AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #2 Syria: caught between Türkiye and Israel

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1. The Western media are failing Gaza
   

   Summary: Francis Ghilès pays tribute to the Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al Sharif, who was assassinated by the Israel Defence Force after he posted a powerful statement on journalism. He argues that the deliberate targeting of journalists in Gaza, combined with Israel's ban on international reporters, reveals a hypocritical stance by Western governments and media who are subservient to the US and fail to hold Israel accountable for the devastating human and physical cost of the conflict....

2. AD’s All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #2 Syria: caught between Türkiye and Israel
   

   Summary: both Israel and Türkiye see Syria as a prize to be grasped; for President Erdoğan as a zone of influence and economic opportunity; for the far right extremists in the Netanyahu government as an opportunity to seize territory in pursuing their vision of Greater Israel....

3. Egypt report
   

   Summary: Cairo is watching the new reality unfolding in Syria with apprehension and uncertainty; a mother’s hunger strike in London reaches 100 days while repression in Egypt continues as a new party is engineered by the Sisi regime; amongst the record number of executions in Saudi Arabia in 2024 are at least seven Egyptians....

4. Iraq’s authorities shift to contain any spillover from HTS takeover of Syria
   

   Summary: the overthrow of al-Assad has provoked both concern and opportunities for Baghdad as it contemplates how to deal with the new reality of an Islamist Sunni insurgency that has seized power next door....