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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syria: With Enemies Like This, Who Needs Allies

2014-05-30

Check this article out. Here are some teasers:
"In the east (near the Iraq border) al Nusra and ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) continue to fight each other with ISIL often getting the worst of it."

"In the south (near the Jordanian border) Al Nusra and FSA units are increasingly hostile with each other. FSA is already at war with ISIL (as is al Nusra) and now there is the prospect of open fighting between FSA and al Nusra."

"In the northwest (Idlib province, where the Lebanese and Turkish borders meet) rebels continue to advance."

"[propping up the pro-Iran dictator of Syria] costs Iran over a billion dollars a month"

"A growing number of Syrian rebels, and pro-rebel Syrian civilians are beginning to suggest the unthinkable; seek an alliance with Israel."

"Turkey and European nations are feuding over who is responsible for stopping European Muslims from illegally (according to European laws) going to Syria to fight (usually for Islamic terrorist rebels)."
Where pencil-neck smashes them; what is the problem? Also, at least we know where to send the drones. And if we miss and hit the other side, no love lost.
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Posted by:Squinty

#4 It is a world of tooth and cold claw SteveS,

Posted by: Shipman 2014-05-30 17:44

#3 TW,
This was the paragraph that caught my attention. It makes too much sense.

"A growing number of Syrian rebels, and pro-rebel Syrian civilians are beginning to suggest the unthinkable; seek an alliance with Israel. For over half a century nearly all Arab states have waged a military (not successful) and media (increasingly successful) campaign to destroy Israel. But many Syrians have noted that their own government has done far more harm to the Syrian people than Israel ever did. Its been noted that if you bring a badly injured Syrian to the Israeli border the Israelis will provide medical aid and, especially for women and children, take the injured to an Israeli hospital and return them to the border when they are well. Israeli warplanes have carried out several attacks on Syrian government efforts to move advanced weapons to Lebanon. While this is done to prevent those weapons from being used by Hezbollah, which is based in southern Lebanon, it also reminds Syrians that the Israeli Air Force can do pretty much whatever it wants to do in Syrian air space.

[Squinty:]Take out the Syrian AF and Pencil-neck falls. Hmmm.

If the rebels were allied with Israel the rebels could finally get some air support. The Israelis could also provide more access to logistical and medical support (paid for largely by the Arab and Western nations already backing the rebels). Despite obvious difficulties (like death threats from Syrian rebels who still believe all the anti-Israel propaganda) such an arrangement would go a long way towards achieving a long-sought peace deal between Israel and Syria, at least if the rebels won. It is unlikely to happen."

Posted by: Squinty 2014-05-30 16:41

#2 It's a Calvin and Hobbesian war of all against all.
Praise $DEITY and pass the ammunition!

Posted by: SteveS 2014-05-30 16:39

#1 Strategy Page is worth looking in on a regular basis. :-)

Posted by: trailing wife 2014-05-30 13:10

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