Yochanan Visser is an independent journalist/analyst who worked for many years as Middle East correspondent for Western Journalism.com in Arizona and was a frequent publicist for the main Dutch paper De Volkskrant. He authored a book in the Dutch language about the cognitive war against Israel and now lives in Gush Etzion. He writes a twice weekly analysis of current issues for Arutz Sheva.On Tuesday Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Syria was building an even larger army it had before the civil war started in 2011.
“We see the Syrian army, which is not satisfied with taking control of all the Syrian territory, but is clearly building a new, large-scale land army that will return to its previous dimensions and beyond,” according to Liberman who spoke to reporters during a massive drill by the Israeli army on the Golan Heights.
Israel was following all the developments in Syria and was ready for every scenario, the Israeli DM added.
Liberman didn’t address the growing Iranian threat from Syria, but he no doubt knows what’s happening on the other side of the border with Syria where the Iranian-Russian backed pro-Assad coalition seized the last pockets of Islamist resistance at the end of July.
Iran is tightening the noose around Israel - not only in Syria where the Mossad reportedly killed the country’s most important missile scientist last Saturday - but also via its odd proxy Hamas, the Sunni Islamist terror organization that rules Gaza.
To understand what’s going on in southern Syria on the other side of the border with Israel, one should read a research paper by the Institute for National Security Studies written by Orit Perlov, a social media analyst who focuses on Syria.
Iran, not Russia, is the dominant actor in Syria, Perlov writes, while adding that the Islamic Republic “controls the Syria- Iraq and Syria-Lebanon border crossings, and tailors the re-organization of areas and communities based on an ethnic element.”
To help Assad regain control over territories he lost during the first phase of the now seven-year-old Syrian war, Iran established the Syrian National Defense Forces (NDF), which today has 90,000 fighters, most of them Shiites and Alawites.
The NDF is the equivalent of the Iraqi Hashd al-Shaabi umbrella organization of predominantly Shiite militias, established under the supervision of Qassem Soleimani, the shrewd commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps which has up to 5,000 soldiers in Syria. READ MORE
“We see the Syrian army, which is not satisfied with taking control of all the Syrian territory, but is clearly building a new, large-scale land army that will return to its previous dimensions and beyond,” according to Liberman who spoke to reporters during a massive drill by the Israeli army on the Golan Heights.
Israel was following all the developments in Syria and was ready for every scenario, the Israeli DM added.
Liberman didn’t address the growing Iranian threat from Syria, but he no doubt knows what’s happening on the other side of the border with Syria where the Iranian-Russian backed pro-Assad coalition seized the last pockets of Islamist resistance at the end of July.
Iran is tightening the noose around Israel - not only in Syria where the Mossad reportedly killed the country’s most important missile scientist last Saturday - but also via its odd proxy Hamas, the Sunni Islamist terror organization that rules Gaza.
To understand what’s going on in southern Syria on the other side of the border with Israel, one should read a research paper by the Institute for National Security Studies written by Orit Perlov, a social media analyst who focuses on Syria.
Iran, not Russia, is the dominant actor in Syria, Perlov writes, while adding that the Islamic Republic “controls the Syria- Iraq and Syria-Lebanon border crossings, and tailors the re-organization of areas and communities based on an ethnic element.”
To help Assad regain control over territories he lost during the first phase of the now seven-year-old Syrian war, Iran established the Syrian National Defense Forces (NDF), which today has 90,000 fighters, most of them Shiites and Alawites.
The NDF is the equivalent of the Iraqi Hashd al-Shaabi umbrella organization of predominantly Shiite militias, established under the supervision of Qassem Soleimani, the shrewd commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps which has up to 5,000 soldiers in Syria. READ MORE
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