Hi, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Ask Chaviv Anything.

This is an emergency episode because of dramatic developments in the Middle East.

The Middle East will do that to you quite often.

So here's another emergency episode.

This one is very close to my heart on a

subject that really sparked a lot of worry among many, many Israelis, and not just among our

Drew's brethren, but among Jews, among every Jew I know. On July 11, in what looked like a simple crime at the time,

a vegetable seller, a Druze vegetable seller on the road from Swayda,

outside of Swayda, the city in southern Syria,

that is majority Drew's, was kidnapped by Bedouin Sunni militia tribe. depending on which news outlet you talk to, it's a

different word. And that sparked the beginning of what Western media has called sectarian

violence. When you don't entirely understand and don't 100% know who we're talking about,

and everybody's a little bit brown, it can all be called

sectarian violence, and there's no right and there's no wrong, and the details don't really

matter. The details matter to me very, very much. And the first person I called, roughly around when

the death toll passed 150 in the fighting that ensued, and for the umpteenth time,

the Druze communities of southern Syria were threatened, dramatically, profoundly,

and the Syrian army and the excuse of this violence between the Bedouin Sunnis and the Druze

then began marching south of Damascus to Sweda,

allegedly, according to the Syrian government of Mr. Jolani, in order to conduct some law

enforcement, in order to quiet the violence and restore order and sovereignty and all kinds of

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