Welcome to Hadar: A Village Under Siege by al-Qaeda and Israeli Forces Alike

Eva Bartlett
In Gaza

The village of Hadar, in Southern Syria, is buttressed on one side by Israeli watchtowers and walls – and endures deadly attacks from jihadist Syrian rebels from the other three. 

HADAR, SYRIA — Situated in the northern part of Quneitra governorate, with the towering Jabal al-Sheikh (Mt. Hermon) overlooking it and the region, Hadar is in both a beautiful area of Syria and a dangerous one.

The roughly 10,000 defiant villagers of Hadar are isolated and under constant threat of attack. Until December 2017, Hadar was surrounded on three sides by terrorists and was attacked many times.

Positioned in a valley, with the al-Qaeda alliance until December 2017 occupying Beit Jinn and other villages to the east, Hadar also borders the ceasefire line of the occupied Syrian Golan, an area teeming with still more al-Qaeda terrorists. From their positions inside the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) zone of the occupied Syrian Golan, terrorists in Jubata al-Khashab (roughly 6 kilometers directly south of Hadar), Turunjah (roughly 5 kilometers south of Hadar), and Ufaniyah (further south than Jubata al-Khashab), have fired mortars, missiles, and other explosives on Hadar, something acknowledged even by the UN Secretary-General.

In his December 6, 2017 report, the Secretary-General noted that terrorist groups fighting in the UNDOF area of operation include “the listed terrorist group Jabhat Fath al-Sham (formerly the Nusra Front) and Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).”

The same report noted the attacks from the three villages towards Hadar were preceded by a “vehicle-borne improvised explosive device,” which killed nine people. In Hadar, I would learn that the car bomb didn’t just target “a pro-Syrian forces checkpoint in Hadar,” as per the UN report, but was headed towards the heart of the village when shot at by Hadar defenders. The vehicle exploded less than 100 meters from a school, at 9 a.m., according to Hadar resident Mahmoud Taweel. Had the village not been on alert, and families staying at home, the number killed would have surely been higher and included many children. 

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“The Missing 28 Pages Raises Directly the Issue of U.S. Government Complicity In the 9/11/2001 Terrorist Attacks”

Washington's Blog

U.S. Government Connection With Saudi Terrorists

 

By Dr. Francis Boyle, Professor of International Law at the University of Illinois, Champaign. Dr. Boyle wrote the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. He’s got a Doctorate of Law Magna Cum Laude as well as a Ph.D. in Political Science, both from Harvard University. Dr Boyle served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International from 1988 to 1992.

Preface By Washington’s Blog: In the following comment, Dr. Boyle discusses a recent New York Times report on Saudi connections with 9/11  … and points out the deeper implications.

“The man under questioning… Thumairy had been a Saudi Consular official based in Los Angeles and the imam of a mosque visited by two of the hijackers.”

Excuse me! What is a Saudi Consular official doing running a Mosque in the United States? This would have violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. It would have been grossly incompatible with his Consular Functions under that Convention. What was going on there? Why was the USG [U.S. government] permitting a Saudi Consular Official to run a Mosque in violation of this Vienna Convention? The USG must have known what was going on. And by running a Mosque the Saudis knew they were in violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. So what was going on here? So both Governments are in knowing violation of the Vienna Convention to permit a Saudi Consular Official to run a Mosque (not just attend a Mosque—I see no problem with that) and two of the alleged hijackers go there. All this is just a coincidence?

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The 9/11 Hijackers: Amateur Aviators Who Became Super-Pilots on September 11

911blogger

In the days after 9/11, numerous pilots and aviation experts commented on the elaborate maneuvers performed by the aircraft in the terrorist attacks, and the advanced skills that would have been necessary to navigate those aircraft into their targets. The men flying the planes must have been "highly skilled pilots" and "extremely knowledgeable and capable aviators," who were "probably military trained," these experts said.

And yet the four alleged hijackers who were supposedly flying the aircraft were amateur pilots, who had learned to fly in small propeller planes, and were described by their instructors as having had only "average" or even "very poor" piloting skills. But on their first attempt at flying jet aircraft, on September 11, 2001, these men were supposedly able to fly Boeing 757s and 767s at altitudes of tens of thousands of feet, without any assistance from air traffic control. Three of them were apparently able to successfully navigate their planes all the way to the intended targets, which they hit with pinpoint accuracy.

For such poor pilots to carry out such skilled flying would surely have been extremely unlikely, perhaps impossible. And yet this is what is claimed in the official account of 9/11. [...]

Jerusalem and the Birthplace Of Modern Terrorism

This clip is from episode one of a British-made documentary from 2002 titled ‘The Age Of Terror’, and examines the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22nd July 1946 by Zionists, in which the south wing of the hotel, then occupied by British civil-military authorities, was bombed killing ninety-one people. Twenty-eight of the victims were British, forty-one Arabic, while seventeen were Jewish.

The Zionist who carried-out the attack were known as the Irgun, and were led by a future prime minister of Israel, Menachem Begin. The King David Hotel bombing was an act of terrorism that is widely-considered to be the first real incidence of 20th century terrorism.

US: FBI Targeting Political Activists as Terrorists

Russia Today



Anti-terrorism resources are being used to target environmentalists, peace, animal and political activists who hold different views than the government.


It was recently revealed that a counter-terrorism firm spied on individuals who attended film screenings of the documentary Gasland. The film focuses on the practice of natural gas fracking and what impact it has on the environment and in the communities where it is used.

The FBI and other government agencies are cracking down on those who are not willing to say in line with the status quo.

In Pennsylvania, activists have faced terrorism charges for writing slogans in chalk on sidewalks. In California, 27 individuals are set to go on trial stemming for protest actions. Elsewhere 23 anti-war, pro-labor and international solidarity activists may face a grand jury on trumped up charged.

 The FBI boasts 164,000 suspicious activity reports that are made up of activists who do not follow the governments view on matters.

 The US government is using taxpayer money to squash the competition as opposed to protecting the American people from true terrorist threats, all while stomping on freedom of speech rights.

 Carlos Montes, a co-founder of the Brown Berets Chicano Movement explained there is a marked rise of the US government using tools at their disposal designed to fight terrorism to impose oppression on political activists.

"The protest movements are directly exposing and challenging the lines that the US government puts out," he said, yet law enforcement authorities continue to crack down without just cause. "It's a war against dissent."

 The government is working to stop the movement which is merely seeking to exercise its right to free speech and the right to protest.

"They're trying to stop us but we're not going to let them do it," Montes added.