Syrien führt Hunderte von alawitischen Zivilisten aus: „Sie haben jeden Mann getötet, den sie gesehen haben“
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sytxeyto1e
Syrien führt Hunderte von alawitischen Zivilisten aus: „Sie haben jeden Mann getötet, den sie gesehen haben“
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sytxeyto1e
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What?
You mean an ex isis President is not moderate after all what Reddit told me??
Over 300 Alawite civilians were killed in Syria in what appears to be retaliatory attacks by the new government and its allies.
The violence erupted after an ambush by Assad loyalists killed at least 50 government troops near Jableh. In response, pro-government forces attacked Alawite villages, sparing women but executing men.
Graphic footage of the killings surfaced online. Alawite communities fear further attacks, with many displaced and calling for outside intervention, including some voices [asking for help from Israel.](https://www.ynetnews.com/article/syzbb1fijl)
There’s a good article in this month’s Foreign Affairs about the challenges in the Middle East, including the HTS (who currently run the government) doing revenge killings and mob violence against Alawites (who backed Assad). International involvement is going to make it worse. Turkey supports HTS, the US supports the Kurds, Israel with the Druze. It’s going to remain fractious until the ruling party focuses on justice and leadership and not settling old debts or building power.
Sorry Israel, don’t really care you don’t like the new government. You’ve killed a lot more civilians than they have. You also started attacking them even after they kicked out Hezbollah and the Iranians, despite them explicitly stating they had no desire for conflict with you.
Oh Just Like The RSF In Darfur agains Masalit
Can we stop calling them government forces and call a spade a spade.
Would it be bad if they were Bashar henchmen or collaborators?
And here i thought israel was being paranoid with all the druze autonomy and the buffer zone stuff
It should be noted that this is an Israeli source and there is currently a great deal of propaganda on both sides about what exactly happened yesterday. There was violence between the new government and regime remnants and / or Alawite civilians, and the exact details are not clear.
I bring this up not to minimize the horror of attacks on civilians or the moral culpability of the new regime, if that is in fact what happened. However, Israel is presently attacking Syria, seizing land and bombing the country. Netanyahu recently demanded that Syria demilitarize the entire country south of Damascus, which is insane. Statements from the Israeli government seem to be seeking a justification for further intervention based on „the protection of minorities,“ which to me is not credible. Even if there is retaliatory violence, that does not give Israel the right to violate Syrian sovereignty, and unless the violence gets extremely bad and truly requires outside intervention to stop, an Israeli war with Syria will make things worse.
I was prompted to make this comment because OP mentions Israel on a story which does not involve it and shares Israeli sources which claim that Syrian minorities are asking for Israeli intervention. On /r/geopolitics we out to be aware of the possibility of propaganda and the possibility that states seek pretexts for actions they want to take.
*sigh* My hopes that the new Syrian leadership wouldn’t be evil was not high. Still sad.
Maybe this at least means the local refugees won’t be expelled, the ones I know do not want to go back.
Damn I really thought for a minute things could be different but I fell for the propaganda out of the new government hook line and sinker. This is just awful.
Where are the mass protests and UN condemnations?
Awfully convenient occurrence when the genocidal regime in Israel is trying tpmmale a case for invading Syria dont you think?