This week’s Captain Obvious award goes to our old favourite, the UN. Just to prove that nothing gets past these eagle-eyed observers (apart from Hamas fighters carting a suspiciously large number of barrows of dirt from under a UNRWA compound), the UN’s top envoy for Syria is here to drop the stunning shocker that Islamic State extremists are flexing their terror muscles again. Oh, and that Syria really is a shithole.
Gosh, who ever would have known?
U.N. Special Envoy Geir Pedersen said Syria is “riddled with armed actors, listed terrorist groups, foreign armies and front-lines”.
He also made the stunning finding that water is wet.
The Islamic State group declared a self-styled caliphate in a large swath of territory in Syria and Iraq that it seized in 2014. It was declared defeated in Iraq in 2017 following a three-year battle that killed tens of thousands of people and left cities in ruins, but its sleeper cells remain in both countries.
Not to mention its not-so-sleeper cells scattered across the West, thanks to the efforts of hand-wringing ‘human rights’ activists who demanded that Western countries welcome back the bloodthirsty fighters and the jihadi brides who flocked to join ISIS.
Just to prove that stating the bleeding (literally) obvious is not the sole forte of the UN:
U.S. deputy ambassador Robert A. Wood blamed Iran, Assad’s greatest regional supporter, for the violence in Syria.
“Iran and its proxies and partners have only brought death and destruction and do nothing to help the Syrian people,” Wood said, calling on Assad to curb Iran’s influence.
Or what? They’ll write them a letter telling them how angry they are?
Over 16 million people in Syria currently need humanitarian assistance and 7.2 million remain displaced in the “worst humanitarian crisis since the start of the conflict,” Ramesh Rajasingham, coordination director in the U.N. humanitarian office, told the council.
He added that “severely reduced humanitarian funding” exacerbates Syrians’ suffering during months of extreme heat, when rainwater dries up and a lack of basic sanitation infrastructure increases the risk of water-borne diseases.
In rebel-held northwest Syria, over 900,000 people, more than half children, are not receiving “critical water and sanitation support,” Rajasingham said.
That’s on top of the half-million or so who’ve been killed by war and Islamic terror.
Funny how Muslims in the West, or their useful idiots on the left, have conspicuously failed to march and shout, demanding a ceasefire in Syria. Nor have they attacked Iranian embassies or businesses in the West.
It’s almost as if they don’t really care about stopping wars, or the plight of their fellow Muslims. In fact, it seems suspiciously as if they have an entirely different agenda in singling out Israel for attack.
