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Ryuu96 on 10 December 2024
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SvennoJ said:

UK’s Lammy defends Israel’s strikes on Syria

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has defended Israel’s extensive bombing of Syria by saying Israel had “legitimate” concerns.

“It’s right to understand that Israel has legitimate security concerns in a country that’s housed ISIS [ISIL] and al-Qaeda,” Lammy said in response to a parliamentary question by MP Brendan O’Hara, adding that he had spoken to his Israeli counterpart.

“It’s for all of those reasons that we want an inclusive society that supports everyone, but none of us can have truck with terrorist groups,” he said.

He's talking shit, HTS are enemies of both ISIS and Al-Qaeda, all the locations Israel have struck have been locations nowhere near ISIS cells which are largely in the South of Syria and desert area, Israel has almost entirely struck in West Syria at former Assad forces bases, airfields, etc. Nothing to do with ISIS and Al-Qaeda, Israel is just bombing the shit out of largely abandoned storage facilities because they don't trust HTS with them or they want to make it harder for HTS to fight back when they inevitably ask for their stolen land back.

The only ones fighting ISIS right now are the SDF and America because they're too far away from HTS to even pose a problem, if they were close enough, HTS would kill them. Now that doesn't mean there's no bad factions near Israel because there's dozens but all Israel has said is "armed individuals" and they've used that as an excuse to now steal more Syrian land and extend the buffer zone when they could have instead worked with a clearly desperate for allies, HTS and said "Hey, there's some assholes coming across our border, can we sort them out together?"