Posted on 12/05/2011 4:55:16 AM PST by jhpigott
The Israeli Parliament’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chief said Monday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad might start a war with Israel in order to save his regime if he feels it is about to fall.
"The closer the Assad regime in Syria gets to death's door, the bigger the threat against Israel becomes," the Jerusalem Post cited Shaul Mofaz as saying Monday.
"It can be reasonably assumed that in the twilight of his rule, Assad will try to deflect attention from the massacre of his own people by starting a conflict with Israel.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nowlebanon.com ...
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http://www.worldnewstribune.com/2011/12/02/israel-deploys-three-armored-units-on-northern-border/
The phrase “suicide by cop” comes to mind
I’ve seen a couple of articles lately speculating that Iran may ‘pull out’ of Syria, should the ‘insurgents’ topple the Assad regime...
I’d imagine that, if there’s any truth to these speculations, Assad is getting desperate enough to try something to regain some ‘street cred’ in Iran....
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It would make perfect sense, in this case. The only thing that Arabs hate more than each other is Israel.
Thanks jhpigott.
Interesting story, but the fact is, Assad doesn’t dare commit his remaining troops to another war with Israel — he’s never won one, neither had his father, and he and everyone in Syria knows this. If he starts the shooting, he’ll be off the throne and head on the block that much faster.
Missile attacks might happen.
It’s more likely that *no* shots will be fired on either side before he’s gone / deposed / overthrown / exiled / executed / shot down like a dog by the Syrians themselves. Any attempt to aid the protestors will be used against them by the Assad-run media, which has a saturation campaign going on all the time claiming that the whole thing is from foreign interests.
That said, it seems likely that the Israeli who made the statement did so to assure everyone that Israel has no interest in another war, won’t fire first, and has nothing to do with the uprising.
Because, y’know, if Israel had had anything to do with it, it would have been over by now. :’)
Um...isn’t there something in biblical prophecy about the utter destruction of Damascus? Methinks it’s about to get real.
Go Netty!
my thoughts... iran will ship chemical and biological agents for assad to use on israel, but something is about to go horribly wrong that will leave damascus as a ruinous heap, but israel will not be the one who brings it about.
they will get blamed, and the retaliation from the other players will bring the other end games to the middle east.
jmhi... god’s plan is certainly not known by me... just dabling in the end of days.
love to be able to say i called it on my way to the afterlife... booyah!
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Um...isn’t there something in biblical prophecy about the utter destruction of Damascus? Methinks it’s about to get real.
Yes, already fulfilled in the 4th year of king Ahaz (ref: 2 Kings 16:9)
Isaiah 17:1 "...and the destruction of Damascus in 732, as recorded in the Assyrian Annals, was massive, leaving hundreds of sites looking "like hills over which the flood had swept." This widespread destruction also included both the reduction of much of the city of Damascus to rubble as well as the redistribution of its territories in Syria as well as in Transjordan and the Galilee." (from IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament, Copyright © 2000 by John H. Walton, Victor H. Matthews and Mark W. Chavalas. Published by InterVarsity Press. All rights reserved.)
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