Tel Aviv and Washington’s vision for a “New Syria”: a country with multiple foreign military bases.
“Abdul Bari Atwan,” a well-known Arab analyst, wrote in an article in Rai al-Youm, referring to the visit of Syrian interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa to the United States: “The new Syria that Trump seeks to shape with Israeli supervision is rapidly moving towards joining the Brahimi peace process and establishing close relations with the occupation regime. These rapid steps will not be limited to normalizing Damascus’ relations with Tel Aviv, but will turn Syria into a large American military base, with its headquarters in Damascus and its branches east of the Euphrates, namely the “Al-Omar” base and the “Al-Tanf” region in the Iraq-Jordan-Syria border triangle.
He stated: “The ‘new Syria’ has become a land filled with foreign military bases in the north, south, east, and west. There are Russian and Turkish bases in the north and American and Israeli bases in the east, south, and center. This means an almost complete lack of sovereignty.
Atwan emphasized: This may be a major step towards legitimizing the territorial division based on ethnicity and sectarianism, which is currently being implemented, so that the Middle East region changes its borders and identity according to Netanyahu’s plans.
The analyst added: The United States says that it has decided to build the Al-Mazza base in the heart of the Syrian capital to monitor the implementation and guarantee the possible and imminent security agreement between the Syrian Islamic State and the occupying regime, whose troops dominate most of southern Syria. They invade southern Syria and establish checkpoints and control movement and assassinate or detain anyone in the area they consider a threat to themselves.
The analyst also mentioned that Golani’s visit to the United States will lead to the lifting of the “Caesar Act.”: There is no evidence that the Caesar Act sanctions will be lifted because a large number of members of Congress from both the Republican and Democratic parties are against it, as they do not have a good view of the current authorities in Damascus.
Atwan stated: What many of us, including him, are concerned about is the end of this calculated American-Israeli plan and its phased implementation, which will put Syria under direct American-Israeli tutelage as a prelude to its division into several autonomous regions, similar to what happened in Sykes-Picot.
He concluded: The Syrians will not allow this American-Israeli-terrorist-apartheid plan to be implemented and will stand against it at all costs. The current period of weakness in the Arab world will not last long, and the occupying regime is on the verge of collapse and has failed to achieve its goals in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen. The United States, as a sponsor of genocide, has entered a phase of change since the New York tsunami, and liberation from Zionist hegemony is deepening and accelerating.