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You know I don't blame Sharon for the totality of the uprising. I just feel that the previous Israeli administrations were better at controlling things. Sharon's ego appears to be interfering with more diplomatic solutions. Certainly, the premise of this thread, which focuses on involvement of Israel in a war in Iraq is evidence of that. While I certainly support Israel's right to defense, I am concerned that US forces in Iraq or in an operational theatre could get caught up in fire from the IDF. Frankly, if that occurs, I think our forces need to eliminate the problem, whether IDF or Iraqi. I'm sure the Pentagon has to be working a solution.

Does IDF AF have communication capabilities with US AWACs or J-star?

Sharon's ego appears to be interfering with more diplomatic solutions

I've been watching this Mid-East crap for 50 years.
I'm not sure there are diplomatic solutions.

Does IDF AF have communication capabilities with US AWACs or J-star?

I think they have the proper hardware, but they likely don't have the necessary codes for secure comm, nor for IFF settings. If we don't give the codes to the Israelies, which we could and then change them later when the sitution is resolved, then we couldn't tell the difference between Israeli airplanes and Iraqi ones, except if we see them take off, which we might or might not, depending on where the AWACS was positioned. JSTARS of course is used for tracking stuff on the ground, and then passing target coordinates off to the bomb droppers, artillery and of course the commaders in the field. If it sees a big column of tanks heading east accross Jordon, I think we'll be able to figure out that they are Israeli. Confusion could arise if Syria were to jump in on Iraq's side, something I don't consider likely, even if Merkavs (Israeli tanks) are on the road to Bagdad.