Declan Hayes: Irish complicity in Syrian war crimes

Former Syrian President and former Syrian First Lady are, together with their children, what the ancients meant when they spoke of a scapegoat and what we more modern folk refer to as a fall guy. Following the fall of the Syrian Arab Republic, they and their allies were blamed not only for all the crimes of Israeli agent Julani but by those of his external allies as well.

During the Irish Presidential election, Catherine Connolly, the eventual winner, had to lie about her trip to Assad-controlled Syria and, when the Irish media asked me to correct a few of her more obvious porkies, I had to run the gauntlet of threats from her backers, who include the Army Council of the Provisional IRA. Although Connolly could have, at a minimum, condemned Julani’s gang rapists as forthrightly as she condemned Asma Assad, her backers, who are part of the US Democrats’ extensive Irish outreach program, would not settle with that diplomatic half a loaf. Assad and anyone else who refused to bow the knee to Israel is the devil incarnate and that is the end of it.

Although the Irish Daily Mail and the Irish Times conducted friendly interviews with me, because their hacks had to stick to the script, the Daily Mail described Jolani’s rapists as freedom fighters, and the Irish Times lied that Sally Hayden, one of their own, was unearthing atrocities committed by the Assad “regime”, whereas all she was doling was filing puerile porkies she had been ordered to concoct.

These same losers mocked Hafez Assad, Asma’s eldest son, when he failed to win the Math Olympiad, which is the preserve of American, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Russian kids, who undergo special training that leaves all other countries miles behind. That Hafez later earned a PhD in Maths indicates he had more right to be in that competition than they had to call themselves journalists.

Still, the Assads are yesterday’s news, even if those more complicit in the ongoing massacres in Syria still want to scapegoat them and, by extension, me and all others who stood with Syria as a matter of principle.

But there is the rub. Folk like Connolly have no principles, except in the sense that Groucho Marx said they can be traded in for other more expedient ones, as the circumstances warrant. The core point is that the Syrian Arab Army were the good guys in the civil war Syria had imposed on it and not only have subsequent massacres inside Syria proved that, but so too have the contortions of careerists like Connolly, who actually met Syria’s Grand Mufti but has not a word, good, bad or indifferent to say about the ongoing torture he and tens of thousands of other Syrians are being subjected to. Instead, she wanders like a banshee around Ireland, telling whoever is forced to listen to her that they are doing a great job and that a united Ireland, run by her Provisional IRA sponsors, is at hand.

Although Irish careerists like Connolly have an undeserved reputation for being pro-Palestinian, that is just wishful thinking. Although Ireland has witnessed countless pro Palestinian marches, they are just a ploy to keep the foot soldiers gainfully occupied marching around in circles and to top up the direct debits into the faux anti war bank accounts of Connolly’s sponsors.

John Lahart, who chairs the Irish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee is a Friends of Israel hard liner and he has no shortage of allies there. Connolly, for her part, promised to send the Irish navy to sort out the Israeli navy when she was running for election, and voters stupidly thought she was serious or that she had given the matter more than a moment’s fleeting consideration.

The truth is all these Irish mouthpieces are a waste of space and political discourse would markedly improve were they to take a vow of silence. If the Palestinians are waiting for Ireland’s People Before Profit and Sinn Féin clowns who regularly clog up Dublin’s Halfpenny Bridge to rescue them, they wait in vain because those clowns only see the Palestinian cause as a means of generating more direct debits into their various anti-war front bank accounts and as a means of funneling popular discontent into their own feather-nesting enterprises.

The core point is that the Syrian Arab Army were the good guys in the civil war Syria had imposed on it.

Although Ireland’s other establishment parties are also as irrelevant to the Gazan crisis as they are to all others, their hands are less bloody than are those of Ireland’s loyal opposition, who are now as fully complicit in the slaughter of their former Syrian Kurdish allies by their Muslim Brotherhood sponsors as they are in the previous massacres of Syria’s Alawites, Christians and, now, the Ismaelis too. If these latter-day Irish Lord Haw-Haws have a role to play in Gaza, it is their assigned role of keeping the young and the impressionable marching around in circles and betraying the Palestinians, just as they betrayed everybody else.

Former Irish President Mary Robinson is not the only negative Irish input into Trump’s proposed final solution to the Gazan problem. Senior Board of Peace member and serial globalist toady Tony Blair will point to the Good Friday Agreement as a means of further dividing and conquering the Palestinians by buying off those like Sinn Féin with the trappings of irrelevant office and by shooting or otherwise dispensing with those Palestinians, who object. As with Sinn Féin’s gerrymandering of the North with their DUP partners in crime, the argument will be that there is no other option save to collude with Netanyahu and the other High Priests of Trump’s Board of Peace (BoP). The end result of this will be those Palestinians who do not get out of Dodge will be squeezed into successfully smaller ghettos and loud-mouthed Ireland will be strong-armed next Paddy’s Day to take in tens of thousands more of free-loading “Palestinians” as part of Trump’s Peace Process if they want US investment in Ireland to continue. Mary Robinson and the hot air wafflers of People Before Profit will do nothing to stop that.

Although Hamas remain the main party poopers, relentless propaganda will paint them out as dissidents where massive doses of Mo Mowlan’s internal housekeeping are in order to permanently decommission them. Expect no end to the mass slaughter to pacify the natives and to Make Gaza Great Again for Donald Trump and his merry men.

Although the clear winners will include Israel, Blair, Kushner and many more American Zionists and the Palestinians will, as ever, be the biggest losers, the gaggle of pro-Russian countries currently colluding with it will do so in the mistaken belief that they can curry favour with Trump by being his collective doormat. Ireland’s jackals take a different but equally opportunistic approach.

People Before Profit believe that Ireland should go head to head against the US to oppose all this and that, having already colluded in the wholesale slaughter of minorities in Iraq , Libya and Syria, we should now turn our attention to destroying Iran by supporting the various Trotskyist and NATO Trojan horses blowing up mosques there.

These charlatans, who have yet to see an anti war movement they cannot hijack, claim that “People Before Profit unequivocally opposes the West’s attempts to appropriate the protests for their own nefarious ends. We demand the Irish Government be a voice of opposition to the West’s attempted interventions, especially to its sanctions”. Yet it is People Before Profit and groups affiliated to them who have appropriated all “protests for their own nefarious ends” and their half-cocked demands on the Irish government is just their usual passing the buck stunt, as is their cynical move in endorsing “Tehran busworkers” and a “workers’ council in the industrial city of Arak”, both of which are meaningless in the context of the looming Iranian-Israeli hitech war where countless Iranian busworkers and their families will no doubt die at the hands of Israeli and US missiles which People Before Profit will then pretend to oppose.

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Not only is all their two-faced opportunism plain as day to me but their Muslim Brotherhood buddies can also see their bullshit for what it is. Audrey Kissane, writing in Al Jazeera, tells us that Ireland is economically hog tied to Trump’s apron strings and all the hot air the Irish government and their loyal opposition spout about Palestine is waffle that will only lumber us with tens of thousands more freeloaders and that will do nothing of consequence for the vast majority of Palestinians. Serial Kiwi hack Robert Inlakesh can white lie in Palestine Chronicle how Catherine Connolly was the “landslide winner of Ireland’s Presidential election.. and is the most left-wing President in Irish history” but she and Inlakesh are of no more use to the Palestinians or anyone else in Trump’s cross hairs than are the other Irish left-wing grifters who feed like blowflies off another man’s wound.

Until Ireland rids herself of People Before Profit, Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats, the Labour Party, the Green Party and any of the other faux Leftist groups who helped Connolly win the Presidential gig, Ireland will be of precisely no help to the Palestinians, the Lebanese, the Iraqis, the Iranians, the Syrians, the Yemeni or anyone else under the cosh in the Middle East, Venezuela of anywhere else. Short of getting all of those incestuous cult groups to voluntarily disband, the best thing Irish civil society can do is to work around them and, under no circumstances, vote for them as it only encourages them in their homicidal vanities.

And, as regards their lame excuse that there is no alternative to their pointless marches, the Catholic Church, to name but one very imperfect alternative, pumps a lot of money into the Holy Land and, though Connolly’s collective Left are the lowest of low moral bars, the Church’s fingers are far less stickier than are those of these charlatans and their hands have less Arab blood on them.

But then Irish civil society is as emasculated as is the Iranian opposition and that is why the media constantly highlights former President and serial grifter and Arab child princess abuser Mary Robinson disparaging Trump’s BoP for not following the diktats of The Elders, a motley crew of senile Richard Branson (of Epstein’s Orgy Island infamy) funded octogenarians Robinson abuses as her personal pulpit.

And, as regards Ali Baba Trump and his forty fellow thieves, there is no point is opposing them or supporting a phantom Iranian opposition until we are an a position to oppose them and until there is a real and credible Iranian opposition rather than the one the crackpots of People Before Profit and Fine Gael cult terrorist enabler Gerry Horkan imagine there to be. And, as long as ignorant and two-faced Trojan horses like People Before Profit, Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats, the Labour Party, the Green Party and the rest of the faux Leftist groups continue to muddy the waters, Ireland will remain a bothersome part of the problem and not a credible part of the solution to the Palestinian or any other problem those gangsters only compound. Donald Trump and those he wishes to obliterate would be mad to pay any attention to these useless idiots.

The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Maghrebi.org. Declan Hayes is an Irish academic, author and geopolitical expert.

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