Jerusalem Post: 2017 was “the year of Putin”

Jerusalem Post: 2017 was “the year of Putin”

Forbes: “After six and a half years of war, al Assad's enemies are scurrying back to him. Insurgents with the combined backing of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and lesser powers failed to dislodge him. “Nothing succeeds like success, and al Assad's tenacity has forced his enemies to recognize that he is not going away."

By

 Jonas E. Alexis

December 30, 2017

…by Jonas E. Alexis

The Jerusalem Post has recognized that Vladimir Putin was the man of the year. On December 14, journalist, writers, reporters, and people of various stripes—1,600 of them—asked Putin questions after questions for three hours. Can you think of any US president doing the same thing?

Keep in mind that Putin doesn’t dodge questions. He is focused, and he always try to build his answers on the moral and political order, which British and American representatives despise.

Remember how he destroyed people like Megyn Kelly, Fareed Zakaria, Charlie Rose, BBC journalist John Simpson, among others? Putin gets his audience’s attention because he always tries to get to the central issues, particularly when it comes to examining the worldview that comes to dominate US foreign policy. The Jerusalem Post says:

“Putin’s tour of the Middle East caps a year of change in the region that has seen Islamic State almost completely defeated in Iraq and Syria, and the hopes of the Arab Spring and the one-time powerful US neo-conservative agenda of democratization fade.”[1]

Two things to highlight here: ISIS is defeated in Syria, and the Neoconservative ideology in the region is waning precisely because Russia didn’t allow the Neocons to have their cake and it too.

That’s one reason why the Neoconservative flagship, the Weekly Standard, reluctantly admitted in 2015 that “Putin is the new sheriff in town.”[2] Even Israel, according to the New York Times itself, “knows that Putin is the Middle East’s new sheriff.”[3]

The Jerusalem Post astonishingly admits that Saudi Arabia’s “Wahhabi ideology had influenced many extremist groups in the 20th century,”[4] but the same Post didn’t explain to its readers why both Israel and the United States have been supporting Saudi Arabia since the beginning of time.

Saudi Arabia has been using the same ideology to liquidate Yemeni men, women and children for years, but both the United States and Israel would like to tell the world that Iran—the very country that has been fighting terrorist cells in Syria—is the new Hitler in town.

Do you now see why the New World Order doesn’t really make sense? Do you now see that this worldview is essentially diabolical and is therefore against the very fabric of moral and political order? Do you now see why it was easy for Putin to win 2017?

Syrian children can play again.

This is not a matter of “worshiping” Putin or supporting everything he ever did; it is a matter of putting some order in this chaotic and diabolical world. And whether you are for or against Putin, the fact on the table now is undisputable: The Neocons lost the Syrian war; Syrians are happier than before; Israel is mad and sad; and the New World Order fears Vladimir Putin and Russia. Even Newsweek and Forbes, of all places, have reluctantly and incoherently conceded this fact.[5] Listen to Forbes very carefully here:

“After six and a half years of war, al Assad’s enemies are scurrying back to him. Insurgents with the combined backing of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and lesser powers failed to dislodge him.

“Nothing succeeds like success, and al Assad’s tenacity has forced his enemies to recognize that he is not going away. Washington has stopped demanding regime change, as President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did.

“CIA Director Mike Pompeo telephoned al Assad’s military intelligence chief, Ali Mamlouk, last January to ask for help in finding missing American journalist Austin Tice but also to obtain information on al Assad’s jihadist enemies who might threaten the United States.

“The British have sent diplomatic feelers to Damascus, and European states that withdrew their ambassadors in 2012 are sending them on regular missions to the Syrian capital.

“‘No one is able to say, ‘Sorry, I was wrong,’ explained a Western source close to secret discussions between al Assad and the West. ‘French diplomats ask me how to get out of this.’ The Egyptians, who initially supported the rebellion against the Syrian president, now support him.

“The Iraqis, America’s allies in the war against the Islamic State, have sent him military aid. Even neighboring Jordan, which permitted the CIA to train Syrian insurgents on its territory, says relations with its occasional adversary are ‘likely to take a positive turn.’”[6]

As Salon itself has declared, this is something to celebrate,[7] as 2017 is ending. VT writers and editors have worked very hard over the years to expose the Israeli regime and the US empire behind the Syrian war. Thanks to all. Let’s give the regime and empire a hard time in 2018.

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• [1] Seth J. Frantzman, “How 2017 became the year of Putin,” Jerusalem Post, December 30, 2017.

What the mass shooting in Las Vegas should teach American politicians and warmongers

What the mass shooting in Las Vegas should teach American politicians and warmongers

By Jonas E. Alexis on October 2, 2017

We need to hold our breath for a moment and start asking basic fundamental questions. Have warmongers, the Neoconservatives, and the Zionist media been fair to the thousands upon thousands of civilians in the Middle East, people who have absolutely nothing to do with terrorism? You see, less than one hundred people die in Las Vegas and the entire world has to know about it and sympathize for us.

…by Jonas E. Alexis

 

Look around you. Turn on your television. Turn on your computer and go to the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, and any media outlet in America. What do they all place on the front page of their news outlets? 

Well, they are all reporting about the incident that happened in Las Vegas. It has been reported that the incident has taken the lives of more than fifty people died. The New York Times itself called the incident “one of the worst U.S. mass shootings.”[1] The Washington Post called it “the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.”[2]

Sudden death is indeed a frightening thing, and mass shootings, in particular, always bring pain and suffering. Our heart goes out to the families of those who find themselves in the middle of the Las Vegas debacle.

But we need to hold our breath for a moment and start asking basic fundamental questions. Have warmongers, the Neoconservatives, and the Zionist media been fair to the thousands upon thousands of civilians in the Middle East, people who have absolutely nothing to do with terrorism? You see, less than one hundred people die in Las Vegas and the entire world has to know about it and sympathize for us.

But do you know how many civilians die in Iraq last month due to perpetual wars? Have the New York Times and other outlets been talking about this? Did you know that more than three thousand people die in Iraq last month alone?[3] Did you know that the Trump administration is trying “to lift restrictions on military drone strikes”?[4]

Did you know that more than 200 civilians die every month in places like Iraq and Afghanistan? Did you know that more than 1.4 million Iraqis have lost their precious lives due to the Israeli wars in the Middle East? Listen to this:

“The number of civilian deaths in the Afghan war has reached a record high, continuing an almost unbroken trend of nearly a decade of rising casualties.

“The number of deaths of women and children grew especially fast, primarily due to the Taliban’s use of homemade bombs, which caused 40% of civilian casualties in the first six months of 2017, according to UN figures released on Monday.

“Child casualties increased by 9% to 436, compared with the same period last year, and 1,141 children were wounded. Female deaths rose by 23%, with 174 women killed and 462 injured. US and Afghan airstrikes also contributed to the surge in civilian victims, with a 43% increase in casualties from the air.”[5]

Did you know that the United States has supported Saudi Arabia in starving at least 542,000 Yemenis to death?[6] Did you know that Israel and the United States have been playing video games in the Middle East for decades? Did you know that the United States has a history of doing the same thing in places like Vietnam?[7]

The estimate of lives lost in the war in Iraq alone is between 100,000 to 600,000, including thousands of civilians. In 2003, at least 12,000 civilians lost their lives. The first three years of the war produced between 104,000 and 223,000 civilian deaths.

When it was over, 2.3 million Iraqis had been forced to flee their homes and towns; by 2008, another 2.7 million Iraqis were displaced, and nearly half a million civilians ended up losing their lives.[8] Thousands upon thousands of other people went missing by 2008.[9] This is out of a total Iraqi population of about 30 million people![10]

When the war was over, sectarian violence and car bombings were rampant—almost every day. When Mark Kukis went to Iraq to report on what happened, he said he heard two to five car bombs every day.[11] The Iraq war, says Kukis, shook the entire nation and created havoc even by 2006.[12] Factions of society that once coexisted were dismantled.

In a nutshell, Iraq was in exponential decay. Buildings and farmlands were destroyed.[13] And the fringe benefits of the war? Between 300,000 and 360,000 veterans returned home with brain injuries,[14] some of which went untreated.[15]In 2005, more than 6,000 suicides took place among our soldiers serving in Iraq.[16]

By 2012, more soldiers committed suicide than died in combat,[17] making it the year with the highest suicide rate since 2001.[18] Do you see why precious lives matter in the Middle East as well? Do you see why politicians need to stop fooling themselves? Do you see why these people need to stop listening to the Israeli regime, which now wants the United States to get into a bloody war with Iran? Do you see why every decent American has to resent perpetual wars in the Middle East?