Israeli-Syrian security pact expected to be signed by end 2025 - report
"progress in talks", “end of the year” to sign agreements
security and military agreements by end 2025
agreement would include “a corridor to fly to Iran"
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said Security pact is 'necessary'
negotiations could yield results “in the coming days”
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani arrive in Washington Thurs
first Syrian foreign minister to visit Washington in 25 years
What does pact entail?
between Israel and Syria demilitarized zone
Israel to remain at strategic locations including Mount Hermon
included map from Damascus southwest up to border with Israel
areas southwest of Damascus split into three different zones.
extend current buffer zone on Syrian side by 2 kilometers
whole southwest of Damascus to Israel no-fly zone for Syria
key part of proposal is aerial corridor to Iran through Syria
My Comments: The new Syrian "president" who is a Sunni is president only around Damascus. He has little or no power through much of Syria. This 'pact' does not mention the Druze - who will likely be getting their own autonomous region right beside the Israeli border. The Druze want to be part of Israel. The Druze are not Muslim at all.
The pact also does not mention the Kurdish people. The Kurds too will have their own areas - and not under the Syrian "president". The Kurds are Sunni Muslim but they are not Arabs.
It looks like Syria is being broken up into three parts - according to race and religion. Ahmad Sharaa gets to play-play as president in Damascus.
If they can stop fighting with each other it would be good. But they have not stopped fighting among themselves for the past 1,000 years.
"Apabila orang kaya menjadi kaya melalui pengaruh, hak istimewa, dan hubungan kroni, sementara orang miskin menjadi lebih miskin tanpa sebarang kesalahan mereka sendiri, kita tidak lagi hidup dalam masyarakat yang adil. Sistem ini telah menjadi permainan yang dimanipulasi, di mana daya usaha dan bekerja keras tidak lagi menjadi kunci kejayaan. Orang di atas mempunyai kuasa untuk menentukan siapa yang akan maju, dan mereka menggunakan kuasa itu untuk mengekalkan kedudukan mereka, tanpa perlu kepintaran, kebolehan atau untuk bekerja keras. Ini adalah sistem di mana orang kaya mewarisi kekayaan, sementara orang miskin dibiarkan untuk bergelut dengan sisa-sisa, dan tiada apa pun yang akan mengubah sistem ini."
Pada zaman awalnya, perbandingan antara demokrasi dan komunisme boleh dianggap sebagai 'mengikut demokrasi setiap orang mendapat satu undi sahaja', manakala 'mengikut komunisme setiap orang mendapat satu dolar sahaja'. Demokrasi tidak selalu berfungsi dengan baik. Mengikut demokrasi, anda mempunyai hak mutlak untuk menjadi miskin. Dalam sistem demokrasi, anda boleh menjadi miskin ke tahap mana yang anda pilih.
Mengikut komunisme, pemerintah memperuntukkan kekayaan negara untuk menyediakan keperluan asas seperti makanan, perumahan, pendidikan dan perkhidmatan kesihatan untuk rakyat. Negara Cuba mungkin masih mempunyai sistem perkhidmatan kesihatan awam terbaik di dunia.
Di China, mereka telah terbalikkan sistem komunisme. Daripada 'setiap orang mendapat satu dolar sahaja', kini orang Cina mendekati 'setiap orang mendapat satu juta dolar sahaja'. Itu bukan komunisme sebenarnya.
Tetapi tanpa ragu, China kini mempunyai jumlah jutawan yang terbesar di dunia (kiraan dalam Dolar AS).
Menurut Laporan Kekayaan Global Credit Suisse 2023, China mempunyai sekitar 6.2 juta jutawan, lebih banyak daripada AS yang mempunyai kira-kira 5.5 juta jutawan. Perbezaan besar adalah orang Amerika mengambil masa 250 tahun untuk mencapai tahap ini. Orang Cina telah melakukannya dalam kira-kira 35 tahun sahaja (sejak 1990).
Dan pasti ada berjuta-juta lagi orang Cina di China yang sudah menjadi separuh jutawan - ia itu mereka yang memiliki US$500,000 SAHAJA. Jadi orang Cina sedang menjadi masyarakat yang terkaya di atas muka bumi. Dan mereka bukanlah negara sistem demokrasi yang keluar 'mengundi setiap lima tahun'.
Ke"demokrasi"an di negeri China boleh dilihat dalam sistem ekonomi mereka. Ekonomi mereka adalah 100% kompetitif dan pasaran terbuka. Dalam ekonomi China, anda boleh Be all you can be atau 'mencapai segala apa yang anda ingin mencapai'. Terpulang kepada anda.
Kemudian di lorong belakang pula kita boleh menjumpai 'demokrasi yang gagal' seperti Nepal.
Di bawah ini adalah video ringkas. Anda tidak perlu menonton sembilan minit penuh. Lelaki gemuk dalam video ini diselamatkan oleh beberapa orang.
Nepal adalah contoh tipikal negara demokrasi Dunia Ketiga yang telah gagal. Demokrasi yang gagal di mana golongan elit, yang berkuasa dan kaya memperkayakan diri mereka dengan mengorbankan rakyat biasa. Dengan membaham rezeki rakyat biasa.
Mereka boleh melakukan ini dengan menafikan akses yang sama kepada peluang ekonomi untuk semua rakyat. Golongan elit, mereka yang berkuasa dan kroni mengawal semua kuasa perundangan, mereka mengawal kerajaan dan pentadbiran dan sudah tentu mereka juga membuat undang-undang dan peraturan yang menguntungkan mereka dahulu.
Dan mereka sakau dana awam - hobi kegemaran mereka. Dana awam atau wang rakyat sentiasa menjadi sasaran No. 1. Easy money. Mereka akan mencuri dana awam - biasanya melalui rasuah. Juga melalui projek-projek besar yang terlalu mahal, membazir atau tidak berguna. Melipatgandakan kos dan sebutan harga untuk projek kerajaan adalah cara paling popular untuk mencuri dana awam. Dan mereka perlu merasuah ahli politik untuk meluluskan harga berlipatganda untuk projek tersebut. That is how their system works.
Kemudian terdapat juga golongan elit yang mencengkam ekonomi negara - melalui kartel, monopoli yang dilesenkan oleh kerajaan, oligopoli, perjanjian konsesi yang panjang-panjang yang 'diperbaharui' berulang kali.
Ini adalah karakter semua negara 'demokrasi Dunia Ketiga yang gagal'. Inilah sebab utama mengapa demokrasi Dunia Ketiga gagal. Kita telah melihat rusuhan di Indonesia. Untuk makluman - masalah mereka belum selesai. Masalah mereka di Indonesia baru sahaja bermula.
Sekarang kita melihatnya berlaku di Nepal pula. Masalah mereka juga baru sahaja bermula di Nepal.
"Apabila
orang kaya menjadi kaya melalui pengaruh, hak istimewa, dan hubungan
kroni, sementara orang miskin menjadi lebih miskin tanpa sebarang
kesalahan mereka sendiri, kita tidak lagi hidup dalam masyarakat yang
adil. Sistem ini telah menjadi permainan yang dimanipulasi, di mana daya
usaha dan bekerja keras tidak lagi menjadi kunci kejayaan. Orang di
atas mempunyai kuasa untuk menentukan siapa yang akan maju, dan mereka
menggunakan kuasa itu untuk mengekalkan kedudukan mereka, tanpa perlu
kepintaran, kebolehan atau untuk bekerja keras. Ini adalah sistem di
mana orang kaya mewarisi kekayaan, sementara orang miskin dibiarkan
untuk bergelut dengan sisa-sisa, dan tiada apa pun yang akan mengubah
sistem ini."
"When
the rich get rich through pull, privilege, and connections, while the
poor get poorer through no fault of their own, we are no longer living
in a just society. The system has become a rigged game, where effort is
no longer the key to success. The people at the top have the power to
decide who gets ahead, and they use that power to maintain their own
position, regardless of ability or hard work. This is a world where the
rich inherit wealth, while the poor are left to fight for scraps, and no
amount of effort will change the system."
In the old days the comparison between democracy and communism could be 'under democracy every man gets one vote only' whereas 'under communism every man gets one dollar only'.
Democracy does not always work very well. In a democracy you have the absolute right to be poor. In a democracy you can be as poor as you are capable of.
Under communism the state devotes its resources to provide the basics like food, housing, education and health care for the people. Cuba perhaps still has the best public health care system in the world.
In China they have turned communism upside down. Instead of 'every man gets one dollar only' the Chinese are now approaching 'every man gets one million dollars only'. That is not exactly communism.
Without a doubt China now has the largest number of millionaires in the world (US Dollar).
According to the 2023 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report, China has around 6.2 million millionaires, more than the U.S. with about 5.5 million millionaires.
The huge difference is the Americans took 250 years to achieve this. The Chinese have done it in about 35 years (since 1990).
And there must be many millions more Chinese in China who are easily half millionaires - those who have acquired US$500,000 ONLY. So the Chinese are becoming the richest and wealthiest society on planet earth. And they are not a 'lets vote every five years' type of democracy.
Their 'democracy' can be found in their economy. Their economy is 100% competitive and open market. In the Chinese economy you can 'Be all you can be'.
Then you have 'failed democracies' like Nepal.
Here is a brief video. You dont have to watch all nine minutes. The fat guy in the video gets saved by some people.
Nepal is a typical example of a failed Third World democracy. A failed democracy where the elites, the powerful and the rich enrich themselves at the cost of the ordinary people.
They do this by denying equal access to economic opportunities for all the people. The elites, the powerful and the rich control all the levers of legislative power, they control the government and the administration and of course they also make laws and regulations that benefit them first.
And they feed on public funds. Public funds or taxpayers money is always target No. 1. The easy money. They will steal public funds - usually through corruption. Also through large projects that are overpriced and which are wasteful or useless. Overpricing government projects is the most popular method to steal public funds. And they must bribe the politicians if they want to overprice the project.
Then they have the elites who have a chokehold on the economy - through cartels, government licensed monopolies, oligopolies, endless concession agreements that are "extended" again and again.
This is typical 'failed Third World democracy' behaviour. This is why Third World democracies fail. We have seen the riots in Indonesia. By the way - their problems are not over. Their problems are just starting in Indonesia.
Now you are seeing it in Nepal. Their problems are also just starting in Nepal.
"When the rich get rich through pull, privilege, and connections, while the poor get poorer through no fault of their own, we are no longer living in a just society. The system has become a rigged game, where effort is no longer the key to success. The people at the top have the power to decide who gets ahead, and they use that power to maintain their own position, regardless of ability or hard work. This is a world where the rich inherit wealth, while the poor are left to fight for scraps, and no amount of effort will change the system."
Have you seen the Arabs coming here to help us when we have problems? Lets say we have the annual floods. Then sometimes the floods suddenly become more severe than usual. Like the floods we had in Kelantan and Pahang some years ago.
About 20 years back there was serious flooding in Johor that lasted for weeks. We did not see any Arab aid groups, medical aid etc coming here to help around.
During the Covid crisis some billionaire Arabs made billions by cornering the vaccine market.
The Rohingya people have been in crisis for a long time. Have you seen any Arab countries extending a helping hand to the Rohingyas? Maybe the Arabs help the Rohingya Muslims in secret.
Remember the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004? Over 200,000 Indonesians died. Our boys went to Indonesia to help them on the ground. The Singaporeans set up field hospitals. But there were no Arabs.
The Al Qaeda Arabs were here as early as the 1990s. I believe later some ISIS Arabs were here too. They came here to create trouble. Then the Wahabi - Salafi Arabs also were here. Some of them even ran a private university in Shah Alam. Just creating mischief and trouble.
