Farhan23
Registered Member
You are not pro-iran but you use them like one time used cop whenever you want and they are weak minded they will allow to be sheeped. But you are pro-Israel thru and thru they will forever fail to see your true colors
Syrian Civil War and The future of Syria after liberation
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You are not pro-iran but you use them like one time used cop whenever you want and they are weak minded they will allow to be sheeped. But you are pro-Israel thru and thru they will forever fail to see your true colors
Musings
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Again - rather than discuss the topic you do personal attacks? Last warning. Dont cry a river when you are banned. These are the type of posts that are wearing me thin
Musings
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Farhan23
Registered Member
Okay Noted. I will discuss with him in another thread later, I will leave him be here
After violence broke out in Druze-majority Sweida, 1,000 Israeli Druze burst through the fence into Syria. Most have returned, bringing a sense of relief that the IDF joined the fray
A Syrian Druze man who just crossed into Israel, in Majdal Shams on July 17, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
Druze women in Majdal Shams, Israel, on July 17, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)- Shuki Hekmat waiting by the Syria border fence in Majdal Shams on July 17, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel) [S2: pic in original]
Two men who crossed into Syria and returned to Israel stand in Majdal Shams looking across into Syria on July 17, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
Hassoun returned on Thursday morning, accompanied by her uncle, who crossed into Israel, carrying his son, 3, in one arm and a bulging plastic bag in the other.
“He wants to stay here,” said Hassoun, a resident of Majdal Shams. “It’s too dangerous in Syria for Druze.”
On Thursday morning, the atmosphere was calm and expectant along the border fence — once known as the “shouting fence” for how families on either side would communicate before the convenience of texting. Hundreds milled around while border police stood guard, waiting as if in an open-air arrivals hall to see family members.
The army said that unknown numbers of Druze who entered from Israel remain in Syria. It is also unclear what will happen to the Syrian Druze who stepped through the border fence into Israel.
On Wednesday, there was chaos at the border fence as some 1,000 Israeli Druze breached the frontier. Some, like Hassoun, went to reunite with relatives they had never met. Others, mostly youth, went to join the fight to help the Druze in Sweida, a Druze-majority city in southern Syria, where it is estimated that some 350 people were killed in clashes.
Druze waiting near the Syria border fence in Majdal Shams on July 17, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
The Syrian government dispatched forces there on Tuesday with the stated objective of ending days-long clashes between Druze and Bedouin fighters. Witnesses said the government forces had actually joined with the Bedouin to attack Druze fighters and civilians.
On Wednesday, IDF troops and two Israeli Druze lawmakers — MK Afef Abed from Likud and MK Hamad Amar from Yisrael Beytenu — went into Syria to try to bring Israeli civilians back.
Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa declared a ceasefire on Wednesday. But residents of Majdal Shams expressed their fury at the president, whom they referred to by his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammad al-Julani.
Members of Syria’s security forces and children holding rifles celebrate in the predominantly Bedouin-inhabited al-Mouqawwas neighbourhood in Sweida on July 15, 2025, following clashes between Bedouin tribes and Druze fighters. (Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)
“Al-Julani is a jihadist,” said one Druze man who had crossed into Syria on Wednesday night with his teenage son and requested anonymity. “He is a radical Muslim. He slaughtered the Alawites, the Christians and now the Druze.”
Although Sharaa has tried to reassure minorities that he will respect their rights, he has not done so, the man said.
He said he and his son went into Syria to “pressure the Israeli government to help our Druze family. Israel is our only card. We want America to stop the killing. We want the United Nations to protect the Druze. What the Syrian government did in Sweida is the same as the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023.”
The Druze, a mystic sect that broke away from Shiite Islam in the 11th century, are considered heretical to Sunni Islam and have been targeted by radical Islamic groups.
Sham Hassoun who crossed into Syria to meet her uncle in the village of Hadar, returned with a sprained ankle on July 17, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
Majdal Shams is a town that is part of the strategic Golan plateau captured from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War and effectively annexed by Israel in 1981.
Families in the Golan Heights, including Majdal Shams, and three other towns, Ein Qiniyye, Mas’ade and Buq’ata, have been cut off from their Syrian relatives, with a UN-patrolled buffer zone slicing down between the two sides.
Majdal Shams is also the site of a tragedy, where a devastating Hezbollah attack killed 12 children and teenagers on a soccer field in the center of the town on July 27, 2024.
When the government of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad fell in December, the Israeli Druze celebrated, the man said, calling the Syrian Druze his “brothers and sisters.”
“We thought it would be a new Syria,” he said. “But it didn’t happen.”
‘It’s a new model of al-Qaeda’
Dr. Yusri Hazran of the Truman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Courtesy) [S2: pic in original]Until now, Druze areas in Syria, such as Sweida, have been controlled by Druze militias. After Assad’s ouster, some Druze fighters said they were ready to integrate into the new security forces, something that the new government wants.
Dr. Yusri Hasran from the Truman Institute at Hebrew University in Jerusalem said most Druze will not want to disarm.
“The Druze will not put down their weapons [in Syria], and they will not allow government forces gathering in their areas, which is increasingly justified because they are jihadist organizations,” he told The Times of Israel.
“We are talking about al-Qaeda,” Hazran said. “Nothing changed. This is a new model of al-Qaeda.”
He said, forcefully, that Sharaa’s regime “is part of the problem. It’s not part of the solution.”
Hazran added that the “problematic aspect of the Syrian crisis is that there is no alternative.”
“The ceasefire won’t last,” he said.
Back at the Israeli border fence on Thursday morning, an Israeli Druze man said his girlfriend’s mother crossed into Syria on Wednesday night because “she was a Syrian bride who had married a Druze man from Israel and hadn’t seen her family for more than 20 years.” The man said he spoke to her during the night. She was safe and she planned to return to Israel later on Thursday.
He said that while he didn’t personally know any Druze from Israel who had gone to fight to protect the Druze in Syria, he voiced his despair that Israel — and the IDF — had waited so long to join the fray.
“We understand that Israel wasn’t going to start bombing right away,” he said. He expressed relief that “the [Israeli] government finally took steps to stop the slaughter.”
Mobius
Elite Member
No comment brother. Not enough context but what I can say is that the minorities are being oppressed and there is plenty of evidence of this. Something Islam strongly prohibits.
Farhan23
Registered Member
Israel allows limited entry of Syrian forces in Druze region
In response to the fighting between Bedouin and Druze forces in southern Syria, Israel has approved the entry of a Syrian regime force for temporary action to separate the 2 forces.
Israel National News
Published: Jul 18, 2025, 1:28 PM (GMT+3)
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Syrian policeREUTERS/Karam Al-Masri
Amid escalating tensions in southwestern Syria, Israel agreed to allow a limited entry of Syrian regime internal security forces into the As-Suwayda district.
The decision was made in order to separate the Bedouin and Druze forces and restore order in the region.
According to the agreement, the entry will be limited to just 48 hours and will be carried out under specific conditions designed to prevent further escalation of the security situation in the area.
During the night, Qatari-based Al-Jazeera reported that Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri had requested assistance from the Damascus government following the attack by Sunni Bedouin tribes on As-Suwayda.
This is fake news. Denied by the gov´t they will not intervene or about to intervene
Persian Gulf
INT'L MOD
good summary from the situation from a reputable Egyptian OSINT account
Foinikas
Elite Member
It's about his policies and narrative. He wants to revive Turkey's Ottoman power and recover part of the territories lost in WWI or earlier. He won't dare call himself Sultan,but he wants to be President for Life.
And since you mentioned the words "as some kind of Sultan" and "that is just ridiculous"
Farhan23
Registered Member
If he was a Sultan he would have first banned LBGT, Ban Alcohol, close nightclubs, force a law to cover up women etc etc. Ban interest rates and usury, ban gambling etc etc. That is a proper Islamic country.
Ofcourse he wants to hang on to power, which is the same with Nathanyahu they have both dominated their respective countries for the last 20-25 years but that doesn´t make him a sultan..
IS MBS a sultan? He has allowed nightclubs, alcohol and everything into KSA.
The only one closests to a Sultan is actully the Iranian Mullah who is a religious spiritual figure and has banned alcohol and covered women in his country
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Haz
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Are you speaking about Foinkas? Is that the respected member? I mean all he does is literally defend every side that attacks Muslims, thats all I see him do. He offers no news, analysis or insights in any way on this topic as far as I've seen since he has no connection to this conflict, no idea what's it like for Syria or Syrians, except for commenting in every way he can to belittle the suffering we endured. If you consider that respectful and valuable contribution, Ok, I'll try not to call him out on his bigotry but he makes it hard when he smears millions of Syrians because he can't stand Muslims. I've reported him before but no action was taken, he seems to be here just to troll and agitate, I don't see anything else he contributes. When any pro-zionist does it on the Iranian threads, they immediately get banned, but apparently its a free for all here for some reason. All my other posting is regarding Syrian news, updates and insights, as well as personal opinions from someone actually connected to the country.
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