The US-funded “Syrian rebels” (actually, “foreign terrorist mercenaries” is a more appropriate designation) kill children every day, and are regularly on video torturing and even eating people.

But a video of them beheading a small boy has gone viral, which has resulted in the US claiming it may stop funding these “rebels.”

RT:

The US says it may reconsider its affiliation and support for the Syrian opposition if reports of anti-Assad rebels beheading a Palestinian boy are confirmed. The State Department has vowed “consequences” if the gruesome videos of the death are true.

“If we [the United States] can prove indeed what happened and this group [al-Zenki] was involved in it… it would give us pause about any assistance or frankly any further involvement,” Deputy Spokesperson for the State Department, Mark Toner, told reporters at a daily briefing Tuesday.

Toner refused to elaborate on what consequences the Syrian opposition would face if it turns out that they had been behind the “appalling” beheading of the Palestinian boy.

“I can’t take what these consequences would be, but this would give certainly a pause and we’ll look at any affiliation or cooperation with this group,” he reiterated when asked for details.

Washington’s reaction comes in response to two videos that surfaced online Tuesday, showing five fighters from the Nour al-Din al-Zinki movement first taunting and then cutting off the boy’s head.

One of the movement’s fighters is seen grabbing the boy by his hair and pushing him down in the flatbed of a pick-up truck. He is then seen beheading him with a knife. After the killing, he raises the boy’s head up to a cheering crowd.

One of the videos stated that the Palestinian boy, who looks to be about 10 years old, was a fighter from Liwa al-Quds (the Jerusalem Brigade), a Palestinian pro-government militia currently active near Aleppo, Syria.

The killing allegedly took place in Handarat, north of Aleppo, a territory under heavy fighting. This location is known to host Ein El Tal, unofficial Palestinian refugee camp.

Nour al-Din al-Zinki’s General Command condemned the killing saying that the violence does represent the “general state” of the movement, but “an individual error.”

Previously affiliated to the Supreme Military Command (SMC) of the Free Syrian Army, Nour al-Din al-Zinki was receiving both financial and arms support from the US, as well as Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia until September 2015.

Why are we insisting on bringing “democracy” to a country where people cheer when a child’s head gets cut off?

Maybe we should just let them do their thing, huh?

I’m not going to link the video. You can find it if you want to find it. I don’t recommend watching it.

Here are some stills, just so you have an idea.

Note that the people doing the head-chopping look like any Arab you would see on the streets of London.

Wow, seems like normal people.

As it turns out, the Syrian people would rather have freedom than be occupied by US-backed moderate terrorists.

No one could have predicted that.

Sputnik:

Syrian towns Nubl and al-Zahra in Northern Aleppo province had been occupied by the Free Syrian Army since July, 2012. After their liberation on the February 3rd and following improvement of their living conditions, residents are expressing their gratitude to Russia, Iran and Hezbollah.

Only about two weeks ago, the two strategically important towns were under the control of various rebel factions, including the al-Nusra Front. According to reports from locals, for more than three years they had to conquer fear and learn how to survive without enough aid, but with constant shelling in the background.

The Syrian Army, backed by pro-Iranian militias and Russia, which has been conducting air strikes targeting Daesh positions in the country, was welcomed with open arms by the residents that support the Syrian government and Bashar Assad. Streets are now decorated with posters of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei along with photographs of the Syrian President beaming down from the front of the town hall in Nubl and hanging outside its main mosque.

“Thank you Russia! Thank you Hezbollah! Thank you Iran!” a resident shouted on the street, as reported by CNN.

According to the Syrian Red Crescent, it delivered humanitarian relief to Nubl and Al Zahra earlier this week. Reportedly, the living conditions have significantly improved there in just two weeks, with stores and markets becoming better stocked.

Dear brothers, the happening is upon us.

Related: Russia in Syria: It’s All Happening

USA Today:

Russia launched its first airstrike in Syria following a build up of its forces in the embattled country, a U.S. official said Wednesday.

The airstrike was conducted around the city of Homs, said the official, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

The United States was given one hour’s notice before the strike took place, the official said. The notice was sent in Baghdad, where the Russians have set up a coordination unit with Iraq’s government. A high-ranking Russian officer there notified a U.S. military official at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, the U.S. official said.

Ha! “Coordination unit”!

How long before that becomes “Baghdad, where the Russians have set up a base of operations”?

And how hilarious! And hour before, he “coordinates” with the US  through the Baghdad embassy!

It was not clear whether the target of the Russian airstrike was the Islamic State militant group or more moderate Syrian rebels combating the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the official said. The U.S. had not yet assessed the damages from the airstrike.

Did the official say what, if any, difference there is between ISIS and “moderate Syrian rebels”?

Because I, along with everyone else on the planet, is still slightly confused about this particular issue.

It was also not immediately apparent whether the attack signified the start of regular Russian airstrikes.

“HALP! We are confuse!”

Both the U.S.and Russia view the Islamic State as a common enemy, but Russia supports Assad’s regime as the most effective force battling the militant group, while the US. wants Assad to step aside because of atrocities it says he has committed against civilians to retain power during Syria’s four-year-old civil war. The U.S. is backing Syrian rebel groups that have so far have proven ineffective against the Islamic State and Assad’s forces.

This is so absolutely nonsensical.

Earlier today I posted a clip from Assad’s interview with Charlie Rose earlier this year where Rose asked him why he was murdering his own people. Assad responded that this was just propaganda, explaining the idiocy of this logic:

As I said earlier, the war is not about capturing land and gaining land, it’s about winning the hearts and minds of the Syrians. We cannot win the hearts and minds of the Syrians while we are killing Syrians. We cannot sustain four years in that position as a government and me as a President while the rest of the world, most of the world, the great powers, the regional powers are against me, and my people are against me. That’s impossible. I mean, this logic has no leg to stand on. So, this is not realistic, and this is against our interests as the government to kill the people. What do we gain? What is the benefit of killing the people?

This is obviously the question any normal thinking person would ask when they hear that Assad, in the middle of a siege by foreign terrorists, is murdering his own people with chemical gas for no reason.

“We’re under attack! Release the chemical gas on our own civilian population!”

Like, why would anyone do that?

You would have to be completely insane, which I guess is the Jewish argument in every case. But how would an insane person who gasses his own civilian population for no reason hold out in a war for four years? Saddam fell in 21 days (granted, that involved US forces, rather than US-paid mercenaries, but still).

The argument that Assad is a criminally insane psychopath intent on slaughtering his own people for no reason is absolutely nonsensical.

The obvious reason that the US, the Jews and the Saudis oppose Assad is that, like Gaddaffi and Saddam, he had a vision of a pan-Arab anti-Israel coalition.

From the Syrian constitution:

1) The comprehensive Arab revolution is an existing and continuing necessity to achieve the Arab nation’s aspirations for unity, freedom, and socialism. The revolution in the Syrian Arab region is part of the comprehensive Arab revolution. Its policy in all areas stems from the general strategy of the Arab revolution.

2) Under the reality of division, all the achievements by any Arab country will fail to fully achieve their scope and will remain subject to distortion and setback unless these achievements are buttressed and preserved by Arab unity. Likewise, any danger to which any Arab country may be exposed on the part of imperialism and Zionism is at the same time a danger threatening the whole Arab nation.

3) The march toward the establishment of a socialist order besides being a necessity stemming from the Arab society’s needs, is also a fundamental necessity for mobilizing the potentialities of the Arab masses in their battle with Zionism and imperialism.

4) Freedom is a sacred right and popular democracy is the ideal formulation which insures for the citizen the exercise of his freedom which makes him a dignified human being capable of giving and building, defending the homeland in which he lives, and making sacrifices for the sake of the nation to which he belongs. The homeland’s freedom can only be preserved by its free citizens. The citizen’s freedom can be completed only by his economic and social liberation.

5) The Arab revolution movement is a fundamental part of the world liberation movement. Our Arab people’s struggle forms a part of the struggle of the peoples for their freedom, independence, and progress.

This is the exact thing the Jews do not want.

What they want is a bunch of towelheads running around like ADHD monkeys killing each other for no clear reason.

That is what the initial breakup of the Ottoman empire was about, and everything since then has been a continuation of this “divide and conquer” policy.

All the leaders attacked by Israel have been Alpha Male pan-Arab socialists. When they’ve compared each of them to Hitler, they weren’t lying.

Worthy of note here is that the constitution of Saudi Arabia does not contain the words “Zionism,” “Jew” or “Israel.”

It isn’t presently clear just yet, but it looks like the US/Turkey backed Free Syrian Army is who just got bombed, rather than official “ISIS” dudes.

That would definitely be purposeful on Putin’s part. The first strike is against enemies of Syria who are openly backed by the US, rather than on enemies who are backed by proxy through the Saudis.

The US is saying it was the FSA that got bombed.

Fox News:

A U.S. official said Russian airstrikes targeted fighters in the vicinity of Homs, located roughly 60 miles east of a Russian naval facility in Tartus, and were carried out by a “couple” of Russian bombers. The strikes hit targets in Homs and Hama, but there is no presence of ISIS in those areas, a senior U.S. defense official said. These planes are hitting areas where Free Syrian Army and other anti-Assad groups are located, the official said.

Activists and a rebel commander on the ground said the Russian airstrikes have mostly hit moderate rebel positions and civilians. In a video released by the U.S.-backed rebel group Tajamu Alezzah, jets are seen hitting a building claimed to be a location of the group in the town of Latamna in the central Hama province.

The group commander Jameel al-Saleh told a local Syrian news website that the group’s location was hit by Russian jets but didn’t specify the damage.

A group of local activists in the town of Talbiseh in Homs province recorded at least 16 civilians killed, including two children.

As we here at the Daily Stormer know, there is no measurable difference between any of these groups, and they all coordinate with ISIS. But for the masses, they push this narrative of “there are some good terrorists, some bad terrorists.

The British and the French are saying the same thing – that they bombed the FSA.

Daily Express:

Moscow launched a bombing campaign on ISIS-held territory in Syria after the Russian parliament gave the green light to strikes with the aim of supporting President Bashar al-Assad.

The focus of the action was heralded as being solely to degrade ISIS jihadis operating in the country.

But the shock new claim from a senior French source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, pits the UK and its allies directly against Vladimir Putin.

“If it is Homs, which it seems to be, it is not Daesh (ISIS) that they are targeting, but probably opposition groups, which confirms that they are more in support of Assad’s regime than in fighting Daesh,” the source said.

Russia’s military intervention in its closest Middle East ally raises the prospect of fresh military and diplomatic tensions between Mr Putin and the West.

Reports that followed the first air strikes claimed a rebel group backed by the US was hit by Russian warplanes.

Making the first bombing, less than 48 hours after the UN meeting, a bombing of FSA would be fantastically bold. Also very funny. The West could obviously be lying, but I kinda hope they aren’t. I hope Putin bombs the hell out of every single Jew-backed proxy in Syria, and I hope he makes a point of directing the initial attacks against terrorists which are admittedly funded by the West.

We’ll know soon enough.

This is new, as I’m finishing up the article.

RT:

Russia has struck eight Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) targets in Syria, the country’s Defense Ministry said, adding that civilian infrastructure was avoided during the operations.

“Today, Russian aerospace force jets delivered pinpoint strikes on eight ISIS terror group targets in Syria. In total, 20 flights were made,” spokesperson for the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said.

“As a result, arms and fuel depots and military equipment were hit. ISIS coordination centers in the mountains were totally destroyed,” he added.

With video:

There are live updates on The Telegraph (to be taken with a salt shaker, of course, but giving some valid info). I would link the chan threads, but they are both being shilled so hard they aren’t even worth reading.

Hail Vladimir Putin.

Hail Bashir al-Assad.

Hail Victory.