International Military Review – Syria, Jan. 29, 2016

The war advances apace
A slow and steady race
Oh may we win in the end
And to our kin new love send

The WSJ has some background information on what is happening in those Western Damascus suburbs:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/starvation-spreads-ahead-of-syria-talks-1454029302

Moadhamiya faces new pressure even though it struck a truce with the regime in 2013 that still left the town with severe shortages.

In December, the government delivered a fresh ultimatum to rebels, who had put down their arms in late 2013, said residents involved in the negotiations: surrender, exit, and allow the army in, or risk further deprivation.

On Christmas Day, government forces closed the last open road into Moadhamiya and a new siege began. Rebels and residents said conditions have quickly deteriorated since they refused the new offer.

Mr. Haidar, the reconciliation minister, said the government is in negotiations with Moadhamiya because rebels there, though they had put down arms and weren’t violating the earlier truce, were found to be aiding rebels in neighboring Daraya, where residents also report severe food shortages and cases of starvation.

Last year, government forces built a berm to separate the two adjacent towns. Government bombing of Daraya has spiked in recent days, residents said.

In case anyone had any doubts about the existence of an Israel-Saudi alliance, here is coming Netanyahu to coming to.

Definitely, masks are falling:

“Netanyahu: Israel’s ties with the Arabs is stronger than with the EU”:

http://hispantv.com/newsdetail/Oriente-Medio/203141/netanyahu-lazos-israel-arabes-arabia-saudita

“Netanyahu confesses his nefarious goal of balkanization of Syria”: by Pablo Jofre Leal.
MUST READ!

http://hispantv.com/newsdetail/Terrorismo/202528/israel-busca-fragmentar-siria-netanyahu

“(….) In the comfort of the Davos meeting, away from the noise of bombs, military operations, terrorist attacks and thousands of deaths, Netanyahu said on 22 January that “the most favorable option for Syria would be a balkanization or fragmentation of the Arab country, under the current circumstances it is the best that could be obtained. This is because I have serious doubts that a Unitary State re-run the country. “On the occasion, Netanyahu revealed also that is being managed a multimillion-dollar increase in financial and military aid he receives from the United States to maintain the status of Israel as gendarme of the West in the Middle East.(…)

(….) The words of Netanyahu lays bare what appears invisible of so obvious: the objective pursued by Washington and its allies grouped mainly on the Riyadh-Ankara-Tel Aviv triad of sharing the remains of a country and thereby influence in the Middle East region. Disintegrate Syria, divide it into zones of influence and at the same time thereby generate a more global Balkanization of the area, as is being verified in Iraq. And thus meet the objective of encircling Iran and prevent Russian expansion into what the Federation considers its geopolitical zones of influence.

In Davos this verbalization of the Zionist leader externalized what the Syrian government and also Iran and Russia have denounced from the beginning of the war of aggression against the Levantine country: that terrorist groups operating there, mainly EIIL – Daesh in Arabic – and the Al-Nusra Front are creations organized, financed, armed and protected by the action of the governments of Turkey, Israel and Saudi Arabia with its intelligence services under the framework established by the doctrine of “Leading From Behind” of American warmongers sectors, that allows Washington do the dirty work in a different way to how they did in Afghanistan and Iraq. In this case, are these terrorist movements, economic, military and logistical support from Washington and associated S.A, which materialize the political field disintegration of the foundations of the Syrian state.(…)

(….) Netanyahu in Davos if he said what he said it was because the US government allowed it because it is part of the plan supported by Washington and its allies. An aspiration that wishes to be finalized under the wing of documents produced within the intelligence services and think tanks, such as the document gestated by the expert in national security policies and US government adviser, Michael O’Hanlon, analyst of the Brookings Institution and co-director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, released in June 2015. There, in a minimum extent, the fate of millions of human beings are defined. The document entitled “Deconstructing Syria: a new strategy for Americas’s most hopeless war – states that “the only realistic way that may arise for the United States against Syria is a new plan where autonomous zones are created, where the Syrian government has not possibility of influence”. From that idea, to the benign expression of Netanyahu, there is only one step.(….)”