Jerusalem News (6 October 2015, 23 Tishrei, 5776)
Contents:
1. Russia's War Plan in Syria by Dr Igor Sutyagin.
2. Chaos descends in Germany: Forwarded by Lorraine Harvey
3. Terror in Jerusalem: An Arab Terrorists Killed her Husband, Seriously Injured her and her Baby and then Arab Bystanders Slapped Her and Spat in Her Face!
'I yelled for help and they spat at me,' says victim of Jerusalem attack
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1. Russia's War Plan in Syria
RUSI Analysis, 2 Oct 2015
By Dr Igor Sutyagin, Senior Research Fellow, Russian Studies
https://www.rusi.org/analysis/commentary/ref:C560E9A3D1FCD8/#.VhL-Pf_ouM-
Extracts:
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As the pattern of Russian air strikes on Syria becomes clear, we can now discern Putin's campaign plan.
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The third day of Russian air strikes in Syria finally offers some clarity about the possible war plan the Kremlin may have for its Syrian campaign.
Some pieces of the jigsaw now seem to fit together:
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-President Vladimir Putin of Russia announced that the military operation in Syria will not last for long as it has limited objectives; Russia will withdraw its forces, Â or a major share of them, as soon as those objectives are achieved.
-Eighty per cent of Russian targets so far are associated not with Daesh (ISIL), but with other armed opposition groups fighting against the Syrian regime.
-President Putin publicly stated that Russia would never join the US-led coalition in Syria.
-Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia had promised to fight all terrorist groups in Syria, not only Daesh. All groups fighting against Bashar al-Assad's regime, such as the Free Syrian Army, Jabhat al-Nusra and Daesh, are terrorists according to Damascus policy.
-Iranian troops have started arriving to Syria en masse.
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Taken together, these produce a clear picture. There are solid reasons to argue that the supposed 'War Plan Syria' agreed during the talks between Russian and Iranian commands in Moscow in August, and later with the Syrian regime itself, involves a trilateral offensive of joint Syrian-Iranian land forces along with the air support provided by Russia. The strategic objective is to secure an Alawite 'safe zone' on the territory of 'useful Syria' , Â the densely populated Western part of the country where the major share of Syrian industry and agriculture is concentrated, Â leaving the eastern, desert part of the country to Daesh. As Alawites constitute approximately 12 per cent of Syrian population, and the rest of the country is at the very least moderately critical of the Assad regime, control of the whole country is politically impossible and perhaps not even considered necessary for Damascus any more.
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The obvious immediate operational goals of the offensive include defeat and dispersal of the armed opposition groups in the northern and northeastern parts of Syria, as well as extermination of the opposition-controlled enclaves in the central part of regime-controlled zone between Homs and Hama, Â four in five Russian air strikes are concentrated in precisely those two areas. Re-establishing Damascus's control over the territory currently controlled by Kurds is not the part of the plan as there is no Russian activity in that zone. Securing the eastern border of regime-controlled territory is also a task: the approximately 20 per cent of air strikes devoted to targets in the narrow sector around Palmyra, Â the only area where Daesh forces immediately contact with regime troops, Â indicate this. Taking into account the narrow area of contact between Daesh and regime forces, one can conclude that fighting the jihadist group is only a secondary task of the Syrian-Russian-Iranian coalition. Other nationalist and Islamist armed opposition seem to be the major targets of Russian strikes; Daesh forces serve as a secondary target, and a way to legitimate Russia-s actions.
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After re-establishing control over the northern/north-eastern part of Syria currently lost to the armed opposition, Moscow and Tehran will hand over responsibility to Damascus. Moscow will withdraw the majority of its forces (most probably securing the Khmeimim air base near Latakia, where Russian air strikes originate now, for use in the future). The immediate implication of such the plan for the West and Arab countries is this: while the West bears moral responsibility for the fate of the Syrian moderate opposition against Assad, it is doomed to sit idle and watch them be hit by Russian bombs. The Kremlin's quite correct calculation was that the West would be unwilling to use the only tool, military power, Â capable of immediately stopping Russian operations targeting groups the West supports; Russia would be able to achieve its goals unopposed. In this sense, the Syria campaign is the next step in development of Russia's modus operandi after Eastern Ukraine, thus marking the general direction of Russian policy in disputed areas around the globe in the future.
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The feeling is rapidly spreading among the Western-backed armed opposition that they have been betrayed by their supporters: to them, it looks like the West has secretly made the deal with Russia and washed its hands, letting Russian and Syrian forces methodically destroy them.
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 2. Chaos descends in Germany:
Forwarded by Lorraine Harvey
<ljoy7@bigpond.com>
Germany. Chaos Descends.
Sunday, September 27, 2015 22:00
This is from a retired RAF officer who served in the sixties and is now working and living in Germany.
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Dear Friends,
Europe is now in total chaos and I think that you should know about it.
I have waited a week or so to see how things will develop and to glean more information before presenting the facts.
As you may know from the media, the flood of refugees cum economic immigrants into Europe has reached ridiculous proportions and to the extent that Hungary and other Balkan states have closed their borders and Turkey is considering doing the same.
Angela Merkel in an ill advised speech to the Bunderstag, welcomed all refugees to Germany and the floodgates opened and, in my view, this was all pre-planned beginning with the Pope's appeal last year for Islam to move closer to Christianity. This was then followed up via the Italian Goverment instructing the Italian Navy to rescue all boat refugees and bring them to Italy.
As a result, it seems that some 8000 people per day are now entering Europe via various routes. Most of these are young males between 17 and 25. The result is chaos as you can imagine.
Here in Saarland we have been overwhelmed with refugees mainly young males but some families. In Lebach, some 10 kilometres from here, a camp for 200 was set up and a further 100 added this last week. The politicians, local government and religious leaders have fallen over themselves to bring them in and cater for them.
And so what is the result? In Ventimiglia near Monte Carlo, the refugees banded together ( organised by smart phone) and over ran the market and stole or destroyed everything and ransacked the town.
Here in Lebach, a group entered a supermarket and took what they wanted and destroyed the rest. When the Manageress confronted them, they called up their friends and smashed the place to bits. The police arrived but were overwhelmed. The supermarket is now closed.
Yesterday, my friends rang from Weissenfels near Leipzig since two supermarkets and a Kaufland store in Halle suffered the same way. More news is coming in from all over Germany of the same situations.
The media report none of this.
Many people have demonstrated against being over run by immigrants. In Weissenfels, families were thrown out of an eight flat appartment block and 70 refugees moved in. Small towns of some 2000 to 3000 people are over run by some 5000 to 6000 refugees.
Much civil unrest is apparent and is just boiling under the surface. Europe is in chaos and the do gooders have totally lost control of the situation. Islam has overwhelmed us.
For the Syrian and Afghan refugees, I have every sympathy and they need help. They should get it. But for the rest, in my view, the state authorities must be firm and send them back. Perhaps it is too late.
Anyway, I thought that you should know that the situation here is pretty grim and I fail to see how it can be resolved. I can only forsee a police state.
Best regards
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3. Terror in Jerusalem: An Arab Terrorists Killed her Husband, Seriously Injured her and her Baby and then Arab Bystanders Slapped Her and Spat in Her Face!
'I yelled for help and they spat at me,' says victim of Jerusalem attack
http://www.timesofisrael.com/i-yelled-for-help-and-they-spit-at-me-says-victim-of-jerusalem-attack/
BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF October 4, 2015,
Adele Banita, one of the victims of Saturday night's terror attack in Jerusalem Old City, gave a harrowing account of how the deadly stabbing assault unfolded and how her cries for help were ignored as her husband lay fatally wounded on the floor and she herself was stabbed.
"I yelled, "please help me!' and they just spat at me," said Banita of the surrounding Palestinian shopkeepers whom she said looked on and did nothing as Palestinian terrorist Muhannad Halabi attacked her and her family in an alleyway near Lion's Gate in the Old City.
The Banitas' two-year-old son was also lightly injured in the attack. Their infant girl was unharmed.
Banita was taken in serious condition to Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem where she underwent emergency surgery overnight Saturday-Sunday. She regained consciousness on Sunday. Her husband died of his wounds at Shaare Zedek Hospital shortly after the attack.
'When we got back from the Western Wall, we felt that something wasn't right,' she told Ynet from her hospital bed Sunday.
'We started walking fast but the terrorist emerged from one of the stores and lunged at us and started stabbing my husband. My husband is a strong man and started fighting him, he punched him in the face. At that point, the terrorist started stabbing me. Then he went back to my husband and stabbed him again and again. I also fought him, I tried to take away the knife, but I failed,' she recounted.
The victims of the fatal stabbing attack in Jerusalem on Saturday October 3, 2015 were named as Nehemia Lavi, 41Â from Jerusalem, and Aharon Banita, 22Â from Beitar Illit. (Courtesy)
Banita said Palestinian youths who saw the attack laughed and cursed at her as she yelled for help.
She said that one of them slapped her and another laughed in her face and told her to 'drop dead' when she told him she'd give him a million shekels if he helped her get away with her two babies.
'They saw that we were with two baby carriages,' she said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan visit Adele Banita, whose husband Aharon was stabbed to death in a terror attack in Jerusalem's Old City on October 3, 2015, at Hadassah EIn Kerem hospital in Jerusalem on October 5, 2015. (Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO)
Banita, Â stabbed, bleeding and losing consciousness fast, said she used her last ounces of energy to run toward security forces for help.
"'I said 'I'm hurt, my husband is stabbed and my two babies are there alone,' then I lost consciousness," she said.
Nehemia Lavi, 41, an Old City resident who heard the screams, came to help and he too was stabbed and killed by the terrorist.
Friends and family carry the body of Aharon Banita during his funeral at Har HaMenuhot Cemetery in Jerusalem on October 4, 2015. Banita was stabbed to death by a Palestinian youth in a terror attack in the Old City, October 3. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The terrorist was shot dead by security forces at the scene.
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