No Peace with Syria

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No Peace with Syria

By Michael J. Totten

Last summer in the wake of the July War between Israel and Hezbollah I wrote War is coming again, and it’s coming like Christmas.

I may have been off by six months.

The Lebanese Army reports that Syria is sending weapons and terrorist/guerilla reinforcements to the war of the camps in Lebanon.

At the same time, Syrian MP Mohammad Habash confirms (if he isn’t bluffing, and maybe he is) that Syria is preparing for a conventional war against the Israel Defense Forces this summer.

Bashar Assad is perhaps more emboldened by Israeli and American fecklessness and imcompetence that he ought to be. It wouldn’t be the first time in history that a fourth-rate power misjudged the West and blundered into a catastrophe. He may want to consult the ghosts of Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saddam Hussein.

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[Michael Tee]

Total ignoramus.  First of all, ignores Syria's legitimate historical claims to Lebanon and the absence of any such with regard to Israel.  Seems to think that aggressively intervening in Lebanon equates to similar incursions into Israel.  Apples and oranges.  Maybe if he had even a shred of evidence that the Syrians give a shit about the fate of the Palestinians, there might be a glimmer of common sense in the whole piece, but unfortunately there is not.  Israel holds a very small piece of Syrian territory which as far as I can see has no value other than that of a bargaining chip.  That seem's to be the alpha and the omega of Syrian interest in Israel.