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To: pierrem15

Benjamin Netanyahu celebrated the Al Queda attack on Syria which ended the Assad regime and which has now caused the murders of Christians all over Syria. Israelis celebrated this successful attack by Islamic extremists who have filmed themselves beheading people.

Hamas is not equal to all Gazans. Those who make this equation do the same thing the Germans did to the Jews.


27 posted on 03/16/2025 10:10:21 AM PDT by Kentfromohio
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To: Kentfromohio
The Assad regime had effectively reduced Syria to a tool of Iran, and a key supporter of Hezbollah in Lebanon, so the Israeli's celebrating the fall of the Assad regime would be expected.

The Israeli reaction has nothing to do with massacres of Christians in Syria. The enmity between Alawites and Christians on the one hand and Sunni Muslims in Syria goes back to the effects of French influence during the Ottoman empire, when Christians and Alawites benefitted "disproportionately" as the Muslims saw it from economic changes introduced by trade with the French, and the later French imperial presence after WWI where the French used Christians and Alawites as local allies.

From what I've read, the current massacres were prompted by Alawite militia attacking forces of one of the Sunni groups allied to the new government.

The Germans killed the Jews because the Nazis saw them as murderous parasites, when in fact, there was probably no group more loyal to the German state than German Jews, who even suffered proportionately more deaths in WWI than the overall German population.

The accusation of being murderous parasites, however, fits the Palestinians and Alawites in Syria far better. The Christians are simply grain caught between the millstones.

32 posted on 03/16/2025 10:27:34 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Kentfromohio

“Hamas is not equal to all Gazans.”

How many times have we treated a Muslim terrorist group as “unique,” not representative of Islam? I’ve seen lists. Something on the order of 20 or so groups. Islam is the problem. Especially so in Gaza, which often provides a home to one group or another, most recently Hamas. Have the people of Gaza ever requested help in expelling a terrorist group in their midst?


119 posted on 03/17/2025 6:01:14 PM PDT by ChessExpert (The Democratic party must be destroyed.)
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