PNN – Eyal Zaiser, a professor of Middle East studies at Tel Aviv University, compared Israel’s adventure in Syria in support of the Syrian Druze tribe to the regime’s 1982 war in Lebanon, claiming to save Christians, in an article, and wrote that Israel will be caught in the quagmire of Syria, just like in the case of Lebanon.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network from Eyal Zaiser, A professor of Middle East Studies at Tel Aviv University today addressed the Zionist regime’s adventurism in Syria in support of the Druze in southern Syria in an article, warning that failing to learn from the 1982 war with Lebanon in this process will lead to the regime’s entanglement in the Syrian quagmire.
According to this report, Eyal Zaiser, stating that one of the declared goals of the Zionist regime in the 1982 war in Lebanon was to save the country’s Christians from massacre at the hands of their Muslim neighbors, wrote: After four decades of entanglement in Lebanon, Israel has still not been able to fully resolve the country’s problems, and it has not even learned a lesson from its own situation.
He added: Getting involved again in wars that have nothing to do with Israel will sink us up to our necks in the swamp, and will open the way to hell for the military force of the army.
The Tel Aviv University professor also admitted that the Zionist regime immediately started a war with Lebanon in June 1982, in response to the Lebanese civil war and claiming to be responding to a request for help from Lebanese Christians. However, it soon became clear that the Christians did not ask for help, did not need it, and were not even willing to fight against their enemies and the Israeli (regime).
Zaiser wrote: This Israeli action caught us in a full-scale war in Lebanon and ultimately ended to our detriment. He also added: Israel expelled the Palestine Liberation Organization, but with its wrong action and war in Lebanon, it led to the formation and establishment of Hezbollah.
However, Syria is not much different in general from what happened in the past, a country with different ethnicities that have been in conflict with each other throughout history, although this trend has taken a different direction after the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Acknowledging that the current civil and multi-ethnic war in Syria is no different from the Lebanese civil war in 1982, he said: The developments in Syria are unpredictable under the leadership of Ahmed al-Sharaa (al-Jolani), the head of the interim government. One day he is a moderate statesman who is friendly with Westerners and even Israelis, but the next day he quickly changes tack and acts against Syrian minorities as the leader of jihadist rebels inspired by al-Qaeda and ISIS.
Zaiser wrote: In the current situation, al-Jolani may seek to transform Syria into an Islamist state, or it is possible that he is a weak leader who lacks control over his jihadist friends who brought him to power in Damascus. It is also possible that, in order to consolidate his control over Syria, he is willing to pay a price he considers “tolerable” and allow his supporters to rebel and, most importantly, shed the blood of the country’s minorities, namely the Alawites, as well as Christians and Druze.
According to Zaiser, in addition, the Druze of Syria, like their co-religionists in Lebanon and occupied Palestine, have always considered themselves an integral part of the country in which they live, and in the last century they even rejected a French proposal to establish a separate state for them in the Druze Mountains. They even prefer to negotiate with al-Julani and his people, and have already reached a series of agreements.
He added: All the regimes that ruled in Damascus in the past quarreled with the Druze, fought, and ultimately reconciled with them.
In this article, Zaiser states that if Israel really intends to help the Druze, it can send equipment and weapons to the Druze in Syria through Jordan, which shares a border with Syria and has similar interests in all of the above cases in Syria.
However, he warned that in the current situation, where the regime is struggling and is caught in an endless war with Hamas in Gaza, it should not and cannot become the gendarme and police of the Middle East.
This is despite the fact that the Druze Mountains, which are located near Damascus and 100 kilometers from the border with occupied Palestine, are home to at least three million Sunnis, most of whom support the Golan Heights government, and will not allow Israeli intervention.
Therefore, Israel’s adventurism in Syria is not only not in the interest of the Syrian Druze, who has no interest in it, but will also severely threaten Israel’s interests.
Zeiser concluded by emphasizing that the Zionist regime should stay away from this quagmire, indirectly helping the Druze, as well as through Jordan, and should also distrust the Golan Heights.