A senior Israeli official acknowledged this week that Israel helped topple the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad indirectly by preventing the Iranian regime from reinforcing Assad’s failing military.
The regime fell late last year after Israel defeated Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. Following the ceasefire in Lebanon in late November, Syrian rebels in the western portion of the country launched an assault that reached Damascus within days.
Turkey has long been acknowledged as one of the key backers of the Syrian rebel militias, who eventually installed former jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa as interim Syrian president.
However, Israel’s role has…
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