트럼프, 시리아가 헤즈볼라와 싸우도록 압박
Trump presses Syria to take on Hezbollahc - Spectrum News
미국 트럼프 대통령의 시리아-헤즈볼라 제안은 중동 긴장감을 지속시키지만, 시장 방향성에 직접적인 영향을 주는 명확한 요인이 없습니다. 따라서 중립적인 입장을 취하는 것이 적절합니다.
핵심 요약
트럼프, 시리아가 헤즈볼라와 싸우라고 제안; 레바논에서 4,000명 사망.
핵심요약
- 헤즈볼라와 이스라엘의 전쟁으로 레바논에서 4,000명 이상 사망
- 트럼프, 시리아가 헤즈볼라와 싸우도록 제안
- 시리아 대통령 아흐마드 알 샤라, 제안 거부
- 이스라엘, 시리아의 이슬람주의 정부를 의심
- 이스라엘과 터키, 시리아에서의 영향력 경쟁
도입
이번 기사에서 트럼프 대통령의 제안과 시리아의 반응은 중동 지역의 지정학적 균형을 재편할 수 있는 중요한 전환점이 될 수 있습니다. 특히 이스라엘과 터키의 갈등이 고조되면서, 이 지역의 투자 환경이 더욱 불안정해질 가능성이 있습니다.
본문 1: 트럼프의 제안과 그 배경
트럼프 대통령은 이스라엘의 헤즈볼라와의 전쟁이 너무 오래 지속되고 있다고 지적하며, 시리아가 더 효과적으로 헤즈볼라를 제거할 수 있다고 제안했습니다. 그러나 시리아 대통령 아흐마드 알 샤라는 이 제안을 거부하며, 트럼프의 발언이 오해되었다고 주장했습니다. 이 제안이 실제로 실행될 가능성이 있는지 여부는 여전히 불분명하지만, 레바논과 이스라엘에서는 시리아의 개입 가능성에 대한 우려가 커지고 있습니다.
본문 2: 이스라엘과 터키의 갈등
이스라엘은 시리아의 새로운 정부를 의심하며, 남부 시리아의 일부 지역을 장악하고 있습니다. 한편, 터키는 시리아의 새로운 정부를 지원하며, 이스라엘의 영향력을 제한하려고 노력하고 있습니다. 이스라엘과 터키의 갈등은 시리아 내에서의 영향력 경쟁으로 이어질 가능성이 있으며, 이는 중동 지역의 안보 상황을 더욱 복잡하게 만들 것입니다.
결론
트럼프의 제안과 시리아의 반응은 중동 지역의 지정학적 균형을 재편할 수 있는 중요한 전환점이 될 수 있습니다. 특히 이스라엘과 터키의 갈등이 고조되면서, 이 지역의 투자 환경이 더욱 불안정해질 가능성이 있습니다. 향후 시리아의 개입 가능성과 이스라엘의 대응을 주의 깊게 지켜볼 필요가 있습니다.
Original Article
Trump presses Syria to take on Hezbollahc - Spectrum News
BEIRUT — As the White House has soured on Israel's war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, U.S. President Donald Trump has shocked many in the region by pushing an alternative: Let Syria fight the Iran-backed militant group instead.
He has suggested that the battle-hardened and Islamist-led insurgents who overthrew Syria's autocratic President Bashar Assad a year and a half ago and formed a new government would do a better job of rooting out Hezbollah than the Israeli army.
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has said he has no interest in doing so, and has asserted that Trump's comments were misconstrued. But Trump has doubled down on the idea.
Although it remains unclear how serious the White House is about the proposal, the prospect of a Syrian invasion has raised alarms in Lebanon — and also in Israel, which regards al-Sharaa's Islamist-led government with suspicion and has seized control of a strip of southern Syria since he took power.
Syria has also become the site of rising tensions between Israel and Turkey — a main backer of al-Sharaa's government — with each seeking to limit the other's influence in the neighboring country.
Top Israeli security officials convened a meeting on the subject on Wednesday, according to an official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Trump says Syria would 'do a better job' against Hezbollah
On the sidelines of the G7 summit earlier this month, Trump complained that Israel's war with Hezbollah is dragging on too long and "too many people are being killed."
More than 4,000 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon since Hezbollah joined the wider Iran war with a March 2 attack on Israel, including hundreds of women and children. Israel says its strikes target Hezbollah and that it takes measures to protect civilians.
"You don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody, because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses and they're not all Hezbollah," Trump said.
"I suggested to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah. 'Cause to be honest with you, I think they'd do a better job."
Days later, on the first day of U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland, Fox News' Trey Yingst said that, during an interview, Trump had expressed disappointment that Israel can't "put Hezbollah away" and said that he is "close to giving it to Syria" because he thinks al-Sharaa would be more precise.
The White House declined to comment and referred to Trump's previous statements.
Syria denies plans to intervene in Lebanon
Syrian officials scrambled to do damage control.
In a speech in Damascus on June 13, al-Sharaa said, "There are people spreading rumors that Syria will intervene in Lebanon. This is not true. We are calling for a permanent end to the war and the strengthening of institutions and for there to be economic ties and a calming of the situation in Lebanon."
In a June 21 interview with the Emirati network Al Mashhad, al-Sharaa said Trump's remarks had been misunderstood.
Trump "spoke about Syria's role in finding a safe and peaceful solution, but the statement was misinterpreted as if Syria were going to invade Lebanon tomorrow morning," al-Sharaa said.
He said Syria had "presented our vision for a solution to the United States, which is to stop the war and address the negative effects on Lebanon and Syria, and to find different economic, political and social solutions."
Syria's leaders say they don't want to settle scores with Hezbollah
Hezbollah, along with Iran, intervened on the side of Assad during Syria's 14-year civil war, while al-Sharaa was the leader of an insurgent group seeking to overthrow him.
But the new leaders in Damascus have said since taking power in December 2024 that they are focused on rebuilding the country, are not seeking to settle scores, and want to remain outside of any regional conflict.
After Israel and the U.S. launched their war against Iran — which triggered a wider regional conflict — Syria made a point of remaining on the sidelines.
In the first weeks of the war, the Syrian military sent reinforcements to the border with Lebanon, which officials said aimed to stop cross-border weapons smuggling or any spillover of the conflict. At one point in March, Syria accused Hezbollah of launching artillery shells across the border toward Syrian army positions, which Hezbollah denied. The escalation stopped there.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told The Associated Press in March that Turkey had interceded to defuse the tensions.
Al-Sharaa told Al Mashhad that "the decision of (Hezbollah) to enter into the Syrian conflict was wrong," but that he was willing to hold a "dialogue" with the militant group and even to mediate between different Lebanese factions as they debate the future of Hezbollah's weapons.
Trump's proposal dredges up sectarian fears and memory of occupation
In March, U.S. envoy to Syria Tom Barrack denied reports that Washington had floated the idea of Syria intervening against Hezbollah.
But since then, Trump has begun to make the call openly.
Randa Slim, director of the Middle East Program at the Washington-based Stimson Center, said Trump's proposal is, "at best, driven by a profound ignorance of the dynamics on the ground."