“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.

  • 3abas@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    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.

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      8 hours ago

      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.