Barsam Mohammadi – Regional Affairs Expert
Within the framework of this plan, lands from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the entire of Jordan and Palestine are annexed to the occupied territories, and the dream of a Greater Israel comes into being.
It is worth noting that Greater Israel also includes parts of Anatolia in southeastern Turkey. Apart from Ankara’s interactions with Tel Aviv, this issue is a serious “alarm bell” for the Turkish government and society.
The “David’s Passage” is one of the first steps towards realizing the so-called “Greater Israel” dream that Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi, the leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, warned about in his latest speech. In part of his speech, Houthi stated: “The Zionist enemy has a plan called the David’s Passage… The criminal regime dreams of reaching the Euphrates River and now sees the opportunity at its disposal because it faces no obstacle to penetrating Syrian territory.”
The David’s Passage, which brings the Zionist regime’s leaders closer to the dream of a Greater Israel, is a corridor that will be created through the occupation of southern Syria, the provinces of Daraa, Sweida, Al-Tanf, and Deir Ezzor, and will reach the Euphrates. The area the regime is considering for the construction of the David’s Passage has fertile agricultural lands and is rich in water and oil resources.
Since November 2024, the Zionist regime, having entered the demilitarized zone that separates the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, has begun the process of constructing the David Crossing by building an eight-kilometer road southeast of the village of Majdal Shams and parallel to the Alpha Line.
Despite the many efforts that the Zionist regime has made to advance the “Greater Israel” project through the construction of the David Crossing, this project and its first step, although not to be underestimated, are facing “obstacles” and “serious challenges,” the most important of which are discussed below:
One; Implementing the David Crossing requires allocating several billion dollars in financial and economic resources. Providing such amounts is currently not possible due to the severe economic problems the regime faces due to the war. There are currently many uncertainties regarding financial and economic support and US support for implementing such a plan because the main focus of the Trump administration is currently on the Abraham Accords rather than other issues.
Two; The construction of such a corridor, which is several hundred kilometers long, requires the deployment of military bases and forces with air and defense support to ensure security and control of the road. In the current situation, when the Zionist regime is facing a shortage of equipment and a worn-out and exhausted army due to the Gaza war, allocating military forces and infrastructure for this task is practically impossible and, if possible, very difficult.
Three; The uncertain situation in Syria is the next challenge. Apart from the leadership cadre of Tahrir al-Sham, no one in Syrian society and even the armed rebel groups have pledged to the Israeli regime that they will remain silent in the face of its occupying actions. Especially if the regime starts building the corridor, it is not at all unlikely that it will face a military response from the dominant groups due to public pressure on the new political system.
Four; Russia is another obstacle in this regard. First, such a corridor is a challenge to Russia’s influence in the new Syria. Secondly, Moscow has repeatedly stated that even in the post-Assad era, Syria’s territorial unity and integrity should not be violated. That is why it has not allowed Turkey to carry out even limited operations against the Kurds.
Fifth, historical experience also shows that the Zionist regime has not been successful in advancing plans that exceed its capacity and scope. The “Ben Gurion Canal” project is a concrete example in this regard. Designed in the late 1960s, the Ben Gurion Canal sought to create an alternative route to the Suez Canal, which was the main maritime transportation route in the Middle East and was supposed to connect Europe and Asia.
This waterway began in the city of Eilat on the southern coast of the occupied territories on the shores of the Gulf of Aqaba (the water border with Jordan) and, after passing through occupied Palestine, reached the Mediterranean from the northern borders of the Gaza Strip. In fact, the Ben Gurion Canal connected the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
The bold vision of this plan could have transformed the economy of the Zionist regime, but it has remained silent for more than 60 years because its unilateral implementation and annexation of Palestinian territory could have inflamed the Arab world, made the canal vulnerable to attacks by the Palestinian resistance, including Hamas, and possibly turned a large part of Arab and Islamic society against the regime.
The claim of territorial expansion to a much larger area, several times the current size of occupied Palestine, at a time when the regime is in the most “critical” period of its 76-year existence and is already facing “major existential threats,” remains more like a “dream” than an achievable reality.
The Zionist regime must avoid relying on “false self-confidence” that relies on its weapons, technologies, and temporary successes. Annexing and conquering surrounding territories, which have a hostile population of over 150 million people, is not possible for the Zionist regime or any other country with limited military force and even strategic weapons.
Relying on weapons and capabilities that cannot overcome the two small resistance groups, Hamas and Jihad, while pursuing ambitious annexation plans is a “strategic mistake.”
The Zionist regime must understand the fact that its strategic ally, the United States, ultimately failed in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan against societies and systems that had no resources in comparison.
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