After years of loudly cheering al-Qaeda-linked rebels as a great improvement over the Assad government, Israeli officials are now expressing “alarm” at the takeover of the lone border crossing with Syria by al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra.
Israel was cheering this progress only last week, and the military continues to insist they don’t think al-Qaeda has “any intention of attacking Israel,” but that such problems might come about later on.
Indeed, Israel was so fine with the takeover of the border region last week that they launched strikes on Syrian military bases that were in the middle of fighting against that takeover, nominally over a stray artillery shell entering Israeli-occupied territory on the border.
Some officials are now saying that it is “only a matter of time” before al-Qaeda and Israel are at odds, because al-Qaeda has always viewed Israeli military forces as a legitimate target.
Still, if you’re going to blame somebody, you might as well blame Iran, right? That’s the position of Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, who claimed that al-Qaeda’s gains had “Iran’s fingerprints” on them, even though Iran is already in the Syrian war on the opposite side, backing the Assad government.
It’s incredible, because Israel’s whole argument for preferring al-Qaeda to Assad has always been that the former isn’t allied to Iran, and the later is. Now, they’re trying to present Iran as backing both, so that whoever wins, they can blame it on Iran.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is apparently of this mind too, claiming Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaeda, and ISIS are all part of the “same Islamist terror network” that is plotting against Israel. Hezbollah, an ally of Iran, has been fighting alongside the Assad government, and its operations over the last year have been almost exclusively against ISIS and al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front.
Popcorn time. THIS, I would like to see. Pummel the stuffing out of the dirty rats. Start with Netanyahu, and work their way down. Iron Dome won't be much use at that point. ha ha
they are too busy killing each other
Dear Lord. how Orwellian.
Iran and Al – Qaeda/ISIS/ different branches of Islam it should be obvious to everyone
Hezbollah/Hamas/Iran are saints compared to these Western-backed Sunni death squads, and its time to start calling ISIS what it really is another generation of US backed death squads, we learned nothing from South America in the 80's.
Pray for peace everyday.
They want to confuse the groups like the warmongers did with Saddam and Al Qaeda in order to get their war! Fox News talking points!
Somehow they've managed to get press to see direct Israeli strikes on Syria as 'footnotes' in the affair. Perhaps they're more infrequent than some model of it might suggest, but it's probably fair to say IDF is the current air (and missile strike? …if that's meaningfully distinct from it) support for terrorists in Syria.
And indeed, this is deeply alarming. If not highly troubling, profoundly disturbing, less uplifting than usual, yet sadly not surprising… And you can even tell them I "expressed" that.
americanfreepress.net/PDF/False_Flags1.pdf "[Jack] Anderson then stated flat out that the sources said that “Israel had secretly provided funds to Abu Nidal’s group.”"
It's so disrespectful when the pet turns on the master…
"When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas" – Jean Harlow
Sir, as usual, you hit the nail right on the head.
"The enemy of my enemy is my enemy."?
Just adopt the John McCain strategy: Bomb everybody. If they still hate you after that, that gives you the excuse to bomb even more.
More Israeli bullsh!t. One day they're talking smack, the next day they are afraid. One day they are treating ISIL members in their hospitals, the next they are bombing them on Syrian territory. This from the tough guy fruits who couldn't beat Hamas, and they talk like they can go all the way to Damascus on their own and unseat Assad? Please.
All they do is lie to get what they want. Like some spoiled little whore: lie to friends and enemies alike to achieve her ends.
Hang on the reason that the US is in Iraq again is because of ISIS and their extreme Sunni ideals, executing Shia on sight as well as any other religious group, the Sunni also include AlQaeda, while Iran is Shia as is Assad. We also have a loose alliance between the US and Iran in relation to attacking ISIS. We also have Hamas being said to be in league with the Sunni's as well, when just last year they were in league with Iran as were Hezbollah in Lebanon, which I have no doubt that Israel will announce are also in league with Al Qaeda and the Iranians all at the same time! Just think if they hadn't of stirred up the hornets nest over the years none of this would be happening, Weaken the secular warlords and suddenly you destabilize the whole region! Israel and the United states neocons have a lot to answer for in the Middle East and the same fools who have been poking the bear since before the Georgian incident and now in Ukraine are in going to cause WWIII, which as Einstein Predicted will mean future wars are fought with sticks!
coming soon back to Isreal – shells signed by kids (a gift for you from Isreal) OH NO