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Everyone is searching for clues about the possible foreign policy of the new Damascus regime, especially concerning Iran. If it turns out to be against Tehran, this would be a significant development and could potentially change the face of the region.

Syria has witnessed two major events: the fall of Bashar Assad’s regime and the rise of the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham to power.

After the celebrations end and the last statues of the Assads are toppled, Syrians will face a new and uncertain day. Who will govern them? Will it be a single individual or a committee? Or will there be more than one Syria — three or four perhaps?

An Israeli soldier, part of a force that infiltrated across the border, last week stirred controversy by planting his country’s flag on a hill in the Lebanese town of Maroun Al-Ras — despite Israel’s presence in Beirut’s skies having persisted for weeks.

On the ground, Yahya Sinwar has achieved for Israeli extremists what hard-line Israeli leaders like Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir and even Ariel Sharon could not. Sharon, who withdrew from Gaza in 2005, dismantled settlements and handed the territory over to the Palestinian Authority.

The course of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon will reshape the Iranian-Israeli conflict. How?

Israel has left Tehran with few options. Let us not forget that Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 crushed the Palestinian Fatah as an armed struggle movement.