The Hidden Nature of Israel’s Middle East Hegemony

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 28 Jul 2025

Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service

15 July 2025 – I believe that the new Syria, whose president is Ahmad Sha’a, the head of HTS, an offshoot of Al-Qaeda, is an Israeli puppet state. I daily search for Middle East-related information, but I have never seen anyone else point out that the Sha’a or the HTS government is Israeli puppets. I am the only one who has said this theory. I cannot provide any solid evidence to prove my claim. People in the world may consider that my claim is nothing bur “my delusion and assumption,” just like my claim on the “hidden multipolarity [of the world order]”, which I have mentioned many times so far in my previous articles. （US Ends Foreign Terror Designation On Syria’s HTS, Nearly 2 Months AFTER Trump Met Its Leader） [IDF chief finally acknowledges that Israel supplied weapons to “Syrian rebels” (= HTS)]    [Israeli official: We’re passing messages to Syria’s HTS, not in direct contact]    [US to remove Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham from list of foreign terrorist groups]    [Who funds HTS rebels now in control of Syria?]    [How HTS’ ground strategy intersected with America, ‘Israel’s’ project in Syria]    [Syrian transitional government]

2. However, I consider that Israel is behind the fact that Sha’a’s HTS, which lost the Syrian Civil War and was in seclusion in Idlib under the Turkish supervision, overthrew the Assad regime in just two weeks and took over the Syrian government. The mastermind behind the rapid HTS uprising is Israel, not Turkey. Turkey cannot do it so splendidly. Israel has infiltrated and controlled the US and UK Intelligence Community, but Turkey is under the umbrella of the US and UK Intelligence Community. Israel’s intelligence is about two ranks higher than Turkey’s. I have never seen any rational commentary on why HTS suddenly became strong and was able to overthrow the Syrian government. This “lack of explanation” and the fact that Israel is secretly turning HTS into a puppet show Israel’s strength. （Syria says willing to work with US on return to 1974 disengagement deal with Israel）
3. As Israel uses HTS to overthrow the Syrian regime, Russia, which had previously held the air superiority over Syria, readily and covertly handed it over to Israel. This Russian move also shows that HTS is an Israeli puppet. Israel (Likud faction) is secretly in the multipolar faction, so it has been leaking many pieces of important information stolen from the US and UK Intelligence Community to Putin for some time. That is why Putin loves Israel and he is working together with Israel to move towards multipolarity. It is no surprise that Trump, another Israeli lover, is secretly a good friend of Putin. The US, Russia and Israel are working together to move towards a multipolarity world order. （Israel intends to include Lebanon and Syria in the Abraham Accords） [The Foundations of Anglo-American Intelligence Sharing] [Russian Jews in Israel]    [Putin’s Special Relationship With Jews and Israel]
4. In the Caucasus, Israel switched its support from Armenia to Azerbaijan, and changed the winner of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict from Armenia to Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan, a small dictatorship, suddenly gained international political power. Armenia is a stronger and more capable country than Azerbaijan, but for no reason it abandoned Nagorno-Karabakh and handed it over to Azerbaijan, and then made peace with Azerbaijan. I have never seen an article in the media or in the alternative media that rationally explains this mysterious and strange development. (Give the Caucasus to Turkey/コーカサスをトルコに与える）
5. From my perspective, these situations, including the incomprehensibility and lack of explanation, reek of Israel. In the modern world, Israel (Jews) has been in charge of reporting and commentary (and fabricating, distorting, and treating as conspiracy theories).  Israel could have made up a false explanation and spread it to make humanity trust them, but for some reason they have not done so. Perhaps they have left traces so that those who understand can understand. Anglo-Saxons like to make up false explanations and spread them. Israel is different. They are more blunt.（Israeli, Syrian officials to meet during al-Sharaa visit to Baku）
6. The other day, the PKK, a Kurdish organization that has been fighting armed struggle (terrorist activities) to achieve independence from Turkey, declared that it would renounce its arms. From now on, it will only engage in democratic political struggle. This movement began from the autumn of 2024, but there are no convincing commentary articles on why the PKK is renounced its arms. This also smells of Israel.（Peace with the PKK in Turkey could be getting closer） [The Evolving Israeli-Kurdish Alliance: Strategic Interests and Geopolitical Implications]      [From Alliances to Apparatus: Israel’s Historical Engagement with the Kurds and the PKK]    [Israel, Kurdistan, and the Prospects for an Asymmetrical Alliance]    [Why Syria’s Kurds Are Calling for a Strategic Alliance With Israel]     [Israel’s foreign minister calls for ties with Kurds and other minorities in Middle East]
7. The Kurds are divided between Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, and are oppressed as the minority forces in each of these countries. The Kurds in these countries have continued their separatist movements politically and militarily. The United States and the United Kingdom (with Israel), which have maintained a sole hegemonic system, have supported Kurdish organizations in various countries, such as the PKK, to incite separatist movements and weaken Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, which oppress them, by criticizing and sanctioning them. Israel, as part of the US-UK hegemonic forces, has supported the Kurdish forces in various countries on behalf of the US and the UK. （Kurdish Fighters Burn Weapons in Step Toward Peace With Turkey） [The Defending the Druze, Supporting the Kurds: Israel’s Strategy in Syria]    [The Evolving Israeli-Kurdish Alliance: Strategic Interests and Geopolitical Implications]
8. However, in recent years, the US and the UK have been self-destructed (by the machinations of hidden multipolar factions such as the Likud faction) and their hegemony has weakened, and China, Russia, and BRICS have risen to prominence, making the hegemonic structure multipolar. Israel has shifted from a strategy of cooperating to maintain the US-UK hegemony to a strategy of becoming a hegemonic country in the Middle East in a multipolar world. Before that, Israel infiltrated and took over the US-UK Intelligence Community, which is the hegemonic management organization, and made the Middle East hegemony that the US and the UK had held its own. [An Overview of the Israeli Intelligence Community]   [Anglo Communities in Israel: What You Need To Know]
9. In that context, Israel is trying to stop its US-British style hegemony strategy of using the Kurds to weaken and divide the Middle East. By ceasing covert support for Armenia, Israel has created a situation in which Armenia is forced to make concessions to Azerbaijan. Similarly, by ceasing covert support for the PKK, Israel is believed to have created a situation in which the PKK is forced to lay down its arms and stop hostile towards Turkey. In Syria, the Kurds have also had their support cut off from Israel, and the Kurdish militia (YPG) has surrendered to the Israeli puppet HTS regime. （Israel-Syria Talks Propose US Troop Deployment To Territory Israel Captured in Southern Syria）
10. I previously wrote that Israel, which has made Syria its puppet, has a plan to create a “David Corridor” by controlling a corridor-like area stretching from the south of Syria to the Kurdish region in the east, leveraging the Kurds to counter Turkey, Iran and Iraq. The current Israeli movement is the exact opposite of the David Corridor talk. The Israeli military is stationed in southern Syria under the pretext of protecting the Druze, but has not advanced from there into the Kurdish region. The David Corridor talk has not materialized. That talk may have been spread as a diversion. (Israel Inherits the US Hegemony in the Middle East)   [What is Israel’s David’s Corridor plan to ‘partition’ Syria?]    [Who are the Druze and why is Israel attacking Syria?]
11. What can be seen from the situation between Azerbaijan and the Kurds is that Israel is trying to become the mastermind behind the Turkish forces that want to expand their hegemony from the Middle East to Central Asia by leveraging Turkey and Turkish Azerbaijan. Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and other Central Asian countries are ethnically Turkish. For a while after the Cold War, Turkey tried to expand its hegemony by strengthening its relations with Turkish countries in Central Asia. After 9/11, China and Russia united to incorporate the Central Asian countries and create the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which strengthened the tendency for the Central Asia to come under the umbrella of China and Russia, and Turkey’s influence in Central Asia waned.
12. Israel is now strengthening Turkey and Azerbaijan, encouraging Turkey to expand its hegemony in Central Asia again. Israel is trying to expand its hegemony in Central Asia by becoming the mastermind behind Turkey’s expansion into Central Asia. In the first place, hegemony is the expansion of international influence behind the scenes. People who think that Israel should expand its hegemony itself without using Turkey do not understand the meaning of hegemony and intelligence. (Besides, even I myself do not understand it well.) Israel will (selectively) give information collected by the US and UK Intelligence Community to Turkey, and in return Turkey will give Israel the information on the Central Asia, where it has expanded its hegemony. China and Russia already have the hegemony in the Central Asia. If Turkey (or Israel) enters there, it may unlikely that it will become a battle for hegemony where they will destroy each other. China and Russia are exercising their influence by talking to each other. Then Turkey (or Israel) will enter there. （Why’d Erdogan Decide To Expand Turkiye’s Sphere Of Influence Eastwards?）
13. At the same time, this trend began, Russia became the first country in the world to officially recognize the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Russia wants to build a pipeline to send oil and gas from Central Asia to India via Afghanistan and Pakistan (or Iran and the Indian Ocean). Starting with Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, India, and Arab countries (as well as the United States and Europe) will likely also officially recognize the Taliban regime. These surrounding powers will not destroy each other, but it is highly likely that they will cooperate or become intertwined and exert their influence in Central Asia and Afghanistan. This will be the way of the multipolar world order. （Russia’s Formal Recognition Of The Taliban Comes At A Crucial Time For The Broader Region）
14. Israel is expanding its hegemony into the Central Asia by supporting Azerbaijan and Turkey, while at the same time supporting the UAE and Saudi Arabia to expand its hegemony into Africa and other regions. The UAE’s international influence has been greatly strengthened by teaming up with Israel. Saudi Arabia, the UAE’s big brother, is the leader of the Islamic world and cannot yet establish formal diplomatic relations with Israel, but it is indirectly and unofficially deepening its relationship with Israel. Israel is strengthening its influence (hegemony) in the Middle East and its surrounding areas by supporting Azerbaijan and Turkey as a strategy similar to the one it used to support the UAE and Saudi Arabia. [How US blind support for Israel could end its global hegemony] [How Israel evolved from the Middle East’s David to its Goliath]   [Israel’s Bid for Regional Hegemony: An Expert Analysis]   [How Israel’s Dangerous New Grand Strategy Has Set Mideast on Fire]
15. There is a theory that Israel is supporting Azerbaijan and Turkey in order to surround Iran. I do not accept this theory. The strategy of surrounding, containing, and weakening Iran is a British and American strategy to maintain a sole hegemonic system. The major media authorities and easy believers continue to be under the illusion that the sole [(Anglo-)American] hegemony is still sweeping the world, but the world is already multipolar. Israel’s strategy to weaken Iran is thought to have ended with the recent 12-day attack. The weakened Iran is not trying to retaliate against Israel and defeat it. For Israel, the threat of Iran has decreased considerably. Israel will not overthrow the Iranian government and destroy it, but will coexist with Iran in accordance with the unwritten rules of a multipolar world. To that end, Israel probably attacked and weakened Iran first. （Syria Wants Lebanon’s Tripoli In Swap For Israel-Held Golan Heights）
16. I still have much to write about on that subject. Besides, I have not written about Gaza either. I humbly confess that even this article is also not very well-organized.  In brief, what I intended to write here in this article was as follows: Israel has been trying to do something outrageous that would make the British Empire proud, by taking the Golan Heights from Syria and seizing northern Lebanon in return to give it to Syria, but the introduction to that point alone has made this article long.  Well, I feel like I have had enough this time.  I will write about it again soon. （Is Syria demanding Tripoli and parts of Lebanon in exchange for peace with Israel?）  [Is Israel the new hegemon in the Middle East?]    [Israel: Black Swans and A Swan Song – Opinion]    [The Netanyahu Doctrine]    [How Israel evolved from the Middle East’s David to its Goliath]    [How Israel’s Dangerous New Grand Strategy Has Set Mideast on Fire]     [Israel Isn’t Striving for Regional Hegemony, It’s Striving To Be Left Alone]

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Original author: After graduating from university, Sakai Tanaka started working at the Kyodo News  Agency in 1986. From 1997 he joined Microsoft Network (MSN) and in 1999, due to change of policy at Microsoft, he became an independent journalist. Tanaka has published more than twenty books on international affairs, some translated and published in China, South Korea and Taiwan. He studied at Harvard University from 2000 to 2001 and in 2005 was invited to serve as a senior researcher at the Royal Faisal Institute in Saudi Arabia. Website: tanakanews.com

Satoshi Ashikaga is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment. Having worked as researcher, development program/project officer, legal protection/humanitarian assistance officer, human rights monitor-negotiator, managing-editor, and more, he prefers a peaceful and prudent life.  His previous work experiences, including those in war zones and war-torn zones, constantly remind him of the invaluableness of peace.

Translation: Satoshi Ashikaga – Google Translate

Original in Japanese:  イスラエル中東覇権の隠然性

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