Israel's war against the Lebanese "Hezbollah" gives rise to views about the possibility that Syria will soon be drawn into this conflict. Its geographical proximity to Lebanon may cause the US-backed Jewish state to launch a stronger attack on the Levant.

Netanyahu's main goal appears to be to systematically weaken and fragment Syria, leaving it under Israeli control, depriving it of a central government, and plunging it into a spiral of sectarian conflict. An environment of "managed chaos" would hinder Syria's recovery from more than a decade of war, turn it into a failed state, and strengthen Israel under the pretext of reducing any threat that might arise from a new Syria. From an article by Ali Bakir, assistant professor of research at the Ibn Khaldun Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences.