Netanyahu and Trump Discuss the Syrian File and the Occupation's Fears of Turkey Entering Gaza

At a time when the Prime Minister of the occupation, Benjamin Netanyahu, is preparing to hold his summit with President Donald Trump, the Syrian file appears as one of the files they will discuss, in light of the fact that the reality on the ground in Syria primarily serves Turkey and its president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in addition to the occupation's fears of Turkish entry into the Gaza file.

General Yisrael Ziv, the former head of the Operations Branch in the occupation army, claimed that "the Americans do not understand the depth of the knot happening under their noses in Syria, especially after the recent incident in which two of their soldiers were killed, because the Syrian army being rebuilt consists of remnants of the previous army, but mainly of reinforcements from opposition militants, who will form part of the new Syrian forces, which have not yet been able to control more than half the territories."

And he added in an article that "the Israeli assessment of the Syrian situation is that Ankara has a clear agenda and wants a return on investment in exchange for its support for the revolution, and sees Syria as part of Greater Turkey, and has obtained Trump's blessing for that, especially since Erdogan is taking charge of it step by step, as he brings in military forces and intends to build a large base near Damascus, and encourages and creates economic participation everywhere in Syria, at the forefront of which are economic assets from oil, minerals, and ports."

And he explained that "the Israeli reading of Erdogan is that he has a regional strategic vision for Turkish influence, as he wants to be the main player in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and wants to influence the occupation in the Golan and Gaza, and invests heavily in enhancing his defensive and offensive military capabilities compared to the occupation, and does not hide his desire to confront it, and feels strong and supported when NATO is behind him and Trump's embrace on his right, and his strategy will be tested very soon in the matter of the presence of his security forces in Gaza."

And he affirmed that "if Trump decides in favor of Turkish soldiers entering Gaza, it will not only be a great victory for him over Israel, but a clear sign of his growing strength against the Americans at our expense, and it will greatly contribute to strengthening his regional leadership, and for us it will be a major political and security failure, and therefore there is not only fear of losing freedom of military action in Gaza and Syria, but Turkey will become a leading regional leader, and as an entity opposed to us, it will be more dangerous to it than Iran, because of its political power capable of driving a wedge and distancing the United States and Europe from Israel."

And he affirmed that "another difficult problem that Netanyahu will face in his meeting with Trump is that he does not fulfill the conditions of the ceasefire he committed to, and made it unilateral in practice, this is the case in Lebanon, where he attacks small and large targets there every day, and similarly in Gaza, where the dose is less, but the attack on Raed Saad constitutes a clear violation of the ceasefire, and the reason he provided did not really convince anyone."

And he explained that "it should be said that in the case of eliminating Saad and al-Tabtabai specifically, Israel had a very valid reason to eliminate them given their importance, even at the risk of reprimand from the United States, but even if some attacks were justified, it is unjustified on the other hand that the occupation does nothing to strengthen the political side of the agreement, which is a fundamental party for the agreement to become stable."

And he pointed out that "Netanyahu is working against the stability of the agreements to benefit politically from Erdogan's renewed narrative, the new master who learned from October 7, and attacks everything that moves, and above all does not want to show withdrawals to the international borders, because withdrawal looks bad."

And he concluded by saying that "it is clear that this approach contradicts sound security policy, because it deceives the public that from now on it can attack every day until the end of time, a kind of endless war, and this unrealistic illusion will bring reverse results on normalization, and will harm tourism, the economy, and reserves, and will be impossible in the budget, and will harm Israel's political position and more."