Now opening a corridor from Suwayda to Jerusalem is a stronger possibility

Israel regards strong nation-states, especially Arab states, as a threat, and does not want a strong nation-state around it. This perception of threat also determines its approach to Syria. It would never prefer, and never will prefer, a strong Syria with territorial and military integrity. In fact, everyone who faces the Israeli threat knows this finding. The fires that Israel, which does not want a strong state, constantly lights across the whole region to eliminate these threats have been living on as a routine of the Middle Eastern order for 80 years.

However, that this finding is being made by Tom Barrack, the US Ambassador to Ankara and Special Envoy for Syria, is undoubtedly both interesting and a surprise. For although some see these words as in fact a new threat to Syria expressed in the voice of the US, they look more like a criticism directed at Israel. It is a finding that exposes the one truly responsible for the very image of this region, which appears to some as a swamp, to some as an utterly chaotic geography, and to others as a home of violence, war and terror.

With the words he said in this direction in a statement to the American news agency Associated Press (AP) during his visit to Lebanon, Barrack undoubtedly overturns the whole narrative about Israel that has been in force in the West until now.

This narrative has no validity in the region anyway. But if this preliminary finding of Barrack's is advanced a little further, it would not be excessive optimism to say that all the Orientalist perceptions and discourses about the Middle East are very close to being thrown in the trash.

The role in the Middle East of Israel, the genocidal terrorist state that attacks whoever is in front of it like a bull let loose from its chains, points to dimensions beyond what is supposed. It is not merely responsible for the occupations it carries out directly, or the massacres it commits directly by attacking, or the cities it has destroyed. Because of the order that has formed around it, it is responsible for all the unrest in the region, the blood shed, the trampled human dignity, the despotic regimes, and all the crimes they in turn have committed.

If there is no democratization in the region, the chief party responsible for this too is Israel, because democratic regimes are also enemies that Israel perceives as threats. The first reality that democratic regimes, that is, regimes based on the will of the people, will confront is Israel's reckless aggression and the measures to be taken against it. The governments that came to power with the Arab Revolutions did this. Muhammad Morsi, as the first elected President in Egyptian history, not only objected to Israel's occupying policies but began to pursue an open policy against it. They brought him down and put in his place Sisi, whom an Israeli bigot called "the best Egyptian leader that could be for Israel." In this way, the democratic development longed for in Egypt for a hundred years was halted for the sake of Israel's security.

Israel had no problem at all with the Assad regime that massacred 1 million people in 14 years in Syria. Even the US attempts to overthrow the Assad regime were blocked in the name of Israel's security. The US military that came and deployed to Syria to overthrow Assad, because he was found to have used chemical weapons, changed its intention and program here and became the prop of an order that would keep Assad standing. There was rhetoric against Assad in appearance, sanctions were applied against him, but if it had been wanted, overthrowing him was a matter of one day. We see today that the means for it were more than ample. But what kept him standing was that he was highly preferable from Israel's point of view. He killed Muslims, he crushed people with terrible inhuman tortures in his prisons, he brought down the homes of millions on their heads and expelled the survivors from their homelands. He was committing crimes against humanity, and the US, at a distance and with the power to stop these crimes, merely stood by and watched them in the name of Israel's security.

Today, after Assad was overthrown by the sons of the Syrian people, the process under way disturbs Israel. In fact, the al-Sharaa administration has so far expressed neither a statement nor an intention aimed in any way at Israel or any country in the region. It has declared to the whole world that it will focus not on fighting but on pulling its country together, on its citizens who had been forced to emigrate returning safely to their homes and rebuilding their country. But despite this, Israel sees the new Syrian administration as a threat to itself and, to eliminate this threat before it grows further, does what it does best: it attacks. It uses the asymmetric power superiority it has, unjustly and in a way that leads to great destruction, in unilateral aggression.

In doing so, Israel is in fact preparing its own end. Its interventions in Syria will also place on it the responsibility for all the crimes committed by Assad, who has governed Syria until now, and the account will be demanded of them together.

Most recently, using as a pretext the collaborator Druze it has used in Syria, it awakened the Arab tribes against its move. These tribes marched on Suwayda. This march seems to have calmed for now with the intervention of the Government, but these marches of the tribes are a harbinger of the awakening of the ummah, which until now has not been visible, appearing to sleep. Let Israel and those who support it think about the rest. The Zionist arrogance that disregards all of humanity, let alone 2 billion Muslims, in Gaza, and kills Muslims while increasing the dose of insult to them at every step, and its irresponsible supporters, are with their own hands awakening the potentials carried by these two billion people.

There is of course a limit to endurance. This limit has been well exceeded, and this overflow of endurance that rushed to Suwayda will march also to Jerusalem and to Gaza with a small change of route. Israel wanted to open, through the Druze, a David corridor from Suwayda to the east of the Euphrates and to the north, but as it appears, from this hour on, the corridor that the tribal heroes who marched to Suwayda could open from Suwayda to Jerusalem has become a stronger possibility.