KARIM SHAMI—In broad terms, Qatar remains aligned with the western camp, to which NATO ally Turkiye also leans. Despite its vast media empire openly championing the Palestinian cause and its steadfast opposition to normalization without Palestinian statehood, Qatar’s support is still constrained and falls short of its full potential.
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EDITOR—President al-Assad: Gaza has never just been a cause… Palestine is the Cause, and Gaza is the embodiment of its essence. Assad, like many Arabs, sees Gaza as a symbol of Arab oppression by the combined West, which naturally includes their enclave in the Middle East, Israel.
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PROLETARIAN TV—Xi Jinping and Bashar al-Assad meet to announce a strategic partnership with Xi noting that the establishment of the strategic partnership will be an important milestone in the history of bilateral ties. This marks a huge shakeup in the current situation in the middle east and brings the Syrian people much closer to an end to a war foisted on them by the imperialists and their proxies. The days of the US rampaging across the globe are ending.
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EMIL COSMAN—The main issue—irrefutable—is that the US has NO right to be occupying one-third of Syrian territory, nor claiming the right to conduct military missions under any pretext whatsoever. Russia, on the other hand, is in Syria legally, by invitation of the Assad government, a government the US and its cronies in NATO and the Gulf have tried for more than a decade to topple using mostly terrorist proxies.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Fullerton’s thread has gained a lot of traction because it has been amplified by Olga Lautman, a Senior Fellow at the imperialist think tank Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) with a large following. CEPA’s donor list includes the US State Department, the CIA cutout National Endowment for Democracy, and the weapons manufacturers Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, and General Atomics. Fullerton uses the phrase “crisis actors” to evoke the image most people have of that term and what it means: conspiracy theories about actors pretending to have been wounded or otherwise involved in a false flag mass shooting or bombing incident, particularly Alex Jones’s infamous claims about Sandy Hook victims.
