Israeli Bombing of Syria: The Motivations Behind It

 

A few days ago, Israel carried out heavy bombing and attacks on Syria. Before these Israeli attacks, clashes were escalating between the Syrian government and the Druze community, a minority religious group, in southern Syria. A large number of Druze are also present in Israel, and Israel, apparently in the name of protecting “human rights” for this group, not only bombed southern Syria but also began bombing Damascus. According to reports, Israel has also destroyed the Syrian military headquarters in the bombing.

For the past several decades, Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian government has been like a thorn in the side of Israel and the United States in the region. Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, and other countries have normalized relations with Israel. Iraq and Libya were bombed and destroyed. But despite all the sanctions and internal contradictions and conspiracies, the Syrian government remained anti-Israel. In such a situation, the US openly supported the government opponents, and Golani, who was once considered the most dangerous ISIS terrorist in the region in the eyes of the US, then suddenly became the US's favorite and became the governor and emir of Syria under the patronage of the US. The surprising thing is why this bombing is not stopping even during his reign. In fact, no ideology is important for Israel and the US in the Middle East.

They only want to see a fragmented, defeated society that can be controlled by external forces. For this, it is necessary to understand the plan given in an article written by Oded Yinon in 1982, also known as the Yinon plan. It was said that the best way to control the Middle East is to use every religious, national, tribal, sectarian, and linguistic division there. The goal of this division should be the complete destruction of the state and societies so that Israel and the West can maintain their dominance over the region. It is worth noting that this article also acknowledged that Third World solidarity and socialist globalization have become a great threat to the West. To defeat them, division on the basis of identity in the Arab world is necessary. The United States has tried this formula against every Muslim country in the past, just as Israel skillfully used all religious groups against each other during the Lebanese civil war. The intellectuals around US President George Bush took the Yinon Plan very seriously.

To bomb and divide Iraq into pieces, the Kurds were first used there and then sectarian riots were organized. Iraq, which was once the pride of the Arab world, became the center of various armed groups, including ISIS. Similarly, Yemen, Libya, and then Syria were divided. The role of Kurdish groups in this was extremely negative; they also divided Syria with American help, gave the US military bases there, and handed over the country's minerals and oil to imperialism.

Most people called the Golani government an Israeli agent, although the truth is that no person, group, or government is more important than a temporary pawn for Israel. Their goal is to turn the entire region into Gaza so that the scope for resistance disappears. It should be remembered that just as Syria is being bombed in the name of the Druze, Iran was bombed last month in the name of women's rights. The irony is that the enemy is destroying the entire Muslim world with a clear strategy, but our people sometimes find their sect in this fight or start shouting for human rights. In both cases, we fail to understand Israel's game.

After this strategy of imperialism, it is certain that any movement that does not go beyond its identity and does not openly oppose American imperialism will stand with imperialism, knowingly or unknowingly. The example of the Kurds is before us. The German philosopher Hegel called it the cunning of history—that people are fighting for human rights or some greater cause in their consciousness, but since they are unable to understand the direction of history and the global situation, their status is that of a minor pawn in a big game. Therefore, instead of doing politics around our own small identity, it is the need of the hour to unite all the oppressed people of the region under the universal principles of justice. Otherwise, on the one hand, we will be left with state oppression, and on the other hand, only tragic incidents of linguistic terrorism will remain. History has certainly entrusted us with the responsibility of properly assessing the situation so that by quickly foiling the deep conspiracies of the colonial powers, we can stand on our own feet, determine the right direction, and make our decisions with public aspirations, honesty, integrity, and courage.