[montanajoe]

Israel wants the US to provoke Syria into attacking them so that Israel can solve both the Syrian chemical and the Iranian nuclear threat. They know the US is an unreliable ally and they must assure their own survival.

Actually not a bad strategy, IMO, given the weakness of the United States political leadership.

[Dogbert41]

Israel wants the US to provoke Syria into attacking them so that Israel can solve both the Syrian chemical and the Iranian nuclear threat. They know the US is an unreliable ally and they must assure their own survival. Actually not a bad strategy, IMO, given the weakness of the United States political leadership.

Israel does not need an excuse. Israel wants to avoid war at all costs, because throughout the years of trading land for peace, they are now surrounded by enemies that are pointing somewhere between 150 to 200,000 missiles at them, many of which contain chemical and biological warheads. All of their cities are in range, even from Iran. How can anyone possibly imagine they want to start something at this time?

[af_vet_rr]

Israel wants the US to provoke Syria into attacking them so that Israel can solve both the Syrian chemical and the Iranian nuclear threat. They know the US is an unreliable ally and they must assure their own survival.

Israel is more than capable of acting on its own, as it has in the past.