source said communication is occurring through the Druze community in Israel and Syria, the Kurdish population, intelligence organizations, and US officials.

“There is someone to speak to on the other side, and messages were passed,” the source said, indicating Israel will continue operations to eliminate weapons held by the Assad regime.

The source says the United States fully approves Israel’s indirect communication with Syrian rebels.

Defense Minister Israel Katz has encouraged the IDF to capture more areas in the buffer zone close to Syria’s border with Israel.

According to TPS, Israeli security officials are recruiting prominent Israeli Druze leaders to assist in fostering connections with Syrian Druze communities.

On Sunday, Maj.-Gen. Shlomi Bender, head of the Israeli army’s Intelligence Directorate, met with Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, the spiritual leader of Israel’s Druze community, according to Lt.-Col. Avichay Adraee, spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces in Arabic.

“The head of the Intelligence Directorate and His Eminence Sheikh Tarif discussed recent developments in Syria and their impact on the Druze community,” Adraee tweeted.

The initiative follows instructions from Defense Minister Israel Katz, who directed the IDF on Sunday to establish contact with the Syrian Druze and other local communities.

There are an estimated 700,000 to 800,000 Druze in Syria, primarily in the southwestern regions near Israel and Jordan. They make up about four percent of Syria’s population.

Israel’s Druze community, numbering around 152,000, traces its ancestry to Jethro, the Biblical figure and father-in-law of Moses.

Israeli Druze hold prominent positions in both public and military life, and the deep bond between Jewish and Druze soldiers is often referred to as the “covenant of blood.”

During Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, the Druze living in the Galilee and Mount Carmel regions chose to align with the Jewish community. They decided to integrate into Israeli society and have since established themselves across all sectors of public life.

Food for Thought

 

(With thanks to Steven Shamrak)

Not long ago, members of the UN General Assembly, 157 of them, voted again for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Arab conflict. The international anti-Semites are ‘uncomfortable’ with the existence of the Jewish state, and are determine to create another Islamic terrorist state on the Jewish land. 

- Occupation of the independent state of Tibet by China is long forgotten. 

- The question of independence of Kashmir does not exist anymore. 

- Nobody cares about the self-determination of Kurdish people, up to 45 million of them world-wide. 

The members of the 'Ugly Nazi' are only preoccupied with the independence of the fake people of the never existing country or kingdom on the Jewish land. There are 57 Muslim countries, including 22 Arab states. They could welcome and provide a secure prosperous future for their ‘Palestinian brothers and sisters’. Why don't they?

Syria in Crisis - Who is Who

 

Qatar Throws Out Its Garbage

(With thanks to Ben Herskowitz)

 

Europe Is Turning Into One Big No-Go Zone

Giulio Meotti November 22, 2024

Eight years ago Donald Trump scandalized the right-thinking people by stating that “no-go zones” were being created in Europe. No-go zones? It must have been another fake by Trump, it was said.

David Ignatius in the New York Times had used the expression, explaining that some areas of Paris had become “no-go zones at night”. Then Michael Nazir-Ali, bishop of Rochester, spoke of no-go zones in England.

Since then, it has become an open secret, and while even Angela Merkel has admitted the existence of these areas in Europe, the former French socialist president François Hollande said: “How can we avoid secession? Because that is what is happening: secession”.

Now, just over a week after the incredible events in Amsterdam (40 no-go areas have been mapped out in the Netherlands), Barbara Slowik, the head of the Berlin police, admits: “There are neighborhoods where the majority of the population is of Arab origin who also have sympathies for terrorist groups.” Slowik advised Jews and homosexuals to be careful in “certain areas” of the German capital in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung newspaper “There is open anti-Semitism against people of Jewish faith and origin”.

If I were the police chief of Berlin, I would have resigned a moment after admitting that the state had lost control of its territory. The Welt went to one of these neighborhoods of Berlin to get reactions on Slowik: “The population calls for the caliphate.” The incredible admission by Berlin’s police chief is just one piece of the puzzle. In Bonn, Potsdam, Bochum and elsewhere, Jews are hiding.

And London has also become a “no-go zone for Jews,” the government’s anti-extremism tsar, Robin Simcox, has just denounced. And it’s not just a problem for Jews and gays.

Berlin’s Greens want “women-only” train carriages. The request was made by Berlin Green Party MP Antje Kapek, who said that “terrible attacks on women” occur “even when there are large crowds.”

Even neighborhoods in Duisburg are “no-go zones,” according to a report leaked to the weekly Der Spiegel. The report speaks of “44 no-go zones” and warns that the government is losing control of entire neighborhoods and warns that the police “will no longer be able to guarantee public order in the long term.” Duisburg, which has a population of 500,000, is estimated to be home to 60,000 mostly Turkish Muslims, making it one of the most Islamized cities in Germany (Muslims have outnumbered Christians in Duisburg schools).

Police union chairman Rainer Wendt told Spiegel: “In the north of Duisburg, there are neighborhoods where colleagues can barely stop a car, they will be surrounded by 40 or 50 men.”

Wendt, president of Europe’s largest police union, also said: “We are facing a challenge that is unprecedented in post-war history.” The risk of collapse is “very real,” Wendt warned, and the police are losing control of the situation. “Radical Islamists are questioning the power on our streets. If no action is taken, Sharia law will prevail instead of the constitution. It is time to return to the fundamental values of our societies. Otherwise, the country will collapse and the law of the strongest will prevail.”

We have seen mass sexual assaults on New Year’s Eve and the mayor of Cologne, Henriette Reker, advise women to “keep foreigners at arm’s length.” Perhaps Jews and homosexuals should also keep them at arm’s length?

But it is not just about Germany. There is an infinite multitude of small and large enclaves, true parallel states, that threaten both the stability and the integrity of Europe.

The Migration Research Institute in Budapest, linked to the prestigious Matthias Corvinus College, estimates 900 uncontrolled areas throughout Europe.

What are they like? In these territories, the police, social workers and ambulances do not enter or must be protected. The high birth rates guarantee longevity and expansion. They are places where a woman can be openly harassed during the day. These areas constitute threats to security through crime, riots and terrorism. But the triad is not a matter of debate. In the end, Sharia law is de facto respected by the inhabitants, not de iure: over time, butchers are only halal, mixed hairdressers disappear, and women are pressured to conform to Islamic law. It goes without saying that Jews must not be seen.

With the numbers of Islamic immigration, positive law in Europe is powerless over social and cultural norms.

“There are 60 ‘risk areas’ in Sweden,” Swedish journalist Paulina Neuding writes in the Spectator. “Sweden’s immigrant integration policy has failed, leading to parallel societies and gang violence,” left-wing Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson had already said. And again: “Society is simply too weak to break the segregation and reject parallel societies.”

Violence against health workers in many areas of Sweden is so endemic that they want to set up a “protection system” in no-go zones with large populations of migrants hostile to the authorities. Postal services have also stopped sending workers to areas of Stockholm with a high number of immigrants because it is too dangerous. Firefighters were forced to abandon efforts to put out a blaze in a burning building after locals attacked them.

The DGSI, the French directorate general of internal counterintelligence, has mapped 150 districts “in possession” of the Islamists. Districts, neighborhoods, enclaves now in the hands of fundamentalists and who shape them according to their ideology of submission. According to the former number two of the French DGSE, Alain Chouet, who published the book “Sept pas vers l’enfer”, “these districts are in 859 cities and 4 million people live there, or 6 percent of the total population of France”.

To carry out arrests in the lost territories of Marseille, the police dress up as Muslims. Like in Fauda, the Netflix series on Israeli anti-terrorism.

The French newspaper Le Parisien revealed that the “no-go zones” are now located in the heart of the capital. Like the Chapelle-Pajol neighborhood, in the eastern part of Paris.

When there were violent uprisings in the banlieues two summers ago, “Nicolas,” a member of the “Bac de nuit” (criminal police) sent to Nanterre, confessed: “We no longer have the impression of being in France. We were quickly overwhelmed; the firefighters were attacked every time we moved”.

The Europe of open borders has ended up with no-go zones.

The problem is that European governments, and this is what Barbara Slowik’s shocking admission tells us, seem to have concluded that it is too late to prevent an Islamized Europe and that all that can be done is to cushion its effects, at least in the immediate future, and hope that the destruction is limited to a few areas, hopefully not theirs. (Remember what Winston Churchill said about appeasers and crocodiles.)

We are turning into a gigantic no-go zone where the clash of civilizations is taking place.

 

Immigrants needed in Germany – but not welcomed

Okaz, Saudi Arabia, Rami Al-Khalifa Al-Ali  - August 14

Germany stands as the economic powerhouse of Europe, but this industrial might comes with a significant requirement: a robust workforce. The German government estimates there are currently over half a million vacancies across various sectors, especially in trades such as craftsmanship, mechanics, and construction work. To fortify its economy, Germany needs more than 400,000 new immigrants annually. Projections paint a daunting picture: By 2035, around seven million workers are expected to exit the labor market. Hence, the government must ramp up efforts to attract large numbers of immigrants. 

In recent months, legislative changes to immigration laws and streamlined paths to German citizenship have been introduced, serving as potential incentives for new arrivals. Nevertheless, the global competition for skilled immigrants is fierce, with nations like the US, Canada, and other European countries also vying for talent that fits their labor market demands. The alarm over an immigration crisis is often a media construct rather than an economic reality. Take the UK, for instance. While it has seen around 100,000 illegal immigrants, the British government has simultaneously sanctioned the entry of over 800,000 legal immigrants to meet labor market needs. 

Ironically, unemployment persists in certain segments because the typical Western citizen aspires to office jobs that align with their education and training. Beyond the sought-after roles of doctors, engineers, accountants, and programmers, there is an equally critical need for workers in construction, retail, and truck driving – jobs that demand physical effort and are often less appealing to native citizens. 

The crux of the issue transcends the attraction of highly educated professionals. It is about the pressing need for manual laborers willing to accept lower wages for physically demanding work. This dynamic is unlikely to change as competition for these workers is set to intensify, especially with China’s growing demand for labor. China faces its own demographic challenges, borne out of the now-abandoned one-child policy. The nation is grappling with a rapidly aging population, projected to have 24% of its citizens over the age of 65 by 2035. This demographic shift will place immense strain on China’s social and healthcare systems and result in a worker shortage, with the labor force expected to shrink by 0.5% annually until 2030, accelerating to 0.9% annually until 2050. 

Compounding this complex scenario is the rise of xenophobia and racism, which has bolstered far-right movements across multiple countries. The recent developments in Britain epitomize this contradiction; hostility towards immigrants stems less from economic concerns and more from issues of identity, globalization, political opportunism, and lingering racist sentiments from both distant and recent history. We are likely to see more of these phenomena in the near future, despite their incongruity with social and economic realities. Over short periods, political exploitation can overshadow societal and economic movements, creating a landscape fraught with contradiction and tension.

Has Israel a Gun Pointed at its Head?

 (Dr Aaron Lerner - columnist)

There's a bullet in the chamber of the gun pressed up against our temple.

And we are fully aware that once a United Nations Security Council Resolution invoking Chapter VII of the UN Charter a "bullet" is fired, a Russian veto would prevent President Trump from readily undoing the damage.

 Yes, Obama's "parting gift" to the Jewish State was a UNSC Resolution that didn't invoke Chapter VII. But times have changed.

So, for all the anger and frustration that the prime minister yielded to the blackmailer's bullet, one can understand why Mr. Netanyahu accepted this ridiculous deal that, if implemented, will ultimately result in Hezbollah, under the (at best) blind eyes of UNIFIL and the Lebanese Army, completely rebuilding and restocking their forward positions for a massive ground invasion.

The challenge Prime Minister Netanyahu faces is to prepare a "package" for President Trump - a viable, robust resolution of the situation in the north that Trump can embrace and adopt as his alternative to the sham deal imposed by the Biden administration.

Such a package would include intuitive features like a deep "no man's land" north of the Lebanese border. To be clear: this won't be a simple task.

Yes, we have many allies in Mr. Trump's team, but all kinds of international players will reach out to President Trump with exciting, ostensibly "groundbreaking" deals.

 Our package must be capable of being implemented in days rather than weeks or months.   And with no cost to America.

Of course, this is something to be shared only with Mr. Trump on January 20th.

We should already be working feverishly, in coordination with our American allies, so the program can be locked in with President-elect Trump in the days to come.