The Syrian rebels are anti-Assad, and they have now taken out the Assad regime, but that does not make them friendly to Israel. Are we going to get chaos on our northern border, will we have an organized enemy, will we have people trying to turn a new leaf and reaching out a hand in friendship? I dont know if anybody knows, but I definitely do not know, but I do know I am amazed how quickly and easily they made their move and took out the entire regime and made the Assad family flee for their lives, and I know I am happy the Assad's are no longer in charge of the country, though I would prefer that they would have been caught and made to pay for their crimes against humanity (and maybe that will still happen).

It seems pretty clear to me that part of the cause of the collapse of Assad was how weak it was revealed that Iran really is. Israel took out their air defenses and flew loop deloops over Tehran for hours unchallenged. Hezbollah was quickly knocked out tot he point that they practically begged for a ceasefire after saying for 14 months that they would not accept any ceasefire until Gaza is resolved. Israel was able to prevent Iran from resupplying Hezbollah and even from helping out in Syria. Hamas has been mostly decimated, though still in power and holding out. With everyone out of business or distracted, Assad was all alone and couldn't handle it himself.

In the meantime there have been some voices offering friendship or at least cooperation with Israel. Hopefully our government can work the situation to help guide them to at least not be an active hostile enemy looking for trouble, and maybe even create an alliance of some sort. I think a first great gesture would be something I have seen suggested a lot on Twitter/X early this morning - return the remains of Eli Cohen to Israel. I personally would add adding at least whatever information they have on Ron Arad - remember Israel once captured a Syrian general to be held in exchange for Ron Arad information so they likely were somehow involved or have access to information, in addition to the role Syria played in general in Lebanon and with Iran...

We are living in interesting times...

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  -- Minister Dudi Amsalem 

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Thank you Mr Trump for your strong stand that might actually have an effect on the situation..

Trump is giving them 49 days. I hope they take the threat seriously and send the hostages home much sooner... Who knows how many of the hostages who are still alive can hold out and stay alive another 49 days....

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That being said, I am still curious about the claim that was made when requesting the change of venue. 

PM Netanyahu submitted the request to change the location of the court hearing to an underground secure location due to security concerns with the ongoing war. Ever since the drone from Hezbollah that hit his house in Ceasaria he has been super paranoid about his personal security, despite being the most secured person in the country. But that is understandable.

My curiosity is that while it sort of made reasonable sense before, even when the request was submitted, now it seems unnecessary. Since the request was submitted Netanyahu signed a ceasefire arrangement with Hezbollah/Lebanon, and, so far, it seems to be holding. Hamas has been rendered impotent and has not been able to fire rockets in a while, let alone rockets that can reach deep into the country.

What is the threat now that he is worried about that requires special accommodations for securing the hall to be used for the court session beyond what the normally top level security he would be getting anyway as the presence of the Prime Minister?

Is it just another attempt to delay the session as he is hoping they will have difficulty securing it properly and will have to delay again for security considerations or is there a real security concern of some sort beyond what his daily protection can secure?

While perhaps you can never have enough security, I remember he used to scoff at Nasrallah for hiding in the tunnels like a rat and never coming out, but he too barely comes out - even his recent Channel 14 interview was pre-recorded in the "Pit" of the Kirya, he's moved some government meetings to undisclosed secure locations, and this court session has to be underground, etc... what is he so afraid of? 

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