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Oct 13, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read Read on X
FIGHT DISINFORMATION: Comprehensive ongoing list of the most prevalent viral imagery of Syria falsely attributed to the Israel-Gaza war.

This image is of child victims of the Assad regime's gas attack against Eastern Ghouta a decade ago, not Israeli or Gazan victims of war. Image
This is a video of children in the Assad-besieged Yarmouk, Syria from a Syrian documentary called "Little Palestine" from nearly a decade ago.

Though these children are mostly of Palestinian descent, this is Syria, not Gaza.
This viral image is from the ruins of the Omari Mosque in Daraa, Syria from a decade ago. The mosque was attacked by Assad regime forces.

This is not a mosque in Gaza. Image
This video (very distressing) is of a Syria Civil Defenseman saving a baby in the aftermath of this year's earthquake in northern Syria.

This is in Aleppo Governorate, not the result of missile strikes in Gaza.
This is a video of a Syrian child whose relatives died in the Assad regime's siege of Aleppo a decade ago.

This is not a video from Gaza and is nearly 10 years old.
This is a video from early this week of the Assad regime indiscriminately using Russian-provided heavy artillery on the town of Ariha in northern Syria.

This is not imagery from Gaza nor Israel.

This is a video from 2016 of Assad regime soldiers in Aleppo being targeted by Syrian resistance fighters.

This is not a recent video of Israeli soldiers being attacked by Hamas, and vice versa.

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Dec 8
To the international leaders sincerely congratulating the Syrian people, thank you.

But it's not over: Syrians want to vote for their own leaders and live equally under the law.

Your role is to facilitate as needed and stop regional actors from abusing Syrians further.
Don't condemn the future of Syria before doing anything to safeguard the Syrian desire for a democratic transition.

Things are going to be messy after the fall of a half a century of tyranny.

Don't abandon Syrians now.
Speaking directly to the European leaders who previously sought to normalize with Assad:

If you do nothing or sabotage efforts to promote safety and stability in Syria now, you are barring refugees in your countries from making voluntary returns.
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Nov 30
JUST NOW: The Syrian opposition has reached Kafranbel, the Syrian town in Idlib famous for their protest banners. Image
"Putin! Get your soldiers back safe, otherwise we send them to you in coffins." Image
"Hit Assad down; let Syria shine." Image
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Nov 15
From Putin to Maduro to Assad, there's few enemies of the United States that Tulsi Gabbard doesn't have a bizarre affinity for.

Amid a sea of controversial cabinet picks, she is by far the most dangerous to our national security.

My words in The Hill.
thehill.com/opinion/white-…
Just weeks after Tulsi's visit to Damascus, Assad unleashed a deadly chemical attack on Khan Shaykhun.

Trump rightfully retaliated. His DNI nominee, Tulsi Gabbard, called the attack staged.
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In 2015, Tulsi directed a tweet at her now fellow cabinet nominee Marco Rubio, encouraging him to support Russia's intervention in Syria, amid a joint Assad-Russia hospital bombing campaign. Image
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Oct 1
Iran is a revisionist state. In the past decade it has aggressively and violently expanded its influence, not only in the region from Damascus to Baghdad to Beirut to Sanaa, but across the globe. It is seeking a nuclear weapon.

This is not political commentary. This is a fact.
A fact that is frequently ignored by pundits and commentators who insist on painting Iran as a victim, and the status quos of misery it has created across the region as normal and peaceful.

Iran has agency, and it has exercised it forcefully.
No one forced Iran to back the Houthi campaign of terror in Yemen.

No one forced Iran to come to the aid of Bashar al-Assad's mass-murder campaign in Syria.

No one forced Iran to fund terror in Lebanon, Iraq, and beyond.
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Sep 19
Can any of these viral posts claiming that hospital-issue pagers were being blown up provide any actual evidence, because the viral "civilian health worker" who was confirmed dead from a pager explosion just had his funeral.

And, uh... yeah.

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I really do not understand where this claim originated from, considering that not even Hezbollah / Iran state media are reporting explosions of hospital-issue pagers.
And again, random civilians are not carrying pagers. And the only group that would, medical staff, were not having their hospital-issue pagers explode.

This is not in contention anywhere except Twitter.
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Sep 17
Random civilians are not carrying pagers in Beirut in the year of our lord 2024. Can we be serious please. Image
Regardless of what you think about the attack morally — even pro Hezbollah media is not making this claim.

Hezb members openly use pagers to communicate. The viral claim that hospital pagers were targeted is obviously false. See video below about the "new pagers" Hezb recieved.
Hezbollah and Iranian state media themselves are confirming that several Hezbollah members have died.

english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/…
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