See new posts Conversation please log in to view this image Aimen Dean @AimenDean Follow please log in to view this image Today, the Israeli Air Force struck not just the Syrian Ministry of Defense in Damascus, but the Presidential Palace itself. A direct attempt on President Ahmad Al-Shar’a’s life. This isn’t posturing. This is war. And it’s madness. Total, reckless madness. Let me be absolutely clear: Syria had nothing to do with October 7. Not a single Israeli was killed by a Syrian bullet. There was no imminent threat. No Syrian attack. No Syrian provocation. And still, Israel bombed the seat of government in the capital of a sovereign state. Why? Because of some invented narrative of “Druze blood brothers”? A minority within a minority whose self-proclaimed leader is rejected by two other senior Druze leaders and widely known to be erratic, armed, and criminally involved in smuggling and gang violence? No one outside of Israel believes this. Not one serious government. Not one serious analyst. And certainly not the Arab world, where Israel is already skating on diplomatic thin ice after the carnage in Gaza. October 7 earned you some global sympathy. This just evaporated it. Entirely. You didn’t just strike a building. You undermined seven months of Arab-led progress to rehabilitate Syria, to de-radicalize it, to bring it back from 14 years of civil war and jihadism. And all this, for what? President Ahmad Al-Shar’a was the only Syrian leader who explicitly and repeatedly gave security guarantees to Israel. To President Trump. To President Aliyev. To President MBZ. In Baku. In Abu Dhabi. He made it clear: no war with Israel; restoration of order in Suwayda; integration of Syria into a post-conflict regional framework. Instead of supporting that path, you tried to assassinate him. You have now left him with no option but to declare general mobilization. You’ve turned a potential partner into a wartime president. And worse, you’ve opened the gates to what may become a transnational jihadist resurgence. You said you didn’t want a jihadi army on your border. You just created the perfect conditions for one. And this time, it won’t be the fractured, chaotic militias of 2013. It will be seasoned, enraged, and united by your own strategic illiteracy. Make no mistake: •This is an act of war, unprovoked. •This is a colossal strategic miscalculation. •And this is how regional wars begin. The presidential palace in a sovereign Arab capital has been bombed. And not by Iran. Not by Hezbollah. By you. Even your allies and potential allies - Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Amman - are now shocked and outraged. And once again: There. Was. No. Syrian. October 7. Stop now. Cease fire. While there is still anything left to salvage. Though tragically, I fear it is already too late. 2:16 pm · 16 Jul 2025 · 28K Views 86 114 229 59
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I believe it even if I’m apparently the only person outside of Israel who does. The Syrian government aren’t the good guys here no matter how much any headline involving Israel leads to bleating.
