As Syrian Authorities-backed Islamist terrorists massacred roughly one thousand Druze and Christians in Suwayda, Southern Syria, US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack denied Syrian regime forces have been concerned, complained about Israel defending the Druze from the terrorists, and earlier shook arms with former ISIS terrorist and new Syrian President Abu Mohammad Al-Jolani.
A commentary by Gateway Pundit Visitor contributor Avi Abelow from Israel:
The world is watching, horrified however passive, as Sunni forces, some formally related to the Jolani regime and others not, sweep by southern Syria, leaving trails of mass-executed Druze civilians of their wake within the space of Suwayda.
Among the many victims are Americans, who returned to go to household in Suwayda and Jabal al-Druze. Some have been dragged from houses. Some have been shot execution-style, recorded on movies, which have gone viral world wide. Eerily much like the atrocities, and movies of delight, that the Iranian and Qatari supported Hamas terrorists did to Israel on Oct. seventh.
And but, as these movies flow into on-line, Washington stays silent.
Why?
As a result of these atrocities are being dedicated by the very “Sunni forces”, supported by Turkey and Qatar, the U.S. is backing, below the watch of Trump’s decide, Ambassador and particular envoy Tom Barrack, a former Ambassador to Turkey who has previous enterprise ties to Qatar.
If this atrocity towards the Syrian Druze, Alawaites, and Christians continues, and if Trump fails to behave to cease it, this might turn into his Benghazi, a second of ethical abandonment and geopolitical blindness that stains his legacy.
Tom Barrack have to be changed. Instantly.
Barrack’s insurance policies have endangered the minorities in Syria, Druze Americans, empowered Sunni jihadists with ties to ISIS and al-Qaeda, and weakened Israel’s means to behave towards unfolding genocide.
If Trump desires to protect his fame as a president of ethical readability and America First, he should do what Obama by no means had the braveness to do in Benghazi:
Stand with America’s allies. Cease the terrorists. And let Israel lead.
Even staunch Trump supporter Mark Levin is asking out the catastrophe in plain phrases on his Twitter/X account:
“This man Barrack strikes me as a idiot. His mates within the Syrian regime, together with ISIS veterans, are slaughtering Druze and different minorities. And he has the gall to sentence the Israeli authorities for ‘complicating’ issues?! This sort of bullsh*t public positioning offers support and luxury to murderers. It incentivizes them. This idiot needs to be fired.”
And once more:
“I simply watched a horrific video of a Syrian terrorist slicing the center out of a Druze civilian as he was alive and defenseless! … In the meantime, our envoy, Barrack, denounces the Israelis who’re the one individuals making an attempt to guard them.”
Levin is correct. And the time to behave is now.
Over the previous week, a number of Druze group leaders from Syria have publicly known as on Israel to not solely defend their villages—however to liberate and stay in southern Syria.
One assertion from a Druze elder in Suwayda reads:
“We ask the Israeli authorities: don’t wait. We’re your neighbors and your allies. We share blood. We beg you to cease the Sunni militias. Solely you may stop one other bloodbath.”
One other, broadcast on a Druze group channel in Arabic, pleaded:
“Let Israel come. Allow them to take management if they have to. We might fairly dwell below Israeli safety than die below jihadist knives.”
And these pleas should not new.
Again in December 2024 Druze leaders from southern Syria pleaded: “We need to be annexed to the Israeli Golan to protect our dignity … We need to be a part of our individuals within the Golan and dwell with freedom and honor.”
They knew a bloodbath was coming, they usually wished to be protected. However Trump’s envoy Barrack has completed the whole lot to permit for his or her bloodbath.
Israel liberating Southern Syria is just not occupation. That is liberation. That is ethical readability. And that is strategic alignment with persecuted, pro-Western minorities.
A strategic Israeli presence in southern Syria would do greater than save Druze lives. It will additionally empower the persecuted Kurds, who’ve additionally been focused by Sunni supremacists and Iranian militias alike.
- It will block Iran’s land hall to Lebanon.
- It will neutralize Turkey and Qatar’s jihadist proxies, performing as a part of their Islamic international jihad, ignored by Barrack and the Trump administration
- It will give America a loyal, native power defending minority rights, without having to deploy a single U.S. soldier.
That is what Trump’s “America First” coverage is speculated to be about: robust, sovereign allies like Israel doing the onerous work—so American blood and power doesn’t must.
But someway, Tom Barrack is pressuring Israel not to behave.
Israel’s Protection Minister Israel Katz publicly rebuked him:
“He doesn’t know the details,” Katz stated, after Barrack complained that Israeli strikes to guard Druze villages have been “complicating” regional stability.
This isn’t stability. It’s genocide. And it’s being enabled by Washington.
We can not enable this to be one other Rwanda. One other Yazidi mountain disaster. One other Benghazi.
Israel is able to act. It has already struck terror convoys, opened humanitarian corridors, and handled wounded Druze in its hospitals.
Nevertheless it wants the diplomatic area and ethical backing to go additional.
Right here’s What Should Occur Now:
- Substitute Tom Barrack. He’s dangerously unfit and morally compromised.
- Publicly again Israeli liberation operations in southern Syria.
- Set up a no-fly zone and humanitarian hall for Druze, Alawite, Kurd and Christian refugees.
- Freeze all U.S. assist to Sunni insurgent factions, together with these armed by Turkey and Qatar.
- Examine Barrack’s monetary entanglements with Gulf states and Turkey. The American individuals need to know who’s influencing our overseas coverage.
- Reaffirm U.S. assist for Israel and Kurdish autonomy, two bulwarks of Western values within the Center East.7. Reimpose sanctions on Syria and Jolani’s terror group HTS
If the conservative motion turns its again on Israel, on the Druze, and on the reality, it gained’t be Israel that falls. It will likely be the autumn of the ethical basis of the West and a jihadi win in its international jihadi agenda.
As a result of this isn’t about overseas support or Center East “complexities.”
That is about proper and improper and defending the world towards the genocidal jihadi loss of life cult advancing within the West as nicely.
That is about stopping genocide, defending minorities, and selecting reality over tribalism, values over vacuous speaking factors.
Trump has a alternative: be the person who stopped one other Center East genocide. Or let Tom Barrack flip his legacy into Benghazi 2.0.
Historical past is watching.
And Israel? Israel will do what it all the time does—stand alone if it should, defend the harmless, and inform the reality, irrespective of the associated fee.
However how tragic if it should achieve this with out the total assist of the Trump administration, the one ally dedicated, in phrases, to guide otherwise than earlier administrations.
