Ahmad al-Sharaa, who engineered and masterfully led Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to victory in Syria and now seeks to reconstruct and normalize his 23 million sized pivotal state, says that his country is "war-weary," and hardly wants or needs "new confrontations." He claims to be focused on diplomatic solutions to Israeli bombings, putting down any resurgence in the eastern part of the country by the Islamic State, and moderating contests for power between the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDA) and the Turkish promoted Syrian National Army (SNA).
Of COURSE the happiest of holidays & (fraught?!!!) New Year !
But first …
“What Washington, Tel Aviv, and Ankara mostly want is for Syria to become a Middle Eastern state that holds no political prisoners, welcomes refugees back from their places of exile, ceases to permit Iranian military and financial resources to transit its territory to Hezbollah in Lebanon, and gives no facilities to Putin's Russian military mafia.”
QUITE right ! But a central question: will Netanyahu’s hubris & acquisitiveness so utterly alienate Syria’s new rulers that all will be lost ??!!
Of COURSE the happiest of holidays & (fraught?!!!) New Year !
But first …
“What Washington, Tel Aviv, and Ankara mostly want is for Syria to become a Middle Eastern state that holds no political prisoners, welcomes refugees back from their places of exile, ceases to permit Iranian military and financial resources to transit its territory to Hezbollah in Lebanon, and gives no facilities to Putin's Russian military mafia.”
QUITE right ! But a central question: will Netanyahu’s hubris & acquisitiveness so utterly alienate Syria’s new rulers that all will be lost ??!!
Too true!