Syria on a plate as Turks, Zionists sharpen their carving knives

Alameen Templeton

Turkish forces are amassing along the Syrian border in preparation for a possible invasion the neighbouring country alongside the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA).
Meanwhile, Israel is deepening its occupation of southern Syria while the new Syrian leadership is vowing the country will never be used to attack Israel.
Türkiye and the SNA Tuesday announced the start of an operation against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northern Syrian town of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab).
Carving up Syria
Al Mayadeen reports Turkiye wants a security belt 30 kilometers wide on the border with Syria and is already close to achieving its goal.
The Zionists are doing much the same thing, moving tanks through the Syrian village of Saida in the Golan Heights between Daraa and Quneitra on Tuesday.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani, who now goes by his “real” name Ahmad al-Sharaa, told the UK’s The Times Monday that the new Syria would not be hostile to Israel and he called on Tel Aviv to withdraw from the country and stop its airstrikes.
The former Al-Qaeda leader said, “Israel’s justification was the presence of Hezbollah and Iranian militias, so that justification is gone.”
“We are committed to the 1974 agreement and we are prepared to return the UN [monitors]. We do not want any conflict whether with Israel or anyone else and we will not let Syria be used as a launchpad for attacks. The Syrian people need a break, and the strikes must end and Israel has to pull back to its previous positions,” Julani added.
Invasion ‘imminent’
The Turkish military has built a concrete barrier between Kobani and the border, while Turkish warplanes are flying sorties above the city.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Tuesday quoted a US official who said a Turkish cross-border operation could be imminent.
The WSJ adds SNA fighters and Turkish commandos and artillery are now concentrated in large numbers near Kobani, a Kurdish city in Syria on the border with Turkiye.
The Cradle reports Turkiye began building up its forces near the border two weeks ago as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) toppled the government of Bashar al-Assad and occupied Damascus.
Turkiye has sought to prevent Kurds from forming contiguous regions on its southern border.
Turkiye first supported ISIS and then sent its own forces to invade northern Syria multiple times to prevent such a Kurdish region from being established, The Cradle reports.
Kurds still in the middle
The US military partnered with the Kurds to create the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in 2015. The US and SDF occupied land outside of traditional Kurdish control, including Sunni Arab areas containing Syria’s oil fields and wheat-producing regions.
The New York  Times says Kurdish official Ilham Ahmed urged President-elect Donald Trump to prevent a new Turkish invasion.
He claims Turkiye’s goal is to “establish de facto control over [Kurdish] land before [Donald Trump] take[s] office, forcing [the US] to engage with them as rulers of [Kurdish] territory”.
Ahmed wrote to Trump in a letter saying: “If Turkey proceeds with its invasion, the consequences will be catastrophic.”