By James M. Dorsey

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has reduced his security toolkit to overwhelming military force and landgrabs.

Following on the heels of Israel’s devastation of Gaza, weakening of Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, and assault on Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank, Mr. Netanyahu is now demanding that the Syrian army and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the insurgent group that led the ouster of former President Bashar al-Assad, refrain from deploying south of the capital Damascus.

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By James M. Dorsey

is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies as Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, co-director of the Institute of Fan Culture of the University of Würzburg and the author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer, and a forthcoming book with the same title.