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It was 1999 when Syria’s Defense Minister at the time Mustafa Tlass, a veteran of two wars with Israel, burst into a public rant against Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat over a visit to the White House calling him the “son of 60,000 whores.”
This moment, unprecedented during the era of President Hafez al-Assad who practiced the most disciplined form of diplomacy, highlighted deep frustration in Damascus over the route the Palestinian cause took under the leadership of Arafat, which ultimately proved to be disastrous on all levels.
The rant came in August of that year, during an address at Ras al-Ain, in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon, at a ceremony marking Syrian and Lebanese “Army Day.”
Referring to Arafat, Tlass exclaimed: “You son of 60,000 whores. You should not have been so cowardly and submissive at the White House.”
“You should have said that Jerusalem is the unified capital of the future Palestinian state. But you just stood there like a black cat and didn’t dare utter a word, either about Palestine or Jerusalem.”
Tlass went on to compare Arafat to a stripper.
“In his concessions to Israel, Yasser Arafat resembles a striptease dancer who removes more of her clothing whenever she ascends the stage,” he said.
“Look at him when he is on stage. He moves from concession to concession like the stripper, except that she becomes more beautiful with every layer she removes, while Yasser Arafat becomes uglier.”
Damascus was never on good terms with Arafat, but its relation with him reached a historic low with the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993.
Hafez viewed the accords, which were engineered by the United States, as a betrayal of Arab unity, a threat to Syria’s strategic interests and harmful for the Palestinian cause.
As time went by, Syria’s concerns materialized. Israel went on to sabotage all peace talks with the Palestinian Authority, and since 1993 settlement in the occupied West Bank has seen significant and sustained growth. Even the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005 ended up dividing Palestinians like never before.
Worst of all were the terms on security coordination. These terms which were meant to guarantee the security of both sides were quickly reduced into an instrument in Israel’s hands to exert dominance over occupied Palestinian territories. In fact, it can be argued that without security coordination, settlement would not have expanded in the West Bank to the levels we see today.
Palestinian security forces are not only barred from challenging Israeli authorities under these terms, but also forced to facilitate their operations in the West Bank.
No agreement is better than a bad agreement, and Tlass was absolutely right in criticizing Arafat for making so many concessions just to solidify his personal authority over Palestinian territories, which remain to this day occupied.
Despite making all of these concessions, in 2004 Arafat died of sudden illness inside his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, which had been besieged by Israeli forces for more than two years at the time. All sides in Palestine deemed his death the result of an assassination by Israel.
Now more than 25 years after Tlass’ fiery speech, Syria’s President, or more technically interim President, is preparing to visit the White House.
Just like Arafat, Ahmad al-Sharaa, who took power after overthrowing Hafez’s son Bashar last year, has been regarded as a “terrorist” by the U.S. for most of his life. And just like the Palestinian leader, Washington is now offering him a chance to solidify his authority over the war-torn country by signing off on certain issues.
Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda leader, will meet President Donlad Trump to sign an agreement making Syria a part of the so-called anti-ISIS coalition.
It is even reported that Sharaa will be granting the U.S. military an air base in Damascus, located just a few kilometers away from his palace.
Trump, however, is expecting more, much more from Sharaa, namely a security agreement with Israel. Sharaa is facing immense pressure to sign the agreement, which is reported to be 99% complete, before the end of the year.
All available information on the draft of the agreement suggests that its main principles are in line with the security coordination terms from the Oslo Accords and that it stops short from discussing the issue of Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights.
In short, Israel wants a free hand over southern Syria. The Israeli military invaded a part of the region, including the strategic Mount Hermon peak, the moment Sharaa entered Damascus and has since been conducting near-daily security operations there.
Reports also suggest that Israel is eyeing a corridor to the al-Suwayda where Druze fighters it supports are currently demanding independence from Syria. It was even reported that Israel wants Syria to commit to not rebuilding its air defenses, ever.
Syria has already rejected many of these demands, according to multiple reports. However, it will all go down to the fact if Sharaa could say “no” to the face of Trump when he asks him at the White House to sign the agreement. It won’t be even surprising if Trump attempts to get the Syrian president to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and finalize the agreement while still in Washington. After all, Trump really likes to get things done quickly.
Considering all of this, Sharaa’s visit to the White House poses more risk for him than he may have been driven to believe by his backers in Turkey and the Gulf.
So, will Sharaa dare to “utter a word” against Israel in the face of Trump and bear the consequences? Or will he stand silently like a “black cat” in the White House after making all the concessions needed to appease Trump?
And if the latter happens, what will be of him and Syria in five years? Will he get away with just being called the “son of 60,000 whores” in some angry rant as Israel dominates the south of the country? Or will he die of sudden illness in his palace next to the U.S. base in Damascus after signing off on everything? Maybe both will happen and the tale of Arafat will repeat itself with Sharaa!
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again why didnt putin enable the russian air defenses and shoot down israels jsf 35 when iran wanted to fly in reinforcements. these old videos dont make a difference for todays reality on the ground. what syria needs is a ssnp government. if you want people who actually oppose israels theft of syrian land.
putin is a shabbos goy jewish vermin installed rat who works for chabad lubovich and milks out russians for profit of jewish oligarchs thats the truth.
the average russian dousnt have a fancy house or decent salary mr putin and the jewish rats behind him own the entire economy
a traitor and the greatest scoundrel in the whole wide world. his betrayal has reduced the tiger force to a bunch of hello kitty plushies. i’m just surprised that they didn’t hang themselves from branches in the russian forest when they found out the truth…
putin’s mother was khazar (jewish), so by israeli law putin is “jew”.
if putin is “jew” so he cannot be shabbos goy.
khazaria is today southern russia, so khazars infiltrated all institutions in russia long way back
russia made several mistakes i can’t work out to this day, first was halting the saa advance on idlib and allowing the terrorists to leave aleppo for idlib with their weapons and thinking they could trust erdogan, the final mistake was allowing those terrorists hts to drive from aleppo all the way to damascus without annihilating the convoy from the air which they could have done.
excatly this. altough i dont think the idlib thing was a mistake but rather a deal between russia and turkey. they betrayed the saa. in favor of israel. these jews are behind all of this entire conflict they created isis and armed and trained these headchoppers with the goal of destroying and depopulating the country so israel sweep in like last december and steal syrian land for greater israel. they are now using the druze for the same landgrab tactic.
with syria disarmed and the army gone and a crypto jewish jelani clown in power they can get away with everything they want. the bombing of syria did no stop. it just accelerated israel has the goal of making existing in syria impossible so they can later sweep in and steal the land without any opposition saa was still strong and stood in the way of them doing that as syria had strategic weapons it could have retaliated with now they dont have anything to oppose the jews.
the reason the convoy was able to breakout was entirely with israeli and american help using drones gps, israel also sabotaged the saa from within with a smartphone app promising soldiers 50 dollars if installed with the syrian first lady asma on it as if it was approved. this app spied on their phones gave their data to israel israel knew were they could target their defenses checkpoints and defense sites because of this and relentlessly bombed them for months
when they want division they are experts are ensuring they get what they want .
only one prostitute can give birth to one bastard. putler was also born to only one jewish woman. two jewish women could not give birth to him. only one jewish woman. although his meanness and betrayal turned the syrian tiger force into a pile of plush hello kitties. the minister should re-attend his elementary school biology class because he apparently cheated and copied from a classmate during the test. he had previously boycotted biology classes
if putin did to me what he did to s. hassan and m. assad, i would secretly hang myself from a branch in a russian mountain.
me too, such shame is longer than life.
i would at the very least have used all of syrias strategic weapons against israel as a final defiant gesture. now israel bombed everything without any losses on their side
atleast maximizing the damage to these zionist rats. but assad, choose to live in hiding instead of atleast standing with his nation and die fighting.
therefore, he probably doesn’t even know the basics of sexuality and probably doesn’t even know that a woman doesn’t have a cock, just a hole. the main pity, of course, is that putler’s father was not gay.
putler’s father didn’t know what your ancestors – the ustashas and chetniks, knew. that a she jew is only for one-time use. they slept with them in their military bases and squeezed their necks a little too tightly, cut them into pieces in the middle of sex, or cut off their breasts and roasted them for dinner. the spanish king was a little smarter in 1492…now all you cowardly hello kitties should be print out a picture of ferdinand ii of aragon and fall asleep with ferdinand ii of aragon
for all the hello kitty kittens who obeyed putler, i suggest that they print ferdinand ii of aragon on their bedding so they can purr and not get cold in the russian winter. or are they trying to summon him from the dead to appear in the middle of the night?
`because this man knew his trade __________he knew that israel can be defeated__________but for this arabs need to unite
south front, clean up your comment section!
indeed. there’s too much bot hasbarats infestation.
mustafa tlass you were right what do these intruders do in syria? we better get rid of the sad show of don tcharaabbo goyim and the nose of bibinocchio stuck up their… the levant people would even rather see their lands free and 60,000 strippers.
sharaa is pure trash, anyone who thinks the bastard has not been under the control of the americans should get their heads tested, the sob has never fired a shot at the zionist gangsters now roaming syria at will, the former saa fighters need to get organized and start a insurgency against him and any us troops who arrive in syria.