A triggering event should be required though, so that the interested parties be permitted to proceed to their military deployment in Syria. This event should be used as the battering ram within the opposing powers, eliminating parliamentary and social disapproval.
Likewise in Israel there is a belief that '... Iranian influence in neighboring Syria is significantly more worrisome to Israel than ISIS or any of the other Sunni Muslim groups...'
"...Watch Theresa May defend UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia, a top financier of ISIS — claiming it makes Britain’s streets safer:"
"...For May, taking military action in Syria would be beneficial by both helping to ensure her electoral victory in June and fulfilling the country’s goal of destabilizing Syria...."
Funnily enough, this policy of sitting back and allowing ISIS to wreak havoc in Syria was not contrary to U.S. foreign policy under Barack Obama. Leaked audio of then-Secretary of State John Kerry revealed the Obama administration was watching ISIS grow and hoping its expansion would bring Syria’s president to the negotiating table. This plan was completely foiled when Russia formally intervened in 2015.
It speaks volumes that one of the most radical Islamist networks in the world apparently does not pose a threat to the Jewish state, even though we are constantly told that Muslims inherently hate Israelis simply because they are Jewish. How can it be that this radical jihadist group actually does the bidding of the Israeli state by countering Assad?.."
(MPN) Following the recent Daesh (ISIS)-linked terror attack in Manchester, England, United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May raised the country’s terror threat level to critical, the first time it has been raised to that level since 2007. However, the situation in the UK is dramatically different now than it was when the streets of London and Glasgow airport were the targets of foiled terrorist attacks in June 2017
This is partially thanks to a once-secret contingency plan established by the UK government in 2015 known as “Operation Temperer.” The plan allows for up to 5,000 British troops to be deployed on the streets of their own country. Almost 1,000 soldiers have already been deployed in order to free up armed officers for counter-terrorism operations. As was reported in 2015, the operation would involve sending troops to guard key targets in major cities if Daesh or other terror groups launch multiple attacks on UK soil.
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With the UK Parliament dissolved until after snap elections are held early next month, the executive branch of the UK government – led by May – could use the “Royal Prerogative” to take the UK to war in Syria over a potential terrorist threat. Indeed, it was parliament that blocked the UK government’s last attempt to carry out military intervention in Syria in 2013. But with the homeland now under threat from Daesh, May does have the ability to declare war were she and her cabinet to decide that it was necessary to protect the safety of UK citizens.
Johnson also stated that “it would be very difficult for us to say no” to taking military action against the Assad regime if they were asked to do so by the U.S. In addition, Michael Fallon, the UK defense secretary, refused to rule out “a nuclear first strike” against another nation were the UK to be under “exceptional threat.”
In September of last year, May staunchly defended the multi-billion dollar arms sales that the UK government had made to Saudi Arabia — a top financier and weapons provider of Daesh. May ironically argued that such sales “helped keep the streets of Britain safe.”
Watch Theresa May defend UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia, a top financier of ISIS — claiming it makes Britain’s streets safer:
If the “imminent” terror attack May has warned the UK about materializes before elections are held on June 8 and before parliament is reassembled, it would be much easier for the UK government to convince a panicked populace of the need for a new war abroad. Indeed, the suicide bomber in Manchester – though a British-Libyan national – is said to have “probably” traveled to Syria.
British media is also hyping the attack’s links to Syria, with The Sun stating: “Cowardly ISIS warlords – hiding in Syria – have claimed responsibility for the gutless attack.”
For May, taking military action in Syria would be beneficial by both helping to ensure her electoral victory in June and fulfilling the country’s goal of destabilizing Syria.
With the Syrian government again making major gains against Daesh and Western-backed “moderate rebels,” the pro-intervention governments of the West may finally be ready to push for a ground invasion of Syria. The U.S. already has thousands of troops active in Syria, ostensibly for a potential assault on the Daesh stronghold of Raqqa – which also seems to be quickly approaching. Russia, Syria’s strongest ally, also seems to be aware that things are set to heat up soon, as they have deployed their own military personnel along the Syria-Jordan border.
(ANTIMEDIA) On condition of anonymity, a number of Israeli Defence Force (IDF) officers have reportedly made some stunning admissions about ISIS to POLITICO’s national security editor, Bryan Bender.
Bender documents the statement of one general who spoke openly:
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“If I can be frank, the radical axis headed by Iran is more risky than the global jihad one,” the brigadier told Bender. “It is much more knowledgeable, stronger, with a bigger arsenal.”
In these IDF officers’ minds, the ideal strategy — which runs in direct contrast to the current U.S.-led strategy — would be for them to sit back and let all the groups fight each other. The only thing Israel or coalition countries should be concerned with should be containing the conflict as opposed to influencing it.
“Why not?” one officer responded. “When they asked the late [Israeli] Prime Minister Menachem Begin in the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s, who does Israel stand for, Iraq or Iran, he said ‘I wish luck to both parties. They can go at it, killing each other.’ The same thing is here. You have ISIS killing Al Qaeda by the thousands, Al Qaeda killing ISIS by the thousands. And they are both killing Hezbollah and Assad.”
In actuality, these parties are all killing civilians, but no one seems remotely concerned with this fact.
Funnily enough, this policy of sitting back and allowing ISIS to wreak havoc in Syria was not contrary to U.S. foreign policy under Barack Obama. Leaked audio of then-Secretary of State John Kerry revealed the Obama administration was watching ISIS grow and hoping its expansion would bring Syria’s president to the negotiating table. This plan was completely foiled when Russia formally intervened in 2015.
It speaks volumes that one of the most radical Islamist networks in the world apparently does not pose a threat to the Jewish state, even though we are constantly told that Muslims inherently hate Israelis simply because they are Jewish. How can it be that this radical jihadist group actually does the bidding of the Israeli state by countering Assad?
This admission comes not long after it was made public that ISIS once apologized to the IDF over a gun battle.
All that being said, the IDF officials also rightly identified the fact that America’s brutal air war in Iraq and Syria will only further radicalize the population and will do nothing to defeat ISIS’ ideology in the long run.
“ISIS is much like cancer,” one intelligence officer stated.
“It is easy to cut the tumors off. But how do you prevent the small cancer cells from expanding? I think the caliphate is already thinking, ‘OK, what are we going to do next?’ What was ISIS doing the minute the Americans and Iraqis went into Mosul? It started exploding everything up in Iraq – about 1,000 suicide attacks in a number of months. Raqqa is probably going to fall. The same thing will happen. All the cancerous cells throughout Syria…are going to do the same and start blowing things up.”