What’s the real motive behind Israel’s involvement in Syria?

As part of a string of cross-border attacks that have pinned the area, Israeli warplanes have struck Damascus.

Israel claims that the Druze minority in Suwayda, in the southern city, is the target of the attacks.

However, Ahmed al-Sharaa, the president of Syria, warns that Israel is attempting to cause conflict and division within the Syrian population for its own gain.

He has ordered the government’s withdrawal from Suwayda and promised to protect the Druze community as part of a ceasefire reached with Druze religious leaders.

But how will Syria’s future be affected by Israel’s intervention?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan

Guests:

Author of Lords of the Land: The War for Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007: Akiva Eldar

Gamal Mansour, a lecturer and political scientist at Toronto University.