{"id":207143,"date":"2015-12-08T23:22:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T23:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=207143"},"modified":"2015-12-09T02:41:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T02:41:48","slug":"the-saud-family-to-select-wests-moderate-jihadists-who-will-take-over-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/the-saud-family-to-select-wests-moderate-jihadists-who-will-take-over-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Saud Family to Select West’s ‘Moderate’ Jihadists Who Will Take Over Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b>Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

The Saud family, Saudi Arabia\u2019s royals, have called together a meeting on December 15th in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, of their fellow fundamentalist Sunnis who are fighting against the secular Assad government to take over Syria, and the Sauds will announce after the conference which groups will have the West\u2019s blessings.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0only armed group<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that has thus far been announced to have been invited is\u00a0Jaysh al-Islam<\/span><\/a>, which is a Salafist-Wahhabist fundamentalist organization, and like all Salafists and Wahhabists, is rabidly anti-Shiite. By contrast, Syria\u2019s President, Bashar al-Assad, is a Shiite, and, furthermore, he has always insisted upon a strict separation of church-and-state; so, he\u2019s considered like the devil, by the Sauds and other Wahhabists and Salafists (including the leaders of America\u2019s other Arabic allies: Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain).<\/span><\/p>\n

This hatred against Shiites, and, really, all non-Sunnis, originated long ago:<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1744, the two founders of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad Ibn Saud and Muhammad Ibn Wahhab, swore their mutual oath that the Sauds would exterminate Shiites, and that Wahhabist clergy would recognize the Sauds as the rulers appointed by God. From that time to this, little has changed in Saudi Arabia, except\u00a0the discovery in 1938 of the world\u2019s largest reserves of oil,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0which, moreover, is the cheapest-to-produce type of oil. The United States allied with the Saud family in 1945 so as to guarantee to America lots of cheap oil, and to guarantee to the Sauds lots of American military support for keeping the Saud family in power there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The American expectation had been that the jihadist clergy wouldn\u2019t be so influential to the Sauds if the Sauds had all the weapons they need in order to terrorize the non<\/i>-royals there; but, in recent decades, that hasn\u2019t turned out to remain true. Chopping off the heads of lots of nonbelievers no longer suffices for the Sauds. In recent times, it turns out that when clergy question the Sauds\u2019 anointment by God, the Sauds need to pay attention, after all, notwithstanding the American alliance. Arab Spring made this clear. It\u2019s a new world now. The Sauds are pressured, more than ever, to kill Shiites and other non-believers (people who aren\u2019t Wahhabist or \u2013 as Wahhabism is known outside Saudi Arabia \u2013 Salafists). The only trick is for the Sauds to hide this intention until they\u2019re fully in a position to act upon it. 9\/11 was just kids\u2019 stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wikipedia says: “Jaysh al-Islam leader\u00a0Zahran Alloush\u00a0gave a speech on the merits of\u00a0Hajj\u00a0in 2013 and praised Usama bin Laden,\u00a0addressing him by the honorific ‘Sheikh’ and the honorific ‘rahimahu Allah\u2019. \u2026 Alloush addressed the Al-Qaeda organization Jabhat al-Nusra as ‘our brothers\u2019.\u201d However, Al Qaeda itself has not been invited to the Riyadh conference, because doing that would be too much for the U.S. public to take. The Sauds need to fool Western publics, and therefore need to mind their manners as they proceed along. Cutting off heads of Saudis who challenge the regime or the Quran is one thing, but allowing Al Nusra or any other branch of Al Qaeda at their conference would significantly disturb Westerners.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wikipedia adds: “Alloush said that\u00a0Alawites\u00a0are ‘more infidel than Jews and Christians\u2019.\u201d Assad isn\u2019t just a Shiite, he\u2019s an Alawhite, which is the least sectarian type of Shiite \u2013 like an atheist, in a fundamentalist\u2019s eyes (and, even in the West, atheists are feared and despised \u2013 bigotry is strong in every religion; it\u2019s how aristocrats become able to manipulate masses).<\/span><\/p>\n

By contrast, the type of jihadists the West is considering for inclusion as \u2018moderates\u2019 is the type that can fool Westerners. All of that type are people who live outside Syria and who aren\u2019t risking their own lives in jihad, but who are nonetheless aiming to \u2018represent\u2019 the people who are<\/i> <\/span>risking their lives there. In other words, these are slicksters, who seek acceptance both from suckers in the West, and from terrorists inside Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, some of the attendees will look like any businessman one would see on 5th Avenue in NYC, or like any candidate for President of the United States; and one such person who will be attending the conference is\u00a0Dr. Khaled Khoja, President of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces. He gave an\u00a0address<\/span><\/a>\u00a0recently, on October 31st, at Britain\u2019s prestigious neoconservative International Institute for Strategic Studies, where he spoke with gentlemanly hatred of both Russia, and the leading Shiite nation, Iran; and he said (40:00- on the video there) that only civilians were being killed in Syria by Russia\u2019s bombings in Syria, and that Russia especially targets hospitals. So, he looks and sounds like just\u00a0the right type of person for U.S. President Barack Obama<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to present in the West as being an acceptable person to rule the Syrian people. Obviously, someone such as Khoja would be loathed by both Syrians and ISIS etc., even at the outset, if he were to become appointed to lead Syria, but this is a show put on only for Westerners anyway. That\u2019s where the first suckers must be targeted and manipulated. And the case for this is unmistakable:<\/span><\/p>\n

All polling that Western firms have done in Syria shows clearly that in any free and fair election in that country, only Assad would have any chance to win. He is supported by a majority of Syrians in all polls, while all polls also show that Syrians feel fear and disgust at the United States and blame it for ISIS, which is almost universally despised among the Syrian population.<\/span><\/p>\n

So: although the Sauds will ultimately select the candidates to replace Assad, or else will make the first-round selection of the West\u2019s stooge to rule in Syria, it\u2019s not going to help anybody but the West\u2019s aristocrats, who are championing \u2018democracy in Syria\u2019 by insisting that that very thing be prohibited. Nor will this conference help to reduce the refugee crisis that the EU is experiencing from America\u2019s latest round of international invasions: Libya, Ukraine, Syria, and so forth. It\u2019s merely a PR operation that\u2019s being carried out by the West\u2019s aristocracies, to put on a show for the West\u2019s suckers, while carving up the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

The people who should be removed from power are clearly the leaders in the West, where democracy has died, and where deceit of the masses by the aristocracy has taken its place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Only if the charade is forced to end, can peace become established again. But maybe things have already gone beyond even the possibility<\/i> of that happening. Who will even allow the masses now to know the truth?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse The Saud family, Saudi Arabia\u2019s royals, have called together a meeting on December 15th in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, of their fellow fundamentalist Sunnis who are fighting against the secular Assad government to take over Syria, and the Sauds will announce after the conference which groups will have the West\u2019s blessings. The\u00a0only armed group\u00a0that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":200905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[115,96,535,871,524,981,754,49,76,40,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-207143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-cover-up","10":"tag-global-news","11":"tag-qatar","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-saudi","14":"tag-syria","15":"tag-usa-news","16":"tag-warfare","17":"tag-white-house","18":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}