Syria rebels seize key Deraa army post: Syrian
rebels have captured a major army post in the southern city of Deraa after
nearly two weeks of intense fighting, activists said. Rebel forces led by
members of the the Nusra Front, captured the checkpoint on Friday after a
two-week siege.The head of the Observatory, said the fall of the army post was
strategically significant for Deraa, where protesters first marched against four
decades of Assad family rule from the city's Omari mosque in March 2011.
"Now the army is under threat there. The rebels haven't liberated all of the old city. There are still two neighborhoods with soldiers, but this could change the balance of power there," Abdulrahman told Reuters. The Syrian conflict began in Deraa as a peaceful protest movement against President Bashar al-Assad's rule, but has spread across the country and degenerated into civil war.
Okay we are considered their enemy along with Israel as we
seem to be every ones in the middle east who wants us off their land. With that
said I don't know if they are not abusing the good name of the Levant. Al- Nusra
was first heard of in 2011 and was formed to remove Bashar Al Assad from power
for killing the Sunni rebels.
That is a good thing and I agree with it but if they truly
consider themselves protectors of and people of the Levant they would be
protectors of all the downtrodden in the middle east. They should be the
protectors of Palestine when they are done with Syria. I do not think it is a
bad thing that they are in Syria. However when the job is done they should move
on to help Palestinians. Palestinians are truly of the Levant.
Muslims of Palestine are largely descendents of Christians
and Jews of the southern Levant. The Southern Levant roughly encompasses
Palestine, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, along with the modern sovereign states
of Israel, Jordan and the southern parts of Lebanon and Syria. We are talking
all the way back to prehistoric times people.
[1]." and descendents of a core population that lived there
in prehistoric times.[22]Since the time of the Muslim conquests in the 7th
century, religious conversions have resulted in Palestinians being predominantly
Sunni Muslim by religious affiliation, though there is a significant Palestinian
Christian minority of various Christian denominations, as well as Druze and a
small Samaritan community.
Though Palestinian Jews made up part of the population of
Palestine prior to the creation of the State of Israel, very few identify as
"Palestinian" today. Acculturation, independent from conversion to Islam,
resulted in Palestinians being linguistically and culturally Arab.[18] The
vernacular of Palestinians, irrespective of religion, is the Palestinian dialect
of Arabic.
