[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 39.2K followers Created: 2025-07-21 18:53:03 UTC What happened is not genocide - it’s a tragic, spiraling collapse of an already fractured social contract in a contested Syrian province. It began, as such conflicts often do, with a dispute - one of many in a centuries-old history of tension between local Druze militias and Bedouin tribes. Skirmishes broke out, as they have before. But this time, there were no government security forces present to contain it. For over seven months, the province has been under the de facto rule of at least three major factions - and several minor ones - operating without central oversight. A diplomatic misunderstanding in Baku poured fuel on the fire. The Syrian leadership believed Israeli mediators had granted approval to deploy internal security forces to restore order. The Israelis meant “police,” not military - but that line was blurred. When Damascus sent in police units, they were ambushed by one of the Jewish militias in the area. Thirty officers were killed. Seventeen wounded. That was the flashpoint. The state responded with force. Druze militias retaliated. Civilians, as always, bore the brunt. And predictably, the narrative split down identity lines - each side painting itself as the victim, each ignoring its own culpability. Let’s be clear: the government’s security units aren’t choirboys. But neither are the militias. The violence was reciprocal. And when Israeli airstrikes forced government forces to pull back, the Druze militias blamed the Bedouins for inviting the state back in - and began retaliating. That, in turn, triggered a massive tribal mobilization. Over XXXXXXX Bedouins descended on the province. What followed was full-scale intercommunal warfare. Genocide? No. That’s a political weaponization of the term. There is no systematic extermination campaign, no intent to annihilate a people. What we are witnessing is a brutal, tribal, sectarian conflict fueled by revenge, fear, power struggles, and the collapse of central authority. There have been atrocities - on both sides. And anyone pretending otherwise is not after truth; they’re after validation. This is not a clean story. It never is in the Levant. XXX engagements  **Related Topics** [druze](/topic/druze) [happened](/topic/happened) [dean](/topic/dean) [Post Link](https://x.com/AimenDean/status/1947369245333197082)
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Aimen Dean @AimenDean on x 39.2K followers
Created: 2025-07-21 18:53:03 UTC
What happened is not genocide - it’s a tragic, spiraling collapse of an already fractured social contract in a contested Syrian province.
It began, as such conflicts often do, with a dispute - one of many in a centuries-old history of tension between local Druze militias and Bedouin tribes. Skirmishes broke out, as they have before. But this time, there were no government security forces present to contain it. For over seven months, the province has been under the de facto rule of at least three major factions - and several minor ones - operating without central oversight.
A diplomatic misunderstanding in Baku poured fuel on the fire. The Syrian leadership believed Israeli mediators had granted approval to deploy internal security forces to restore order. The Israelis meant “police,” not military - but that line was blurred. When Damascus sent in police units, they were ambushed by one of the Jewish militias in the area. Thirty officers were killed. Seventeen wounded. That was the flashpoint.
The state responded with force. Druze militias retaliated. Civilians, as always, bore the brunt. And predictably, the narrative split down identity lines - each side painting itself as the victim, each ignoring its own culpability.
Let’s be clear: the government’s security units aren’t choirboys. But neither are the militias. The violence was reciprocal. And when Israeli airstrikes forced government forces to pull back, the Druze militias blamed the Bedouins for inviting the state back in - and began retaliating. That, in turn, triggered a massive tribal mobilization. Over XXXXXXX Bedouins descended on the province. What followed was full-scale intercommunal warfare.
Genocide? No. That’s a political weaponization of the term. There is no systematic extermination campaign, no intent to annihilate a people. What we are witnessing is a brutal, tribal, sectarian conflict fueled by revenge, fear, power struggles, and the collapse of central authority.
There have been atrocities - on both sides. And anyone pretending otherwise is not after truth; they’re after validation.
This is not a clean story. It never is in the Levant.
XXX engagements
