

It will be somewhat difficult, given that we don’t yet know how much Israel will step in and how crushing the response from HTS will be. Did you read the Al-Akhbar article?
Visual outline of the situation, Damascus on top, Israeli occupied areas in blue, and the Suwayda Military Council area is in grey
Basically the Druze saw the attitudes of the central gov towards minorities and organized quicker than the Alawite communities did. They have so far been able to prevent the pogroms and massacres along the coast from repeating to them, but the deployment of HTS hasn’t yet reached its peak, we’ve just seen media of convoys headed that way
Israeli airstrikes have happened in the last few hours while HTS has ignored them and focused on sieging the area currently fighting back. It seems desperate and I don’t see Israel’s token bombings as being sufficient to prevent the hammer from coming down. I started with the telegram poster taking up arms to illustrate the difficulty they’re facing, despite being better than the horrors from earlier this year
Good timing https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-14/ty-article/.premium/key-ultra-orthodox-party-announces-it-will-leave-netanyahus-coalition-government/00000198-09f7-d7c5-a39c-0df7a6900000