Syrian security forces pose for a picture in Suwayda on July 15 following clashes between Bedouin tribes and Druze fighters
Written by Gavin O’Reilly
On the 12th of August, media outlet Axios revealed that the United States and Israel were in discussions to establish a land corridor between the occupied Golan Heights and the southern Syrian city of Suwayda, ostensibly to protect the country’s Druze minority. The following Saturday, protests broke out in Suwayda calling for Druze self-determination, with many in attendance waving Israeli flags.
Last December, following a lightning offensive by insurgents based in the northwestern city of Idlib, the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad collapsed in dramatic fashion. This marked the culmination of a thirteen-year effort by various powers to impose regime-change on the Arab Republic. One such power was Israel, who had provided arms to Salafist militants opposed to Assad’s secular rule. Syria, having acted as a conduit between Iran and Hezbollah, had long been in Tel Aviv’s crosshairs.
Within hours of Assad’s fall, Israel launched a ground invasion of southern Syria. Tel Aviv declared that this was in order to establish a buffer zone between Israel and Syria’s new Islamist government, in spite of the fact Damascus’ new rulers had effectively acted in Israel’s interests over the past decade. Israel also later stated that it intended to defend Syria’s Druze minority.
Syria, like Iraq and Libya before it, had subsequently fallen into bloody sectarian strife following Assad’s removal from power. In early March, government pogroms along Syria’s coast resulted in the deaths of more than 1,400 members of the Shi’a Alawite minority. Rather than any concern over sectarian bloodshed however, Israel’s interest in the Druze instead lies primarily in achieving a geostrategic goal that has been planned for decades.
Hostilities in northwestern Syria have caused widespread destruction
In 1982, Oded Yinon, a senior official at the Israeli foreign ministry, penned a paper entitled A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties. More commonly known as the Yinon Plan, the document was published by the World Zionist Organisation in the Hebrew journal KIVUNIM. In it, Yinon prioritised the dissolution of Iraq along ethnic and religious lines as a key long-term strategic goal for Israel.
Iraq, which subscribed to the pan-Arab Ba’athist ideology, had begun to emerge as Israel’s main regional rival following the Camp David Accords and the normalisation of ties between Egypt and Israel. In 1981, the Israeli Air Force had bombed the under-construction Osirak reactor in eastern Iraq, after suspecting it would be used to develop nuclear weapons.
In early 1991, amidst the breakout of the Gulf War, Iraq launched dozens of scud missiles towards Israel. This was done in the hope that an Israeli response would galvanise Arabs across the region and undermine Gulf support for the US-led coalition. Following pressure from the United States however, Israel would ultimately not respond to these strikes. By the end of February 1991, Iraqi forces had been defeated in Kuwait.
Though it subsequently emerged that the US had gone to war on a fabricated account of Iraqi troops removing premature infants from incubators and leaving them to die on a hospital floor, Washington still maintained a belligerent stance towards Iraq. In April 1991, the US, Britain and France imposed a no-fly zone over northern Iraq, ostensibly to protect the Kurdish minority. The following year, a similar no-fly zone was put in place over the south of the country, this time under the pretext of protecting Shi’ite Muslims. Like Israel’s current interest in the Druze, this too had a strategic purpose.
The Yinon Plan outlined how in order to Balkanise Iraq, the country would have to be divided into three distinct sections. In the north of the country, a Kurdish separatist state based around the city of Mosul, in central Iraq, a Sunni region tied to the capital Baghdad, and in the south, a Shi’ite region centred around Basra. The United States’ no-fly zones effectively polarised Iraq along these lines.
Following the 9/11 attacks, a radical new US foreign policy was put into place, beginning with the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. Eighteen months after September 11th, a US-led coalition invaded Iraq, in spite of the fact no tangible evidence was ever produced to link Saddam Hussein to the attacks. Coalition forces quickly toppled the Iraqi government, and replaced it with a provisional authority. Its first executive order was to permanently ban all members of the Ba’ath Party from working in the public sector. Iraq subsequently plunged into sectarian bloodshed in the wake of the invasion.
Like Iraq, Ba’athist Syria was also identified by the Yinon Plan as a target for Balkanisation. The 1982 document envisaged a Sunni state in northern Syria centred on the city of Aleppo, an Alawite state along Syria’s Mediterranean coast, and another Sunni state, based around the southern capital of Damascus and hostile to its northern counterpart. Amidst this division, Yinon predicted the establishment of a separatist Druze state in the occupied Golan Heights and the Hauran region of southern Syria and northern Jordan.
Following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government, such an arrangement has now effectively been put in place. Northwest Syria, where Aleppo is located, has become a stronghold of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army, whereas Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which led the offensive that ended Assad’s rule, is based in the capital Damascus.
Syrian National Army
On Thursday, HTS issued a 72-hour deadline for Alawite residents in the Damascus suburb of al-Sumaria to vacate their homes. Alongside its recent coastal pogroms, this has polarised Syria along the same sectarian divisions outlined in the Yinon Plan. The recent Israeli-backed calls for Druze self-determination serve to even further fragment the former Arab Republic in line with the 1982 paper.
On the same day that Axios outlined US-Israeli negotiations to establish a land corridor to Suwayda, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interviewed by journalist and former Knesset member Sharon Gal for the Israeli outlet i24. When presented by Gal with an amulet containing ‘a map of the Promised Land’, Netanyahu stated that he felt a connection to a visionof ‘Greater Israel’. This is a historical Zionist term referring to an expansionist Israeli state that would incorporate the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights at a minimum.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks at an amulet showing “a map of the Promised Land,” given to him by his interviewer, August 12, 2025. (Screenshot i24 news)
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a map that shows the E1 settlement project during a press conference near the settlement of Maale Adumim, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025
On Wednesday, Israel announced plans to construct 3,400 housing units in the West Bank between Jerusalem and the eastern settlement of Ma’ale Adumin. Such a move would effectively partition the territory between north and south. Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli minister who announced the plan, declared that it would ‘bury the idea of a Palestinian state’.
Palestinian hamlets are seen at the E1 area, an open tract of land east of Jerusalem, between the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim and the occupied West Bank town of Eizariya Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025
Last year, Miriam Adelson, wife of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, donated $100mn to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. This was done on condition that the Republican candidate would endorse the formal Israeli annexation of the West Bank if elected. Sheldon Adelson, who died in 2021, had previously donated $20mn to Trump’s first presidential campaign in 2016. This too had a stipulation attached. That the US Embassy would be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a move that Trump subsequently followed through with in December 2017.
Donald Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to physician Miriam Adelson in 2018.
24 hours after Trump’s inauguration in January of this year, Israel launched Operation Iron Wall. Intended to destroy the Jenin refugee camp, Iron Wall has resulted in the largest mass-expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank since 1967.
Since October 7th 2023, Israel has subjected the beleaguered Gaza Strip to a military onslaught in response to Hamas’ Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. This was the largest military incursion into Israel since the 1973 October War. Global media attention was drawn to the fact that the Supernova music festival was taking place on the Gaza border at the same time. However, less attention was paid to the revelation that the event had only been moved to that location two days beforehand. That there were no security or insurance concerns over holding a music festival in direct proximity to a location where clashes had taken place between Islamic Jihad and Israeli forces the previous summer, simply beggars belief.
Further questions arose when it emerged that Egypt, which acts as a mediator between Hamas and Israel, had repeatedly warned Tel Aviv that ‘something big’ was coming in the run up to October 7th. This was corroborated by two media reports from The New York Times and CNN, which revealed that US intelligence had also passed on similar warnings to Israel prior to Al-Aqsa Flood. By December 2023, it was revealed that Israel had known of Hamas’ attack plan over a year in advance.
Seven months prior to October 7th, Orit Strock, the Israeli minister responsible for the development of settlements in the West Bank, called Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from Gaza a ‘sin’. Strock was speaking upon the repeal of legislation that had ordered the dismantlement of four West Bank settlements. This was declared by Strock as a precursor to the eventual re-occupation of Gaza, a move that would ‘involve many casualties’.
Indeed, this sentiment was later echoed by Israeli security minister Yoav Gallant, who in the days following October 7th announced a blockade on Gaza, cutting off electricity and preventingfood and fuel from entering the besieged strip. Gallant described Palestinians as ‘human animals’, language that couldn’t be described as anything less than genocidal.
In April 2024, a report by The Times of Israel revealed that an offer by Hamas to release all civilian captives in exchange for Israeli forces not entering the strip had been rejected by Tel Aviv. Three months later, a Haaretz report revealed that the Hannibal Directive had been applied on October 7th. This is an Israeli military directive in which a command is given to fire upon their own troops in order to prevent them being taken captive. Its use on October 7th was a significant contributory factor to the death toll on the day. Despite these damning revelations, the Israeli slaughter in Gaza has continued unabated for almost two years.
On Friday, the United Nations released a report officially acknowledging the presence of a man-made famine in Gaza. UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk did not shy away from placing blame for the situation, and held Israel responsible for what is in reality, a genocide. Starvation is being used to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip in line with the Greater Israel project. A project that now also has designs on the Druze and southwestern Syria.
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whichever way you spin it, the monstrous genocidal jolani deserves to have sweida taken from him by israel.
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spell your name hildegard correctly.
and this for the dragon:
this is happening to the alawites because the iranians and russians told them to lay down their weapons and that they would be safe.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/369014/
uyghur lunatics can chop off their heads and drive them around the village in their own country. i hope alawite women will become smarter and get sterilized so they don’t give birth to slaves anymore.
they didn’t do any such thing you lying arsehole.
revenge will come sooner than you think, israel will be pulverized and humanity will get rid of cancer.
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these women were victims of human organ trafficking, and that is why the druze want to be part of israel. https://www.syriahr.com/en/369010/ the druze are not that crazy to hand over their weapons to the enemy. therefore, in the end, all druze will be in one state, only that state will not be a druze state but will be just one israeli canton.
talmudistan is the world centre of organ trafficking.
and what should the druze do, according to your logic? voluntarily go to their deaths like the alawites who are too stupid to live?
https://www.syriahr.com/en/369017/
but the spin in you mind must be unbearable ?
the whore puppet jewlani is just a tool of the jooz. he is in their pocket. all he is there for is to provide a pretext for more joo thieving.
yes but whoare the stupid assholes who follow him?
they are not syrians. they are the scum of the earth, recruited from 100 countries, given $1500 a month by the jewsa/ jewu/ jewk and a licence to murder, burn, torture, rape and loot.
putler’s ruzzia = worst of the century.
no, its you. but you have not see, or understand “the matrix”, because you cant see, and cant understand. you are the perfect solution for a mass murderer 😂 always follow orders.
two genocidal countries the usa( native americans ) and israel ( palestinians ) ignore international law ignore human rights and using colonialist thinking decide to partition syria no wonder the world majority back russia.
how about venezuela takea part of colombia, oh we are feeling threatened by those narco cartels from colombia?
why do you think the brain-dead miguel uribe was kept alive for two months?
to keep him in the news.
but he was born to a lebanese woman, which means he was an arab.
what nationality is n… bukele?
our croatians are not, because ours are just not that crazy and do not deny their roots.
i wish the druze people success in gaining their own independent state.
for the alawite idiots, let someone smarter than xi jinping become the boss of china….
its the mimicry forced onto white people, they try to force onto the world. in it, psychopaths are declared “christians”, “americans”, “jews”. the trick movie in “nine eleven” are only one of the weapons, another are psychosis which see “witches”, for to end the old mother cult. the mimicry simply try to wipe out the native peoples, and replace them. the three mimicry have a common name, nazis.
this is something the khazars inherited from their ancestors who lived in asia.
both, some say, are obsessed with white skin. some completely atheist asian women are more dressed than iranian women because asian women want to be white.
for better or worse, i want china to be taken over by someone smarter than xi jinping, who will know that uyghur bases in syria pose a serious threat to china.
probably because of that they hang a white painted cadaver in every church. death cult from egypt, trimmed by khazar bandits, and jewish greed. christianity have mentally destroyed white people. white women in sweden are used as a form of hitler jugend, they are used for to pretend to be a girlfriend, and then falsely accuse the man of “rape”. the results of sunday school are a cannibalistic state, nothing else.
you forgot about genocidal syria, where they want to kill all infidels, and sudan, where they want to kill all black people. israel is a strange, savage country, but it enlists everyone from brazilian slum dwellers to kurds and druze into the ranks of its army. they don’t care if someone is ugly, fat, from russia or from the ghetto or slum. in sudan, they rape black babies, and in syria (and libya and afghanistan) they kill everyone who is not a wahhabi. idf enlists kurds.
no, its not strange. its the spear head of the abrahamitic cannibalism, egypt death cult, forced onto people by psychopaths. they have come up with the same request for lebensraum as nazi germany, because they are germans and nazis. nothing strange at all.
miriam adelson the las vegas gambling mafia wife bought a medal by bribing the us congress and installing trump ? proof in the us crime always pays if your zionist mafia. this always includes snake oil propaganda for the world
chumpo is nothing. he is just a bought and blackmailed pos.
thief and pedophile
worse than those british who caused mass starvation deaths in iran.
no, israel didn’t starve iran, the british did.
israel is just a british military base. i hope that now the base (israel) gives birth to two other bases (druze state and sdf state). and that xi jinping will be succeeded by someone who will willing to destroy uyghur bases in syria. and the saa idiots who handed over their weapons to their enemies will be forced to eat bats and cockroaches.
its a christian military base ! the last outpost for cannibalism in the wild west. its a outpost for “us”, trying to accomplish the extermination of people nr 201 on their kill list.
you are confusing the monkey and the organ grinder. the jewk is under zog occupation. the jooz tell starmer to jump and he asks how high.
dump belongs in prison.
adolf trump should get hanged. but the working slave cast has no moral at all. promise them gold and green woods, and they vote for murderers. they are so used to that in the long lasting source to nazi germany. the founding fathers was of course jews. first genocide of 200 peoples, then write the constitution 😂 bläää
interesante
has anybody read the washington post this morning?… the pedophile-in-chief wants the immediate move/removal of the palestinians from gaza. “it” says it wants to make it the next riviera of the middle east?!!! i thought that was lebanon before i$rael systematically destroyed over the past 70 years!… may netanyahoo and trump-stein burn in hell for their crimes against humanity!!!
no suggestions for the use of teeth gold or skin from the palestinians ? “us” are the source to nazi germany, and it will not stop before its erased. you are correct by the name “it”. its not what you normally mean by a human being. its the alien heritage which rules.
israel, a shitty country for a shitty people
look at nuttyyahoo’s map. what quisling arab whores like sisi, fake “king” abdullah, bin salman and all the other contemptible arab dictator scum in the uae and elsewhere need to realise is that they cannot make deals with the genocidal zionist regime. if and when syria, lebanon and iran are destroyed, they are next on the hit list – egypt, jordan, shady wahabia, pakistan, turkey. you cannot do deals with bloodthirsty psychopaths who just see you as prey.
only the prophet has been for the arab people and had a covenant with the jewish nation, with wife princess sophia, the mother of the prophets jewish children. prophet fought arabs first and war with arabs has always been the defining war within islam, not withstanding persians. the greater israel is diplomatic, old friends forever, wazirs.
only the prophet has been for the arab people and had a covenant with the jewish nation, with wife princess sophia, the mother of the prophets jewish children. prophet fought arabs first and war with arabs has always been the defining war within islam, not withstanding persians. the greater israel is diplomatic, old friends forever, wazirs.