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Shin Bet detained a woman accused of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Netanyahu using an improvised explosive device
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Africa North
Mali's Goita Calls for Direct Dialogue with Armed Groups
[X]
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Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [44 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Burkina Faso's President Ibrahim Traore has just unveiled a revolutionary plan to unite the entire African continent under one powerful system!
[X] Uh huh. Suuuuuuure — that’ll work.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [110 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why stop with Africa?
Posted by: Branches || 07/24/2025 1:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Gaddafi already tried that and got killed for his trouble.
NATO led an attack on his nation and bombed them back into the stone age. As in, literal slave markets.
Tell this to anyone who claims NATO is a purely defensive alliance.
Gaddafi kept Africans out of Europe, after they took him out the flood of migrants started.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 07/24/2025 2:48 Comments || Top||

#3  French tried that...
Posted by: mossomo || 07/24/2025 13:37 Comments || Top||


Britain
‘Tinder Box' ‐ UK Gov't Scrambles to Restore ‘Social Fabric' as Migration Divisions Threaten Further Riots
[Breitbart] The British government said that it is urgently important to restore the "social fabric" of the country amid warnings that anti-mass migration sentiment could see another summer of riots break out in the country.

Downing Street said that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer held a cabinet meeting on Tuesday in the lead-up to the one-year anniversary of the Southport attack, in which a second-generation African migrant teen stabbed three maiden of tender yearss to death and left ten others injured.

Anger over the horrific attack and the government’s open borders agenda saw thousands take to the streets in protests and riots from both native British communities and mostly-Moslem ethnic minority groups.

Now, a year on, there are deep concerns of a re-run of the chaos of last summer. "We are going to have a summer of riots. You can just feel it. It is a tinderbox," an unnamed parliamentarian told the BBC, as Britannia braces for more social unrest, and as anti-migration protests have already begun to erupt outside of migrant hotels in Epping and in Norfolk over the past week.

In a statement per Sky News, Number 10 said that Prime Minister Starmer recognised during the meeting on Tuesday that it is "vital" to begin "repairing and improving the social fabric, trust, and integration in communities across the country."

Downing Street also said that Deputy PM Angela Rayner, whom Starmer has tasked to focus on social cohesion, admitted that in conjunction with other economic factors, "immigration and the impacts on local communities and public services" have had a "profound impact on society".

"She said it was incumbent on the government to acknowledge the real concerns people have and to deliver improvements to people’s lives in their communities," the government readout stated. This acknowledgement was hedged by the typically pro-mass migration Labour Party government, which maintained that Britannia remains a "successful multi-ethnic, multi-faith country."


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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [118 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  ...Might be a little late for that.

But you do you.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/24/2025 6:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Fortunately for the tyrants, they already disarmed the populous.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/24/2025 7:34 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Canada’s resigning antisemitism envoy laments silence of supporting voices
[IsraelTimes] Deborah Lyons, who will leave post 3 months early, despondent over difficulty in getting people to ‘speak up, speak with clarity’ about what is happening in the country.
That’s because they don’t disagree strongly enough to speak up, or they actually agree with all the nastiness. Trump’s America might suit you better, Ms Lyons, or Israel. Think about it.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/24/2025 2025-07-24 02:06 || Comments || Link || [70 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 || 07/24/2025 21:40 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Authorities seal ''unregistered'' Swat seminary after 14-year-old student's death
[GEO.TV] Authorities have sealed the unregistered seminary in Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
where a 14-year-old student died after being subjected to alleged torture by a teacher, District Police Officer (DPO) Mohammad Umar said on Wednesday.

A young student was allegedly beaten to death by his teachers at a seminary in Swat's Khwazakhela area. He was rushed to the nearest hospital by students and teachers, but doctors declared him dead upon arrival.

Addressing a presser today, DPO Umar confirmed that the fatal incident involved the teenage student who died due to the teacher's alleged beating.

He noted that two of the four suspects named in the first information report (FIR) have been arrested, while nine other individuals have also been taken into custody in connection with the case.

He said the madrassa was operating without registration and has now been sealed.

Calling the incident ''regrettable,'' the police officer added that the police have registered the case on their own behalf and will not succumb to political pressure during the investigation.

A day earlier, it was reported that physical abuse was a longstanding issue at the madrassa, with multiple students subjected to violent mostly peaceful treatment over the past several months.

DPO Umar said that a case has been registered under Section 302 (premeditated murder) along with relevant provisions of the Child Protection Act. The police had recovered objects used to torture the students from the premises.

In May this year, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Private Schools Regulatory Authority, prohibited corporal punishment in private schools, instructing the latter to ensure implementation of this ban.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [60 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Imran Khan's sons meet Trump aide Richard Grenell ahead of PTI protest
[GEO.TV] Incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
's sons, Sulaiman Khan and Kasim Khan, met United States President Donald Trump
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
's aide Richard Grenell on Wednesday ahead of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
's (PTI) protest for the party founder's release from prison.

The 71-year-old cricketer-turned-politician has been behind bars since August 2023 after he was booked in multiple cases ranging from corruption to terrorism since his ouster from power via the opposition's no-trust motion in April 2022.

Kasim called attention to their father's imprisonment for the first time publicly in May. Taking to X in June, he expressed concern over Imran's condition in the jail.

He wrote, ''My father, former prime minister Imran Khan, has now spent over 700 days in prison — held in solitary confinement. He is denied access to his lawyers, not allowed visits from his family, fully cut off from us (his children), and even his personal doctor is refused entry. This is not justice. It is a deliberate attempt to isolate and break a man who stands for rule of law, democracy and Pakistain.''

Following Tuesday's meeting, Grenell, US special presidential envoy for special missions, took to X and said that he had met Sulaiman and Kasim in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, urging them to ''stay strong''.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [46 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


International-UN-NGOs
Anti-Israel activists protest Israeli team at Tour de France, call for ban
Of course they did.
[IsraelTimes] Dozens of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists waved flags and unfurled banners on Wednesday as the Tour de France peloton rode through Dieulefit, a southeastern French town honored as a “Town of the Just” for sheltering Jewish people during World War Two.

A house was draped with Palestinian flags and protesters waved dozens more by the roadside. Cries of “Free Palestine” echoed through the town, as the riders cycled through. One banner read “Affamer c’est tuer,” meaning “Starving is killing.”

Vanessa Huguenin, who runs a family-owned department store in Dieulefit, a town of about 3,000 people, said the action had been planned for nearly two months to take advantage of the Tour’s visibility.

“We can’t change Israel or Hamas, but we want our government to act, not just say ‘it’s not good’,” she said.

Such protests about international politics are relatively rare in the three-week annual race, in which fans line the route as the riders tackle daily stages. A small protest over the war in Gaza occurred during the first stage of last year’s edition.

A man was also arrested last Wednesday in Toulouse after running onto the final straight of the stage wearing a T-shirt reading “Israel out of the Tour” and waving a black and white keffiyeh headdress.

Through a loudspeaker on Wednesday, a protester shouted: “Mr. Adams, spokesperson for a genocidal army,” referring to Sylvan Adams, co-owner of the Israel-Premier Tech cycling team competing in the race. The protester called for the team to be kicked out.

“Israel-Premier Tech respects everyone’s right to free speech, which includes the right to protest,” said a statement from Israel-Premier Tech, which is Israel’s first elite cycling team, founded in 2014.

“Our focus is on racing and we continue to work closely with race organizers and relevant parties to ensure that any protests do not jeopardize team members’ safety, nor impact races, or our right to participate.”

The team has been granted extra security on the Tour, with police officers by the team bus and they were escorted by plain-clothed officers at the team’s presentation in Lille.


A sign reads ‘Israel assassin, Tour de France accomplice’ is attached to a bicycle as several dozen cyclists gathered to protest the presence of the Israel Premier Tech team in the Tour de France, in Toulouse, south-western France, on July 12, 2025. (Valentine CHAPUIS / AFP)
Huguenin, 45, said the town’s history inspired residents to act and said the protest had been peaceful.

“Here we say no one is a stranger. My grandparents hid people during the war. For us, being ‘just’ means protecting everyone, regardless of race or religion,” she said.

The man arrested last Wednesday said he was due to stand trial for endangering the riders and refusing to give his fingerprints. He says the security officer who tackled him threw his walkie-talkie at him.

Race organizers Amaury Sports Organization declined to comment about either protest.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/24/2025 2025-07-24 03:30 || Comments || Link || [67 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1 
A handful of French Socialists supporting Pro-NAZI agenda, seen seeking attention, at Tour de France.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/24/2025 5:11 Comments || Top||


At UNSC, Pakistan slams India for sponsoring cross-border terrorism
[GEO.TV] Pakistain has strongly rejected Indian accusations of cross-border terrorism, urging New Delhi to reflect on its actions rather than blaming others.

Speaking during a UNSC debate on ''Promoting International Peace and Security through Multilateralism and Peaceful Settlement of Disputes,'' Pakistain's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Usman Jadoon, rejected Indian allegations and asked New Delhi to change its behaviour, instead of resorting to its tired narrative of victimhood and blame-shifting.

"It is India which actively sponsors, aids and abets terrorism in my country and beyond," Ambassador Usman Jadoon told the 15-member body on Tuesday evening, while responding to the allegations made by India's UN Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish.

Ambassador Jadoon said that it was especially regrettable that the Indian ambassador targeted Pakistain on Tuesday when earlier in the day, the Council spoke with a unanimous voice to reaffirm the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and the imperative of peaceful settlement of disputes, respect for international law and effective implementation of the resolution of the Security Council.

The Indian envoy was reacting to Pak Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar who underscored the need for the resolution of Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
dispute in a speech he gave in his national capacity after the adoption of Pakistain-sponsored resolution calling for the peaceful settlement of disputes.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [73 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Better than you do, you mean.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/24/2025 12:36 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Yahya Sinwar’s widow fled Gaza using fake passport to Turkey and remarried — report
[IsraelTimes] Gazan source claims Samar Muhammad Abu Zamar paid thousands to exit through Rafah crossing, then moved to Turkey with her children and started a new life

The widow of slain Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
leader Yahya Sinwar escaped Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
with the couple’s children using a forged passport and is now living in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
member, but not the most reliable...

, where she has since remarried, the Ynet outlet reported on Wednesday, citing Paleostinian sources with knowledge of the details.

Samar Muhammad Abu Zamar left via the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, the unnamed Gazook source said.

"That required logistical support, cooperation at a high level, and a lot of cash that the average Gaza resident doesn’t have," the source said, noting that Abu Zamar used the passport of another Gazook woman.

Abu Zamar’s remarriage in Turkey was set up by Fathi Hammad, a bigwig in the Hamas politburo. According to the report, Hammad has in the past been identified as smuggling Hamas members and their families out of Gaza.

Other sources told Ynet that Hamas long ago established a system to smuggle the families of senior members out of the Strip, including fake passports, fictitious medical records, and assistance from the embassies of supporting countries.

Najwa, the widow of Sinwar’s brother, Muhammad, who took over the terror group after the IDF killed Yahya, also left Gaza using the same system, and most likely headed to Turkey, the source said. There has been no sign of her since her husband’s death, the report noted.

An Israeli security source confirmed to the outlet that both women left via Rafah before their husbands were killed.

In October 2024, days after it killed Yahya Sinwar, the IDF released video footage that it said showed the terror chief heading with his family and extensive supplies into a tunnel complex below his home in Khan Younis on the night before the October 7, 2023, onslaught he orchestrated.

At the time, the IDF said that Abu Zamar was seen clutching a Hermès Birkin handbag valued at $32,000; however, it was unclear if the bag was authentic or a knock-off.

In contrast to the Sinwar widows, a video has circulated online of Umm Khaled, the widow of slain Hamas commander Muhammad Deif, in a simple home with her three children, as opposed to a tunnel, bunker or elaborate house. In the video, she says that the four sleep on mattresses on a mat, and stresses that that was the arrangement before the war as well, according to the report.

"I am not running away, I am here with my people," she said.

According to Ynet, some see the video as an attempt to counter the idea that Hamas leaders bolted Gaza.

A Gazook who asked not to be named told the outlet that Hamas leaders "are sending their children to study in Turkey and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and our children to the grave. They look out only for themselves."

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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/24/2025 2025-07-24 04:10 || Comments || Link || [104 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  At the time, the IDF said that Abu Zamar was seen clutching a Hermès Birkin handbag valued at $32,000; however, it was unclear if the bag was authentic or a knock-off.

I know which way I'd bet.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/24/2025 6:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Hamas leaders "are sending their children to study in Turkey and Qatar

Why not Harvard and Oxford?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/24/2025 6:32 Comments || Top||


Hamas Terrorists Caught Feasting Underground on Lavish Meals While Exploiting Gaza Civilians Suffering Above
[Breitbart]
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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/24/2025 02:47 || Comments || Link || [91 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


#2  Food Is Stockpiled in Gaza and the UN Is Refusing the Group Ready to Deliver It
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/24/2025 6:36 Comments || Top||


Israeli Knesset Backs West Bank Annexation
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Israeli Parliament (Knesset) has adopted a declaration calling on the country's government to annex the West Bank of the Jordan River. This was reported on July 23 by the Ynet portal.

A total of 71 of the 120 Knesset members voted in favor of the resolution, while 13 members voted against it.

The adopted document is of a purely declarative nature and does not have legal or legislative force.
So just posturing. Good to know.

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Posted by: badanov || 07/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [142 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  No annexation without ethnic cleansing!!!
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/24/2025 1:59 Comments || Top||

#2  The false "Gaza genocide" conspiracy theory is widely spread by white supremacists to fuel antisemitism.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 07/24/2025 2:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Jew haters of all complexions, faiths, political convictions, and unthinking fashionables spread it, too.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/24/2025 3:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Setting the stage.
Creating momentum.
The Overton Window is shifting from unthinkable to politically feasible.
Posted by: mossomo || 07/24/2025 13:36 Comments || Top||

#5  They really need to just do it. The proper historical name of the so called "west bank" is Judea and Samaria.
Posted by: Difar Dave || 07/24/2025 17:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Not like the people living there now are doing anything useful with it. Go for it Israel!
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/24/2025 18:28 Comments || Top||

#7  The Overton Window is shifting from unthinkable to politically feasible.

There is the important part. It may be posturing at the moment, but we have gone from unthinkable to saying out loud. I blame Trump. All sorts things are becoming possible now. In the future, they will call it The Trumpening.

Of course, 7-Oct had something to do with it. That was a marker there would be no more kicking the can down the road. Time for a more permanent solution.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/24/2025 18:28 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Damascus asks Turkey for defense support after sectarian clashes and Israeli strikes
[IsraelTimes] Deadly violence in Syria has increased Israeli-Turkish tensions, and Ankara harshly criticized Israel’s airstrikes last week

Syria’s interim government has requested The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
’s support to strengthen its defense capabilities, Ottoman Turkish officials said Wednesday, following sectarian violence over the past two weeks that drew in Israeli strikes.

The defense ministry officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity according to procedures, said that Syria has also sought assistance to combat "terrorist organizations," including the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

Turkey was working toward providing training, advisory services and technical support to help strengthen Syria’s defense capacity, the officials added. Syrian officials could not be immediately reached for comment.

Turkey was believed to provide assistance to Syrian rebels fighting Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
, the country’s ousted leader. Now, it is a prominent supporter of the government that replaced Assad last year, headed by Ahmad al-Sharaa. It has been seeking a defense agreement with Damascus that could reportedly include establishing Ottoman Turkish military bases on Syrian territory.

Wednesday’s news, which came days after violent mostly peaceful festivities between Bedouin Arab tribes and Druze militias in the southern province of Sweida, means that Ankara will likely be stepping up its presence and activity in Syria.

The situation in Syria has increased tensions between Turkey and Israel, which is occupying the former no-man’s land adjacent to its border as a buffer zone. In April, Israel struck five cities in Syria, including more than a dozen strikes near a strategic air base in the city of Hama, where Turkey reportedly has interests in having a military presence. Israel accused Turkey of trying to build a "protectorate" in Syria.

That month, Turkey and Israel held talks on creating a deconfliction mechanism in Syria that would avoid festivities between the two countries. They reportedly reached an agreement following a month of talks.

Turkey has vocally criticized the recent Israeli strikes, with Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan claiming Tuesday that Israel wants a divided Syria. Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
, long a harsh critic of Israel, accused it last week of using the Druze minority in Syria as a pretext for expanding into the war-torn country.

Ankara also backs an agreement reached between Sharaa’s administration and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, to integrate into Syria’s national army. Implementation of the deal has stalled, with a major sticking point being whether the SDF would remain as a cohesive unit in the new army or be dissolved completely.

On Tuesday, Fidan warned Kurdish and other groups in Syria against exploiting the tensions to pursue autonomy, stating that any attempt to divide Syria would be viewed as a direct threat to Turkey’s national security and could prompt intervention.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/24/2025 2025-07-24 03:31 || Comments || Link || [44 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Iran will welcome IAEA technical team to discuss Tehran's cooperation, but may quit Non-Proliferation Treaty if Europe triggers snapback sanctions
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]


Iran says it may leave Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if sanctions reimposed

[IsraelTimes] Tehran’s deputy FM warns that if Europe triggers ‘snapback’ measures, Iran will not show further restraint, urging the US to ‘come with honesty to the table’ and resume talks.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2025 2025-07-24 02:06 || Comments || Link || [46 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


'Dawn of the Tribes': 50,000 Armed Men Could Reshape Syria
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Kirill Semenov

[REGNUM] The bloody events in the Syrian province of Suwayda, which began on July 13 as a conflict between Druze and Bedouin tribes, have led to the largest population displacement since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime.

According to the UN, 93,000 residents of the province were forced to leave their homes. However, while the Druze have already begun to return after the ceasefire was declared, the Bedouins and representatives of the Arab-Sunni clans of Suwayda have become refugees who are being placed in temporary camps in the neighboring province of Daraa, which creates the preconditions for the continuation of the conflict in the very near future.

It is clear that the Syrian tribes are extremely unhappy with this outcome, although recently it seemed that they were one step away from entering the city of As-Suwayda, the provincial capital, and dealing with the Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri.

He is considered not only an Israeli stooge and the organizer of armed resistance to the new Syrian authorities, but also responsible for numerous acts of violence and reprisals against the Bedouins of Suwayda.
Reprisals makes it sound like the Bedouins started it…
But after another intervention by government troops and the Interior Ministry, which this time blocked the arrival of reinforcements from Syrian tribes in Suwayda, the Bedouins were forced to agree to the truce reached between the government and the Druze leaders and began withdrawing their forces.

However, this also led to the exodus of the Sunni Arab population of Suwayda, who feared reprisals and revenge from the Druze fighters. That is, the Bedouins may feel that not only was their victory stolen from them, but they were also forced to leave their homes, and now they are waiting for the moment for revenge.

If the situation is not resolved in the near future and an agreement is not reached between the government and the Druze that takes into account the interests of all parties, then Suwayda will likely face a new invasion of Syrian tribes. The government will not be able to stop it, and perhaps will not want to.

At the first stage of the confrontation, when battles between Arab tribes and the Druze began, the army and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were brought into the province, and instead of separating the opposing sides, they began to support the Bedouins in their attacks on the Druze.

This led to numerous casualties, including among the civilian population. Thus, according to human rights activists, the army and tribal militias participated in reprisals against the civilian population. About 200 Druze were killed then, a tenth of them were women and children.

Then the strikes of the Israeli Air Force, the patron of the Syrian Druze, were able to stop the advance of the Syrian troops and the Interior Ministry and forced them to retreat from the province. But soon Tel Aviv itself was forced to appeal through intermediaries to official Damascus so that it would again intervene in the conflict and stop the advance of the Bedouin tribes.

THE AWAKENING OF THE TRIBES STOPPED ISRAEL
After the army left, the tribal militias refused to leave Suwayda, where, according to their representatives, violence against their fellow tribesmen took place. Instead, they called for a mobilization that affected not only the clans in this province, but also throughout Syria. This demonstrated that the Syrian tribes are an important independent factor that should not be underestimated.

On July 17, the Syrian Tribal Council announced Operation Tribal Dawn, which marked a major Bedouin offensive against Suwayda. The Druze were unable to stop it without Israeli support.

The point is that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) could no longer strike on behalf of the Druze. This would have provoked a more serious regional escalation and the spread of the conflict to neighboring countries, such as Jordan.

After all, the IDF would have to bomb not the “terrorists” and “jihadists,” as the Syrian army is called in Israel, but the Bedouins, with whom their fellow tribesmen from neighboring countries expressed solidarity, promising their assistance in the event of external intervention.

After all, the IDF itself is made up not only of Druze, but also of Bedouins from the Negev desert. The latter could also be displeased that, in appearing as the protector of the Druze, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignored their interests.

In turn, the Jordanian Tribal Council “clearly and unequivocally” warned that “any direct military intervention by the Zionist entity in Syrian territory, especially in the south, will be met with immediate action by the Jordanian tribes in defense of the dignity of the nation, loyalty to the Arab and Islamic covenant, and rejection of any encroachment on Arab geographic sovereignty and decision-making process.”

Unlike Syria, Netanyahu would not want to destabilize friendly Jordan, whose population is made up of Palestinians and Bedouins. Jordanian Palestinians already largely support Hamas. If Bedouins joined them, it would weaken the ruling Hashemite dynasty.

Thus, the mass movement of Syrian Bedouins in support of the Arab-Sunni clans of Suwayda could get out of control and turn into a serious cross-border threat. However, the risks of such a scenario have not yet been contained, and the chances that a new wave of Bedouin rebellion will engulf not only Suwayda, but also neighboring countries, still remain.

FROM LAWRENCE OF ARABIA TO AS-SAHWA
One can recall the times of Lawrence of Arabia and the awakening of the Arab tribes, which showed that they were a formidable force when united by common interests. Without their support, the British would have found it difficult to break through the Turkish armies in Palestine in 1917-1918.

But even in the more recent past, there are examples of how the Bedouins were on the verge of changing the region.

As Grigory Lukyanov, a research fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Regnum news agency, “even before ISIS appeared, the Americans hired tribes from the Syrian-Iraqi border to fight Al-Qaeda (AQ) terrorists, and then the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI)”.

These tribes were quite successful, they managed to eradicate AK and ISI in the terrorists’ stronghold – Anbar province, and the Bedouins of Iraq gained a reputation as hunters of Al-Qaeda. They were the only ones who managed to suppress the activity of its militants and drive them deep into desert refuges.

According to Lukyanov, this led to an increase in power and financial demands from tribal groups, who hoped to consolidate their role and place in governing Iraq and gain access to its resources.

But the American exodus in 2011 and the end of funding for the tribal militias transformed them from a leading counterterrorism force into a base for the same jihadist groups they had so successfully fought so recently.

Of course, the sectarian anti-Sunni policy of the radical Shiite party "Dawa" headed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, which came to power in Iraq, also played a role here. He saw "As-Sahwa" as a threat to his power and rejected previous agreements on turning the tribal militia into a national guard, trying to disarm them.

As Grigory Lukyanov noted, this led to the fact that the authorities of the Sunni tribes of Iraq and their sheikhs were unable to do anything to stop the mass exodus of ordinary members to radical anti-government groups.

Thus, at first, the Sunni tribes of Iraq played a decisive role in the defeat of terrorist groups and allowed the Americans to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq under the pretext of completing their mission to suppress terrorist activity, which was carried out at the hands of the tribes.

But then those same tribes, or rather the youth that emerged from them, turned their weapons against the government and supported the terrorists they had only recently fought, becoming the social base of the ISIS, and then of ISIS.

This allowed the terrorist organization to restore its strength and, two years later, to attack government troops with renewed vigor, who, now deprived of the support of the tribes, could not withstand the onslaught and began to surrender city after city.

AMERICAN "INVESTMENTS"
As for Syria, according to Lukyanov, similar phenomena are currently being observed there: tribes are looking for their new place and new role.

As the expert notes, the absence of a fully functional state, parties, trade unions, and the loss of horizontal connections that existed in the Baath Party led to the launch of processes of forming new forms of socialization, activity, and consolidation that tribal structures can offer.

However, as Lukyanov notes, the consolidation of the Syrian tribes is currently based on a response to threats from their opponents, the Druze. Therefore, it is too early to talk about the long-term nature of such tribal associations. Consequently, according to the orientalist, the potential of the tribes is "situational and limited."

Indeed, despite having a very significant number of “bayonets and sabres,” the Syrian tribes were never able to come up with a common position during the civil war. They created various alliances with the opposition, the Assad regime, and the Kurds, and, depending on the situation, switched from an alliance with one to an alliance with their opponents.

At the same time, the clans often changed places: one supported Assad today, and the opposition tomorrow, and another supported the opposition today, and the government tomorrow.

For example, some clans of the Shaitat tribe, which initially supported the anti-Assad Free Syrian Army, later switched to the government's side, creating the "Lions of the Eastern Province" group led by Abdul Basset Alkhalaf.

Others chose the “third way” and ended up in the ranks of the pro-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), where, for example, two tribal armies operated: Jaysh al-Sanadid from the largest tribe, Shhammar, and Quwat al-Nuqba.

At the same time, the Assad regime tried to use the tribes to undermine the unity of the Syrian Democratic Forces and turned the tribes against the Kurds, in which Iran helped it.

They partially succeeded in this in the fall of 2023.

Then a tribal uprising broke out, which was able to expel the Kurdish SDF formations from many areas of the Euphrates region after the Kurds arrested one of the tribal leaders who headed the SDF-affiliated military council of Deir ez-Zor.

And only American “investments” were able to stop the spread of the conflict, which threatened the very existence of Kurdish autonomy in the Syrian northeast, and force the tribes to return to the ranks of the SDF.

Therefore, despite the situational and temporary nature of alliances, the ability of the Syrian tribes to create a militia of 50 thousand armed men could threaten the existence of not only the Druze formation in Suwayda, but also the Syrian Democratic Forces, with which Damascus has been unsuccessfully trying to negotiate.

In fact, the SDF alliance, consisting of Kurds and Arab tribes, between whom there has long been undisguised hostility, is held together only by American infusions. But Washington has recently been reconsidering its attitude to maintaining the SDF's autonomy, which its Kurdish leadership continues to insist on, and is pushing it toward integration into the Syrian army.

And the tribal instrument remains a factor of influence in the hands of Washington, among others, as could be seen during the period of the activity of the As-Sahwa movement in Iraq.

If the Druze and Kurds continue to be intractable, it is precisely the money from the Americans, who have suddenly shown interest in Syrian unity, that could become the trigger that will force the tribes to turn their weapons against the Kurds and Druze and “drive” them under the aegis of official Damascus.

CROSS-BORDER THREAT
Even temporary outbreaks of tribal activity in Syria pose a serious threat to neighboring countries.

For example, in Iraq there are still quite a lot of contradictions between Sunnis and Shiites, and, having realized the ability to solve problems on a regional scale, Syrian tribes can come to the aid of their Iraqi brothers.

And brothers in the most literal sense, since many families and clans are divided by the Syrian-Iraqi border and live on both sides of it. The same applies to Jordan.

Therefore, the Syrian tribes are a "samurai sword" that, on the one hand, can be used against enemies, but on the other hand, there is always a risk of inflicting mortal wounds on oneself.

And the flirtation of the weak Damascus regime, which is incapable of establishing order in its own army, with tribal militias in the more distant future may turn against it, just as the Iraqi Sahwa once turned against the Iraqi government.

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#1  So could a nuke.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/24/2025 0:02 Comments || Top||

#2  But soon Tel Aviv itself was forced to appeal through intermediaries to official Damascus

Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/24/2025 0:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Yay! The balkanization of Syria!
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/24/2025 0:26 Comments || Top||

#4  I get the impression that the Druze aren't exactly the Yazidi, and won't be going down easy one way or the other.
Posted by: Secret Master || 07/24/2025 2:03 Comments || Top||

#5  I believe the Druze Israelis all serve in the IDF just like Jewish Israelis do.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/24/2025 3:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Also, couldn't 50,000 armed men basically reshape any country?
Posted by: Secret Master || 07/24/2025 18:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Not if there's no food or water. They just die
Posted by: Frank G || 07/24/2025 19:00 Comments || Top||


Hezbollah tells Speaker Nabih Berri it won't disarm even if Israel leaves southern Lebanon
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Well, that's it, then. Kill em
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