Wa'el N. Alzayat

@WaelAlzayat

CEO , Prof . Political empowerment, national security, non-proliferation, and humanitarian assistance expert. Proud Syrian American.

District of Columbia, USA
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Joined April 2009
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  1. 17 hours ago

    Sectarian org? You mean Muslim American? You understand that your language is Islamophobic right? It would be like me attacking you for your Christian identity rather than pointing out that you worked with the YPG dominated SDF which your article failed to disclose

    What about those who kidnapped Razan Zeitouneh, did you engage with them as well? What about the Islamic front, Nour al-Din al-Zenki ? You work now for a sectarian organization called Emgage. So do not pose as“ unbiased diplomat”
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    23 hours ago

    There have been mass demonstrations in Idlib against HTS and barely any media coverage. They're called extremists when they're too terrified to speak out and they're ignored when they do speak out.

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    A mass demonstration in the center of Idlib in solidarity with the people of Kaftakharim besieged by HTS.
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  3. 19 hours ago

    I wouldn’t use the pronoun “we” when describing your own opinion.

    Replying to @WaelAlzayat @fordrs58 @ForeignPolicy
    Wael, we ,the Syrian dissidents, never looked at you as U.S official. You were always one of us. Having you on the desk, with obvious conflict of interest, was a great help to the Syrian Islamists.
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  4. 20 hours ago

    ⁦⁩. ⁦⁩ is accusing the US of supporting “jihadists” in Syria. Never mind the author is a member of the Syrian PKK. Regardless, did you and I support jihadists? Cause I sure as heck don’t think we did.

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  5. Nov 6

    Thank you for inviting me to join such a fantastic crowd. Not to mention to share the stage with . can’t wait to work with all of you in 2020.

    👏🏼 Thank you & for joining over 200 community members in Hernando County tonight to remind us that it’s
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  6. Nov 6

    Wow. published an article by a registered lobbiest for the which is the political front of the /PKK. He was only referred to as a former political prisoner and human rights activist. You’d think his affiliation would be important for readers to know.

    I sympathize entirely with the emotions driving this, but the *historical* claims made here about U.S. policy are horribly sectarian & inaccurate.…
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    Nov 5

    Ha! Instead of correcting the record, and thank you for it, the reporter blocks you. This story needs to be amended, if NYT news section has any integrity. The flaws are too obvious.

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    Nov 5

    This act of domestic terrorism, targeting the Jewish community, is indicative of our current climate. We are glad the FBI was able to thwart this plan and save lives - as hate, bigotry, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia continue to rise and become violent.

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    Nov 5

    Here’s a clue to why Iraq’s protests have not spread to Sunni areas. In Anbar, majority Sunni, authorities have arrested people who used Facebook to express solidarity for protesters - they didn’t even take to the street. documents

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  10. Nov 4

    Ladies and gentlemen. I give you the worst human of the day. Ok second after the pedophile he cited.

    Russia Isn’t Getting the Recognition It Deserves on Syria - by "If there is to be peace in Syria, it will be largely due to the patient effort…
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    Nov 4

    The Assad regime and Russia continue to kill civilians and try to murder rescue workers saving them in Idlib. 3 million vulnerable civilians live in this last opposition-held pocket.

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    When the attacks thunder down, the SCD find themselves secondary targets. Watch as one White Helmet's camera catches his moments of being caught in a double tap in Jisr al-Shughur in . 3 White Helmets and many…
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  12. Nov 3

    People of protesting against the return of the Assad regime.

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    خروج مظاهرة وسط مدينة تطالب باسقاط النظام ورافضة لدخوله الى المدينة .
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    Nov 2

    Iraqi protests are probably the most remarkable regional event in half a decade, with remarkable implications. But it’s astonishing how under-reported they have been in mainstream media. good articles but truly amazing how this isn’t covered play by play.

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  14. Nov 2

    Latest string of bombings against civilians in areas vacated by YPG.

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    A VBIED exploded in Tel Abyad, a town occupied in the latest Turkish invasion of Syria. Multiple VBIEDs exploded in recent days in the captured areas, at times killing civilians. YPG hasn't claimed responsibility, but is the…
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  15. Nov 1

    These banners are naming Iran and IRGC Soleimani as source of Iraq’s trouble. This is in Iraq’s Shia heartland.

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    Ok wow this was unthought of few weeks ago. Karbala this evening, anti Iranian intervention in Iraq banners and chants by the protesters including religious clerics.
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    Nov 1
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    I, like many Syrians, left Syria because of Assad. It’s been 7 years since I’ve been home. Although the US has better living standards, I think of Syria everyday. Accept the responsibility of Assad, he was at the best place to prevent this and yet chose to use his weapons on us

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  17. Nov 1

    Isn’t it amazing how Assadists turn around the fact that Assad killed most Syrians and destroyed the country, and blame those who dared to oppose him for that very same death and destruction?

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  18. Oct 31

    With former and current officials and “think” tankers saying that it is preferable for to control , all I can say is allhamdulillah they were not in charge when Hitler was winning. Cowardice masquerading for pragmatism. 👎🏽

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  19. Oct 31

    City controlled by Turkish-backed Syrian oppo groups who expelled YPG in in 2018. That’s a rather large bombing. Likely culprit: PKK/YPG, Regime, disenchanted oppo faction?

    9 dead and 30 injured in car bomb explosion in a busy market in city
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    Oct 31

    Pathetic hatchet-job of outstanding public servant/diplomat/ expert Jim by critics too spineless to go on record. And since when does a reputable journalist repeatedly use “ hawk” to describe a senior official? ⁦⁩

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  21. Oct 31

    Flagging for . Double check your "journalists" cause this one seems to be moonlighting for . Cursory check of his postings makes it pretty clear. He's also an Islamophobe and just attacked another USG agency. You are USG funded aren't you?

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  22. Oct 30

    I have not seen a more successful coordinated psyop campaign than what I’ve seen with the YPG=Allkurds=BestFriendsForever. Master class in deception. Well played. Well played.

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  23. Oct 30

    Does that come with or without chemical weapons?

    Genuinely positive rhetoric from Damascus: • MoD: SDF ("Arabs and Kurds") should join SAA, draft issues can be settled • MoI: ID/document services to resume, Asayish can join us…
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    Oct 30

    There is a big story here — some US officials along with the Kurdish leaders of the SDF pushed a narrative about a central role for the SDF in the killing of Baghdadi. Both Trump and General McKenzie downplayed it. What’s going on?

    So Baghdadi’s DNA was obtained from his detention at Camp Bucca, according to the Pentagon. Not from stolen undies.
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    Oct 30

    Seeing posts of how some 'intellectuals' are suddenly realising that Hezbollah is shit. I was just sent one video of one them crying. They don't owe me an apology. They can apologise to the Syrians whose humanity they've been denying all these years. Thread:

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  26. Oct 30

    Turkey is responsible for the groups it supports and these reports need to be addressed. Syrians didn’t rebel against Assad so he is replaced by bandits. There has to be more discipline and accountability.

    I have interviewed multiple Efrîn residents, Kurds (not affiliated with the PYD/YPG), Arab settlers and Turkish-backed fighters squatting in Kurdish homes. They describe ongoing war-profiteering & daily abuses such as kidnappings for ransom, property confiscation, theft.
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    Oct 30

    leader Abu Bakr al- was an evil, barbaric man & his death in is a moment to celebrate. BUT the scale of ’s murder pales in comparison to ’s - the numbers speak for themselves, take a look:

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  28. Oct 30

    This Shia crescent is working out real well for . They destroyed Syria to link Iraq with Lebanon and now may stand to lose what they were trying to link. This was never about protecting a particular sect, but rather to control the masses. Now the masses calling their BS.

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    And 1200 km from Nasiriyah , here’s Tripoli in color with big crowds protesting now. October has been a crazy month if you cover Middle…
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    Oct 30

    brethren beware, reports of new disease abound: “bacon cancer”!!! Turkey bacon varieties apparently spotted. Pls exercise caution!!!

    Replying to @wardahkhalid_
    I eat Turkey bacon. Like lots. Should I be worried? Halp!
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    Oct 30
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    This is a reality that McGurk does not want to admit because he advocated using the SDF to fight ISIS & then folding them into the Assadist police state. All regime opponents outside of Trump's "Oil Region" are now in grave danger.

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  31. Oct 30

    Yaaaaaas. I’ll leave it to these ladies to smartly explain what’s in my head.

    Replying to @jasmineelgamal @LizyDent
    Completely in agreement w/ Jasmine here. The US withdrawal poses and immense risk to Arab components of the SDF who are wanted by the Assad regime. Ethnic cleansing is a crime. So is "extermination," which is what the UN accused the regime of doing in its prisons.
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    Oct 29

    Iraqi protesters seized an Iranian sinper identified as Rasheed Bakhshi Nejat, DOB: 1985, who was dispatched to gun down Iraqi protesters. In this footage, the young protester says that this criminal man was shooting at students but we caught him and seized his ID and his stuff

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  33. Oct 30

    We did. Problematic para in beginning that set tone for whole article: “compel the Trump administration to resettle a significant number of Syrian Kurdish refugees in the United States on an expedited basis.”

    Replying to @LizyDent @WaelAlzayat and 2 others
    I mean, did y'all even read it?
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  34. Oct 30

    We didn’t say only bring Christian Iraqi translators or Hazara Afghans. We said anyone who helped us. That was my point and that of and Do you see my point?

    Replying to @WaelAlzayat
    Well that's a confusing take. We have argued to bring Iraqi and Afghan translators and others we've worked with for asylum to the US too.... does that imply dual-loyalty?
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  35. Oct 30

    Oh I see. US policy. Implying double loyalty. Nice. Check with your team re confusing US interest with what’s good for the YPG and extreme Iraqi militias currently gunning down their people.

    Replying to @LizyDent @WaelAlzayat
    Also I was arguing about U.S. policy toward Syria, not Syria. Probably a good for you to know the difference.
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  36. Oct 30

    Argument was rejected because it’s faulty: Kurds are vulnerable because of Turkey, thus they need asylum. It overlooks that Arabs are also at risk from that same action, because it led to their areas being handed back to regime. Ignoring this piece demonstrates bias.

    Replying to @WaelAlzayat
    Yes, right, obviously that was my main objective here. Great debate! (Can you really have a debate when the person you've critiqued tells you your argument is dismissed?)
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  37. Oct 30

    When you advocate for granting asylum for US supported civil society activists we abandoned, or white helmets we left high and dry in Dara’a as part of Brett’s push to hand area back to regime then we can seriously consider your argument.

    Replying to @WaelAlzayat @jasmineelgamal @Charles_Lister
    The article is focused on the Turkish invasion.
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  38. Oct 30

    What makes you say Arabs are not vulnerable. What about Arabs in Manbij who opposed Assad and now may fall under his control? Not vulnerable? What about former SDF tribal members in Jazeera region. Or Raqqah.

    The article says take the people in that worked with us. That’s the SDF—of which Arabs are a part, but are not the most vulnerable component to this current threat.
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  39. Oct 30

    Simplistic is painting what’s happening as a war between Turkey & Kurds. YPG is not all Kurds and they persecute non-YPG Kurds and Arabs. All people living in NE now, which is 70 percent non Kurd are in danger from Turkey or regime in the areas that are being handed back to it.

    It’s simplistic when you take THAT argument and devolve it into an entire debate about the Syrian civil war, of which there are far more nuances and policy failures and limitations.
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    Oct 30

    : Are components of the not worth protecting? Do they not also deserve help with refugee claims in ? Or were they just a cover all along? **4 million** Sunni Arabs have been brutally killed or exiled from since 2011. Where's the recognition of that?

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