Social justice and sympathy? Or more like pawns on a chessboard

Social justice and sympathy? Or more like pawns on a chessboard

I spoke this week at the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem as part of a panel titled “Syrian Security Challenges.” Together with Middle East researcher, journalist and author Jonathan Spyer, we reminded the audience that nothing has changed for the Syrians: Minorities continue to be persecuted; jihadists and criminals have been integrated into the new government and the new Syrian army; the population remains poor; and the suffering t…