IMPLICATIONS OF THE US WITHDRAWAL

FROM SYRIA

By Dr. Yehuda Blanga [1]

_Originally Published on BESACenter.org [2]_

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: THE WITHDRAWAL OF US FORCES FROM THE KURDISH AREAS OF
NORTHERN SYRIA WILL HELP STRENGTHEN IRAN’S STANDING IN THE COUNTRY, MAKE
RUSSIA THE LEADING POWER IN THE REGION, AND POSSIBLY LEAD TO THE RESURGENCE
OF ISIS TERROR. ALL THESE OUTCOMES WILL HAVE FAR-REACHING POLICY
IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MIDDLE EAST’S PRO-WESTERN ACTORS AND FOR THE WAR ON
JIHADIST TERROR.

On the morning of October 24, 1973, the Israeli ambassador in Washington
was summoned for an urgent discussion with White House Chief of Staff Gen.
Alexander Haig. The meeting marked the high point of the pressure the US
was putting on Israel to halt the fighting on the Egyptian front and lift
the siege of the Egyptian Third Army. Haig did not mince words and warned
that if hostilities were to continue, President Nixon would consider
disengaging from Israel.

For the first time since the special US-Israeli relationship emerged in the
early 1960s, Israel's position and interests were on a direct collision
course with Washington. The Nixon administration, which laid the
foundations for normal US relations with Egypt during the Yom Kippur War,
did not intend to let Israel spoil this process even at the cost of a
crisis and damage to US-Israeli ties. Thus did Israel experience firsthand
the price of friendship with (and dependency on) "Uncle Sam." Jerusalem was
forced to accede to the American dictate.

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