After being quite comfortable with al-Assad’s tyranny for decades, Israel now fears what Syrian democracy could do.


Omar Sabbour is an Egyptian conflict analyst, and an MA student at the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. He ... has been published in the Guardian, New Statesman, and Middle East Eye among other outlets, and operates his own blog, The Eternal Spring.
After being quite comfortable with al-Assad’s tyranny for decades, Israel now fears what Syrian democracy could do.

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