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Oct 22 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
It's no secret that Israel's support for al-Qaeda-affiliated groups in Syria is a controversial topic, but let's be clear: the UN, Israeli and American press, and even Israeli officials have acknowledged their involvement. Thread 🧵 Since the CIA-backed regime-change war in Syria began in 2011, it was obvious that Israel sided with its American ally. But the full extent of Israeli support for the so-called "rebels" in Syria—who were largely takfiri terrorists—didn't come to light until 2014. 1/
Aug 6 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
British singer Gordon Sumner, widely recognized as Sting, has recently parted ways with his Tuscan wine estate, Tenuta il Palagio, selling it to San Tomaso S.R.L., a firm owned by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his spouse, Olena Zelenska.

The transaction is rumoured to be valued at approximately €75 million!

Originally acquired in 1997 by Sting and his wife, film producer Trudie Styler, the historic 16th-century villa was in a state of disrepair. However, over the years, they successfully restored both the estate and its once-neglected vineyards.

According to records from the Italian land registry, the sale of the Tuscan winery took place in June 2024, with San Tommaso SRL now at the helm. While the precise sale amount remains undisclosed, estimates suggest it hovers around €75 million.

According to Italy's land registry, Tenuta il Palagio acquired Zelensky's company on June 28, just two weeks after he attended the G7 summit in Italy. At this summit, European leaders reached an agreement to provide Ukraine with $50 billion, funded by frozen Russian assets, to support the nation’s efforts in the ongoing conflict.

It is unclear what plans the new owner has for the winery. According to Ukrainian media, it's no secret that Volodymyr Zelensky likes red wine. Rock Star Sting Sells His Wine Estate to Zelensky
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Jan 29 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
Dear American friends, the US forces are in Syria to protect the interests of the tiny elites in Washington and not to fight terrorism as your officials claim.

They're in the Middle East to destabilize the region and sell weapons to the conflicting parties. Some even say they are there for the sake of Israel.

The people in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran are not your enemies. Your enemies are psychopaths like Lindsey Graham and his friends in the military-industrial complex who are pushing for war with Iran and starting WWIII with Russia. The CIA waged one of its costliest covert operations to train and arm radical insurgents in Syria. The result was the emergence of ISIS and al-Nusra Front.

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Dec 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This recent photo summarizes the "Syrian Revolution"

American officers sitting in the middle surrounded by Syrian mercenaries who call themselves "rebels" fighting against the "Assad dictatorship".

These mercenaries were hired by the CIA and the Pentagon in al-Tanf border crossing to block Syria's main trade route with Jordan and Iraq, establish a training camp for the ISIS hoards, and then send them on suicide missions against the Syrian Army and allied forces in the deserts.

This is the true face of the American empire.Image symonitor.com/%D8%B5%D9%88%D…
Nov 10, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
A former CIA officer called my work on Ukraine "propaganda"!

I'm not going to engage in personal discussion because only small minds discuss people. Instead, I'm going to explain why Ukraine can't win the war against Russia, especially after the onslaught against Gaza.
A fight over funding for foreign wars is pitting President Biden's commitment to sending aid to both Ukraine and Israel against an increasingly anti-war Republican cohort that wishes to support just Israel.
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Oct 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I'm posting this two-segment video to set the record straight; there is credible information that indicates Israel, with the backing of the United States, intends to assassinate Syria's President Bashar al-Assad if Hezbollah opens a wide front from southern Lebanon.

To put this in proper context; since 2011, the U.S. waged a secret covert operation in Syria to topple Assad and install a friendly government in Israel.

To achieve this goal, the U.S. and its regional allies spent tens of billions in arming and training multinational takfiri terrorist groups. According to the New York Times, the secret program (Timber Sycamore) was one of the most expensive CIA covert operations in the history of the agency.

However, Syria emerged victorious and the terror groups were mostly destroyed with the help of Iran, Russia, and Hezbollah.

While President Trump ended the covert operation in 2017, the Pentagon sent troops to the Eastern shore of the Euphrates to occupy the oil and gas fields and hence, disallow the Syrian government from using the revenues of the oil to reconstruct the war-torn country.

The pro-Syria alliance believes the CIA's attempt to remove Assad was urged by Israel because a pro-Israeli government in Damascus means the isolation of Hezbollah and eventually the Palestinian militant groups fighting against Israel.

With the escalation of the conflict in Palestine and the carpet bombing of Gaza, it is believed that Hezbollah has mobilized its elite forces and kept 1/3 of the Israeli army busy on the northern front by firing ATGMs and rockets at the Israeli forces.

But if Israel wages a full-scale invasion of Gaza, it is believed that Hezbollah will intervene and wage a ground offensive on the settlements in northern Israel.

If Hezbollah's offensive materializes, my information indicates that Israel will bomb Damascus and try to kill Assad.

Will Israel dare to do that? I believe with the current mentality governing Tel Aviv, everything is possible.

NOTE: the above text is an analysis based on my personal knowledge and different sources. It is not wishful thinking or scaremongering. It is simply a political analysis based on the available information to me.
The first guest is @DanielLMcAdams on Syriana Analysis and the second speaker is the former British diplomat and MI6 agent Alastair Crooke on the New Rules channel.
Oct 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The signals coming from Iran, Syria and Lebanon indicate that, if Israel tries to occupy Gaza, there is a decision to open all fronts against Israel which practically means regional war and direct American intervention.

Bloody days are ahead in West Asia❗️ The goal is the displacement of all Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt.
Oct 9, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Israel conducted hundreds of air strikes against Syria in the past decade, including on Damascus and Aleppo International Airports. Israeli officials confessed that they have supported al-Qaeda terrorists against the Syrian Army. Where was your outrage, back then? Israel has been regularly supplying "Syrian rebels", aka Islamist insurgents, including the al-Nusra Front near its border with cash as well as food, fuel and medical supplies for years.

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Aug 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Assad on Syria's diplomatic negotiations with the United States. 1/

"We had no hope, even for a single moment that the Americans would change. Because the Americans ask and demand, take and take and give nothing." Assad on the possibility of striking a peace deal with Israel. 2/

"If there is no Israeli willingness to return the land, there is no need to waste time."
Jun 27, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I DO NOT HATE THE WEST!

I live in the West and if one day al-Qaeda invade Germany, I am ready to defend it against the terrorists. But why don’t they let us fight terrorism in Syria? "[Al-Qaeda] is on our side in Syria"--email from policy advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (Feb 2012) .@wikileaks
May 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Kosovo-Serbia tension: History, latest flare-up and what’s the solution?

Dr. Marcus Papadopoulos believes President Vučić is a puppet who was instructed to engineer the clashes with the NATO peacekeeping forces. @DrMarcusP

WATCH: Image NATO says 25 of its servicemen were injured

May 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Despite the threats and warnings against Arab countries normalizing relations with Syria, President Bashar al-Assad landed today in Jeddah to participate in the Arab League summit.

As @EbrahimHashem said, some Western diplomats need re-education on the art of diplomacy. Cry me a river Image
Apr 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
After the visit of Reza Pahlavi to Tel Aviv and his meeting with Netanyahu, people need to understand that Israeli support for the Iranian and Syrian opposition is only helping Tehran and Damascus in discrediting their opponents. WATCH: Son of Toppled Iranian Shah Pays a Controversial Visit to Israel
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Apr 18, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
“Saudi Arabia, led by Bandar bin Sultan, plotted to assassinate Assad in 2013, but it failed. Now, they shake hands with Assad in Damascus.”

Why do I mention this information? Thread 🧵 In 2013, when I debated a Syrian opposition figure at the American University in Cairo, I told her and the audience, who were mostly anti-Assad activists, that in politics there are no permanent enemies, no permanent friends, only permanent interests. 1/
Apr 18, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
“Saudi Arabia, led by Bandar bin Sultan, plotted to assassinate Assad in 2013, but it failed. Now, they shake hands with Assad in Damascus.”

Why do I mention this information? Thread 🧵 In 2013, when I debated a Syrian opposition figure at the American University in Cairo, I told her and the audience, who were mostly anti-Assad activists, that in politics there are no permanent enemies, no permanent friends, only permanent interests. 1/
Mar 31, 2023 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
I received many questions about the Israeli attacks on Syria and "why isn't Syria responding?"

I'll try to answer some of your questions in this thread based on my humble journalistic experience 🧵 Israel conducts regular aerial spying operations near the borders of Syria, especially in the coastal line. Israel spies for many days, sometimes for a week or two before conducting an air strike. 1/
Mar 28, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The U.S. led diplomatic pressure on the UNSC members to foil Russia's demand to establish an international independent investigative commission into the acts of sabotage against the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

What are they concerned about if there is nothing to hide? Feb. 8, 2023 - The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now.
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Mar 23, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The multipolar world is a win-win for the people but bad news for the tiny ruling elites. Allow me to explain.

Thread 🧵 Many people around the world are looking forward to a multipolar world because they're victims of the US wars, coups, theft of national resources, the dominance of the dollar, US dictates, etc. 1/
Mar 3, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Choking millions of Syrians by asking Congress to impose more draconian sanctions on #Syria is immoral and sadistic, and mounts to an act of treason! Learn how these sanctions are crushing the health sector in Syria, which was one of the best in the region before the war

Feb 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
When Israel bombs Syria in an unprovoked manner, further traumatising millions after a deadly earthquake and the int. community doesn't condemn the aggression, then don't be surprised when the majority in the global south wish the US loses the proxy war in Ukraine.
Feb 5, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Statement issued by Dr. Faisal Mekdad, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic after the third report of the OPCW accusing the Syrian Army of using chemical weapons in Douma in 2018.

Thread 🧵 On a day like today 20 years ago, and near the Syrian seat where I was sitting in the UNSC, the then US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, staged a scene of manipulation and lies to justify the US invasion of Iraq on the pretext that it possesses weapons of mass destruction.