Yes, they’re using the old rape trope again to garner public opinion just like they done with Assange, they are desperate, they want to leverage the ISIS / Al Qaeda monster Al-Julani’s transformation into a nice friendly guy by running these staged interviews about prison rape that occurred under the previous regime, it’s just so cynical but what do you expect.

Funny how there are no interviews on UK media concerning the actual systematic raping of potentially hundreds of Palestinian prisoners (including doctors who’ve been raped to death by the demonic IDF), where the perpetrators were defended and even glorified in some sections of the Israeli media.

This is a sick world we live in

Formally annexing the rest of ‘Greater Israel’ would present major problems for the Zionists, as their Jewish State would then include a majority of non-Jews. They could abandon any pretence at democracy, going for all-out publicly declared apartheid, or they could attempt to remove non-Jews, through expulsion or extermination. Either option would meet stiff resistance, both from the affected populations and from the ‘international community’, and likely as not lead to the Israeli state’s closest allies withdrawing support if not actively intervening against such moves.

I hardly think Cook has ignored this possibility:

“Off-limits to HTS would likely be Kurdish areas policed by Turkey and the U.S., where much of the country’s oil is located, as well as a swath of territory in Syria’s south-west that Israel has invaded over the past two weeks.

It is widely assumed Israel will annex these Syrian lands to extend its illegal occupation of the Golan, which it took from Syria in 1967.”

From Euphrates to the Nile.

Yes, but both Israel and the US both seem to get most things wrong, and operate under faulty ‘intelligence’. So, if it can go badly wrong for them, I think it’s more likely than Israel succeeding in its ME conquest – after all, it is over-stretched as it is militarily and economically.

Certainly a good part of the Middle East at least.

-Israel has grabbed a piece. And of course Israel has a long history of peacefully withdrawing from land it has grabbed,
-The Kurds, backed by the Americans, still control the northeast and east of the river. The Americans selling the Kurds down the river (again) would have impacts in the region outside of Syria.
-Turkey has long almost annexed the northwest. “HTS” just named a head of the Turkish backed forces to be governor of Aleppo. So, the NW as a Turkish area appears to be in the works with Aleppo as its capital.

None of these three get along very well. HTS clashed with Turkey’s forces, and Turkey and the Kurds are effectively at war. Turkey – Israel relations have been brought much lower during Gaza.

Can ‘HTS’ hold on to its central area of Damascus, Homs and Hama, or will some of that also be broken off into balkanized regions? Israel’s extremists have already started talking about Damascus as a part of Greater Israel.

That should clarify what Israel is actually “up to” – and gives a real clue as to what we can expect from them in the future – and in order to get there to continue to engage in the activities they were instructed to in their first conquest of Palestine in Biblical times – “In the Hebrew Bible’s First Book of Samuel, Moses is commanded to “go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child …”