"I refuse to see innocent Alawites, the elderly, and women killed. I can't bear it when it's done in the name of my religion."

In Syria, many in the Sunni, pro-revolution majority, express their horror at the massacres, but put them into perspective. There are several reasons for this. 🧶 1/9

Super, la nouvelle série signée @amelzac.bsky.social pour @lesjours.fr : l'autre révolution syrienne, celle des journalistes. Ça démarre à Sana, l'agence de presse officielle désormais sous la tutelle de ceux qu'elle qualifiait il y a trois mois de terroristes.
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Y'a jamais rien de mieux que le bon gros dub pour se replonger dans l'histoire des services secrets d'avant guerre.
Pour le Nachrichtendienst de 1914 et la Sektion IIIb je recommande Mafia&Fluxy

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Overton Window shifts fast in Isratine. Cleaning out entire populations is apparently routine practice now:

“Defence Minister Israel Katz said the camps in Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams were now ‘empty’ and would be occupied by the Israeli military for the coming year.”

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On Israeli views of Assad: In the 2010s, of course, Israel was explicitly pro-regime. It wanted Bashar to stay in power because he was the devil they knew, the leader of a regime which (despite its rhetoric) had kept the border quiet for decades. 🧵 www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Following Assad’s call with Mohammed bin Zayed yesterday, Emirati FM Abdullah bin Zayed spoke today with his counterparts in Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt about the situation Syria. Readout notes Abu Dhabi’s support for “brotherly Syria in confronting extremism and terror.” www.aletihad.ae/news/%D8%A7%...

An enormous toll for Hezbollah: "One source said the Iran-backed group may have lost up to 4,000 people - well over 10 times the number killed in its month-long 2006 war with Israel." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

(1/4) According to information obtained by L’Orient-Le Jour’s Mounir Rabih, one of the reasons that pushes Lebanon to worry about the post-ceasefire period is the fact that the Israelis leaked three important points that could cause the deal to collapse:

LOrient-Le Jour obtained full text of ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon (13 points): 1701 UN res, right to self defense, monitoring committee at the border…

Netanyahu said security cabinet approved it. Now has to be voted by full Israeli cabinet

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After posting humiliating videos on social media, Israeli soldiers now mock villages they destroyed in South-Lebanon on Google Maps, complaining about "only rubble", "too many rats", or a hospital being "too full".
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In 2021 Saudi PIF invested 2 billion in Jared Kushner’s new private fund. On October 24, the head of US Senate Finance Committee (Dem) requested to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate on Kushner possibly acting as a foreign agent for Saudi Arabia.

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