If it isn’t stopped, “Greater Israel” will become a reality

Robert Inlakesh
Al Mayadeen English

The official “Israelarabic” social media accounts belonging to the Zionist regime is openly publishing content that reflects its expansionist endeavors, one such post included a historical representation of “Judah and Israel” (Image: Ali Al-Hadi Shmeis)

The Israeli regime is expanding its territorial control into neighboring Arab nations, exploiting regional weaknesses, demonstrating that only sustained resistance can counter its expansionist ambitions.

Emboldened by a string of achievements, the Israeli regime is seeking to expand its territorial control into neighboring Arab Nations and is receiving little push back. While Jordan and Egypt aren’t currently facing an armed incursion, Israeli ministers and official social media pages are indicating that such takeovers could be in the books.

Upon the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria, the power vacuum left behind and a lack of any army to protect the nation permitted an immediate Israeli invasion. The Zionist Entity swiftly launched their largest ever air campaign to obliterate the Syrian Arab Army’s military equipment, then followed this up with on-and-off airstrikes throughout the country.

The Israelis have occupied the Golan Heights entirely, seized the six most important water sources in southern Syria, expelled citizens from their homes in areas surrounding Quneitra and even pushed towards Dara’a. The Israeli tanks are now positioned as far as areas like Qatana, only 20 kilometers from Damascus, while airstrikes occasionally hit targets in the Syrian Capital.

This invasion of Syria has been ongoing for over a month now and not a single bullet has been fired by forces affiliated with the new Hayat Tahrir al-Sham led government. Instead, those installed in power in Damascus have hinted at normalization with the Zionist regime, with the newly selected Mayor of Damascus, Maher Marwan, openly making excuses for the Israeli invasion and suggesting normalizing ties.

The takeaway from this is not to just single out the new Syrian leadership and its positions, but to demonstrate that weakness and collaboration with the Zionists, no matter who it is, results in territorial losses to the detriment of the population of any Arab nation.

In June of 1967, the reason why the Israelis decided to occupy the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, the Sinai and Golan Heights, was down to one factor, the ability for them to do so. A historic opportunity arose during that war. In 1973, the Presidents of Syria and Egypt at the time, Hafez al-Assad and Anwar Sadat, launched a joint operation to recapture their occupied territories, but ultimately came short. While Syria refused to normalize ties, Egypt exchanged normalization for massive US aid handouts and the return of the Sinai.

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) attempted to fight the Israelis out of Beirut, but were ultimately forced to flee Lebanon in 1982 after the Zionist regime invaded and murdered around 20,000 Palestinians and Lebanese. The Israelis then placed southern Lebanon under their occupation.

A severely weakened PLO was isolated, then made the fatal mistake of taking positions that sided with former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, during his invasion of Kuwait. At this time, the PLO was desperately trying to lead to the Intifada that was ongoing inside the occupied West Bank and Gaza, that was originally led locally, but had now lost its Kuwaiti financial backers. The Zionists were facing a crisis due to the Palestinian Intifada, they were receiving blows on the public relations front, diverting a substantial amount of military resources to combating the uprising and it was extremely costly to their economy.

This led to the Oslo Accords of 1993-1995, which were supposed to lead to a so-called Two-State solution. Yet, the Zionists had committed to the deal with a weakened PLO and were not compelled to ever fulfill their commitments. When the “final status negotiations” fell apart, in 2000 the Second Intifada erupted, which eventually led to the gutting of the resistance in the occupied West Bank through “Operation Defensive Shield” in 2002.

The US and their Israeli allies then pressured former Palestinian Authority (PA) President Yasser Arafat to restructure and reform his security forces, which was later fully implemented under PA President Mahmoud Abbas. These forces would run security coordination with the Israeli occupation army, ensuring that no armed resistance would arise in the West Bank.

However, the more the PA listened to the demands of Washington and Tel Aviv, hoping that this would somehow lead to a “Two-State solution”, the more the Zionists pulled away from negotiations altogether and adopted an even more aggressive approach. We have now reached the point where the Israelis are openly seeking to annex the occupied West Bank, with little regard for what the Palestinian Authority seeks.

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