AMP Condemns Israel’s Violations of Syria’s Sovereignty With Bombings of Damascus and Suwayda As Syria Seeks To Rebuild Dear Email, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) condemns Israel’s illegal airstrikes in Syria, which have killed civilians and are contributing to the destabilization of Syria, following clashes in Suwayda. These attacks mark a flagrant violation of international law and an alarming expansion of Israel’s campaign of regional aggression. Israel’s justification that it is protecting Syria’s Druze minority is both disingenuous and insulting. This is the same regime carrying out genocide in Gaza, where it is currently starving and killing Palestinians, while ethnically cleansing them for more than 75 years. The apartheid state has no moral authority to pose as a guardian of minority rights.  Despite being in a delicate situation, the Syrian state has the sovereign right to its territorial integrity and the responsibility to take the primary lead in pursuing reconciliation among its communities without foreign intervention. The recent ceasefire agreement reached between Syrian authorities and Druze leaders underscores this responsibility and is one that Israel’s airstrikes have directly undermined. What Israel seeks is not to protect minorities but to fracture its neighbors along sectarian lines, destabilize countries, and maintain military dominance in the region. By bombing Damascus and Suwayda, Israel is not only seeking to escalate tensions between communities in Syria but is actively sabotaging Syrian efforts to restore peace and stability after years of civil war. We are deeply alarmed by the crimes Israel is committing along the Syrian border, including its encouragement of Druze militias and its threats of further strikes unless Syrian troops withdraw. AMP calls on the Trump administration to denounce Israel’s reckless violations of Syrian sovereignty and to prevent further U.S. complicity in destabilizing the Middle East and dragging this country into another war. In solidarity,
American Muslims for Palestine | 
