The End of Assad? Syrian Rebels enter the outskirts of Aleppo for the first time since 2016

exactly, those responsible for the Madrid train bombings and the Bataclan atrocities are now known simply as ‘rebels’

I suggest that the Provisional IRA also responsible for atrocities be known as ‘rebels’ in future. Might as well call those who carried the Omagh bombing ‘rebels’ too. Where do I stop? The Shankill butchers were ‘rebels’ ?

Maybe I wasn't clear or you misread but I did not say it "didn't matter" (or I did not mean that).

I just expressed an opinion it is better Assad is gone now, and good to see him fall. It opens a possibility for change.

It is going to have to be quite bad to be worse than Assad, and as said, it seems clear to me now (I admit was not following what is going on in Syria) he must have actually had almost 0 real internal support among people there for a long time.

Far less even than very unpopular rulers like Iran's have.

Many of the political ones that fled were the hardliners and jihadi supporters, the ones with the children t-shirt stayed.

This wasn't just the most devastating terrorist attack in the US, but in the WORLD

And that's why the whole world should join in for the destruction of Syrian military capabilities.

Is there anything to potentially point to this rebellion actually being a good thing for Syria in the long run?

In these types of cases, there tends to be jubilation at the start, then a couple of years later the place is in a worse state, with the liberator simply being the new dictator.

No one knows if it will be good or bad. Just people have the feeling that putting the former second in command of ISIS who still has a $10 million bounty on his head, whose organization is designated as a terrorist one by US, UN and EU, so maybe a few people have a slight bad feeling what will happen to ordinary Syrians because of that for some reason.

The Turkish backed rebels are killing wounded Kurds in their hospital beds after taking Manbij.

And what do you suggest be done about it Brickster69, the world is well aware of what Syria is facing. And possibly other country's too, given the extremely volatile middle east.

At the very least, it has removed one monstrous dictator from being in control. Now of course is a time of uncertainty, with at least a chance for a better life for Syrians. On the world scale, it has severely damaged if not completely destroyed several hardline Islamic entities, hopefully beyond repair. For one,making the future for Irans Theocracy uncertain to say the least.They were big supporters of Hesbollah and Hamas, who have been causing much destruction and terror in that part of the world.

Israel is not doing anything now that any other Country would not do, under the same circumstances. Pre-emping the possibility of future attacks by destroying weapon stockpile's is just defensive common sense, and so is taking the high ground. Failure to do so, would be leaving them wide open to future attacks and failure. Talking about illegally occupying land, sure, going by the law, but thats something thats scarce in that part of the world,and enforcing it even a bigger problem.

so what, israel is allowed in to steal the whole or most of syria, occupy it and implement their own fundamentalist religious theocracy?

a theocracy which, at it's heart, is just as fundamentalist and brutal as the worst islamic theocracy to anyone it sees as beneath it, lets not forget.

one that is happy to engage in industrial rape and slaughter.

well, he's a human rights lawyer who has in a roundabout way justified israely war crimes and continues to arm them to commit genocide.

he is also in terror of the reform loons who would strip everyone they believe not to be pure british of their citizenship so i'm not surprised he and the labour government are burying their head in the sand on this one.

interesting times ahead though, do hts throw open the camps and deport foreign nationals or do they use them as soldiers to implement their theocracy.

israel is simply doing what it needs to so they can at least, illegally hold on to and occupy the syrian golon heights as they have been illegally doing, or so they can steal more syrian territory because they want more land as part of there greater israel project.
they aren't pre-empting anything or doing anything pre-emptive, just like they weren't with the 1967 and 1973 land grabs.
they are going to be open to even greater attacks now because they are attempting to engage in a greater illegal occupation because someone wrote in a book that they are entitled to more and more land.

not to mention that any faction in syria has a legitimate right to attack and expell the occupiers of the golon heights by all means necessary.