Israel’s response to the collapse of al-Assad’s government, including deployments in the Syria-controlled part of the occupied Golan Heights and a massive bombing campaign against the country’s military infrastructure, shows how Israel’s regional role has profoundly changed, says Rob Geist Pinfold, a scholar of international security at Durham University.
“Israel feels insecure – whether that’s true or not – and as a response to that insecurity what do they do? They take territory,” he told Al Jazeera. “We have seen that happen in Lebanon, we have seen that in Gaza, and now we’re seeing that happen in Syria.”
He added: “The irony here is that what we have in Syria is Israel basically creating a buffer zone to protect its original buffer zone which is the Golan Heights,” he added.
He also called the scale of Israeli strikes on Syria’s military infrastructure “unprecedented”.
“This shows that Israel is really changing its regional role,” he added. “Israel used to be a status-quo power – Now Israel is the revisionist power, it’s Israel that wants to change things.”
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