excalibur
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Syrian Druze are being brutally killed by Syrian forces.
The sound of silence from the MSM, big mouths on street corners, etc., is deafening.
www.jpost.com
The sound of silence from the MSM, big mouths on street corners, etc., is deafening.
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IDF sources said that the military is ready for a multi-day campaign to convince Syrian regime forces to withdraw from Sweida and leave the Syrian Druze their autonomy.
However, the IDF said that the situation for the Syrian Druze is desperate and that despite aerial attacks, if on Tuesday, the Druze controlled around 70% of Sweida, by Wednesday, regime forces controlled around 70% of the city.
In addition, the IDF said that the regime has around 200 militia men committing atrocities against the Druze in Sweida, while another 1,000 more official Syrian regime army forces have the city surrounded and cut off.
The IDF implied that the Syrian regime may use this model to try to have plausible deniability that it was not directly involved in atrocities, but the military said that intelligence suggests that the mixing of using militias to do the regime’s dirty work appears to have been planned.
At the same time, the IDF did not accuse the Syrian regime of provoking the current crisis.
IDF implies that the Syrian regime may be involved indirectly in the conflict
Rather, it implied that the current crisis had developed organically between Syrian Druze and Syrian Bedouins and that the regime had seized the opportunity of the crisis to try to assert its power and control in this mostly Druze part of southern Syria once and for all.
While the IDF said it will continue to bomb Syrian regime forces to show them the cost of their military actions in Sweida, the military made it clear that it is not sending IDF troops into Sweida to assist.
This could mean that the IDF takes a price from the regime for its current acts in Sweida but fails to prevent it from killing any Druze that it views as a threat, even if it might eventually withdraw its forces once that “mission” is complete.
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Israeli military strikes Syria over 160 times, ready for days of battle | The Jerusalem Post
After a number of strategic aerial attacks on Syrian soil, Israel won't send ground forces to protect Syrian-Druze.
