In Syria I learned that Jews must support the opposition | Eliyahu Kamisher | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel

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FSA Commander Jamil Radoon (photo: Eliyahu Kamisher)

.....Free Syrian Army Commander Jamil Radoon, a massive man sits with a cigarette hanging out his mouth. He refuses to smoke anything else but Marlboro Reds. His exhaustion shows as he rubs the creases in his forehead and fingers through his black prayer beads. Radoon is responsible for the entire Hama countryside and commands over 4,000 soldiers.

“I support what they (al-Nusra) are doing, defending for the Syrian People, but I do not support extremism,” Radoon says. His ambivalence is shared by a vast swath of Syrian rebels and civilians. They feel that while al-Nusra’s fighting power is necessary to win against Bashar al-Assad, its ideology is foreign to their values and way of life......

In Syria I learned that Jews must support the opposition | Eliyahu Kamisher | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel