Zionist entity Weighing Involvement in Southern Syria: Report

Zionist entity has set new guidelines for confrontation with the Lebanese party of Resistance – Hezbollah, a World Tribune report said Monday.

An influential Jordanian think tank asserted to the website that Zionist military was increasing involvement in the civil war in Syria while challenging Hezbollah in Lebanon.

“The Al Quds Center for Political Studies said this represented a change in Israeli policy in the aftermath of the war with Hizbullah in 2006,” it said.

“Anyone reading the most recent chapters of Israel’s political/security discourse would note that Tel Aviv has begun to expand its red lines,” the report, titled “Changing Rules of Engagement,” said.

Al Quds Center director Oraib Al Rantawi said the Zionist entity was considering the establishment of what he termed a “proxy mini-state in southern Syria.” Al Rantawi cited the unprecedented visit by Netanyahu to injured Syrian gunmen treated in the Jewish entity.

“Based on the available information, there is credible talk of Israeli operational coordination, logistical support and occasional arms supplies to the armed Syrian terrorist militias in Daraa and Quneitra,” Al-Quds Center report said.

“And there are confirmed reports of high-level contacts with commanders of the various opposition warlords and axes in this regard,” it added.

The report cited the Zionist air strike on sites along the Lebanese-Syrian border on Feb. 24, pointing at two possible scenarios. First, the strike might have represented the Zionist determination to stop Hezbollah from controlling the mountains between Lebanon and Syria.

“Another scenario was that the enemy entity, amid U.S. inaction, has decided to secure southern Syria amid the failure of the opposition gunmen.”

“Be that as it may, Israel’s direct involvement in the northern battlefields, whether tactical or strategic, does not mean that the confrontation has been decided,” the report said.

“In fact, this development may reshuffle all the region’s cards without ensuring that the results of an Israeli war in 2014 would be any better than the results of the 1982 and 2006 wars, or the two American wars on Iraq and Afghanistan,” it concluded.

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