“Syria is Gaza on steroids, and that is the next war, with absolute certainty”, said Amichai Chikli Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister. “There is no avoiding it.”
The remarks are not the first time Chikli has openly threatened war against Damascus. In June, he said Israel would wage war on Syria “sooner or later”, claiming that Syria and Turkiye posed a greater challenge to Israel than Iran. “We will wage war on Syria, sooner or later, because it and Turkiye are far more worrying than Iran,” Chikli said at the time.
Israeli troops are getting smoked in Lebanon by what is essentially a guerilla army. Yes, Israel is committing horrific crimes there too. But their troops are having a horrible time.
Syria is so much worse than Lebanon.
Used to be… Syria used to have a decent army under Assad, but decades of foreign fueled civil war have reduced it to nothing.
Lebanon is ruled by US puppets today, but Hezballah remains free and a true resistance to Israeli aggression.
Now that Syria is controlled by a US puppet, who will fight Israel? There are no organized groups left in Syria that seriously oppose US imperialism and Israeli expansion.
I can’t believe you’re actually supporting Assad, who has killed countless Syrians and operated an extensive network of truly horrific torture prisons.
What is wrong with you?
What’s wrong with your reading comprehension?
I never said I supported Assad, I’m glad he’s gone.
What we have now is not significant better, and has every indication that it’s going in the same direction, except instead of siding with Russia they’re siding with US.
If history is worth any lessons, we can expect the average Syrian’s living conditions to be significantly worse than under Assad, Sadnaya may be closed, but Julani’s gangs murdering minorities in public is not exactly better…
The Syria we grew up with is gone, ripped apart by foreign fighters, and colonial powers are grabbing what’s left over. Assad was bad, that doesn’t make Julani good.
What I said is that Syria had a formidable army under Assad, an army that engaged in wars and won, an army that fought Israel before, an army that was organized and equipped. That simply doesn’t exist anymore, the civil war erased it.
That’s not a compliment of Assad, it’s just a statement of fact.
I guess that makes sense, but he used that same army against the people of Syria, so I’m not sure how great of a thing that is.
It would be great if the terrorist state if israel didn’t create the need for such complicated powers.
at least the IDF intervened the Damascus-backed aggressions against the Druze.