The flood of security incidents in the past week on Israel’s various frontiers — along the southern border with Hamas-run Gaza, the northern border with Lebanon and Syria, and in the West Bank — demonstrates, for the umpteenth time, that Israeli hopes for peace and quiet are based on a fantasy.

Iranian involvement in Syria is here to stay. Tehran has invested in the war-torn country heavily, in terms of both finances and manpower, to ensure that President Bashar Assad remains in power, and it has no intention of giving up its reward in Syria when the fighting ends.

Furthermore, the agreements between Jerusalem and Moscow on keeping Iranian forces far from the border, which have received much coverage in Israel, are not expected to change Tehran’s strategy in Syria.

Read the full article at the Times of Israel here.