Posted on 06/20/2016 8:13:18 PM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
Israeli intelligence Chief, Major General Herzi Halevy, said that the last three months have been the most difficult for ISIS since its inception. In a speech delivered at “Herzliya” conference yesterday , Halevy explicitly said “Israel” does not want the situation in Syria to end with the defeat of ISIS “, the Israeli NRG site reported.
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Alarming news. The news of US troops in Syria, wearing Kurdish militia insignia, was also startling.
I shall look up the link you mention. Just now, I have posted another article on this topic.
Now, our M.E. policy makes total sense.
I still think, despite the two above points, that a free Kurdistan is the best option
well, the Israelies do see ISIS as a balance for Iran. That’s why the Israelis and Saudis are co-operating in Syria.
From an Israeli point of view it makes sense to have a "frozen conflict" keeping Assad, Saudia and Iran busy and not bothering Israel. I understand that point of view, but think it is not good for the Christians in the Levant
I would prefer if they changed it a little bit:
No, not on gov’t payroll. I don’t agree politically with Col. Lang (he is anti-Trump and said he’ll write in Sanders) but he has the best military and strategic analysis on the Internet and is always first-rate. He is one of the most respected analysts on the ME and one of three people to predict the Saddam invasion of Kuwait early on (which led to Desert Strom). Lang has always been a realist and was opposed to neocon foreign policy way back when. And he was sacked for a position by none other than Doug Feith (google it).
Thank you for the straight Ba’athist propoganda.
Do you have an iota of evidence, newbie (profile 2/16/16). Nothing in this Arab propoganda links to the speech. It is an Arab nationalist assertion of what an Israeli said. In other words it is an objective lie and a trap for lazy ignorami. Clearly, you know nothing of 1400 years of Muslim propoganda blaming Jews for everything.
This doesn’t make sense to me. It seems to me that Israel would want stability in Syria. They may hate Assad but Assad (at least before recent years) was pragmatic, he could be negotiated with, he was largely predictable and his tactics and weapons were known quantities. The last thing Israel would want is to see Syria turned into another Lebanon where there is no central authority, nobody to negotiate with, and with suicidal militants behaving unpredictably launching rockets and border attacks indiscriminately at the civilian population.
If I was Israel, I would not want ISIS anywhere my neighborhood for any reason at all.
In fact, if I was Israel, I would blow ISIS’s ass of the face of this earth three years ago.
But, uh, as far as I know, they haven’t done that or anything even remotely close to that, which is very curious, at least to me.
No, my sympathies lie with the Christians in the Middle East. Neocon foreign policy is now almost entirely antithetical to Christians and Christian civilization. I have first-hand knowledge of this and I rarely sleep at night. As for my newbie status, well, I’ve been offline for quite a while helping my country. I stayed off of politcal sites (I had to). But I’ve been around FR since at least the mid-90’s. At my first FReeper event I recall meeting Kristinn Taylor outside the Naval Observatory in D.C. with other FReepers holding up Sore/Loserman signs. I think I have pictures of this buried in one of my boxes. So, while understand your motivation in trying to dismiss me, please note I merely posted an article, nothing more. And after the personal attacks I forwent posting other (non-Arab) articles referencing the same comments by Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevy as well as Israeli DefMin Moshe Ya’alon which were clearly sympathetic to ISIS over the secular government in Syria. I understand Halevy and Ya’alon are interested in the strategic interests of Israel, which means the weakening or destruction of the Alawite-Shia alliance and power. But I am forced to think of more immediate things. Like the Syrian Christian father who gets up each day and looks at his young daughter, fears for her safety, and prays as hard as any father can, to Jesus Christ for her protection and the protection of his family. While just 6 hours later the neocon strategist wakes up in his posh Bethesda tudor, sends his daughter off to Holton-Arms, and goes over his speech to be given later that day at AEI, arguing forcefully that Assad’s regime must be overthrown by friendly Sunnite Islamists. That Syrian Christian father must feel so helpless and the only thing he has on his side are the prayers of the Christian faithful and pilots in the RuAF, who are all unknown to this father.
No, assad death will relieve the pressure on Israel for at least a decade
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