The Syrian government of al-Sharaa is taking territory from the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces, and the United States is backing it. As we read in Middle East Eye:
Earlier this month, Syria’s military launched an operation in Aleppo’s al‑Ashrafiyah and Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhoods, areas held by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) for years. Damascus accused the SDF of killing civilians with sniper and mortar fire.
Despite criticism from the SDF, US officials quietly endorsed the Syrian army’s advance, according to sources familiar with the discussions, a signal of growing American frustration with the SDF’s resistance to compromise.
The Kurdish-led SDF has long been a key US partner force in the fight against the Islamic State group (IS), and has been armed, trained and funded by Washington since 2015.
American troops continue to maintain a network of military bases and outposts across SDF-held northeastern Syria, officially to support the counter‑IS mission and safeguard critical oil fields under SDF control.
Experts believe the Syrian army wouldn’t have been able to attack the SDF without tacit approval from Washington.
Turkey wants to unify all of Syria under Turkish control and can’t do this as long Kurds are controlling swathes of the country, and the USA wants to make sure that Turkey remains as the dominant power in the Levant in order to act as a counter against Russia. So its not surprising to see that the US is standing by and allowing the Kurds to be defeated. Israel wants for the Kurds to retain their territory because that would mean a divided and weak Syria that Turkey cannot fully control. But since the USA wants Turkey to be dominant in Syria as a counter to Russia, Turkey is being enabled and backed by the US to entrench itself in the region regardless of Israel’s fears of a rising Turkish power.
Israel and Turkey are both in Syria. But, they are not friends and are on the verge of clashing over who is going to control Syria. Turkey wants to control the Syrian air bases, but Israel does not desire this and even bombed the T4 air base in the Homs region to discourage the Turks from taking it. Turkey currently has the largest army in the Near East; it certainly has a navy larger than that of Israel’s, and it is the second largest military force in NATO. And now, it is smack right next to Israel in Syria. Hence, the Israeli government’s Nagel Committee (which was created to make estimations for Israel’s defense) stated in January that “The threat from Syria could evolve into something even more dangerous than the Iranian threat … Iran has long been our greatest threat, but new forces are entering the arena, and we must be prepared for the unexpected.”
In other words, Israel knows that Turkey is more dangerous than Iran. But the world watched Iran attack Israel, watched Iran’s missiles bypass both Israel’s Iron Dome and America’s interceptors and hit Israel itself. If Turkey is more dangerous than Iran, and now you have both Iran and Turkey locking in on Israel, Israel is doomed. But what unleashed this disaster for Israel? It was the zionist lobby itself. It pushed for the overthrow of Saddam, and Israel had to face Iran as a result. The zionist lobby pushed for Assad to be overthrown, and now Israel is facing a rising Turkey which has filled the power vacuum created by the US and Israel.
After Assad was overthrown, Netanyahu made a victory speech, saying that Mr. al-Assad’s collapse “is the direct result of our forceful action against Hezbollah and Iran, Assad’s main supporters”. This was also the result of Israel backing Syrian rebels. Foreign Policy reported how “Israel began arming rebel groups aligned with the Free Syrian Army in 2013, including factions in Quneitra, Daraa, and the southern areas of the Damascus countryside. The arms transferred at the time were mostly U.S.-manufactured M16 assault rifles.” It also reads that “Israel went from supporting hundreds of fighters to reaching groups comprising thousands of rebels.” So Israel backed the Syrian revolution and proudly took credit for the overthrow of Assad.
Now, Israel is facing Turkey. It boasted of its actions, but is only paving the path towards its own destruction. After Assad was toppled and Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was assassinated, Israel was in a state of ecstasy, thinking that they have crushed Iran’s allies and thus have crippled Iran. But the world watched as Iran bypassed both Israel’s Iron Dome and America’s interceptors and struck Israel. Iran’s rise was due to Saddam’s overthrow, which was pushed for by the pro-Israel lobby. And now, Turkey is facing Israel. This was due to Assad’s overthrow, and this was pushed for by the pro-Israel lobby in the US. Around a thousand Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the slaughter in 2023, and this is against a small paramilitary group called Hamas. How do you think Israel will do against the second most armed country in NATO — Turkey? Israel will be devastated. On September 21 of 2025, the Israeli reservist general, Yetzhak Brik, wrote:
“This policy of Turkey stems from its desire to increase its regional influence and secure its security interests, while filling the void left after the fall of the Assad regime, and it poses a risk to Israel that is tens of times greater than the Iranian threat.”
Turkey sees Syria as a part of its sphere of influence, but Israel is trying to fragment Syria into various cantons and thus prevent Turkey from controlling Syria. What will eventually happen? What happened when NATO kept being active within Ukraine which Russia has always seen as part of its sphere of influence? Russia invaded. Eventually there will be a clash between Turkey and Israel and it will devastate the Jewish state. General Brik also wrote that the “Turkish army is the second largest in NATO, and it is constantly strengthening. While the Israeli Air Force has a significant technological advantage, especially with stealth aircraft like the F-35, the Turkish army enjoys an advantage in manpower and a large naval force. It is also developing its own ballistic missiles with increasing range, which will be aimed at Israel”.