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2010-04-25 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel must topple Assad in next conflict with Syria proxies

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Posted by Steve White 2010-04-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Israel should respond missile for missile against Syrian targets, starting with presidential palaces.

Posted by phil_b 2010-04-25 01:28|| 2010-04-25 01:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Israel should put this in the context of "restoring majority rule" to Syria, whose majority Sunni are ruled over by a tiny minority of Alawite Shiite.

While many Sunni are loyal to the government, the other Sunni powers in the area would raise their eyebrows with this, in the hope that the Shiite proxies in their region could be booted out.

They have felt unbalanced since minority Sunni ruled Iraq was replaced with majority Shiite Iraq. So having Syria, and by extension, Hezbollah, declawed, it would do much to restore their equanimity.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-04-25 07:59|| 2010-04-25 07:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Assad isn't a Shiite, he's an Alawite, as is his family and closest thug-advisors.

Alawites are considered heretics by Sunnis and used to be considered that way by the Shi'a. Recently the Mad Mullahs managed to get some sort of dispensation in Qom that made the Alawites a 'branch' of Shi'a belief.

If I were president and had a CIA that could keep its mouth shut, there's a flame to be fanned in Syria ...

Posted by Steve White 2010-04-25 17:04|| 2010-04-25 17:04|| Front Page Top

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