#Sweida in the line of fire: History repeating itself
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Druze sheikhs meet with Walid Jumblatt, political leader of the #Druze community in #Lebanon. (Photo: Bilal Jawish) Druze sheikhs meet with Walid Jumblatt, political leader of the Druze community in Lebanon. (Photo: Bilal Jawish)
As battles intensify in the south of #syria, the governorate of Sweida is stepping up its efforts to defend its choice of siding with the Syrian state. It will be a costly battle no doubt, but the region historically known as Jabal al-Arab – Mountain of the Arabs – will not accept today what it has stood up against repeatedly in the past century, including in the 1920s and 1950s, which is partition and separation from the Syrian state.
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