Fascist leaders need a constant threat to justify their leadership. If Israel cannot continue to escalate and create the image of being at threat, it also will cast doubt on the support they received and receive and it will make people speak up more about their crimes.

To appear as the perpetual victim, you need perpetual violence, so you need to perpetually attack other people.

Also Israel has the vision of a “Greater Israel” empire spanning from Egypt to Saudia Arabia to Turkiye and Iraq. Not only will this require the ethnic cleansing and genocide of hundreds od millions of people in the region, but also it will need to be filled with more non-Jewish white settlers, for instance US Evangelicals, as Israel doesn’t have nearly enough population to maintain such an empire.

Divide and conquer, like every coloniser in history.

“Look international community - all our neighbors are failed states… I guess that means it’d be more humane if we helped govern them?”

That’s why.

The more extreme elements of the Israeli government want to expand Israel to the borders of the previous empire at its biggest (not sure if that’s based on biblical sources or actual reality, but that doesn’t matter to those people anyway). Their ambitions go far beyond ‘just having a safe country for Jews’.

And I guess if every country around them is in civil war they can’t really pose a threat to Israel beyond the occasional suicide bombing.

ordo ab chao?

To create Greater Israel

The attacks were aimed at “military targets in southern Syria, including headquarters and sites containing weapons,” the Israeli military said in a statement. It added, “The presence of military assets and forces in the southern part of Syria constitutes a threat” to Israeli citizens.

Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, said in a statement late on Tuesday that the attacks were part of a “new policy” of ensuring a “demilitarized southern Syria.” He added that “any attempt” by either Syrian forces or militant groups to establish a presence in what Israel has deemed its “security zone” in the region “will be met with fire.”

Second and third paragraph of the article.

Another article with a direct quote from Netanyahu:

https://apnews.com/article/israel-syria-buffer-zone-military-netanyahu-6a107f835d4262b56551ad940a5144d7

“Take note: We will not allow HTS forces or the new Syrian army to enter the area south of Damascus,” Netanyahu said, referring to Syria’s new authorities as well as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the main former rebel group.