Israel hasn’t exactly made a secret about its desire to see the US impose regime change in Syria, seeing the ouster of President Assad in favor of al-Qaeda dominated jihadists as really sticking it to Iran.
Still, Syrian rebel leaders say that Israel needs to stop being even nominally neutral, and must loudly endorse the planned US attack on Syria, if it wants to retain good relations with the post-war rebel government.
Of course “good relations” is a relative term, but it’s hard to imagine a violent Salafist regime being okay with Israel’s open-ended occupation of the Golan Heights simply because Israel endorsed the US war that installed them. Still, President Shimon Peres is already calling for UN intervention and forced disarmament.
The perception of Israeli involvement, especially since Israel has flat out attacked Syria several times in the past few months, is already clear in the Assad government’s mind, and officials say that Israel should expect to “come under fire” when the US attacks begin.
Izvestia interview 26 august:
President al-Assad: Syria will never become a western puppet state
Q4 Interviewer: The Syrian government claims a strong link between Israel
and the terrorists. How can you explain this? …
Assad: If this was the case, why is it then that when we strike
the terrorists at the frontier, Israel strikes at our forces to alleviate
the pressure off of them? Why, when we blockade them into an area does
Israel let them through their barricades etc… If these terrorist groups were indeed hostile to Israel and hysterical even on the mention of the word as you mention, why have they fought the Soviet
Union, Syria and Egypt, whilst never carrying out a single strike against
Israel? Who originally created these terrorist groups? These groups were
initially created in the early 80's by the United States and the West, with
Saudi funding, to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. So logically
speaking, how could such groups manufactured by the US and the West ever
strike Israel! http://sana.sy/eng/21/2013/08/26/499187.htm
I think Al-Assad is partly wrong. The salafist are like the Neocons. They probably have a list of targets and are slowly going down that list. They are being opportunistic since they are being funded to kill people who they deem are heretics. The US and the Soviet Union fought together against Nazi Germany. They did so out of necessity. The salafist rebelled against the US throughout the 90's and 00's so why will they behave in the 10's?
Don't know why this is being downvoted. Obvious to the meanest intelligence.
Sorry, but for the potentially incumbent Syrian opposition to call for Israeli involvement in a direct attack on sovereign Syria is suicide.
Unless of course they simply don't care what Syrians think because it's got nothing to do with the reasons they're attacking Syrians…?
The Zionists have been covertly supporting the 'rebels' all along.
Bibi must be chuckling
Zionists are next on the menu. Just another decade or so. Om nom nom nom.
Zionists and Salafists: true love always.
You all are Jew hating idiots. Israel has made it clear it is taking no sides in the conflict. You won't accept that because you are too occupied by your Jew hatred and want to blame the Jews for all the problems in the world.
The looming invasion of Syria by Western powers IS mainly for for Israel. Note the White Paper written for Netanyahu by Zioneocons 1996, "Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm."