Le Padrino
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New Israeli Front in Southern Syria
Recent escalation: Israel has launched airstrikes on the Syrian Defense Ministry headquarters in Damascus, marking a major direct strike on central military infrastructure .
Druze-region intervention: These strikes are connected to intense fighting in the Druze-majority area of Sweida, where Syrian government forces clashed with Druze militias. Israel claims the military action aims to protect the Druze community and enforce a demilitarized zone south of Damascus .
Ground posture changes: Israel has deployed forces and built a buffer zone in the Golan Heights area, recently taking control of parts of the UN-controlled zone—signaling a permanent strategic military presence
Today, the Israeli Air Force attack not just the Syrian Ministry of Defense in Damascus, but the Presidential palace is direct attempt on President Ahmad Al-Shar’a’s life. This isn’t posturing. This is war.
And it’s madness. Total, reckless madness.
Syria had nothing to do with October 7. Not a single Israeli was killed by a Syrian bullet. There was no imminent threat. No Syrian attack. No Syrian provocation. And still, Israel bombed the seat of government in the capital of a sovereign state.
Why? Because of some invented narrative of “Druze blood brothers”? A minority within a minority whose self-proclaimed leader is rejected by two other senior Druze leaders and widely known to be erratic, armed, and criminally involved in smuggling and gang violence?
No one outside of Israel believes this. Not one serious government. Not one serious analyst. And certainly not the Arab world, where Israel is already skating on diplomatic thin ice after the carnage in Gaza. October 7 earned Israel some global sympathy. This just evaporated it. Entirely.
Israel didn’t just strike a building. It undermined seven months of Arab-led progress to rehabilitate Syria, to de-radicalize it, to bring it back from 14 years of civil war and jihadism. And all this, for what?
President Ahmad Al-Shar’a was the only Syrian leader who explicitly and repeatedly gave security guarantees to Israel. To President Trump. To President Aliyev. To President MBZ. In Baku. In Abu Dhabi. He made it clear: no war with Israel; restoration of order in Suwayda; integration of Syria into a post-conflict regional framework.
Instead of supporting that path, Israel tried to assassinate him.
It now have now left him with no option but to declare general mobilization. Have turned a potential partner into a wartime president. And worse, have opened the gates to what may become a transnational jihadist resurgence.
Israel said didn’t want a jihadi army on its border. It just created the perfect conditions for one.
And this time, it won’t be the fractured, chaotic militias of 2013. It will be seasoned, enraged, and united by its own strategic illiteracy.
•This is an act of war, unprovoked.
•This is a colossal strategic miscalculation.
•And this is how regional wars begin.
The presidential palace in a sovereign Arab capital has been bombed, not by Iran, not by Hezbollah, but By Israel.
Even its allies and potential allies - Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Amman - are now shocked and outraged. And once again: There Was No Syrian October 7.
Syria was already on the path of reconstruction
They should stop now. Cease fire. While there is still anything left to salvage.
Though tragically, it is already too late
Recent escalation: Israel has launched airstrikes on the Syrian Defense Ministry headquarters in Damascus, marking a major direct strike on central military infrastructure .
Druze-region intervention: These strikes are connected to intense fighting in the Druze-majority area of Sweida, where Syrian government forces clashed with Druze militias. Israel claims the military action aims to protect the Druze community and enforce a demilitarized zone south of Damascus .
Ground posture changes: Israel has deployed forces and built a buffer zone in the Golan Heights area, recently taking control of parts of the UN-controlled zone—signaling a permanent strategic military presence
Today, the Israeli Air Force attack not just the Syrian Ministry of Defense in Damascus, but the Presidential palace is direct attempt on President Ahmad Al-Shar’a’s life. This isn’t posturing. This is war.
And it’s madness. Total, reckless madness.
Syria had nothing to do with October 7. Not a single Israeli was killed by a Syrian bullet. There was no imminent threat. No Syrian attack. No Syrian provocation. And still, Israel bombed the seat of government in the capital of a sovereign state.
Why? Because of some invented narrative of “Druze blood brothers”? A minority within a minority whose self-proclaimed leader is rejected by two other senior Druze leaders and widely known to be erratic, armed, and criminally involved in smuggling and gang violence?
No one outside of Israel believes this. Not one serious government. Not one serious analyst. And certainly not the Arab world, where Israel is already skating on diplomatic thin ice after the carnage in Gaza. October 7 earned Israel some global sympathy. This just evaporated it. Entirely.
Israel didn’t just strike a building. It undermined seven months of Arab-led progress to rehabilitate Syria, to de-radicalize it, to bring it back from 14 years of civil war and jihadism. And all this, for what?
President Ahmad Al-Shar’a was the only Syrian leader who explicitly and repeatedly gave security guarantees to Israel. To President Trump. To President Aliyev. To President MBZ. In Baku. In Abu Dhabi. He made it clear: no war with Israel; restoration of order in Suwayda; integration of Syria into a post-conflict regional framework.
Instead of supporting that path, Israel tried to assassinate him.
It now have now left him with no option but to declare general mobilization. Have turned a potential partner into a wartime president. And worse, have opened the gates to what may become a transnational jihadist resurgence.
Israel said didn’t want a jihadi army on its border. It just created the perfect conditions for one.
And this time, it won’t be the fractured, chaotic militias of 2013. It will be seasoned, enraged, and united by its own strategic illiteracy.
•This is an act of war, unprovoked.
•This is a colossal strategic miscalculation.
•And this is how regional wars begin.
The presidential palace in a sovereign Arab capital has been bombed, not by Iran, not by Hezbollah, but By Israel.
Even its allies and potential allies - Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Amman - are now shocked and outraged. And once again: There Was No Syrian October 7.
Syria was already on the path of reconstruction
They should stop now. Cease fire. While there is still anything left to salvage.
Though tragically, it is already too late
