I don't see how shrinking Israel makes the country more secure. The demographic argument has been debunked and it doesn't apply to the Golan Heights. I submit its Ehud Olmert plying his Walter Mitty fantasy whose results have proven far more harmful to Israel's well-being than any Greater Israel theorists have ever done to the nation.The power structure of the middle east is changing, quickly. Allegiance is settling around ethnic boundaries and Syria was the odd man out. Deathly afraid of the encroaching Shi'ites but afraid of being undermined by the west. Now by entering the western sphere on their own terms the Syrians get what they wanted(and Israel gets a *ton* more security, both from having Syria off the table and from Syria expelling Meshaal and gang from Damascus).
False. Syria has issues with the Sunnis. Syria's ruling class are Alawites, a Shi'ite variety, ruling over Sunnis. Hafez Assad had the hands full with fighting Sunni Islamists. Syria also supported Shi'ite Iran in the Iran-Iraq war against their Baathist brethren in Iraq. Syria is also the second sponsor of Shi'ite Hezbullah after Iran. Syria has become nothing but the secular-fascist political proxy of the Shi'ite Islamists in Iran.