No Syrian 'unity and inclusion' can occur under former Al-Qaeda leader Julani 's government, especially after last week's brutal sectarian massacre of Syria's Alawite minority. But these killings have triggered global reactions, most bizarre of all, potential US–Russian unity on Damascus's rulers.
Gulriz Ergoz
MAR 11, 2025
Photo Credit: The Cradle
The initial optimism that followed the fall of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's government has swiftly turned into a nightmare.
The so-called ‘inclusive leadership’ of Ahmad al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammad al-Julani), elected as ‘president’ by former Al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied militant factions, was dramatically debunked last week after the rampant massacre of Syrian Alawites by his cadres.
Noticeably, the transitional administration in Damascus is not directing its efforts against Israeli occupation forces just 20 kilometers from the capital, nor against the Druze in the south, nor even against the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the country's northeast.
Instead, its most keen target is Syria's Alawite minority community, which faces abductions – sometimes in batches of five or 10 per day – executions, home invasions, and even forced humiliation, such as being ordered to bark like dogs.
‘Remnants of the regime’: Code for sectarian massacres
While the Sharaa administration claims its killing operations target “remnants of the old regime,” the military crackdown on Alawites that started in early March quickly descended into open massacres of civilians. According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), at least 973 Alawite civilians were slaughtered on 10 March alone.
The HTS-linked government justifies its actions as necessary measures against “armed violence by regime remnants.” Yet, the definition and scope of these so-called ‘remnants’ remain ambiguous and, on closer scrutiny, fall apart entirely.
On 4 March, it was announced that “two members of the Syrian Defense Ministry were killed in an armed ambush” in the Alawite neighborhood of Datur in the coastal province of Latakia. The following day, security forces stormed the area in military vehicles and opened fire at random, accompanied by shouts of “Alawite pigs, we will crush your heads.” Four civilians, two construction workers, and two school guards were killed in the melee. Footage of the attack was broadcast worldwide.
The violence rapidly spread across Syria's coastal region on 6 March. In Daliyah, an Alawite village near Jableh in Tartous province, HTS security forces attempted to detain a 20-year-old man for questioning – despite the fact that he had never served in the Syrian army. Local leaders, wary of previous ‘questionings’ that had ended in executions, offered to mediate his surrender. Their offer was rejected.
The young man was forcibly taken, but the security forces were ambushed on their way out, leaving 13 of them dead. In retaliation, Damascus launched an indiscriminate aerial and artillery bombardment of Alawite villages.
Escalation and regional fallout
Mass protests then erupted in Tartous province – home to Russia’s naval base. Demonstrators stormed the governor’s office, and a video surfaced showing a Russian warplane maneuvering to force Syrian security helicopters to land.
The transitional government responded with reinforcements, while the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) deployed from the north. As HTS security forces opened fire on demonstrators, alarming reports of massacres of Alawites began to surface.
Amidst the turmoil, an Alawite militant group called the ‘Coastal Shield Brigade’ declared an armed uprising, announcing the formation of the ‘Military Council for the Liberation of Syria.’ Damascus imposed a curfew in Tartous and Latakia, launching a sweeping military campaign. Reports indicate significant losses among HTS security forces as insurgent groups retreated into the mountainous terrain.
Meanwhile, factions aligned with the Sharaa administration took to social media, openly calling for “jihad against the Alawites.” Mosques in HTS-stronghold Idlib and Hama amplified this message to their congregations, inciting sectarian strife.
The fate of Alawite civilians
Some Alawite civilians reportedly fled to mountainous areas, while others sought refuge with trusted Sunni acquaintances. Nearly 2,000 Alawites have taken refuge at Russia's Hmeimim Air Base, and thousands have crossed the border into Lebanon. Alexander Yuryevich, the commander of Russia's bases in Syria, warned Damascus security forces, “If you attack our bases, you will be reduced to ashes.”
The fate of civilians who did not manage to escape the massacre is unknown. In Al-Qusour, the Alawite neighborhood of Banyas, anyone unable to escape was reportedly killed. Syrian journalist Hala Mansour announced on her social media account that her aunt was killed in Al-Qusour along with her husband and two children.
Mansour is a dentist – her husband was a doctor, her older son a pharmacist, and her younger son a 10th-grade student. The head of the family had reportedly mediated between the opposition and the authorities on numerous occasions.
Hanadi Zahlout, an anti-Assad Alawite, also announced on social media that her three brothers had been killed. Hanadi, who was imprisoned several times by the former Syrian government, said in her post, “We were very happy with the overthrow of Assad and the victory of our resistance, but the first result was the massacre of our family.” Another Alawite opponent of Assad, Dr Abdellatif Ali, who served three years in prison, was also killed along with his wife and child. These are just among the first trickle of confirmed horror stories emerging from the scene of the massacre.
Videos taken by Damascus security forces themselves show smoke billowing from Alawite neighborhoods and villages as they are looted and burned to the sound of laughter and insults: ordinary families, old and young, slaughtered in their homes and gardens; bloodied bodies of men lying side by side in the streets or stuffed into pickup trucks and stomped on; and countless videos of unarmed civilians executed individually or en masse.
Journalist Sarkis Kassargian published images of mass graves, reportedly dug by HTS forces to conceal their atrocities. In response to international scrutiny, Damascus’s Minister of Defense, Murhaf Abu Kasra, abruptly banned the filming of operations.
Arab and Turkish endorsement of Damascus
Despite the outcry, the first international support for Damascus came from Saudi Arabia – Sharaa’s birthplace and his first foreign stop after assuming Syria's presidency. The Saudi Foreign Ministry's statement on 7 March condemned the “crimes committed by outlawed groups” and pledged support for Damascus’s efforts to “restore security and stability and maintain internal peace.”
Ankara followed suit. On 9 March, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, speaking at a security summit alongside his counterparts from Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria, framed the crisis as a “provocation” and urged Syria's Alawite, Christian, and Druze minorities to “avoid escalation.” Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the Arab League all issued statements essentially backing the HTS-led government.
US–Russia consensus shocks Europe
Instead, it is the alignment of Washington and Moscow on this issue that has raised eyebrows – especially given the fact that the two states were on opposing sides of the Syrian war, and that the US actively supported the rise of Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups in Syria.
Russia’s Deputy UN Representative Dmitry Polyansky announced a joint US–Russia request for an emergency Security Council meeting over mass killings.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio strongly condemned “radical Islamist terrorists, including foreign jihadis” committing the massacres, and reaffirmed Washington's support for Syria’s religious and ethnic minorities, including Christians, Druze, Alawites, and Kurds. Moreover, Rubio demanded accountability from Syria’s interim government.
Europe, meanwhile, is reeling from the fallout. France and Germany, which had previously engaged with Sharaa and pushed for sanctions relief for his government, are now distancing themselves. French authorities are calling for an independent investigation, while German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock expressed shock at the massacres. Even Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar criticized European governments for legitimizing HTS.
Facing global condemnation, Sharaa is now attempting to backtrack. While he initially called on Alawites to “lay down their arms and surrender” while praising security forces for their “restraint,” western criticism pushed him to announce the formation of a “committee to investigate the coastal incidents” and a “committee in charge of communicating with the coastal population.”
The “unity president” went full spin, telling Reuters: “We fought to defend the oppressed, and we won’t accept that any blood be shed unjustly, or goes without punishment or accountability, even among those closest to us.”
It is doubtful how far these announcements and platitudes will appease Syria's Alawites, who have just emerged from an unimaginable slaughter. After all, the perpetrators of sectarian crimes have not been held to account before by the extremist forces now settled in Damascus.
A deeply divided Syria
One of Sharaa’s most pressing challenges ahead will be the growing influence of foreign fighters – Chechens, Uighurs, Albanians, and Uzbeks – who were granted Syrian citizenship and military ranks for their “contributions to the revolution.”
Journalist Sarkis Kassargian notes contradictions in Sharaa’s statements:
“Sharaa claims all militants have joined the Syrian army, except the Kurds and Druze. Yet, he also admits that the massacres were carried out by his own security forces. The most optimistic scenario is that factions within his own defense ministry are acting independently.”
The Alawite massacres now set a dangerous precedent for the SDF in the northeast and armed Druze groups in the south – both of whom Sharaa seeks to integrate under a single military umbrella. One thing is clear: The sectarian bloodshed unleashed in Syria is the gravest threat to its unity. Kassargian personally interviewed Kurdish and Druze leaders who said:
“We are being told why don't you lay down your arms. But we knew this would happen.”
Noting that the Kurds had experienced similar massacres in Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ayn, and the Druze in Idlib – both at the hands of foreign-backed extremists – Kassargian believes that “Sharaa will have a very difficult time unifying Syria” because none of these groups trust him and his cadres.
Syrian-born journalist and writer Husnu Mahalli emphasizes that the western media narrative currently parroting Damascus's claims to be facing ‘an armed rebellion of regime remnants’ is largely false.
Mahalli reminds The Cradle that there are more than 15,000 foreign Salafi extremists under Sharaa's administration:
“These include Chechens, Uighurs, Albanians, Tunisians, Egyptians, Jordanians, Germans, French jihadis ... Sharaa's government has authorized these foreigners. The police chiefs they appointed in Latakia and its surroundings are Uzbek, Tajik and Albanian. How can it work with them running the law?”
Mahalli noted that last week, the Ministry of Endowments (Religious Affairs) replaced all moderate preachers and imams with radical imams, warning that “if [the HTS government] had any intention of ensuring Syria's unity, they would not have done this.”
The thing to watch, however, says Mahalli, is the unusual joint position of the US and Russia in the UN Security Council on the recent massacres, and he predicts that “they will give Sharaa maximum 3 months” to clean up his act and push through lasting reforms:
“A common position of the US and Russia will affect the Saudis and the UAE. The Saudis and Emiratis used to tell Assad, ‘Stay away from Iran, we will give you what you want.’ Now they can say to Sharaa, ‘Stay away from Turkiye and we will give you what you want, otherwise we will send you away’.”
Last week's HTS massacres have, in any case, fully exposed the sectarian hatred at the heart of Damascus's new leaders. Sectarianism is the biggest threat to Syrian unity, bar none. There are foreign and domestic parties that actively seek to fan these flames and fragment Syria, while others want the exact opposite.
The mass murder of hundreds of Alawites has done one sure thing – it has brought the issue to the fore and, over the next weeks and months, will expose the parties who seek Syria's division and those who are hellbent on unity.
https://thecradle.co/articles/in-syria- ... -civilians
SDF hails ‘real opportunity to build new Syria’ after deal with de facto government
The leader of the US-backed Kurdish proxy has signed a deal with self-appointed President Ahmad al-Sharaa to integrate the SDF into Syria’s new, extremist-dominated army
News Desk
MAR 11, 2025
(Photo credit: X)
The chief of the US-backed Kurdish militia, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said in a social media post late on 10 March that the agreement he signed that evening with Syria’s transitional president Ahmad al-Sharaa marks a “real opportunity to build a new Syria.”
“In this sensitive period, we are working together to ensure a transitional phase that reflects our people’s aspirations for justice and stability. We are committed to building a better future that guarantees the rights of all Syrians and fulfills their aspirations for peace and dignity,” SDF chief Mazloum Abdi said via X on Tuesday evening.
“We consider this agreement a real opportunity to build a new Syria that embraces all its components and ensures good neighborliness,” he added.
The agreement signed on 10 March focuses on the integration of the SDF into all Syrian institutions.
The Syrian presidency said in a statement that the deal “stipulates guaranteeing the rights of all Syrians to representation and participation in the political process and all state institutions.”
“The agreement stipulates the integration of all civil and military institutions in northeastern Syria within the state administration, including border crossings, the airport, and oil and gas fields,” the statement went on to say.
It calls for the “return of all displaced Syrians to their towns and villages and ensuring their protection from the Syrian state,” and SDF support for “the Syrian state in its fight against the remnants of Assad and all threats that threaten its security and unity.”
“The agreement with the SDF stipulates the rejection of calls for division, hate speech, and attempts to sow discord among all components of Syrian society,” it added.
The SDF was formed in 2015 with US support and has since served as Washington’s proxy in Syria, helping the US military maintain its occupation of the country’s oilfields. The group controls not only Kurdish-majority areas but also Arab-majority areas in the Deir Ezzor Governorate, where most of Syria’s oil resources are located.
It is closely linked to a de facto autonomous, Kurdish-led governing body in northern Syria, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).
Since the new Syrian government came to power in December last year, there has been talk of a potential merging of the SDF into the country’s armed forces. There has been tension and disagreement over what this merging would entail, as Abdi has previously insisted on the group remaining under Kurdish command and integrating into the Syrian army as a military bloc.
The government, however, has called for the dissolution and integration of the SDF.
In an interview with Al-Majalla conducted in February and published on Monday, Abdi said that he has agreed with Sharaa on a “series of principles,” including “sovereign issues such as the unity of Syria’s territories, and that there be one army in Syria, that there be one institution, one capital, and one flag.”
“There are points that we agree on, but the implementation mechanism and timing need to be discussed and addressed. We agreed to continue negotiating and dialogue until we resolve matters, and we considered the meeting to be positive. The basic principle that we agree on is that there should not be two armies, but only one army,” the SDF chief added.
According to a report by Syria TV, the deal between the SDF and the Syrian government “was facilitated by direct American encouragement to Mazloum Abdi,” as well as US mediation.
Monday’s agreement came days after an armed uprising against the state and its security forces, carried out by cells affiliated with Syria’s former military, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
The uprising triggered a massive security operation, during which government forces massacred over 1,000 civilians, mainly from the Alawite minority – the sect of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
Members of different extremist factions that have been integrated into the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led (HTS) Ministry of Defense and armed forces went door to door, killing civilians, including women and children. Many of the massacres were documented on video by the militants themselves.
While many of the perpetrators were foreign fighters, many others were Syrians.
Numerous extremist groups that have been incorporated into the Syrian army have a history of persecution and violent crimes against Kurds, including the Turkish-backed factions of what was known as the Syrian National Army (SNA).
Violent clashes between the SDF and these Turkish-backed groups have been raging in northern Syria since the fall of Assad’s government last year.
https://thecradle.co/articles/sdf-hails ... government
These people are fucked as soon as the US bails out.
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Zionism: A Beneficiary of the Massacre of Syria’s Minorities
Posted by Internationalist 360° on March 11, 2025
Robert Inlakesh
The situation will never improve until the people break out of the spell of hating their own neighbors, who have lived, fought and died alongside each other for centuries. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)
Robert Inlakesh examines the rise of Sunni Nationalism in Syria, comparing it to Zionism and exposing its role in fueling sectarian violence and Western-backed destabilization.
The horrifying civilian massacres carried out across the Syrian coast are stupefyingly awful, on a scale reminiscent of the height of the ISIS insurgency in Iraq. Yet, there are still countless people identifying as Muslims who are trying to defend these actions. Their predominant ideology is not that of “Sunni Islam”, but rather of a nationalist identity rooted in a theological justification, in other words, a Muslims Zionism.
As a disclaimer, I write this as a practicing Sunni Muslim who is appalled at the way my faith has been weaponized to justify the very atrocities that Allah (SWT) tells us to fight against and prevent at all costs.
The Division of Syria
It has long been the agenda of the Zionist Entity to divide Syria into a number of weakened and defenseless Statelets, many of which it seeks to establish ties with and also of which justify its existence as a self-described “Jewish State”.
While the Zionist regime’s alliance with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has long been known, the Israelis doubled down on throwing their weight behind the group that controls Syria’s north-east on December 8, 2024. Simultaneously, the Zionists occupied the entirety of the Golan Heights and carried out their largest ever air campaign to destroy Syria’s military capabilities.
For years, the Zionist regime provided material and financial support, in addition to medical aid, to at least a dozen Syrian opposition groups, including Al-Nusra Front (Al-Qaeda in Syria). Al-Nusra would of course later become Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which now rules over Damascus with an iron fist. Its leader, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, who now prefers to go by Ahmed al-Sharaa, was originally an MI6 (British intelligence) project and was a former commander of ISIS.
The Zionists understood that the groups they were backing, including what would later become “HTS”, were led by foreign intelligence operatives, but that their rank and file were fanatical militants. This worked well for the Israelis in two ways: while the leadership of the group can be manipulated, the fanatical takfiris who actually believe in their group’s ideology are left to commit atrocities against civilians that will drive them towards federalization.
Although this history is largely forgotten, significant portions of Syria’s minority groups were in support of the movement to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad in 2011, yet what changed their minds and made them rally around the former Syrian leader was the behavior of the sectarian death squads who ended up leading the Syrian opposition.
However, after 2018, as the Syrian economy went into steep decline and the civil war became a frozen conflict, the vision that many Syrians had adopted for their future had faded. The US and EU sanctions strangled the country and plunged the people of Syria into poverty.
By the time al-Jolani came to launch his assault on Aleppo, the entire State ended up crumbling and this occurred without any major fighting. On top of this, it appeared briefly as if the HTS militants were not going to carry out the kinds of massacres many had long feared they would.
Yet, after two months, the sectarian field executions did not stop, the Israelis were essentially at the gates of Damascus and the new government was still incapable of getting its affairs in order. The real question here is whether Jolani is part of a conspiracy to commit civilian massacres with the aim of dividing Syria, or if he is just a useful idiot that is behaving as a murderous dictator.
When the rebellion occurred on the Syrian coast, the instant response was the mass deployment of paramilitary forces and security services, while sectarian demonstrators chanted for the blood of the Alawites. The official justification for the massacres that followed – including civilians who had even been opponents of Bashar al-Assad’s rule – was that “remnants of the regime” were to be hunted down.
What followed was the largest gift to the Israelis that could ever have been given, sectarian gangsters burst into civilian homes and murdered men, women, and children. Even babies were not spared from the brutality of the new regime. Elderly men were tossed around, humiliated and shot in the streets, teenagers taken into the open and executed. When their Sunni neighbours tried to intervene to stop the massacres, they were murdered too.
It is clear that these actions were carried out with genocidal intent, and no reasonable person can deny the mass slaughter of innocent civilians. On a personal note, it is so bad that Sunni Syrian contacts of mine in Hama and Homs have told me that they are too scared to share their opinions on social media for fear of being targeted.
While it is certainly the malicious agenda of the Zionists to divide Syria, the blame cannot now be placed upon the reactions of the minority communities who seek to preserve their own livelihoods, but instead on the new administration in Damascus that has committed the atrocities. If the country continues on its current trajectory, there won’t be a country called Syria any more and this is the fault of the sectarian death squads who worked to divide the country.
The Israelis are now grinning, waiting for the opportunity to seize more territory and use collaborators to carve out a series of regimes that will work in their favour. Meanwhile, not a single bullet from Jolani’s men has been directed at the occupying entity.
Sunni Nationalism: A Muslims Zionism
When looking at the atrocities committed at the hands of Syrian de-facto leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani’s Security Forces and allied paramilitary groups, it is impossible for the sane mind to justify it. That’s why the Syrian and foreign cheerleaders for the fall of the previous regime now have to be separated into three categories:
The paid propagandist who has no principles.
The emotion-driven reactionary.
The Nationalist.
The first category is paid to publish propaganda, it is not far fetched to imagine some of them justifying the murder of their own family members for the right price, therefore their ideology is not so important.
The next category is those who have supported Abu Mohammed al-Jolani due to an emotional reaction they had to the fall of Bashar al-Assad, these people are not bad, but were duped by the propaganda. Many of them are scrambling to make sense of what just happened, after years of talking publicly about their “blessed revolution” that was fought to build a “free Syria”, they are now desperately trying to make sense of what is unfolding.
The third category that I believe needs to be properly addressed is the Nationalist. Why do I choose to label this group as Nationalists? Because that is what they are. This group has essentially copied the Zionist model and changed some minor details in order to arrive at “Sunni Nationalism”.
It is important to put this all into perspective. Zionism, as a form of nationalism, weaponized the Jewish faith to serve as its theological backbone. It used Judaism to argue that Jews from Poland, Spain, Russia, England, Iran, Yemen, Ethiopia, and so on, have the same identity and all somehow lay claim to the land of Palestine.
The Sunni Nationalist uses a version of Sunni Islam as their theological backbone, which also justifies their belief that a Sunni Muslim – whether they be from China, Uzbekistan, Germany, Portugal, Libya, Iraq, Pakistan or anywhere else – has the right to any region they choose, based upon religious justifications. The caveat is that the Sunni in question must agree with the group’s prevailing ideology.
In reality, Sunni Muslims from Nigeria, China, Bangladesh, or Jordan are completely different culturally, ethnically, and all speak different languages, yet under a Nationalist ideology, they can justify their takeover of Syria in the name of creating a rule for their identity group.
It could also be compared to White Supremacy, which also has landed itself the label “White Nationalism”. Although the White Supremacist may sometimes weaponize Christianity, it is less prevalent than in the other two cases that were mentioned, yet the same basic principle holds. It is a supremacist ideology, which claims that through adhering to Western principles and being “White” skinned, suddenly the plethora of ethnic and religious groups throughout Europe are all the same. This ignores cultural differences, genetics, and also a lack of shared languages, yet none of these matters to the ignorant White Nationalist who swears his/her group is superior and that “White” is a real identity.
When it comes to the Sunni Nationalist, who often fall under the Salafist branch, they cannot actually justify their stance based upon Islam, so instead they cherry pick quotes from Hadith or scholars like Ibn Taymiyyah. There is rarely ever any honest analysis about how Ibn Taymiyyah was reacting to cataclysmic developments around him, specifically the events surrounding the Mongol sacking of Baghdad that crushed a once dominant Muslim-Arab empire.
These Sunni Nationalists ignore nuance, their Sheikhs are almost all receiving finances from pro-Western Arab regimes and sometimes the Zionists directly. Ultimately, while some of their content may be genuinely just to do with religion, there’s another far more pernicious element for which they are paid handsomely. These individuals preach in the same way the religious authorities in Europe did in order to rally the crusaders around Christianity. Their message is political speech, cloaked in religiosity, with the purpose of pushing identity politics to justify a nationalist agenda.
Zionism is the exact same Nationalistic curse. Its claims do not make factual sense, as Judaism and history do not support its conclusions, but this does not matter to the Zionist. Perhaps the most powerful political ideology is nationalism, although the phrase may be traced back to French leader Napoleon Bonaparte, the basic concepts that make it possible are much older.
Just as Zionism is not Judaism, nor is Sunni Nationalism akin to Islam. These nationalist ideologies also breed delusion on a grand scale, a great example of this is the Sunni Nationalists who claim to support Palestine and seek the liberation of Al-Aqsa Mosque. These same people ignore the CIA and MI6 influence on what they call a “blessed revolution”, they ignore the hundreds of billions of dollars poured into the project to overthrow the government. They ignore the civilian massacres carried out by Al-Qaeda affiliates and ignore even those same Takfiri groups receiving funding, weapons and medical aid from the Israeli occupation.
This level of mental gymnastics that results from the brain rot of their nationalist ideology allowed for some of them to parade around in the streets with photos of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, while celebrating the downfall of Baathism. In the end, they have a leader who receives the backing of the European Union, who signals intent for normalizing ties with the Israelis, who was once supposedly a hardline religious fundamentalist, but is now seeking a “democratic and pluralistic Syria” according to his recent speeches.
None of the economic or political moves that contradict what are supposed to be their core beliefs, which are frequently made by Ahmed al-Sharaa and his administration, are enough to sow a seed of doubt for these nationalists. Yet, this ideology will ultimately collapse with time, because it is totally dependent upon foreign backers and it will eventually lack a mortal enemy. As much as they try to fixate on Iran and “the Shia” as their enemy, this is a failing strategy.
While Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and other Palestinian Resistance movements are struggling against the Zionist Entity’s brutal occupation on the frontlines, they receive support from the Iranian-led Axis of Resistance alone, with not one of these Sunni Nationalist groups even lifting a finger for them.
It is clear that the agenda to carve out Sunni Nationalism is a Zionist project, it not only uses self-described Muslims as warriors for the United States and Israeli interests, but also produces the perfect archetype to fit their orientalist depictions of Muslims. This is perhaps one of the most successful psyops in history, turning Muslims into hollowed out Nationalists who are obsessed with identity and care not for logic nor the teachings of their pure faith.
Already, the Zionists are jumping on the massacres that the Takfiris are committing, using them to portray Muslims as animals and claim that we as Muslims are hostile to Christians. Unfortunately, due to this Sunni Nationalist identity politics, many are now trying to make excuses for the mass slaughter of Syria’s minorities, which demonstrates how awful this ideology truly is.
In the wake of the war on Gaza, for the first time in decades, sectarian strife between Sunni and Shia began to fade. However, it is clear that the Zionist entity and its allies were not going to allow unity. Sectarian content is also being pushed far and wide. It is no mistake that a series called Muawiya was prepared just in time for Ramadan, nor is it a mistake that sectarian content is noticeably being promoted across social media platforms.
The Zionists and their allies want to divide the people, because if they unite, they understand that their project across West Asia will collapse. The enemy is not Sunnis, Alawites, Shia, Christians, Druze, Kurds or any other sect. The situation will never improve until the people break out of the spell of hating their own neighbors, who have lived, fought and died alongside each other for centuries.
Tonight we are going to be examining the outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria, how to best interpret the information/disinformation landscape surrounding the internal security situation in the country, and what external actors have a vested interest in having the violence continue.
We are joined tonight by Robert Inlakesh – a political analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker who has worked with TRT, Al MAyadeen, QUDS news, and is currently a staff writer here at MintPress News.
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