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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there any possibility Israel had any kind of hand in the rebels' success? [/quote]

I don’t know if it is a trick question but obviously yes, not directly but indirectly.
Since Iran is very busy with Israel it neglected Syria which the rebels timed it perfectly to take over the country.[/quote]

That too but I really wonder if very behind the scenes there might have been anything. The US has certainly done things like that, thinking Iran-Contra. [/quote]

It's hard to explain the Levant laissez faire attitude about religion without going back to the 1940s.
Saying your religion was actually considered rude. These are people who celebrated Ramadan and Yom Kippur and Easter with their neighbors without problem until the 1940s. It was considered bad form to discriminate against religion. I can find Talmud texts where the rabbis literally praise the Middle East and the Ottoman sultans as blessings from G-d and manna from heaven compared to sectarian Europe.

Ottomans didnt even label by ethnicity. Generic markers like "The Holy Land" were the names for Israel and Palestine. It was UK, seeing things from their own religious sectarian lens with Ireland, decided to partition based on ethnostates/religion and this is where the mess begins.[/quote]

The Ottomans most certainly labeled people by religion.  Ask the Assyrian Christians about that.[/quote]

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