Some of the topics discussed: * Druze influence over military and political decision-making in Israel. * How the massacres in Sweidaa' damaged Netanyahu domestically & reinforced his desire to avoid reaching any deal with Damascus. * The widespread misperception of HTS as a Turkish puppet. * The stalling talks between the Syrian government & SDF regarding integration.

The @nytimes just published the report about my kidnapping, period in captivity & how I was freed. The report contains graphic details about the torture Kataeb Hezbollah subjected me to, in order to produce the false confessions. The reporters writing the story were respectful and considerate, and did not push me to share anything I wished to keep private. Like anyone else, I don't want the details about the worst moments of my life to be public. But I know that nearly all victims of the Iraqi militias cannot speak up: the militias either killed them, or they are in Iraq or have family in Iraq, and hence continue to be threatened by the militias. I told myself in captivity that if I make it out alive, it'll be my duty toward the other victims of these militias who are overwhelmingly Iraqi (and Syrian), to expose their sadism and vileness. I made it out alive. I am safe. I can speak out.