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@levantophile @geopol4285 So then according to your logic why aren’t there millions of alawites dead and hundreds of thousands of Kurds dead? I didn’t see Israel (the same country bombing Lebanon and committing a genocide) intervene there at all.

Sabra & Shatila, Damour, Ghouta, etc. are horrible massacres but localized. Had Israel not intervened to stop the massacres last July, many thousands of Druze would have likely been killed, given the scale and grassroots nature of the offensive. It’s one thing to massacre or bomb a specific town; it’s another to rally an entire society to massacre another. Again, this was like Hutus rallying to kill Tutsis: 800,000 were dead in a few weeks because no one stopped it. (Fortunately, in our case, someone did.)

A small word of advice: do not try to reason with them by appealing to your innocence, or that of the Druze of Suwayda as a whole - or by reminding them of all the good that you, your father, or other Druze you know may have done for them. If anything, it only seems to deepen their resentment and makes them even more hostile. Even we, as Lebanese Druze, can recount countless stories of solidarity during the Syrian war and the feeling of betrayal afterwards. We took in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees into our areas, sympathized with their suffering, and offered them shelter, stability, and work. In my own extended family alone, I could probably count dozens of Syrians who were employed over the years, most of them coming from Idlib, rural Homs and Hama, or Deir Ezzor - the very same regions from which many of those who invaded Suwayda came. What shocked many of us last summer were the cases of betrayal by people who quite literally lived among us and benefited from our hospitality. Two examples immediately come to mind. First, I know a Lebanese Druze contractor from my area who employed Syrian refugees as workers. He later told us that once the invasion of Suwayda began, a couple of them quietly slipped back into Syria to participate in it. He only discovered this through videos they themselves posted on social media. Think about the absurdity of that for a moment: they were actively earning a living from a Lebanese Druze man and still chose to return to Syria to take part in the massacre of Syrian Druze. Second, last July, the teenage son of a Syrian refugee family living in my village was caught posting threats on social media about “plucking the moustaches” of Druze. This is a boy who quite literally grew up in a Lebanese Druze village, was taught by Lebanese Druze teachers in our local public school, and whose father works as a watchman for our neighbor while the family lives in the basement of their home. People in the village contacted the Lebanese security services, who arrested and questioned him before later releasing him with what I understood to be a stern warning. I genuinely believe that decades of humiliation, violence, and victimhood have left deep psychological scars on many of these people. For some, the result seems to be a desire to reclaim dignity through domination and revenge, by inflicting on others what was once inflicted on them, even against those who treated them with kindness and solidarity. And unfortunately, their religious and ideological beliefs often do little to encourage the restraint of base impulses or the cultivation of mercy, forgiveness, and compassion, though that is a much larger conversation altogether. So here we are. There is little else to say. Perhaps an old Arabic saying captures it best: إن أكرمت الكريم ملكته وإن أكرمت اللئيم تمردا

@levantophile @geopol4285 Really? You sure it’s not absurd level now? Sabra and shatila alone is sickening, one of many. The ghouta chemical attack in minutes killed more than those killed in suweida across days. I mean why don’t we talk about the ethnic cleansing of Bedouins and compare to Israel

Fortunately, none of the kind that targeted Alawites and Druze last year. We never had general mobilizations of tens of thousands of people from across regions to surround, besiege, and massacre another group. There were awful localized massacres but nothing that extreme. There wasn’t even anything like that in the Syrian war. You would have to go back perhaps to how the Hutus mobilized against the Tutsis in Rwanda, or perhaps the events targeting the Rohingya in Myanmar, to find any recent parallels…

@levantophile @geopol4285 Lebanon still exists after uncountable massacres. I’m sorry, but suweida simply cannot function on its own at all.

@geopol4285 @InkOfSyria *wanted After the massacres, I doubt too many want to remain a part of Syria.

@levantophile And I’m fine with suweida doing whatever it wants. Obviously you know Syria doesn’t rely on it, quite the opposite. I respect their decisions as long as they accept the consequences of living under Hijri and away from Syria - as *they* wished.

It was never feasible to host every last one in homes immediately because the number of refugees was beyond the carrying capacity of the country. Lebanon and Jordan are not Turkey; 1m is a significant burden. Be that as it may, there were no tents in Druze areas. They were all housed in homes and employed by locals. Some even started their own businesses.

@levantophile I’m talking on Lebanon as a whole. But sure, about the Druze: Was it not Syrians standing with suweida during its “uprising” against Assad in 2023-2025? Heck, even Druze flags were raised in Idlib This is not a religious extremist issue. It’s an ideological one

@levantophile I’m talking about Lebanon in general, not just Druze, or Christians etc. “Welcoming” people is something Syria has also done, just that it never made people live in tents for 15 years, or made them feel anywhere but home. Ask the Iraqis and fellow Lebanese.

Yes, and Druze areas had some of the least of those incidents. In fact, I specifically remember how some big Syrian opposition accounts on X were praising Lebanese Druze for how they treated Syrian refugees relatively well and with limited racism compared to other parts of Lebanon.

@ZubairFaro85158 How do you make this

how i think the third iraqi civil war will mostly look like.

@lilatlwdh @omeeerrrrrr1 @Osint613 Tell me you are American without telling me you are American:

@InkOfSyria @omeeerrrrrr1 @Osint613 Israel is literally destroying your shithole buddy

Visa and Mastercard now functional in Syria after 15 years.

@omeeerrrrrr1 @Osint613 Because your country sanctioned it into oblivion retard. One thing is clear though, you never managed to destroy Syria. Syria is older than your entire civilisation 🇸🇾🏛️

@Osint613 In the USA, visa card has been in use since 1960s. Looks like syria is around 70 years behind lol. Fucking losers, terrorists

@jakepaulmpreg @briscoepark FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT

@briscoepark bro this image was in my gcse english paper wtf

the streets feel like a maze

@jihadyazigi This is just absurd. Damascus can’t be forgotten and abandoned like Cairo is. Damascus has incredible potential for walkable infrastructure, green spaces and a blend of old, post colonial and modern districts that Respect its heritage. Why abandon it for an artificial city?

The government plans to build a New Damascus City, west of the current administrative borders of the Syrian capital. Works have already begun, according to the Minister of Tourism. More on this and on other real estate and hospitality projects, including the first Hyatt branded hotel in Damascus, in the latest edition of @TheSyriaReport

@TheAnalysisMan اتركو الناس على راحته متل ما بدكم الناس تتركم على راحتكم. سوريا بتوسعنا كلنا

@Almoharb066 @Yaseensaz1 نعم أمان لكن الحكومة السعودية منعت السفر لحد الآن، ان شاء الله قريبا تنورون سوريا ❤️

@Yaseensaz1 هل الذهاب لسوريا حاليًا للسياحة؛ تراه وقت مناسب، أم ننتظر قليلًا؛ من وجهة نظركم يبو صالح؟..

سوري يقطع البثّ المباشر!

@Samy_Akil LMAO 🤣

When your yearly performance review is just around the corner

@Maryamsvsv @clashreport يا فسيخ هاد راجل تاني

@clashreport Omg 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa watches a dance performance in Damascus.

@Ghorkem18 @nevsinmengu Bir İslamcının bu açılışa bu müzikle katılacağını mı sanıyorsunuz?

@nevsinmengu Radikal İslamcı güzellemelerin bitmedi mi Nevşin? Fulya Öztürk olma yolunda koşar adım gidiyorsun

Suriye'nin Başkenti Şam'da Al Fayhaa spor salonu açılış töreni

@LadyLevnon No problem just let him know next time you want him to talk in Chinese or your favourite; Hebrew

@joe_yer99 The render isn’t much better

What you're told you'll get v What you get.

@l2031305469476 هي من ادلب

هللتو للإرهاب و التطرف و فرحتو بأحمدكم محرركم من النييييزام العلوي الموووجرم والمهم الرئيس سني...😈 طيب ليش هيك !!!!عيب والله معقووووول 🤪 هاد احمدكم ولووووو🤣