Israel’s government approved a plan on Sunday to expand Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights, saying it had acted “in light of the war and the new front facing Syria” and out of a desire to double the Israeli population on the Golan.

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    Aka, "we just want to do this little opportunistic land grab while Syria is focused on other matters. Don’t mind us, we’re just gonna slide right in here … "

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      This is still just within the current borders (since ‘67), not the new occupation (…yet?)

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        Sure, but it’s still in internationally recognized Syrian territory and an excuse to extend their “security buffer” which they will forever extend and settle in. It’s not like they make a secret of this shit.

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    Of course, the Israeli troops occupying liberated Syria are only there temporarily for security and not an opportunistic invasion.

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    Wow, what a coincidence that waaay back in 2009, James Woolsey (ex-CIA director), Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, and a member of the Rothschild family all just happened to invest big time in an oil company trying to make this happen:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_Energy#Genie_Oil_and_Gas

    Why it’s almost like the geopolitical and military industrial complex wanted it to happen just to serve them - the ruling classes. Isn’t that just a whacky coincidence.

    I’m sure a country wasn’t ruined to do just that right? Surely not. Why that would be like the ruling classes and supposed “democracy” we have in the west is just thinly veiled system of Colonial Capitalism, operating no different to 100 years ago.

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      Yea I’m sure the Syrian Revolution was all a ploy of the Rothschilds. Nothing to do with any kind of agency by the Syrian people wanting to overthrow a brutal totalitarian regime. Just CIA conspiracies everywhere pulling people’s strings with psyops. Tankie Fukuyama-ism, man. Quite a thing to behold.

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        The names are there on the Wikipedia page I’ve link in black and white. You deciding that it’s a conspiracy theory simply because one name is that of a Rothschild, and another that of an ex CIA director, doesn’t change the facts (eg. That they are invested in the company responsible for the exploration and extraction of oil in the area. Similar to Cheney’s Haliburton during the Iraq campaign. This sort of thing is more common that you probably realize).

        As for how poor and hungry citizens might face up to the bullets and tanks of a brutal regime, this video describes some of how that might go (making clear that all changes of power need wealthy backing/arms):

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

        Your view of the world sounds quite idealic to me, I wish it were the case. I wish the people simply overthrew the dictator in a simple good vs bad conflict. I really wish the world was that way. I really do.

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        The Syrian Revolution has fuck-all legitimately to do with Zionist colonialism in the Golan Heights. Netanyahu using it as an excuse is absolutely nothing but pure opportunistic bullshit.

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    “We need breathing room.” -Adolf Hitler, 1936 on the expansion into the Sudatenland