Netanyahu Claims Syria an 'Opportunity' For Israel, Again
Netanyahu's government, as highlighted by The New Arab, views Syria's instability as an 'opportunity' to entrench military power. This isn't groundbreaking foreign policy; it's a playbook recycled from conflicts past. One might recall Netanyahu articulating similar 'opportunities' during the Lebanese civil war, or even leveraging the Syrian civil war itself, which began in 2011, to assert control
over the Golan Heights—territory illegally occupied since 1967. The only 'new' thing here is the current iteration of chaos. When one faction's security doctrine consistently finds 'opportunity' in its neighbors' suffering, it's not diplomacy; it's strategic opportunism. How many 'new' eras of instability must arise before we recognize the pattern as the policy?