An Israeli soldier speaks over a megaphone to people which stand next to the border fence between Israel and Syria from its Syrian side as it is seen from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights near the Israeli Syrian border July 17, 2018. RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS
Jerusalem Post: 200 Syrians gather at Israel's border, flee regime offensive
Waving white flags, group returned to displaced persons camp near village of Bariqa.
Scores of displaced Syrians, some waving white flags, briefly approached within 200 meters of the frontier fence along the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on Tuesday before IDF soldiers ordered them to go back.
“You are on the border of the State of Israel. Go back. We don’t want to hurt you,” the soldier shouted in Arabic through a loudspeaker at the crowd, live Reuters TV footage showed.
The Syrians, approaching from displaced persons camps, appeared to be seeking sanctuary from the current offensive led by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to retake rebel-held territory in the southern part of the country.
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WNU Editor: If they had let in these 200 .... 2,000 would be at the border tomorrow, 20,000 next week, and who knows after that. The Syrian civil war is coming to an end in southern Syria, and one can only imagine the retribution/revenge killings/and punishments that are now being meted out on those who opposed the Syrian regime and lost.
Yeah, when it is over, there will be thousands of folks disappeared into shallow or mass graves. Everyone talked ISIS but not the Syria Regime who made ISIS look like choir boys. Except ISIS did theirs in public, while the Syrians for the most part do it in secret. I got a dollar that says there are hundreds if not thousands of mass graves in Syria right now.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure I patiently explained when this started in 2011 that the Syrian government was going to win. In fact, I know I did.
ReplyDeleteWhile the punishments being meted out on those who lost is tragic, they had to know their cause was not winnable. US leaderships should have recognized the reality of this. Not only did they not realize this but they backed questionable allies who were never going to be able to win anyway. That's a twofer in terms of bad decision making!!
As Winston Churchill said to paraphrase, "there are times when defeat is inevitable but death is better than enslavement." Was this one of those times for those who fought for the unwinnable cause? I also strongly suspect that many, if not most of the rebels are not freedom fighters but are ISIS, Al Qaeda, and their close ideological relatives.