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To: nitzy

I agree Israel caused the fall of Assad, but not as part of a nefarious plot to get Christian’s killed, as you allege.

As I have plainly stated multiple times, Israel, as a democracy, was obligated to take on hezbollah as well as it could, considering the virtually daily missile strikes from them since October, 8th 2023 ha caused 60,000 internal refugees within Israel. Israel destroyed most of their leadership, much of their missile and launcher inventory, disrupted their arms flow, literally blew up their bank, etc.

Separately, Russia has been greatly tied up in Ukraine, leaving them weakened locally for Assad. They have bigger fish to fry nearer to home. I have no dog in that fight, but Russia became an unreliable supporter who was previously critical to the survival of the regime.

Assad relied heavily on hezbollah and Russia to survive the last civil war, as documented severally.

With hezbollah unable to effectively retreat to defend Damascus, and with limp Russian support (indeed they largely fled) Damascus fell.

Israel caused it insofar as they were obligated to take out hezbollah, as any elected leadership would be required by their electorate.

So the domino effect of Assad falling was not an intended consequence. Netanyahu is claiming credit this morning for Assad’s defeat, which is accidentally true, but was never an explicit war objective before it occurred.

But in no manner is it an Israeli objective to have Christian’s killed, as you have directly accused. Your post #3 is evil.

If you were to retract that evil and mistaken accusation, I’ll happily ignore you.


41 posted on 12/10/2024 9:05:48 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (The ACLU's Chase Strangio, a woman with a beard, argued that two-year-olds should be castrated.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

I will not retract that Christians have been/will be killed as a result of these Israeli actions. I never said (as you just claimed) that it was an “Israeli objective”. That is just another made up claim by you in a whole series of made up claims.

There were Christians who were living safely in Syria and Lebanon who will now be dead.

I understand that you aren’t worried about innocent Christians dying in Lebanon and Syria. They are an afterthought to you and whatever amount end up dying is an acceptable price.

I am worried about it. I don’t like it. That is why I mentioned it in my reply. I will not apologize for it.


42 posted on 12/10/2024 9:24:26 AM PST by nitzy (We all thought that WW3 would be fought with WMDs. Instead it is being fought with NGOs.)
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