An Israeli flag on Mount Bental in the Golan Heights on May 10, 2018. (Credit: Jalaa Marey/AFP)
As Israel has been striking targets linked to Iran or Hezbollah in Syria for several years, its bombing campaign against military sites of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has intensified following the latter’s downfall.Simultaneously, the Israeli military has crossed into an unoccupied buffer zone in the Golan Heights — territory seized in 1967 and officially annexed in 1981 — entering Syrian territory officially for the first time in 50 years. These developments occurred shortly before the government of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu approved a bill last Sunday aimed at doubling the population in the annexed part of the plateau.What is the nature of Israel’s project in the Golan, and more broadly, in Syria? Michael Mason, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics (LSE) and co-author of The Untold Story of the Golan...
As Israel has been striking targets linked to Iran or Hezbollah in Syria for several years, its bombing campaign against military sites of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has intensified following the latter’s downfall.Simultaneously, the Israeli military has crossed into an unoccupied buffer zone in the Golan Heights — territory seized in 1967 and officially annexed in 1981 — entering Syrian territory officially for the first time in 50 years. These developments occurred shortly before the government of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu approved a bill last Sunday aimed at doubling the population in the annexed part of the plateau.What is the nature of Israel’s project in the Golan, and more broadly, in Syria? Michael Mason, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics (LSE) and co-author of The Untold Story of...
