Israel’s Northern woes: Ensuring security amid growing instability – Jerusalem Studio

Ahmed a-Shar’a’s honeymoon as Syria’s new ruler lasted exactly three months and ended predictably in bloodshed. Hundreds of civilians, mostly members of the Alawite minority – which flourished under the despotic Assad dynasty – were massacred by the new regime’s loyalists. A-Shar’a’s efforts to portray his Jihadist identity as belonging to the past were exposed as a Shami sham. The chaos in Israel’s northernmost neighbour thus proved that Jerusalem’s cautious policy of forward deployment and relations with the Druze community and other minorities was indeed the correct one to adopt.