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"Israel is attacking everybody", Tom Barrack declared  in an interview this week, naming Syria , Lebanon  and Tunisia , and noting that Israel 's recent strike on Qatar  was also "not good".
The Trump  administration's ambassador to Turkey  and special envoy to Syria, who dismissed peace as "an illusion" and described borders as the "currency of a negotiation", has made headlines recently for his blunt remarks on Israelâs wars and Washingtonâs close alignment with them.
Just weeks earlier, he said: "In Israel's mind, these lines that were created by Sykes-Picot are meaningless," adding that the Israelis "will go where they want, when they want, and do what they want to protect... their borders".
Strip the provocation from the phrasing, and what remains is a blunt assessment: since 7 October 2023, the Zionist regime has pursued a hegemonic strategy beyond the old colonial cartography.
Since late 2023, Benjamin Netanyahu, an indicted  war criminal serving as Israel's prime minister, has formalised a "day-after" doctrine that conditions the end of his genocidal war in Gaza on total Israeli domination. That war has been escalated into successive campaigns across the region, in an attempt to annihilate all its enemies and redraw maps for a new Middle East.
From Sykes-Picot to Gaza, Israel redraws borders to impose regional hegemon y Opinion by Sami Al-Arian
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a red marker and a map as he addresses the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, 22 September 2023 (Anthony Behar/Sipa USA) https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/op9inion-sykes-picot-gaza-israel-redraws-borders-impose-regional
