Amotz Asa-El
Jerusalem Post, Dec. 13, 2024
“Turkey thus emerges from the Syrian revolution geopolitically reinvented.”
The drama is intense, and the losers are obvious: Russia, Iran, and the Syrian tyranny in which they invested so much treasure, energy, and prestige.
The Assads and their fate hardly warrant a discussion. This column warned already in the days of the elder Assad that he stood on “shaky social infrastructure” and that any Israeli deal with him “must take into consideration the prospect of his regime being toppled one morning” (“What to do with Syria,” The Jerusalem Post, September 3, 1999).
The ruthless general’s imposition of his Alawite minority on the Syrian majority could only last that long, as did his reckless policy of “strategic parity with Israel,” an economic absurdity shouldered by a huge army that was built over decades, only to unravel in hardly three days.
The Assads’ Baath regime has come and gone and will soon be historical trivia. That cannot be said of its sponsors in Moscow and Tehran. …SOURCE