ISIS forces attacked the Syrian city of Sweida on Wednesday, with large numbers of gunmen and suicide attackers hitting multiple sites across the city, causing massive casualties. This is one of the biggest ISIS attacks in months.
The local health authority put the toll at 215 killed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said they believed 180 people were killed. A number of nearby villages were also reportedly attacked by ISIS at the same time.
Sweida is a Druze-majority city near the Jordan border, and is seen as a pro-government city. This is almost certainly why ISIS chose to target them, as opposed to other cities in the south, which up until recently had been rebel controlled.
ISIS forces control only a few towns in the south of Syria, along the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Syrian and Russian planes have been bombing the ISIS-held territory intensively in recent days. More airstrikes against ISIS-held towns were reported after this attack.
Israel and ISIS, two peas in a pod
ISIS’ back is up against the Israeli wall? Imagine how fast ISIS would disappear in Syria if our alleged ally Israel were to open fire on ISIS, instead of providing them air support!
Now we know why the heelies escorted the “white helmets” to Jordan and shoot down a Syrian Jet.
“ISIS forces attacked the Syrian city of Sweida on Wednesday, with large
numbers of gunmen and suicide attackers hitting multiple sites across
the city, causing massive casualties.”
ISIS commanders were recently evacuated to other rebel-held areas by “coalition” helicopters, leaving it all up to those so-called “suicide attackers”.
This is an Israeli attack. Then they wonder why there is anti semitism growing world wide.
Assuming the truth of the first sentence, why should “they” not wonder why some idiots blame an ethnicity for the actions of a nation-state?
…..because the idiots state that any criticisms of a nation-state is anti-semitism.
We seem to be talking about two different sets of idiots.
There are the set of idiots who say that any criticism of Israel is anti-semitic.
Then there is the set of idiots who say that any action of Israel justifies anti-semitism.
Peter Mo seems to be attempting to justify the idiocy of the latter set.