In comments on Thursday, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman declared that from the Israeli perspective, the Syrian War is over, and returning to a pre-war situation, with the Assad government remaining in power.
This comes after the rebels in southern Syria had effectively lost all of their territory. It makes sense for Israel to view the war that way from their perspective, bordering southern Syria. It isn’t to say that the war is actually over, however.
Rebels still control substantial territory in northern Syria, mostly along the Turkish border. This includes northern Aleppo Province, and most of the Idlib Province. There are offensives likely to happen in the future there, but this is so far from Israel, it’s understandable it is off their radar.
Reflecting the return to normalcy in southern Syria, the UNDOF has announced that their observer forces are returning to the frontier between Quneitra and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. UNDOF had to flee the area in 2014 after rebels captured some of them.
This is the same Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor LIEberman who was chomping at the bit for a war with Syria because he would wipe out Assad and his entire family.
Would like to know, if this is LIEberman waving the white flag to Assad. LIEberman needs to be hung drawn and quartered and Assad should demand recompense for the havoc the war have cost Syria.
I guess Israel decides when wars start and stop ?
If Israel/US was forced to pay $$$ compensation for the havoc they cause, the wars would cease. Israel has a penchant for taking everyone to Court, its about time their victims ie Syria and Gaza turned the tables on the murderous and insufferable little gnomes.
Of course nothing matters to Israel except its immediate interests. Gaza is getting its fuel supplies cut, the Palestinians and other non-Jews are losing the few rights they had, Netanyahu is ordering the USA about as always. What’s new?
Yes, Avigdor – the “civil war” in Syria is essentially over and ——-YOU LOST!