US calls Israel’s bombing of Syria a ‘misunderstanding between new neighbours’
Throughout the course of the day, the State Department has been characterising this conflict as a misunderstanding. The spokesperson for the State Department, Tammy Bruce, said, “It’s a misunderstanding between new neighbours”.
The secretary of state has been in touch with all parties from both the Israeli and the Syrian side, and he has now taken to social media announcing that the conflict may be nearing an end.
So the US secretary of state is apparently convinced that an end to this splurge of conflict is now in sight. It is now, he says, up to the parties involved to make good on whatever commitments they have made to the United States and, perhaps, to each other.
Bomb first, talk later kinda thing... Oh it was just a misunderstanding is no excuse to bombing another country...
Syrian president says he will stop Druze being dragged into hands of ‘external party’
Earlier, we reported that interim President al-Sharaa gave a televised address to the nation, saying Syria would overcome attempts by Israel to tear the country apart.
During that speech, al-Sharaa also said that protecting the Druze citizens and their rights is “our priority”.
Addressing Syria’s Druze citizens, al-Sharaa said, “We reject any attempt to drag you into the hands of an external party”.
“We are not among those who fear the war. We have spent our lives facing challenges and defending our people, but we have put the interests of the Syrians before chaos and destruction,” he said.
Syrian leader’s speech marks ‘significant departure’ in tone towards Israel: Analyst
Mohamad Elmasry, professor of media studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, said the televised speech by Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa contained a note of warning to Israel that while the country does not want a war, “anyone who starts a war with Syria … would regret it”.
“He said it’s easy to start a war. But it’s not easy to control the end results of a war,” Elmasry told Al Jazeera.
“So these were messages directed at Israel, and it marked a very significant departure from what we’ve heard from him and at times not heard from him when Israel has attacked Syria,” Elmasry said.
“I think we’re at a potentially dangerous tipping point and it really will come down to, I think, the extent to which Donald Trump and the United States are willing to kind of rein in Israel,” he said.
Israel under Netanyahu only knows how to make more enemies.
