US Anger in Israel as US says it’s withdrawing from Syria - The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that American security officials notified the Israeli occupation army that the withdrawal is set to commence within two months.

US troops in Syria, 22 October 2019 [Twitter]

Anger has mounted in Tel Aviv as the United States informed Israel of its decision to begin a gradual withdrawal from Syria in the coming period, according to Israeli media reports yesterday.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that American security officials notified the Israeli occupation army that the withdrawal is set to commence within two months.

Israeli officials quoted by the paper said that Tel Aviv is still pressing Washington to delay the pullout, fearing that “Turkiye will take over more strategic assets in the new Syria” once US troops leave.

The report clarified that the decision by President Donald Trump to withdraw American forces from Syria does not come as a surprise. Trump had announced his intention to pull troops out of the region on 20 January.

The paper noted that Israel is concerned about heightened tensions with Turkiye, which has been openly working to expand its influence in the region following the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime.

It added that “Israel believes the withdrawal of American forces could embolden Turkiye to take control of additional strategic military assets on the ground.”

Since a coalition of opposition factions ousted Al-Assad in late 2024, the Israeli occupation’s military has launched hundreds of strikes in Syria, under the pretext of targeting military installations, naval bases and air bases to prevent the new administration from seizing the former army’s arsenal.

Israeli forces have also infiltrated the buffer zone in the Golan Heights and expanded their occupation of Syrian land.

Israel has expressed concerns over Ankara’s growing influence in Damascus, especially given Turkiye’s alliance with the interim Syrian government.

Last week Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he has “great relations” with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, adding that “Any problem that you have with Turkiye, I think I can solve. I mean, as long as you’re reasonable, you have to be reasonable. We have to be reasonable.”

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[LifeAlert]

don't worry bibi, your orange prostitute is just moving over from syria to gaza, lebanon, or egypt - and his brainrotted simps are ready and willing to tell us how financing another for-profit forever war and draining what's left of america's population to act as your human shields is a good thing

 

[mindlessobserver]

And this time the Pentagon isn't going to lie to Trump about the withdrawal.

 

[Thewildpelican]

This isn't wrong? America has the right to place it's business first, no? If Israel wants something extra, then they have to go get it on their own.

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

Sorry, we're done being your attack dog/bodyguard/piggie bank. The winds are changing, and most American's under 45 don't give a shit about you.

 

[TowinKarz]

Not our circus, not our monkeys.

 

[pwnest injun]

I hope we don't drop $80bn worth of weapons on our way out of the country that we never had a legal reason to be in in the first place...

 

[Burd Turglar]

Sorry, we're done being your attack dog/bodyguard/piggie bank. The winds are changing, and most American's under 45 don't give a shit about you.

Yep, that's why we're totally not just shifting to another sandy shit stain. Not at all.

 

[6 Years Ago]

Israel being mad is like reddit being mad - chances are it's a good thing.

 

[soy_king]

After reading this and seeing the God-tier levels of anti-Israel bias, I took a look at Middle East Monitor and it turns out it's just another mouthpiece for the Qataris like Al Jazeera and therefore is Muslim Brotherhood (and Hamas) supportive. You can carry on with your day now.

 

[BradeRunna]

What's that wignat faggots? I thought Trump was a Jew puppet and would start a war with Iran?

 

[Strix454]

The US is reducing its presence from 2000 soldiers to 1000 soldiers in Syria. The US troops are mostly in the Kurdish areas of Syria and the fear is that without a US presence, Turkey will move into the area and beat the living shit of the Kurds over a variety of long-held mostly legitimate disputes. A variety of other groups in the region prefer to to keep the Kurds intact as a sort of pistol that can be pointed in various different directions as needed.

The complaints about Turkey being there are both ironic and rather stupid since just about everyone in the region and beyond encouraged their intervention and their presence in Syria for over a decade.

 

[soy_king]

The complaints about Turkey being there are both ironic and rather stupid since just about everyone in the region and beyond encouraged their intervention and their presence in Syria for over a decade.

The concerns are likely more based off the fact that Erdogan's a soft islamist and is very much engaging in Neo-Ottomanism in his foreign policy when it comes to Syria, and probably what's more annoying is that Erdogan uses Turkey's position as second largest army in NATO and holder of the Bosphorus as leverage against us and his threats to flood Europe with (more) migrants unless he gets paid as leverage against Europe.