Saturday, December 24, 2016
World Peace “Lennon Ivan Style” – Part 226
As a continuation from my last blog whereby I believe the root of “World
Peace” is centered on peace in the Middle East with the first step being
negotiated peace between Israel and the Palestinians, I would like to remain
objective and independent in my views such that I would like to today bring
Iraq into my views as they seem to be the closest at this time to a full fledge
civil war of rage like wild animals stuck together in a cage. However, it is
important to note that Israel and Palestine seem to be awakening from their
hatred induced coma state with the potential for peace negotiations to be
resumed in the near future in the United States, while Egypt continues to operate
in supremacy domination mode whereby the minority Christian military continues
to hold on to power while the Muslim majority is fuming at the seams hoping to
awaken from this horrible dream. As for the Syrians, both sides are still in
anger induced coma state for the mentally insane such that millions of Syrians
continue to suffer each and every day. In terms of the Russians and Ukrainians,
they seem to have entered into a political war game whereby neither party
wishes to concede but rather seems to prefer to enter into a civil war and
commit dirty deeds. While Israelis, Palestinians, Egyptians, Syrians, Russians
and Ukrainians continue along their respective paths toward enlightenment, it
is now time for the Iraqis to be enlightened as to the path of quelling their
current tensions before any more civil war breaks out which bears the risk of
leading to a third and final world war on this earth, after which, there will
be no place for anyone left to run. In summary, Observers around the world are
stunned by the speed and scope of assaults on every major city in the upper
Tigris River Valley, including Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, by the
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. However, as the ISIS rebels extend
their reach across Iraq, the U.S. Air Force was forced to intervene in order to
prevent Genocide while Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki relinquished power opening
a new political chapter that U.S. officials hope will move Iraq toward a more
unified front against Islamic jihadists currently running wild and literally
beheading “Infidels” like pigs without shedding a tear as blood spills out of
their victims giving everybody creepy chills.
During
the week ending on Sunday, December 25, 2016, TURKEY retreated from their
aggressive siege of CIZRE, SILOPI, DIYARBAKIR and NUSAYBIN, predominantly
KURDISH, which TURKEY had converted into a suburban war zone area as TURKEY was
on the defense as they were subject to an internal military “Coup D’État” that
failed as gunfire and explosions erupted in which 265 people died, 161 of them
civilians, over one month ago. As a result of the failed “Coup D’État”,
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a state of emergency, extended
the period during which suspects can be detained without charge to 30 days, closed
more than 1,000 private schools and closed more than 1,200 associations.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued cleaning house again this
week after nearly three months since the failed “Coup D’État” for which
officials continue to blame the disciples of TURKISH cleric Fethullah
Gulen. A wide scale purge led by
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his governing AKP escalated further this
week under the disguise of emergency rule as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s
iron fisted rule resulted in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan calling for a national
mobilization against all terrorist organizations. As the leader of TURKEY, President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a national mobilization against the PKK (outlawed
Kurdistan Workers’ Party), ISIS, FETO (Fethullahist Terrorist Organization),
DHKP-C (outlawed Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party Front) and all other
terrorist organizations, whatever their names, arguments or methods. President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that TURKEY cannot leave its security solely in the
hands of the TURKISH security forces and thus called on all TURKISH citizens to
help their security forces. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated that whoever
has information about the activities of these organizations should immediately
inform TURKISH security forces. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also again
claimed that dark external forces were acting against TURKEY’s interests such
that TURKEY is facing the greatest attacks in its history through the acts of
these terrorist organizations giving TURKEY the right to retaliate. Finally, TURKEY
banned Twitter, Facebook and You Tube for hours after ISIS Barbarians uploaded
video of ISIS burning two TURKISH soldiers alive in sick execution style
footage. The nineteen-minute video showing two uniformed men being hauled from
a cage before being bound and torched was posted on ISIS’s websites and was
supposedly shot in ISIS’s section of ALEPPO. Speaking in TURKISH, the ISIS killer
of the two TURKISH soldiers criticised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
for his position against ISIS and called for destruction to be sowed in TURKEY.
Moving
on to IRAQ, IRAQI and US-led ALLIANCE forces continued with their offensive
against ISIS on MOSUL. However, ISIS has sent the message to the world that it
will do whatever it takes to defend MOSUL as ISIS has chosen the usage of its
own people as human shields. Nonetheless, IRAQI and ALLIED forces managed to push
ISIS militants back from MOSUL, their last major stronghold in IRAQ, whereby a
triple car bombing on a market killed at least 23 innocent civilians in
GOGJALI, a few kilometres east of MOSUL; mortar fire killed 11 innocent
civilians including four aid workers gathered to receive assistance in MOSUL
city; & other separate incidents also wounded up to 40 innocent civilians. Unfortunately,
the killing of civilians and aid workers violates every humanitarian principle
albeit the reality of the war against ISIS to retake MOSUL whereby collateral
damage is high. IRAQI and ALLIANCE forces pushing towards MOSUL on the southern
front have yet to enter the city and another advance from the north has
stalled. To the west, forces from pro-government KURDISH paramilitary groups
are close to the town of TAL AFAR, between MOSUL and the border with SYRIA but have
been unable to close the passageway to SYRIA. Furthermore, areas taken from ISIS
are still exposed to deadly artillery attacks, bombs and gunfire. However, ISIS
militants have been steadily retreating from areas around MOSUL into the city center
since the battle first commenced on October 17 with a slow but steady advance
by the ALLIANCE due to the usage by ISIS of civilians as human shields. Thus
far, IRAQI, KURDISH and ALLIED forces advances have been impressive on their
push to retake MOSUL, ISIS's de facto capital in IRAQ where as many as 1.5
million people are believed to still remain. However, progress has been slow as
the ALLIANCE forces have faced counterattacks from the ISIS fighters who
deployed hundreds of suicide car bombs, as well as mortars and snipers and used
MOSUL’s million plus residents as human shields. Unfortunately, ISIS is still a
force to be reckoned with, due to its significant wealth amassed in safe havens
abroad, such that although the battle for MOSUL will likely lead to the end of
the ISIS era in IRAQ, the ISIS wealth abroad will likely lead to ISIS taking
the fight to the streets on foreign soil which will necessitate heightened
security measures until kingdom come. Therefore, the US-led ALLIANCE needs to
be on heightened security alerts world wide as ISIS will look to find any and
all possible retributory strikes, the most savage and barbarian possible, in an
attempt to save face from a humiliating defeat of its MOSUL base.
Moving
on to SYRIA, SYRIAN government forces have come close to retaking full control
of ALEPPO for the first time, since the uprising began, after nearly six years
of bloody fighting for Syria’s most populous city and SYRIA’s economic hub that
has been the most prized and fiercely contested city throughout the Syrian
conflict. The evacuation of civilians and fighters from the last rebel-held
part of ALEPPO concluded putting virtually all of Syria’s industrial capital
back in the hands of President Bashar al-Assad’s forces for the first time
since 2012. It appears that over 35,000 people have left east ALEPPO, including
4,000 rebel fighters who left in their own vehicles fearing assassinations at
the hands of President Bashar al-Assad’s forces that allowed buses transporting
residents of east ALEPPO safe passage out under an agreement brokered by
Russia, Turkey and Iran. The seizure of virtually all of Aleppo by President
Bashar al-Assad’s forces and his allies signals a turning point in the nearly
six-year conflict. Given that President Bashar al-Assad’s forces relied heavily
on foreign military support from Russia, Iran and Shiite militias like Lebanon’s
Hezbollah to surround the rebel-held areas with shelling and airstrikes that
killed hundreds of people and reduced entire neighbourhoods to rubble, the fall
of ALEPPO is a turning point because in substance the rebellion has been quashed.
Ironically, President Bashar al-Assad has characterized the rebels seeking his
ouster as foreign backed terrorists such that he hailed the retaking of ALEPPO as
a blow to those forces. As a friendly reminder, since the Syrian army’s assault
against rebel held ALEPPO began in late September, RUSSIAN and SYRIAN government
bombardments have killed more than 1,000 people, including over 250 children
while injuring over 5,000.
In my opinion, Turkey’s participation in the military battle against
ISIS is a positive addition to the ALLIANCE albeit Turkey’s negative stance
against the PKK which in my opinion is currently unwarranted and deteriorating.
However, with the recent majority victory by the governing AKP and President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it appears that Turkey’s future is heading for more war
and bloodshed. Unfortunately, the governing AKP and President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan have chosen the path of war with the PKK as opposed to diplomacy via
the KURDISH HDP political party which secured close to 11% during recent
Turkish elections. Therefore, in my opinion, the governing AKP and President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan will learn the hard way that nobody on the outside world
looking in is stupid but rather everyone chooses to close their eyes and allow
Turkey to continue with its ethnic cleansing campaign of the KURDS in exchange
for Turkey signing a deal with the European Union (EU) to stem the flow of
refugees arriving in Greece. In exchange for reducing human trafficking and
improving living conditions for 2.5 million refugees within its borders, Turkey
will receive Euro 3 billion in financial aid in return, the possibility of
visa-free travel for its citizens, and a reopening of EU membership talks. In
my opinion, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the governing AKP will learn the
hard way that the current failed “Coup D’État” exposes the deep discontent
within the TURKISH military ranks as the governing AKP and President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan persist with their quest to annihilate the HDP and the KURDS as the AKP
is converting itself into a majority fascist regime with its house cleaning
exercises whereby virtually all dissidents have been fired. In my opinion, the
recent European parliament vote to halt TURKEY’s EU accession backed by a
resolution condemning the TURKISH government’s disproportionate repressive
measures after the failed “Coup D’État” in July was long overdue as TURKEY has
demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt, with its repressive measures over all
opposition, that TURKEY does not share common values, morals, principals,
ethics and views as the EU such that TURKEY does not fit into the EU mould.
However, in my opinion, TURKEY still represents a major player on the European
economic stage such that the EU will nonetheless have to negotiate deals with
TURKEY as an independent NON-EU member country regarding the huge refugee
crisis. In my opinion, in exchange for reducing human trafficking and improving
living conditions for 2.5 million refugees within its borders, TURKEY should
only receive Euro 1.5 billion, half of the initial proposed 3 billion, in
financial aid along with visa-free travel for its citizens who do not pose any
significant risks outside of TURKISH borders. However, with TURKEY’s hardline
stance against all opposition groups with the so-called “national mobilization
against all terrorist organizations” which in effect identifies virtually all
opposition groups as terrorists, TURKEY cannot conform to the EU protocol
regarding civil rights and liberties which protects all minorities from
persecution to the extent they follow democratic laws, regulations and principals.
Unfortunately, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan does not see that the tighter he
squeezes all opposition parties, the closer he brings TURKEY to the brink of
civil war. In my opinion, TURKEY’s stance against ISIS is justified
particularly in light of the horrific execution of two TURKISH soldiers by
burning them alive. However, all of the other so-called “terrorist
organizations” are a by-product of the toxic domestic policies that have
squeezed the lifeblood of all opposition groups within TURKEY to the point that
they have become radicalized. Therefore, in my opinion, the only long-term sustainable
rehabilitation program for TURKEY is one of dialogue, negotiations and
diplomacy with the minority factions who cannot be forced to conform to TURKISH
AKP ideology but rather can only be encouraged to assimilate into TURKISH
society by having an opportunity to promote their ideology via democratic,
peaceful and law abiding mechanisms. As a friendly reminder, TURKEY has gone
through three military takeovers, each with a worse record of human rights
violations than the last, such that it is shame that the governing AKP does not
seem to have learned from TURKEY’s bloodstained past that whatever is
assimilated by force will never survive TURKEY’s natural life course.
Moving
on to IRAQ, the recent successful attacks on ISIS by IRAQI security forces in
MOSUL, has clearly sent the message to ISIS that it is just a matter of time
until the ISIS Empire in MOSUL dies. However, the IRAQI led troops on the
ground are essentially forced to fight ISIS style, which is slow and brutal for
any other type of heavy artillery attack on ISIS, will result in significant
collateral damage in terms of human casualties. Unfortunately ISIS has managed
to set new rules of war, with complete and utter disregard for the laws of war
as promulgated by the GENEVA convention, which is essentially that there are no
rules other than the dirtiest player in the game wins. Thus, the world finds
itself going backwards to the days of Barbarian,
Neanderthal, Self-Centered, Egotistical, Narcissistic, Masochistic, Sadistic,
Idiosyncratic, Sociopathic and Psychopathic maniacs. Furthermore, with recent
advances by IRAQI and ALLIED troops,
collateral damage has escalated as ISIS has told residents in person, by radio
and over mosque loudspeakers that those who stay behind would be deemed
“non-believers” and therefore would be valid targets along with the IRAQI and ALLIANCE
forces. In my opinion, the ISIS killing machine has become heartless with the
attack on MOSUL as ISIS has targeted civilians with mortars, explosives and
gunfire including children who have been killed and wounded in addition to
having to witness horrific violence during fighting for MOSUL. In my opinion,
the psychological scars on innocent children will never be healed as they have seen
their families and neighbours decapitated in mortar strikes, torn to shreds by car
bombs or mine explosions and crushed under the rubble of their homes. However,
in my opinion, assuming
that the KURDISH peshmerga, IRAQI army, SHIITE militia and some SUNNI militia
forces continue to overlook their differences and stick together, ISIS will
inevitably be decimated in IRAQ, although ISIS will likely survive as an
incognito terrorist organization throughout the world. In my opinion, with ISIS
inevitably nearing its downfall in IRAQ, IRAQI security forces need to be
prepared for a different kind of war against ISIS, shifting away from ground
offensives to intelligence work and surgical airstrikes to counter an expected
move by ISIS away from holding territory and back to a more terrorist role of a
dispersed underground terror organization. In my opinion, ISIS is already laying
the groundwork for a new terrorist strategy of hiding in remote areas, carrying
out attacks in IRAQ and abroad and resorting to organized crime to bankroll future
operations.
Moving
on to SYRIA, the latest news that the SYRIAN government forces have recaptured virtually
the entire former rebel stronghold of east ALEPPO in an offensive that has left
bodies in the streets and sparked global outrage seems to have sucked out all
of the air from ALEPPO for some sort of power sharing arrangement. As tens of
thousands of civilians streamed out of ALEPPO's east, President Bashar al-Assad
characterized the rebels seeking his ouster as foreign backed terrorists such
that he hailed the retaking of ALEPPO as a blow to those forces. Therefore,
President Bashar al-Assad has clearly sent the message that there will be no
power sharing deal in ALEPPO such that the bombardments that have killed more
than 1,000 people, including over 250 children while injuring over 5,000 were
all in vain as nothing will change. At the end of the day, with fewer rebel
factions, no refuelling possible and the RUSSIAN backing of SYRIAN government
forces, the rebellion disintegrated before everybodies’ eyes. However, in my
opinion, the current situation in ALEPPO is deplorable as innocent civilians
are living in a literal hell on earth as the entire city is covered in blood
with diminishing food, necessities and basic supplies while innocent civilians
continue to die. Ultimately, it is because of this battle for ALEPPO that ISIS
is able to survive as the ASSAD regime
with the support of RUSSIA and IRAN has managed to slaughter their way back to legitimacy. Unfortunately,
the seizure of virtually all of Aleppo by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and
his Allies signals a turning point in the nearly six-year conflict back to
where it all began except that the death, destruction and carnage can never be
erased and ALEPPO will carry the scent of blood for generations to face.
In
summary, I refer to “World Peace Lennon Ivan Style – Part 226” as the belief
that ISIS is evil such that the MOSUL victory is critical to ISIS decimation
but ASSAD seizure of ALEPPO by sheer military force signals
a turning point back to where it all began except that the death, destruction
and carnage can never be erased and ALEPPO will carry the scent of blood for future
generations to face.
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