Sam Johanson

Despise tyrants & their Mafia regimes. Syria is main interest. I hate dictators' apologists. Eng/Arabic. If you can put up with my typos follow me.

[Sam Johanson @OGHARIT]

The horror of being detained by Assad regime.
https://t.co/GjOLLHNdq4
https://t.co/blUIYmhCD7

[Sam Johanson @OGHARIT]

@Selma3614617403 @MarioNawfal Rest assured Al Sharaa will never send a single solder to Lebanon.

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

Since Hikmat al-Hijri & the #Druze National Guard took control of #Suwayda, drug smuggling towards #Jordan has surged by 325% -- facilitated by a security elite dominated by former #Assad regime figures.

My @newlinesmag piece is full of exclusive detail:

https://t.co/Tz1uXWwGkw

[Hala Gorani @HalaGorani]

Arwa Damon @IamArwaDamon and I sat on a park bench and talked without filters about why we left CNN, where we think Syria is headed and the chaos that is the a wider Middle East. Check out part 1 of a three part mini-series below. 👇

https://t.co/caAIzofFl3

[Sam Johanson @OGHARIT]

@azelin Up until now no official related statement has been issued by the Egyptian government.

[Veronica @verobellin]

Once again, a reminder that the only guarantee on non-recurrence of Assad crimes against the Syrian people was only the fall of the Assad regime itself. In 2023-2024 the int community shamelessly tried to convince Syrians (who lived through 13 yrs of bombs/siege + 5 decades of dictatorship) that normalization was a more realistic path forward. Thank God Syrians liberated themselves.

[Government Communication Center @pal_gcc_en]

Before and after: Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, northwest of the city of Rafah and Rafah refugee camp in Gaza.

[Sergey Vasiliev @sevslv]

"There is growing anger in some quarters that the Dutch government in particular—as host to the ICC in The Hague—has done little to protect ICC judges facing crippling sanctions or individual intimidation."

A report on #Bensouda's address @TheRightsForum.
https://t.co/rcgL6dDgru

[Qalaat Al Mudiq @QalaatAlMudiq]

#Syria: disinformation pages seem to be running out of ideas.

They used a photo of an American actor to claim that a teacher was killed in #Latakia.

Example below comes from an "observatory monitoring violations against minorities" - a page that spends its time posting fake news and praising Assad and Regime elements.

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

To present #Lebanon solely as a transit country for drug trafficking is inaccurate.

77% of all #captagon seized in #Syria so far this year came in *from* #Lebanon & #Suwayda's use of helium-filled guided balloons has been sourced back to #Lebanon too.

https://t.co/Tz1uXWwGkw

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

So far in 2026, #Israel has abducted 100 Syrian citizens in 260 incursions into SW #Syria.

Last week, a govt media official was ambushed, interrogated & his belongings stolen.

At least 55 Syrians remain in Israeli detention, held without charge.

https://t.co/9HYhPDPuhD

[Qalaat Al Mudiq @QalaatAlMudiq]

#Syria: not the kind of discovery children are supposed to make.

A mass grave was uncovered near Tishreen Military Hospital in Barzeh, #Damascus.

Bindings were also found, leaving little doubt about the victims' fate.

At least 15 prisoners are believed to be among the dead.

[Sam Johanson @OGHARIT]

@RenaNetjes Not only healthier. It's tastier too.

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

#Syria's province of #Suwayda has emerged as a narco state, run by remnants of #Assad's regime & organized crime leaders -- and protected by #Israel.

My latest for @newlinesmag contains *a lot* of exclusive information.

https://t.co/Tz1uXWwGkw

[Sam Johanson @OGHARIT]

@mutludc @sanchezcastejon This is untrue, especially in Syria after signing an agreement between SDF and current Syrian government.

[Sam Johanson @OGHARIT]

@RamiSafadi93 @Alexand61803829 And Manaqeesh too.

[Sam Johanson @OGHARIT]

@OzKaterji @ajaltamimi In most middle countries the Niqab is a tradition rather than religious symbol. The Gulf countries are an example.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Claims that the Palestinians were in 1948 ordered to evacuate their homes and homeland by Arab leaders in a series of radio broadcasts has been a perennial Hasbara Symphony Orchestra favourite since the Nakba, and continues to be widely promoted to this day.

The BBC journalist and United Nations official Erskine Barton Childers (not to be confused with his father, Ireland's fourth president, Erskine Hamilton Childers) thoroughly debunked this claim more than half a century ago in his article, "The Other Exodus" published in The Spectator on 12 May 1961.

Childers reviewed the comprehensive archives of Arab radio broadcasts compiled during that period by both the BBC monitoring station in Cyprus and its US counterpart, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) run by the CIA, and found nothing.

I have posted a link to Childers's article in the comments, which is worth reading because it includes details of additional fabrications concocted by Israeli officials to further this foundational hasbara myth.

Abba Eban, then Israel's permanent representative to the UN and later foreign minister, and easily its most celebrated diplomat, for example claimed that the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Haifa, George Hakim, "fully confirmed" that Palestinians were encouraged to flee by their leaders.

Yet, according to Childers: "I wrote to His Grace [Hakim], asking for his evidence of such orders. I hold signed letters from him, with permission to publish, in which he has categorically denied ever alleging Arab evacuation orders; he states that no such orders were ever given. He says that his name has been abused for years; and that the Arabs fled through panic and forcible eviction by Jewish troops."

This is the same Abba Eban who on 6 June 1967 falsely informed the UN Security Council that Israel had launched the June War the previous day in response to a series of non-existent attacks on Israel on the morning of 5 June by the Egyptian air force and artillery units.

I was previously unaware that the Israeli archives also include records of these radio broadcasts. As the British-Israeli historian Benny Morris reports below, he went through these records and also found that such broadcasts, whether by local Palestinian or Arab leaders, simply do not exist.

While the research conducted by Childers and more recently Morris is of course useful in providing official confirmation that such broadcasts are a figment of the Zionist imagination, logic alone should suffice to debunk this myth.

In May 1948, the Arab states intervened in Palestine to put an end to the mass expulsions of Palestinians, which since November 1947 already numbered in the hundreds of thousands, and to defeat the Israeli forces responsible for this monumental crime.

Does it make any sense that prior to their intervention they would have ordered hundreds of thousands of civilians to clog every road they hoped to use to enter Palestine, for miles and days on end? Of course not.

As for the silly claim that the objective of the Arab intervention was genocide, there is no evidence for it, and the conduct of the Arab militaries during the Palestine War supports this conclusion.

Nor was it the case that the Arab intervention was a coordinated military campaign to eradicate the nascent Israeli state. Some of the participating Arab states, Syria and Iraq, did have this as an objective.

Transjordan clearly did not. Its leadership had already cut a deal with the Zionist leadership to partition Palestine between them and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. Armed conflict between Israel and Transjordan in fact ensued only after Israeli forces reneged on their agreement and initiated seizures of territory beyond the partition boundary.

Egypt's position was more ambiguous. It seemed to be primarily motivated by rivalry with Jordan, and ensuring Jordan did not become the main Arab power in Palestine. In short, no Arab state wanted to see the emergence of the Israeli state, but in most cases Arab leaders had more pressing priorities. Coordination between them was primarily notable for its absence.

Arab public opinion, by contrast, considered the failure of their leaders to successfully confront the Zionist project nothing short of treason, and it served as a catalyst for more than a decade of revolutions, coups, and uprisings throughout the region.

[Sam Dagher @samdagher]

More than “close coordination,” militias like Hezbollah, Kataib Hezbollah & few others are units of #Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: “Although the groups have their own leadership, they work in close coordination with the Guards…”
https://t.co/ryso81XUrC via @NYTimes

[Sam Johanson @OGHARIT]

@thoughtflblonde @Charles_Lister I believe putting those monsters away is more important than taking them to court at this stage.
The Syrian law needs to be overhauled to accommodate mechanisms of accountability for war crimes which does not exists ATM.

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