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The Houthisโ€™ continued attacks on Riyadhโ€™s King Khalid International Airport are utterly indefensible. Missiles, civilian airports, terrified passengers and dead airline crew. This is what Iranโ€™s so-called โ€œresistanceโ€ looks like in practice. Saudi Arabia has every right to defend its people, its sovereignty and its infrastructure! The Kingdom must not be expected to tolerate endless attacks on its cities and civilians! The Houthis are not liberating Yemen. They are exporting Iranโ€™s war and dragging the entire region into it! Enough is enough. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

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The Houthisโ€™ continued attacks on Riyadhโ€™s King Khalid International Airport are utterly indefensible. Missiles, civilian airports, terrified passengers and dead airline crew. This is what Iranโ€™s so-called โ€œresistanceโ€ looks like in practice. Saudi Arabia has every right to defend its people, its sovereignty and its infrastructure! The Kingdom must not be expected to tolerate endless attacks on its cities and civilians! The Houthis are not liberating Yemen. They are exporting Iranโ€™s war and dragging the entire region into it! Enough is enough. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

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โ€œThe Houthis are here to stay. Theyโ€™re not going to be defeated, and theyโ€™re going to remain in control of a large part of Yemen for the foreseeable future,โ€ former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers said yesterday. If he was talking about Zaydi Muslims in general, I might have agreed with him. Nobody has ever defeated Yemenโ€™s Zaydis - not the Ottomans, not Egypt, not anyone. The northern highlands have swallowed foreign armies for centuries. But the Houthis are not the Zaydis! They are a modern political-military movement that draws mainly from Zaydi communities in northern Yemen yet does not represent them! Classical Zaydis reject the hidden Imam, do not practice taqiyya the way Iranian Twelvers do, and have historically stood closer to Sunni jurisprudence and theology than to Iranโ€™s system. What the Houthis practice today has far more in common with Iranโ€™s Twelver revolutionary Shiism than with traditional Zaydism! Iโ€™ve said it before and Iโ€™ll say it again. Beyond the Houthis and the STC, there appears to be a political majority in Yemen open to some form of federalism. If that holds, there is no structural reason why Zaydi areas - especially Saada - cannot receive real autonomy. The obstacle is not Zaydism. It is the Houthis! The Houthis present themselves as a Jarudi strand of Zaydism - one that treats Prophetic descent as a hard requirement for the imamate and takes a harsher line on the early caliphs - while mixing it with Khomeinist revolutionary doctrine. In practice this is a religious faรงade! It is taqiyya used to seize Yemen for Iran! There is no genuine continuity with the early caliphs, and the claim that the Houthi leadership are Hashemites is a modern political invention, not an established fact! Zaydis have a principle called khuruj: the duty to rise against unjust rulers. The Houthis used it to recruit at the start of the war. I would not be surprised if it turns against them! The anger among Zaydis at the forced use of their children as cannon fodder is visible! What is more unjust than compelling your own people to die for Iranโ€™s agenda? Conflating the Houthis with the Zaydis only serves the movement! The distinction is not academic. It is the difference between a community that has survived every foreign power and an armed group that has subordinated Yemen to Tehran! I have no doubt the Houthis will be defeated. It will be hard. The terrain is difficult and the movement has dug in. But the outcome will be one of two things: full defeat, or full submission followed by a real political solution. There is no stable middle ground in which they keep controlling large parts of Yemen indefinitely. Conflating the Houthis with the Zaydis only serves the movement. The distinction is not academic. It is the difference between a community that has survived every foreign power and an armed group that has subordinated Yemen to Tehran. The Houthis- all fake:

โ€œThe Houthis are here to stay. Theyโ€™re not going to be defeated, and theyโ€™re going to remain in control of a large part of Yemen for the foreseeable future,โ€ former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers said yesterday. If he was talking about Zaydi Muslims in general, I might have agreed with him. Nobody has ever defeated Yemenโ€™s Zaydis - not the Ottomans, not Egypt, not anyone. The northern highlands have swallowed foreign armies for centuries. But the Houthis are not the Zaydis! They are a modern political-military movement that draws mainly from Zaydi communities in northern Yemen yet does not represent them! Classical Zaydis reject the hidden Imam, do not practice taqiyya the way Iranian Twelvers do, and have historically stood closer to Sunni jurisprudence and theology than to Iranโ€™s system. What the Houthis practice today has far more in common with Iranโ€™s Twelver revolutionary Shiism than with traditional Zaydism! Iโ€™ve said it before and Iโ€™ll say it again. Beyond the Houthis and the STC, there appears to be a political majority in Yemen open to some form of federalism. If that holds, there is no structural reason why Zaydi areas - especially Saada - cannot receive real autonomy. The obstacle is not Zaydism. It is the Houthis! The Houthis present themselves as a Jarudi strand of Zaydism - one that treats Prophetic descent as a hard requirement for the imamate and takes a harsher line on the early caliphs - while mixing it with Khomeinist revolutionary doctrine. In practice this is a religious faรงade! It is taqiyya used to seize Yemen for Iran! There is no genuine continuity with the early caliphs, and the claim that the Houthi leadership are Hashemites is a modern political invention, not an established fact! Zaydis have a principle called khuruj: the duty to rise against unjust rulers. The Houthis used it to recruit at the start of the war. I would not be surprised if it turns against them! The anger among Zaydis at the forced use of their children as cannon fodder is visible! What is more unjust than compelling your own people to die for Iranโ€™s agenda? Conflating the Houthis with the Zaydis only serves the movement! The distinction is not academic. It is the difference between a community that has survived every foreign power and an armed group that has subordinated Yemen to Tehran! I have no doubt the Houthis will be defeated. It will be hard. The terrain is difficult and the movement has dug in. But the outcome will be one of two things: full defeat, or full submission followed by a real political solution. There is no stable middle ground in which they keep controlling large parts of Yemen indefinitely. Conflating the Houthis with the Zaydis only serves the movement. The distinction is not academic. It is the difference between a community that has survived every foreign power and an armed group that has subordinated Yemen to Tehran. The Houthis- all fake:

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Not long ago, Turkey was running a neo-Ottoman project across the Arab world. The Muslim Brotherhood was the tool. Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, the Gulf media wars. Western analysts called it one of the defining threats to the regional order. They were right! That era is over! It did not end through Western pressure. It ended because Saudi Arabia spent a decade building the economic, religious and diplomatic weight that made accommodation with Riyadh worth more to Ankara than confrontation. Investment. Mediation. Religious authority. Doors quietly closed. Soft power in its least glamorous form, and its most effective. I think we should be grateful for that. We rarely are. Turkey is now moving toward the Arab world, not away from it. On 7 August, in Mecca, ErdoฤŸan, Mohammed bin Salman and Shehbaz Sharif signed a joint defence agreement: an attack on one is an attack on all three. It did not come from nowhere. Ankara joined a Riyadh-led maritime coalition in late July, one of fourteen founding members. The 2023 drone contract was Turkey's largest defence export deal at the time. This is the Middle East Western analysts spent fifteen years asking for. Two days before the signing, Steven A. Cook published a column in Foreign Policy arguing that strategic blunders have plagued Saudi Arabia's approach to the region. The verdict arrived before the ink was dry. Read it closely and it collapses. Cook says Riyadh has no strategy. Then he lists it: protect the economic transformation, avoid a wider war, lower tensions with Iran, stop armed factions from imposing facts by force, tie normalisation with Israel to a Palestinian state. That is not the absence of a strategy. That is a hierarchy of priorities. His real objection is that it is not his strategy- one that would have Saudi Arabia tolerate the STC, hold the UAE partnership regardless of conflicting aims, welcome an Israeli foothold in Somaliland, and stand as the front line against Iran. He says the Sanaa runway strike was unnecessary. In the same breath he concedes Mahan Air is tied to the IRGC, and that the Houthi delegation may have carried more than pistachios and carpets. He accepts the violation, then faults the attempt to stop it. He also assigns the strike to Riyadh. Saudi Arabia never claimed it. Yemen's internationally recognised government announced it. Then the pattern. Restraint is weakness. Action is recklessness. De-escalation is buying calm. Interdiction is provocation. Cook recommends retreat, then cites the retreat as proof there is no strategy. And he blames Riyadh for the Houthi escalation - as if the Houthis had not been firing at Saudi cities for years, as if Iran's proxy project began this July. A possible Saudi miscalculation does not absolve Iran and the Houthis of their own violence! Underneath all of it sits the oldest false narrative in the file: that Saudi Arabia is weak. Remember Yemen. The Kingdom had the capability and the intent to end the Houthi project militarily. What constrained it was Western political pressure in the name of human rights - war powers votes, suspended munitions, withdrawn targeting support. Riyadh was told to stop. It stopped. Then it absorbed years of missiles and drones on its airports, its cities and its oil infrastructure while holding a truce it was never legally obliged to hold! You can argue the restrictions were right. You cannot impose them, watch the adversary rearm through the corridor you protected, and then call the result a Saudi failure. Restraint imposed by allies is not incapacity. Saudi Arabia is not the architect of this crisis. It is the state repeatedly asked to carry the cost of other people's strategies - and it is now building, with Ankara and Islamabad, an architecture that reduces its need to. The criticism came before the agreement was a week old. That says less about Saudi strategy than about how hard it is for some analysts to read an order they no longer write.

Not long ago, Turkey was running a neo-Ottoman project across the Arab world. The Muslim Brotherhood was the tool. Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, the Gulf media wars. Western analysts called it one of the defining threats to the regional order. They were right! That era is over! It did not end through Western pressure. It ended because Saudi Arabia spent a decade building the economic, religious and diplomatic weight that made accommodation with Riyadh worth more to Ankara than confrontation. Investment. Mediation. Religious authority. Doors quietly closed. Soft power in its least glamorous form, and its most effective. I think we should be grateful for that. We rarely are. Turkey is now moving toward the Arab world, not away from it. On 7 August, in Mecca, ErdoฤŸan, Mohammed bin Salman and Shehbaz Sharif signed a joint defence agreement: an attack on one is an attack on all three. It did not come from nowhere. Ankara joined a Riyadh-led maritime coalition in late July, one of fourteen founding members. The 2023 drone contract was Turkey's largest defence export deal at the time. This is the Middle East Western analysts spent fifteen years asking for. Two days before the signing, Steven A. Cook published a column in Foreign Policy arguing that strategic blunders have plagued Saudi Arabia's approach to the region. The verdict arrived before the ink was dry. Read it closely and it collapses. Cook says Riyadh has no strategy. Then he lists it: protect the economic transformation, avoid a wider war, lower tensions with Iran, stop armed factions from imposing facts by force, tie normalisation with Israel to a Palestinian state. That is not the absence of a strategy. That is a hierarchy of priorities. His real objection is that it is not his strategy- one that would have Saudi Arabia tolerate the STC, hold the UAE partnership regardless of conflicting aims, welcome an Israeli foothold in Somaliland, and stand as the front line against Iran. He says the Sanaa runway strike was unnecessary. In the same breath he concedes Mahan Air is tied to the IRGC, and that the Houthi delegation may have carried more than pistachios and carpets. He accepts the violation, then faults the attempt to stop it. He also assigns the strike to Riyadh. Saudi Arabia never claimed it. Yemen's internationally recognised government announced it. Then the pattern. Restraint is weakness. Action is recklessness. De-escalation is buying calm. Interdiction is provocation. Cook recommends retreat, then cites the retreat as proof there is no strategy. And he blames Riyadh for the Houthi escalation - as if the Houthis had not been firing at Saudi cities for years, as if Iran's proxy project began this July. A possible Saudi miscalculation does not absolve Iran and the Houthis of their own violence! Underneath all of it sits the oldest false narrative in the file: that Saudi Arabia is weak. Remember Yemen. The Kingdom had the capability and the intent to end the Houthi project militarily. What constrained it was Western political pressure in the name of human rights - war powers votes, suspended munitions, withdrawn targeting support. Riyadh was told to stop. It stopped. Then it absorbed years of missiles and drones on its airports, its cities and its oil infrastructure while holding a truce it was never legally obliged to hold! You can argue the restrictions were right. You cannot impose them, watch the adversary rearm through the corridor you protected, and then call the result a Saudi failure. Restraint imposed by allies is not incapacity. Saudi Arabia is not the architect of this crisis. It is the state repeatedly asked to carry the cost of other people's strategies - and it is now building, with Ankara and Islamabad, an architecture that reduces its need to. The criticism came before the agreement was a week old. That says less about Saudi strategy than about how hard it is for some analysts to read an order they no longer write.

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This is a video of the Norwegian special forces, called the Telemark Battalion, before they slaughtered more Taliban in a couple of months than the USA did in 20 years. They are chanting โ€œTo Valhalla,โ€ a Norwegian viking battle cry. In the video below, Sunni Muslims chant โ€œGod is greatโ€ - their battle cry. I have no problem with it...

This is a video of the Norwegian special forces, called the Telemark Battalion, before they slaughtered more Taliban in a couple of months than the USA did in 20 years. They are chanting โ€œTo Valhalla,โ€ a Norwegian viking battle cry. In the video below, Sunni Muslims chant โ€œGod is greatโ€ - their battle cry. I have no problem with it...

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Jordan confirmed it this morning: last night's operation was carried out in full coordination with Syria. That's not a small detail - it reframes everything! For nine months, since Israel-backed Hikmat al-Hijri and his National Guard militias took hold of Suwayda, Jordan has watched drug smuggling across its border surge by 320%! It has watched guided balloons launched from militia-controlled territory drift toward its communities. It has watched and waited. Last night it stopped waiting. The strikes hit Shahba - core Druze National Guard territory - and the southeastern rural areas that have become regular launch sites.

Jordan confirmed it this morning: last night's operation was carried out in full coordination with Syria. That's not a small detail - it reframes everything! For nine months, since Israel-backed Hikmat al-Hijri and his National Guard militias took hold of Suwayda, Jordan has watched drug smuggling across its border surge by 320%! It has watched guided balloons launched from militia-controlled territory drift toward its communities. It has watched and waited. Last night it stopped waiting. The strikes hit Shahba - core Druze National Guard territory - and the southeastern rural areas that have become regular launch sites.

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The SDF says it has repelled attacks by Turkey and allied militias around Manbij, killing and injuring dozens of fighters and destroying a BMB armored vehicle. But this raises key questions: Why is the SDF operating in areas where Arabs are the majority? Can the SDF take steps to reconcile with the HTS-led administration? Most importantly, how many more Kurdish children, like those in the video, must die before the PKK focuses on the future of Kurds and Kurdistan instead of its loyalty to ร–calan and its failed strategy?

The SDF says it has repelled attacks by Turkey and allied militias around Manbij, killing and injuring dozens of fighters and destroying a BMB armored vehicle. But this raises key questions: Why is the SDF operating in areas where Arabs are the majority? Can the SDF take steps to reconcile with the HTS-led administration? Most importantly, how many more Kurdish children, like those in the video, must die before the PKK focuses on the future of Kurds and Kurdistan instead of its loyalty to ร–calan and its failed strategy?

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There is no royal family in Europe more down-to-earth than Norway's. I feel it in my bones every time I think of them. I was ten years old when our beloved King Olav V passed away. Like every other child in Oslo, I was allowed to stand before his casket and whisper a final goodbye. I still remember the hush, the candles, the sense that we had all lost someone who truly belonged to us. Because that's what he was - not a distant monarch, but our king. I don't know of another country in Europe where the royal family is so loved, so close to the hearts of ordinary people, as in Norway. And tonight, that closeness shines again. King Harald - together with Crown Prince Haakon, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, and Prince Sverre Magnus - is welcoming Team Norge to the Royal Palace. Our athletes, our pride, our flag-bearers, celebrated by the very family that has stood beside this nation through every joy and every sorrow. This is Norway. This is who we are. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด

There is no royal family in Europe more down-to-earth than Norway's. I feel it in my bones every time I think of them. I was ten years old when our beloved King Olav V passed away. Like every other child in Oslo, I was allowed to stand before his casket and whisper a final goodbye. I still remember the hush, the candles, the sense that we had all lost someone who truly belonged to us. Because that's what he was - not a distant monarch, but our king. I don't know of another country in Europe where the royal family is so loved, so close to the hearts of ordinary people, as in Norway. And tonight, that closeness shines again. King Harald - together with Crown Prince Haakon, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, and Prince Sverre Magnus - is welcoming Team Norge to the Royal Palace. Our athletes, our pride, our flag-bearers, celebrated by the very family that has stood beside this nation through every joy and every sorrow. This is Norway. This is who we are. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด

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Hussain, with all respect: Iโ€™m 0/8 Syrian and 1/4 Jewish, so I carry enough Levantine "ancestry" to know the difference between history and mythology. And the claim that โ€œthere is no such thing as Syria or the Syrian peopleโ€ is pure mythology. It disintegrates the moment you put it next to actual history, archaeology, or international law. Syria is not a collection of random tribes stitched together by Europeans. It is one of the oldest continuously recognized territorial identities in the world. Long before Lebanon, Iraq, or even the modern concept of the Middle East existed, this land was Aram. Then it was Syria under the Seleucids, then Provincia Syria under Rome, then Bilad al-Sham under Islamic rule. Damascus and Aleppo have been functioning administrative, commercial, and cultural capitals for well over two millennia. If that does not constitute a nation, then nothing does - and no modern state in the region would qualify. The idea that Syrians are a โ€œhodgepodgeโ€ is equally ahistorical. For centuries, the people of Damascus, Aleppo, Hama, Homs, Daraa, Sweida, Idlib and the desert steppe lived within the same linguistic continuum, the same urban culture, the same trade routes, the same social codes and food traditions, and the same broader identity known as โ€œShami.โ€ That identity predates the French and British mapmakers who carved out Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan less than a hundred years ago. If anything, those states are the artificial ones. Syria is the civilizational original! The claim that Syria has always been chaotic is also historically wrong. This region produced some of the most stable and sophisticated political systems in the Middle East - from the Umayyad Caliphate based in Damascus, to the Ayyubids, the Mamluks, and the Ottomans. Aleppo and Damascus were regional powerhouses for centuries. Yes, tribes existed and sometimes clashed. So did kingdoms in Europe. But no serious historian would describe European history as โ€œrestless tribes beating each other,โ€ and Syria deserves the same honesty. Calling Syria a โ€œfailed stateโ€ isnโ€™t a legal argument. Itโ€™s a slogan. Under international law, Syria remains a sovereign state with a permanent population, internationally recognized borders, a functioning government, and uninterrupted UN membership. Civil war does not erase statehood. If it did, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Afghanistan would have vanished long ago. They didnโ€™t - and Syria didnโ€™t either. And the idea that Israel is simply โ€œpolicing what Syrians fail to policeโ€ is not analysis; itโ€™s spin. Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes inside a sovereign UN member state without mandate or consent. It has bombed civilian airports, occupied the Golan Heights since 1967, and armed factions inside Syria whenever it aligned with its own strategic calculus! You can support or oppose Israeli policy, but you canโ€™t realistically call this โ€œpolicing.โ€ If Iran bombed Ben Gurion Airport and claimed it was โ€œpolicingโ€ Israeli failures, the world would laugh! Recognizing Syrian statehood does not excuse Syriaโ€™s internal disasters. But acknowledging foreign intervention isnโ€™t โ€œdeflectionโ€ - itโ€™s basic geopolitical literacy. Two truths can exist at once, and neither erases the other. The bottom line is simple: Syria exists historically, Syria exists legally, and Syrians exist as a people. Pretending otherwise isnโ€™t political analysis. Itโ€™s colonial fantasy dressed up as commentary - and it evaporates the second it meets reality!

Hussain, with all respect: Iโ€™m 0/8 Syrian and 1/4 Jewish, so I carry enough Levantine "ancestry" to know the difference between history and mythology. And the claim that โ€œthere is no such thing as Syria or the Syrian peopleโ€ is pure mythology. It disintegrates the moment you put it next to actual history, archaeology, or international law. Syria is not a collection of random tribes stitched together by Europeans. It is one of the oldest continuously recognized territorial identities in the world. Long before Lebanon, Iraq, or even the modern concept of the Middle East existed, this land was Aram. Then it was Syria under the Seleucids, then Provincia Syria under Rome, then Bilad al-Sham under Islamic rule. Damascus and Aleppo have been functioning administrative, commercial, and cultural capitals for well over two millennia. If that does not constitute a nation, then nothing does - and no modern state in the region would qualify. The idea that Syrians are a โ€œhodgepodgeโ€ is equally ahistorical. For centuries, the people of Damascus, Aleppo, Hama, Homs, Daraa, Sweida, Idlib and the desert steppe lived within the same linguistic continuum, the same urban culture, the same trade routes, the same social codes and food traditions, and the same broader identity known as โ€œShami.โ€ That identity predates the French and British mapmakers who carved out Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan less than a hundred years ago. If anything, those states are the artificial ones. Syria is the civilizational original! The claim that Syria has always been chaotic is also historically wrong. This region produced some of the most stable and sophisticated political systems in the Middle East - from the Umayyad Caliphate based in Damascus, to the Ayyubids, the Mamluks, and the Ottomans. Aleppo and Damascus were regional powerhouses for centuries. Yes, tribes existed and sometimes clashed. So did kingdoms in Europe. But no serious historian would describe European history as โ€œrestless tribes beating each other,โ€ and Syria deserves the same honesty. Calling Syria a โ€œfailed stateโ€ isnโ€™t a legal argument. Itโ€™s a slogan. Under international law, Syria remains a sovereign state with a permanent population, internationally recognized borders, a functioning government, and uninterrupted UN membership. Civil war does not erase statehood. If it did, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Afghanistan would have vanished long ago. They didnโ€™t - and Syria didnโ€™t either. And the idea that Israel is simply โ€œpolicing what Syrians fail to policeโ€ is not analysis; itโ€™s spin. Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes inside a sovereign UN member state without mandate or consent. It has bombed civilian airports, occupied the Golan Heights since 1967, and armed factions inside Syria whenever it aligned with its own strategic calculus! You can support or oppose Israeli policy, but you canโ€™t realistically call this โ€œpolicing.โ€ If Iran bombed Ben Gurion Airport and claimed it was โ€œpolicingโ€ Israeli failures, the world would laugh! Recognizing Syrian statehood does not excuse Syriaโ€™s internal disasters. But acknowledging foreign intervention isnโ€™t โ€œdeflectionโ€ - itโ€™s basic geopolitical literacy. Two truths can exist at once, and neither erases the other. The bottom line is simple: Syria exists historically, Syria exists legally, and Syrians exist as a people. Pretending otherwise isnโ€™t political analysis. Itโ€™s colonial fantasy dressed up as commentary - and it evaporates the second it meets reality!

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'Destina Kobane', a SDF intelligence officer, is reported to have ordered the torture killing of Alaa, later threatened the victimโ€™s family, and had the mourning tent burned. She allegedly leads an SDF intelligence unit linked to Qandil that tracks and detains critics of the PKK.

'Destina Kobane', a SDF intelligence officer, is reported to have ordered the torture killing of Alaa, later threatened the victimโ€™s family, and had the mourning tent burned. She allegedly leads an SDF intelligence unit linked to Qandil that tracks and detains critics of the PKK.

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Meanwhile in al-Hasakah today ๐Ÿฅฐ

Meanwhile in al-Hasakah today ๐Ÿฅฐ

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The joy of being liberated from the PKK ๐Ÿฅฐ

The joy of being liberated from the PKK ๐Ÿฅฐ

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Kobani was in many ways the heart of the PKK's self-administration in Syria- the city where close relatives of Mazloum Abdi ruled. As a consequence, people became far more indoctrinated and radicalized by PKK propaganda than in other cities like Raqqa. When Syrian security forces and traffic police entered the city today, they weren't greeted by smiling children, but by children throwing stones. Forgive them: these children have never attended a normal school. The schools they went to were basically indoctrination centers, and their parents are likely completely brainwashed as well. Deradicalizing the youth in formerly PKK-controlled areas will be just as hard as deradicalizing youth who grew up in a jihadi environment. A huge challenge for Syria.

Kobani was in many ways the heart of the PKK's self-administration in Syria- the city where close relatives of Mazloum Abdi ruled. As a consequence, people became far more indoctrinated and radicalized by PKK propaganda than in other cities like Raqqa. When Syrian security forces and traffic police entered the city today, they weren't greeted by smiling children, but by children throwing stones. Forgive them: these children have never attended a normal school. The schools they went to were basically indoctrination centers, and their parents are likely completely brainwashed as well. Deradicalizing the youth in formerly PKK-controlled areas will be just as hard as deradicalizing youth who grew up in a jihadi environment. A huge challenge for Syria.

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I just saw the video from Umayyad Square - more than a million Syrians celebrating with my song. I will never be able to recreate something like that again. Iโ€™m humbledโ€ฆ truly. Thank you, Syria๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป It shows one thing clearly: the average Syrian is as hopeful for the future as I am. My heart is full tonight.

I just saw the video from Umayyad Square - more than a million Syrians celebrating with my song. I will never be able to recreate something like that again. Iโ€™m humbledโ€ฆ truly. Thank you, Syria๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป It shows one thing clearly: the average Syrian is as hopeful for the future as I am. My heart is full tonight.

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And of course the fucking PKK had to shit all over everything again. People waited years to finally come home - years of exile, loss, and hoping - and what do these PKK cadres do the second they get the chance? They desecrate the Syrian flag, hoist their own PKK rags, and turn the place into chaos and disorder. The PKK project in Syria is dead. Assad is gone. Deal with it!

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And of course the fucking PKK had to shit all over everything again. People waited years to finally come home - years of exile, loss, and hoping - and what do these PKK cadres do the second they get the chance? They desecrate the Syrian flag, hoist their own PKK rags, and turn the place into chaos and disorder. The PKK project in Syria is dead. Assad is gone. Deal with it!

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Seeing a Syrian street vibing to my musicโ€ฆ nothing compares. ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ’š And just wait for my New Year release - my first track focused on Syriaโ€™s future, not only the past. A new vibe for a new era. Itโ€™s going to hit different. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Seeing a Syrian street vibing to my musicโ€ฆ nothing compares. ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ’š And just wait for my New Year release - my first track focused on Syriaโ€™s future, not only the past. A new vibe for a new era. Itโ€™s going to hit different. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ”ฅ

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No secret that I'm a devoted supporter of Saudi Vision 2030. But what moves me most isn't the megaprojects or the economic numbers - it's that the vision carries a genuine desire for stability, progress and prosperity for the entire region. Not just Saudi Arabia. The whole region! It's been a couple of years since I visited the Kingdom. I think about it often. The warmth of the people, the pride in where they're going - it stays with you. Saudi Arabia has a special place in my heart. Always will.

No secret that I'm a devoted supporter of Saudi Vision 2030. But what moves me most isn't the megaprojects or the economic numbers - it's that the vision carries a genuine desire for stability, progress and prosperity for the entire region. Not just Saudi Arabia. The whole region! It's been a couple of years since I visited the Kingdom. I think about it often. The warmth of the people, the pride in where they're going - it stays with you. Saudi Arabia has a special place in my heart. Always will.

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Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen says Israel will match any Turkish military move in #Syria, base for base. "We have to make sure Turkey does not establish itself militarily in Syria. If Turkey wants to establish military bases in Syria, then we will establish bases there as well." The Netanyahu administration obviously sees Syria as its playground, failing or refusing to read the very strong signals from the EU, NATO, and Washington! If Israel wanted to, and if they became able to respect Syria's sovereignty, they could at any moment sign a security agreement with Damascus. Whenever they want, they could use diplomatic methods to discuss security cooperation that includes Israeli military bases on Syrian land. They could try acting like a normal, civilized nation instead of savages. This kind of rhetoric only benefits Iran- the very adversary Netanyahu claims to be against!

Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen says Israel will match any Turkish military move in #Syria, base for base. "We have to make sure Turkey does not establish itself militarily in Syria. If Turkey wants to establish military bases in Syria, then we will establish bases there as well." The Netanyahu administration obviously sees Syria as its playground, failing or refusing to read the very strong signals from the EU, NATO, and Washington! If Israel wanted to, and if they became able to respect Syria's sovereignty, they could at any moment sign a security agreement with Damascus. Whenever they want, they could use diplomatic methods to discuss security cooperation that includes Israeli military bases on Syrian land. They could try acting like a normal, civilized nation instead of savages. This kind of rhetoric only benefits Iran- the very adversary Netanyahu claims to be against!

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Saudi Arabia is striking back! And the Houthis have nobody but themselves to blame! For a week, Iranโ€™s Houthi proxies have been attacking Saudi airports and energy infrastructure! Their attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh have killed civilians and wounded hundreds, while disrupting airport operations. Now the Saudi-led coalition is responding with strikes against Houthi positions and infrastructure across Yemen! Today, the coalition issued a rare public evacuation warning for civilians near the Al-Sabaha Central Station, a Yemen Petroleum Company facility on the western outskirts of Sanaโ€™a. Coalition spokesman Major General Turki al-Maliki released a map of the target and urged civilians to leave before a planned precision operation. Shortly afterwards, explosions were reported in Sanaโ€™a, with Houthi media and local witnesses reporting a strike on the facility. Further reported strikes have targeted Ras Isa port, oil infrastructure in Hodeidah province, and areas in Saada, Al-Jawf, Kamaran Island and Qanawis. Meanwhile, the coalition says it intercepted three drones north of Riyadh. The Houthis claim to have shot down a Saudi drone over Saada. And what is the Houthi response? More threats! Their military spokesman, Yahya Saree, has threatened a โ€œfirm and painfulโ€ response against Riyadh, specifically naming King Khalid International Airport and Saudi Aramco facilities. The Houthis have even urged civilians and employees near Saudi energy installations to evacuate, while declaring those facilities legitimate targets. Think about that. An armed militia attacks civilian airports, threatens energy infrastructure and openly warns that it intends to strike again! And these are the people pretending to defend Yemen!? Let's not forget the bigger picture. After the Houthis seized territory along Yemen's Red Sea coast near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, government forces launched the Dawn of Yemen counteroffensive with coalition support. Yemen's internationally recognised government is fighting to restore state authority. Saudi Arabia is defending its national security against an Iranian-backed militia that has turned Yemen into a platform for regional aggression. The Houthis chose this escalation. They chose to attack Saudi Arabia. They chose to threaten civilian infrastructure. Now they are discovering that Saudi Arabia will not simply stand by and watch! My position is clear: ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Stand with Saudi Arabia. ๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ‡ช Stand with Yemen's legitimate government. โŒ End the Iranian-backed Houthi coup. ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Protect civilians and restore Yemen's sovereignty. The Houthis are not Yemen. Iran's proxies do not have the right to hold an entire country hostage! Disarm them or defeat them. Yemen deserves better.

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Today Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said: "Saudi Arabia did all of this to serve Israel. Everything Saudi Arabia did against Yemen was under the control of the United States and Israel." A sharp accusation! From a movement with a long record of saying one thing and doing another! In 2009 their spokesman said they had no intention of restoring the Imamate. In 2020 they revived its tax! In 2014 they signed the UN-brokered Peace and National Partnership Agreement. Months later the president was under house arrest. For years Abdul-Malik al-Houthi denied any Iranian support! While obviously working close with Iran! Start with the premise. Iran wants Muslims to believe that hating Israel, or being at war with it, is what makes you a true Muslim. It isn't. If it were, the entire Arab League would not have offered Israel full normalisation in 2002 - in exchange for withdrawal to the 1967 lines and an independent Palestinian state. That's basic logic! Now let's rewind. I'm not a Yemen expert, and I don't claim to be. Give me a map of Syria and I can show you where the conservative Sunni areas are, where tribal culture is strong, where secular, druze or Christian communities live - even which areas stood with which side during the revolution. Yemen is for me far more complex! So feel free to correct me! But the broad lines as I see it: In 2011, Yemen rose up. Youth activists, the Muslim Brotherhood's Islah, socialists, Nasserists, tribes - and yes, the Houthis - stood in the same squares! The message was national: anti-corruption, social justice, an end to a family regime. The shared enemy was Saleh. It didn't last. Within months it became a power struggle. Houthi against Islah and its tribal allies. Zaydi against Salafi. In 2014 the Houthis took Sanaa by force. They never openly announced that their Islam should rule Yemen. They simply built the state around it! So what is their Islam? Hard to say! Their founder openly admired Khomeini. Their slogan - "Death to America, death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" - is modelled on the Iranian revolution. They have adopted Twelver rituals like mass Ashura commemorations and Eid al-Ghadir, never part of Yemeni Zaydi tradition in this form! Their leader functions as a supreme leader, with loyal supervisors in every ministry. They have built an end-times narrative where Yemen has a special role and liberating Jerusalem is a religious duty, and they claim the Gaza war brought it closer. That narrative is now their main recruitment tool and their justification for the Red Sea attacks. The slogans, the rituals, the state architecture, the regional enemy map - copied from the Islamic Republic. Not from traditional Zaydism! But where Iran rests on clerics, the Houthis rest on bloodline. They justify their rule by claiming Hashemite descent. That is not Tehran's model. It is the logic of the Imamate Yemenis overthrew in 1962. In 2020 they even revived khums (religious tax), a 20% levy with a share reserved for Hashemites. What people don't talk about: the Houthis don't only work with Iran. According to UN experts, they cooperate with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula - weapons, intelligence, prisoner swaps. They have trained al-Shabaab in Somalia to build drones and explosives! Sunni jihadists who consider them heretics! So what do we have? A movement that presented itself as part of a national social justice uprising in 2011, copied large parts of Iran's shia Islam, revived the privileges of the old Imamate, and works with Sunni jihadists when it suits them! To me it looks like a movement that claims to fight for God and the oppressed - but behaves like a family that will do anything for power! So maybe calm down on the Israel and Saudi Arabia rhetoric - and explain what you are actually about?

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READY OR NOT. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ‡ช Iโ€™ve spent the entire day writing this one - and honestly, I think it kicks ass. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ”ฅ I grew up listening to pioneers like Chuck D and PUBLIC ENEMY , experimenting with sounds that helped shape industrial rap. That raw, confrontational energy never left me. And this track? Itโ€™s exactly my kind of music๐Ÿ™ˆExcept I tried to create a modern Red Sea battle anthem. Fair warning: this wonโ€™t be everyoneโ€™s taste. Itโ€™s loud, aggressive, industrial and unapologetic! But I hope the lyrics have a point you can agree with! Iranโ€™s regional proxy network. Houthi attacks threatening Saudi Arabia and international shipping. The propaganda about resistance and the so-called โ€œAxis of Resistanceโ€ - while Yemenis pay the price and the region remains on edge. And the question at the heart of it all: if you claim to fight for Gaza, why should your actions bring more danger to Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the Red Sea? This is my musical way of expressing how fed up I am with the threats, the double standards and the endless proxy wars! Gaza deserves peace. Saudi Arabia deserves security. Yemen deserves a future free from militia rule! The Red Sea belongs to no militia! So here you go. ๐ŸŽง READY OR NOT Turn it up. Or donโ€™t. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ”ฅ

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One statement by Abu Zarโ€™ah Al-Mahramee, shared by ู…ุงู„ูƒ ุงู„ุฑูˆู‚ูŠ, and suddenly Iโ€™m up all night writing a song about the man and the Giants Brigades. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ‡ช The Giants have proven time and again what theyโ€™re capable of on the battlefield. Abu Zarโ€™ah himself is a fascinating character- and their history has some interesting chapters. So I turned it into a song. Giants Of The Red Sea ๐ŸŽถ Iโ€™ll let the lyrics do the talking Lyrics: ูŠุง ุฃุจู†ุงุก ุดุนุจู†ุง ุงู„ุฃุจูŠุŒ ูˆูŠุง ุฃุจุทุงู„ ู‚ูˆุงุชู†ุง ุงู„ู…ุณู„ุญุฉ ุงู„ู…ุฑุงุจุทูŠู† ููŠ ุฌุจู‡ุงุช ุงู„ุนุฒุฉ ูˆุงู„ุตู…ูˆุฏุŒ ู…ู† ุงู„ุณุงุญู„ ุงู„ุบุฑุจูŠ ูˆุจุงุจ ุงู„ู…ู†ุฏุจ ุฅู„ู‰ ูƒู„ ุฌุจู‡ุฉ ูˆุซุบุฑ ูˆู†ู‚ุทุฉ ุชู…ุงุณ ููŠ ุฌุจู‡ุงุช ุงู„ูŠู…ู†. ู„ู‚ุฏ ุถุฑุจุช ู‚ูˆุงุชู†ุง ุงู„ู…ุณู„ุญุฉ ุงู„ุฌู†ูˆุจูŠุฉ ุฃุฑูˆุน ุงู„ุฃู…ุซู„ุฉ ููŠ ุงู„ุจุณุงู„ุฉ ูˆุงู„ุซุจุงุชุŒ ูˆุฃุณู‚ุทุช ุฃูˆู‡ุงู… ุงู„ู…ู„ูŠุดูŠุงุช ุงู„ุญูˆุซูŠุฉ ุงู„ุฅุฑู‡ุงุจูŠุฉุŒ ูˆุณุชุธู„ ู…ูˆุงู‚ูู‡ุง ุงู„ู…ุดุฑูุฉ ุดุงู‡ุฏุฉ ุนู„ู‰ ู†ุตุฑุฉ ุงู„ู…ุธู„ูˆู… ูˆุงู„ุชุตุฏูŠ ู„ู„ู…ุดุฑูˆุน ุงู„ุฅูŠุฑุงู†ูŠ. ูŠุง ุตูู†ู‘ุงุน ุงู„ู†ุตุฑ ููŠ ุงู„ู…ูŠุฏุงู†ุŒ ุฃูŠู‡ุง ุงู„ุฃุจุทุงู„ ุงู„ุตู†ุงุฏูŠุฏุŒ ุงุตุจุฑูˆุง ูˆุตุงุจุฑูˆุงุŒ ูู…ุนุฑูƒุฉ ุงุณุชุนุงุฏุฉ ุงู„ุฏูˆู„ุฉ ูˆุชุญุฑูŠุฑ ุงู„ุจู„ุงุฏ ู…ู† ุฑุฌุณ ู‡ุฐู‡ ุงู„ุฌู…ุงุนุฉ ุงู„ุจุงุบูŠุฉุŒ ูˆุญู…ุงูŠุฉ ุฃู…ู† ุงู„ู…ู†ุทู‚ุฉุŒ ุชุชุทู„ุจ ุซุจุงุช ุงู„ุฃุจุทุงู„ ูˆุตู„ุงุจุฉ ุงู„ุดุฑูุงุก .. ูˆุฃู†ุชู… ู„ู‡ุงุŒ ุจู…ุง ุนู‡ุฏู†ุงู‡ ููŠูƒู… ู…ู† ุฅู‚ุฏุงู… ูˆุซุจุงุช ููŠ ู…ูŠุงุฏูŠู† ุงู„ู…ูˆุงุฌู‡ุฉุŒ ูˆุจู…ุง ุชุญู…ู„ูˆู†ู‡ ู…ู† ุนุฒูŠู…ุฉ ู„ุง ุชู„ูŠู† ูˆุฅุฑุงุฏุฉ ู„ุง ุชู†ูƒุณุฑุŒ ุญุชู‰ ุชุญู‚ูŠู‚ ุงู„ุฃู‡ุฏุงู ุงู„ู…ู†ุดูˆุฏุฉ. ูˆุงู„ุดูƒุฑ ูˆุงู„ูˆูุงุก ู„ู„ุฃุดู‚ุงุก ููŠ ุงู„ุชุญุงู„ู ุงู„ุนุฑุจูŠ ุจู‚ูŠุงุฏุฉ ุงู„ู…ู…ู„ูƒุฉ ุงู„ุนุฑุจูŠุฉ ุงู„ุณุนูˆุฏูŠุฉุŒ ูู†ุญู† ู†ุฎูˆุถ ู…ุนุงู‹ ู…ุนุฑูƒุฉ ูˆุงุญุฏุฉุŒ ูˆู†ุชู‚ุงุณู… ุงู„ุชุถุญูŠุงุช ููŠ ุฎู†ุฏู‚ ูˆุงุญุฏุŒ ู„ู†ุตู†ุน ู…ุตูŠุฑุงู‹ ู…ุดุชุฑูƒุงู‹ ูˆู‡ุฏูุงู‹ ูˆุงุญุฏุงู‹ ู„ุง ูŠู†ูƒุณุฑ. From the mountains to the seaโ€ฆ From southern soil, a name rises. Abu Zarโ€™ah. The Giants are moving. From Abyan's earth, where southern winds blow, A son of Yemen faced a road unknown. Through Dammaj, through Aden, through the flames of war, A commander emerged as the battle roared. When the old order shattered, when front lines were drawn, He stood with the south as a new day was born. No crown, no throne, just a land under fire, A name forged in struggle, a force climbing higher. Hear the drums across the mountains, Hear the voices from the shore. Every wave remembers footsteps, Every heart demands something more. Oh, Giants of the Red Sea, From the mountains, wild and free! Bab al-Mandab, hear the sound, Southern voices shake the ground! Oh, Yemen, raise your flame, Let the world remember every name! From the coast to the desert sky, The Giants rise, the dream stays alive! Mokha on the horizon, the Red Sea in sight, Through the coastal campaign, through the heat of the fight. Golden Spear on the pages, the coastline unfolding, While Yemen's future was still in the making. Bab al-Mandab, where the oceans meet, A passage of history beneath their feet. Then Shabwa called and the battle moved east, As the struggle for territory refused to cease. Harib's fields marked another turn, Not the end of the war, but a chapter earned. The Emirates backed the force as it grew, With training and support as its ranks broke through. A southern formation, a name of its own, Built in the furnace where hard years are known. Different flags, different interests, a complicated alliance, The coast held its place in a wider contest of power. Then came the council, a seat at the table, A commander in politics, his influence growing. But alliances shift when the balance is changing, And yesterday's map may need rearranging. Who will govern? Who will lead? What will peace demand? What will the people need? From southern mountains to the Red Sea blue, The future of Yemen belongs to Yemenis too. January came, and the balance was shaken, Old assumptions fell, new decisions were taken. The south faced a moment that redrew the lines, As forces realigned in uncertain times. Then back to the coast, where the front lines move, Where each new advance has another point to prove. Dhubab and Bab, where the sea winds blow, New battles unfolding, a long road to go. Not the end of the war, not the final victory, But another new chapter in Yemen's history. ูŠุง ุฑุฌุงู„ ุงู„ู…ูŠุฏุงู†! ูŠุง ุตูู†ู‘ุงุน ุงู„ุฃู…ู„! ู…ู† ุฌุจุงู„ ุงู„ุฌู†ูˆุจ ู„ู„ุจุญุฑ ุงู„ู…ุชุตู„! ุนุฒูŠู…ุฉ ู„ุง ุชู„ูŠู†ุŒ ูˆุฅุฑุงุฏุฉ ู„ุง ุชู†ูƒุณุฑุŒ ูˆุงู„ุฃู…ู„ ูŠุจู‚ู‰ ู…ุง ุฏุงู… ุงู„ูุฌุฑ ูŠู†ุชุธุฑ! Oh, Giants of the Red Sea, From the mountains, wild and free! Bab al-Mandab, hear the sound, Southern voices shake the ground! Oh, Yemen, raise your flame, Let the world remember every name! Not just battles, not just glory, Yemen is still writing its story! ูŠุง ูŠู…ู†ุŒ ูŠุง ุฃุฑุถ ุงู„ุฃุญุฑุงุฑุŒ ูŠุง ุตูˆุชุงู‹ ูŠุชุญุฏู‰ ุงู„ุฅุนุตุงุฑ! ู…ู† ุงู„ุณุงุญู„ ุญุชู‰ ุงู„ุฌุจุงู„ุŒ ูŠุจู‚ู‰ ุงู„ุฃู…ู„ ุฑุบู… ุงู„ู‚ุชุงู„! From Aden to the western shore. From the battles of yesterday To the questions of tomorrow. Abu Zarโ€™ah. The Giants of the Red Sea. Yemen's story is still being written.

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Reports tonight of widespread Houthi deployment across #Sanaa, hunting anyone who raises the flag of the Yemeni Republic. Now understand the contradiction, because it is the whole story. The Houthis are not separatists. They do not want their own state. They claim to be the government of the Republic of Yemen, all of it! Their ministries in Sanaa use the republican flag. It is on their buildings, their currency, their passports, their state television, their soldiers' uniforms. They fly it every single day. And tonight they are arresting Yemenis for holding it. Because tomorrow is 26 September. The anniversary of the 1962 revolution that ended the Zaydi imamate and created the republic that flag belongs to. That is the one day of the year when the contradiction becomes unbearable for them. They rule under the symbol of a revolution against everything they are rebuilding. A movement led by a family claiming the right to rule by bloodline, sitting in the capital of a state founded to abolish exactly that claim. So they can carry the flag. They cannot let you carry it. They took the cloth and threw away the meaning. A movement that must flood a capital with gunmen to stop a flag has already told you how little of that city is actually theirs. Happy 26 September to every Yemeni. They can occupy the streets. They cannot arrest a date.

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