Israeli PM Netanyahu Claims Central Role in Achieving Syria’s Total Defeat

<p >Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that the <a href=" target="_blank">decisive defeat</a> and dissolution of the Syrian state which occurred on December 8 was a “direct result” of Israel’s successful recent military operations. ”This is a historic day in the history of the Middle East,” he said in a video statement. “The Assad regime is a central link in Iran’s axis of evil: this regime has fallen,” he stated, with ‘Assad regime’ being a commonly used term in the Western world to refer to the Syrian state, after its leader President Bashar Al Assad. “This is a direct result of the blows we have inflicted on Iran and Hezbollah, the main supporters of the Assad regime,” the Israeli leader added, stressing that large scale Israeli attacks on Iranian forces, and on those of the <a href=" target="_blank">Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah</a>, had prevented them from bolstering Syrian forces against Islamist paramilitaries, which were heavily sponsored by Israel’s strategic partner Turkey. ”This has created a chain reaction throughout the Middle East of all those who want to be free from this oppressive and tyrannical regime,” Netanyahu added, closely echoing Western and Turkish rhetoric on the issue. </p><p ><img src=" title="Syrian Arab Army Personnel with Captured Israeli Magach 5 Tank During Lebanon War"></p><p >The Syrian Ba’ath Party has been a leading adversary of Israeli, Turkish and Western Bloc objectives in the Middle East since the 1960s, and fought multiple wars with Israel, with particular successes gained in the 1980s as the Syrian Arab Army demonstrated greater proficiency and <a href=" target="_blank">received new generations </a>of Soviet armaments. Syria previously aimed large arsenals of Soviet and North Korean supplied ballistic missiles at Israel, tipping many of these with chemical weapons, which was considered to be an effective asymmetric counter to Israel’s large nuclear arsenal. Damascus’ significant support for Hezbollah and close partnership with Iran from the 2000s made it a higher priority target for Israeli interests, with Tel Aviv having as a result played a<a href=" > leading role</a> in arming and training anti government jihadist militants alongside Turkey and many countries in the Western world. The fall of the Syrian government and the placing of the country’s territory under Turkish and Western influence has served to take considerable pressure off Israel’s defences, while the placing of Islamist paramilitaries in power positions them to open a second front against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Turkey and the Islamist paramilitaries under its sponsorship were notably <a href=" target="_blank">predicted</a> since the outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in October 2023 to potentially <a href=" target="_blank">play a central role</a> in supporting Tel Aviv in its ongoing conflict. </p>

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