What’s in it for Israel? If they defeat Syria, they just have a lot more whining Arabs on their hands in territory the world won’t let them claim.
Don't need to claim any territory, just turn it into an ash heap and let the surviving rag-heads spend the rest of their miserable lives digging wells and latrines next to each other
Claire I think Syria is the middle east equivalent of Yugoslavia circa 1990. I believe that it is a unified state in name only. The end result of natural historic forces will result in a severely truncated Syria. Or a number of little syrias with the kurds spinning off in the northeast, the allawites in the northwest, the sunnies in a syrian rump state with Damascus as the capital, and the Druze in the south possibly spinning off to lebanon, but most likely gobbled up by Jordan. The glue holding this modern day Yugoslavia together is the al-Assad allawite mafia, and a war with Israel will speed up the natural centrifugal forces. While this unfolding scenario is fraught with unpleasant surprises, it would most likely benefit Israel, Iraq and the West, as a number of little syrias is preferable to one big unstable alawite ruled bully.
Just my humble opinion.
Good point losers do like to whine, just like Democrats.