Christian-Shi’a solidarity/alliance in Iraq? This certainly is a head turner, especially the Evangelical part. Of course, this must be kept from the Evangelicals in the U.S., who are allied with Israel, though that in itself is odd, considering the Jewish faith doesn’t believe in Christ. Who knows, maybe the answer lies with the ones who believe in each others faiths, not killing or threatening others to renounce said beliefs for the radical.

Indeed, 2015 is going to be an interesting year, IMHO.

Jews will take part in this alliance not very long from today. It is strange to think of Jews, Christians, Kurds and Iranians / Shia – cooperating together, but this is inevitable.

Amir…

Minorities in the middle east should work together, there is no other way….

“Amir…

Minorities in the middle east should work together, there is no other way….

Jews will take part in this alliance not very long from today. It is strange to think of Jews, Christians, Kurds and Iranians / Shia – cooperating together, but this is inevitable.”

This is the ultimate proof that there is no such thing as Syrian National Identity or Lebanese or Iraqi or Jordanian or Saudi or Bahraini or Emiraty or Kuwaiti National Identity.

There are sects, tribes, clans, and mafias.

Just scratch the surface a little and you find millennia old hatred and racism.

What a wonderful final irrevocable admission

More than 76,000 were killed in Syria in 2014 according to SOHR:
ووفق الإحصائية التي نشرها المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان، فإن هناك 12861 جنديا من قوات النظام قتلوا خلال العام الماضي 2014، و 33278 مدنيا، بالإضافة إلى 15488 من مقاتلي الكتائب المقاتلة والكتائب الإسلامية.
وأكد المرصد مقتل 366 عنصرا من مقاتلي حزب الله اللبناني، و 2167 مقاتلا من الطائفة الشيعية من جنسيات عربية وآسيوية وإيرانية، ومن لواء القدس الفلسطيني، ومسلحين موالين للنظام من جنسيات عربية.
أما المقاتلون من الكتائب الإسلامية المقاتلة، والدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام “داعش” وجبهة النصرة (تنظيم القاعدة في بلاد الشام)، وجنود الشام، وجند الأقصى والكتيبة الخضراء، ومن يقاتل معهم من جنسيات عربية وأوربية وآسيوية وأمريكية واسترالية، فقد لقي 16979 منهم مصرعهم بحسب إحصاءات المرصد الموثقة، وأوضح أن هناك 345 جثة مجهولة الهوية موثقة لديه لم يتم التعرف على أصحابها.

12,861 Syrian soldiers
33,278 civilians
15,488 armed rebels
366 hizbullah fighters
2167 shia and non shia pro regime fighters other than hizbullah
16979 islamist rebels including terrorists from ISIS and Nusra
345 unknown

the numbers are obviously a subject for discussion and some may doubt their accuracy, however the numbers clearly indicate that civilians are paying a heavy price for this war and that the old label that describes the war as a “regime killing its own people” is too simplistic and just not true, more than 15,000 pro regime fighters were killed in 2014 according to SOHR (opposition)

CNN on 2014 in Syria:
Joshua Landis, a longtime Syria watcher at the University of Oklahoma, says “The Somalia-izaton of the country is inevitable so long as the international community degrades all centers of power in Syria and the opposition fails to unite.”
I hope to hear from Joshua on the part related to centers of powers being degraded, I understood the second part.

“Merry Christmas from the pro-Assad militia Muqawama Suriya last year. For similar outreach and on the Qamishli situation, see this article I wrote.”

How exactly is this outreach? Does the writer not know how important Jesus and Mary are for Alawites as well?

The last two articles opened promoting indefatigable since four years of the term (fragmentation), and draw many maps to establish the possibility of using this term.
US and its allies worked to deploy hybrid war on the whole of the Syrian Arab Republic space, as and spent US and its allies GCC generous amounts of money to break ٍSyrian entity in order to implement the Yinon plan.
Syrian comment blog is persistently exercising practically hostility toward my country, and even the ears immersed in Engineering (fragmentation)
It is obvious that the above mentioned matter(fragmentation ), is the whole plan too, depend also on the Syrians continuing to be even more divided than they are now, and on the lack of any truly progressive mass. It may be necessary condition to remove it only when the plan will be well advanced, with consequences which cannot be foreseen.

I recently returned from the Terrorism and Religious Extremism Conference in Damascus. While there, I had the opportunity to meet with Syrian militia leaders. What they had to tell me and show me confirmed some of my suspicions. I already knew that the United States had trained at least 3000 ISIS “cadre” leaders at camps in Jordan. Colonel Jim Hanke US Army Special Forces (ret) had accompanied me and spoke of this during the conference.

However, the militia leaders brought evidence. They had photographed not only ISIS dead but their identity papers as well. One group of 74 killed in fighting near Kobani included 15 Ukrainians and 8 Chechens. Others included fighters from Saudi Arabia, Yemen but the rest were from North Africa. There was no gloating over the dead despite the fact the exchange took place in a restaurant at the Damas Rose, a government owned hotel in Syria. There was a sadness, a solemnity about this as even ISIS dead, reputed to be mass murderers, looked no different than others, all young, bearded though many distinctly European…..
http://journal-neo.org/2014/12/31/something-strange-about-isis/

Even my dog knows that the Syrian people became minorities within their land with time. Look at the Assyrians, the Christians, or the Alawites, or the Syrian Druze…was there more of them in Syria before? The answer is :YES

Look at the families that came to Syria 150 years ago, do we expect them to understand what is the Syrian identity? No… Do we expect those who were brought by the Turks to stand for a Syrian identity? The answer is NO

Whoever came to Syria 100 or so years ago can not grasp the full extent of what is the Syrian identity. They want to sell their homes and leave….no roots..

Very weak response. I would advise a return to the roots of Syria, giving up the US/Western filthy passports people hold so dearly. Never again setting foot in the US or the EU.
Please go back to Syria.

Observaaar

Remember when you were shaming the Alawites for cooperating with the Crusades? Calling them traitors?

You called the Alewites traitors over and over because you claimed they cooperated with the crusades.. (Your family came to Syria 500 years after this and it is not understandable why you stick your nose into our Syrian history) …

I do not see the West as filthy. I really hope that that West is the ally of all the minorities in the middle east, especially in the time when your sect is emptying the middle east of its minorities. Of course you did not see what the Islamic State has done to the minorities in Iraq an Syria….

The only one who sees the West as filthy is the sect you came from mr. Observaar, so why trying to stick this on me. I always love the West and still do. The west for me is a savior from the barbarity of those who are kicking the minorities out of the middle east.

People from my sect had been in the West for a long time and we never attacked it or think or doing so….We are good citizens here ya Observaaar…

PS: I see the thumbs up fairy came to your aid….Ask him if he would buy your property in Syria?

Just go back to your glorious wonderful Syria al Athad.
Simple. No equivocation. No issues. Your origin beckons. Your good citizenship calls for your return to the motherland. Bring civilization and western values with you, the country certainly needs it desperately. But first put your money where your mouth is and go back to the great wonderful pure Syria of old. Of course crusaders were welcome, any one would be welcome if one is persecuted, but the lesson was not learned and the oppressed have internalized hatred into almost a genetic trait and alas cannot escape it. The mental lock is final, the key thrown away, the view of the world is unidimensional and oh yes history oh so great a history is without a doubt already known and written and irrefutable.
Of course the West is lovely but Syria is infinitely more lovely.
One last point, an atheist does not have a sect. That is what is liberating for one does not have to continuously remain locked in age old mumbo jumbo.

Observaaaar:

The issue is bigger than your personal insults. It is about us the minorities of the middle east, including the atheists that you claim to belong to.

If you do not like me: too bad for you, your ego seems not to be able to let go the challenges I post against what you write. I am not really interested into being dragged to a low level talk like what you bring that ends up with insults.

Relax Observacion have another glass of wine and appreciate that there is someone like me responding to you.

Your personal insults does let me know for sure that you have nothing to say about the minorities issues.

As for you being an atheist, that is NOT true because you speak like a hard core Salafi when it comes to minorities.

What you said about Shia and Alawites is identical to what the hard core Salafi say about the Shia and the Alawites.

You even called for sectarian cleansing of the Alawites from Damascus; this is the same speech of the hard core Jihadis.

An atheist that talks like a Jihadi does not work. You can not fool me.

The first comment under my name is not done by me, It looks like others can take our names.

Indeed. But then, one would have to have exclusive use of the name Norman, before you could honestly make your statement, do you agree?

I have been using that name since 2005, i think you can use another name or add a last name 🙂

And , if you want to use my name, at least get better grades, it is insulting 20 against to 8 for. you know i have a status to keep.

Gosh Norman the second, I’ve been using this name since 1938, so you’re the one copying, to which you should add a #2 after yours.

As for getting better grades, let’s see: 2015 minus 2005 equals 10. Now, it seems that you’re in grade school, or you just like to play.

Christians in Syria also fight within the ranks of the Free Syrian Army and specifically within the Syriac Military Council which is an Assyrian/Syriac military organization in Syria. This group primarily fights in The organisation fights mostly in the densely populated Syriac areas of the Governorates of Aleppo, Damascus, Al-Hasakah, Latakia, and Homs. On September 25, 2014 they aligned with the Free Syrian Army in the fight against ASSAD, ISIS, JABHAT AL NUSRA, HEZBOLLA, IRAQI MILITIA AND IRANIAN QUD. The Syrian Opposition to Assad’s tyranny runs deep and Assad allies come from across borders to support his genocide.

You must be older than me, i was taking about your approval 20 against , now 9 with,

Here it is 83. NORMAN said:

It seems that both sides think they can and will win, so both are hoping for the demise of Annan plan,

Dandashy is right, the Syrian Arab army is winning and taking over Homs, Next Qusayr and Rustan, they are moving decisively, they are even better in Damascus suburb,

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Good luck to you any way

21. Kimbelry Jones s

Lol, what genocide?

There a thousands of Sunni refugees in Alawite areas. The army and government is mainly Sunni.

If you’re talking about a genocide against Salafists, then that’s just a good thing.