TEHRAN – After targeting Israeli airstrikes in Syria, nearby areas in Damascus and the southern region under the pretext of protecting minorities, analysts are investigating deeper strategic goals behind the escalation of military stance across the region in Tel Aviv.
In an exclusive interview with the Tehran Times, political commentator Munir Daair offers a drastic analysis of the broader geopolitical design behind Israeli actions, including colonial logics that underpin repeated attacks from Gaza to Syria.
Daair argues that these attacks are part of a long-term project fully supported by the West to redraw the Middle East through fragmentation, instability, and forced fatigue among resistance.
In this in-depth interview, he warns that Syria could be a central aspect of the now dangerous and expanding colony roadmap.
Below is the interview text.
Given the current conflict between Syrian forces and the Druze militia, what does it mean for Israeli security calculations and regional power balance, especially in Israeli military intervention?
What is happening in Syria and military attacks by the Zionist regime have little to do with the security and relations associated with the so-called “new Middle East.” This is part of the roadmap for not only Zionist occupations, but also for large regional roadmap that is fully supported by Western countries, particularly the United States.
The roadmap aims to lead to a situation in which neocolonial rule in the western part of the region is maintained, via satellite states created in Palestine in 1948. Over the past 76 years, this ambition has been challenged in Palestine by the Palestinians themselves with Arab support.
However, Arab support for Palestinians is declining, creating an unprecedented opportunity for Western countries to advance their roadmap. What we’re looking at now is an attempt to engage and defeat the remaining challenges on that roadmap.
Full-scale attacks on resistance forces in the region, Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen and more recently Iran, aim to forcefully achieve the outcome. The theory in play is that what cannot be achieved by force can be achieved by more force.
The colonial roadmap is full-fledged.
What is the stated excuse for Israel to attack Syria, particularly in light of the Syrian interim president’s oath to protect the pledge of Syria?
It’s the same playbook. The attack on Syria is described as an attempt to protect the Druze. The attack on Lebanon is described as aimed at protecting Jewish settlements on the northern border of Palestine with Lebanon.
The attack on Yemen is excused to protect maritime freedoms in the Red Sea, but only Zionist-related or doomed transports are being attacked, not others.
Despite all the evidence that proves that there is no military angle in Iran’s nuclear program, an attack on Iran has been described as preventing Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The attack on Iraq was described as an attempt to prevent Iraq’s acquisition of WMD, but no one was found.
It’s the same playbook we’ve seen throughout colonial history. Colonial invaders have always used pretexts to justify attacks. But in order to truly understand what we are witnessing, we must look at these attacks in the context of a larger regional geopolitical power play.
Given the complex sects, international and geopolitical factors in play, what scenarios will unfold in southern Syria?
I just said, I have to look at Syria in terms of the geopolitical power play of the region. Syria is not an isolated case. Unless the regional countries, Iran, Turkey and Arab countries take serious challenges, the hard-following roadmap will succeed.
Neither Iran, Turkish, or Arabs can do this on their own without coordinating with each other and acting as a single regional bloc. Unless these three components of the local block act together and own local security arrangements, the future of the region looks bleak and the colonial roadmap will be successful.
How do you assess the wider impact of Israeli strikes on Damascus and the strikes on South Syria on security calculations in neighboring countries such as Lebanon, Jordan, and particularly Turkey?
Lebanon had escaped from falling against the only force that resisted Zionist ambitions in Lebanon, not through military forces. The claim that Hezbollah ruled Lebanon was falsely proven by the fact that politics, not the military, decided to disenfranchise Hezbollah.
Yemen continues to stand out as the troops playing in Yemen hold government control over what has become a divided state for all intents and purposes. The terrain helps Yemen and makes it impossible for a ground invasion to succeed. Syria is slowly falling apart from our eyes.
Jordan is not a party to resistance. Iran continues to be attacked economically, politically and more recently, militaryally.
It leaves Türkiye. Turkey is gradually surrounded by forces hostile to its ambition to be a serious global player or even a regional player. The problem now, politically, military, and even economically, Turkey is perhaps the most present country to lose if the colonial roadmap is successful.
Consider the crisis in the Turkish Mediterranean basin and the Greek language to control Turkey’s transport in the Aegean Sea. It only gets worse under the new colonial roadmap. The rope around the Türkiye is tight.
Turkey is making the most profitable by coordinating regional security arrangements away from Iranian, Arabs and NATO ambitions.
It takes a long time to understand the true changes happening in Syria.
Beyond official justification, what do you think is the alternative or strategic motivation behind Israel’s repeated attacks on Syrian territory?
Fishing in the unstable seas is playing in Syria. It takes a long time to understand the true changes happening in Syria. How to identify players. What designed the change? It is too early and the current situation does not help to draw a clear conclusion.
However, it is worth noting that the current situation comes after the US lifted economic sanctions in Syria, his American counterpart meeting in Saudi Arabia, under his new identity, the current situation has been widely accepted by his new Westerners. Russia and Iran had withdrawn from Syria.
Syria is now the most fertile ground for advancing its colonial roadmap. It offers great opportunities for troublesome situations.
Finally, what we need to prevent is a sense of fatigue and boredom about the current situation, which guides us to move us away from it. That’s dangerous. Because on the other side it’s not too tired or boring. We are mercilessly pursuing our goals. The genocide of Gaza continues. A person who kills a Palestinian is neither tired nor boring. The colonial roadmap is full-fledged. Attacks on the region are escalating.
Despite false claims to the contrary, military accumulation continues. Tiredness and boredom are giving us only the side. The aspect that you have to continue to resist. It is this dangerous feeling seen in the midst of us that keeps me worried.