Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

“Analysts have thus far tended to ignore those Arabs who support the political project in north and east Syria. Several observers have amplified the voices of those Arabs who are critical of it, perhaps because that narrative fits more easily into the simple trope of sectarianism.” Arabs Across Syria Join the Kurdish-Led Syrian Democratic Forces

Portraits of the Kurdish Struggle

Syria The US dropped nuclear bombs on Japan when the war had already been won. The ‘rape of Germany’ by both allied and Soviet forces after the Second World War is indicative of this ‘victorious’ sense of impunity. The effective questioning of why a party would use disproportionate violence against another party betrays an implicit notion that the accused has an interest in not alienating the local population. Ironically, such arguments denying the ‘rape of Germany’ by supporters of the allies would have undoubtedly been repeated in the same terms: “why would our forces do this when we had already won?” Chemical attacks: why would the regime do it since it was "winning the war?"

Why attacking Afrin would a major blunder and Solidarity with Afrin, al-Ghouta and Idlib

Kurdish FSA commander loses his faction after refusing to fight

Kurds seeks to expand reach in northern Syria

The mediocrity of Chomsky's replies are shocking! A correspondence with Noam Chomsky