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@levantophile Avatar @levantophile T.

T. posts on X about israel, russia, iran, moscow the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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"This new official statement by Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri features an interesting choice of words. The first change he introduced after the July massacres was dropping the term Muslim from his title and office. Instead of referring to himself as the spiritual leader of the Muslim Monotheists ( ) he began adopting the term Druze Monotheists ( ) a designation already common among Druze communities in Lebanon and Israel. Now he is also referring to the region of Suwayda not by its usual names such as Jabal al-Arab (Mountain of the Arabs adopted in honor of Sultan Pashas revolt) or Jabal al-Druze"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-11T16:21Z 4708 followers, 171.9K engagements

"@esmaail_esm Well youre going to need to buckle up because its going to be a very bumpy ride - and hopefully not over a cliff 😬"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-12T15:00Z 4683 followers, XXX engagements

"That said I still hope President Aoun and PM Salam manage to surprise us and push forward with disarmament though it seems unlikely when the Shia third of the country is so vehemently opposed to that. 😕"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-12T23:44Z 4703 followers, 1924 engagements

"A fascinating bit of early 20th-century history - and it explains some of the seemingly odd quirks among elderly people in the Gulf (for instance the fact that many of them spoke Urdu). Indias decision to turn down the option of absorbing the Gulf states upon independence may be one of the least-known unforced blunders in modern history"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-04T12:45Z 4672 followers, 43.3K engagements

"Hmm no - I dont think so. The elderly (those born before the 1950s or so) are/were the ones most likely to identify as Palestinians or with their society. You dont really have figures like Samih al-Qasim Salman Natour or Kais Firro among the younger generations (all were pro-Palestinian Israeli Druze). Those born since then are much more likely to be integrated in Israeli society and identify with the state. That said when Israel moved heavily to the right in the last couple of decades and made moves like passing the Nation State Law the Druze were largely furious and it rubbed them the wrong"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-15T09:34Z 4703 followers, XXX engagements

"I have nothing against our Nizari Ismaili cousins but it will never not be funny for me that their Imams at least in the last few generations are basically your average preppy white dudes attending Swiss boarding schools and Ivy League universities running marathons and so on. There is just something both amusing and underwhelming about their real-life personas. 😅"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-14T00:58Z 4710 followers, 64K engagements

"By contrast while the early Zionist settlers began with technology roughly comparable to that of the Arabs they have since gained a massive technological edge through both imported and homegrown innovations. Moreover they adopted an approach closer to the British model transplanting a large settler population and demographically transforming the territories they conquered. With these two advantages Israel is likely to endure for as far as we can reasonably project perhaps a century or more and during that time its demographic and technological dominance will only become more deeply"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-09T23:12Z 4703 followers, 1875 engagements

"I literally said the opposite of what youre saying here lol I said that you can tell that these Mormon and Evangelical leaders look inauthentic even without assuming that Christian leaders need to be dressed like medieval monks. 🤦♂ (In other words the dress of the monk is not the benchmark here; they are inauthentic because they just come off as inauthentic.)"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-14T22:26Z 4701 followers, XXX engagements

"1) Saudi Arabia offers them capital and international lobbying power but it cant protect the regime. That is why they will more likely than not be a junior partner. Turkey is the default option but he may try to balance that with some relations with US/Israel and Russia to not fall entirely under the Turkish grip (eg: formally asking both countries to keep their bases in Syria). 2) China could be interesting but he sandwiched between two US allies (Israel and Turkey) makes it politically impossible for him to be too close to China. So I wouldnt expect too much to come from there"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-15T20:14Z 4710 followers, XX engagements

"Well in a sense a Levantine Muslim can also decolonize their region by say calling Homs Emesa. Again Im putting this in air quotes because I understand it is peculiar. But any native of the land can say well the Arabs colonized us and changed the name of our region so to decolonize ourselves were going to embrace a more ancient name"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-12T10:47Z 4676 followers, XX engagements

"This is mind-boggling delusion. What is it about Arab and broader MENA culture that makes so many of us almost impervious to reality and so willing to believe comfortable lies News flash: Israel has achieved its greatest strategic gains since 1967 in its wars against Iran Hezbollah and Hamas over the past couple of years. It went from being contained to the south and north by Iranian proxies - locked in what seemed like an unwinnable two-decade war of attrition - to nearly destroying both militias striking Iran itself and shaking the very foundations of the Islamic Republic. (The only reason"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-13T20:09Z 4705 followers, 3895 engagements

"Oh so youre telling me that EyeDocOfDoom and BaathBoss wasnt lying about his identity when we had those gaming sessions Crazy"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-11T15:02Z 4683 followers, 4237 engagements

"You hand over Iraq to the effeminate poetry-loving Persians for a couple of decades and they turn the virile sons of Saddam into sensitive romantics. How tragic 🥲"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-11T22:50Z 4706 followers, 20.8K engagements

"@MuizDweller Inflation is out of control. It was out of budget to bring real electronic music pros 😄"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-12T17:20Z 4698 followers, XX engagements

"@AhmadFPR Hahaha yeah 😂 Unfortunately for him hes only our second most prominent son-in-law after George Clooney and no one really cares or talks about you when youre second best 🤷♂"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-13T13:36Z 4702 followers, XXX engagements

"@sdriankhmeinist Yeah no. Id rather stick to the preppy white dudes"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-14T09:10Z 4705 followers, 4989 engagements

"Something very interesting is happening in Suwayda. One could say that the Syrian Druze are becoming the second Arabic-speaking community to aspire to fully exit the Arabist era after the Lebanese Maronites failed attempt to do so during the Lebanese Civil War. And it is rather ironic that this is unfolding in what was until very recently Baathist Syria the last standing Arab nationalist regime. From reverting to a Biblically inspired name for their home region Jabal Bashan (instead of the Baathist-endorsed Jabal al-Arab or the older sectarian Jabal al-Druze) to founding media initiatives"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-13T22:37Z 4710 followers, 25.2K engagements

"1967 was started by Israel but I get your point. In the end this is a brutal world and the only law is the law of conquest. If Israel decides to annex them no one will stop them. And likewise they are the only ones that can bless the creation of a Palestinian state. I feel for Palestinians though. The never-ending military occupation is cruel and unjust and I wish there can be a fair and just solution though none appear on the horizon unfortunately"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-14T23:48Z 4706 followers, XXX engagements

"This is an interesting time to put out this map as it inevitably invites comparisons between Israel and the Crusader states. Of course the comparison is valid to a significant degree: 1) Both were established by an outnumbered yet highly motivated and disciplined group of people driven by ideological zeal. 2) Both took advantage of a fragmented Muslim world to advance their projects: the former amid the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and under a sympathetic Western imperial order and the latter amid the decline of Abbasid authority and the resulting division of the Muslim heartland into rival"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-09T23:12Z 4706 followers, 9615 engagements

"Thats not at all what happened. The Druze of the Galilee are a mix of native converts from the 11th century + emigrants from the time when the Druze princes of Mount Lebanon were quite powerful and their influence stretched down to the Galilee. And the Druze population in fact declined rather than increase in the 19th century (the time of the civil war in Mount Lebanon). This is documented by scholars like Kais Firro who was pro-Palestinian. (The map of abandoned villages is taken from his book.)"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-15T13:05Z 4706 followers, XXX engagements

"That said if hes ultimately forced to pick a side and somehow ends up allied with Russia and Iran that would be somewhat amusing ngl 😅"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-15T13:46Z 4710 followers, 1306 engagements

"Also one interesting detail is how prominently the Lebanese flag features in this rally something almost never seen in the past. It seems Hezbollah is shifting course to Lebanonize the party and turn inward. The implicit message is that they may no longer be the vanguard of a transnational Axis of Resistance but they remain a force capable of influencing national politics even in opposition and that when they regain their strength they will seek to dominate the country once again"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-12T23:54Z 4702 followers, 1917 engagements

"Seeing the core of Lebanese Shia society double down on Khomeinism and the whole Resistance ethos is rather depressing. Hezbollahs disastrous losses (and near-decapitation) in 2024 coupled with Irans humiliation in 2025 should have served as a wake-up call to change course if only to secure a better future for their children rather than continue sacrificing them to defunct ideologies and hollow causes. It is pitiful above all and likely means the Lebanese state will be forced to manage a weakened Hezbollah rather than fully disarming it and reasserting sovereignty. The group will persist not"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-12T23:42Z 4710 followers, 26.2K engagements

"This would be true if other Lebanese are actively hostile to them but theyre not. One notable aspect during the war that even many Shias seemed surprised by was the fact that other Lebanese took them in when they fled Shia areas en masse. The reason for their surprise was that the Shia duo (Hezb-Amal) and their base objectively acted in a very chauvinistic aggressive manner toward other Lebanese: assassinations of non-Shia leaders a violent coup in May 2008 becoming the patron of a corrupt regime clamping down on the 2019 mass uprising blocking the port explosion investigation etc. And yet"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-13T23:11Z 4707 followers, XXX engagements

"This is undoubtedly a bitter pill for Arabs and Muslims to swallow even more so than the loss of Al-Andalus. That region while representing a civilizational high point for medieval Arab-Muslims lay at the far western edge of the Muslim world. Palestine by contrast not only contains Islams third holiest site but also sits at the heart of the Muslim world. Its loss to a rival civilization obstructs any project seeking to integrate the Muslim heartlands of Anatolia Arabia and North Africa forcing these regions to evolve along separate trajectories. That said I do not think it is all doom and"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-09T23:12Z 4704 followers, 1948 engagements

"This is an interesting statement and it appears to come from the non-Hijri faction in Suwayda. The speaker strongly condemns the massacres and the siege while at the same time stressing the Druzes Arab and Muslim identity denouncing Israels presence in Syria and emphasizing Syrian national unity. I suspect that the longer the siege continues and without sufficient outside support the weaker Hijris position will become and the more emboldened the non-Hijrists will feel to speak out. 🤷♂ (This is a shame of course because it is plainly clear to me that the Druze can at best expect only"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-15T20:59Z 4710 followers, 3523 engagements

"This post was not shared to highlight how Israeli Druze soldiers and prison wardens mistreat Palestinians at checkpoints in prisons or elsewhere. (That is a long-established and widely recognized fact among Palestinians and increasingly among other Arabs which I will discuss in more detail in the following posts.) The reason this post was shared is because Clash Report is a Turkish propaganda outlet aiming to fan the flames of hatred against the Druze as a whole and in particular to tacitly incite Sunni Arabs to take revenge for the Palestinian plight on the Druze of Suwayda who have no"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-14T23:04Z 4709 followers, 15.3K engagements

"Also if Suwayda cannot secure its autonomy the Druze of Mount Lebanon should prepare for a likely large influx of Syrian Druze refugees and move to consolidate their position in the country by fully resolving their political differences with the Christian community. The Druze must present a united front in support of whatever project the Christian leadership pursues in Lebanon (or Mount Lebanon) and not act as a dagger in its back. Any Druze leader who obstructs such an existential alliance for whatever reason should be politically marginalized even if his surname is Jumblatt"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-15T21:15Z 4710 followers, XXX engagements

"Whats interesting about Jolani is he seems to share the same instinct that Hafez al-Assad once had engaging with conflicting powers and trying to balance them against one another in an effort to chart an independent path for post-Assad Syria rather than binding it to a single camp. But Hafez had it much easier having inherited a functioning and relatively independent state in 1970. Can Jolani pull this off with Turkey trying to keep him under its thumb an emboldened Israel seemingly intent on preventing a meaningful reconstitution of the Syrian state and large parts of the country still"
X Link @levantophile 2025-10-15T13:45Z 4710 followers, 16.2K engagements

"This racist demagogue who has no valuable academic contributions and is a case study in the mediocrity of modern academia thought he did something here. Anyway Ill bite the bullet. Here is a thread of XX Palestinians that have made major contributions in their fields 🧵"
X Link @levantophile 2024-03-12T22:42Z 4705 followers, 1.2M engagements