I think it's going to have to happen 'naturally', i.e. as a result of internal pressures and forces rather than from without.
Think so, "naturally" - as Assad said back in early November: "
We have to prioritize our options; Do we condemn, boycott or appeal to the international community..
What is our executive plan? We are not dealing with a state but with a colonial entity.. We are not dealing with a people but with herds of settlers who are close to barbarism.
There is likely no doubt that Al-Assad et al have thought deeply of what was coming. I can't envision him and his allies (who may not show their hands) not looking to said 'options,' while acting in the best way he could given the realities.
Here was his November speech transcript (was around 5 min.):
. We will not talk about the historical and established rights of the Palestinians and the inevitability of adhering to them, or our duty towards supporting the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples and the legitimacy of the resistance in both countries,
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. We will not talk about the historical and established rights of the Palestinians and the inevitability of adhering to them, or our duty towards supporting the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples and the legitimacy of the resistance in both countries, nor about the Nazism of the Israeli occupation, as this will not add anything to what many people in the world know.
. The crime of slaughtering the Palestinians has been ongoing for a year, and last year we stressed the need to stop this aggression, and the result of the year was more martyrs and displaced people in Palestine and Lebanon.
. We offer peace but reap blood, and changing the results requires replacing the mechanisms and tools.
. What is the value of the rights of the Palestinian people as a whole if the Palestinians do not possess their basic right , which is the right to life?
. The priority now is to stop the massacres, stop the genocide, and stop the ethnic cleansing.
. We have to prioritize our options; Do we condemn, boycott or appeal to the international community.. What is our executive plan? We are not dealing with a state but with a colonial entity.. We are not dealing with a people but with herds of settlers who are close to barbarism.
. The problem determines the means and the means are the basis of success. This is the essence of our meeting today, which I hope will be successful and that we will succeed in making the right decisions.
On another connecting note, here is
Asma Al-Assad on Gaza from 12 years ago on SOTT.net (she and he have been steadfast in calling out this nonsense):
To the West.
Philip Giraldi had a few words to say a couple of days ago, capturing this tête-à-têtes at Mar-a-Lago. Lindsey was chumming; always in the background, or foreground depending on the venue, while Bibi's bride and son dropped in to help spread the holiday genocidal cheer.
Girardi:
The internet photo that appeared last week showed a festive gathering at Mar-a-Lago, featuring a beaming Donald Trump seated with Senator Lindsey Graham standing behind him also with a big smile on his face. Seated next to Trump were two grinning apparent guests of Trump whose faces would not be familiar to most Americans. The woman was Sara, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and seated next to her was her son Yair, who reportedly has been living in Miami Florida. The presence of the prime minister’s wife and son at Mar-a-Lago on Friday signaled a clear desire by the Israelis to maintain the much-needed warmth in the personal relationship with the American president.
The back story to how Sara and Yair arrived at Mar-a-Lago is a bit murky, but it appears that Graham, a passionate and outspoken advocate for all things Israeli, was on one of his frequent trips to that country a few days before the dinner and may have brought Sara back with him to meet personally with the president-elect and to suggest to the incoming administration that the ties that bind the Netanyahus and the Trumps transcend politics.
What is dear Trump playing at (his cards can be hard to read)? As Girardi hints, he needed the American "Jewish and Christian Zionist supporters" to get him into play, and then he has that son in-law, Jared Kushner, floating around doing what ever he does (you know, in-laws, don't ever underestimate his role - imo).
So, there has been quite the alphabet and proxy Biden legacy mess left upon the global carpet for Trump, nearing the late January transition, unless of course there is something completely unforeseen that may turn this whole tide on its head. With these new actions, though, will people once again in the Syrian region, and beyond, be forced to scramble out to Europe - to 'flood the zone' as the behavioral scientists like to say? Would it happen again and what would that look like? Have a look at this 2015 graph in this recent article:
Zionist apologists commonly present support for Israel as a necessary extension of opposition to radical Islam and the threat of Jihadi terrorism. "Support us fighting them here, so you don't have to fight them there" is a common plea to the West...
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Lastly, from back in 2017, Prof. Tim Anderson said:
It is hard to see how any reasonable person can take this seriously. We even have admissions from senior US officials, including former
Vice President Biden and former head of the US military
Martin Dempsey, that the ‘Arab Allies’ of the US financed every jihadist group from the ‘Free Army’ to DAESH / ISIS,
precisely to get rid of Assad. More recently, former Qatari
Foreign Minister Hamad Bin Jassim admitted that his little petro-state coordinated with Saudis, Turkey and the US to support all anti-Government jihadist forces (Syriana Analysis 2017).
Saleh’s former mentor,
Riyad al Turk (who “liked” Saudi-backed Lebanese
Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri), was calling for US military assistance in
2005 to help “the opposition” get rid of the Assad Government (Pace 2005). Of course he did not represent the Syrian Opposition. In the Damascus Declaration (2005), while making harsh criticisms of the Baathist system, most Syrian opposition groups specifically renounced violent attacks on the state and outside intervention. The Muslim Brotherhood and its hangers on, i
n contrast, always wanted violence with
US and/or NATO assistance.
I'm glad Assad and his family are safe in Russia, and will have to wait and see where the next moves are and who stumbles - as Israel is getting well beyond its boarders, into territory where there is plenty of ill feeling and paid double and triple crossing terrorists.
