[Centraal] Crisis in Syrië en Irak #469

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 21:00 schreef Jellereppe het volgende:
Tuurlijk, op die fiets. Als de Syriërs met geld over de brug komen dan is het natuurlijk een compleet ander verhaal. Ze kunnen veel zelf doen met hun eigen handen. Alleen materiaal en specialistische werk hebben ze buitenlanders voor nodig.

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 21:14 schreef Aloulu het volgende:

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Voor materiaal heb je eerst nog geld nodig. Dat heeft de Syrische overheid nou net niet. Zelfs met dwangarbeid kom je er vrijwel niet zonder floes.

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BreakingNLive twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 22:00:30 BREAKING UPDATE: Aerial attack on Syria ongoing. Israel likely responsible. Nearly an hour of constant bombardment. Syrian air defense systems working around the clock, with possible interceptions. Unconfirmed reports of an Israeli military jet shot down over SyriaDeveloping... reageer retweet

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Conflicts twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 22:01:07 BREAKING: IDF says looking into reports of projectile landing in Golan Heights, amid reports of Syrian air-defenses engaging targets near Damascus - @i24NEWS_EN reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 22:20 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:
Blijkbaar zijn de luchtaanvallen nog altijd gaande?

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Intel_sky twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 22:17:51 The 🇮🇱 air strikes on 🇸🇾 #Syria is not OVER yet. The #IAF ✈ tanker aircraft still ACTIVE in the south!!! Duration: 2:49:49https://t.co/R6h6CRPbP2 reageer retweet

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Conflicts twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 22:26:27 MORE: IDF denies reports of Israeli plane being hit by Syrian air-defenses but confirms report of projectile falling in Golan Heights - @AAhronheim reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 22:33 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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Als get Israel niet is, wie wel?

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 22:33 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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Als get Israel niet is, wie wel?

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 22:43 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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Vliegtuig neergehaald heb ik niet langs zien komen.

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 21:15 schreef Jellereppe het volgende:
Helaas. Ze kunnen kijken wat de Syrische gemeenschap zelf kan ophoesten, geld lenen van vriendelijke landen. En dan stukje bij beetje de boel opknappen naar gelang de financiële draagkracht. Het duurt dan langer maar is niet anders.

سوريا انطلاق مشروع مدينة ماروتا سيتي السكني الضخم 6 6 2018

MAROTA CITY

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 22:34 schreef Slayage het volgende:

Eten onderdak verzekering kinderen moeten naar school. Enz. Enz.

Syrië heeft een Marshall plan nodig. Alleen is Marshall voorlopig nergens te bekennen.

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With back-to-back trade fairs held in Damascus this month, Syria is hoping to jumpstart reconstruction of its devastated cities by inviting international investors to take part in lucrative opportunities. Arnous said 270 companies from 29 countries are taking part in this year's exhibition despite the sanctions imposed on Syrian. Most of the companies participating in the four-day exhibition are Syrian, followed by Lebanese and Iranian exhibitors. Most of the companies participating in the four-day exhibition are Syrian, followed by Lebanese and Iranian exhibitors. The exhibition is being held at the Damascus International Fairgrounds near the airport, not far from wrecked former rebel strongholds. Israel struck targets near the airport last month.

Although 38 Russian companies took part in the Damascus International Fair last month, only one made it to Tuesday's opening. Russia is a key ally of Assad, and its military support, starting in 2015, has helped turn the tide in his favor. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been lobbying for Western aid funding, while helping Assad prepare for an assault on the last rebel stronghold of Idlib, in northwestern Syria.

Anisimov Valeriy, who works for the Russian petrochemical firm JSC Promcatalys, says it hopes to tap into the underserved market but has yet to find a way around the sanctions. He said he was hoping to speak with other business people at the conference about transferring money into and out of Syria. Russian companies face competition from China, which is making serious, if cautious, efforts to snap up reconstruction offers.

Tarif Nahhas, the Syrian representative of the Chinese Truemax engineering solutions company, said China is still trying to find its way in Syria, with many companies worried about security and stability. He said exhibitions like these help company representatives assess the situation on the ground for themselves.

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 05:32 schreef Aloulu het volgende:

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Dan rest het regime met name Iran en Rusland qua wederopbouw. Rusland heeft volgens mij nog weinig echte interesse daarin getoond. Iraniërs wel. Met name zakenmannen. Maar welke draagkracht men daarvoor heeft als Iraans regime kan je vraagtekens bij stellen nu zij met zeer zware sancties hebben te maken. En Iraanse zakenmannen zullen het toch ook bekijken als een zakelijke investering; hoe interessant is die in Syrië?

Zonder hulp van de internationale gemeenschap gaat het echt heel erg lastig worden.

Gigantische nieuwe luxe wijk in Damascus wordt nu gebouwd, zie filmpje van staatstelevisie;

سوريا انطلاق مشروع مدينة ماروتا سيتي السكني الضخم 6 6 2018

3D-filmpje van Marota City hoe het zou moeten worden;

MAROTA CITY

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A luxury city shows blueprint for Syria's rebuilding plans

In this Oct. 8, 2018 photo, a bulldozers excavates at the building site of Marota City, as Syria's largest investment project is known, in southwestern Damascus, Syria. Construction is underway on the luxury development of residential high-rises and shopping centers -- the blueprint for the Syrian government's rebuilding of areas devastated by war. Critics say President Bashar Assad is using such plans to engineer demographic change and consolidate his post-war power. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

DAMASCUS, Syria – At a building site in Damascus, trucks and bulldozers zigzag back and forth ferrying sand and stones for a luxury development of residential high-rises and shopping centres.

The area was up until recently a working-class neighbourhood of informal settlements and irregular housing running through orchards and farmland — one that early on in Syria’s conflict was a hub for protests against the government. Over the past year, thousands of residents have been evicted and their property razed to make way for the multimillion-dollar project that promises to be the new commercial centre for the capital.

Marota City, as Syria’s largest investment project is known, is seen as setting the blueprint for how the government will undertake the ambitious rebuilding of areas devastated in the nearly eight-year civil war.

The government is using controversial new property laws to create zones where partnerships of the government and businessmen take ownership of neighbourhoods and redevelop them. Officials say the projects aim at re-planning slums and destroyed areas and attracting private investors to join the massively expensive task of reconstruction.

Critics say President Bashar Assad is using such projects to consolidate post-war power, expropriate property and reshape Syria’s demographics by pushing out impoverished communities seen as centres of opposition support and replacing them with wealthier ones more likely to be loyalists.

The 53-year old president has survived the war, using help from allies Russia and Iran to crush an armed rebellion that aimed to oust him.

The Marota project lies at the heart of Syria’s tangled web of politics and rebuilding. Having recaptured the country’s key cities from the opposition, the government says it is now time to focus on rebuilding. But Western countries, including the United States, say they will not commit any funds to reconstruction without real progress on a political settlement.

The plan for upscale apartments and glossy malls in Damascus can seem particularly jarring with the enormous destruction in former rebel-held areas just a few miles away and in the rest of the country, where entire city blocks lie crumped, in scenes reminiscent of World War II.

Marota is being built over a southwestern neighbourhood called Basateen al-Razi that grew up on farmlands over the past decades as poorer Syrians moved in from the countryside and built unlicensed housing. The district saw anti-government protests in 2012, but they were swiftly suppressed in a crackdown, and the area was relatively untouched by the war’s destruction.

The project was approved in 2012 with a legislative law known as Decree No. 66, which authorized the government to redevelop slum dwellings and illegal housing areas in the capital.

This allowed the Damascus governorate to evict the population, which has largely dispersed to other, inexpensive parts of the capital, and level the district.

The project is managed chiefly by the Syrian government, under a joint-stock company called Cham Holding established in 2016 and owned by the Damascus governorate. It has attracted investments from businessmen known to have close ties to the Syrian leadership, including Samer Foz, a wealthy entrepreneur whose name became well known during the war and who recently bought majority shares in the landmark Four Seasons hotel in the capital. The company is also said to be linked to Rami Makhlouf, Assad’s cousin and one of Syria’s most powerful businessmen.

“I expect the commercial centre to shift here,” says Nasouh Nabolsi, chief executive officer for Damascus Cham holding, the company undertaking the management, construction and investment works.

Speaking to The Associated Press at the company’s stylish headquarters adjacent to the building site, he said the company has so far spent the equivalent of $70 million on infrastructural works for the 2.14 million square meter development. Construction is expected to begin before the end of the year. The project will provide 12,000 housing units for an estimated 60,000 residents.

Marota will be followed by a similar project further south on an area four times bigger, called Basilia City, Nabolsi said, adding that plans to develop these areas existed before the Syrian conflict erupted in 2011.

In April, the government passed controversial property Law No. 10, which expanded the geographic scope of decree 66 beyond Damascus to the rest of the country and extended it from informal settlements to regularly registered property.

Under Law 10, residents initially had just 30 days to prove that they own property in redevelopment zones in order to receive shares in the projects or alternative plots of land; otherwise, ownership will be transferred to the local government.

The law created panic among refugees abroad, many of whom had lost property deeds or could not return to prove ownership. After an international outcry, Syria’s foreign minister announced in June that the 30-day filing period would be extended to a year. Last month, a U.N. official said Syria’s government has withdrawn the law, citing Russia for the information.

However, there is no sign that the law has been formally amended or confirmation that it has been withdrawn.

At least four former-rebel held areas in and around the capital are now being considered for redevelopment under Law 10. They include Barzeh, Jobar, Daraya and Qaboun, where major demolitions are already underway, according to a Human Rights Watch investigation.

Sara Kayyali, Syria researcher at HRW, said the fact that the designated areas are all former rebel-held bastions and the lack of transparency around the property laws only exacerbates suspicions.

“The government’s urban planning laws are often used to confiscate the property of residents, leave them without any alternative housing and never provide them with compensation, so violating their property rights on more than one level,” she told the AP.

A resident of Damascus’ Mazzeh neighbourhood whose family owns property in nearby Basateen al-Razi and closely follows the subject said the new property laws were not necessarily a bad thing, but the implementation gives the impression that the government is driving out poor residents and attracting the rich.

She said demolitions started without the provision of alternative housing, and rental money offered was often insufficient to rent within Damascus. She spoke on condition of anonymity for security concerns.

Nabolsi rejects the claims and argues that everyone has been more than fairly compensated.

He said there is nothing wrong with developing society, adding that the Syrian crisis was fueled by poor people who were exploited.

“The mistake of the government is that it did not develop these areas and let them transform into illegal housing areas, and we paid a high price for this.”

Kayyali said there is concern that the laws will be used as a form of “collective punishment” against government opponents and dispossess the poor.

“It’s going to exacerbate the socio-economic imbalance that was actually one of the causes of the uprising,” she said.

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Associated Press writers Hiba Dlewati in Beirut and Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, contributed to this report.

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Op zondag 2 december 2018 22:56 schreef Jellereppe het volgende:

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https://www.680news.com/2(...)as-rebuilding-plans/

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Op maandag 3 december 2018 00:43 schreef Aloulu het volgende:

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Businessman Samer Foz zit hierachter. In staat van beschuldiging in Turkije voor liquidatie van een Egyptische zakenman die met hem een deal had voor 15milj dollar aan graan. Maar die graan hem nooit leverde en erna is afgemaakt. Die zaak loopt nog in Turkije. Hij heeft overigens ook de Turkse nationaliteit.

Hij heeft of schijnt graan van Isis gekocht te hebben en als Russisch graan verkocht te hebben aan het Syrische regime.

Rijk geworden na de revolutie. En de grote zakenman die zogenaamd onafhankelijk van de Assads in constructie zit. Omdat die niet sancties aan zijn broek heeft verantwoordelijk voor binnenhalen van buitenlandse investeringen in het heropbouwen van Syrië.

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Op zaterdag 8 december 2018 13:24 schreef gynaika het volgende:
'Syrië en Rusland verzonnen gifgasaanval rebellen om bestand te laten wankelen';

https://nos.nl/artikel/22(...)-laten-wankelen.html