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Kassioun Editorial 1275: Angering “Israel” Is Easier Than Pleasing It!
“People usually look at the ‘Greater Israel’ project from the perspective of geographic expansion—through building settlements on Palestinian land, and through Israel’s current efforts to expand its borders in Lebanon and Syria. But the core of the issue is about total control over the region—not only geographically, but also through expanding the dominance of its hard power. It seeks to create a situation in which it is surrounded by states that are either collapsed or in a state of chaos and heading toward division and fragmentation, such that they cannot pose any obstacle to Israel’s hard power. This is a geopolitical strategy for Israel. What Israel wants from dragging the US into war with Iran is not merely the dream of regime change in Iran; rather, it seeks the comprehensive collapse of the regime and the state. Someone might say that what Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states are facing is an unfortunate and unintended byproduct of such a war. That is completely wrong—it is calculated in advance and intentional by Israel, because part of the objective is to weaken the Gulf states and to show America as incapable of defending them, thereby pushing them to align with Israel’s project, which seeks to become not only a dominant regional power but also a global one, as Netanyahu has explicitly stated”.
The text above is an almost literal translation of part of an interview with Daniel Levy on Saturday, April 25, 2026. He is a former advisor in the “Israeli” government and a member of its negotiating delegation during the Taba and Oslo agreements. We cite this long passage because, as the saying goes, “the village’s piper does not exhilarate”.
What should be clear to us as Syrians—based not only on the above but on the overall “Israeli” behavior in the region and toward us—is that the Zionist entity’s hostility toward Syria and its people is not tied to who is in power, whether Islamist, nationalist, or leftist, nor whether it pursues resistance to “Israel” or seeks “peace” with it. For “Israel”, the mere existence of Syria as a unified state is unacceptable and contradicts its geopolitical project. The minimum it can accept is a state that is weak militarily, economically, and socially; whose people are divided among themselves; and that is on a fast track toward internal explosion, chaos, and eventual fragmentation or something resembling it—such that it becomes fully subjugated and humiliated.
What must also be understood is that the margins for maneuvering with the Zionist entity are extremely narrow—precisely because time is pressing heavily on “Israel”, which lacks the time needed to consolidate its project. It faces a zero-sum equation: all or nothing, within timeframes measured in only a few years, perhaps even months.
It is true that Syria is in a state of weakness, but the Zionist entity and its supporters are also in a state of historical decline. Preventing them from destroying Syria and bringing about its end is a realistic possibility—and at the same time an existential necessity for Syria and Syrians.
The primary tool for defending the country is the genuine unification of the Syrian people. This means closing the gaps exploited for sabotage along ethnic, religious, and sectarian lines by moving quickly toward a true national unity government and a general national conference through which Syrians can shape the future of their country and the form of their desired state.
At the same time, any hopes or illusions that political maneuvering alone can save Syria and its people must be abandoned. The only salvation lies in turning toward the Syrian people to unite them, and externally toward emerging international and regional powers, cooperating with them to contain the danger posed by the Zionist entity to us and to the world as a whole.
Angering colonial powers has always been easier than pleasing them—and in Syria’s present circumstances, angering “Israel” is certainly easier and less costly than trying to satisfy it, because satisfying it has a ceiling but no bottom.
