Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
United States President Donald Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in Washington earlier in April that he could “as much Syrian territory as he wanted,” Syria In Transition reported in its 23rd issue, citing sources with knowledge on the matter.
The outlet, which is produced pro bono by the London-based Conflict Mediation Solutions consultancy, didn’t provide any further details on the discussion Trump and Netanyahu had on Syria.
The report is not surprising considering that Trump has shown nothing but support for Israel, and Netanyahu has been working to expand his country’s influence in Syria.
Following the fall of the Assad regime last December, the Israeli military invaded the buffer zone adjacent to the Golan Heights in southern Syria and established nine posts there. The military also launched hundreds of strikes against the country, destroying much of its combat capabilities.
Initially, the Israeli military described its presence in the buffer zone as a temporary and defensive measure. However, Defense Minister Israel Katz later said that troops will remain deployed to nine army posts in the area “indefinitely.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in February that southern Syria must be completely demilitarized, warning that Israel would not accept the presence of the forces of the country’s new Islamist-led interim government close to its territory. The primer also warned the government against attacking the Druze religious minority, vowing to defend the minority.
Recent weeks saw an uptake in Israeli strikes on Syria, with multiple air bases in the center of the country getting hit after being scouted for possible deployment by the Turkish military.
The Israeli military has also intensified its ground operations in southern Syria. On April 17, Israeli troops stormed the town of Hamidiyah in the southern al-Quneitra countryside, where they inspected several houses and searched for weapons.
Currently, Israel is the main player in southern Syria. Government forces are barely operating in the region, and most heavy weapons there have been either destroyed or pulled back.
It is likely only a matter of time before Israel attempts to expand its direct control over the region. Such a move could begin once the Israeli military concludes its operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and reach a more mature ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
While the Syrian government will not attempt to stop Israel, it will neither engage in any peace talks with it as this could jeopardize its legitimacy on the domestic level. Still, a popular resistance could rise up in the south of the country.
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very thanks mr. putin to let others destroy syrian people..
it’s like blaming police for the crime…..
as tragic as the circumstances have been with russia abandoning syria worst is the leader assad who betrayed his own when he fled. having said all that russia is and has been abandoned by the other brics nations, india and china at the top that could have supported russia in syria more than 10 years ago but did nothing… that’s all folks!…
blame arabs for doing nothing. iran and russia shouldn’t have to do everything for them. enough is enough. the horse was led to water, and didn’t drink.
assad was the only alawite arab leader. houthis are zaidi and oman is ibadi. all were good with iran. forget the rest of the arab leaders, all of them sunnis and sellouts who don’t care for alawites or shiites.
more than once.
none of this, and i do mean _none_ of this, would be possible had the arab spring in egypt, specifically, been successful at kicking the u.s. bought and owned junts out of power.
instead its just billions more in ‘aid’ from my virus if a country to keep their army from stopping greater jizzreal.
the “arab spring” was just a zio/ jewsa regime change effort.
agreed.
but i dont see a better chance being presented for grass roots shit either.
theyre simply happy being sheep.
no different than the uk.
3 generations of alpha males culled off in zio wars. now look how cucked and pathetic their natives have become.
is sick amerikunt upset
*looks confusedly at russia*
erm. but. the double standards.
just like its ok for (((them))) to have nukes?
but we’ll go to war to stop iran. whos been weeks from the bomb since bebe milekowski drew a wile e coyote bomb at the un in ’95.
slowly realizing im stuck inside the bag of dicks i tell these people to choke on…
international laws have been created for goyim only.
now trump has the authority to give away middle east land ? the mafia does what it has always done . oppress , steal and murder . netanyahu will say it is for his god .
which would indicate that the americ*nts are fullyinvolved in the jews wet dream of a greater israel, dominating the middle east. land thievery by the jews and the oil to be controlled by the c*nts. erdogan must prevent the jews wet dream coming true. no one wants the jews anywhere near its own land!
are we talking about the same bibi nuts in the yahoo that failed his conquest of gaza and didn’t manage to take a inch of lebanon ?
the donald is really a funny guy ^^
the yinon plan still a conspiracy theory promulgated by antisemites. return to regularly scheduled marvel universe programming.
to mi je ale bastard, čo? rozdáva ako keby to bolo jeho. trump je zločinec a terorista!!! putin by sa mal mať na pozore keď s ním jedná. trumpovi sa nedá veriť!!! mysleniu zdar a svetu mier!!!
i’m only surprised chumpo isn’t giving his zio masters greenland and panama as well. they’ve alrerady got the whole of the jewsa.
we are carving syria like a roasted lamb!!!
heheheh
just one of several factions fighting like rats in a sack for the indefinite future. that roast lamb may turn out to have a very bitter taste.
the first quarter of the 21st century is nearly over. the jewsa has not been at peace for a single day in the whole of the 21st century to date. that tells you all you need to know. the jewsa is a belligerent, disruptive, destabilising force in the world. together with its zionist proxy, it is the cause of almost all the conflict in the world, and the state sponsor of almost all the terrorism on the planet. there will be no peace till it is cut down to size and put back in its cage.
thats disgusting, i would have told him he cant have an inch of syria