luca

syriac orthodox ☨ | ⚽️❤️

[luca @lu74as]

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[Iker Casillas @IkerCasillas]

Me han preguntado en un acto de @LaLiga con @MovistarPlus cuál sería mi entrenador para el @realmadrid : Xabi Alonso.

[luca @lu74as]

@shuajb_ebibi @KiyanSo FOR REAL

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

Day 1,634 of #Afghan women being alienated from the rest of society.

You are not forgotten.

#LetAfghanGirlsLearn

[luca @lu74as]

@Hayataholica @GurugramDeals So the Emirates places the citizen above Justice? Interesting
Let’s see how you’d react when this happens to you in a foreign nation.

[T. ☀️ @levantophile]

I am seeing a debate trending about what happened to Jewish communities across the MENA region after 1948, and I wanted to share my thoughts, drawing on both historical context and my own recent observations.

First, even the most fair-minded voices on the Arab side tend to underestimate the climate of hostility that existed at the time. While it is true that most Jews in the region were not formally expelled, one does not need an expulsion order to recognize that what they experienced after 1948 amounted to forced, not voluntary, displacement. Put simply, the conditions and environment made continued life virtually untenable for Jews in nearly every MENA country.

A useful contemporary analogy is the experience of Druze and Alawites in Syria under the new regime. Neither community faces a formal expulsion order, but both live in a deeply hostile environment marked by insecurity and existential fear. The only thing preventing a mass exodus is the absence of a viable pull factor. Were there Druze or Alawite states offering citizenship on arrival, or Western countries willing to accept them en masse, most would almost certainly leave immediately, even at the cost of abandoning their homes, property, and livelihoods. This brings us to the crux of the matter: when people are forced to prioritize physical survival over all other considerations, it is difficult to describe their displacement as anything other than forced.

Second, even when one’s own state does not systematically persecute its minorities, a profound sense of insecurity can persist if neighboring states are actively targeting their co-ethnics. This is why I find unconvincing the argument that certain Jewish communities, such as Moroccan Jews, were relatively immune to fear and insecurity because they were protected by their state.

While the Moroccan state acted admirably compared to other Arab countries, societal hostility still existed within Morocco. More importantly, the wider regional climate of extreme hostility, which had already driven a mass exodus of Jews elsewhere, would inevitably have weighed heavily on Moroccan Jews’ sense of safety and belonging.

I relate to this personally. Since last July, I no longer feel fully at home in the region, nor can I imagine a future there as a Lebanese Druze, even though we are well integrated and, for now, safe in Lebanon. The massacres in July shattered whatever sense of security I had, a feeling compounded by the growing identification of Syrian Druze with Israel, which increasingly marks us as an out-group in the region.

As a result, I feel we are living on borrowed time, even in Lebanon. Whatever else may happen, if I have children one day, I cannot imagine raising them entirely in Lebanon or elsewhere in the Arab world. At a minimum, I want to ensure we have one foot outside the region through foreign citizenship or similar safeguards. I am also now far more cautious about revealing my religious identity to strangers in the Arab world, and I will teach my future children to do the same, simply as a matter of basic self-preservation.

I can imagine Moroccan Jews felt something similar after 1948, which helps explain why nearly all chose to leave, a decision made possible by the existence of a Jewish state that provided a viable pull factor.

[luca @lu74as]

@levantophile The global left has done a great job in elevating the Sunnis like this.

[luca @lu74as]

@levantophile Rather, most of the conversation is around how Kashmiri Muslims are victims of an Indian ‘Hindutva’ establishment.

This pattern continues anywhere else the Sunnis are involved.
They are given the genuine victim cloak by default.

[luca @lu74as]

@levantophile Go to a metropolitan city in India, have a conversation with a random Hindu and they’ll tell you how convinced they are that Muslims are indeed victims of a larger axis of evil (US-Israel-India).

[luca @lu74as]

@TopuzBegum @Loconteee Vinicius & Tchouameni imo are the weakest links in this team.
Not much needs to be said about Vini.
Tchouameni? He brings nothing to the team as a DM.

[luca @lu74as]

@its4aya @oulosP Bro, its the ‘ummah’ that betrayed you more
Call your own kin out first

[Kevork Almassian @KevorkAlmassian]

If they’re slaughtering Alawites, Druze, and Kurds in Syria in 2026 — and proudly posting the videos — imagine what they did to our ancestors in 1915, when there were no smartphones and no internet.

The Armenian Genocide explains everything.

[luca @lu74as]

@Charles_Lister How tf are you an ‘expert’ of the region
You’re a clown

[luca @lu74as]

@FormulaRauda Great analysis 👏

[luca @lu74as]

@Juneforsoul @SyrianOsint Shut up Niqabi

[T. ☀️ @levantophile]

With the renewed assault on Suwayda today by Bedouin tribesmen and jihadist militias, the clock is ticking rapidly toward the possible collapse of the Druze militias under overwhelming pressure, and the looming threat of a massacre of 10,000s of Druze civilians.

The siege has already taken a devastating toll on the province. Suwayda’s healthcare system has all but collapsed. The population is under blockade, with limited access to food, medicine, and fuel. Entire villages and towns have been ravaged, and much of the civilian population has been displaced.

Please consider retweeting this and supporting this awareness campaign about the impending Druze genocide. I would also deeply appreciate it if you changed your profile picture to the Druze flag as a small gesture of solidarity with a community being brutalized by jihadist extremism and abandoned by the world.

Thank you all, and may God bless you and your families 🤍

#Druze #Suwayda #DruzeUnderAttack #DruzeGenocide

[luca @lu74as]

@slimv39 @SyrianFuturistt If not Islam, then what is it?

[sarkis yousef @assyrian_army]

Is that all? Thousands of innocent lives were slaughtered by jihadis, and we spoke about it for a single day before moving on. We have failed as a humanity.

I am ashamed to call myself Syrian. As a Christian Assyrian and a survivor of genocide, this dark memory will haunt me forever-for failing to bring justice to the people I lived alongside, the people I grew up with.

For the past 12 years, I have worn black, ever since the jihadis killed my first cousin, who was like a brother and my closest friend. He died defending the Christians in Maaloula after the jihadis took 12 nuns hostage. I will wear black for the rest of my life, a reminder of all the innocent souls slaughtered by the jihadis and of my failure to bring them justice.

From the bottom of my heart, I am sorry.

[luca @lu74as]

@hahussain I am an aspiring student of this subject and hope to be engaged in this field but seeing individuals like Charles are really discouraging.!

[luca @lu74as]

@hahussain Thank you for being a voice of reason Hussain.
Im really astounded by this man Charles. Given his credentials and his position in a well renowned think tank like Middle East Institute; how are they so blatantly blind?