Rena Netjes
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Arabist/Hebrew. Political analyst. @RenaLingua. NE & NW Syria, Isr/Pal. Publications/words in Clingendael FikraForum Bbvpro Radiobe1 DAWNJournal Harmoon SadaJournal TheRightsForum Deutschlandfunk CNN BBC & elsewhere [email protected]
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My latest: Syrians returning to their homeland from Türkiye

Nearly half a million Syrian refugees have returned from Türkiye since the fall of the Assad regime on December 8th. But not all Syrians have gone back. This article explores why a significant number of..
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Scholars & pundits have focussed a lot on the electoral demise of center left, but in doing so we paid to little attention to the electoral problems of the center right.

Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.
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Response from Fadi Al-Atrash, grandson of the Druze leader of the Great Revolt against the French, Sultan Al-Atrash whose aim also was to unify Syria.
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Response from Fadi Al-Atrash, grandson of the Druze leader of the Great Revolt against the French, Sultan Al-Atrash whose aim also was to unify Syria.
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Hij en zijn mannen worden gesteund door Israël, via de pro Netanyahu Druzische Sheikh daar, Mowafaq Tarif, Israël betaalt bijv het salaris van 3000 zijn militieleden, waaronder veel oud Assad regime officieren.

Dat gezegd hebbende, veel Druzen vertouwen, zeer begrijpelijk, Damascus niet meer.
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Dat is wat iedereen zich afvraagt, inclusief Muwahhideen Druzen.
Het betekent iig dat
1/ hij de oude naam uit de Torah gebruikt, van ver voor het jaar nul, (Muw. Druzen arriveerden in Suwayda vanuit Libanon in de 18e eeuw)
2/ Syriërs zich afvragen of Netanyahu na Gaza zuid Syrië wil gaan pakken.
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Wat betekent dat?
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First of all, I want to thank all the Syrians who took the time to answer my questions and showed me their hospitality esp. in places where there are no hotels.

I don't even remember what these are called below, but they were amazing, from Lattakiya.
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Left the oven, just got back in the fridge.

3.5 weeks in Syria. From Azaz, Afrin to Nubl, Aleppo, Al-Tah (Idlib), N Hama, Homs, E Daraa, W Suwayda, Jaramana, Damascus, Homs again, Wadi Nasara, and Afrin again. What a journey. What a treasure trove of profound conversations.
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Call for a school strike in Homs and the coastal areas over the ongoing crimes against teachers and students.
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Koninkrijk der Nederlanden.
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A massive protest in Amsterdam drew around 250,000 people demanding stronger Dutch action and sanctions against Israel’s war in Gaza, as similar pro-Palestinian rallies across Europe called for a ceasefire and the release of activists aboard a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the territory.
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AJ corresp: 4 civilians died. #Aleppo
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There are reports of clashes at the Shihan roundabout, from where one takes the road to Afrin-Azaz.
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The Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyya are the two Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo under the control of the SDF.

Last time we drove along Ashrafiyya towards Afrin (NW) was yesterday morning.
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Reports of SDF firing at adjacent neighbourhoods in Aleppo (I was there yesterday afternoon)

Clashes in Aleppo:
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Reports of SDF snipers spreading across buildings in Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyya, the two Kurdish neighborhoods of Aleppo.
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I just heard a call from Abu Amsha, known for human rights violations against Kurds, calling for revenge (Taar)

There they go again? After the coastal areas, Suwayda it's now SDF area (in Aleppo)?