Joel Rayburn
@joel_rayburn
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Personal account. Former diplomat & military officer. Views expressed here are my own.
Washington, DC
Joined June 2009
.@POTUS on the Gaza Peace Deal: "It's brought the whole world together. It's amazing — and it's so good for Israel. I spoke to Bibi Netanyahu just a little while ago... I said, 'Israel cannot fight the world, Bibi. They can't fight the world.'"
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THOMAS MORE: “I do none harm. I say none harm. I think none harm. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, then in good faith I long not to live.” —Robert Bolt, “A Man for All Seasons”
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Let nobody be fooled! The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN. Any further attack or retaliation by the “Houthis” will be met with great force, and
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Today @POTUS sent a powerful and clear message to Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen. These attacks on U.S. vessels and global shipping must stop and we will hold you accountable. We will protect our people and freedom of navigation.
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"To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP..." –President Donald J. Trump
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President Trump is taking action against the Houthis to defend US shipping assets and deter terrorist threats. For too long American economic & national threats have been under assault by the Houthis. Not under this presidency.
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The United States welcomes the recently announced agreement between the Syrian interim authorities and the Syrian Democratic Forces to integrate the northeast into a unified Syria. The United States reaffirms its support for a political transition that demonstrates credible,
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Do “analysis” pieces which appear in the news pages undergo the same fact checking as news articles? Or is this a backdoor to advance opinions as fact? The paper must correct the record.
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In a @nytimes pseudo opinion piece aka “news analysis” this weekend, the paper advanced the FALSE claim that no American troops are at war overseas under Biden. This disrespects the troops who are currently under enemy fire in Syria, the Red Sea, and Somalia under Biden.
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Jolani and HTS, a listed terrorist organization, are also delusional if they think the world and Syria's neighbors will support his HTS-dominated "salvation government" as it imposes a transitional government on all of Syria that circumvents the UN-led 2254 political process.
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I think Abu Muhammad al-Jolani must be delusional if he thinks that Syrians, having seen the departure of a 54-yr dictatorship yesterday, will sit still as he installs himself as another dictator in Assad's place.
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Exactly what my father was wearing 2017 when he was kidnapped at a checkpoint in Damascus.. if anyone knows anything about him please please please contact us. 🙏 we’ve heard he was as murdered by the regime but have no further info.
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Hadi al Bahra is on Al Arabiya right now announcing that Bashar al Assad has fled Damascus.
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(Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane and left Damascus for an unknown destination on Sunday, two senior army officers told Reuters, as rebels said they had entered the capital with no sign of army deployments.
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🚨🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Syrian opposition factions are 3 km away from Sednaya Prison in Damascus, known as one of the most notorious prisons in Syria, housing tens of thousands of innocent Syrians.
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