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February 22, 2012

Why Syria's Minorities Will Fight to the End

Daniel Brodie, Jerusalem Post

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Being an unprotected minority in the Mideast is often a painful reality which the Alawites, Druse, Christians and Kurds know all too well.

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TAGGED: Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Alawites

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