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Syrian science secondary school graduates had high standards and its certificates were respected internationally. Unfortunately the teaching has declined while the high standards remained. Idlib has lower expectations, one within the abilities of its teachers.

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Actually, it’s because Idlib had an established educational board independent of Assad’s Nazi curriculum.

And believe it or not, Syria is an extremely impoverished country which inherited mythical levels of institutional decay from Assad’s kleptocratic regime. So as you may understand, centralised education is not top of the country’s agenda.

These disgruntled Assadists love making it all about the minorities.

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History rhymes

https://t.co/BGzZV7ZVsr

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Could it be that Israel’s 30-year narrative about Iran – one that persuaded US President Donald Trump to wage a criminal and disastrous war of aggression – was always a fiction, an invention cooked up in Tel Aviv?

Far from Tehran posing an existential danger to Israel, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed for decades, might Israel’s real fear be that a stronger Iran would undermine its unique leverage over Washington, threatening its status as the region’s sole – and unmonitored – nuclear power?

Might large parts of the globe be facing economic meltdown simply so that Israel can remain the Middle East’s top dog – an unaccountable apartheid state committing genocide against the Palestinian people and ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon?

We got a definitive answer last week, care of the New York Times. It is an uncompromising yes to all of these questions.

The newspaper reported that Netanyahu not only mis-sold Trump on the idea of quick regime change in Iran following a short “shock and awe” bombing campaign. He also identified to the White House who was going to replace Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme religious leader.

Extraordinarily, according to the Times, Netanyahu named the man for the job as former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The aim at the start of the air campaign was for Israel to kill Khamenei, then liberate Ahmadinejad from house arrest by striking the guards who were confining him.

Presumably, Ahmadinejad was then supposed to storm the citadel and seize the keys to the palace. But only Khamenei’s assassination went according to plan.

The idea that Ahmadinejad had the popular support, let alone the religious authority and military muscle behind him, to take on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s crack military force responsible for protecting the clerical regime, is for the birds.

That anyone in the White House took this plan seriously, let alone acted on it, is a genuinely staggering notion. But the proposition that Ahmadinejad could retake the reins of power in Iran is possibly the least preposterous part of the scheme.

While younger readers may not recognise Ahmadinejad’s name, everyone else should. He made headlines on an almost weekly basis during much of his eight-year presidency, starting in 2005. Why? Because Israel turned him into the ultimate bogeyman.

After neighbouring Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was toppled and executed in 2006, following an illegal invasion by the US and Britain, Ahmadinejad was hyped as the new implacable threat to regional peace.

Claims about Ahmadinejad first breathed an illusory substance into Israel’s now-unchallenged script that a supposedly fanatical, deranged Iran would leave no stone unturned in seeking to destroy Israel. Ahmadinejad, we were told time and again, was seeking to pursue a nuclear bomb – even after Khamenei had issued a religious edict in 2003 strictly banning its development.

In 2006, Ehud Olmert, then the Israeli prime minister, warned the world that Ahmadinejad was a “psychopath of the worst kind”, adding: “He speaks as Hitler did in his time of the extermination of the entire Jewish nation.”

Olmert was echoing a panic-inducing campaign led by Netanyahu, then Israel’s opposition leader, that Iran needed to be attacked immediately to save Israel and the world.

“It’s 1938 and Iran is Germany,” Netanyahu told a meeting of American Jewish leaders that same year. “And Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs.” Of Ahmadinejad, he said: “Believe him and stop him … He is preparing another Holocaust for the Jewish state.”

Under Ahmadinejad, Iran was supposedly hellbent on destroying Israel, turning it into a giant Auschwitz. Also in 2006, Netanyahu told Israeli Army Radio: “Israel would certainly be the first stop on Iran’s tour of destruction.”

Ahmadinejad was so unhinged, Netanyahu said, that he would not stop at Israel’s eradication: “Iran is developing ballistic missiles that would reach America, and now they prepare missiles with an adequate range to cover the whole of Europe.”

This is an extract from my latest article Israeli claims about an Iran 'threat' were always a lie. Now we have proof. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️

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@educator4ever36 There's a difference between technical and classical education. Classical education is superior and thus every teachers' expertise is equally valuable.

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@damiankelleher I think he was the PE teacher.

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@__Injaneb96 You never took an Islamic studies class.

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@USAmbUN When did you become an ambassador for Israel? This post is treasonous.

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@NikkiHaley Because the US backs Israel, they have no idea about consequences. Now that stupid Zionists hold the US government, they cannot understand consequences. The US has brought a global economic disaster, and the world won't forget or forgive.

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@clashreport That "larger economic cycle" must be the annual US tax money theft.

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@ColdBrief Strange how you're optimistic about the new Syrian government but so pessimistic about London's mayor.

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@JasonLi28894297 @Osint613 IDF are being killed in numbers by Ukrainian type drones. This is a real problem, unlike Iranian nukes.

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@SyJusticeArc A good port is sheltered by the land. I think natural geography is the reason for the location rather than who lives there.

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@anymanfitness Were you the PE teacher? I can see that.

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@SecScottBessent You guys were so stupid to listen to Israel. The US is screwed. Countries are selling US Treasury Bonds because of the economic crisis created by the illegal US war on Iran. The US is so screwed. Start learning Chinese.

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@Nervana_1 Apparently your supposition is wrong.

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@TheJewishIdea 🙃 More upsidedown logic from the hasbara.

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@WillieHandler People believe that because Jews were displaced in a Roman war 2000 years ago that today they're entitled to wage genocides, bomb countries, hijack foreign governments, and recruit lobbies for a global economic catastrophe. This is pure stupidity.

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@hahussain How much does Israel pay you?

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@lalshareef How much does Israel pay you?

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@BenMFreeman Great! The IDF are dropping like flies in a bug zapper in southern Lebanon. Soon you'll be headed there to fill in a vacancy.