Syrian rebel leader calls Israel an enemy country

In one of my previous posts on Syria I brought up the fact that Barack Obama has supported the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in Eqypt and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and in both of these cases he did so knowing it was quite likely that al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood would come into power. And they did, at least for a short while; it goes without saying that both of these organizations are hostile to Israel. I then pointed out the fact that the Syrian rebels were also members of al-Qaeda and that if they come to power Israel would be surrounded by people more willing to attack that nation than the dictators who were removed from power.

Seeing a pattern here, I then asked the question; why is Barack Obama supporting rebels in these nations which are hostile to Israel? And I questioned what the president’s endgame really was. I was taken to task by one person who commented who found it absurd that I would allude to the fact the United States was preparing to take over Israel, even though I never said that. I do however question Barack Obama’s motives for I do not think he is a friend to Israel, and he does seem sympathetic to these groups.

So now he is pushing for an attack on Syria and if there was any doubt about the intentions of the rebels in Syria the words of one of the rebel commanders should clear it up a little bit. Here is what John McCain’s buddy had to say about Israel:

Brigadier General Salim Idris, who Sen. John McCain has called a “fine leader” and who leads the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which is deemed a “moderate” force by the Obama administration, told Al Jazeera in a May 8 video interview that “Israel is an enemy country” and that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and the Lebanese terrorist group Hizballah are “Israeli collaborators.” “Israel is an enemy country,” Idris said, according to a translation of his remarks made by the Middle East Media Research Institute. “I say this loud and clear. It occupies Syrian lands. The FSA will not change its position regarding that country before it withdraws from the Syrian lands, and recognizes the legitimate rights of the Arab Palestinian people.” “As for us being Israeli collaborators–the only Israeli collaborator in the region is the criminal Bashar,” said Idris. “The Israeli collaborators are the people who put on the show of the 2006 war–Hizballah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah. They diverted all their forces to the slaughtering of Syrians. Their scheme is totally clear. They used to hide behind the pretext of resistance and the fight against Israel, but now it has become clear that they are implementing a sectarian, Iranian, Safavid plan in the region.”

As Barack Obama pushes for an attack on Bashar Assad in support of the Syrian rebels, and while John McCain is running around calling these rebels “moderates,” his comments do not seem to be all that moderate to me.

These are the people that Barack Obama supports? Again I have to ask the question: what is Barack Obama’s end game in the Middle East? Support for a strike on Syria, both at home and abroad, seems to be crumbling. And rightly so for we still do not know if it was the rebels who used chemical weapons in an attempt to draw the United States into the war on their side or if it was really Bashar Assad who used the weapons against his own people.

Barack Obama claims he has proof it was the latter but he refuses to release the information to the American people and one has to call into question what the most open and honest administration in history is trying to hide.