I asked Elijah Magnier a question that few people seem to ask:
Why did Israeli officials once deny massacres, cover up crimes, and call everything “propaganda”, but now openly brag about destroying homes, villages, and civilian infrastructure?
Elijah believes Israel no longer feels the need to hide what it does because Western protection has made impunity feel permanent.
Israeli soldiers film destruction.
Officials speak openly about wiping out villages.
Ministers admit the scale of devastation.
And instead of facing consequences, Israeli leaders are received by Western governments, protected diplomatically, and shielded from international justice.
Elijah argues that after October 7, Israel began acting as if borders no longer matter — in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and beyond — using “national security” as a blank cheque for expansion and destruction.
But the deeper scandal is not only Israeli behavior.
It is the American umbrella that makes it possible.
When Washington recognizes occupied Syrian land as Israeli, defends Israeli military expansions, and sanctions international legal bodies, what message does Israel receive?
That it can do almost anything.
That is why the mentality changed.
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—Kevork Almassian is a Syrian geopolitical analyst and the founder of Syriana Analysis.
