“Syria is Gaza on steroids, and that is the next war, with absolute certainty”, said Amichai Chikli Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister. “There is no avoiding it.”
The remarks are not the first time Chikli has openly threatened war against Damascus. In June, he said Israel would wage war on Syria “sooner or later”, claiming that Syria and Turkiye posed a greater challenge to Israel than Iran. “We will wage war on Syria, sooner or later, because it and Turkiye are far more worrying than Iran,” Chikli said at the time.
What’s missing in these hoarse war cries and chest thumps is any kind of explanation of why there is as threat and what is threatened. That’s because the “threat” is really that the apartheid regime cannot stop killing and conquering without having to face its own contradictions. It’s gone full fascist, and needs constant war just to stay afloat. I look forward to the over-extension and collapse phases.