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Julian Röpcke🇺🇦
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Two days after bombing Syrian army convoys and the Syrian Ministry of Defense, Israel asks Syrian Government forces to return to #Suwayda to stop the bloodshed between Druze and Beduin groups and militias – caused by the artificially created power vacuum.
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Arend Jan Boekestijn
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The Druse: An Insular Faith, Facing a Fractured Middle East www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/world/middleeast/who-are-druse-syria-israel-clashes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare via @NYTimes
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asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل
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You should ask the Atlantic Council: Is there any situation in which Israeli killing is not justified?
“Israel is acting to contain a potential deterioration of the security situation in Syria.”
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asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل
asadabukhalil
Countries occupy other people’s lands except Israel. Western media came up with “captured”:
“Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1960s”
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