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Passionate about human rights. Research Fellow at the Israeli Forum for Regional Thinking () focusing on Syria. Poli-sci grad student

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    May 10

    My new piece for the on Israel's unprecedented attacks in Syria last night & why Russia seems content to let Israel bomb Iranian targets

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    1 hour ago

    So far in 2018: - UAE's Ahmed Mansoor has been sentenced to 10 years - Prominent Saudi women's/human rights activists have been detained - Bahrain's Nabeel Rajab has been sentenced to 5 years Gulf regimes are waging an all-out war on human rights defenders.

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  3. 1 hour ago

    * 2 of the options being discussed concerning the area along the Golan fence: deploying Russian military police there or sending Russian peacekeepers under the UNDOF. * Israel understands that pullout of Iranian proxies from the south will be a gradual process.

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  4. 1 hour ago

    Pan-Arab daily al-Sharq al-Awsat: Russia & Israel are in agreement concerning removal of Iranian forces to 20 KM from the fence on the Golan. Disagreement remains concerning permanent Iranian presence deeper in Syria (Ar)

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    15 hours ago

    So, wrote this, on LGBT rights, Russia, Qatar and FIFA. Here’s how it appeared in US print edition, and in Doha 🤔

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  6. 2 hours ago

    Israel's National Security Adviser, Meir Ben Shabat added: "We will continue to operate militarily against the Iranians in Syria hoping that the Russians or the Syrian regime will ask the Iranians to go home"

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  7. 2 hours ago

    Israeli Channel 10: Israel's National Security Adviser said in a meeting w/ French officials: "Israel has no problem with Assad remaining in power as long as the Iranians leave the country" (Hebrew)

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  8. 2 hours ago

    מסע למחוזות השנאה — שמונה חודשים לצד הצל ממליצה בחום

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    19 hours ago

    Bombshell: Netanyahu a few years ago allegedly asked Shin Bet to eavesdrop on Mossad chief Pardo and IDF chief of staff Gantz during internal disagreements over Iran strike. Report from Uvda (Israel's 60 Minutes) during long profile of Pardo.

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  10. 13 hours ago

    "In addition, [Russia will pressure Assad to ask Iran] not to constructed permanent intelligence, missile launch & anti-aircraft bases & positions across all of Syria. Israel will be allowed to attack Iran in Syria as long as it coordinates with Russia &doesn't act against Assad"

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  11. 13 hours ago

    Highly reliable Maariv reporter : "The following understandings are emerging from Liberman's talks in Moscow. Russia will influence Assad to ask Iran to keep a distance of 20KM from the Israeli border, as was previously agreed...

    בשיחות ליברמן במוסקבה מסתמנות ההבנות הבאות: רוסיה תשפיע על אסד לבקש מאירן להתרחק מגבול ישראל מעבר ל-20 ק״מ שכבר הוסכמו ולא…
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  12. 13 hours ago

    Such a brilliant thread

    1- There is a type of undemocratic conditional liberalism which is on rise in the Middle East: Systems that don’t fulfill the minimum requirements of democracy but allow for certain individual liberties (mostly social) under guidance & full control of the authorities.
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    17 hours ago

    As well as arbitrary arrests, detentions, pushbacks by Algerian authorities, African migrants report being sold for labour and trapped in slavery in Algeria. Aid agencies fear what may be widening trend of abusing migrants headed for a new life in Europe

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  14. 19 hours ago

    Cognizant of reporting about an Israeli-Russian deal concerning southern Syria, Firqat Usud al-Jolan (FSA) calls on "all Arab & regional countries to... intervene & abide their commitments & moral obligations toward the Syrian people"

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    21 hours ago

    Vogue put one of King Abdullah's daughters on the cover as a "celebration of the trailblazing women of Saudi Arabia" in the same week Saudi Arabia jailed the actual women who campaigned for the right to drive

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  16. 20 hours ago

    Israeli reports about 4 Syrian children who underwent life-saving heart operations in Israel (Hebrew) Such assistance has had significant effect on Syrian public opinion re: Israel

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  17. 21 hours ago

    LMAO. It took the Assad regime & allied militias 5 years of siege & air strikes, multiple chemical weapons attacks & Russian air cover to take over a few towns near Damascus from poorly armed & trained rebels (who were allowed to leave w/ their light weapons).

    Assad threatens to expel U.S. troops from Syria by "force"
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  18. 23 hours ago

    The high level of sensitivity around these negotiations, I suspect, is not because it means Israel is (partially?) abandoning rebels & civilians it once supported, but because these talks mean Israel is accepting Iranian presence in Syria, just not in the south.

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  19. 23 hours ago

    Fishman leads his readers to believe that his report is based on a Kommersant report () but that report doesn't contain most of these details. i.e. he was given info on background & can't divulge this. Goes to show the high sensitivity around the talks

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  20. 23 hours ago

    "Israel also has demands about the fate of the villages in the Syrian Golan, with which Israel maintained ties throughout the civil war." (See more on this ) Fishman mentions that the US State Dept statement is delaying the regime's offensive on the south.

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  21. 23 hours ago

    Israel is demanding that non-Syrian units of the SAA, e.g. "a brigade of pro-Iranian volunteers in the 5th Division" will not participate in the offensive. Israel is demanding the return of UNDOF forces to the DMZ along the Golan fence.

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