Syria needs to manage its diverse ethnic and religious composition, and to decide its own position on the Arab-Israeli conflict. But that is more difficult when neighboring countries are exploiting the country's heterogeneous makeup to pursue their own hegemonic agendas.
叙利亚需要管理好国内各种种族和宗教成分，并确定自身在阿以冲突中的立场。但邻国利用叙利亚的复杂构成实现自身霸权目标的企图为叙利亚实现上述目标增加了难度。