SYRIA - Subsea Internet Link Marks Turning Point

The Syrian Telecommunications Company signed an agreement in Tartus with Spain’s Medusa to lay Syria’s first international submarine cable through the Mediterranean Sea, a project officials say will directly connect the country to the global internet for the first time.

According to the Syrian Ministry of Communications, the project will “improve the quality of internet services and increase the international capacity for data transmission,” changes that are expected to strengthen connection speed and stability across the country.

Observers say the agreement also has strategic weight: reconnecting to a Mediterranean backbone could reintegrate Syria into regional digital corridors that link Europe, North Africa, and West Asia, after a decade of relative isolation from major buildouts. Policymakers and investors view international bandwidth as a prerequisite for data centers, cloud services, and modern public administration.

-themedialine.org, 27 October 2025

Commentary: After the former president, Bashar al-Assad, was deposed in December of 2024, there seems to be a fundamental change in the country, particularly its relationship to Israel.

According to the CIA Factbook, the population of Syria stands at about 24 million, divided religiously between 87% Muslim and 10% of the Christian religion. Life expectancy stands at 74.8 years, and per capita GDP is $4,200.

Compared to Israel, these figures blatantly expose the poverty of Syria.

With limited communication, any nation will remain backwards. But now, as the article indicates, there’s a possibility for Syria to reintegrate with Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.

We note that Israel’s neighbor to the north, Syria, has no diplomatic relations with the Jewish State. The former ruler of the nation, Hafez al-Assad, was in power for over 50 years.

Egypt in the south and Jordan to the east, have peace agreements with Israel and have exchanged ambassadors—although the agreements are rather fragile, with the countries not exactly on friendly terms.

When it comes to Syria, it is often said that they are the closest relatives to the Jewish people. Here we have to go back to Deuteronomy where Abraham mentioned in chapter 26, verse 5: “And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.”

In the Torah, we read that the patriarch Jacob was a “wandering Aramean.” That was also true of his grandfather Abraham. Furthermore, the matriarchs Rebekah—wife of Isaac—and Rachel and Leah—wives of Jacob—was themselves Aramean. So, the connection between Israel and Syria (Aramean) was long-lasting and deep. We also note that Abraham’s servant, Eleazar, was from Damascus.

The geopolitical realities of today awaken a glimmer of hope for peace with Syria.

However, we continue to point to the fact that much of Syria is Syrian-occupied Israeli territory according to the Biblical borders given to Abraham in Genesis 15:18: “In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates.”