{"id":300211,"date":"2024-12-11T08:16:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T08:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=300211"},"modified":"2024-12-12T07:30:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T07:30:37","slug":"syria-new-government-takes-shape-as-israel-move-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=300211","title":{"rendered":"Syria: New Government takes shape as Israel move in"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian Dec 10, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>In the two days since Damascus fell to the \u201cliberating\u201d rebels, the Syria situation has moved on apace.<\/p>\n<p>Bashar al-Assad and his family \u2013 rumoured to have been in a plane crash on Sunday \u2013 are now confirmed alive having been granted asylum in Moscow, <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1884227\">according to Russian sources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The rebel leaders \u2013 no longer considered \u201cterrorists\u201d by the UK, and with a change of wardrobe to prove it \u2013 have already sat down with the Syrian Prime Minister to discuss the transfer of power:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XCpnneKIje8?si=_goYf4fZg3adkGoL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>They have also reportedly issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/news\/hts-led-coalition-announces-general-amnesty-assad-soldiers\">general amnesty<\/a> for any soldiers who fought for the Assad government.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Israel is carving out<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c77jrrxxn07o\"> \u201cbuffer zones\u201d from Syria\u2019s southwest<\/a> and blasting Syria\u2019s air defenses with bombs, completely unopposed.<\/p>\n<p>With all this coming so thick and fast, people are asking questions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How did a \u201cfrozen conflict\u201d thaw and resolve in just 10 days?<\/li>\n<li>Was there some betrayal involved?<\/li>\n<li>Or has a deal been done?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Certainly the passivity of the Syrian government and armed forces in the face of the apparent assault was noteworthy, as The Duran pointed out twitter:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Assad&#8217;s passivity in the face of these events was astonishing<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Duran (@TheDuranReal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDuranReal\/status\/1866430608395661365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s reminiscent of the \u201cchaotic\u201d US withdrawal, which saw tons of weapons and equipment \u201caccidentally\u201d left behind for Taliban forces and thousands of prisoners \u201caccidentally\u201d freed. Easily interpretable as part of an agreement after the fact.<\/p>\n<p>Is that the case here?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it all in service of \u201cGreater Israel\u201d, as others claim?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I hope that those pro-Palestine campaigners who are celebrating the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad are waking up to the fact that they&#8217;re on the side of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Greater Israel project. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mqRhcoMZot\">https:\/\/t.co\/mqRhcoMZot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Williamson (@DerbyChrisW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DerbyChrisW\/status\/1866472646172676364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Time will tell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Support Off-Guardian:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/offguardian\">Ko-fi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/offguardian\">Subscribestar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=CKFB3MH8CGB9U\">Paypal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2024\/12\/10\/syria-new-government-takes-shape-as-israel-move-in\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The situation in Syria has changed so dramatically and President Assad departed so quickly and quietly that one has to wonder: was a deal agreed behind the scenes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":300212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300214,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300211\/revisions\/300214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/300212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}