31 March 2025, 2 Nissan, 5785.
Contents:
1. Video. The importance of Greenland.
2. 10 EUROPEAN Countries Will Collapse SOON! (2025)!
3. UK PM Keith Starmer has partly Jewish immediate family.
4. 'A DESERT OF SKELETONS': Syria's Islamic Regime's Brutal, Mass Slaughter of Religious Minorities Rages As World Ignores.
5. 'Do Not Leave Any Alive'
Sunnis vs. Alawites in Syria by Daniel Pipes.
6. Who are the Alawites? Are they Samaritans? by Yair Davidiy.
7. What Will Happen to Assad's Secret Drug Empire?
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1. Video. The importance of Greenland.
Trump & Greenland Drop BAD NEWS on China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryxb2kxOofg
Very good short illustrated examination concerning the importance of Greenland.
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2. 10 EUROPEAN Countries Will Collapse SOON! (2025)!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UV9kL2V8KE
1. The United Kingdom
2. The Netherlands
3. Hungary
4. Greece
5. Spain
6. Ukraine
7. Poland
8. Italy
9. France
10. Germany
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3. UK PM Keith Starmer has partly Jewish immediate family.
\'Every week there's a challah and we say kiddush': Keir Starmer opens up about Jewish side of family
By Erez Linn
https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/06/22/every-week-theres-a-challah-and-we-say-kiddush-keir-starmer-opens-up-about-jewish-side-of-family/
He described how he and his wife Victoria, who works in occupational health in the NHS, occasionally attend a liberal synagogue and maintain Jewish traditions at home.
"Pretty much every week there's a challah and we say kiddush with Bernard, or sometimes with Victoria's sister on Zoom," Starmer said, referring to his father-in-law. He emphasized the importance of their Jewish heritage, especially for their children. "We're very keen for the children to know about it, to understand it. Half of the family are Jewish, they're either here or in Israel."
However, when asked about his children's religious identity, Starmer was cautious. "No, no, they're not Jewish for reasons I won't bore you with. Bernard's dad's family didn't accept that," he explained, waving off further discussion on the topic.
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4. 'A DESERT OF SKELETONS': Syria's Islamic Regime's Brutal, Mass Slaughter of Religious Minorities Rages As World Ignores
By Pamela Geller
https://gellerreport.com/2025/03/a-desert-of-skeletons-syrias-islamic-regimes-brutal-mass-slaughter-of-religious-minorities-rages-as-world-ignores.html/?lctg=1873044
Extract:
The Alawite people of Syria are facing systematic genocide. Since the collapse of the Syrian government, massacres, arbitrary killings, and mass arrests have continued unabated. Tens of thousands of Alawites have been detained, while countless others have perished in unspeakable atrocities. Daily, our communities endure kidnappings, extrajudicial executions, and the ruthless targeting of Alawite civilians. Public sector employees are purged solely for their faith; homes are looted and burned; foreign extremist jihadist factions now occupy Syria's coastal heartlands and other Alawite-majority regions, escalating ethnic and sectarian cleansing.
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5. 'Do Not Leave Any Alive'
Sunnis vs. Alawites in Syria
https://www.danielpipes.org/22536/sunnis-vs-alawites-in-syria?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign
by Daniel Pipes
March 22, 2025
Extracts:
While Alawites constitute but a small religious community in Syria, perhaps 10 per cent of the country's 15 million resident population, they suffer from a unique prominence and vulnerability.
Through a millennium, they stood out as Syria's most isolated, impoverished, despised and oppressed ethnicity. Only when generals from their community seized power in Damascus in 1966 did the power balance change.
But the ruthless domination of Syria by Alawites for the next 58 years caused the country's majority Sunni Muslim population in 2011 to rebel, leading to a full-scale civil war that ended in December 2024 when Sunnis overthrew Alawite rule and returned to power.
ni desire for retribution. To understand its sources and implications requires a look at the past.
As is well known, Islam claims to be the final religion; accordingly, Sunnis and Shi'ites alike historically reviled Alawism, a new and distinct religion that emerged from Shia Islam in the ninth century. They looked upon Alawites as apostates. A 19th-century Sunni sheik, Ibrahim al-Maghribi, decreed that Muslims might freely take Alawite property and lives, and a British traveller records being told: "These Ansayrii, it is better to kill one than to pray a whole day."
Frequently persecuted and sometimes massacred during the past two centuries, Alawites insulated themselves geographically from the outside world by staying within their highlands. A leading Alawite sheik called his people "among the poorest of the East". Anglican missionary Samuel Lyde found the state of their society "a perfect hell upon earth".
After Syria's independence from French rule in 1946, Alawites initially resisted central government control but reconciled to Syrian citizenship by 1954 and, taking advantage of their over-representation in the army, began their political ascent.
Alawites had a major role in the Baath coup of 1963 and took many key positions while purging Sunni competitors. These developments culminated in a group of mainly Alawite Baathist military officers seizing power in 1966. In the final drama, two Alawite generals, Salah Jadid and Hafez al-Assad, battled for supremacy, a rivalry that ended when Assad prevailed in 1970.
Until the outbreak of civil war in 2011, Sunnis made up about 70 per cent of Syria's population; beyond numbers, they historically ruled the region, which translated into an easy assumption that they should enjoy the perquisites of power. After 1970, however, they served mostly as window-dressing; in the pithy words of an army veteran, "An Alawite captain has more say than a Sunni general."
The assertion of Alawite power in 1966 provoked the Sunnis' religious apprehensions. Their grievances festered as they suffered domination by a people they considered inferior, as they perceived discrimination in aspects of life (such as Sunni households paying four times more than Alawites for electricity), as they lived with the memory of the 1982 Hama massacre and other brutal assaults, and as they resented the socialism that reduced their wealth, the indignities against Islam, and a perceived co-operation with Maronites and Israelis.
A vicious circle set in. As Sunnis became increasingly alienated, Alawites depended ever more on Alawite rule. As the regime took on an increasingly Alawite cast, Sunni discontent deepened.
When the regional Islamist rebellion of 2011 reached Syria, it began a hideous 14-year, mainly Sunni insurrection against Bashar al-Assad's government that generated an estimated 7.5 million internally displaced people and 5.2 million external refugees, and led to some 620,000 deaths.
Domestically, the regime relied increasingly on its Alawite base. News service Reuters recounts how Bashar "sent army and secret police units dominated by [Alawite] officers ... into mainly Sunni urban centers to crush demonstrations calling for his removal".
Then came the stunning events of early December 2024, when the Sunni Islamist forces of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham under the leadership of Ahmed al-Sharaa, along with allies, swept rapidly through Syria and seized Damascus, and Assad fled to Russia.
During the first three months of the new regime there was some Sunni retribution against Alawites, but it was limited and not organised: firings from jobs, vigilantism and small-scale violence. In late January 2025, Syrian journalist Ammar Dayoub documented acts "from directing sectarian curses at Alawites and Shi'ites to gathering the men in the squares and flogging them, smashing furniture in people's homes, stealing gold and silver and acts of violence against women".
In response, Dayoub explains, the regime "did not acknowledge these violations [but] blamed individuals or small local factions". Further, the Middle East Media Research Institute reports, "It also refrained from publishing the names of those responsible, thus preventing the families of the victims from taking legal action against them." This led to the establishment of Alawite "resistance groups" that the regime promptly vilified as "Assad loyalists".
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6. Who are the Alawites? Are they Samaritans? by Yair Davidiy.
The Alawites as a whole do not have any religion. nominally they are now Muslims but this is only recent, within the last 50 years or so, and not acknowledged by most oother Muslims.
They are described on a day-to-day basis as not believing in anything specific but following the directions of their elders who keep the religion secret from all but themselves.
Extracts adapted from "Ephraim," by Yair Davidiy editions 1 (1995) and 2.(1996)
THE MOSLEM CONNECTION
The Moslem Holy Book, the Koran (Sour xxi, 87) confuses between Joshua and Miriam (sister of Moses) and Jesus (Joshua) son of Mary. This confusion may be simply a mistake due to the similarity of names. It may alternately be yet another echo of the pre-Christian Samaritan adoration of Joshua ben Nun that may have influenced some early forms of Christianity. Mahommed founded Islam. After the death of Mahommed his followers struggled over the succession and Ali, his son in law, was killed. Ali had been almost deified even in his own lifetime by a certain Saba who was of Jewish or Samaritan extraction. Before becoming a Moslem, Saba had headed a sect that worshipped Joshua ben Nun. The disciples of Ali (of whom Saba was one) became the Shiite Moslems some of whose fringe groups regarded Ali as the incarnation of God. In addition, certain already existing pre-Moslem religious sects to a degree assimilated with Shiite Moslem doctrines. They adapted veneration for Ali to their own notions and practices. One of these sects was that of the Nusairis also known as Alawites.
THE NOSAIRIS
Pliny (N.H. 5;81) spoke of the region Nazerini on the Upper Orontes in northern Syria (Apamea) near Antiochea. This had been a Phoenician area where the god Adonis (Tammuz) was worshipped under the name of "El Elioun". This name is of Hebrew origin. It is the same as 'El Elyon' and in Hebrew means 'God Almighty'. The pagans had taken the name and applied it to their own god. The Nosairis (Alawites) emerged from the Nazerini area. The moon worshipping pagans of nearby Harran influenced the religion of the Nosairis. The Nosairis are also known as, or include, Alawites and Ansaries. Some authorities trace the Nosairi-Ansaries back to the original Canaanite inhabitants of the area. The Nosairis claim an association with John the Baptist and to be descended from Israel. They are called Galileans by the Arabs and make Samaria (i.e. the past capital of northern Israel) an important center. This suggests Samaritan origins. Epiphanios (Adversus Aereses 1;18) spoke of the "Nasaraioi" east of the Jordan in Gilead and Batanea (Bashan). These Nasaraioi (i.e. Nazarenes) were a pre-Christian Jewish sect who rejected the Torah but observed most Jewish customs. They are probably linked to the later Nosairis who had the notion of having been in that general area. The Nosairis, at least in part, have Samaritan origins. They worship a trinity composed of Mohammed, Salman (?), and Ali.
Ethnically they represent different groups who have adopted the same teaching.
Alawites (i.e. Nosairia) are found all over the Middle East and comprise ca. 10% of the Syrian population. One of their members, Hafiz Al Assad ruled Syria from 1970 onwards. This man massacred tens of thousands of his fellow Syrians and tried to destroy the State of Israel. He ruled with the help of his own sect which having formerly been held in contempt had risen to power through co-operation with the French during their occupation of the Syrian area. Under Assad, Syria took effective control over most of Lebanon and overlooked the production of heroin. Twenty-per cent of the heroin sold to the U.S.A. was under Assad's control (Loftus and Aarons, 1994, p.382.).
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7. What Will Happen to Assad's Secret Drug Empire?
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/16/syria-captagon-assad-hts-drug-trade/
The ousted Syrian regime financed its war machine by producing and trafficking Captagon.
Extracts:
Since the late 2010s, Assad's regime had been involved in the production and trafficking of Captagon, an amphetamine-type stimulant. The drug trade provided Damascus with a crucial financial lifeline during the Syrian civil war, undermining the effects of international sanctions. The regime orchestrated the trade through its security agencies and branches, including the Fourth Armored Division and Air Force Intelligence Directorate, as well as via Assad family members and elite business associates.
Regime cronies in agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and industry helped manufacture, package, and conceal pills with licit goods, while security agencies facilitated transport and immunity from law enforcement.
The regime leveraged the threat of flooding its neighbors' borders with illicit drugs and engaging in kinetic smuggling incidents with border guards to resist demands related to human rights abuses.