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The Syrian regime has chosen Ahmad al-Hayis (Abu Hatim Shakra) a brutal misogynist mass murderer of women and Kurds, as head of the Army Division tasked with taking over the Rojava Autonomous Area (DAANES)
WORLD-Middle EastWOMANThe decision by Damascus to appoint the killer of Hevrin Khalaf as the leader of a military division has sparked widespread condemnation and rejection, with growing calls for justice and accountability for crimes against women.
The appointment of Turkish paid mercenary Hatim Abu Shakra, responsible for the assassination of Future Syria Party Secretary-General Hevrin Khalaf, as the head of Division 86 has ignited a storm of anger, particularly among women, activists, and journalists. Many are demanding that he be held accountable rather than rewarded with a promotion.
The Syrian interim government has appointed Ahmad al-Hayis, known as Abu Hatim Shakra, a former commander of the Ahrar al-Sharqiya faction, as head of the newly formed 86th Division, tasked with securing the provinces of al-Hasakah, Raqqa, and Deir Ezzor.
The decision, issued by interim Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra, also grants al-Hayis the rank of brigadier general in what is being called the “new Syrian army.”
“In response to this murder and other documented abuses, the US Treasury Department sanctioned Ahrar al-Shakra in 2021, citing extrajudicial killings and gross human rights violations… The group’s connections to the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) were also underscored in the sanction’s announcement, which named al-Shakra as a central figure in facilitating abuses and maintaining extremist ties”.
Abu Shakra, whose real name is Ahmad Ihsan Fayadh Al-Hayes, is a leader of the “Ahrar al-Sharqiya” mercenaries. He was involved in the brutal assassination of Hevrin Khalaf and her driver Farhad Ramadan in October 2019, a crime that drew widespread international condemnation at the time.
The appointment of Abu Shakra to dismantle the Rojava Democratic Social Revolution destroys any hope that the radical concessions made to the ‘interim’ ex Al Qaeda regime would allow the mainly Kurdish DAANES area to maintain its horizontal multi-ethnic community based economy, and especially its unique and inspiring women’s revolution.
With the hope of being part of national reconciliation the leadership of the DAANES administration agreed to integrate their multi ethnic 100k strong SDF defense forces into the ‘new Syrian Army’ now commanded by ex Al Qaeda war criminals who are now committing ongoing massacres with total impunity against the Alawite, Druze, other minorities and ex Assad era officials, as well as eliminating women’s rights.
With the hope of finding a place in a ‘New Syria’ and escaping annihilation by the genocidal Turkish offensives (as the US coalition forces pull out) Rojava even agreed to cede control of their Iraqi border to the new Damascus regime, thus totally isolating themselves, as well as control of the limited oil deposits….
The appointment of Abu Shakra, a proven mercenary, murderer, rapist and ethnic cleanser as ‘commander’ of their homeland, ‘tasked with ‘securing’ the provinces of al-Hasakah, Raqqa, and Deir Ezzor’, makes these concessions in hindsight appear naive and suicidal”.
Feminist and international condemnation
In an early response, Roxan Muhammad, spokesperson for the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), strongly condemned the decision, describing it as “a legitimization of impunity and an endorsement of violence against women and indigenous peoples.” In a post on X (formerly Twitter), she stated: “We will continue our struggle until justice is served.”
Despite the US Blitz on Yemen the Houthis have launched new Hypersonic missiles which evaded the Israelí and US ‘State of the ‘ defences to close Ben Gurion Airport, killing nobody.
Ansarallah now claims it can permanently blockade Israel from the air, smashing its economy, unless it starts a new Ceasefire to stop its depraved Gaza Genocide.
Until now the Houthi’s missiles ‘only’ reached a reported 6 times the speed of sound (Russian ones can go up to 3 times as fast).
But It was only a matter of time until their brilliant engineers increased the speed to make them truly unstoppable.
If the ‘Houthi heroes’ can really mass produce top class Hypersonics in their underground factories they will likely also close down the main Israeli port of Haifa, which Hezbollah should have done when they had the chance.
But the greatest most shocking consequence is that if the Ansarallah Revolution has a full Hypersonic weapon it could spell the historic end of the Aircraft Carrier as a main enforcer of the US Empire.
Ever since Russia deployed its range of Hypersonic missiles arms commentators have agreed that the US Carrier groups, and there are currently two trying to stop the Houthis, are nothing more than sitting ducks.
The two US Carrier naval groupings in the Red Sea, the USS Harry Truman and the USS Carl Vinson, are trying in vain to stop the Houthis naval blockade, which is protesting the Gaza Genocide, by a massive ongoing 24/7 bombing campaign killing hundreds of Houthi civilians
Just this week a US Carrier lost a $ 300m jet which “fell overboard” during emergency manouvers to avoid Houthi missiles”.
But tonight the US Navy may well be finally seeking Trump’s permission to flee the Red Sea, under any invented excuse.
❗️ The humanitarian organization ‘Gaza Freedom Flotilla’ announced that about six hours ago, one of its ships was attacked twice by Israeli drones while it was in international waters near Malta.
❗️Israel Attacked Flotilla Carrying Aid For Gaza (Video)
A ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists bound for the Gaza Strip was attacked by drones while in international waters off the coast of Malta over the night of May 1 and 2, The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, a pro-Palestinian activist group, said.
“The drone strike appears to have deliberately targeted the ship’s generator, leaving the crew without power and placing the vessel at great risk of sinking,” the group said.
Israel remained silent. However, Yedioth Ahronoth military correspondent Yossi Yehoshua hinted that the country was indeed behind the attack.
L’organizzazione umanitaria ‘Gaza Freedom Flotilla’ ha annunciato che circa sei ore fa, una delle sue navi è stata attaccata due volte da droni israeliani mentre si trovava in acque internazionali vicino a Malta.
Si annuncia che a bordo ci siano 30 operatori umanitari.
Questa è la seconda volta dallo scoppio della guerra a Gaza che Israele sabota i piani dell’organizzazione umanitaria di consegnare gli aiuti; la prima volta è avvenuta nell’aprile 2024, ed è la quinta volta in assoluto.
It is announced that there are 30 humanitarian workers on board.
This is the second time since the outbreak of the war in Gaza that Israel has sabotaged the humanitarian organization’s plans to deliver aid; the first time was in April 2024, and it is the fifth time overall.
The Irish band Kneecap sparked controversy again after condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza during a recent California concert. Critics piled on, using video footage to accuse them of inciting violence against Tory politicians and supporting Hamas and Hezbollah. The band apologized for past remarks taken out of context, while highlighting Western hypocrisy amid ongoing US-backed […]
Vaccines are NEVER supposed to increase all-cause mortality. They are always supposed to decrease it.
A 36% mortality rate increase over the Florida population for those getting Pfizer is MEDICAL DISASTER. If we extrapolate the Florida results to the full US, it means that Pfizer alone likely was responsible for the death of over 470,000 Americans.
Clearly, the CDC has proven that it has COMPLETELY INADEQUATE SAFETY MONITORING in place. The Pfizer vaccine has been killing people for over 4 years now, yet the CDC hasn’t found a single death from any mRNA vaccine.
Both vaccines failed to show a mortality benefit in their randomized trials which is the “gold standard” of scientific evidence.
One of the best independent studies on COVID vaccine safety was done by Andre Redert. He looked at 30 EU countries where data was available. He found that even if the COVID shots were 100% perfect in preventing deaths, that the shots would still kill more people than they saved. His fatality numbers were nearly an exact match to the fatality numbers in the Florida study. Different methods, same result. A stunning affirmation of both studies.
After the COVID vaccines rolled out, if they worked, there would be a “discontinuity” in the slope of the cumulative COVID deaths. There was no slope discontinuity in any country until the variants got so weak by nature that people stopped dying. It wasn’t the vaccine at all.
To have a mortality benefit, which is the most important factor with so many COVID deaths, a vaccine must either (1) reduce the case fatality rate (CFR) or (2) the risk of infections or both.
These vaccines did neither.
After the vaccines rolled out in the US during alpha, the CFR remained flat during the rollout period when it should have plummeted. Similarly, the impact on cases was negligible.
In the Czech Republic, even though they rolled out vaccines in stages to the elderly, the drop in cases post vaccination happened at EXACTLY the same rate for all ages, conclusively showing the vaccines didn’t change the risk of infection.
Furthermore, the Czech data shows that vaccinated and unvaccinated died in the same proportions during both high and no COVID periods. This is yet another sign the vaccines did nothing.
In Israel, with one of the most aggressive vaccination programs in the world, they had 10X higher COVID cases during Delta and Omicron (vs. Alpha), the highest in the world. If the vaccines worked, they should have had the lowest.
In fact, the vaccinations led to immune system damage causing the vaccinated to be MORE susceptible to COVID.
As far as I can tell, in nearly every workplace in America, it’s the COVID vaccinated who are out sick more than the unvaccinated.
Harvard put together a data explorer showing states with higher vaccination rates had higher COVID cases. The increased cases not only caused the vaccinated to die more, but when there are more cases, the unvaccinated will die more as well. So the COVID vaccine adversely impacted the unvaccinated as well.
They don’t want to talk about it. The very data that they should use to prove efficacy is ignored because that data (from the Czech Republic) is public and so any manipulations would be exposed.
If the vaccines worked, there would be dozens of papers analyzing the Czech Republic public record-level data to show the vaccines were beneficial. Yet there are none.
It is a shame there are no public debates on this topic because those promoting the shots refuse to engage. That alone tells you everything you need to know.
Summary
At a minimum, all Americans should be informed of the facts
In summary, the vaccines were neither safe nor effective.