As for Lebanon, it has become a clear arena for attempting to impose a security scope beyond Israeli borders and inside Lebanese territory. Despite the occupation government's justifications claiming that the presence of its forces in southern Lebanon is linked to preventing Hezbollah's threats, its expansionist attacks through occupying more land inside Lebanon—where it announced the consolidation of its operational control over strategic sites in the region and confirmed its continued presence inside what it calls the "security zone"—reveal a highly dangerous reality. The military deployment, presented as a temporary security measure, is transforming into sustainable field arrangements that infringe upon Lebanon's sovereignty and redefine borders from the perspective of military force.
The same picture appears in Syria, where occupation forces continue their attacks and incursions into southern Syria under pretexts related to security and threat prevention. His Majesty King Abdullah II clearly affirmed in his UN speech that these incursions directly threaten Jordanian national security and called for halting them, at a time when Syria is attempting to restore stability and consolidate state institutions. The danger of these developments increases when military operations are accompanied by the establishment of new sites and field deployment, because realities imposed by force may turn over time into permanent security arrangements.
When reading Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria within a single trajectory, the outlines of a strategy emerge based on expanding the scope of Israeli security into the depth of the surrounding territories. Reports and investigations during 2026 documented the expansion of the Israeli military presence in Gaza, southern Lebanon, and southern Syria, along with the emergence of buffer zones or effective control scopes exceeding previous deployment lines.
Here, the issue of Israeli expansionist ambitions stands out as part of the discussion on the region's future. Military control over land, settlement expansion, the imposition of security zones, and incursions into neighboring countries' territories collectively form a trajectory that raises widespread Arab fears of transforming temporary attacks into a long-term geographical and political reality. His Majesty King Abdullah II expressed this concern clearly in his speech before the UN General Assembly, warning that the Israeli government's "expansionist tendency" has become a regional threat, and pointing to the incursions into Syria, gradual territorial expansion, and the imposition of new realities.
These developments acquire special importance for Jordan, which finds itself facing a security environment changing on its western and northern borders simultaneously, especially since the West Bank is directly linked to Jordanian national security, southern Syria represents a geographical and security extension of the northern borders, and developments in Lebanon and Gaza affect overall regional balances. Therefore, Israeli attacks on neighboring countries do not remain a bilateral matter, but rather transform into a pressure factor on the security and stability system in the Arab Mashreq.
These multiple fronts reveal the Israeli occupation government's shift from managing wars to attempting to reshape its surrounding security environment through military force, field deployment, and the imposition of new realities. The security pretext remains present in Israeli rhetoric, but the expansion of operations beyond borders, settlement expansion, and adherence to security zones open a broader discussion about the long-term goals of this policy.
Ultimately, the region today faces an equation concerning the future of borders, sovereignty, and the Palestinian cause combined, especially since the continuation of occupation, settlement expansion, and attacks on neighboring countries provide a permanent environment for reproducing the conflict. Meanwhile, stability requires a different path based on respecting states' sovereignty, halting attacks, ending the occupation, and guaranteeing the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people. In the absence of this path, the realities that Israeli occupation forces attempt to force upon the ground will remain a primary factor in reshaping the security landscape of the Middle East, keeping the entire region under the pressure of fronts open to escalation possibilities at any moment.
