Aleppo in the New York Times

A reader sent me this:  "I was born in Aleppo, Syria. The city does not have an indigenous Alewite community. You have christian neighborhoods, Sunni/ Kurdish neighborhoods, and some mixed Christian, Sunni/ Kurdish neighborhoods. I have a cousin who is a Baath member. He told me in the past that the majority of Baathist members in the city are Sunni and the rest are mostly Christians. The massive [pro regime] demonstrations you saw in Aleppo are party members who are almost entirely non-Alewite. The NY times loves to see Arabs kill each other because they believe it benefits Israel. They also love to show sectarian problems between Arabs, which they think it also benefits Israel."