'They're No Zionists': How Syria's Rebels Toppled Assad and What It means for Israel
Haaretz senior military analyst Amos Harel also on the podcast, said,
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Israeli officials are wary of the group and its leader, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani
According to Harel, the Syrian rebel leader currently
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"at least pretends to to have become more of a moderate" He doesn't talk like an extreme jihadist anymore
But don't think, I'm buying into this and neither are the Israeli intelligence community and the Israeli leadership
1. The question is whether fighting Israel is a top priority for this new alliance? I don't think so 2. But is this a beginning of a wonderful era between Israel and Syria? I seriously doubt that"
Syrian-born journalist, author and editor-in-chief of New Lines Magazine Hassan, said,
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My countrymen are in a "euphoric early stage" of celebration, stunned to see the end of the 50-year reign of the Assad dynasty"
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"You really have to have a rich imagination to imagine something worse than Assad"
As the Syrians, watch the images of political prisoners being released after decades,
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"it reminds them of how bad and brutal the Assad regime was"
