Israel will move more settlements into Golan Heights. This is the region that Israel seized during the 1967 Six-Day War. It is “considered illegally occupied under international law.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that a “new front” has opened for Israelis after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad’s government.
New settlements will join over 30 existing settlements in Golan Heights. These people will live alongside at least 20,000 Syrians. Can they do so peacefully under conflicting government laws?
The new Syrian leader, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, said that Syria will not be used as a “launchpad for attacks against Israel.”
“We are committed to the 1974 agreement and we are prepared to return the UN [monitors],” Julani told The Times of London, referring to peacekeeping forces that manned the demilitarized zone alongside Syrian troops.
The U.S. launched its own attacks in Syria where the U.S. also has illegally occupied territory. US Central Command (CENTCOM) said Monday that it “conducted precision airstrikes targeting known ISIS camps and operatives in Syria, Dec. 16, killing 12 ISIS terrorists.”
There is no such thing as precision airstrikes. That is the precision paradox. It is when the government tells you that they can launch targeted strikes and avoid collateral death and damage.
Ceasefire talks between Hamas and Israel are reportedly making progress in Qatar but too late to save at least 52 people killed in reported attacks on a civilian camp on Monday.
