You know things are not going well of the western-backed HTS terrorist Junta in Damascus when the western-based, self-styled rabidly anti ‘Assad regime’ NGO, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), begins to turn on the West and Israel’s new puppet ‘government’.
SOHR reported that over few days, no less than 1,000 people massacred by the new regime in sectarian violence – almost all of them most of them civilians, including many women and children – tortured and slaughtered in their homes and in the street by Syria’s new so-called “security forces” in the heartland of the Alawite minority sect residing along Syria’s Mediterranean coastline.
Interim “President” and terrorist boss Al-Jolani, aka Ahmed al-Sharaa, is now afraid of losing his western backing, and now claims he will “hold accountable, firmly and without leniency, anyone who was involved in the bloodshed of civilians”. Many doubt the sincerity of his statement, but it’s unclear whether this pogrom will trigger any immediate change in US or Gulf state policies with Syria.
Numerous analysts now believe the country has embarked on a long and bloody civil war phase.
However, one thing is now clear: the thousands massacred in Syria will now cast a permanent doubt on ability of terrorist leader Al-Jolani’s and the ability of his new ‘government’ to rule in any legitimate fashion…
Andrew Korybko writes for Substack…
The most likely scenario is that the Kristallnacht-like massacre of Alawites goes unpunished and the rebellion by some of the victims’ co-religionists is decisively defeated.
Syria was rocked by sectarian violence in recent days after the interim authorities and their foreign allies massacred members of the Alawite minority en masse in response to an armed rebellion from some of their co-religionists.
It’s impossible to independently determine how many people have been killed, but social media is awash with videos showing the execution of children, women, and the elderly, which anyone can easily find if they look for them. Here are five observations about what just happened:
1. Syria Just Suffered Its Own Kristallnacht
The interim authorities and their supporters collectively blame Alawites for every Assad-era grievance just like the Nazis blamed Jews for every grievance before, during, and after World War I. It was therefore inevitable that Syria would suffer its own Kristallnacht given the hatred that was boiling. Just like the preplanned pogrom against Jews was set into motion by the killing of a Nazi diplomat, so too was a similar pogrom against Alawites set into motion by the armed rebellion that some of them attempted.
2. Different Roles Led To Different Reactions
The interim authorities and their supporters don’t want foreign forces involving themselves in what they insist is a domestic affair, which is the opposite of their stance when they were in the opposition and urged foreign forces to intervene on various pretexts. Likewise, some of the victims and their supporters want maximum international media coverage, sanctions (maintaining existing ones and imposing new sanctions), and even a humanitarian intervention despite opposing all three before Assad’s downfall.
3. Inconsistent Approaches Towards Israel
The interim authorities and their supporters haven’t meaningfully responded to Israel’s military expansion inside Syria that’s placed its forces just outside of Damascus, yet they rapidly mobilized to brutally put down the armed rebellion from some of their own compatriots. They also claimed for years that Assad was secretly colluding with Israel, but their inconsistent approaches towards it, including some of them receiving support from Israel in the past, expose their hypocrisy on this sensitive issue.
4. Russia Is Placed In A Very Difficult Position
Russia is in talks with the interim authorities to retain its air and naval bases, but it’s also sheltering some of the (presumably mostly Alawite) civilians that these same authorities sought to slaughter. This might place Russia in a difficult position if the interim authorities demand that these civilians be handed over to them otherwise they’ll rescind their Assad-era military base deal. Russia doesn’t want to lose these facilities, but it also doesn’t want those civilians’ blood on its hand, which would lead to a dilemma…
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