Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 04.05.2025
According to reports, the Zionist airstrikes focused on several cities in the country, explosions were also heard in the Damascus area. It was also reported that Zionist warplanes attacked the area of the village in Hama province, as well as in Daraa.
Syrian media reported on Friday night (between Friday and Saturday) a large wave of Israeli attacks in several provinces, including Daraa, Damascus, Hama, and Latakia. Among other things, military positions, camps, air defense bases, and missiles were attacked.
The Zionist government has been using deadly clashes between Islamist armed factions, security forces, and the armed Druze, that is a religious minority near Damascus. This latest clash is another sign of the continuing fragility of Syria after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.
In March, fighting between security forces and armed forces of the Alawites loyal to Assad left hundreds of people dead, including civilians. Other armed factions loosely affiliated to the new weak government also became involved and carried out revenge killings against local Alawites.
Outside players have once again been involved, with Israel saying it carried out air strikes to protect Druze civilians. The new Syrian government has said it is determined to bring unity and stability, but it cannot prevent the ethnic conflicts as it is too weak.
Why is the Syrian government weak?
The socioeconomic political world is made of uneven and combined parts. Thus, in the region known as the Middle East or South West Asia, Israel is an imperialist state of settler colonialists and at the same time, the Arabs and Iranian states that are semi-colonies, which allowed Israel to intervene in them.
To be free of imperialist domination and exploitation, the revolution that begins with democratic demands must go further and lead to a socialist revolution of the workers and the poor peasants as part of a world revolution.
Syria is a country in West Asia, located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. a population of 25 million across an area of 185,180 square kilometers. Ottoman administration followed a system that led to each ethno-religious minority—Arab Shia, including the Alawite sect Muslim, Arab Sunni Muslim, Syriac Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Maronite Christians, Assyrian Christians, Armenians, Kurds, Druze, and Jews—constituted a millet. The religious heads of each community administered all personal status laws and performed certain civil functions as well.
Syria went through a political revolution, and the revolution has not been completed. The leadership of the revolution is a coalition led by HTS, the dominant armed group in northwest Syria that rose to prominence when it secured its control over the Idlib enclave after internal opposition fighting since 2017. During this time, HTS eliminated or absorbed other factions, often forcing rival groups into Turkish-controlled territories in the north or fully dissolving them.
HTS’s efforts to distance itself from extremist ideologies further shaped its relationship with other Islamist factions. Offensives against groups like Hurras al-Din in late 2019 and Ahrar al-Sham in 2017 allowed HTS to either dissolve these rivals or fully subordinate them. The capture or killing of their leaders reinforced HTS’s control over Idlib.
While HTS was involved in direct confrontation with rebel and Islamist factions besides the former regime forces in Idlib along the frontlines of Idlib enclave, its activities extended to the areas in northern Syria controlled by Turkish-backed factions. HTS and its affiliates clashed with different Turkish-backed factions of the Syrian National Army (SDA)
The leadership was a coalition of different Islamist militias. As a result, the government of Al Shara is weak and does not control some Islamist militias that are sectarian and clash with other ethnos groups -the pro-Assad Alawites and the Druze, and this allows Israel to intervene in order to break Syria to small, weak states.
Syria’s economy is in ruins, large parts of Syria have been destroyed, and a large part of the population is dependent on humanitarian aid. Turkey is playing a central role in the reorganization of Syria following the fall of the Assad regime and making a huge profit. While other external players, such as Russia and Iran, are losing influence, Ankara’s position is, on the one hand, pursuing the creation of stability in the region; on the other hand, it is confronted with potential conflicts with other powers such as Israel and the Kurdish militias.
The Druze during Assad’s rule were armed by Assad and formed their militia the Jaysh al-Muwahhidin. Now, the Druze in Israel who serve in the Zionist army are demanding that Israel assist the Druze in Syria. Druze protesters blocked roads in northern Israel late Thursday night and into early Friday morning during a protest calling for the government to assist the Druze community in Syria amid sectarian violence that has claimed dozens of lives in recent days.
In any military conflict between the Zionist monster and the HTS government, the interest of the international working class is the defeat of Israel without giving any political support to the Syrian government that wishes to join the Abraham Accords.
Israel out of Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza!
Complete the revolution in Syria!
For the Arab revolution