Alwaght | News & Analysis Website

The war in Syria is one thread of a larger geopolitical web being woven in the region in a bid to trap the Resistance Axis: Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas.
Unraveling this tangle of a plot seems complex for distant observers but will be cleared up once it is understood that ISIS, along with other terrorist groups, are not independent organizations that emerged out of the spur of the moment to establish an alleged Islamic State.
While many think that ISIS is the main enemy the west is fighting with in Syria and Iraq, it couldn't be more of a fallacy.
The extremist group has been operating in Syria since 2011and has succeeded in wreaking havoc on the country. With ongoing clashes, killings, lootings, abductions, rape and many more horrendous acts, violence in Syria, one of the Resistance Axis's members, is spiraling out of control.
On a map, Syria's geopolitical importance can be spotted. To the north, there is Turkey, a friend-turned-foe after the recent developments. To the east, there is neighboring Iraq which has been plagued with a similar outbreak of terrorism. To the West, there is Lebanon, home to the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah. To the south, there is Jordan and, inopportunely, Palestinian territories occupied by the Israeli regime.
Tel Aviv has been wary of the regional presence of the Resistance Axis as an existential threat. Syria's geographical location has always been a major concern for Zionist leaders as it stands as an indispensable linking device between Iran and Hezbollah.
However, the emergence of terrorist groups and the war they ignited inside Syria has mitigated the worries of the Israeli regime. Draining Syria in a war of attrition has, seemingly, tilted the balance to the advantage of the Israeli regime. On the one hand, the Golan Heights which lie on the Syrian-Israeli border have fallen under the extremists' control bringing to the Israelis a better sense of security. This presence of terrorists builds a wall of defense for the Israeli regime which is not regarded as these groups' arch enemy.
To this end, a UN report has corroborated claims that the Israeli Mossad is cooperating with Al-Nusra Front in and around the Golan Heights in addition to already existing reports that extremists fighting against the Syrian army are being treated in Israeli hospitals.
On the other hand, Tehran, Hezbollah, and Damascus have their hands full with the Syrian crisis. That's why the Israeli regime thinks this war will divert Iran and Hezbollah's attention and will render them too preoccupied with helping their strategic ally to pursue their aspiration of liberating Palestine from the ongoing Israeli occupation.
In a 2014 speech, Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah, Hezbollah Secretary-General, said: The US and those who support them are sending weapons and political cover to Takfiris from all over the world and are bringing them to Syria... They do so in order to destroy the Resistance Axis against Israel.”
Defiantly, the Hezbollah leader also declared back then that “The project against the resistance is crumbling. The resistance axis will achieve victory."
But the Israeli regime still has hopes of rattling the foundations of the resistance.
After Iraq, Syria, the US-backed Israeli regime is attempting to use ISIS against another member of the Resistance Axis: Hamas.
ISIS terrorists threatened to turn the besieged Gaza Strip into another of their fiefdoms.
“The rule of sharia (Islamic law) will be implemented in Gaza, in spite of you. We swear that what is happening in the Levant today, and in particular the Yarmouk camp, will happen in Gaza,” said a masked ISIS member in a video statement referring to an ISIS raid on a Damascus camp where Palestinian refugees reside.
Hamas has regretted its cooperation with what it believed to be "moderate rebels" fighting against the Syrian government at the beginning of the conflict. Soon after committing this strategic mistake, the organization became aware that it was part of a ploy targeting the Resistance Axis and retreated. Hamas came to the realization that it would be cutting the branch it is sitting on, since it heavily relies on financial, political, and moral support from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The threat is there and the only way to confront it is through unity. Back to history the Israeli regime has fed off the Palestinians' disintegration and now is not the time to let history repeat itself. In the face of a possible ISIS threat in Gaza, Palestinians must shed their differences and unite for the same cause they've been fighting for decades.
If ISIS manages to overrun Gaza, Palestinian resistance groups fighting against the Israeli occupation would be debilitated. They who are encircled by an external enemy internally would be engaged with an internal foe.
It has already been established that ISIS has no plans of attacking the Zionists; otherwise they would've done so already. In the middle of this mesh of collaborations, it is apparent that ISIS presence in Gaza would serve the Zio-American project.
The ISIS project, whether in Iraq, Syria, or Gaza best suits the Tel Aviv regime that is keen on weakening their enemies in the region by exporting terrorism to their territories. However, studying the Resistance Axis leaders' stances, one can conclude that the proxy war through ISIS and what follows has only boosted up their determination to cleanse Israeli regime from the Islamic world's map.