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🧵1/ A few days after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Damascus buzzed with revolutionary euphoria. Activists gathered at the Hijaz Railway Station, dreaming of a new Syria. But alongside hope, there were ghosts—like the gaunt face of Mazen al-Hamada, a tortured activist, martyred days before victory.

2/ In Homs, the mother of Abdel Baset Sar…

Letter to the Revolution: Syria’s Jihadi Dilemma

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Matti Friedman: What If the Real War in Israel Hasn’t Even Started?

“If people truly understood what the war with Hezbollah will mean,” one officer told me this week, “everyone would be doing every possible thing in their power to find a diplomatic solution.” What would a diplomatic solution look like? I can't even imagine.

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