yaa sheikh, you will never understand syria without known its past bc the syria of today was made by hafiz al asad so its totally a different nation
firstly syria is like egypt to some point where a regionalism-not tribalism-plays big role in the society and in the politics
aleppo-idlib-hama are like the alexandria of egypt, anti-nasserism/revolution/nationalization because the big families aka al bashawat-in egypt-, aghawat-syria- hail from this region
before al asad, the women who hail from aleppo were carrying the title khanum its like hanum in alexandria a turkish-mongolian title....
so the muslim brotherhood of syria hail from this region, from homs up to aleppo wich use to be one region back in the 20s under the french mandate
the syl of syria is called the national bloc hails from aleppo and was allied with ikhwan
el hanawi family, from eleppo, they ruled too-that pro-asad singer is one of them, the reason she supports him is bc she was associting herself with the alawite alites to the point she was in love with hafiz but he never married her-
shishekli was from aleppo but he had kurdish-turkish origin
al cazm family hail from idlib
before 1920s, syria was part of the ottoman empire so it was ruled by locals who hail from the adjacent north westren regions-aleppo, idlib, hama-
to this day aleppo is the industrial and the largest city of syria
so hama revolution was a sort of a merchants revolution
ikhwan r there politically and will appear in the elections
they dominate now the syrian national council
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Azm
so after the french arrived syria, they divided it into 5 autonomous states one of them was lebanon
naturally, the christians and alawites have raised their heads for the first time claiming to be non muslims
it was not allowed yet to reach the power under the french mandate but they have been given a regional autonomy and worked in the army and the police as officers, the thing that is behind of the alawites reaching the power through the army in 1966
so my friend the west is protecting them now and refuses to attack the the coastal area to pave the way for an alawite autonomous state
the alawites and lebanese were pro-french and wanted to form one country away from syria
alawite state has seceded when the syrian state(trusteeship) was formed refusing any unity so they stayed under the french rule directly and the dakhiliya was only consesting aleppo and damascus until the independence in mid-40s
liwa iskandaron and the beautiful mediterranean city of antakia was mainly an alawite and christian population before joining turkey
the reason is since it had borders with turkey it was under aleppo so they voted for turkey just to avoid aleppo!
tarikh aswad wa koloo khiyana!
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