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The Syria Carve-Up Creates a de-Facto Israel-Turkey Border Ensuring a Broader ME War Mike Whitney One Plan To Guide Them All:  “….. The dissolution of Syria and Iraq. .. into ethnically or religiously unique areas…  is Israel’s primary target … while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short-term target. Syria will fall apart in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure… Oded Yinon,  A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties,  voltairenet Israeli military forces have moved to within 15 miles of the Syrian Capital of Damascus.  The IDF has seized large tracts of land in southern Syria it intends to occupy and where it will eventually build checkpoints, military outposts and settlements. The “lightening” invasion has been accompanied by a massive bombing campaign that has obliterated numerous military bases, weapons depots and research labs eliminating any hope that Syria will regain the ability to defend itsel...

  Syria’s Post-mortem: Terror, Occupation, and Palestine Pepe Escobar   The NATO-Israeli cabal cheering on Damascus’s fall will get more than they bargained for. Power struggles and infighting among extremist militias and civil society, each backed by different regional and foreign actors who want a piece of the pie. The short headline defining the abrupt, swift end of Syria as we knew it would be: Eretz Israel meets new-Ottomanism. The subtitle? A win-win for the west, and a lethal blow against the Axis of Resistance. But to quote still pervasive American pop culture, perhaps  the owls are not what they seem . Let’s start with former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s surrender. Qatari diplomats, off the record, maintain that Assad tried to negotiate a transfer of power with the armed opposition that had launched a major military offensive in the days prior, starting with Aleppo, then swiftly headed southward toward Hama, Homs, aiming for Damascus. That’s what was discus...