Spencer, who serves as executive director of the Urban Warfare Institute and chair of urban warfare studies at West Point’s Modern War Institute, posted his analysis to X on Sunday in a viral social media post that has garnered over 1.5 million views following a brutal campaign of violence that has unfolded in southern Syria, where hundreds of Druze civilians have been murdered, kidnapped, or forced to flee their homes in what he characterizes as targeted terrorism rather than collateral damage from a broader conflict. Spencer emphasizes the calculated nature of these attacks, noting that “all of it is filmed” and “shared online for the enjoyment of the killers,” comparing the deliberate cruelty to Hamas’s October 7 massacre of Israelis. Spencer explains the deep ties between Israeli and Syrian Druze communities, noting that “many families are split across the border” and that for Israeli Druze, “the suffering of their brothers and sisters in Sweida is not distant news.
Author: Joshua Klein, Joshua Klein
Published at: 2025-07-21 22:26:50
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