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Ilhan Omar's Husband's Venture Capital Firm Removes Names From Website Under Scrutiny
Ilhan Omar's Husband's Venture Capital Firm Removes Names From Website Under Scrutiny
A venture capital firm run by Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) husband quietly scrubbed important names from its website, as the Minnesota congresswoman faces mounting questions on her sudden wealth amid a multi-billion Somali welfare fraud scheme in her district.
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Rose Lake Capital, the $60 million dollar firm managed by Omar’s husband, political consultant Tim Mynett, deleted key officers from its website, including former Obama Administration officials, https://nypost.com/2025/12/27/us-news/ilhan-omars-hubbys-30m-firm-quietly-scrubs-names-from-website-as-squad-member-faces-mounting-questions-on-sudden-wealth-amid-minnesota-welfare-fraud/
The news comes as Somali communities across multiple states are currently facing scrutiny over dozens of similarly fraudulent schemes that have seen billions of taxpayer dollars flowing overseas, with some even going to jihadist terrorist groups in Somalia.
Nine billion dollars from Minnesota’s social services programs were illegally pocketed via scams mostly perpetrated by local members of the Somali community in Omar's congressional district, according to an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Minnesota congresswoman, a member of the "the Squad" who was born in Somalia, is an outspoken figure on the far-left wing of the House Democratic caucus
Omar suspiciously went from holding tens of thousands in debt to earning tens of millions in a single year, not long after taking office in 2019 on a congressperson's annual salary of $174,000, the https://freebeacon.com/democrats/ilhan-omar-said-its-categorically-false-to-call-her-a-millionaire-her-net-worth-just-reached-up-to-30-million-an-increase-of-at-least-3500-percent-in-one-year/
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Her critics have recently pointed to the fact that she was the prime mover in introducing the federal legislation that enabled what the DOJ has called the largest fraud committed in the United States during the pandemic.
Minnesota’s Democrat governor and failed vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz is continuing to face criticism for his part in the mismanagement and alleged complicity in the debacle, as calls for federal charges against him grow louder.
The Somalia-born Omar introduced in 2020 the MEALS Act, which severely weakened oversight of government-sponsored children’s meals programs during the pandemic.
This allowed criminals to fraudulently claim that they served millions of meals without verification, while pocketing millions of dollars in government subsidies, say critics.
The $9 billion stolen is nearly equivalent to the entire economy of Somalia, whose GDP was under $12 billion last year, according to the World Bank.
The total losses accounts for roughly half of the $18 billion in total federal funds provided to the Minnesota-run services since 2018, say federal prosecutors.
Meanwhile, while one of the largest government subsidies frauds in American history was underway, Mynett launched Rose Lake Capital, his venture capital management firm, in 2022.
Mynett's firm saw its reported value skyrocket from less than $1,000 in 2023, to between $5 million and $25 million by the end of the year, despite its address remaining a WeWork office in Washington, D.C., according to its https://www.linkedin.com/company/roselakecap/about/
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Rose Lake Capital apparently was able to amass significant assets under management through its “deep global networks built from on-the-ground work in more than 80 countries,” an amount which is normally unheard of in the industry.
Her husband's other business, eStCru, was a failed California winery venture that has also faced fraud allegations and, strangely enough, was also listed as operating out of a WeWork office.
Mynett's winery, which was worth between $1 million and $5 million in 2024, agreed to an out-of-court settlement with a former investor in November who accused Omar's husband of swindling him out of $900,000, as he “fraudulently misrepresented … that estCru, LLC was a legitimate company.”
The winery was only worth between $15,000 and $50,000 in Omar’s financial disclosure report in 2022, making its 9,900% earnings windfall the following year suspect, say critics.
About 90 Minnesotan Somalis have been arrested so far, including at least three suspects with direct ties to Omar, though she has not been charged.
“The magnitude cannot be overstated,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson told reporters last week.
“What we see in Minnesota is not a handful of bad actors committing crimes. It’s staggering, industrial-scale fraud," continued Thompson.
One of those charged was Salim Ahmed Said, the co-owner of Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis where Omar held her 2018 congressional victory party. He was convicted in federal court in August of stealing more than $12 million,https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/federal-jury-finds-feeding-our-future-mastermind-and-co-defendant-guilty-250-million
Said received $12 million in federal payouts to serve 3.9 million meals to hungry children during the 2020 pandemic, but instead spent it on a $2 million mansion in Minneapolis and a $9,000 shopping spree at Nordstrom, said the feds.
President Donald Trump asked on his Truth Social account when the news of the allegations first broke: “Does Ilhan Omar know these people? Are they from her wonderfully managed Home Country of Somalia?”
“Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great state, and billions of dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from,” the president added.
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“Every day Safari provides 2,300 meals to children and their families,” Omar said in Somali while handing out food in front of the news cameras.
Another friend, Guhaad Hashi Said, who worked on the congresswoman's campaign in 2018 and 2020, also pleaded guilty in August for running a fake food site called Advance Youth Athletic Development, which was supposed to serve 5,000 meals a day to kids, but led to $3.2 million being diverted from the food program and into his pockets.
Omar's campaign received $7,400 in direct donations from the three convicted fraudsters, but the congresswoman who has publicly claimed to represent the interests of the people of Somalia now claims that she returned those donations since the scandal broke.
After federal prosecutors charged eight more suspects, mostly of Somali descent, between September and October for their participation in the subsidies fraud schemes, several names and bios of Rose Lake Capitals’s nine officers and advisors were removed from the firm's website.
They included lobbyist and former Obama ambassador to Bahrain Adam Ereli; former Sen. Max Baucus, who served as Obama’s ambassador to China; DNC finance chair associate Alex Hoffman; former DNC treasurer William Derrough; and former Amalgamated Bank CEO Keith Mestrich.
Mestrich once boasted that Amalgamated was “the institutional bank of the Democratic Party.”
None of these officers were charged in the fraud, according to the New York Post, which also noted that the Treasury and Justice Departments were already investigating alleged money laundering by Omar and Mynett.
Upon taking office in 2019, Omar declared a net worth of between negative $25,000 and negative $65,000, with no assets and only carrying student and car debt.
Her personal assets are now between $6 million to $30 million, according to her latest financial disclosure, despite dismissing claims that she is a millionaire as “ridiculous” and “categorically false.”
“There’s a lot of strange things going on,” Paul Kamenar, counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center, told the New York Post.
“She was basically broke when she came into office and now she’s worth perhaps up to $30 million.…She needs to come clean on these assets,” said Kamenar.
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China Conducts War Drills Around Taiwan, Simulating A Blockade Of Key Ports
China Conducts War Drills Around Taiwan, Simulating A Blockade Of Key Ports
China launched large-scale military drills around Taiwan on Monday, showcasing Beijing's ability to simulate a full blockade of the self-ruled island's key ports. The live-fire exercises come just one week after the U.S. announced an $11.1 billion arms sale to Taipei.
According to Taiwan's Defense Ministry, at around 15:00 local time, 89 Chinese military aircraft appeared on radar near Taiwan. Officials said 14 People's Liberation Army warships and 14 Chinese coast guard vessels were also sailing nearby.
PLA activity is occurring in and around the Taiwan Strait, one of the world's busiest shipping routes. So far, the exercises have not disrupted maritime traffic.
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Senior Colonel Shi Yi of the People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theater Command stated that the "Justice Mission-2025" exercises serve as a "stern warning against 'Taiwan independence' separatist forces and external interference."
Starting from today 29th of December, the PLA will launch Justice Mission 2025 exercise all around Taiwan.
We are preparing for the all-domain siege of Taiwan, from the air, sea, land, space and cyberspace. https://t.co/eLMPBAYOHo
— Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 (@zhao_dashuai) https://twitter.com/zhao_dashuai/status/2005488951335768192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The multi-day live-fire exercises and simulated strikes are intended to prepare China for a blockade of Taiwan's main ports. The drills come one week after the U.S. announced an $11.1 billion arms sale to Taiwan, the largest-ever U.S. weapons package to the island. The package includes HIMARS rocket systems, howitzers, Javelin anti-tank missiles, Altius loitering munition drones, and other weapon systems.
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"They are sending a strong message on external interference," Chieh Chung, a researcher at Taiwan's Institute for National Defense and Security Research, told https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-military-conduct-live-fire-exercises-around-taiwan-tuesday-2025-12-28/
. He noted that China had "completely cut off" air and sea routes with Japan across three zones north of Taiwan.
Despite live-fire exercises, the Taiwanese stock market rose to record highs, reflecting a solid AI market theme that remains intact amid traders' disregard for Beijing's invasion-related fears.
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Taiwan's president said the drills underscore the need to continue strengthening defense capabilities amid Beijing's continued pressure on what it considers a breakaway province.
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The Global Persecution Of Christians Has Greatly Intensified In 2025
The Global Persecution Of Christians Has Greatly Intensified In 2025
While Christians in the western world peacefully celebrate Christmas, most of them have absolutely no idea what is happening to their brothers and sisters on the other side of the globe. As I detailed https://michaeltsnyder.substack.com/p/most-of-the-population-of-the-world?utm_source=publication-search
, most of the population of the world lives in a country where Christians are being violently persecuted. Believers are being rounded up for de-programming in China, churches are being burned to the ground by Hindu extremists in India, Christians are literally being cut into pieces by Islamic radicals in some parts of Africa, practicing your faith can be a death sentence in certain areas of the Middle East, and North Korean concentration camps are teeming with people that are suspected of worshipping Christ. Perhaps if we were facing similar levels of persecution, believers in the western world would start becoming a lot more serious about their faith.
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More than a billion people live in China, and the persecution of Christians in that nation has gone to an entirely different level in 2025.
Earlier this month, over a thousand law enforcement personnel were involved in a massive operation that ultimately resulted in the arrest of https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/23/ccp-conducts-mass-arrests-of-christians-days-before-christmas/
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Starting on Dec. 13, the Chinese Communist Party mobilized “more than a thousand police officers, SWAT units, anti-riot forces, and firefighters” in the Zhejiang Province’s Yayang Town in Wenzhou City, raiding churches and conducting mass arrests of Christians, ChinaAid reported Friday.
“Belongings of relevant individuals were illegally confiscated, roads leading to the church were completely blocked by police, and Christians in Yayang Town were unable to enter the Yayang church. The operation lasted nearly five days, yet no public statement was issued by officials,” the outlet noted. “Within just the first two days, several hundreds of people were taken away for questioning. On December 16 and 17, at least four more individuals were detained.”
Restrictions on the Christian faith in China just keep getting tighter and tighter.
Nobody under the age of 18 is permitted to go to church.
Those that are adults are only allowed to go to churches that are officially registered with the government.
Anyone that attempts to defy these rules is at risk of being https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/23/ccp-conducts-mass-arrests-of-christians-days-before-christmas/
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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and other religious liberty watchdogs have repeatedly warned that China’s totalitarian regime is enacting human rights abuses against religious groups within the nation’s border. A USCIRF report late last year detailed mass arrests and the destruction or removal of church property, part of CCP President Xi Jinping’s “sinicization of religion” policy. Religious groups and leaders who do not register with the official government-approved religious organizations are often arrested, imprisoned, and forced into “anti-cult” programs to “de-program” Christians.
In India, it is Hindu extremists that are doing the persecuting.
They have literally burned down hundreds of churches in recent years.
In other instances, mobs of Hindu extremists storm churches and start attacking those that are worshipping.
Earlier this year, I wrote about a mob of 200 extremists that stormed a church and beat the believers they found https://michaeltsnyder.substack.com/p/they-beat-us-with-iron-rods-behead
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More recently, an extremist mob in northern India viciously assaulted a small group of believers and forced them to burn https://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-beaten-held-hostage-in-attack-by-hindu-extremists.html
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The Hindu extremists, whose number had then reached 80, searched their car, pulled out all Bibles and tracts and cast them onto the ground into a heap. They shot videos that showed the two couples, disoriented and in shock, forced to repeat that they intended “conversion” in the village and that they would never return.
The mob kicked the Bibles and spoke disrespectfully about Christ, Masih said.
Pastor Das was forced to write a letter of apology that the video shows in his hand. A member of the mob then took a bottle of flammable liquid from the hands of a boy standing with the mob and forced three of the Christians to sprinkle it on the Bibles and literature. After forcing Pastor Das to set the Bibles on fire, the mob then shouted praises to the Hindu god Rama.
In Nigeria, https://michaeltsnyder.substack.com/p/most-people-dont-even-know-about?utm_source=publication-search
have been slaughtered this year alone.
President Trump had warned that he would do something about the Islamic terrorists that are doing the slaughtering, and on Christmas Day https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-launches-strikes-on-isis-targets-in-nigeria-trump-says/
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President Trump said Thursday that the U.S. launched “powerful and deadly” strikes against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country’s government of failing to rein in the persecution of Christians.
“Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries!” Mr. Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was.”
Hopefully this will do something to reduce the violence.
So far in 2025, Islamic terrorists in Nigeria have killed https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/us/politics/trump-isis-nigeria-strike.html?unlocked_article_code=1._k8.t0ne.g8fAZijA6-Cp&smid=url-share
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The violence in the northwest region, where the strikes occurred, is driven in large part by armed bandits and gangs kidnapping for ransom. The insurgency is concentrated in the northeast, where jihadist groups like the notorious Boko Haram and its now more powerful splinter, the Islamic State West Africa Province, an affiliate of the Islamic State group, have killed tens of thousands of civilians over the past decade.
Nigeria is not officially at war, but more people are killed there than in most war-torn countries. More than 12,000 people were killed by various violent groups this year alone, according to Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, a conflict monitoring group.
Collectively, more than three billion people live in the three nations that I have already mentioned in this article.
But the persecution that is going on in smaller countries such as North Korea and Eritrea https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/where-christians-face-persecution-around-the-world-as-trump-targets-nigeria/ar-AA1T5s5k?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=694eca27c9614b05a33f7d7417028e7a&ei=86
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Henrietta Blyth, CEO of Open Doors U.K. and Ireland, previously told Newsweek: “The persecution of Christians around the world is one of the great untold scandals of the 21st Century… It can take many forms: in North Korea, it may be a summary public execution without trial, merely for owning a Bible. In Eritrea, it can be 10 years spent in a blazing hot prison cell made from a metal shipping container, merely for belonging to an unregistered house church.”
According to Open Doors, North Korea is the number one global offender when it comes to Christian persecution, and Eritrea https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/where-christians-face-persecution-around-the-world-as-trump-targets-nigeria/ar-AA1T5s5k?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=694eca27c9614b05a33f7d7417028e7a&ei=86
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North Korea
Somalia
Libya
Eritrea
Yemen
Nigeria
Pakistan
Sudan
Iran
Afghanistan
Central African Republic
Mauritania
Myanmar
Mali
Syria
Saudi Arabia
Maldives
China
Algeria
Tunisia
Morocco
Burkina Faso
Turkey
Cuba
Niger
Ethiopia
Laos
Tajikistan
Qatar
Egypt
Brunei
Jordan
Oman
United Arab Emirates
Colombia
Democratic Republic of Congo
Mozambique
Bangladesh
Vietnam
Bhutan
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Malaysia
Indonesia
Kyrgyzstan
Russia
Sri Lanka
Western Sahara
Kosovo
Bahrain
I was amazed to see that there are 17 nations that rank ahead of China, because China has become a Big Brother police state on steroids.
Perhaps China ranks lower than some of the others because instead of just killing them, the Chinese round Christians up and simply make them “disappear”.
The good news is that persecution often makes the Christian faith grow rapidly, and we are seeing this happen in many areas of the globe.
In fact, it appears that we could actually use some serious persecution here in the United States, because what we are experiencing at this moment is being described as https://www.axios.com/2025/12/26/great-unchurching-america-religiously-unaffiliated
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The U.S. is undergoing its fastest religious shift in modern history, marked by a rapid increase in the religiously unaffiliated and numerous church closures nationwide.
Why it matters: The great unchurching of America comes as identity and reality are increasingly shaped by non-institutional spiritual sources — YouTube mystics, TikTok tarot, digital skeptics, folk saints and AI-generated prayer bots.
When you are facing the fire of persecution, what you do or don’t believe suddenly becomes very clear.
Throughout human history, tyrants have tried and failed to stamp out the Christian faith.
The same thing is true in our time.
Countless believers are choosing imprisonment or death rather than choosing to deny Christ.
If you were faced with the same choice, what would you choose?
You might want to think about that, because the global persecution of Christians is only going to intensify during the very challenging years that are ahead of us.
Michael’s new book entitled https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4DN45KX
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Syrian Mass Anti-Government Protests Result In Several Alawites Gunned Down
Syrian Mass Anti-Government Protests Result In Several Alawites Gunned Down
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Syrian citizens of the Alawite minority sect took to the streets on Sunday to protest against government violence and sectarian persecution, in line with a call made by the community’s religious leader a day earlier.
Members of the minority sect protested in the Alawite neighborhoods of the central governorate of Homs, and in several towns and cities on the country’s coast, including Tartous, Jableh, and Latakia. Protests also erupted in Hama governorate, including in the city of Masyaf. Alawite Syrians held up banners reading "Federalism is the solution" and "the blood of Alawites is not cheap," among other slogans.
The protesters also expressed anger over the killing of eight Alawite civilians and the injury of over a dozen others in a terror blast at a mosque a few days earlier.
According to local media reports, government forces have attacked protesters in several areas, firing live ammunition to disperse crowds and making arrests at random. Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/three-dead-alawite-protests-syrian-coast-local-officials-say-2025-12-28/
that "Three people were killed on Sunday when protests in Syria's Alawite heartland of Latakia spiraled into gunfire and other violence, according to the province's media office."
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"A widespread arrest campaign by the General Security forces is targeting citizens at random, and commercial shops in the Wadi al-Zahab neighborhood have been closed," said a correspondent for https://t.me/tvsham/54807
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A correspondent for Kurdish outlet https://hawarnews.com/en/transitional-govt-assaults-arrests-protesters-in-homs-banyas
(ANHA) said "women were physically assaulted in the Zahraa neighborhood of Homs, to prevent them from participating."
"Government forces attempted to forcibly disperse the gathering and imposed a siege on the area, preventing protesters from entering or leaving the square. Several surrounding roads were also blocked. They also assaulted protesters with beatings and gunfire in the coastal cities of Jableh and Baniyas," the outlet said.
There are also reports of casualties among demonstrators. The Syrian Justice Archive (SJA) also says that at least three have been https://t.me/syriajusticearchive/8258
. Some reports said protesters threw stones at security forces, while others claimed hand grenades were found on one of the detained demonstrators.
The leader of the Supreme Alawite Islamic Council Ghazal Ghazal made the call for mass protest. "Our appointment [for protest] is tomorrow, Sunday, from 12:00 noon until 5:00 pm," he said.
"Silence over these crimes means nothing but more killing and collapse. The continuation of this situation without the implementation of swift, radical solutions and the imposition of international protection will only deepen the destruction they seek," he added, calling for “every free and honorable person” to take part.
Eight people were killed and 18 others injured, including children, in a https://thecradle.co/articles/deadly-terror-attack-hits-alawite-mosque-in-central-syria
attack targeting an Alawite mosque in Homs on December 26. The blast hit Imam Ali Mosque in Homs’s Wadi al-Danab area during Friday prayer.
Thousands of Alawite civilians were massacred in March this year by Syrian government forces during a violent crackdown to quell an armed uprising carried out by members of the community and loyalists of the former government.
Latakia: Footage shows HTS-led General Security militias storming the protest at Al-Azhari Roundabout with armored vehicles, then opening fire on peaceful protesters...
🚨🚨 Latakia: Footage shows HTS-led General Security militias storming the protest at Al-Azhari Roundabout with armored vehicles, then opening fire on peaceful protesters. https://t.co/KVZN3R2PPM
— Syria Justice Archive (@SyJusticeArc) https://twitter.com/SyJusticeArc/status/2005251020159701348?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Since then, the Alawite community has been disarmed by Damascus and has been left vulnerable to sectarian attacks and killing sprees. Young Alawite girls continue to disappear as a result of government-linked kidnapping networks, and Alawite men are regularly executed.
Thousands of Alawites took to the streets in protest across Syria’s coastal cities last month to demonstrate against government-sponsored sectarian violence. Security forces also shot at protesters.
The Syrian army is predominantly made up of what used to be known as the Al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Numerous other extremist factions with links to ISIS have been made official brigades in the new Syrian military since the fall of former president Bashar al-Assad’s government and the collapse of his army last year.
Christians and Druze have also been persecuted by forces affiliated with the Syrian Defense Ministry.
After the killing of over 1,600 Alawite civilians in March, a government-appointed investigative committee released a report largely absolving Damascus from its direct role in the massacres.
A similar probe was launched after hundreds of Druze civilians were killed in July during clashes between Druze militiamen and government troops. Groups affiliated with or incorporated into the Syrian army also have a long history of violent persecution against Kurds.
VIDEO | Protests in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia and the Homs countryside: Demonstrators chant "Federalism, federalism, we want federalism!" and "Alawite blood is not cheap." https://t.co/dVr0PxpCC4
— The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) https://twitter.com/TheCradleMedia/status/2005208398493552804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Government violence against minorities in Syria over the past year has prompted many to call for federalism, or the division of the country along sectarian lines.
Observers have also speculated that Israel, which established a large-scale occupation in south Syria after Assad was ousted, has been pushing for federalism in a bid to divide Syria and keep it weak.
"Our door to communication is open to all states active in the Syrian file. We extend our hand to anyone who guarantees us the achievement of our goals and our right to self-determination," Ghazal told https://thecradle.co/articles/sheikh-ghazal-ghazal-symbolic-meetings-will-not-decide-syrias-fate
in an interview published last week.
New footage shows Syria's General Security Service escorting death squads toward Alawite protesters. This minority group is in the streets demanding an end to sectarian bloodshed, especially after an HTS splinter group bombed their mosque with an IED just days ago. https://t.co/B2G7HiiOv8
— Karim Franceschi (@karimfranceschi) https://twitter.com/karimfranceschi/status/2005283018802647163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
"Federalism is linked to a set of political, field, regional, and international factors. It is not a decision taken unilaterally or quickly. However, we are working to accelerate the wheel of salvation in a safe and responsible manner, in light of the grave violations being committed against us by the de facto authority," he added.
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