Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu has a problem. Yes, another one, absolute rotten shame really isn’t it?

Donald Trump has just pulled Syria off America’s terror-state list, handing it a golden ticket back into trade and diplomacy that Israel now cannot destroy, no matter how many jets they send or how many times Netanyahu tries to order an airstrike as if he’s calling for pizza.

Washington has taken Syria off America’s terror-state list. It has removed Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, the unelected Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s bunch of Al-Qaeda castoffs from a separate sanctions blocklist. Yet on the very same day, Israeli troops were still entering southern Syria and Israeli aircraft were still circling overhead.

So Israel can keep sending in the troops and it can keep making big holes in the road courtesy of an explosion or two, b ...