Syrian Christian Leaders Condemn Missile Strike

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  SJ Green • 15 days ago

  Something else worth noting. For Christians who are on the Julian Calendar (I'm not sure which one the Greek-Melkite Catholics follow), last weekend was the start of Easter (RT network covered Orthodox divine liturgy for Holy Saturday in Moscow, where President Putin was in attendance). It's well known that the Syrian Christian community supports President Assad, and if this chemical attack was indeed ordered by him, then the timing could not have been worse - sacrilege on top of mass murder. And yet we heard nothing coming from that direction denouncing his actions at all, which leads me to believe that it didn't happen, at least not the way it's being presented. It's a false flag being used to goad the US and her western allies into war.

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    gaeliclass SJ Green • 14 days ago

    exactly .. the deep state wants Trump to crumble.... this is their tactic....

    we Christians must must must wake up and pray like never before also for Pres. Trump... he is a great \President - who has done much good- but he is being 'fooled' by those who wish 'to destroy him'// and the US.

    It is the moment to get behind the President not like cowards - who walk away when the going gets rough. Time to test our own metal folks!

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  Margaret SJ Green • 15 days ago

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  Totally agree with you. Didn't we go through the same spiel when the media was hyperventilating about Saddam Hussein in 2003? The U.S. got rid of him and then we sent thousands of soldiers (many who were wounded or killed) and spent billions in dollars in "peacekeeping efforts".

  Are we going to fall for the same lies all over again???

  Sorry, I just had to vent - nothing personal.

  On another note, the Melkite Greek Catholics in the U.S. follow the Gregorian calendar:

  https://melkite.org

  Click on "Death Could Not Hold Him".

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    SJ Green Margaret • 14 days ago

    I've also read that Syriac, a now mostly liturgical language, is a western dialect of Aramaic. These are some of the oldest Christian communities in the world, and our actions over there are preparing them for martyrdom.

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  goatally_ewesome Margaret • 15 days ago

  Yep! Do they really never learn? Or are they just pulling the same fast one all over again...and expect us to believe it? I don't know what happened there with the gassed people story...I wasn't there...something seems to have happened....but I was there during Saddam's time...and yes, some things happened...but an awful lot of it wasn't the way it was portrayed in the West. And as the article points out, there's a whole load of selective indignation going on, irrespective of what actually happened. I was never exactly a Trump fan...but I did think he was a step in the right direction in some ways...but now it just seems like plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose. It's the same - if not worse - here in the UK. It seems like the politicians and parties don't really mean anything any more...they all just seem to be puppets of some agenda that is bigger than all of them. The thing that was really a breath of fresh air with Trump, whether you like everything he did or not, was that he seemed to do what he believed in and not give a monkey's what anyone thought. He seemed prepared to swim against the tide. I am disappointed in him. So where do you Americans go from here? I guess the same way we here in the UK have gone...from worse to worser. We thought we got rid of Blair....same old same old.

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    gaeliclass goatally_ewesome • 14 days ago

    wrong... we all do what we must do.... yes Trump and May and |Macro made a massive mistake - but you must go deeper and ask who is really behind it.. ..
    Time we all carried some responsibility and stop the blame game.
    Time we all prayed night and day and got out of our comfort zones and gave a hand.
    Time to write the President forgive him and get on with building world peace..it is now or never.

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  Margaret goatally_ewesome • 15 days ago

  You were in the U.K. armed forces in 2003??? WOW.

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  On another note, the American people voted for Trump because he was a businessman, NOT a politician. After he was elected in 2016, there were almost continuous protests re the legitimacy of his election. In early 2017, he had a meeting at the White House with Henry Kissinger, all of a sudden the protests died down and then stopped. Why? Kissinger was Secretary of State to Nixon & Ford. What reason could there be for him to visit Trump?

  The same cycle has been going on since then. Imo, it proves what FDR said: "Nothing in politics happens by accident."

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    goatally_ewesome Margaret • 13 days ago

    Noooo! I wasn't in the UK armed forces. Actually it was a bit the other way round. My husband was in the Jordanian military...as well as having some business dealings with Iraq. I saw and heard the whole thing (first Iraq war not second) from the inside so to speak. A lot of things weren't the way they seemed.

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  Johnno • 15 days ago

  We've got more information out now about what was going on.

  It seems that the missile attacks were themselves a face-saving measure.

  Strikes were coordinated with Russia. Hit buildings that were largely abandoned. 3/4 of the missiles were intercepted. Not Russian, Iranian or Hezbollah facilities were targeted.

  Of the facilities destroyed, there were no reports of any gas or anything leaking out (naturally because obviously there weren't any). But it seems one chemical plant, producing treatments for cancer, was destroyed, especially bad considering that sanctions prevent medicine from coming into Syria.

  Like the previous missile attack, this one was a big load of nothing burgers, a waste of US taxpayer expense, and simply a show-boat piece of political theater.

  Trump is caught in a vice.

  If Trump does not bomb Syria, the lefties and neo-cons will call him a Russian agent.

  If Trump does break all manner of US and international law to bomb Syria, the democrats and neo-cons can use this as grounds to impeach him. Something that never occurred to them back when Barry Obama was doing likewise. But that was then, this is now.

  Either way, it's a win-win situation for the American Deep State. The close-to-retirement Pentagon chiefs don't have to be at the helm of a world war, and can also likewise beg for more military spending because of the 'threat' of Russia and Assad. The Syrians are set back and the U.S. has bought more time for its little Al Qeada forces of rebel fighters on the ground. Given the action of the UN, the US can remain confident that nobody will dare to condemn its actions, and the crazed Nikki Hayley can continue to return there and abuse the lot of them. Russia's supposed 'non-response' will be painted in the media as them having no balls to follow through, even though in reality this missile strike was coordinated between the U.S. and Russia (likely via France) to do the most minimal damage, leave Russian forces untouched, and buy some more time for Planet Earth while the Americans wave another 'Mission Accomplished' banner.

  We should be sure to send Vladimir Putin thank-you cards for helping the US and UK save face a little after their failed attempts at fake chemical attacks and falsely blame it on Russia and Syria.

  Yet somehow I think despite Trump's missile fireworks and the mainstream news saying impressive things about the US destroying Assad's supposed chemical weapons, we will expect again more claims of Assad chemical weapon attacks and that Trump is still a Russian agent for a long time to come from the same stooges.

  I suppose we can predict the US will try another attempt to escalate things when the World Cup rolls around and Putin is distracted with football season.

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    Rory Donnellan Gerry • 13 days ago

    The US and UK both brutally butcher millions of their own children. It might be a good idea to remove the major logs in their own eyes before trying to remove some very small splinter in Syria.

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  goatally_ewesome Johnno • 15 days ago

  I must admit I did wonder how they managed to bomb a chemical weapons stash without releasing vast amounts of lethal chemicals into the air and doing more harm than good.

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    Henry Ptak goatally_ewesome • 14 days ago

    Maybe we can bomb ourselves in retaliation next time - for the sake of the "innocent women and children", of course.

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  Hilary White • 15 days ago

  And after this one term? What then. Hillary is unelectable. It's like wondering where do we go from Francis.

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    Remnant Moderator . Hilary White • 15 days ago

    The parallels are sobering.

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    Henry Ptak Remnant Moderator • 14 days ago

    Or enough to drive you to drink.

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  Mark • 15 days ago

  I thought you all liked Trump. Surprised to see such a change in attitude.

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    Remnant Moderator . Mark • 15 days ago

    Would you consider us a newspaper of integrity if we demonstrated a willingness to defend that which is wrong, merely because we happen to like the guy who did it? When he makes a serious mistake like this, pushback from those who supported Trump goes a lot farther than that from those who did not.

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  DMill • 15 days ago

  I am not sorry for having voted for Trump. Thank God he won, and not Hillary the Broomstick Pilot. But in my opinion this was a bad decision; I say this because of my distrust of the "intelligence" that the strikes were based on, and the fact that Assad is fighting against factions that are our enemies, except when they are fighting against Assad, who also just happens to be protecting our Christian brothers and sisters from those same factions that the U.S. is helping--except when we are fighting them in other countries.
  Now, please join me in putting on our tin-foil hats for just a moment to ponder another "out there" idea: back in 2016 Putin was reported to have kicked the Rothchild bankers out of Russia and forbade their readmittance into the country (if this assertion is in error please correct me), and it seems that this action coincides with a heightened "it's all because of Russia" theme that is becoming more shrill by the month. So, my question is, is there a relationship here between the booting of the Rothchilds and the increased tension between the West and Russia along with its ally Syria--that is, could the Rothchilds be seeking their revenge by puppeteering the massively indebted West?
  Yes, I know, this sounds like a topic for the late Art Bell's show, but don't misunderstand me, I am not a cheerleader for Putin or Assad (beyond his being the only buffer between the islamist rebels and our fellow Christians in Syria), but I think that there are just too many things regarding this tangled Syria narrative that we are hearing that don't hold together as it is being presented. It seems that other, less savory motives may be involved.
  Are there any informed thoughts out there in Remnant Land on this?

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    Margaret DMill • 14 days ago

    Please see my reply to goatally_awesome on this thread.

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    DMill Margaret • 13 days ago

    Hello Margaret. I just read your reply to goatally: very perceptive on your part regarding the Kissinger visit. I don't know if that means that necessarily means that the Globies, via Kissinger, presented Trump with a Luciferian bargain or not, but such a thing cannot be ruled out. If so, I hope Trump is smart enough to know that no matter how good a deal the evil ones give you, you lose/they win. I think Putin has already figured that out.

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    DMill Henry Ptak • 14 days ago

    You can bet your last Federal Reserve Note that any trust that I may put in "princes" is limited and tentative at best, and the only "side" that those three entities that you mentioned is the side of gathering power unto themselves. But of those three, I don't believe that Putin is at all interested in the destruction Christianity, though he does have strong bias for Orthodoxy over Catholicism, and I certainly don't think that he is a part of the NWO/ Globalist schemers as are the other two that you mentioned, whom I believe are the embodiment of the NWO/Globalists as well as instruments of Beelzebub.
    The angle that I am trying sort out is if we are seeing a thinly camouflaged effort by the One Worlders to get some payback for Putin's breaking a window in the new Tower of Babel that they are trying build. I don't know if it is so, but I think I smell something funny here.
    As far as who never has to do the "perp walk:" it's always the leftists. Just ask Scooter Libby.
    Thanks for your reply.

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  Bud Brota DMill • 15 days ago

   

  

  There is also the issue of Syria's status as a central bank outside of Rothschild control: one of but a handful of such nations.

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    DMill Bud Brota • 14 days ago

    As far as I could find, only Cuba, North Korea, and Iran are Rothschild-free in their central banks as of summer of last year. I do not know how reliable any of this is though, because it looks like all the websites regarding this use the same source. Whatever that source is, it does not seem to take into account other sources that indicate that Russia is now also sans the Rothschilds since 2016.

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    mattheus • 14 days ago

    I've read that every Christian in Syria supports Assad. There's no way to scientifically verify that, I suppose, but the alternatives are certainly unpleasant.