…read this article by Uzay Bulut of The Gatestone Institute.
Here is how it starts:
- Ever since the terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) conquered the Syrian capital Damascus with Turkey’s help in December of 2024, HTS fighters and their affiliated militias — often offshoots of ISIS and al-Qaeda — have been massacring religious minorities throughout the country. The internet has been flooded with images… of Alawite men, women and children being barbarically shot at close range.
- Most recently, after slaughtering Alawites, HTS and Syria’s new Islamic regime, under the self-proclaimed “presidency” of former jihadist commander Ahmed al-Sharaa, are massacring other religious minorities in the country, including Christians and Druze.
- HTS is still designated as a terrorist organization by the UN, EU, US and UK.
- Qatar and Turkey are apparently the powers behind the new regime in Damascus.
The Saudi leadership, which enthusiastically applauded when President Trump announced the lifting of those sanctions, thinks it’s a great idea.
But given the actions of Syrian “head of state” Ahmed al-Sharaa, who Trump called a “Young, attractive guy”, since upending bashar al-assad – i.e massacring Syrian citizens just as al-assad did, just different groups of them, I find the lifting of those sanctions vile and inexplicable.
How about you?
