Israel’s Netanyahu declares end of Syria border agreement

https://www.newarab.com/news/israels-netanyahu-declares-end-syria-border-agreement

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  1. I’m not much of a strategist, but I did expect this to happen.

  2. > Netanyahu announces the collapse of the 1974 border agreement with Syria and orders the army to seize the Golan Heights buffer zone.

    Geopolitical opportunism 101

  5. Their 1974 border agreement doesn’t seem to indicate that Syria are in breach: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v26/d88

    Abandoning their posts doesn’t mean that the troops entered the Israeli annexed portion of the Golan Heights, and those troops would still be to the east of the demarcation line? Unless there’s some secondary implementation of the agreement I’ve been unable to find.

    I’m generally fairly charitable to Israel, but I can’t see how Syria has broken the agreement, it looks instead like Israel is unilaterally pulling out of the agreement for opportunistic expansion.

    They’re probably going to try to capture the eastern third of the Golan Heights, then try to annex those as well?

    > This agreement has collapsed, the Syrian soldiers have abandoned their positions.

    Is his argument that if the Syrians aren’t manning the border, the Syrians won’t care if the Israelis take the remaining territory?

    It’s a strange justification, honestly.

  6. Let’s not forget that these borders were only established in 1916 and the Golan Heights have been controlled by Israel since Syrias failed attempt at eliminating Israel in 1967.

  9. I have a question. Is netanyahu the ruler for life in Israel?

  10. Is he trying to start another war? There is a new group which might be neutral or even somewhat friendly towards Israel and he starts occupying and bombing them right away…

  11. Other neighbors will help themselves too. Syria will break apart.

  14. Is there ANYTHING good happening in the world anymore?

  15. Probably should wait to see how things shake out before seizing territory. Wouldn’t a friendly relationship with a neighbor be a good thing?

  16. “I want to make it clear – we will make our own decisions, and the State of Israel will do everything necessary to defend itself,” – Netanyahu

    Immediately seizes territory in the Golan Heights after Syrian government collapses as a means to expand territory

  17. Hopefully the new rebel government of Syria will make a new one… But I doubt it.

  19. The context:

    The government’s soldiers left, and the rebels already attacked the UN forces there, forcing Israel to intervene to repel the attack and defend them.

    The UN forces then fled, forcing Israel to take over the demilitarized zone (a strip of a few km along the border), until a stable syrian government can enforce it.

    That’s all that happened, people are making way too much out of it.

  20. I guess the argument is if the country that brokered the deal no longer exists, does the agreement still stand? And more importantly, does Israel want to broker with Islamist Rebels that now control the country? I wouldn’t be surprised if Israel does airstrikes on military installations as well.

  21. Israel occupied most of it anyway, i guess me means annex it but avoided using that word? Or are they going for the tiny bit of the Golan Heights that Syria did retain?

  22. Whatever is left of Hezbollah was promising to defend the Assad government so this is a convenient way to both protect Israel and apply pressure on the incoming government.

  23. The Year is 2400.
    Israel decides to annex pakistan as a buffer to india.

  24. I’d like to think Syria could reform and become a democratic country… But I think it’s equally as likely that they get annexed by their neighbors. Turkey must have their sites on them as well, considering it used to be part of the Ottoman empire, and they already control a buffer zone in Syria.

  25. Let me guess, Israel encroaching on another country is self defense again…not the aggressor at all

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