And yet Israel wants us to get involved. Knowing what happened to Christian communities in Iraq after they engineered our involvement there. Why?
“And yet Israel wants us to get involved. Knowing what happened to Christian communities in Iraq after they engineered our involvement there. Why?”
I’m surmising because they believe the US exercising and extending its sphere of influence over Syria is preferable to Russia. This presumes the US could control the inevitable Jihadist influences in Syria which is an impossibility.
Israel is looking out if its interests; a powerful Arab dictatorship can wage a full scale war while rag tag terrorists will not Israel can easily handle Al Qaeda groups, just like they have handled Hamas and Hizbollah. States such as Syria and Iran are harder, very much so.
That being said, what is best for Israel is not in the US best interests when it comes to Syria. But people don’t like to hear that.
Arab Christians tend to be Arab nationalists and oppose Israel.
On the other side, although the Israelis treat their Christian citizens better than Muslim-led non-Ba'athist Arab governments do, Lebanon aside, they do not treat them well -- Christians returning from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre with candles lit from the Holy Fire on Pascha are often roughed up by Israeli soldiers and their candles stomped out; no Israelis authorities defend Christians when Haredim spit at them in the streets of Jerusalem.