Israel launches dozens of airstrikes on Syria despite rebel leader's peace pledge
Israel launches dozens of airstrikes on Syria despite rebel leader's peace pledge
Benjamin Netanyahu says he has approved expansion of settlements in occupied Golan Heights after night of strikes
Israel doesn't want peace though. And peace takes two. War only takes one.
Didn't these strikes take out weapons and military matriell left behind by the Syrian Army? Not a supporter of Israel or their war in a any way, but that region needs less missiles.
The expansion on Golan is again a Nethanayu atrocity
The region needs fewer missiles, but that's not up to Israel to decide and enact. An unprovoked first strike is simply psychopathic
'Israel launches dozens of airstrikes on Syria encouraged by rebel leader's peace pledge'. There, I fixed the english in the headline.
Doesn't matter if you want peace or not...
If Israel or Russia wants your land, they'll claim you're attacking them and they have to invade your country in defense.
It's always the jews eh
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Bibi ensuring the next Syrian govt hates Israel more than Assad did. You know, so the land can be stable and all
It depends how far Israel goes with this. Syria isn't in a position to to pick fights or hold grudges. But Syrian rebel groups aren't going to let Israel conquer them or leave them so debilitated someone else can conquer them. If Israel keeps it's attacks to abandoned regime military equipment and the land grabs to the Golan Heights then Syrian rebel groups are probably going to let it slide for the foreseeable future.
Responding to Jolani, the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, Herzi Halevi, said: “We aren’t intervening in what is happening in Syria. We have no intention of administering Syria.”
It's also important to remember that when Israel says they don't want to administer other people or countries they mean they don't want to rule other people, they want the land and resources. That's why they are killing everyone in the Gaza strip and refusing to leave despite saying they don't want to administer Palestinians. Forming a greater Israel means taking as much land as they can get away with and killing and/or ostracizing everyone on it who isn't a Jew. edit: typo
If the settlers get their way they will try to take everything to the Euphrates. My new personal nightmare is Trump detailing American troops to help.
killing and/or ostracizing everyone on it who isn't a
JewIsraeliIsrael kills people, both Palestinian and Lebanese, regardless of whether their religion is Muslim, Christian, or Jewish
Israel does not care about the safety of Jewish people. Their constant deflection about how their military actions are in the name of protecting Jewish people, and the intentional conflation of anti-zionism and antisemitism, has only increased genuine antisemitism at the expense of Jewish people worldwide
They're just bound and determined to start WW3 aren't they?
At some point they'll piss off another major player in the region like Saudi Arabia or Turkey and it'll snowball into a conflict that can't be talked down.These dictatorships, and Israel with this current cabinet is effectively a fascist dictatorship, want to expand their sphere of influence and territory. They are willing to disregard the rules based order and risk WWIII even if that isn't the goal.
The Middle East seems to be in this three way power struggle now between Turkey, Saudi Arabia backed by the US, and Iran backed by Russia. Iran is part of this axis with China, North Korea, and Russia. Turkey is in NATO and wants to be a EU member, but is an enemy of the Kurds a US ally.
The US wants Israel and Saudi Arabia to join in a defense pact so our two allies will help us maintain peace in the region. Saudi Arabia wants to be the leaders of a new caliphate in the Middle East that unites the countries and Muslims living there. Defense pacts with the US and Israel would help them do that. But the Middle East is united in their support of Palestine which means Israel needs to make concessions on Palestine or Saudi Arabia will never be seen as a legitimate leader of the Middle East.
So Israel's genocide of the Palestinians is not only destabilizing the region and making Israel a pariah, it's also knee capping Saudi Arabia's ambitions. Saudi Arabia needs US support but they can't be seen as an ally to a genocidal Israel.
At the same time Israel has undermined Iran's proxy network which allowed Syrian rebels to win the civil war. Iran and Russia are now on the back foot in the region.
Rather than swoop in and be a uniter, Turkey is wasting time fighting the Kurds in Syria.
Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey all want to be the leaders of a future caliphate, but thanks to Israel none of them are in a position to get it. This is a terrible situation for the people living in the Middle East and in the long run can only lead to Israel getting more land, influence, and resources in the region.
At this point a country without strong foreign ties that emphasizes the idea of self-determination for countries in the Middle East is more likely to unite the Middle East than Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Turkey. If Syria could recover from the war quickly enough, they could be in an excellent position to do this, given the HTS leader's talking points. HTS and the Kurds need to double down on an alliance and kick out ISIS and Turkey asap.
Peace in the Middle East is what is good for everyone in the long run, even if some people argue it could theoretically hurt US interests in the short run. A united Europe has benefited that region and the world tremendously. A new Middle Eastern super power might scare some policy people, but it would be an important counter balance to Russia, China, India, and Israel. Those four countries especially would happily carve up the Middle East into bits if they can as the US becomes isolationist under Trump. edit: typo
The US and its NATO allies do not want peace in the West Asia region. They want perpetual destabilization and war, to prevent the reformation of an united Arab bloc, that could throw around its geopolitical weight. That is why Biden said if there was no Israel, the US would need to create one. It is the thorn driven into the region to make sure that the divisive partioning of the Arab national states keeps fueling conflict. The way the Brits and French carved up the region was done to deliberately create nations with inner conflicts, easily exploitable.
I was biginning to laugh through the second half of your post but especially after this:
HTS and the Kurds need to double down on an alliance and kick out ISIS and Turkey asap.
Now I don't know what you are aware of regarding the relationship between the HTS alliance and Turkey, but what exactly do you think is going to go down when HTS starts attacking Turkish interests?