Syria, Russia & Iran shift to diplomacy, while US and allies push for war... The US should prize reconciliation with Syria and Israel should prize reconciliation with Palestinians.
President Trump promised Turkish President
Erdogan that the U.S. won’t supply weapons to the Syrian Kurdish militant group
(YPG). This situation makes me puzzle over what the U.S. really wants to do.
This indicates that the U.S. is at a loss about what to do. The second article
says that “US policy is now scrambling to try to find an alternative to that
failed policy.”
Trump’s promise with Erdogan shows that the
U.S. has given up creating a Kurdish independent nation “Kurdistan.” It appears
that Defense Secretary Mattis intends to have the U.S. forces stay in Syria as
long as possible as a tentative measure for Middle East. According to the
second article, there are forces which want to hamper achievement of peace. I
think that Defense Secretary Mattis is among them. Although the U.S. does not
want a large-scale war, there would be no justification for presence of the
U.S. forces in Syria if peace were achieved. In other words, Mattis thinks that
conflict is main line of business.
The Khazarian mafia has being purged in
Saudi Arabia, apparently in cooperation with the Trump administration. It
appears that simultaneously with this political upheaval, Saudi Arabia tries to
restrain Iran from extending its influence in the Middle East by putting
pressure on Lebanon. However, Defense Secretary Mattis has no mind to wage war
against Lebanon and Iran. Cooperative relationship among Russia, Iran and
Turkey seems to be inconvenient to the U.S. I suppose that President Trump made
a promise with President Erdogan to curry favor with him with the intention of driving
a wedge into the relationship among the three countries.
However, President Erdogan’s distrust of
the U.S. won’t disappear so easily. Russia flatly says that the presence of the
U.S. in Syria is illegal. Reading the last article, it appears that President
Putin shows his strong will to force those who never follow the international
law to follow it.
The U.S. should respect the sovereignty of
Syria. Israel has nothing but to make peace with Palestinians if they want to
survive as a nation.
November
27, 2017
Masatoshi
Takeshita
Note:
Shanti-phula has indicated some parts of
the following text in black boldface type or in red letters.
(1)
English translation of an excerpt from a
Japanese article: Bloomberg – November 25, 2017 –
U.S.
President promises to stop supply of weapons to Syrian Kurdish fighters – Turkish
Foreign Minister
On 24 U.S.
President Trump told in a phone call with Turkish President Erdogan that the
U.S. would cease supplying arms to the Syrian Kurdish fighters, Turkish
Foreign Minister Cavusoglu told reporters. It turns out that the U.S. policy
which caused to deteriorate the relationship will discontinue.
<snip>
The White House pointed out that the
alteration “complies with the conventional policy”. The White House explained: “It
reflects a news phase of fighting after the capital as “Islamic State (IS)”
called it was defeated by the force the U.S. supports.”
(2)
Excerpt from an excerpt from a Japanese
article: Overseas Articles Never Reported by Mass Media – November 26,
2017 –
‘US betrayal of Kurds an attempt to fix troubled relations with
Turkey & failed Syria policy’
Source:
<snip>
Trump’s intention to
backtrack on his support for the Kurds, experts
believe, is part of an attempt to “adjust” failing US
policy on Syria, following a number of recent diplomatic markers, achieved
with Russia’s direct and dynamic input.
<snip>
“What is happening in Syria involves basically a
failure of US foreign policy. What I mean is that
Washington had allied with the Saudis regarding backing religious zealots.
However, with the intervention of Russia, and Iran, and Hezbollah of Lebanon,
these forces defeated the so-called Islamic State, defeated the religious
zealots and therefore US policy is now scrambling to
try to find an alternative to that failed policy,” historian Gerald
Horne explained.
<snip>
“There has been a lot of Turkish troops
going into Northern Syria, so it may be that Washington will align more closely
with Turkish troops which will refuse to leave Syria,” <snip> There are forces in
Washington that want to play a spoiler in this [achieving
peace]. They don’t want to see a resolution to the conflict, and that is
what is dangerous.”
(The rest is omitted)
(3)
Excerpt from a Japanese article: Overseas Articles Never Reported by Mass Media – November 23, 2017 –
Syria,
Russia & Iran shift to diplomacy, while US and allies push for war
Source:
Finnian Cunningham
November 21, 2017
Last week, US Defense
Secretary James Mattis said American forces would be staying in Syria despite
the contradiction of terror groups being routed.
<snip>
Mattis said the new purpose of US forces
were to “prevent ISIS 2.0” arising.
<snip>
Mattis also said that the expanded US
forces were there to ensure the future peace talks in Geneva, resuming on
November 28, would gain “traction.”
<snip>
But even more sinister
is the region-wide context of US force buildup – <snip> Saudi
Arabia and Israel, pushing for a confrontation with Iran, directly or
via Lebanon and Yemen, the expanding military presence in Syria indicates war
in that country is far from over. Instead, it could be
but a prelude to a more devastating regional conflagration.
(The rest is omitted)
English translation of an excerpt from the
Japanese version of Pars Today – November 26, 2017 –
Iranian
President Rouhani says: “Peace in the Middle East cannot be achieved by weapons
or support from Israel and U.S.”
Iranian President Rouhani stressed that
peace in the Middle East cannot be achieved by weapons or support from the
Zionist administration of Israel and the U.S. and told that interference in
regional nations by some countries produces a problem.
<snip>
President Rouhani said
that the Iran, Russia and Turkey summit meeting which was recently held was
successful and “the three countries have taken good
measures to politically resolve the Syria crisis.”
The trilateral conference was held in
Sochi, Russia on 22 this month to study the Syria situation and put an end to
the crisis there.
After the summit, the three leaders made a
joint statement. They stressed the sovereignty,
independence and territorial integrity of Syria again and agreed to continue
cooperation with Syria until the end of final defeat of the terrorist groups.
(5)
English translation of the Japanese version
of Sputnik – November 23, 2017 –
President
Putin: All Russian enterprises should be ready for increase in production of defense
products
© Sputnik/ Alexander Vilf
Russian President Putin
said that Russian all major private and national enterprises should be ready for
a rapid transition to war-time operations and increase in
production of defense products, the
Kremlin press service announced.
Sputnik Japan.
According to President Putin, *the ability
of any economy to rapidly increase the output of defense products and services
when it is needed is one of the most important conditions of the nation’s
military security.
*Quotation from
When President Putin discussed the military
drills held in September at a conference on military/industrial complex, the
president said: “All strategic enterprises and ordinary enterprises, regardless
of ownership, should be ready to this end.”