1/2: SYRIA: THE THREAT TO THE DRUZE OF SYRIA. AHMED SHARAWI, BILL RODDIO, FDD
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:35.3 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:38.6 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:42.0 | Syria, darkness visible, the failed state of Syria. |
| 0:46.4 | Right now there are so many cross-purposes in Syria that it is very, very, very helpful to have. |
| 0:53.9 | Bill Rajo is my colleague and co-host, keeping |
| 0:56.1 | the Long War Journal as a senior fellow at the FD, and his colleague, Ahmed Sharawari, |
| 1:02.3 | who is now plunging into the Syria's story, which continues to change. |
| 1:09.7 | Ahmed, writing most recently about the Druze and the HTS, |
| 1:14.3 | now called the Syrian government in Damascus. I begin this conversation, however, with an |
| 1:20.0 | anecdote of my own. One of the last times I visited Israel, and I broadcast over the last |
| 1:25.2 | more than two decades there enough many times 17 18 times so |
| 1:30.9 | I'm very familiar with the landscape but this was the unique trip to the north of Israel to mount |
| 1:37.4 | the base of mount hermon where there's an elaborate druth village rising layer by layer, climbing a wedding cake to the top. |
| 1:47.9 | And then there's a parking lot. And I was invited into the home of one of the leadership. |
| 1:52.3 | They were very generous people, very excited to represent to me with the risks they were under. |
| 1:58.3 | This is within the last 10 years, last five years. And what we were |
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