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The Trap in Damascus AYNAZ ANNI CYRUS
Israel’s secret talks with Syria’s new regime could hand Iran the battle map
SEP 17, 2025 – Opinion
When Axios leaked details on September 16, 2025, of Israel’s quiet negotiations with Syria’s new government, the headlines looked clinical: demilitarized zones, no-fly areas, and a guaranteed air corridor eastward. On the surface, that reads like Israel is cementing its security. But step back, and you see something far more dangerous. What’s being described is not a defensive arrangement. It is a document that risks giving Iran protection under the cover of a ceasefire and giving Syria’s fragile Islamist-rooted regime international legitimacy it has not earned.
Who Is Israel Negotiating With
The Syrian state is now in the hands of a transitional government, established after the collapse of the old order in late 2024. At its center is Ahmed al-Sharaa, installed as transitional president in January 2025 under an interim constitution. Al-Sharaa is not a technocrat or a neutral caretaker; he rose from the ranks of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a group born out of al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch.
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This “caretaker” government is a patchwork of Islamist factions and fragile alliances, not a stable democracy. For Israel to sit across the table from al-Sharaa is not to negotiate with a reformed state, but to legitimize a leadership that grew out of jihadist networks and continues to operate within Tehran’s orbit.
What Israel Is Offering
Axios laid out the proposal in careful terms:
Three zones in southern Syria, each with different military restrictions. The closer to Israel’s border, the fewer Syrian troops allowed. On paper, that lowers the risk of clashes. In practice, it depends on Damascus reining in militias it has never controlled.
Demilitarized and no-fly areas southwest of Damascus, meant to create buffers along Israel’s frontier. The idea is to keep aircraft, drones, and heavy weapons back. But no-fly zones are only as strong as the regime enforcing them, and Syria has long let Iran and its proxies operate freely.
A protected aerial corridor eastward, giving Israel written assurance it can cross Syrian skies to reach Iran if strikes are needed. This is the centerpiece. It looks like a safeguard, but once codified, it becomes a framework Iran can study, exploit, and use to rally international pressure whenever Israel acts.
Israel frames the deal as an update to the 1974 disengagement agreement, borrowing language from the 1979 peace treaty with Egypt. On paper, it appears precedent. In reality, it is new: Israel asking Damascus for permission slips on its most critical defense priority, stopping Iran’s nuclear march.
Why This Is Not Security, But a Trap
The corridor is the key. Israel believes it is securing access, but any agreement signed with Damascus would almost certainly include maps, boundaries, and operational limits. Once those details are written down and formalized, they do not stay secret. Agreements are archived, shared with guarantors such as the United States or Russia, circulated through the United Nations system, and often leaked or referenced in diplomatic channels.
Iran already has deep networks inside Syria. Intelligence officers, militias, and political allies ensure that whatever Syria signs will make its way to Tehran. Once Iran has access to those maps, it gains advance knowledge of Israel’s intended routes and restrictions. In war, surprise is everything. If Iran knows where Israel is likely to fly and what areas Israel has promised to avoid, then Israel’s most valuable advantage, unpredictability, is lost.
The danger is not only in the words written on paper. It is the visibility Israel hands to its enemy by locking strategy into a framework that Damascus cannot keep out of Tehran’s reach.
This is not speculation. The Oslo Accords produced detailed maps that Hamas studied and later used to plan attacks. The 2005 withdrawal from Gaza created a vacuum that Hamas filled, turning it into one of the most entrenched terror bases in the world. Each time Israel trusted agreements to protect its borders, its enemies used the paperwork as weapons.
By negotiating with Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government today, Israel is repeating that mistake on a larger scale.
Who Really Gains
Syria’s Transitional Government
The new administration in Damascus gains recognition that it could never have earned on its own. By negotiating directly with Israel, it receives a seat at the table of international diplomacy. For Ahmed al-Sharaa, this is not just policy but survival. He can present himself as a statesman who extracted concessions from Israel, even though his power rests on fragile alliances. Legitimacy abroad helps him consolidate power at home.
Iran
Tehran gains both time and protection. What Israel sees as a guarantee of access can just as easily become Iran’s shield. Once Israel commits its operations to writing, Iran will have the advantage of knowing where the red lines lie. That knowledge allows Tehran to continue strengthening its nuclear and missile programs while calculating around Israel’s constraints. Every delay or diplomatic layer buys Iran more breathing room.
Washington
The United States gains a headline. With the UN General Assembly convening, the White House wants to showcase “progress” in the Middle East. Whether the agreement holds or collapses later matters less than being able to point to negotiations as proof of diplomacy at work. For Washington, this is about optics, not outcomes.
Israel
Israel gains the least. At best, it can claim legal cover for strikes it has always carried out without asking permission. At worst, it binds itself to agreements that enemies can study and exploit. The element of surprise, critical to Israel’s survival, is replaced by documents that others can examine, circulate, and plan around. Once operations are mapped, they cease to be strategy; they become targets.
Israel does not need Damascus to approve its survival. A government led by an HTS commander is not a security partner.
A corridor to Tehran mapped out in Damascus is not an advantage; it is a trap.
Israel Completes ‘Laser Dome’, Set to Deploy and Burn Rockets, Mortars & Drones at Near-Zero Cost
Gaza got FAFO’d! What could they possibly have done to deserve this?? (Rhetorical question)
STAGGERING NUMBERS: The Israeli Air Force struck over 850 targets and hundreds of operatives in Gaza City in the past week, the military says, ahead of a ground offensive in the area that began last night.
[Ed.: If you kill them – THAT, they don’t mind. It’s part of their so-called religion. But, if you do this to them – it really gets to them! It’s an assault on their ‘honor’…]
HELP, HELP, THE JEWS ARE COMING!! (What did we do to deserve this?)
GAZA UPDATE — IT’S HAPPENING. AND IT’S ONLY THE BEGINNING. Avi Abelow
September 16, 2025 Israel Video Network – Pulse of Israel
After a night of intense, widespread IDF operations, with IDF tanks bank traveling the streets of Gaza City, assessments from within the army reveal a major turning point: over 40% of Gaza City’s population has evacuated. This isn’t just a statistic, it’s a strategic breakthrough.
The IDF is now actively maneuvering into key sectors of Gaza City. Two combat divisions have pushed into the heart of the terror capital, while another prepares to join. A fourth division secures the perimeter. Gaza City is being squeezed, tactically, militarily, and psychologically.
The army’s method is clear and effective: first, overwhelming firepower to obliterate Hamas infrastructure; then, the ground entry. Gaza is surrounded. The IDF has operational control around the entire city. This is no longer just about defense, this is decisive action.
This morning, the IDF issued a final warning to Gazans still in the city:
“The IDF has begun destroying Hamas infrastructure in Gaza City. Remaining in the area endangers your lives. Evacuate immediately, via Rashid Street, south of Wadi Gaza. Join the 40% who have already left.”
And let’s be clear: this isn’t just a military operation, it’s a humanitarian necessity. Every war taught us the same lesson: maneuvering forces on the ground is the most effective way to evacuate civilians and defeat terror. Airstrikes alone won’t cut it. Hamas uses civilians as shields, and then cries to the world when they get hurt. Enough.
And now, we have this: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, departing from Israel, stood firm behind our fight. In a powerful message from Ben Gurion Airport, he said:
“Our first choice is a peaceful resolution — but only if Hamas dismantles its military wing and stops being a threat. Sometimes, with savages like Hamas, that’s not possible — but we hope it is.”
Defense Minister Yisrael Katz declared:
“Gaza is burning. The IDF is striking terror infrastructure with an iron fist. Our soldiers are fighting bravely to free the hostages and defeat Hamas. We will not stop until the mission is complete.”
And Prime Minister Netanyahu responded to former U.S. President Trump with gratitude:
“Thank you, President Trump, for your unwavering support in our fight against Hamas and for the release of our hostages.”
Now, let me say what must be said — clearly and without apology:
We cannot allow any form of Arab self-rule in Gaza. Period.
Because Arab self-rule in Gaza always, always, turns into genocidal Muslim terror. Whether Hamas, ISIS etc it will turn into jihad. And then the rockets return, the tunnels return, the massacres return, the kidnappings return.
We’ve tried “disengagement.” We’ve tried “peace processes.” We handed Gaza over in 2005, and what did we get? October 7th. Burned babies. Massacred families. Slaughtered festivalgoers.
Never again.
Netanyahu and Trump might work towards Arab self -rule in Gaza, but it will undoubtedly eventually fail. And it is inevitable that we will make Gaza Jewish again.
The sooner the better to restore full Israeli sovereignty over Gaza. Not as occupiers, but as liberators.
We will rebuild, restore, and yes, make Gaza Jewish again. That’s not extremism. That’s survival. That’s justice. That’s the only way to guarantee peace, security, and future for our children.
The world can scream. The UN can cry. The left can rage.
But the truth is this: There is no Palestine. There is only Israel.
And we will ensure that Gaza never again becones a launchpad for jihad.
It will be a home for Jews, as the Gazans will have left thanks to Trump’s Gaza emigration plan.
Because only a Jewish Gaza can guarantee a safe Israel.
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[Ed.: God is raising up warriors
Isaiah 13:1-3 is the opening of a prophecy against Babylon, describing God’s instruction to raise a signal banner on a high mountain to summon an invading army. God declares that He has “commanded my sanctified ones,” calling His mighty warriors to execute His anger against Babylon. These are not just any soldiers, but those who “rejoice in my highness,” meaning they are ready and eager to fulfill God’s purpose.
Especially verse 15
◄ Isaiah 41 ►
JPS Tanakh 1917
1Keep silence before Me, O islands,
And let the peoples renew their strength;
Let them draw near, then let them speak;
Let us come near together to judgment.
2Who hath raised up one from the east,
At whose steps victory attendeth?
He giveth nations before him,
And maketh him rule over kings;
His sword maketh them as the dust,
His bow as the driven stubble.
3He pursueth them, and passeth on safely;
The way with his feet he treadeth not.
4Who hath wrought and done it?
He that called the generations from the beginning.
I, the LORD, who am the first,
And with the last am the same.
5The isles saw, and feared;
The ends of the earth trembled;
They drew near, and came.
6They helped every one his neighbour;
And every one said to his brother:
‘Be of good courage.’
7So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith,
And he that smootheth with the hammer him that smiteth the anvil,
Saying of the soldering: ‘It is good’;
And he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
8But thou, Israel, My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
The seed of Abraham My friend;
9Thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth,
And called thee from the uttermost parts thereof,
And said unto thee: ‘Thou art My servant,
I have chosen thee and not cast thee away’;
10Fear thou not, for I am with thee,
Be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I strengthen thee, yea, I help thee;
Yea, I uphold thee with My victorious right hand.
11Behold, all they that were incensed against thee
Shall be ashamed and confounded;
They that strove with thee
Shall be as nothing, and shall perish.
12Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them,
Even them that contended with thee;
They that warred against thee
Shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
13For I the LORD thy God
Hold thy right hand,
Who say unto thee: ‘Fear not,
I help thee.’
14Fear not, thou worm Jacob,
And ye men of Israel;
I help thee, saith the LORD,
And thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15Behold, I make thee a new threshing-sledge
Having sharp teeth;
Thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small,
And shalt make the hills as chaff.
16Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away,
And the whirlwind shall scatter them;
And thou shalt rejoice in the LORD,
Thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17The poor and needy seek water and there is none,
And their tongue faileth for thirst;
I the LORD will answer them,
I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18I will open rivers on the high hills,
And fountains in the midst of the valleys;
I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
And the dry land springs of water.
19I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia-tree,
And the myrtle, and the oil-tree;
I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane-tree, and the larch together;
20That they may see, and know,
And consider, and understand together,
That the hand of the LORD hath done this,
And the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
21Produce your cause, saith the LORD;
Bring forth your reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
22Let them bring them forth, and declare unto us
The things that shall happen;
The former things, what are they?
Declare ye, that we may consider,
And know the end of them;
Or announce to us things to come.
23Declare the things that are to come hereafter, That we may know that ye are gods;
Yea, do good, or do evil,
That we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
24Behold, ye are nothing,
And your work a thing of nought;
An abomination is he that chooseth you.
25I have roused up one from the north, and he is come,
From the rising of the sun one that calleth upon My name;
And he shall come upon rulers as upon mortar,
And as the potter treadeth clay.
26Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know?
And beforetime, that we may say that he is right?
Yea, there is none that declareth,
Yea, there is none that announceth,
Yea, there is none that heareth your utterances.
27A harbinger unto Zion will I give: ‘Behold, behold them’,
And to Jerusalem a messenger of good tidings.
28And I look, but there is no man;
Even among them, but there is no counsellor,
That, when I ask of them, can give an answer.
29Behold, all of them,
Their works are vanity and nought;
Their molten images are wind and confusion.
THE HOLY SCRIPTURES ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT
A NEW TRANSLATION Jewish Publication Society 1917
🕑 September 16, 2025 2:00 PM Israel Realtime
🟥 The IDF has expanded its ground offensive in Gaza City under Operation Gideon’s Chariots II. Troops from both mandatory and reserve service are engaged in fierce fighting, supported by the Gaza Division operating along the border with western Negev communities, Rafah, and Khan Yunis, while northern Gaza is also seeing significant action. This push builds on the gains of the first Gideon’s Chariots operation, aiming to dismantle Hamas infrastructure and achieve Israel’s war objectives.
💥 Over the past week, the Israeli Air Force struck more than 850 terror targets in Gaza City, eliminating hundreds of terrorists and paving the way for ground maneuvers. Leaflets have also been dropped, warning civilians to evacuate immediately.
‼️ Defense Minister Israel Katz delivered a blunt message: “Gaza is burning. The IDF is striking terrorist infrastructure with an iron fist, and IDF soldiers are fighting bravely to create the conditions for the release of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas. We will not relent and we will not turn back until the mission is completed.”
At the 162nd Division, Katz emphasized: “There is a breaking point that I hope we reach — and save much along the way to achieving the goal.” He further warned that if Hamas does not release the hostages and disarm, Gaza would be left in ruins, serving as “a monument to the murderers and rapists of Hamas.”
Prime Minister Netanyahu confirmed that Israel had officially launched the intensified phase of operations in Gaza.
🎗️ The hostage issue remains at the heart of the conflict. Israel estimates that of the 48 remaining hostages, about 20 are still alive. Hamas has conditioned their release on an exchange for Palestinian prisoners, along with demands for a permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal. Israeli leaders insist that military pressure is necessary to force Hamas to surrender and secure the hostages’ return.
🔸 The Arab-Islamic Summit in Doha ended with strong backing for Qatar after the Israeli strike in Doha wounded Hamas officials. The final communiqué declared: “We affirm our full solidarity with Qatar and support the measures being taken in response. We reject Israel’s repeated threats that Qatar could be targeted again.”
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned that Israel’s actions put the peace treaty at risk. An Egyptian official clarified his remarks as cautionary rather than threatening: “Al-Sisi is concerned that the actions of the Israeli government could lead to the collapse of the peace agreement. His speech was cautionary, not threatening.”
🔷 The IDF Spokesperson announced a planned exercise in Majdal Shams and Mas’ade starting this evening. Residents will see increased security forces and vehicle movement. The military stressed there is no security incident—this is a routine drill.
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Goldknopf Demands That Over 60 Chareidim In Military Prison Be Freed For Rosh Hashanah
What’s really happening with Hamas & Qatar.-Dr. Mordechai Kedar/Talkline With Zev Brenner [51:00]
Sep 14, 2025 #hamas #hamasattackisrael #hamasvsisrael
What’s Really Happening with Hamas, Qatar, and the Threat from Egypt
Dr. Mordechai Kedar speaks out on Talkline with Zev Brenner. Dr. Kedar, a leading expert on the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist movements, served 25 years in IDF military intelligence, specializing in Syria, Arab political discourse, mass media, Islamic groups, and Israeli Arabs. His insights cut through the noise—don’t miss this powerful interview.
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[Ed.: Okay, so here’s the plan: we’re going to send Netanyahu to New York once Mamdani is elected. When he gets arrested, we’re going to go in and take them both back to Israel. We will then place Mamdani in one of those little rooms in a Gaza tunnel, keeping him in the exact conditions Israeli hostages were kept (read: with starvation rations and torture,) and then, we will broadcast his dimly lit cell worldwide, 24/7. …Oh, (almost forgot,) before he dies, while he is still alive, we will drain his blood to make our matza! Go ahead! Make our day!
🕑 11:00 PM, September 13, 2025 Israel Realtime
🇮🇱 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich strongly criticized Israel’s muted response to what he described as a coordinated diplomatic campaign against the country. “The fact that a diplomatic attack on Israel is being met with Israeli silence is unacceptable and cannot continue. France and other countries are openly acting against Israel, and therefore Israel must apply its sovereignty as a preventive measure against the reckless attempt to establish a terror state in the heart of our land,” he declared.
🔹 Meanwhile, Jordan has conveyed concerns to Israel regarding the IDF’s mobilization tied to the creation of the new Eastern Division. The move is viewed in Amman as a potential escalation affecting regional stability.
‼️ In Cairo, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi revived his long-standing idea of a joint Arab force, modeled after NATO, which would be tasked with defending any Arab nation under attack. This initiative is gaining traction in discussions ahead of the Arab-Islamic summit set to convene in Doha.
⚠️ Tensions with Egypt have spiked after Israel’s airstrike in Doha that targeted Hamas leaders. Cairo announced it is reducing its security coordination with Israel “until further notice.” Egyptian intelligence officials claim Israel has been plotting to assassinate Hamas leaders in Cairo for years, with a previous attempt allegedly foiled during ceasefire talks. Egyptian officials warned that any attack on their soil would be answered with force.
🔴 The Doha strike left Hamas leaders shaken, with many believing Qatar is no longer a safe base. They are reportedly weighing relocation options, including Algeria, Malaysia, or Mauritania. Egypt, however, has insisted it would prefer to host them itself, signaling both leverage and risk in the regional power struggle.
🔶 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu linked the targeting of Hamas leaders abroad directly to the ongoing hostage crisis. “Getting rid of the Hamas leaders in Qatar would rid the main obstacle to releasing all our hostages and ending the war,” he stated, underlining Israel’s rationale for striking Hamas officials outside Gaza.
⚠️ Echoing this position, Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen vowed that Hamas leaders remain in Israel’s sights: “Those we did not reach this time — we will reach next time.”
‼️ Qatar, angered by the attack in its capital, announced: “We have made our decision and will respond to Israel soon.” Doha is weighing retaliation while attempting to balance its role as a mediator with its ties to Hamas leadership.
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