Israeli conflict against Arab countries of Syria, Palestine & Lebanon

[slick fingers]

She was on the same trip!

Sorry, I linked the bot explaining who organised the trip, because that is part of the controversy. CC pretty much painted it that she just went during her presidential campaign, whereas the detail of it all looks a bit more deliberate.

Two totally different trips, this is well documented and verified. Hayes organised a 2017 visit with Wallace and Daly. Daly’s sister organised a separate trip 2018 that included Connolly, with zero involvement from Hayes.

 

[slick fingers]

Didn't Connolly meet with Saed Abd Al-Aal when she went to Syria?

Yeah, that’s well documented too, but you’re really clutching at straws now.

Theres still no connection between Catherine Connolly and Declan Hayes, the 2017 trip or the torture photos.

 

[Henrys Fonda]

Yeah, that’s well documented too, but you’re really clutching at straws now.

Yip, it quite normal for people to go around murdering militia commanders. Yes really run of the mill stuff.

Theres still no connection between Catherine Connolly and Declan Hayes, the 2017 trip or the torture photos.

Where did I say there was? I never mentioned 2017

 

[Happyhonkaman]

Yeah, that’s well documented too, but you’re really clutching at straws now.

Theres still no connection between Catherine Connolly and Declan Hayes, the 2017 trip or the torture photos.

Jesus, I never suggested there was!

 

[jams]

I feel that our pulling out of the Eurovision will probably go a long way to fixing this and other middle eastern issues

 

[King Silkbeard]

From the IT:


Wallace and Daly were part of a group brought to Syria in October 2017 by Declan Hayes, an Irish supporter of the then Syrian government who has written for a sanctioned pro-Kremlin website called the Strategic Culture Foundation.

“I was supportive of the Syrian people as represented by the Syrian government and the Syrian Arab army and all people and factions allied to them,” Hayes told The Irish Times.

“What I was trying to do, primarily, was to get people of influence to go there and see what was being done and make up their own minds.”

Hayes is a former lecturer in business studies at the University of Southampton, who writes about international politics.

Aside from the Strategic Culture Foundation, his articles have been published by the conservative Irish website the Burkean, and his views published on the website of a pro-Kremlin think tank called Katehon.

[ Sister of Clare Daly organised Catherine Connolly trip to Syria in 2018Opens in new window ]

The Strategic Culture Foundation was sanctioned by the European Commission in December 2022 for targeting audiences outside Russia with disinformation supportive of the invasion of Ukraine.


“Strategic Culture Foundation is an organisation financed by the Russian Federation,” according to the commission. “It is closely associated with Russian special services, including the SVR [Russia’s civilian foreign intelligence service].”

Asked if he had any moral scruples about writing for a sanctioned Russian website, Hayes said: “I stand over what I say.”

Russia is going to win the war in Ukraine, he said. “The West will have to accept that.”

In December 2016, Hayes organised the appearance of a number of religious leaders from Syria before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs to discuss the war in Syria, including the then Grand Mufti of Syria, Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun.

A supporter of Assad, Hassoun was detained after the collapse of the regime last year and has since disappeared.

You are terrible forgettable please tell which Arab country does not have an oppressive state aparatus, Saudi Arabia, no, Egypt, no, Libya thanks to the west now has slavery and saw the rise of the far right because people were fleeing their homeland because Western bombs were sent to "liberate" them.

Is your idea of spreading freedom turning Syria into a theocracy because the current ruler was a member of Al Nusra an extreme terrorist organisation, posters on here cry when the Irish Left have sympathy with Hamas because they are Islamist but no problem with an Islamist in power in Syria.

Now i would call that an outrage. Yeah I do support Pres Assad, he was a secularist, he protected the minorites and the country had to have a Pres that was a Muslim so keeping more hard core Islamists on side. He was a far better leader in the Arab World than the other leaders in the region.

 

[Henrys Fonda]

Yeah I do support Pres Assad, he was a secularist, he protected the minorites and the country had to have a Pres that was a Muslim so keeping more hard core Islamists on side. He was a far better leader in the Arab World than the other leaders in the region.

1. Extrajudicial Killings

SNHR documented the killing of at least 202,000 civilians at the hands of Bashar Assad’s regime forces, including 23,058 children and 12,010 women.

1. Enforced Disappearance

At least 96,321 cases of enforced disappearance at the hands of Bashar Assad’s regime forces are documented on SNHR’s database, among them 2,329 children and 5,742 women.

1. Deaths due to torture

At least 15,102 individuals died under torture at the hands of Bashar Assad’s regime forces, including 190 children and 95 women.

1. Use of four types of destructive weapons

• Barrel bombs
  From July 2012, the Bashar Assad’s regime’s air force dropped at least 81,916 barrel bombs, resulting in the deaths of 11,087 civilians, including 1,821 children and 1,780 women.
• Chemical weapons
  SNHR documented 217 chemical weapons attacks by Bashar Assad’s regime. The first attack was carried out in Homs’s al-Bayyada neighborhood on December 23, 2012. These attacks killed 1,514 individuals, 1,413 of whom were civilians, including 214 children, and 262 women, in addition to injuring 11,080 others.
• Cluster munitions
  SNHR documented 252 cluster munition attacks by Bashar Assad’s regime forces from their first use of these weapons in July 2012. These attacks resulted in the deaths of 835 individuals, including 337 children and 191 women.
• Incendiary weapons
  SNHR recorded at least 51 incendiary attacks on civilian areas from March 2011.

1. Forced displacementBetween 2011 and 2024, extensive violations on a vast scale by the former Bashar Assad’s regime and its allies, led to the internal displacement of approximately 6.8 million Syrians, with another seven million Syrian refugees seeking asylum abroad, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The deposed regime and its allies not only inflicted incalculable levels of destruction and displacement, but also enacted laws violating fundamental human rights specifically to seize the properties of displaced persons and refugees.

SNHR also documented numerous other types of violations, including the destruction of hundreds of vital facilities, such as hospitals, schools, mosques, churches, and many more.

 

[slick fingers]

Jesus, I never suggested there was!

Fair enough, no connection at all so.

 

[King Silkbeard]

1. Extrajudicial Killings

SNHR documented the killing of at least 202,000 civilians at the hands of Bashar Assad’s regime forces, including 23,058 children and 12,010 women.

1. Enforced Disappearance

At least 96,321 cases of enforced disappearance at the hands of Bashar Assad’s regime forces are documented on SNHR’s database, among them 2,329 children and 5,742 women.

1. Deaths due to torture

At least 15,102 individuals died under torture at the hands of Bashar Assad’s regime forces, including 190 children and 95 women.

1. Use of four types of destructive weapons

• Barrel bombs
  From July 2012, the Bashar Assad’s regime’s air force dropped at least 81,916 barrel bombs, resulting in the deaths of 11,087 civilians, including 1,821 children and 1,780 women.
• Chemical weapons
  SNHR documented 217 chemical weapons attacks by Bashar Assad’s regime. The first attack was carried out in Homs’s al-Bayyada neighborhood on December 23, 2012. These attacks killed 1,514 individuals, 1,413 of whom were civilians, including 214 children, and 262 women, in addition to injuring 11,080 others.
• Cluster munitions
  SNHR documented 252 cluster munition attacks by Bashar Assad’s regime forces from their first use of these weapons in July 2012. These attacks resulted in the deaths of 835 individuals, including 337 children and 191 women.
• Incendiary weapons
  SNHR recorded at least 51 incendiary attacks on civilian areas from March 2011.

1. Forced displacementBetween 2011 and 2024, extensive violations on a vast scale by the former Bashar Assad’s regime and its allies, led to the internal displacement of approximately 6.8 million Syrians, with another seven million Syrian refugees seeking asylum abroad, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The deposed regime and its allies not only inflicted incalculable levels of destruction and displacement, but also enacted laws violating fundamental human rights specifically to seize the properties of displaced persons and refugees.

SNHR also documented numerous other types of violations, including the destruction of hundreds of vital facilities, such as hospitals, schools, mosques, churches, and many more.

Did you read any of what I posted? I will remind you, what other Arab country does not have an oppressive apparatus? The West liberated Libya with bombs that brought slavery & the rise of the far right in Europe. I also said he protected minorites clearly you don't care about those currently being kidnapped, murdered & being persecuted just because they are not Sunni. You like that Syria.

 

[slick fingers]

Yip, it quite normal for people to go around murdering militia commanders. Yes really run of the mill stuff.

What has that got to do with Declan Hayes, the 2017 trip or the torture photo leak?