The Israeli Syria Dilemma
8 min readRobert Inlakesh discusses how Syria’s new leadership under Ahmad al-Sharaa is courting normalization with "Israel" from a position of weakness, enabling Zionist expansion into southern Syria while abandoning Palestinian and national resistance.
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It is clear that the Israeli project in Syria is not over and that Tel Aviv seeks to use what it sees as a historic opportunity to divide the country and achieve “Greater Israel”. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Zeinab El-Hajj)
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