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'They're no Zionists': How Syria's rebels toppled Assad and what it means for Israel

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JL;DR SUMMARY The episode explores the recent toppling of Assad's regime in Syria by rebels, examining its impact on regional dynamics and Israel's potential security concerns. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Middle EastHezbollahIranSyriaBorder SecurityIntelligenceAssadHayat Tahrir Al ShamRebel Groups

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Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Hello, and welcome to the Haaretz Podcast. I'm Alison Kaplan Sommer in Tel Aviv."
Aleppo, Syria
"and realized that immediately after Hezbollah suffered quite a massive defeat against Israel. They were forced into agreeing to a ceasefire and felt that there was space for them to move ahead. And if you look at the timeline, the agreement was signed on November 27th. By November 28th, 29th, the rebels began their march towards Aleppo."
Idlib, Syria
"This began between Idlib and Aleppo, which are hundreds of miles away from the Israeli border."
Damascus, Syria
"Yeah, so I have friends and family in different parts of Syria. Yeah, I think in Damascus, just two days ago, people are, probably this was not the case elsewhere, but in Damascus, people thought they didn't know what was going on."
Homs, Hama, Syria
"This is good news. I have friends who, one of them, his car was stolen by some thugs there. They kind of... Because HDS took a while to reach Damascus, the people who went to Damascus were not from the main rebels who had years of governing experience in the north of Syria. These people came from the south, and many of them were reconciled with the Assad regime. I suspect, this is my speculation, that kind of less disciplined than others. So you start seeing Damascus more looted than elsewhere. We've seen like in Hama or Homs or in Aleppo."
Hama, Al-Hasakah, Syria
"This is good news. I have friends who, one of them, his car was stolen by some thugs there. They kind of... Because HDS took a while to reach Damascus, the people who went to Damascus were not from the main rebels who had years of governing experience in the north of Syria. These people came from the south, and many of them were reconciled with the Assad regime. I suspect, this is my speculation, that kind of less disciplined than others. So you start seeing Damascus more looted than elsewhere. We've seen like in Hama or Homs or in Aleppo."
Quneitra, Damascus, Syria
"There's a lot of coverage in the Israeli media about Qunetra and about the IDF reinforcing forces on the Golan Heights."

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