Posted on 04/30/2018 9:10:13 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
If Israel and Iran want to set new rules for the game played on the Syrian front, and if they would rather avoid all-out war, they should look back at the understandings reached between Israel and former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in Lebanon back in 1976. Both parties could stand to learn from what happened there.
After the events of “Black September” in 1970, the PLO was expelled from Jordan, taking up residence in Lebanon. This led to a conflict with the Christian population, which appealed to the Syrian army for help. Long seeing themselves as the patrons of Lebanon, responsible for maintaining the country’s complicated arrangement between rival communities, Syria decided in 1976 to intervene in order to hinder the Palestinians. Two Syrian divisions took up positions in Lebanon, effectively transferring power from the Lebanese to the Syrians for the next six years. As often in cases like this, the Syrians announced that they just wanted to help maintain order. Once that was achieved, they would return to their bases back home, or at least that’s what they said. But the Syrians “forgot” to return home. Once they were trapped in the Lebanese quagmire, the Syrians changed sides, throwing their support to the PLO instead of the Christians, who invited them.
When the Syrian army deployed in Lebanon, Israel realized that it had a new problem on its northern front. On the other hand, it had no interest in getting into another conflict with the Syrians just three years after the 1973 Yom Kippur War and two years after the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement reached with Damascus. As a result, the first Yitzhak Rabin government determined the precise parameters of what would be grounds for war with Syria and what it could live with...
(Excerpt) Read more at al-monitor.com ...
This situation needs to be made clear to the U.S. public. Unfortunately, the U.S. MSM is ill equipped to accomplish that. They are pursuing an agenda, not seeking to convey reality or the truth.
Yossi Beilin... an architect of the Oslo Process and the Geneva Initiative
Syria is in a declared state of war with the State of Israel.
Right. Those damned juice....
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The best thing the Israelis could do is provoke Iran into making a direct attack on Israel, then so completely defeat, inflict heavy casualties and humiliate Iran, that the medieval mullah regime collapses and Iran can enter the modern 21st century.
I do not believe that is correct. What was the date of that governmental declaration by Syria ? No war has been declared by Syria against Israel. Except one may be soon.In fact, they are under official armistice since the 1970s. I just think you are dead wrong. List for us all direct bombing or shelling attacks from Syria on Israeli soil in the last 20 years. Start with “ 1.” and just go numerically.
Syria has never formally recognized Israel, so I don’t think there’s any legal/diplomatic mechanism for them to “declare war” against Israel.
I have a sense that if Israel had been following your advice all along they'd have ceased to exist by now.
Yossi Beilin is so left wing that he writes for Al-Monitor.
Al-Monitor is a media site launched in February 2012 by the Arab American entrepreneur Jamal Daniel.
The site has media partnerships with major news organizations from countries in the Middle East. Among its media partners are El Khabar, Al-Masry Al-Youm, Azzaman, Calcalist, Yedioth Ahronoth, Al-Qabas, An-Nahar, As-Safir, Al-Hayat, Al-Iktissad Wal-Aamal, Habertürk, Milliyet, Radikal, Sabah, Taraf, Al Khaleej, and Al-Tagheer.
Al-Monitor’s stance towards Syrian and Lebanese issues often mirrors the official positions of the Syrian government and the Hezbollah.
raiderboy is posting from the basement of the Iranian embassy.
May it be so.
Syria and Iran arm Hezbullah. Hezbullah OCCUPIES Lebanon. Hezbullah started the 2006 WAR WITH ISRAEL.
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