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2026-11-03 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria seeks Islamist expansion into Lebanon, Golan to serve Turkish interests, expert tells 'Post'
[Jpost] The Mecca pact is being pushed now to fill the power vacuum that could be created should the Islamic regime fall, JCPA expert Yoni Ben-Menachem told The Post.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is serving Ottoman Turkish interests by seeking to join the Mecca Pact and expand a Sunni Islamist axis led by the Moslem Brüderbund, potentially positioning it to fill the power vacuum should Iran’s Islamic regime fall, Yoni Ben-Menachem, a senior researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani confirmed on Saturday that "discussions are currently underway to evaluate Syria’s entry into the Mecca alliance," according to Syrian state media. The alliance currently includes The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
member, but not the most reliable...

, Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
, Pakistain, and, potentially soon, Egypt, bringing together several major Sunni powers.

"They estimate that Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
is about to collapse, so they created this Mecca Pact, this Mecca alliance, which will also include Sunni countries that are not part of the Moslem Brüderbund but are also Sunni. They will fill the vacuum left by the collapse of the Shi’ite axis following the fall of the Iranian regime," he said, theorizing that Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
would soon announce it is considering joining.

Despite this, Iran has responded positively so far to the Mecca Pact, with experts previously telling the Post that the regime viewed the new security alliance as a shift away from Washington, weakening the United States’ power in the Middle East and Gulf. Senior officials from the pact countries held open talks with Tehran in Iran last week.

He noted that since the fall of the Assad regime, there have been growing calls among Syrians in large-scale demonstrations and mosques calling for jihad against Israel, specifically to claim the Golan Heights, territory Israel claimed during the 1967 Six Day War.

EXPANSIONIST AMBITIONS GO BEYOND ISRAEL'S SECURITY ZONE, MENACHEM ARGUES
That desire for expansion, he continued, was not simply a response to Israel’s security zone, though Menachem argued that it justified the zone’s presence, but part of an expansionist aspiration.

"They always had aspirations to take over Leb
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
, and up until 2005, there was a military presence of the Syrian army in Lebanon," he said. "They had to withdraw from Lebanon after the liquidation of Rafic Hariri, the [former] Lebanese prime minister."

SYRIA SEEKS TO REBUILD ARMY FROM ARMED GROUPS WITH TURKISH SUPPORT
Now, Syria is focused on building up its army with the more than 130 gangs currently dispersed across the country, with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
forming the "backbone" of this new venture, he continued, all with Ottoman Turkish support.

"According to Israeli security sources, this new army poses a danger to Israel if it succeeds in being formed, because its members are jihadists who are considering attacking Israel in the future. They are also supported by Turkey, which is very hostile toward Israel," Menachem said.

"This is why Israel says the threat justifies the establishment of the security zone. We cannot take the risk of withdrawing from the zone, because they could do to us what Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...
did to the Jewish communities along the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
border."

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