US neocons, Zionist lobby losing war in Syria: Commentator

The United States government, neoconservatives and the Zionist lobby in Washington are losing the war in Syria, according to Edward Corrigan, an international lawyer and political commentator.

US President Donald Trump has called for an end to Russia’s support for the Syrian government, engaged in efforts to liberate the whole country.

Trump "expressed concern over the violence in Idlib, Syria, and conveyed the United States' desire to see an end to Russia's support,” in a call with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Sunday.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu expressed a similar sentiment among journalists at the Munich Security Conference after he talked with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.

US President Donald Trump is calling for an end to Russia’s support for the Syrian government, engaged in efforts to liberate the whole country.

Trump calls for end to Russia’s support for Syria

US President Donald Trump is calling for an end to Russia’s support for the Syrian government, engaged in efforts to liberate the whole country.

Commenting on this, Corrigan said, “They're losing the war. Before they did not want to engage in any sort of political process, they still thought that they could accomplish some of their goals by military means. Now, they realize that they can't do that. So now they're in public about this switching gears and talking about politics only because they're trying to save the remnants of Daesh and other extremist groups in the hope of destabilizing  Syria.”

“And it's only because they're losing. And I don't think the Russians would do that because it's purely hypocritical as the Americans have been providing weapons to Saudi Arabia, to the United Arab Emirates to the Islamic militants in the south, and, of course, even the Pentagon has been arming the Kurds. So, you know, this is an example of hypocrisy and say do it we say don't do as we do,” he said.  

“The Americans are up to their neck, in providing arms to the various groups in order to destabilize and try to destroy Syria, as are the Israelis. The Israelis are supplying American weapons and paying salaries. And you know, for the most part, providing American war materials to the extremist groups in Syria to support Israel's objectives,” he stated.

“And these are not the same as Turkey's objectives. And Turkey is trying to reassert itself as a player in the area. Some people call this, you know, reasserting itself as the Ottoman Empire. But the Turks also have a lot of problems with the Americans. There is strong support for the Palestinians inside Turkey. There will be next to zero support for the American move of their embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. There is no support in Turkey for the so-called “deal of the century”, which is basically the total capitulation of the Palestinians, and enforcing Israeli hegemony over the West Bank and creating, even more of an apartheid state than it is,” he noted.

“They want to take away the Arabs in Israel and put them into the West Bank but also take the West Bank and deport the Arabs. They don't want the Arab population. They only want Jewish only settlements,” he said.  

“So there's a lot of problems between Turkey and the United States, and we have seen evidence of this because Turkey buying the Russian S-4 defense system. Also, the Americans are threatening to not allowing Turkey to get the F-35 stealth fighters and there are other problems,” he said.

“But basically Americans are doing whatever they want to their domestic agenda and for Israel and for the Zionist lobby, the neocons and Christian fundamentalists in the United States. They don't care about Turkey which has the second-largest army in NATO, and they should be treating it with much more respect and not by jamming down policies, that are totally hated by the Turkish population and the Turkish government, down their throat. The Trump administration has a single-minded one-dimensional view of things which is nowhere near the reality of it,” the analyst concluded.

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