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Syrian government forces, led by Liwa al-Quds and Hezbollah units, have further advanced against ISIS northeast of the Arak gas field in the eastern part of Homs province. Army troops and their allies have captured a number of hills and reached the important Rammim Hill west of the Hail gas field. By controlling the Rammim Hill, government forces will be able to establish fire control over the vicinity of the Hail gas field and thus soon to retake the field from ISIS. Doing so will also contribute to a wider effort aimed at liberating the strategic town of al-Sukhnah.
According to reports, government forces received an unknown number of Russian-made BMPT Terminator combat vehicles. The vehicles will allegedly be used during the upcoming advance on Deir Ezzor. If confirmed, this will be the first usage of the Russian-made armoured vehicle in a combat environment.
The US-led coalition has airdropped about 100-150 members of US-backed groups of the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) from the US-held Al-Tanf area in southeastern Syria to the Al-Shaddadi area in northeastern Syria, according to pro-militant media activists and media outlets.
According to reports, the goal of this move is to set a foothold for a US-backed advance on the government-held city of Deir Ezzor, besieged by ISIS terrorists. Some sources suggest that the US is going to establish a coalition garrison in the border area. Jaysh Maghawir al-Thawra even declared the start of the offensive on Deir Ezzor. However, without direct support from US-led coalition ground forces this seems as merely a PR move. Another obvious target for the US-led operation is the ISIS-held border town of al-Bukamal.
If reports are confirmed, this move will be considered as a common part of a wider US effort aimed at building a buffer zone between Syria and Iraq by seizing as much border area as possible, the goal being to prevent any cooperation between the Syrian and Iraqi militaries.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed up by the US-led coalition, continued storming the ISIS-held part of Raqqah. Slow progress inside the city might be one of the reasons behind the US attempt to launch a separate operation in the border area with Iraq.
“According to reports, government forces received an unknown number of Russian-made BMPT Terminator combat vehicles. The vehicles will allegedly be used during the upcoming advance on Deir Ezzor. If confirmed, this will be the first usage of the Russian-made armoured vehicle in a combat environment.”
Vehicles? See:
‘Terminator’ in Syria: Russian Tank Support Vehicle ‘Tested in Combat’
https://sputniknews.com/military/201707031055187372-russian-terminator-syria-test/
“One of Russia’s most advanced weapons, the BMPT-72 “Terminator 2” combat machine, has been spotted at the Hmeymim airbase in Syria.
It was demonstrated for Syrian President Bashar Assad by Russian Chief of General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov during Assad’s visit to the military site. A guided tour was organized during which the Syrian President had the chance to see some of the military hardware Russia used in the Syrian campaign.
The pictures released after Assad’s visit to Hmeymim show the latest version of the BMPT-72 in desert camo, partly covered with a camouflage net. Apparently, the machine is part of the Russian forces involved in protecting the base, alongside T-90 tanks.
At the same time, he noted, that the appearance of the “Terminator 2” in Syria is logical. In the beginning of the year, the Defense Ministry said that samples of nearly 160 weapons were tested in the Syrian campaign.
According to Murakhovsky, the vehicle photographed at Hmeymim is the only existing fully operating BMPT-72 “Terminator 2” so far.
“It is reasonable that the military wants to put it to the test in real combat missions, including in urban areas. Without such tests, it is impossible to determine its efficiency. Only combat experience can decide whether the army needs the ‘Terminator’ or not,” the expert told Sputnik.
Despite the fact that the future of the “Terminator” in the Russian Army remains uncertain, its technology is likely to be used to develop a brand new tank support fighting machine.
In 2016, Uralvagonzavod CEO Oleg Sienko told Sputnik that the company developed the conception of combat vehicles based on the Armata tank platform, including a new BMTP. It is expected to receive a more powerful armament as well as advanced targeting and communications systems.”
Israeli Seizure of Dutch Infrastructure in West Bank Enrages Amsterdam
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201707041055197662-amsterdam-angry-at-israeli-seizure/
“The Dutch Foreign Ministry has reacted angrily to the news that Israeli officials seized an array of solar panels that were donated by the Dutch government to a small village in Israel-occupied West Bank territories.
Using the pretext that the power generating equipment was constructed without a specific permit, Israeli officials denied that they had acted wrongly.
Permits required by Jerusalem to install power generating equipment in what is known as Area C, the region of the West Bank fully controlled by the Israeli military after the land was seized in the 1967 Six-Day War, is known to be nearly impossible to obtain, according to Haaretz.
The Haaretz report noted, however, that the carefully worded Dutch statement hides a deepening anger at Israel by long-time ally the Netherlands, as humanitarian projects in Israeli-occupied territories are regulated to the point of obsolescence, denied permits, or simply removed following their installation.
Wednesday’s power equipment seizure occurred near an illegal Israeli settlement that is home to Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, cited by Haaretz.”
Being a totally cowed and subservient zionazi colony, the dutch won’t do anything.
Start as You Mean to Continue: Israel Abducts 24 Palestinians in the West Bank
https://sputniknews.com/military/201707041055220327-israel-abductions-palestine-history/
“On July 4, Israeli forces conducted a wave of invasions and violent home searches across the West Bank, abducting 24 Palestinians, including women and children. Such operations are an almost weekly occurrence in the occupied territories – and Israel’s history of kidnap stretches back to the state’s 1948 creation.
As dawn was breaking, dozens of soldiers surged into Suwwana, next to the Walls of the Old City, East Jerusalem, searching and ransacking homes and abducting eight Palestinians; in Hebron, the soldiers abducted seven, including a father and his four sons; in Beit Ummar, two; in Nablus, one; in Tulkarem five; in the al-Far’a refugee camp, two.
Moreover, two young Palestinians were shot and injured with live ammunition, and in Sammoa, Surif and Tarqoumi, Israeli forces installed several roadblocks, stopping and searching dozens of cars, interrogating citizens.
While the motive for the merciless incursion is unclear, it’s doubtful West Bank residents will have been overly surprised by their rude awakening — Addameer, a Palestinian prisoner support and human rights association, estimates over 500 Palestinians were abducted by Israeli forces in January alone.”
The bug hunt is way over due.
‘Reimbursing the State’: Israel to Sue Terrorist Attackers’ Families
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201707051055231990-israel-sues-terrorist-attacker-families/
“The consistently embattled Middle Eastern nation is reported to be preparing to file many such lawsuits, typically against extremely poor families, purportedly to seek to recoup the expense of the attacks, medical costs, and the aftermath, cited by the Times of Israel.
Prosecutors in Jerusalem last month filed the first suit, attempting to wring some $2.3 million from a widow and four children following the terrorist attack performed by the husband and father of the family, according to Haaretz.
Following the death of the four Israeli soldiers, the attacker was shot and killed, according to the Times of Israel.
It is not known what external factors — including the apartheid-like conditions imposed upon Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied territories — played a role in the attacker giving up his life by performing a terror action.”
The israeli’s manage to manifest every negative Jewish stereotype and are proud about it.
Don’t get so hung up on the Jews, vot tak. Go read their history book again. It is a 5000 year sequence punctuated by short lived self-congratulatory episodes of plunder from within other peoples societies, pushing this too far, followed by expulsion, slaughter and hundreds of years of devastation. They ALWAYS fail. What follows is myth making, that x,y,z is someone else’s fault, and their retreat is victory. The parting of the Red Sea ‘victory’ happened while they fled away from the wealthiest nation on earth with whom they had cohabited for a couple of hundred years; from luxury and power, out into the desert and tents, yet again.
Admittedly, they cause a lot of suffering for short periods when their dander is up. But if you are feeling that they are pushing things too far now, they and you should heed and learn from their history.
Also understand why they fail: they don’t make anything. They neither sow or reap, nor dig or fashion raw materials, meaning that their contribution to society is entirely dispensable / extinguishable without loss of social cohesion. ‘Too big to fail’ debt issuing banks and traders are a myth. They can, and will be removed with a very short term consequence. See Iceland.
While I deplore Zionism generally, both internationally and domestically, it’s only fair to point out that Jewish scientists have been particularly creative in the modern era, Einstein and Oppenheimer come immediately to mind, there are scores of others. So they do produce something of value. Unfortunately, their primary attribute is making money, by fair means of foul. It no longer PC to say it, but back in the 40’s and 50’s when I was growing up, they were noted for sharp practices, had become notorious for it. Given the table-stakes-poker nature of our political system, in which the players with the most money eventually control the game, they tend more and more to control our game, home and abroad. The trick is to use their creativity, without them controlling us. During the middle ages that was done somewhat by restricting them to banking, carefully controlled, and medicine, while forbidding them most everything else. Might be a useful model for the future.
The problem is Zionist international banksters and their penchant for Jewish supremacism with its attendant hates (e.g. Christians).
Most Jews just want to get on with living a happy and successful life but that lot (the banksters) are fighting cultural and physical wars of annihilation. They are no different from other “master-race” morons.
Jewish chutzpah can be invigorating and mesmerizing when focused on positive cultural and scientific goals. However, when the aim is supremacy (and you have trillions at your disposal with lots of shabby-goy shills to command) then all you get is despotism.
Future Syrian Reconciliation Committee to Comprise Only Syrians – Minister
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201707051055232057-syrian-reconciliation-committee/
“It is expected that the Committee will only be made up of Syrians that will deal with the issues regarding national reconciliation. Representatives of other countries, including the guarantor states of the Astana process, will not be included in the Committee, but they will be able to support the new body. Moreover, we expect them to do it,” Haidar said in an interview with Russia’s Izvestia newspaper published on Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, a source in one of the delegations in Astana told Sputnik that the idea to create the National Reconciliation Committee would be reflected in the final declaration of the ongoing consultations on Syria in the capital of Kazakhstan. According to the source, the Committee will be formed out of “representatives of the Syrian authorities and local respected people, elder statesmen,” and would focus on the domestic issues, including security, acting without anyone’s mediation.
Another source at the July 4-5 Astana talks told Sputnik that the Committee may take the form of a forum or a conference.”
Protecting ISIL: Why US tradition is hurling Trump towards regime change in Syria
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/395250-protecting-isil-us-tradition-syria/
“America’s naked lust for regime change in Syria is plain to see now, following the folly of weapons inspectors and a State Department comedy moment. But history has shown us it is likely to push Muslims to slaughter their own, once again.
When Donald Trump ordered Tomahawk missile strikes on the Syrian regime airbase of Shayrat in April this year, the world should have woken up. Everything we needed to know about Trump which was previously lost in the smoke and mirrors of his buffoonery was there to see.
We are seeing it now more than ever in Syria, although remarkably it is still confusing many Western journalists who are struggling to see the wood for the trees.
Although the strike itself missed many of the intended targets, it did destroy three key myths about Trump’s Middle East objectives and the rhetoric which he had espoused leading up to his election victory in November. Firstly, he is disingenuous about destroying ISIL; secondly his objective with Syria is a carbon copy of Obama’s (regime change); and lastly, despite so much Russia-smooching, he is in fact not remotely serious about keeping good relations with Moscow.
Trump’s Syria plan is history’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ moment
I have long argued there is a cigarette paper between Obama’s ideas and objectives in Syria and those of Trump. And I have also stated on television that I fervently believe the West does not want to destroy ISIL in Syria or Iraq, but merely take the positions held by it for PR objectives.
If you study carefully the battles fought in Mosul and Raqqa, two important military facts emerge: both campaigns led to very high levels of civilians being killed with very few ISIL fighters taken out. In both battles, the US allowed for the creation of ‘rat lines’ – corridors for escaping fighters to move out to fight another day. Why? I am absolutely certain it is because America will need these extremists very soon in its campaign in Syria, which is slowly but surely changing into a new war against the Assad government’s forces.
The Tomahawk attack was a starter’s pistol for many like me who saw with their own eyes in the former Yugoslavia – and from afar in Iraq – that the die has been set in Syria. It is only a matter of time now before a new chemical attack will be staged.
Recent events in Syria have made my view much simpler and clearer, despite the war there being so complicated that it even confuses those on the ground. America will secure Raqqa and create a military base there and therefore take air superiority in at least part of Northern Syria. Israel’s proxy in the south – Al-Nusra – needs to keep a southern flank so as to buffer Assad from encroaching on the Golan Heights. It will not be apocalyptic, but more salami slice by salami slice as we see more focus each day on Assad forces and less and less on ISIL – which is to be an army in waiting spread nicely across a huge expanse of the country thanks to US strategy.”
Keep in mind america, the fascist oligarchy ruling there, are little more than colonial satraps for israel.
I reject any notion of the inevitability of Syrian partition and thus a Zionist victory. This completely ignores the battle-hardened fighters and states now taking on the Zionist proxy forces. Multiple US bases in Northern Syria are useless if they’re surrounded by hostile Syrians. This will be the outcome when the Kurdish militants are forced to retreat. Al Tanaf set the scene — surround and isolate but provide no excuse for US war.