[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Aimen Dean [@AimenDean](/creator/twitter/AimenDean) on x 38.8K followers Created: 2025-07-18 11:31:38 UTC My dear friend - context. That’s what matters. If it weren’t for Hikmat al-Hijri, everything would’ve gone smoothly. Suwayda was one of the first cities to celebrate Assad’s fall. They even raised a new flag. Everything was fine - until February. Then, inexplicably and against the wishes of every other Druze leader - Hamoud al-Hannawi, Yusuf al-Jarbu, Laith al-Balusi .. Hikmat al-Hijri went rogue. He sidelined them all with erratic, unstable behavior. He launched a militia, suspiciously well-funded - almost certainly backed by Maher al-Assad’s money, according to the latest intel. Several ex-regime officers gathered around him. His son Salman began protecting two new Kaptagon production sites. They even collaborated with Bedouin rivals to secure smuggling routes - something that didn’t go unnoticed by Jordan. Then came the rejections. Every integration proposal, no matter how generous, was flatly refused. Ask any objective observer: the final offer was total autonomy in all but name - a local Druze police force, Druze-run judiciary, Druze-run civil service. Salaries from Damascus. No disarmament. No interference. All refused. It was obstinance for obstinance’s sake. Every time he was coaxed into signing an agreement, he’d go back to Qanawat and renege, claiming he was forced, that he didn’t like it. It became a cycle: “I don’t like it, I refuse.” Over and over again. And then came the narrative—that an impending genocide was underway. Really? There are thousands of Druze living in Idlib under Jolani’s jihadist emirate for XX years now. Not one has been harmed. The reality, and I say this as someone involved behind the scenes, is that the consensus from Washington to London, Paris to Berlin, Ankara to Amman, Riyadh to Abu Dhabi, is clear: Hikmat al-Hijri bears the overwhelming blame for what happened. There was no attempt to disarm his people. They were offered control of security, judiciary, civil services - everything. And yet, he rejected it all. Why? Because there was a hidden, sinister agenda. Because Assad family money was involved. Because he wanted no solution. Just chaos. This is what happens when a minority cries for secularism while being led by religious figures - one of whom built a militia, behaves like Gaddafi, and appears genuinely unstable. He can’t even read or deliver a coherent public statement. And yet, this was the man Israel believed? As Marco Rubio rightly said(tribal misunderstanding) Israel was led down a rabbit hole by the propaganda and manufactured victimhood of a single, erratic man. XXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [druze](/topic/druze) [dean](/topic/dean) [Post Link](https://x.com/AimenDean/status/1946170998027591944)
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Aimen Dean @AimenDean on x 38.8K followers
Created: 2025-07-18 11:31:38 UTC
My dear friend - context. That’s what matters.
If it weren’t for Hikmat al-Hijri, everything would’ve gone smoothly. Suwayda was one of the first cities to celebrate Assad’s fall. They even raised a new flag. Everything was fine - until February.
Then, inexplicably and against the wishes of every other Druze leader - Hamoud al-Hannawi, Yusuf al-Jarbu, Laith al-Balusi .. Hikmat al-Hijri went rogue. He sidelined them all with erratic, unstable behavior. He launched a militia, suspiciously well-funded - almost certainly backed by Maher al-Assad’s money, according to the latest intel. Several ex-regime officers gathered around him. His son Salman began protecting two new Kaptagon production sites. They even collaborated with Bedouin rivals to secure smuggling routes - something that didn’t go unnoticed by Jordan.
Then came the rejections. Every integration proposal, no matter how generous, was flatly refused. Ask any objective observer: the final offer was total autonomy in all but name - a local Druze police force, Druze-run judiciary, Druze-run civil service. Salaries from Damascus. No disarmament. No interference. All refused.
It was obstinance for obstinance’s sake. Every time he was coaxed into signing an agreement, he’d go back to Qanawat and renege, claiming he was forced, that he didn’t like it. It became a cycle: “I don’t like it, I refuse.” Over and over again.
And then came the narrative—that an impending genocide was underway. Really? There are thousands of Druze living in Idlib under Jolani’s jihadist emirate for XX years now. Not one has been harmed.
The reality, and I say this as someone involved behind the scenes, is that the consensus from Washington to London, Paris to Berlin, Ankara to Amman, Riyadh to Abu Dhabi, is clear: Hikmat al-Hijri bears the overwhelming blame for what happened.
There was no attempt to disarm his people. They were offered control of security, judiciary, civil services - everything. And yet, he rejected it all. Why? Because there was a hidden, sinister agenda. Because Assad family money was involved. Because he wanted no solution. Just chaos.
This is what happens when a minority cries for secularism while being led by religious figures - one of whom built a militia, behaves like Gaddafi, and appears genuinely unstable. He can’t even read or deliver a coherent public statement. And yet, this was the man Israel believed?
As Marco Rubio rightly said(tribal misunderstanding)
Israel was led down a rabbit hole by the propaganda and manufactured victimhood of a single, erratic man.
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