From the butcher of Gaza to a good Samaritan, Netanyahu does not lack imagination. Playing the role of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he massacres and starves Gazans while showing empathy for Syrian Druze, whom he has just allowed to work on the fertile lands of the Golan Heights. This crude maneuver reflects the determination of the Zionist entity to anchor its influence in the region while ensuring a lasting presence in southern Syria. The latest point occupied since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime is Jebel al-Sheikh, a strategic location just a stone's throw from the still fragile walls of Damascus. While advancing its pawns in this space, Israel primarily seeks to counter Turkey's future role, one of the main supporters of the new Syrian power. In this game of influence engaged by Washington on one side and Ankara, Doha, and other Gulf countries on the other, Tel Aviv interferes and tries to play the troublemaker. The announcement of the complete demilitarization of southern Syria in the provinces of Quneitra, Daraa, and Sweida is a harbinger of a desire to fragment the country. These demands geographically exceed the "disengagement zone" that Israel has occupied for over two months—a demilitarized territorial portion located between the major part of the Golan Heights occupied by Israel in 1967 (illegally annexed in 1981). But as the saying goes: "In denouncing those who drink, one ends up toasting." The latest developments on the Syrian political scene and the historic agreement concluded between the government of Ahmad al-Sharaa and the Kurds upset Netanyahu's calculations and dampen the expansionist ambitions of the Israeli right. The rapprochement between Damascus and the armed wing of the Syrian Kurdish Rojava administration through an agreement providing for the integration of Kurdish political and military institutions into the central state does not sit well with Tel Aviv. And even though the contours of this agreement remain unclear, it sets a significant milestone toward building a new Syria, much to the dismay of Zionist hawks, whose disappointment does not stop there. Thus, another agreement is said to have been concluded with the Druze of the Sweida province, those very people Netanyahu claims to protect. According to sources cited by the media, this agreement provides for the complete integration of this border region with Israel into the institutions of the Syrian state. The agreement allegedly stipulates that Sweida's security mechanisms will be attached to the Syrian Ministry of Interior. This agreement with the Druze community marks the new regime's will to assert its authority over the entire Syrian territory, thwarting Israel's maneuvers and revealing the lies of the Israeli Prime Minister, whose political future is uncertain as he is about to be abandoned by Donald Trump.
El Moudjahid
