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![]() ![]() Section 6: International Subject: Saudi Arabia (and Syria) Msg# 1225399
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The dealings with Syria's al-Sharaa were just one part of Trump's widely touted successes in his Middle east trip. Trump's lifting of US trade sanctions against Syria is a good step towards peace.
Recall how history records that dealings have occurred with adversarial, even violent leaders, stiving for successful peaceful understandings. Its unrealistic to be critical of those early, important first steps. Here's some examples among the various agreements and treaties which have been achieved:
More current dealings striving towards peace would include talks and/or meetings with North Korea's Kim Jung Un, Putin, Xi Jinping. Plus, add to that list Syria's al-Sharaa who Trump recently met with and lifted the US sanctions against Syria. Those adversarial nations were certainly not choir boys. Plenty of blood spilled in their various wars. The Dems attitude against al-Sharaa appears contrary to the goal for promoting Middle East peace. An unwise kneejerk reaction. PS Two of your cited URL's produced this message: "Subscribe to Reuters to continue reading $1 /per week" Often the details are omitted from the first few sentences of reports, resulting in an irritating barrier, indeed. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Recall that Syria's former leader, Assad, who pushed Syria's own civil war as well as military interference in Lebanon is now gone. And the country's new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has been aligning with the peaceful mid-eastern countries, including Saudi Arabian officials. Oh, you mean this guy: Who Is Al-Sharaa? Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, is the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) which has its roots in Islamist militant group al-Qaeda. In 2017, The U.S. put a $10 million bounty on Jolani's head under its "Rewards for Justice Program" when he was a leader of the group formerly known as the Nusra Front and accused by the U.S. State Department of multiple terrorist attacks in Syria. In a 2021 PBS interview, Jolani said he was born in 1982 in Saudi Arabia and raised in Damascus's Mezzeh district. His jihadist path began in Iraq with ties to the Islamic State. He joined foreign fighters after the 2003 U.S. invasion and was jailed for a time at the US-run Camp Bucca, where he met slain ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who later encouraged him to found al-Nusra in Syria. In 2013, Jolani turned away from Baghdadi and pledged loyalty to al-Qaeda. He cut ties with that group in 2016, renaming his group Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, then HTS. Despite the break from al-Qaeda—more political than ideological—and multiple rebranding efforts, HTS remains a designated terrorist organization by the United Nations, United States, Britain and others, with Western and Arab states voicing skepticism about how far it had really changed. In a CNN interview after ousting Assad, al-Sharaa reassured religious minorities, stating that "sectarian extremism is a delusion that must be eliminated." He called for a realistic solution where "no group can cancel another," with rights protected by law. But killings of some religious minorities under Sharaa's leadership as a well as continuation of hardline Islamic rhetoric and practices among his followers have fueled concerns among minority groups. PS Sites that charge bucks should be nixed here, IMO. Try for alternatives. I'm not sure what you mean. The links I post do not have pay walls. |