[Tours]

“Israel is backing ISIS?”

Israel is engaged in realpolitik with regards to Syria.
Fundamentally they view Assad as a greater long term threat than ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Assad is a Shiite and on friendly terms with the Shia in Lebanon (Hezbollah) and Iran (Republican Guards etc.). Israel considers Iran their number 1 threat at present. Therefore, Israel sees Assad as a greater threat than ISIS. That is why they bomb Assad and treat injured Free Syrian Army (Sunni Jihadis) forces in their hospitals.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-curious-case-of-israels-syrian-patients/

[AC Beach Patrol]

Agreed. And they never view Salafists (Gulfies) a strategic threat because these Sunnite zealots are, for lack of more direct description, inbreds with low IQs. Persians and Shia not so much.

But supporting ISIS and AQ for geosyrategic reasons, especially with the goal intended, is gravely immoral IMO. There a fundamental principle in Christian moral theology that says that it is never permissible to do evil so that good might come. If one were to call a geostrategic gain good when is has the double effect of slaughtering Christians and other non-Sunnites.

[ELS]

Assad is a Shiite

I thought Assad was an Alawite Muslim.