Nabil Najm al-Din ✍️
There is no doubt that the ruling regime that ruined Syria for fifty years, starting with the rule of the father and ending with the rule of the son who was overthrown on the eighth of this December… that failed, centralized, oppressive, individual rule transformed Syria, that great country with its history, location, and ancient people, from a fragile state to a failed one.
It is also certain that Ahmad Hussein al-Sharaa, known as Abu Muhammad al-Julani, the supreme commander of the armed Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, which overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad, who was arrested and imprisoned by American forces from 2006 to 2011, and the American State Department classified him as a “global terrorist” in May 2013, then four years later in 2017, announced a reward of ten million dollars for anyone who provides information leading to His arrest, all this would not have happened except because of the recklessness, foolishness and tyranny of the father and son regime.
In fact, I am not here concerned with talking about al-Julani or al-Zabadani.. I am here concerned with a number of facts that are deliberately absent from the Syrian scene that they are exporting to us in a misleading manner in the Arab world, and the most important of these facts is that Abu Muhammad al-Julani does not have any constitutional legitimacy to rule or any legitimacy to talk about the future of Syria, let alone its present, and if we assume that he and his group, which was founded in tandem with the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, “are revolutionaries who overthrew an unjust ruler,” then the historical rule says that the role of revolutionaries ends when the regime is overthrown and only “may God reward them..!!” This is because they do not have the qualifications, political experience, or constitutional mandate to rule.. They are not fit to rule.. and the failed experiences that the Arab countries that were hit by the “storms of the Arab Spring” have gone through are the best evidence.
For all of the above, what is happening in Syria these days must receive all attention, follow-up, analysis, guidance, support and assistance so that this great Arab country does not become a new piece of the dominoes that fell without regret.
What increases the danger of the developments in the Syrian scene is that Israel, which shamelessly promotes the slogan of its “right to self-defense,” hides behind this slogan a clear long-term plan to annex vast areas of neighboring and regional countries to the land of Israel. It seems that this plan is proceeding at full speed, and Israel’s occupation of Mount Hermon and the border strip in the Golan is nothing but the best witness to the historic Zionist project of “Greater Israel from the sea to the river.”
Surprisingly and painfully, in September 2024, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution condemning Israel’s continued occupation of Palestine and demanding that it cease and desist. However, given Israel’s continued disdain for the UN and its resolutions and its persistent rejection of all previous resolutions and international attempts to secure Palestinian and national rights, starting with UN Resolution 181 of 1947 and ending with the Oslo Accords of 1993 and 1995, it is highly unlikely that Israel will comply.
Israel has launched intermittent Israeli military attacks and occupied large parts of Lebanon for decades, and it appears that the most recent Israeli attacks, which began in October and continued until November 26, 2024, under the pretext of eliminating Hezbollah’s rocket attacks on Israel, were in fact nothing more than a “trial run” for an unspecified annexation of the southern half, if not Lebanon. In its entirety.
It is worth noting that Israel is acting out in this blatant manner in light of the US military aid allocated to Israel over the next ten years, which consists of $35 billion for basic defense in times of war, in addition to another $52 billion for air defense systems, with an average annual support of $8.7 billion.
Therefore, and apart from the military objectives and the declared slogans of Israel, such as the right to self-defense, the clear fact that we must not ignore is that the criminal Gaza campaign is part of an aggressive nationalist regional expansion project that includes cleansing the land of all indigenous people, to reveal Israel’s clear hidden motives in implementing the Greater Israel project.
Will Syria be beyond the reach of this Israeli expansionist project? There is no doubt that this question imposes itself with all force in light of the overwhelming chaos following the fall of a fifty-year-old regime, and the answer to this question is no.. Syria will not be far from the Greater Israel project.
What confirms this is the keenness of the Israeli Prime Minister, “a criminal according to the International Criminal Court,” to go to Mount Hermon in the occupied Golan and take pictures in a blatant violation of Syria’s sovereignty, and in the determination of the Netanyahu government to sanctify and present the actual ethnic cleansing and accelerate the practical effects of the Israeli Nation-State Law of 2018, which stipulates that Israel is a Jewish state in which only Jews enjoy full rights. Article 7 prioritizes Jewish settlements as a “national value” and for their sake the state will work to “encourage and promote their establishment and consolidation,” i.e. ethnic and religious segregation and the usurpation of non-Jewish lands as the desired norm.
Since October 2024, Israel has launched a series of airstrikes on Syria, and reports have emerged of the IDF establishing a fortified buffer zone inside the corridor separating Israeli and Syrian-controlled areas in the Golan Heights.
The surprise overthrow of the Assad regime in early December 2024 by a group of the Syrian opposition forces, led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, are raising great uncertainty about the future governance and national security in Syria. Israel did not wait long, as it seized the opportunity to preemptively destroy a large part of Syria’s naval fleet and air force assets, and bomb military targets in and around the capital, Damascus. The IDF also crossed the buffer zone in the Golan Heights and reached within 25 kilometers of Damascus to create a “sterile defensive zone.”
It remains to be seen how temporary or limited this operation will be. Israel has marked all of Syria on the map of Greater Israel as part of the Land of Israel.
So it is no joke that all of Syria is at stake. Therefore, this serious challenge imposes on all Syrians, all Syrians, and all Arabs, to move quickly to save Syria from the octopus of Greater Israel, and this is the subject of an upcoming discussion.
