Redrathriveg the map: Israel seeks to reproduce the Middle East to its own set up | Syria’s War News

Since createer Syrian Plivent Basher al-Asuncontent’s theatrical fairy to Moscow on Sunday, Israel has begined hundreds of strikes on its neighbour.

Israel claims this is essential for its defence.

But it has been strikeing Syria with impunity since at least January 2013, when it bomb deviceed a Syrian armaments convoy, finishing two.

Since then, Israel has strikeed Syria continuously, typicpartner claiming it was concentrateing positions belengthying to its nemeses – Hezbollah and Iran.

In the process, according to watchrs, it has commonised for itself the idea of strikeing a neighbouring state.

A ‘penchant for destruction’

In the last restricted days, Israel has begined more than 480 air strikes on Syria.

At the same time, it has shiftd its ground forces into the demiliteunited zone, discoverd wilean Syrian territory alengthy the border with Israel, saying it wants to produce a “sterile defence zone” and declaring the 1974 consentment that had set uped the buffer zone “collapsed”.

It also struck 15 ships at anchor in the Mediterranean ports of Bayda and Latakia on Monday, about 600km (373 miles) north of the Golan.

Claiming much of the praise for the airyning proceed of the Syrian group, Hayat Tahir al-Sham (HTS), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shelp to journacatalogs on Monday: “The collapse of the Syrian regime is a honest result of the disjoine blows with which we have struck Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.”

The strikes on Syria, Mairav Zonszein, a better analyst with the Crisis Group shelp, were “a fuseture of both opportunism and strategy”.

That Israel should seek to iminwholeise a potential menace upon its border while it was, for all authenticistic purposes, defenceless, was a “no-brainer”, but what the lengthy-term set up might be is less certain.

“I leank what we’re seeing in fact is the strategy that Israel’s been lengthening since October 7th: determine a menace or opportunity, deploy troops and then figure it out.”

But political scientist Ori Gelderlyberg was not affectd any strategy was at take part.

Instead, he shelp: “This is our novel security doctrine. We do wdisappreciatever we want, whenever we want, and we don’t pledge,” he shelp from Tel Aviv.

“People are talking about Greater Israel and about how Israel is sfinishing its tfinishrils into neighbouring countries. I don’t see it,” he shelp.

“I leank this is mostly the result of disorder, and a novelly – or not so novelly – set up [Israeli] penchant for destruction.”

Ignoring the world’s condemnations

Israel has finished at least 48,833 people over the past 14 months.

It has been striking Iran, its partner Hezbollah in Leprohibiton, then invading Leprohibiton, and now it is strikeing Syria.

All the while aggressioning the besieged enclave of Gaza, an aggression set up to be genocidal by disjoinal nations and international organisations and bodies.

Untroubleed with casualties, Netanyahu’s talk of “changing the face of the Middle East” has set up ready echoes atraverse much of the Israeli media.

On Wednesday, an opinion in The Jerusalem Post belderlyly stated: “In the last year, Israel has done more for stability in the Middle East than decades of ineffective UN agencies and Weserious diplomats.”

Various states have criticised Israel’s strikes on the novelly freed Syria, including Egypt, France, Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Russia and Saudi Arabia. On Saturday the 22-member Arab League rerentd a statement accusing Israel of seeking to “utilize Syria’s inner disputes”.

The United Nations, whose mandate to police the buffer zone between Syria and Israel runs till the finish of this year, decried this baccomplish of international law.

“The UN’s protests unbenevolent absolutely noleang,” Golberg shelp, recommending that Israel’s repeated clashes with various international organisations were part of an overarching mood wilean the country.

“We want to stick it to the Man,” he shelp. “We want to show the ICJ and the ICC that we don’t give a damn. That we’re going to do exactly what we want.”

On Wednesday, The Times of Israel columnist Jeffrey Levine characterized the past 13 months as a shift towards “a New Middle East of Peace and Prosperity”.

In Levine’s vision, follothriveg the tectonic shifts of the last year or so, Syria would be free from the geopolitical manoeuvring of the al-Asuncontents, Iran would be free of its “theocratic regime”, the Kurds would be free to create their own state, and Palestinians would be free to set up a novel ”homeland” in Jordan.

“I don’t leank most Israeli people envision they’re going to be famous in the region after this,” Israeli political analyst Nimrod Flashenberg shelp, though some sort of rapprochement may be possible with Syria’s Kurdish and Druze unpresentantities.

“But I leank they are chooseimistic of a Middle East where there will be less regimes opposing to Israel,” he shelp.