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Jan 12 31 tweets 4 min read
1/29 You keep treating the al Ahli hospital blast as a smoking gun; It isn’t. Forensic Architecture found Israel has provided no conclusive visual evidence that the explosion was caused by a Hamas or PIJ rocket. 2/29 forensic-architecture.org/investigation/…
Jan 2 7 tweets 2 min read
1/8 These maps were found at regime headquarters west of Aleppo. The regime was anticipating an offensive from Saraqib to Bastarun, and was prepared with more than 22,000 soldiers, 300 tanks, and 700 pieces of artillery.... Image
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2/8 ... and rocket launchers to absorb the attack, then strike the liberation forces from two fronts simultaneously:

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❖ 46th Regiment – Atarib – Kafr Karmin
❖ Kafr Halab – Kafr Nuran – Hazano
Dec 13, 2025 9 tweets 3 min read
1/7🧵Contrary to the claim of Hasbarists, like @havivrettiggur, Israeli society has a deep radicalization problem. 65% of the Jewish public believe that maintaining the purity of arms (avoiding unnecessary killing and harming innocents) prevents the IDF from fulfilling its goals Image 2/7 After 2 years of war, the IDF continues to gain great trust from the Israeli Jewish public. In an annual survey conducted by the National Security & Democracy Center at the Israel Democracy Institute, it was found that 81.3% of the Jewish public expresses confidence in it. Image
Nov 5, 2025 43 tweets 8 min read
1/39 🧵Exposing the lies of @rudy_rochman. There have been 0 documented Syrian gov. attacks on the Golan Heights. Israel has repeatedly targeted civilians in southern Syria,violating international law. He deleted this post after backlash exposing Israeli expansionism 👇🏽 Image Sidenote: Here are the titles of the reports from the reliable @HRW and @SNHR (Syrian Network for Human Rights) @SNHR especially since they've been documenting the conflict in Syria with much accuracy & prudence since the beginning. Image
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Oct 14, 2025 8 tweets 2 min read
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@Coldxman claims the Israel lobby cannot be that powerful since no U.S. president recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights for 36 years. This is ahistorical. The lobby’s power lies in ensuring Israel never faced sanctions for its illegal occupation of Syria 2/
During the pursuing decades, the U.S. pursued the Oslo framework, which made recognition politically impossible, as doing that would have derailed the entire process.
Sep 26, 2025 6 tweets 1 min read
1/6 Great article by @nirhasson in @Haaretz. The scale of child killings in Gaza is unprecedented compared to many wars of the 21st century. Verified data show that the rate of deaths there far exceeds those seen in Syria, Sudan, & Ukraine. 👇🏽 Image 2/6 In Syria between 2011 and 2025, about 30,000 children were killed. That is an annual average of 2,100, which equals a rate of 8.8 childr deaths per 100,000 people per year.
Sep 16, 2025 6 tweets 2 min read
1/6 President al-Sharaa military strategy & political play in regards to Russia: "When we launched the liberation battle, there were two options for dealing with Russia: either attack its bases and destroy its aircraft (which we were able to do), or endure some bombardment until 2/6 the achievement on the ground provided an opportunity for negotiation. I chose the second because the first could have meant a violent Russian intervention in Syria and a firm decision to enter the battle, turning it into a zero-sum war.
Aug 14, 2025 25 tweets 6 min read
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@s_m_marandi in an interview w/ @propandco lied that Iran & its proxies did not bring prostitution or temporary sex marriage to Syria & claimed mutah is 'highly regulated'. This study in Damascus & Sayyidna Zainab proves these tools were used to exploit Syrian women sexually Image 2/20
Researchers observed Iranian linked clerics and brokers outside Sayyida Zaynab shrine offering Syrian women for mutah to Iraqi and Iranian men. These contracts lasted hours or days. Payment was disguised as mahr but functioned as a fixed sexual fee. Image
Jul 1, 2025 25 tweets 4 min read
🧵: The Unlimited Use of Limited Force in Israeli Strategy, 1949-2004.
1/ TLDR: The table below surveys 55 years of Israeli military responses to security threats. It reveals a stark pattern. Most uses of force failed to achieve meaningful outcomes. Collaboration beat force. ⬇️ Table 7.1: Israeli Use Of Limited Force: Challenges, Strategies, and Outcomes, 149-2004. [part 1]
Table 7.1 - Continued [part 2]
Table 7.1 - Continued [Part 3]
Table 7.1 - Continued [Part 2 & 3 together].
2/ Between 1949 and 2005, Israel engaged in 166 militarized interstate disputes short of full scale war. Only in one year, 1988 during the First Intifada, did Israel refrain from militarized interstate conflict. Even then, it was deeply immersed in violent suppression.
Jun 28, 2025 11 tweets 3 min read
Idiot @Haqiqatjou false claims the opposition killed 200,000 civilians which he says is half of what Assad killed;

But even using @snhr 's conservative data the regime & Iranian militias KILLED 42 TIMES MORE civilians than the rebels. 👇🏿 Image
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The @snhr is among the most methodical sources on Syrian casualties. It only includes deaths that can be individually verified by name and circumstances. This makes its figures conservative; Regime Civilian toll is likely far higher.
Jun 28, 2025 22 tweets 5 min read
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RESPONSE TO IMBECILE @Haqiqatjou: Contrary to popular narratives, the greatest foreign influx came not for ISIS or the opposition in Syria, but for the regime, in the form of Shia militias. Image
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Between 2011 and 2024, an estimated 27,000 to 36,000 foreign fighters joined the Syrian opposition, including HTS and Islamist aligned factions. These forces were overwhelmingly Arab, with a smaller presence of Turks, Central Asians, and Chechens. Image
Jun 17, 2025 36 tweets 4 min read
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Iran’s settler‑colonial project reshaped Syria’s Sunni areas through forced evacuation of Sunnis and repopulation with Shia militias. These tactics persisted until the Assad regime fell and Iranian militias were expelled 2/35
Darayya was a Sunni suburb of Damascus with 200 000 residents before 2011. After a brutal siege its people were evacuated in 2016. Iran‑aligned militias moved in and blocked any meaningful return
Jun 2, 2025 8 tweets 3 min read
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THREAD: Israel’s war on Gaza is not just disproportionate. It is uniquely brutal compared to any modern Western campaign. Airwars, trusted by the US military, finds Israel’s bombing more intense than the US-led war on ISIS.
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Airwars data has been used in over 70 percent of US civilian harm probes. Its analysts say the bombing in Gaza is more deadly and intense than in Mosul or Raqqa. Their methods are public, with harm records and ambiguity ratings.
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May 30, 2025 4 tweets 1 min read
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Even @Haqiqatjou premise in the beginning is flawed. Hafez al-Assad didn’t lose the Golan Heights. He consolidated power after effectively abandoning it. There’s long been speculation he allowed Israel to seize it in 1967 to eliminate rivals and secure his path to power.
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Decades later, under Hafez and Bashar, Syria entered multiple rounds of talks with Israel, in the 1990s and 2000s,where Damascus showed openness to recognizing Israel and even relinquishing full claims to the Golan, in exchange for partial Israeli withdrawal and normalization.
Apr 15, 2025 35 tweets 13 min read
🚨1/ Male & female Palestinians were raped by Israeli forces; some with vegetables; ‘one had a metal rod forced into his penis until he bled.’ I read the UN’s 50-page report on systematic sexual & gendered violence against Palestinians. Here are the most harrowing stories.🧵📷 Image
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2/Male detainees in Sde Teiman were raped with fingers, sticks, broomsticks, vegetables, and electrical probes into the anus and rectum. One was hung by his arms and had a metal tool forced into his penis ~20 times until he bled and fainted. “The pain was excruciating.” Image
Feb 15, 2025 17 tweets 3 min read
1/ The Damascus-SDF negotiations hinge on three scenarios: (1) a stabilizing agreement, (2) military confrontation, or (3) a prolonged status quo. Each carries strategic implications for Syria’s military, governance, and resource control. 🧵 2/ Damascus demands the dissolution of the SDF as an independent force, integrating it into the Ministry of Defense. The SDF, however, insists on retaining a distinct military identity, fearing assimilation will erode Kurdish autonomy and governance structures.
Jan 23, 2025 28 tweets 5 min read
THREAD:
ISRAEL’S CLAIM OF A 1:1 CIVILIAN-TO-COMBATANT RATIO IN GAZA IS A LIE. ISRAEL ACTED BARBARICALLY
The claim of a 1:1 civilian-combatant ratio in Gaza is false. A conservative estimate places it closer to 3:1, mirroring Aleppo and exposing the extent of Israel’s brutality Image
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Israel has repeatedly claimed that for every civilian killed in Gaza, a combatant is also killed, suggesting a 1:1 civilian-to-combatant ratio. However, data analysis points to a much higher ratio of civilian deaths, with estimates closer to 3:1.
Jan 17, 2025 7 tweets 3 min read
THREAD: THE TREACHERY OF ARAB LEADERS TOWARD GAZA AFTER OCTOBER 7, 2023. In Bob Woodward’s book War, he reveals how Arab leaders like Sisi, King Abdullah, MBZ, and MBS met with Blinken and not only allowed but even encouraged the slaughter of Gaza. Image Sisi’s and his intel Chief Abbas Kamel(who effectively is running half the country): “Hamas is entrenched in Gaza. It will be difficult to eliminate them. Israel shouldn't go all in at once. Wait for them to pop up and chop their heads off." Image