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Syria war: UN Security Council approves 30-day ceasefire
BBC News ^ | 2/24/2018 | BBC

Posted on 02/24/2018 4:41:06 PM PST by Nextrush

The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to allow aid deliveries and medical evacuations.

However, some of the biggest jihadist rebel groups, and their associates, are not covered by the truce, raising questions about its real impact.

The East Gouta rebel enclave near Damascus has been bombarded by government forces for the past week.

After the vote in New York, activists said air strikes were continuing......

The US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, called for the ceasefire to be implemented but said she was skeptical that Syria would comply.

She accused Russia of having "dragged out the negotiations." She said "In the three days it took us to adopt this resolution, how many mothers lost their kids to the bombing and the shelling?"......

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: iran; nikkihaley
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There is a new UN resolution on Syria. Where it leads us remains to be seen.

This whole exercise seems to be just more demonization of the Syrian regime along with Iran and Russia who are fighting Al-Qaeda and even Islamic State in the Ghouta pocket around Damascus.

The usual emotional videos of civilians being victimized by the battle are also in circulation. One wonders when the next story of a "chemical weapons attack" will somehow be pulled out of a hat.

1 posted on 02/24/2018 4:41:06 PM PST by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

Syrian, Iran and Russia don’t need to be demonized.

They are demons.


2 posted on 02/24/2018 4:43:51 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Nextrush

Isn’t that special. The U.N. imposing its will on a sovereign country for an internal issue. Why haven’t they don the same here?


3 posted on 02/24/2018 4:44:06 PM PST by DownInFlames
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To: Nextrush

President Trump weighed in with condemnation of the three countries (Syria, Iran and Russia) over matters.

On the blog with a link inside the link to the video of Trump’s remarks.

http://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2018/02/trump-hits-those-three-countries-syria.html


4 posted on 02/24/2018 4:44:16 PM PST by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: BenLurkin

Their enemies like Al-Qaeda and Islamic State in Syria are pretty demonic in their own right I would say.


5 posted on 02/24/2018 4:45:42 PM PST by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: Nextrush

Which will last for about 5 seconds.


6 posted on 02/24/2018 4:45:43 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Nextrush; Texas Fossil

Well, nextrush, you made me look like an idiot

but don’t be proud. It’s not that difficult :)

I JUST said in the last thread how the west isn’t reporting this.

BBC would be the west :)

everyone makes mistakes. I just make more than most


7 posted on 02/24/2018 4:54:51 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know saying Syrian rebels in anost back in Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: BenLurkin

Syrian, Iran and Russia don’t need to be demonized.

They are demons.
************************
Some demons are worse than others,
e.g., the Turks, ISIS, Al Qaida,
and anything supported by the Obama regime.


8 posted on 02/24/2018 4:58:00 PM PST by Socon-Econ
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To: Nextrush

Well, one thing is fairly certain. The UN always comes in on the wrong side.


9 posted on 02/24/2018 4:58:46 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: dp0622

All of what has been happening regarding like the UNSC resolution and the POTUS comments, though, are buried in the Friday-Saturday news window graveyard, that’s for sure.


10 posted on 02/24/2018 4:59:09 PM PST by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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Trump said yesterday that the US is in Syria for one reason, to get rid of ISIS and then go home. He said we’re not there for any other reason and we’ve largely accomplished our goal.

The Syria govt. is fighting ISIS & Al Qaeda and protecting Syrian minorities, including Christians and Kurds.

That John McCain & the NeoCons want us to conquer Syria and turn it over to Jihadists is not something I can support.


11 posted on 02/24/2018 5:03:46 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Nextrush

Don’t try crossing the Euphrates again dumbasses.


12 posted on 02/24/2018 5:11:51 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Nextrush

the UnitedNazis has served most only as a stage for pumping enemy propaganda into American households, for years.
Oh yes, also as an excuse that lets thousands of enemy spies and moles into America....
nothing it says or votes has any serious impact


13 posted on 02/24/2018 5:15:12 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Nextrush

Peace in our time.


14 posted on 02/24/2018 5:20:19 PM PST by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: Nextrush

There is one and ONLY ONE reason for ANY cease fire that is set to last for a fixed 30 days.

Re-supply.

It’s called ‘hudna’.


15 posted on 02/24/2018 5:38:32 PM PST by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: Nextrush

Peter Hitchens is very shortsighted. Disillusionment with the West in recent times does not warrant siding with Putin: someone who pays lipservice to faith and values that we have abandoned (but are slowly returning to) but whose ultimate intention is to revive Cold War realities.


16 posted on 02/24/2018 6:21:08 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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Hitchens is not part of the anti-Russia crusade and he constantly wonders what the real reason behind all the animus is.........


17 posted on 02/24/2018 6:32:55 PM PST by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: Nextrush

Clowns!

As if the U.N. has any control there whatsoever.


18 posted on 02/24/2018 6:33:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Nextrush

Oh, this is nice.

I’m sure the Russians will pay close attention. And the Americans too.

The UN is a joke.


19 posted on 02/24/2018 6:34:02 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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Yeah because its easy to sympathize with Putin when you are an elite Westerner with all your plush protections and living standards. Not forced to become a mercenary in Syria to make ends meet for your wife and kids because the grotesquely kleptocratic economy leaves you no other employment prospects!

Try living in Russia and immerse yourself in Russian life as I have - and see how where you stand from there. The problem is Russian people (especially middle aged to older generations) are so traumatized from their past that they don’t want to rock the boat because in their view: things could always be worse.

But vast majority sick of Syria debacle.


20 posted on 02/24/2018 6:47:17 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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