The public sentiment regarding the Israel-Syria conflict is highly polarized, with many supporting Israel's protection of the Druze community while others criticize its military actions as aggressive and hypocritical. There's significant frustration over the ongoing violence and concern about U.S. support for Israel possibly exacerbating regional instability.

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There's a lot i'm missing about the situation in syria apparently. Or the israelis have really gone 110% stir crazy. What the actual fuck?

Pallington

I have mixed feelings about this situation. On one hand, nothing of value has been lost, and I have little concern for the lives of those traitors and murderers who have harmed the Arab people. However, it's clear that Israel's intervention is driven by a desire to seize territory south of Damascus in pursuit of a Greater Israel. I stand firmly with the Syrian people in their resistance against both imperialism and oppression, whether it's from within or outside their borders. It's crucial for them to realize that relying on a Western puppet will not save them from the relentless advance of Western imperialism.

Kooky-Sector6880

The war pigs just can’t help themselves lol

ChineseBlackGuyBBCCP

Why are they doing this? Golani has been an obedient little lap dog so far.

cyklops1

This is a sickness. It feels like Israel can't go a day without bombing something.

futanari_kaisa

Greater Israel was always the goal don’t fool yourselves with the niceties of Israel’s allyships

cheeseburgercats

America: Damn, Israel needs our help!

Let's send enough money to them so Americans can't even retire.

AccumulatedFilth

Israel taking advantage of a weakened Syria. Even with Jolani playing his part, Israel would much rather have an Israeli in charge.

Thedogfood_king

Do the most famous fantasy books that people belive in also gave Syria to the white European invaders whom larps as indigenous people of the region they invade?

CamouflagedFox

I literally just woke up 10 minutes ago and had barely a sip of coffee and tsk, it seems almost daily I see something new &amp; horrifying Israel continues to do. Man this is ridiculous!

beaudebonair

This plays into my suspicion that israel is trying to drag the u.s into regional war in the middle east so it can pick up the pieces and create it's "greater israel" project

  
edit : lots of people here seem to be falling for the convenient narratice that israel is benevolently helping out the druze.. and for what exactly?

  
israel is using syria's infringement on druze autonomy as an excuse to escalate and ask for the u.s's help, nothing more

Content-Act-6647

If you want peace you have to be armed and ready to fight Israel. If you stand down they attack you. They don’t understand anything else. They are a primitive violent culture given unlimited money military equipment and political cover to kill. 

They only that stops them is threats of missiles going the other way.

count210

Dumb fucks thought normalizing would turn them into the next UAE. Let that be a lesson to all the fools in the region.

Nothereforstuff123

Israel is so fucking horny for a huge regional conflict. Bunch of assholes.

No-Island-4804

Western sanctions against Syria were literally just lifted and now Israel is bombing them? What the hell? Greater Israel I suppose.

Irrespond

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galemaniac

This is the present Jolani gets for selling out Syria to the imperialists: a missile attack on your defense ministry and your land steadily being encroached on and occupied.

Psychological-Act582

I don’t think you all understand. They HAVE to use these arms. They HAVE to go through supply to justify the demand for more. They HAVE to do this to artificially inflate the corporate stocks of military supply companies that so many Israelis hold. 

Their economy is one of war. Imperialism. Missiles fired is money earned. 

millenial_traveler

Blood for the blood god.   
Wtf is going on? Wasnt syria frendly to them, tf?

House_of_Sun

Looks like its time to go mask off about their Greater Israel aspirations.

JucheSuperSoldier01

Step 1 take down Assad with syrian isis


Step 2 install Syrian isis in power


Step 3 go against Syrian isis in the name of fighting "terrorism"


 seems like it's gonna be their new modus operandi 

Stannisarcanine

How can netanyahu be such an warmonger? Fucking god...

S4nt3ri4

that is the definition of a terrorist state.

MouseShadow2ndMoon

Going by the very solid assumption that America controls Israel and thereby green lit this -how does attacking the government you put in place further American interests in the region? What has the HTS government done? These seem like very relevant questions.

tTtBe

floodingurtimeline

Jolani is a dog lol

It is deadly to be a friend of the west

TheKaijuEnthusiast

This reporter from Lebanon has really good analysis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QmNGYA0gzw

jet_pack

Ahmed al-Sharaa thus far is playing the cards he is given. Israel is a terrorist state, and Syria is no match for them. They have to be obedient and friendly with Israel to have any chance of rebuilding Syria. The alternative is you get fucked up by a constant barrage of missiles as Israel is known to do to their neighbours. To call him a puppet is incredibly reductionist. There is no plan b, no alternative game here - Israel rules the world and anyone that falls out of line is eliminated. So you play by their rules if you have a hope in hell of rebuilding Syria. 

The attributing of the Alawite massacres is dubious; there are still a ridiculous amount of individual groups and offshoots that all are fighting for power. I think it's fair to say the civil war is still ongoing, and there are countless terrorists roaming free that haven't been tracked down yet. Many of them of course responsible for massacres like that video of civilians being lined up, shot and piled into a mass grave.

FjordByte

cautious_human

What? I thought Al-Jolani was an honest lapdog?

AmbitionAnxious927

BrokenShanteer

Israel publicly said that they are worried about the prospect of a unified Syria after HTC took over, that’s why they expanded the golan heights buffer zone and are continuously doing air strikes in southern Syria, no surprises to be had

long-taco-cheese

They love peace,  i know because they told me that

paddyboy1916

Isn't this Israel's declaration of war on Syria???

SheepherderSerious95

Israel can hit everyone without getting the big media calling them terrorists. They hit Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran...... And yet there's no big media calling them by the correct name.

cellorc

Remember that their "promised land" includes everything between the Nile and the Euphrates. Controlling Palestine was never the end goal.

schuup

This is the result of normalisation with Israel, congratulations on Syria's Freedom.

King-Shadow-Realm

euphoricbisexual

The only language Israel understands is force.

Feeling-Beautiful584

HT2000A

Why is Israel always in a war? What the fuck

hashtagperky

deryq

Is Israel basically saying FU to the entire world and showing us they can do whatever they want and there is nothing anyone can do about it because they are sucking American dick?

ALittleBitOffBoop

readditredditread

Evil Putin continues his bombing wrath!

Oh wait...

AmeriC0N

Syrians we're celebrating the crippling of the axis of resistance, and wanted to normalise ties with Israel.  Well, consider your relationship normalised.


*Whipps out smallest violin*

Witty-Software-101

The ministry must have been KHAAAAMAS. The most moral army^TM would never do such a thing right? R-r-right?

MonsterkillWow

Worried_Jeweler_1141

I always thought Assad was coming back after the Ukraine war ends.  I think Israel is just making sure Syria is as weak as possible regardless of who has control in the future.

Antique-Ad7635

Strange. I thought Syria was a US puppet now.

catsarepoetry

3 things are consistent in this life:

Death, paying tax, Israel bombing their neighbouring countries

WafflesTrufflez

Israel are the world's terrorist state. They are the rabid attack dog of the empire. Act with complete impunity. One day their house of cards will come crashing down.

murderouspangolin

Lucky someone was on that roof ready too capture the perfect framing of it all you know, as it happened

Reasonable_Meet4253

Going to sticky a clarification, since scrolling through the comments it is evident that there is a lot of confusion about this. While famously insular, the Druze community is not led by a singular leader or group of leaders. The Israeli Druze are led by one guy, and there's something like a two or three way split among the Syrian Druze. When you read something like _'Syrian Druze leader calls on Israel to halt attacks'_, or _'Syrian Druze leader requests Israeli military support'_, keep in mind that the leader(s) in question do not speak for the Syrian Druze as a whole; the community is politically divided at present.

The largest Syrian Druze faction is led by Sheikh Hamoud al-Hanawi, who adopted a conciliatory posture toward the Assad regime during the civil war, opposing violence aimed at overthrowing or seceding from the Assad government largely for fear of persecution by Islamists if the rebels won. Since said rebels won, al-Hanawi has adopted a similarly conciliatory posture toward the new al-Sharaa regime, probably hoping for a similar arrangement of _"Don't cause us trouble, we won't trouble you"_ as he had with Assad. **This group has cautiously supported al-Sharaa, and opposed Israeli intervention**

Closely aligned with the al-Hanawi faction--to the point that the two men are often discussed as joint leaders of a single faction--is Youssef Jarbou's _'Unitarian_' faction. They desire to be largely autonomous from Damascus, with Jarbou even demanding total withdrawal of the Syrian military from Suwayda shortly before the ceasefire was announced, but they do not call for outright independence and are opposed to violence against the Sharaa government. **This group is generally opposed to al-Sharaa, as well as Israeli intervention.**

A breakaway faction led by Hikmat al-Hijri is more radical, coalescing in early 2025 from a mixture of anti-Assad militias that sought to achieve something like a Syrian confederation, along with previously Assad-aligned militias which had taken up law enforcement in Suwayda province as the Ba'athist military fell apart. Over the past few months this faction has greatly expanded in size and escalated violent attacks on government loyalists, owing to fears of anti-Druze violence perpetrated by government-aligned Islamic fundamentalist militias. This faction very briefly hoped for cooperation with al-Sharaa and the negotiation of an autonomous Druze state within Syria, but now favors outright secession. **This group wants an independent state, and supports an Israeli intervention to achieve this.**

Any corrections would be more than welcome; it is very difficult to find good information on Syrian Druze politics as a non-Arabic speaker and it is quite possible that my summary is not entirely accurate.

p00bix

I just want Syria to prosper and have peace. Man.

TF_dia

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dittbub

syrian here, people are doing some next-level sanewashing with this strike on the more centrist side of reddit, i'm as saddened as anyone that sectarian violence is flaring back up, and i'm not playing apologist for any side here, but a military HQ, in the middle of the most important square in the capital city, that's not a strategic defense decision, this is a tailor-made choice to anger as many people as possible. to raise tensions over the breaking point while syrians are already stressed as is

let's just think about this rationally for a minute, not even a week ago there were uncontrolled fires needing international aid and SDF clashes in the north, now the south is uncontrolled chaos, the government was already showing itself to be incapable of forcing all the factions to stay in line, what's a direct shelling of it's central headquarters supposed to do when the entire problem is the government being too weak to enforce it's authority? if you believe that i'm wrong, and it's actually the military directly allowing the massacres to happen for sectarian reasons, why not force its hand through the peace deal that was taking place a few days ago? despite the land grab, already bad civilian mood with the gaza situation, and complete control of the airspace, the transitional government seemed all but begging for a peace deal. the US was backing it, and yet here we are, Netanyahu knows that he can just bomb the central square and have the international community behind him under any justification, that's worth remembering.

Nes_On_Craigslist

This is what I can gather:  
- Israeli intervention is making the situation substantially worse.  
- Netanyahu is deliberately stoking instability in other countries to cause conflicts with Israel for the sake of delaying his criminal trial.  
- The Syrian government apparently decided to send in one of the units that was previously involved in the Latakia massacres to suppress unrest in the south. Entirely predictable events occurred.  
- The unrest was basically tit-for-tat killings between warlords before it erupted into full-blown war a few days ago. Captagon was also apparently involved.

In other words, literally no side here is acting in good faith. Please send in the blue helmets already.

Terrariola

Question to those who say that this is done to protect Druze minorities in Syria: Would it be fine for Jordan or Egypt to bomb Tel-Aviv to protect Palestinians?

Skagzill

To a deleted comment asking if the Druze are that important to Israel:

Yes they are. “Blood oath”. The Druze are probably the most loyal minority in Israel to the state and serve in the army at higher rates than even the Jewish population. 

The former IDF chief who has in the post until a few months ago actually criticized the Government for not doing enough yesterday, as well as **Israeli Druze** leaders themselves saying the Druze had been abandoned.

Jakexbox

Enough is enough. Entirely destabilizing for no fucking reason.

Goldmule1

Israel trying to destabilise Syria again. The Assad era situation of Syrians killing each other in a divided land suited Israel much more than a potential united and recovering Syria, even despite the new Syrian government's lack of animosity and chance for rapprochement.

BlackCat159

Israel is acting with impunity because the United States and western leaders have let them operate freely through nonstop disgrace. They are doing everything to become a pariah state to the world

Sneaky_Donkey

justbuildmorehousing

It's very odd how every comment seems to just be skipping over the crucial bit, of Syrian Government forces killing members of the Druze community. Just a lot of pushing this as Israel just bombing for no reason. 

Situation is escalated on the border with the Israeli Druze community wanting a lot more action from Israel forces to protect Syrian Druze. One hopes its some bad militant factions in the army not obeying command, however compete silence from Al-Sharaa is concerning given violence committed by State forces on both Druze and Alawites communities.

Yes_That_Guy5

"C'mon! We need ongoing wars to stay in office!  Fight me!"

- Bibi

tomdarch

Druze in Israel are attempting, and sometimes succeeding crossing into Syria to help their brothers  and have stated that if the Israeli government doesn't step in they will, they have also threatened the bond between the Druze and Israel. 

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250715-syrian-druze-say-govt-mission-of-peace-devolved-into-rampage

&gt;"Government forces entered the city on the pretext of restoring order... but unfortunately they indulged in savage practices," said Rayan Maarouf, editor in chief of the Suwayda 24 news website.

&gt;"There have been cases of civilians being killed... dozens of them... but we don't have precise figures," he added, blaming government fighters and their allies.

Read this article on i24NEWS: 

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/levant-turkey/artc-katz-warns-syrian-regime-to-withdraw-forces-from-druze-majority-suweida

bakochba

I’m totally sure this won’t reflect insanely poorly on the US.

anangrytree

Unironically would support a Nato intervention against Israel atp.
At the very least the EU and America should cut off all funding and aid towards Israel, and probably place some sanctions for their warcrimes and aggression towards Syria.
There has to be a red line regarding Israels actions

spongoboi

ItspronouncedGruh-an

I am strongly supportive of Israel in the recent years, but some of the Bibi's actions are just jarring. This is one of them. You had a regime on your borders that you could reasonably work with, but no, there absolutely must be a demonstration of power undermining that regime and its relationship with you.

Revachol_Dawn

Everyone on reddit now suddenly thinks al Queda are good because israel bad.

SwordfishOk504

what's the justification though?  
Golani acting pro Israel didn't help, it seems

JoeXOTIc_

for anyone who justifies this by siting syria attacking druze militias. Well, Hamas attacked Israel for a record massacring of 41 kids in the west bank in 2023 \[**UNICEF and Save the Children** stated that 41 Palestinian children were killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in the first nine months of 2023.\], why aren't you pro Hamas? don't you think these hostages deserves it? what a dumbass logic.

Not to make terror apologia here, I don't support the jihadists in charge, but the fighting is with Druze opposing non obedient militia factions and it's relatively extremely small scale. and it's just Syria trying to be a non-failed state by monopolizing power, destroy militias (especially when opposing), plus this is an expected result from them and other minorities supporting Assad in his massive massacres against Sunnis. fuck around and find out, the minorities (assad is a minority supported by minorities) they started massacring the Sunnis first. if those Sunnis were Jews, you'd say they have the right to defend themselves.

How surprising, nothing about the druze getting massacred and ethically cleansed, 
Nothing about the new syrian government shaving druze beards

The west was so quick to lift the sanctions over syria that he is willing to ignore their past and present crimes 

Sad biased world

No condemnation from UN,Europe or anyone.
They just ignore it.
And its the second ethnic cleansing done by the new syrian government in the last months

PavelnMe

The terrorist state attacked another country.

Ok_Farm1185

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Like in Iran, IDF loves to do this stunt

Oh hail Israel defender's of the Druze and oppressors of Palestinians. Make it make sense 🤣

joyboy-91

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Israel just seems to be attacking anyone and everyone in their vicinity now. I guess because bibi has the orange toddler in his pocket, he feels like he’s untouchable.

JajaDingDong69-69

Reminder: Jolani and his band imbeciles allowed Israel to take Mount Hermon the highest elevation in Syria overlooking Damascus and Jolani allowed Israel to destroy the entire military infrastructure in Syria so effectively the entire country is defenseless. This means Israel can shell the entire city with no resistance. Greater Israel expansion project is Netanyahu's only means of repairing his reputation in the eyes of his psychotic people.

Famous-Teacher8260

So does this yahoo always have an 🍆 up his 🕳️

SpecialGanache617

The first thing the Israelis did when Assad fell was invade Syria and steal land. They destroyed the Syrian navy. Apparently this war will go on until Netanyahu dies of old age.

Ornery_Cookie_359

Zionists are slow learners. Hope some country sends some ballistic missiles to Syria so they can post them to Israel.

AtheosIronChariots

Keep on
 Bite off more than you can chew, but that's ok, America will foot the bill.

Plus_Session438

bomboclawt75

What?

I guess you mean Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.

Gaza - they attacked first, you write it as if it’s Israel going out of their way and on their own to attack Gaza and they did nothing wrong nor did they start it.

Lebanon - again, same story. A day after Hamas, Hezbollah began shooting rockets at Israel unprovoked.

Syria - first strike was Israel destroying empty weapon storages that had dangerous weapons Israel didn’t want the Jihadists that rule Syria to have, I think you would’ve wanted the same from your government if ISIS took control of a neighboring country to yours, with their capital being just 100 KMs from your home.

All the rest of the attacks came only after Syria attacked Druze and entered the demilitarized zone.

TimTom8321

Hard to take sides here... On one side is a country led by genocidal maniacs, Israel. On another side is a country led by genocidal maniacs, Syria.

backhand_english

Not a single word about the attack over the druze by jihadists!?

ThatAd4373

Thank you Israel and thank you Kurds for saving the Druze from the genocide by the Syrian islamist militias.

MoroccoNutMerchant

و في انذال بدهم يطبعو و يركعو لهالسرطان

shawarma_la7ma_3137

I mean what Israel doing is war. They’re literally attacking and killing the Syrian soldiers. And there’s nothing that they can do.

Ganoish

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it anymore

Fuck this guy

Sai-San_

So, I guess this confirms that Israel supports the latest separatist movement.


I was expecting Iran to move first, but Israel is a close contender.

Virtual-Pension-991

لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله

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