“...“Israelis do not need to be lectured ...
...Especially by a traitor POS who betrayed his OWN country in time of war, while in uniform.
Our very own kethup gigolo, JOhn Kerry
What’s needed, I believe, is a multi-party conference after January 20th of all reasonable players (U.S., Russia, Britain, France, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq) leaving out Saudi Arabia whose word cannot be trusted anyway, and hassle out a mutually acceptable Syria policy, giving Israel some assurances that backing Assad is not going to result in a big upturn in Hezbollah attacks on them from southern Lebanon. That is why they were at the least ambiguous on the Syrian conflict, although by now I am sure it has dawned on Netanyahu that Assad is the least of all evils in the real list of possible rulers of Syria (a bunch of liberal shopkeepers in London and Paris might be preferable but they can’t even keep their kids from joining ISIS).
This is a hard world and an especially hard region. Dilletantes such as Obama and Kerry have no useful role to play in such a world. They pontificate about things that cannot be and never will be.
If all the players are on the same page, Iran will get the message and align with the chosen policy. If the Saudis or Gulf emirates don’t like it and want to keep playing game of war with civilians in Syria, they should be told, at first quietly, then if it doesn’t work, forcefully, to butt out, go home, and enjoy the high living on the 20-30 years they have left in the oil business.