ILTV Remembers Syria's Devious President Was Terrorist

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani spoke to supporters at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus hours after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad

ILTV agrees with my past statements that the present Syrian President, Jolani, real name is Ahmed al-Sharaa (sometimes spelled Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa).  He previously used the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani.  Jolani is not to be forgotten that his whole life has been spent being a terrorist, and a leader at that of terrorism.  Trump seems to have forgotten this little fact in his dealings with him.  Of course, Trump likes people who can force others to do his bidding.  

Doesn't Trump know that Jolani's journey as a jihadist began in Iraq, linked to al-Qaeda through the Islamic State (IS) group's precursor - al-Qaeda in Iraq and, later, the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI).

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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa accused Israel on Saturday of “exporting crises” to other countries as a way to divert attention from the “horrifying massacres” it is committing in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Addressing the Doha Forum in the Qatari capital, Sharaa claimed that Israel was attempting to justify its actions against several Middle Eastern countries under the false pretext of “security concerns”.

“Israel… tries to run away from the horrifying massacres committed in Gaza, and it does so by attempting to export crises,” Sharaa said in conversation with CNN’s chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour.

Now we see Amanpour diving into aping what a terrorist says

about Israel as the gospel truth like Nicholas Kristof has done.

After the 2003 US-led invasion, he joined other foreign fighters in Iraq and, in 2005, was imprisoned at Camp Bucca, where he enhanced his jihadist affiliations and later on was introduced to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the quiet scholar who would later go on to lead IS.

In 2011, Baghdadi sent Jolani to Syria with funding to establish al-Nusra Front, a covert faction tied to ISI. By 2012, Nusra had become a prominent Syrian fighting force, hiding its IS and al-Qaeda ties.

Lately, The Syrian government has been continuously demanding a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Syria. Damascus condemns these Israeli ground incursions, military operations, and detentions in areas such as Quneitra as blatant violations of Syrian sovereignty. 

Syrian officials are actively pursuing a security agreement that would secure the withdrawal of Israeli forces to the 1974 ceasefire lines, while pausing broader negotiations over the Golan Heights. The Syrian government continues to press the international community and the United Nations to pressure Israel into halting its military footprint in the region. 

Diplomatic Stance: While Damascus has chosen a diplomatic route to avoid further escalation after years of civil conflict, al-Sharaa states that negotiations are incredibly difficult. He has strongly rejected any recognition of Israeli control over the Golan Heights.

The 1974 Baseline: Syria's core demand is that Israel must strictly adhere to the 1974 disengagement agreements and withdraw from any areas its forces have penetrated.

Current Status: Syrian officials maintain they are seeking a security agreement to guarantee a withdrawal, but note progress is severely hampered by Israel's insistence on maintaining a presence and creating a wide buffer zone on Syrian soil.

This admiration for the strong horse, Jolani aka Sharaa,  is a middle-east social way of life that is normal for Trump lately.  It's going to backfire and lose him a lot of votes.  We don't all go for the strongest but the one most admirable and moral.  

ILTV (Israel News) coverage of Ahmad al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammad al-Jolani) and the Syrian transition government highlights his shifting demands regarding Israel. Their programming analyzes his calls for an Israeli withdrawal from Syrian territories, alongside his parallel push for U.S.-backed negotiations and Syria's evolving role in the region.

The Withdrawal Demand: ILTV has covered Jolani's demands for the IDF to pull back from the strategic buffer zones and heights seized in southern Syria, presenting this as a complex geopolitical hurdle.

U.S. Mediation & Peace Deals: Broadcasts explore the diplomatic efforts, reportedly mediated by the U.S. and UAE, evaluating whether these negotiations could transition into a non-aggression pact or normalization.

Geopolitical Leverage: Commentary examines the pressure on the transitional Syrian leadership to secure Israeli concessions, the high-ground leverage in the Golan Heights, and the risks of domestic backlash.  All this procedure is wasted time spent expecting a terrorist with ultimate goals pertaining only to him to be valued.  They go through wasted  motions probably hoping to get cheesecake at the end of such meetings.  

Resource: 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q0w1g8zqvo

https://www.facebook.com/TheJerusalemPost/posts/israel-syria-talks-advance-but-key-security-questions-lingerisrael-navigated-dec/1324158153071489/

Jawbone Found in Israel Causing Jaws to Drop: Human Time Line Changes

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

The fossilized jaw and teeth were found in Misliya Cave on Mt Carmel in Israel.Credit: Mina Weinstein-Evron, Haifa Univ.

The New York Times wrote on January 25, 2018, about the find of a human jawbone  that goes back 50,000 more years than we expected.  This human jawbone dates back by carbon testing to be from 177,000 to 194,000 years old, and was found in a cave in Israel.  

                                                                      

Why Israel?  What makes it so special?  Israel was at the crossroads of civilization.  Evidently it had always acted as the grand freeway of our past with gas station and diner handy.  Israel's frontiers were laid out in the Bible, vetted that far back by Moses.  Its total surface is 17,500 sq miles of which 45% is in Transjordan, or Jordan today as it's known.  Most of Syria was included.  Israel today is much much smaller.  The Carmel caves are still in Israel.  They are a world Heritage site. 

                                                                         

 The Mount Carmel Caves are four cave sites that testify to more than 500,000 years of human evolution. They are situated on a cliff in the Mount Carmel range.

“This would be the earliest modern human anyone has found outside of Africa, ever,” said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist from the University of Wisconsin, Madison who was not involved in the study."

                                                                     

Then this morning, on ILTV out of Tel Aviv, the program told of the love affair between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens in that a few of us are the results of such a meeting.  A lady scientist explained how Neanderthals were in Israel's cavcs long ago and last to leave Africa were a new group of Homo Sapiens who reached the caves and shared what they knew.  She announced that some of us with about 2.9% of Neandertal were the evidence of this meeting.  I had 2.9% Neandertal as tested by 23%Me  several years ago!  So I must be able to claim this mixed line in my heritage of DNA, one of the first right out of ISRAEL !  How about that!

                                                                          

• Today  %27s Europeans and East Asians owe 1%25 to 2%25 of their DNA to Neanderthals
• A museum in France shows a person back in 80,000 BCE of Paleolithic Era, finding early interbreeding between Neanderthal and Homo Sapien.  When modern humans moved out of Africa into Eurasia some 100,000 years ago, they found Neanderthals there to greet them. The two groups may have made war, but they certainly also made love. Today's Europeans and East Asians owe 1% to 2% of their DNA to Neanderthals, but the impact of those additions has been unclear, but such companies as 23&Me must be making inroads.  

Now that more customers have tested, I'm listed with only 2%, and I'm rather disappointed except that I still have  more Neanderthal DNA than 61% of the other customers, and they are the only ones who test for Neanderthal genes.  Because of this fact, I do have a worse sense of direction than other people.  That's so true.  I do prefer dark chocolate over milk chocolate, but that's because of they hype I read as I feel I rarely eat milk chocolate like in my youth in buying good old Hershey bars.  We with more Neanderthal DNA are spread from Western Eurasia from Wales to Southern Siberia and the Altai Mountains.  This is so true for me.  My maternal grandfather's line came from Wales, he said, and my paternal grandfather's line goes back to the Altai Mountains of Siberia being that male line Q;  QBZ67 to be exact. Maybe I inherited mine from both sides of the family.  

When you think about it, that evidence comes from such a long time ago, and my autosomal DNA tests go back to my 5th or more cousins, but that's not that many generations ago.  I still have 2.9% of my Neanderthal cousins.  Oy vey!  No doubt to me that this comes from my father's side.  As I seem to remember, my son's test came up with the 2.9% as well, so this didn't change.  Chances are that his son, who has also tested, is the same as well, so this could go for a long time without lessening.                                                    

                                                                         

My own digs into further research on the subject found that "the upper jaw and teeth, found in an Israeli cave and reported in Science on 25 January, pre-date other human fossils from the same region by at least 50,000 years. But scientists say that it is unclear whether the fossils represent a brief incursion or a more-lasting expansion of the species.  In other words, this Israeli find shows that Israeli fossils are the oldest modern humans ever found outside of Africa.  

It also reminds me of the peoples that Moses and the Exodus had to fight against to get to Canaan after leaving Egypt.  Could they had been people who had a way bigger% of Neanderthal ?  Or go back even further with Esau wandering off to live with the others, and the others had a reason to be quite different, with a larger % of Neanderthal.  This could explain the aggressiveness of others of that distant period that took place only about 6,000-5,000 years ago.  

Researchers originally thought that H. sapiens emerged in East Africa 200,000 years ago, then moved out to populate the rest of the world. Until discoveries in the past decade countered that story, scientists thought that a small group left Africa some 60,000 years ago. If so, it would mean that signs of earlier travels, including 80,000–120,000-year-old skulls and other remains from Israel, uncovered in the 1920s and 1930s, were from failed migrations."  

"However, recent discoveries have muddied that simple narrative. Some H. sapiens-like fossils from Morocco that are older than 300,000 years, reported last year, have raised the possibility that humans evolved earlier and perhaps elsewhere in Africa. Teeth from southern China, described in 2015, hint at long-distance migrations some 120,000 years ago. And genome studies have sown more confusion, with some comparisons of global populations pointing to just one human migration from Africa,  and others suggesting multiple waves."

                                                                 

I have found that  "the genes from Neanderthals helped them to adapt quickly to a new diet. Some genes might even have changed the shape of our teeth! Several genes that humans received from Neanderthals also seem to play a role in the immune system, protecting us against certain diseases."  When humans received Neanderthal DNA, they also got the genes to fight the new viruses and bacteria."

"So, if you are not African, your DNA contains a dash of Neanderthal genes. These genes stuck around because they were probably beneficial for humans, helping our species survive to the present day. Looking back, it might have been good that our distant ancestors had kids with Neanderthals. And, if you think about it, Neanderthals never went extinct–they live on in the DNA of modern humans.

Evidently pure Africans do not have any % of Neanderthal, then.  They had remained in Africa and did not mix in with Neanderthals who were not in Africa.  It makes me wonder if Neanderthals didn't originate in a European area, instead.  I just read someone's theory about that on academia's website.   

Resource:

ILTV out of Tel Aviv; Thursday, 6/17/21

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01261-5

https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2019.00104

https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2019.00104#:~:text=The%20genes%20from%20Neanderthals%20helped,protecting%20us%20against%20certain%20diseases.