Tel-Chai Nation

Jason Shvili makes a case for dividing up Syria, though there's 2 parts that need to be taken issue with:

Syria doesn't work. It never worked, and it never will work. It needs to be partitioned. Its major ethnic and religious groups – Alawite Muslims, Christians, Sunni Arabs, Druze, and Kurds – deserve self-determination. They should have the right to go their separate ways. The alternative is more bloodshed. Yet, the US is stubbornly and ridiculously trying to maintain Syria's territorial integrity following a decades-long civil war.

Ahem. Islamists are unqualified for "self-determination", because they don't support democratic values, and the koran certainly doesn't support civility. It should be noted that Sunni is an Islamic sect, so why include them? It'd be better to include the Yazidis, if any live in Syria. And while any and all attacks al-Sharaa's forces have committed against other Muslim communities in Syria is obviously bad too, that still doesn't excuse what the Religion of Peace is built upon.

Hence, President Trump has embraced Syria's new leader, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, an Islamist terrorist, who, until December last year, had a $10 million bounty on his head. Al-Sharaa has promised that under his rule, "The Syrian state is committed to protecting all minorities and communities in the country." But his actions and those of his regime say otherwise. In March of this year, forces linked to Al-Sharaa's regime ruthlessly massacred over 1,000 Alawite Muslims in the Syrian coastal region of Latakia. A few months later, in July, Bedouin tribesmen and other forces loyal to Al-Sharaa brutally murdered hundreds of Druze in Syria's Sweida province. And just recently, Alawite Muslims were forced from their homes in Damascus.

Despite these atrocities, however, all of Syria's minorities have expressed their willingness to remain part of the country. All they ask is that they have some autonomy to govern their own communities and not be subject to tyranny at the hands of Syria's Sunni Arab majority. But Al-Sharaa refuses to discuss any possibility of regional autonomy for Syria's minority communities, and insists on a unitary Syrian state. So does the Trump Administration, whose special envoy for Syria, Tom Barrack, declared that there must be "One nation, one people, one army, one Syria." Why does the US ridiculously insist on maintaining the territorial integrity of a country that should never have been created in the first place?

That's the sad case we have now, that Trump's 2nd administration is making the horrible error of recognizing a Muslim despot as a leader for the entire area, not a Christian/Druze/Kurd. And it definitely doesn't reflect well on the USA's track record when it comes to persecuted Christians either. Is it any wonder Betty Mahmoody and her daughter were thrown under the bus by those who could've spoken out in their defense?

Fortunately, all of these groups are geographically concentrated – the Alawites in Latakia, the Kurds in Rojava (north and northeastern Syria), the Druze in Sweida, the Christians in Wadi Al-Nasara (Valley of the Christians), and the Sunni Arabs in the rest of present-day Syria. Thus, creating borders for these new states should not be too difficult.

What will be difficult, however, is ensuring the viability of the newly-independent states. Latakia, Wadi Al-Nasara and Sweida have few natural resources, and the latter two have small populations. Rojava has significant natural resources and a sizeable population, but is landlocked and faces a powerful enemy in Turkey, which detests the idea of any part of Kurdistan obtaining independence. Wadi Al-Nasara and Sweida are also landlocked, as will the new Sunni Arab state be. All of these new states will need help from abroad to secure their independence. [...]

Israel will surely help the Druze of Sweida maintain their security and develop their economy. It has already taken action against Al-Sharaa's forces to protect the Druze from further atrocities. It would also be advantageous for the Jewish state to secure new allies by aiding the new states of Wadi Al-Nasara, Latakia, and particularly Rojava, as Israel and the Kurds have a long history of friendship.

Depending how things can be done, it is possible to develop these areas into agricultural regions, and that's a great way to build up an economy. In which case, let's hope Israel can avail in farming development as well.

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