Syrian rebels call on Israel to bomb Hezbollah-Iran-Syria positions

Ted Belman. Be careful when reading reports. The Iran axis wants you to believe that all forces challenging Assad are Jihadists. But that is not true. Apparently the Free Syrian Army is still in the game and want more support from the west. So the question is, is Israel getting in bed with Jihadists or the FSA when supporting forces fighting Syria? Does Israel want to be surrounded by Sunni Islamists or Shiite Islamists lead by Iran. I think Israel’s interests lie with supporting the Sunnis, including ISIS, because they represent a force that can destabilize Iran. The problem is that they can also destabilize Egypt and Saudi Arabia. So its very complicated. Remember the law of unintended consequences.

By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON, JPOST

US fighter jets over Syria

Syrian rebels whose forces are fighting against a new offensive in the South by the axis of the Syrian Army, Hezbollah, and Iran, is calling on Israel to attack their positions.

An Israeli Druse who is in frequent contact with the Syrian opposition said that the warning came to alert the IDF, before the axis is able to take the Syrian Golan that borders Israel.

A Syrian rebel commander in the South vowed to wage guerrilla war against the Lebanese group Hezbollah and Syrian government forces, which have launched a major offensive against insurgents in the sensitive border region near Israel and Jordan.

The offensive that got under way this week is focused in an area south of Damascus that is the last notable foothold of the mainstream armed opposition to President Bashar Assad, who has consolidated control over much of western Syria.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the war, says the push is being spearheaded by Hezbollah, and that government forces and allied militia have made significant progress.

Mendi Safadi, who served as former Likud deputy minister Ayoub Kara’s chief of staff, has independently met with members of the liberal and democratic Syrian opposition who oppose the Islamists and want friendly relations with Israel.

Safadi met a week and a half ago with Syrian rebel leaders in Bulgaria and has traveled in the region, met with activists, and relayed messages from them to the Prime Minister’s Office.

He was responsible for relaying the congratulatory letters from the Syrian opposition to then President-elect Reuven Rivlin.

Over the past few days there has been a heavy battle going on between the forces aided by Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah against the Syrian opposition, Safadi told The Jerusalem Post in an interview on Thursday.

The Syrian axis is “using all means” to achieve their objective of taking the area in southern Syria that borders Israel, he said.

The rebels have succeeded in some areas, “but have been hit hard.”

The rebels have suffered many wounded over the past few days, which means that more are crossing into Israel for medical treatment.

Around 2,000 Syrians have been treated in Israel, according to Safadi.

Muhammad Allahdadi was killed with a Hezbollah commander and the son of the group’s late military leader, Imad Mughniyeh, in an alleged Israeli attack last month on a Hezbollah convoy near the Israeli Golan Heights.

Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and fought a 34-day war with Israel in 2006, said six of its members died in the strike.

After receiving this hard hit, “Hezbollah and Iran want to show that they can withstand it and still have motivation to fight,” argued Safadi.

“The Syrian opposition contacted me yesterday [Wednesday] in a Whatsapp message and asked for me to relay a message to the [Israeli] prime minister that Israel should give Hezbollah and Iran another hard hit to stop their progress,” reported Safadi.

The Free Syrian Army commander of a large unit in southern Syria, who did not want to be identified, claimed to Safadi that the Syrian allied forces intend to reach the Israeli border and use it to carry out terrorist attacks against the Jewish state.

“The commander relayed to me coordinates where Syrian and Hezbollah forces are located,” said Safadi, adding that he cannot reveal this information.

The Syrian government is getting a tremendous amount of support from Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia, and the rebels in the South are “simple people without a proper army or weapons.”

The Syrian Army said on Wednesday that territory including four hills and three towns had been secured from insurgents it identified as members of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front.

The mainstream rebels, known collectively as the Southern Front, are dismissive of Nusra’s role in the area.

The battle – the most serious effort to date by the state to take back the South – was mostly brought to a halt on Thursday by snow.

“The battle could be lengthy. It will be hit and run – this is the system we are going to use in battle,” said Abu Osama al-Jolani, a senior commander in the southern rebel alliance.

“We are not a state army defending borders… we operate a system of guerrilla warfare. As far as we are concerned, land is not important,” he added, speaking to Reuters via the Internet from an area near the Syrian- Jordanian border.

Jolani, who held the rank of major when he defected from the Syrian Army in 2011, said the attacking forces had sustained heavy losses and their gains were insignificant. He is now deputy commander of the “First Army,” formed from three smaller rebel groups in January.

Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Observatory, said four days of fighting had killed 19 combatants on the government side and 48 on the opposition side. He said the advances by Hezbollah and the government should not be underestimated.

The Syrian defense minister visited the front line on Thursday, Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV station reported.

The Southern Front rebel alliance includes groups that have received support from foreign states opposed to Assad. The support has included what the rebels describe as small amounts of military aid, including some US-made anti-tank missiles.

With much of the North and East held by jihadist groups, including the powerful Islamic State, the southern rebels see themselves as the last bastion of the revolt against Assad that erupted in 2011 before descending into civil war.

The opposition complains that while the Syrian government has received vital military support from Assad’s allies, including Hezbollah and Iran, Arab and Western states that want to see Assad gone have failed to do the same.

A Lebanese columnist close to Hezbollah wrote on Wednesday that the decision to launch the southern offensive had been taken several weeks ago at the highest levels of the “Resistance Axis” – a reference to Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah.

An Israeli official briefed on intelligence said the current offensive “involves Hezbollah more heavily than in previous operations.”

“There are hundreds of their fighters involved,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Jolani said the Syrian Army is playing no role in the battle. “This is a very important test for the Southern Front,” he said. “We ask all the states of the world to help the Syrian people and to help us the way Iran and Russia help the regime.”

Safadi said that Nusra Front has a small presence in the South and that Israelis are prohibited from contacting them since it is a terrorist organization.

“Israel is only in contact with the Free Syrian Army, as it is in the country’s security interest to weaken the Islamists,” he said.

The Iranian, Syrian, and Hezbollah press identify all of the Syrian opposition as Islamists affiliated with al-Qaida and Islamic State.

In Safadi’s opinion, Islamic State is getting all of the media attention because they are burning people, but their numbers are less than other Western-backed groups.

If FSA could receive more weapons and military support such as the Kurds did in Kobani, where they were able to fight off Islamic State, then they could advance against the group in other locations as well, he argued.

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  1. dove Said:

    what does the sake of heaven mean?

    It means “for the greater good” for the relationships or for one’s own self development or both. It means relaxing, acceptance, listening and tolerance.

    Don’t take things so literally – it’s an idiom.

    Then again for a certain some religion it might literally mean that you will burn in Hades if you don’t follow the advice and go to heaven if you obey.

    I won’t name that “some” religion … for the sake of heaven.

    I think I can cite mar55 as one who rejects this advice as in the title.

  2. @ Max:
    So I see. You know it all. No one is smarter than you are. People are not as perceptive a you are and you come with and
    attitude of disdain for everyone. You are the one. G-d died and left you in charge because your wisdom.
    Oh, very suspicious. Are you a troll sent here to divide and antagonize everyone? No, I do not think you are that smart.
    By your answers it shows your ignorance. You are petulant, self centered so self absorbed that you do not believe anyone.
    You, you and only you. My suggestion: Change shrinks because the one treating you has not even diminish your personality disorder. Someone like you who only suits himself means you
    have an AH and a mouth and everything is connected.
    Another suggestion: Buy Toilet Paper in great quantities that you can wipe our mouth after you talk.

  3. @ Max:
    So I see. You know it all. No one is smarter than you are. People are not as perceptive a you are and you come with a disdainful
    attitude for everyone. You are the one. G-d died and left you in charge because your unending wisdom.
    Oh, very suspicious. Are you a troll sent here to divide and antagonize everyone? No, I do not think you are that smart.
    By your answers it shows your ignorance. You are petulant, self centered so self absorbed that you do not believe anyone or can interact with people.
    You, you and only you. My suggestion: Change shrinks because the one treating you has not even diminish your personality disorder. Someone like you who only suits himself means you
    have an AH and a mouth and everything is connected.
    Another suggestion: Buy Toilet Paper in great quantities that you can wipe your mouth after you talk.

  4. Max Said:

    the indigenous Mountain Men

    BTW “mountains” is mountains as in uninhabited mountains not populated mountain districts like the Appalachians – places surrounded by forests you get lost twenty feet in. We still got uninhabited places here. The idea isn’t to last long , just to last longer. Just time enough to Pyrrhic gloat about how right I was.

    After all the inevitable is the inevitable.
    As Israel Falls so Falls Niagara Falls.
    Over is over.

  5. yamit82 Said:

    the indigenous Mountain Men with guns. Everybody will have guns and it will be dog eat dog.

    I don’t thing you are survivable

    I am the “indigenous” to these parts so I got a better chance than you wish for me. Also my dogs are right varmit eaters. And yes, Little Red Riding Hood , what a big mouth I got.

    Now if I was in Tel Aviv, I would be a sitting duck waiting to be victimized by either the terrorists or the Israeli Government that set me up as a defenseless patsy relying on Yamitists and other bureaucracies to save me from the very forces that they allowed to exist and created by inaction or incomplete action in the first place. ..

    BTW I understated Islam perfectly (this is why I qualified my remarks saying “no foothold” , etc ) and understand it better than you do, because I am objective and not ethnically and religiously biased as you are. You bias creates a fog of mind. You rant about the past , centuries ago instead of dealing with the practical present

  6. Max Said:

    If Israel falls, I’m grabbing my pack and out the door to the mountains – maybe I’ll survive a little longer than most others – it’ll be entertaining to watch the endgame.

    Don’t think you would last long 5 min with all those people heading for the hills and the indigenous Mountain Men with guns. Everybody will have guns and it will be dog eat dog.

    I don’t thing you are survivable especially with that dumb mouth of yours. 🙂

  7. Max Said:

    The war will never be over until all the Islamist States are gone and Islam has no foothold anywhere to establish a power base.
    Everything is inter-connected – it is war and it is not over til it’s over.

    You do not understand Islam.. It’s a complete system down to culture. Even what you call secular live and think according to Islamic thought and custom. Their ME thinking and culture predates Islam and was even more brutal before Islam who like christiamity absorbed these cultures without changing much…

    You can’t erradicate them but you can take the motivation to violence and put it on low burner. This was done for several centuries till the British in the 1920’s resurrected the Muslim Brotherhood.

  8. dove Said:

    This actually is not one of my areas of expertise. I gasped at the mention of Israel forming an alliance with ISIS. I cannot see how that could be a good thing. I rather go for the ones who believe in ‘David and Goliath’ and hope that on G-ds orders Israel could handle it no problem. I just don’t know at this point if the last alternative will be necessary. If it is…..watch out world…..we CAN be dynamite!!

    Yeah OK, I would gasp also.

    Fact is , I haven’t seen anyone here with any expertise on this subject to do any straight thinking – here they are divided into two groups – those blinded by ethic prejudice and those twisted by conspiracy theory.

    As Israel falls so falls the world.
    Imagine no Israel – the Islamic world rejoices and all eyes from all over the world turn towards the USA like a flock of Buzzards looking for their next meal.
    It’s the end.
    If Israel falls, I’m grabbing my pack and out the door to the mountains – maybe I’ll survive a little longer than most others – it’ll be entertaining to watch the endgame.
    ..
    As Israel falls so falls Wichita Falls.
    and everything else.

  9. dove Said:

    I gasped at the mention of Israel forming an alliance with ISIS.

    I don’t believe there has been any talk about Israel forming an alliance with IS but I do believe that IS is controlled by the gulf monarchies and that they have had some understandings and cooperation with Israel. However, a few months before ISIS emerged in its present incarnation both Saudi and the US made a sudden big show of separating themselves from the other jihadis and after a few months IS emerged, well planned, well coordinated, with all the sunni govs pretending they have nothing to do with it. I believe they are still pretending. Prior to the emergence of IS the other less extreme groups were losing ground. I believe that the emergence of IS and its extreme MO needed to have plausible deniability which was put in place months before with the saudi and US distancing.

  10. yamit82 Said:

    along with the US and Jordan, of a support system for rebel groups fighting in southern Syria. Their efforts are coordinated through a war-room which the Pentagon established last year near Amman. The US, Jordanian and Israeli officers manning the facility determine in consultation which rebel factions are provided with reinforcements from the special training camps run for Syrian rebels in Jordan, and which will receive arms.

    aaron klein and, I believe, Jerome corsi were writing about this before Benghazi and before obama backed out of attacking assad as was I believe expected by the sunni axis. I don’t remember about Israels involvement int the “war room” but that Israel and Jordan were highly coordinated and at one time there was talk of both of them taking a buffer zone and of Turkey taking a buffer zone. I believe these ideas went to the back burner with Obama falling back.

  11. @ bernard ross:

    Rcvd by email from Barry Chamish

    “I was on Bill Deagle’s radio show this week and we discussed American and Israeli creation of ISIS and today’s war throughout the Middle East. I quoted an Israeli source:

    http://l.facebook.com/l/OAQHs1tljAQGlTEstP79UpcOCzP7V2qDuQC8lzRd_dmLmEg/www.debka.com/article/24223/

    This appeared to contradict a fact which Israel has kept very dark: The Syrian rebel offensive to wrest Quneitra would have stood no chance without Israel’s aid- not just in medical care for their injured, but also in limited supplies of arms, intelligence and food. Israel acted as a member, along with the US and Jordan, of a support system for rebel groups fighting in southern Syria. Their efforts are coordinated through a war-room which the Pentagon established last year near Amman. The US, Jordanian and Israeli officers manning the facility determine in consultation which rebel factions are provided with reinforcements from the special training camps run for Syrian rebels in Jordan, and which will receive arms.

    Bill told me, “We call it after a chain store, ‘Terrorists Are Us.’
    I told him, “No Bill. We call it, ‘Goys Are Us.’.

  12. @ Max:

    This actually is not one of my areas of expertise. I gasped at the mention of Israel forming an alliance with ISIS. I cannot see how that could be a good thing. I rather go for the ones who believe in ‘David and Goliath’ and hope that on G-ds orders Israel could handle it no problem. I just don’t know at this point if the last alternative will be necessary. If it is…..watch out world…..we CAN be dynamite!!

  13. dove Said:

    Another mind reader? YOU are the one that included ALL muslims in your statement. I was clearly referring to the statement regarding ISIS.

    ah, then you do not include all Sunnis with ISIS, which is good.

    I first saw in Aleppo from video a couple of years ago that in protests against Assad there were arguments and shouting matches between fundamentalists versus secularists. At that time the fundamentalists were a minority.

    The lack of Western support and the lack of Western Intervention made them a majority – it was something I saw long before it happened. Obama created ISIS by withdrawing from the game the same as he allowed Iraq to be compromised – by withdrawing from the game , from the war plan.
    Isolationism means defeat. It means Jihadists ruling America. Pure and simple.
    Also not using and creating allies means defeat -that is just an extension of isolationism.
    The war will never be over until all the Islamist States are gone and Islam has no foothold anywhere to establish a power base.
    Everything is inter-connected – it is war and it is not over til it’s over. Any sense of peace the American public have is an illusion – peace now is extermination later.

  14. @ Max:

    Your oddity is based on the canard that every single Muslim or armed Muslim group is actively Jihadist Al Qaeda or the like – ie a bigoted self-serving prejudice

    Another mind reader? YOU are the one that included ALL muslims in your statement. I was clearly referring to the statement regarding ISIS.

  15. dove Said:

    I must admit I do find this suggestion to be quite odd.

    Your oddity is based on the canard that every single Muslim or armed Muslim group is actively Jihadist Al Qaeda or the like – ie a bigoted self-serving prejudice.

  16. Felix Quigley Said:

    See Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer they have pictures of Islamic State parading with Kurds in cages witht he danger that Kurds will be burned alive.

    as you should already know from the jenin “massacre” and al dura fraud that the media cannot be relied upon to tell the truth. we do not really know what is happening there, if their narratives are false as they were with israeli massacres and apartheid. The same “journalists” are at work there. RE the kurds. consider this:
    the Kurds have got and are keeping the iraquis out of kirkuk. they would not have expellled the Iraqui soldiers but they have expelled the supposedly indomitable IS. Without Is going in first to be expelled the kurds would not have that now. the Iraqui soldiers initially did not fight for mosul, they abandoned it on the basis of the PR done by IS. IS PR had the advantage of making civilians flee war zones. There is not one shred of news that I would accept verbatim wrt what is really going on there. We already have our ongoing examples of the incredible frauds perpetrated by the “news” media. I expect IS to dissolve and meld into the crowd when their mission is over, and the deals made, with the fighters moving to the next venue chosen by their handlers. IS has already started to become internally involved in Iran and if a deal is not accepted with Iran by the gulf monarchies I expect Iran to be the next theater of internal terror destabilization. If you go back a couple of years and reread my posts you will see that i predicted that if the Jihadis assembling in syria did not attack israel but instead attack assad then they would next do the same in lebanon/hezbullah, iraq and ultimately Iran. so far there is one left to go.
    BTW you should realize that there is a difference between observing and speculating on facts as opposed to advocacy.

  17. Felix Quigley Said:

    Why would Israel strike up any kind of Alliance with Islamic State?

    Why would quigley have advised Israel to support Assad who is a member of the russian/iranian/syrian/hezbullah axis? Surely hezbullah is a greater threat to Israel than IS. But why support anyone when the best scenario is the status qquo whereby they keep slaughteirng each other and getting weaker? Keep the warm fires burning is what makes sense. If the rebels get weaker then help them to keep the other enemies occupied. IS has not been a problem to Israel whereas hezbullah, Iran and syria are an ongoing problem.
    IS is mainteined in the north and east, I suspect at the instructions of their puppet masters.
    Your problem quigley is that you are an evangelist for your religion, the religion of trotskyism for which you swapped the RC church. However, your blind dogmatic adherence is the same because you believe that your side should win. There is no good side in this fight, only enemies. But there is a good scenario whereby the enemies all kill each other. One of Israels greatest enemies is the euro who continues to use the muslims as his proxy. However, happily we can see that their libels are returning to them. they embraced the nazis but they could not escape their just fate and now they embraced the muslims but are not escaping their just fate to come. The Jews are the canary, and the euros will likely continue to make the wrong choice.
    Felix Quigley Said:

    On the question above of Ross and the German working class being defeated by Hitler in 1933…what were the main features of that defeat’ How did it come about? The strongest working class movement in the world and were defeated without a shot being fired. Clue is they were sold out by Labourist and Stalinist leaders. THAT is how they were defeated and how Hitler took the power. That is what I said. the workers organised hated the Nazis but the workers were sold out. THAT is the essence of the issue

    You appear to have missed your daily dosage of gingko biloba as you are already forgetting the “ESSENCE” of my question which was directed to the “ESSENCE” of your original statement:
    Why should the communist betrayal of the German workers, whom you assert were not anti semitic, lead to the german workers becoming grossly anti semitic? Is it a natural outcome for non anti semites to become ant semites when they are betrayed by anyone? perhaps they were anti semites before and anti semites after, they just needed the excuse to practice their true nature. You avoided that part of your statement which was the essence of your statement. Perhaps your avoidance was simply that you also accept a natural and reasonable link between being betrayed by someone and killing Jews.
    There appears to me to be very little difference between a dogmatic trotskyite evangelist and a dogmatic jehovahs witness… both are disinterested in facts and chained to their dogmas.

  18. I find it most peculiar that jews and Israelis should be calling for some kind of Alliance with Islamic State.

    as in

    Does Israel want to be surrounded by Sunni Islamists or Shiite Islamists lead by Iran. I think Israel’s interests lie with supporting the Sunnis, including ISIS, because they represent a force that can destabilize Iran. The problem is that they can also destabilize Egypt and Saudi Arabia. So its very complicated. Remember the law of unintended consequences.

    Why would Israel strike up any kind of Alliance with Islamic State?

    Or put it another way how can Ted say that when he has been for many years a supporter of the Kurdish struggle for statehood?

    See Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer they have pictures of Islamic State parading with Kurds in cages witht he danger that Kurds will be burned alive.

    On the question above of Ross and the German working class being defeated by Hitler in 1933…what were the main featurs of that defeat’ How did it come about? The strongest working class movement in the world and were defeated without a shot being fired. Clue is they were sold out by Labourist and Stalinist leaders. THAT is how they were defeated and how Hitler took the power. That is what I said. the workers organised hated the Nazis but the workers were sold out. THAT is the essence of the issue

  19. yamit82 Said:

    3 injured as gunman opens fire outside Copenhagen synagogue
    One of the victims

    etc etc

    The news media here, is being sure to remind us how “tolerant” Denmark is.
    Yeah we needed to “know that, to be told that – because if we weren’t told that we might think something was rotten there. It’s nice to be told what to think.
    So they bought this and much more – lock,stock and barrel – they paid for it with “tolerance” now they take delivery of what they asked for – First shipment before the flood.


    Etc, etc … you see these things aren’t “news” , it’s the etcetera of Eurabia, just some more Jihadist Etcetera, not real news. .

  20. 3 injured as gunman opens fire outside Copenhagen synagogue
    One of the victims was shot in the head has now been reported to have died; so 2 wounded one dead is the tally.
    Police say one man shot in the head, two cops hit in the arm and leg; unclear if attack is linked to earlier shooting

    Read more: 3 injured as gunman opens fire outside Copenhagen synagogue | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/gunman-shoots-man-in-the-head-outside-copenhagen-synagogue/#ixzz3RlruIwyE
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  21. @ Felix Quigley:

    To quote Stalin’s reply to the pope ‘How many divisions does the Vatican have?’

    ISIS is as in Obama’s view JV. In my view not even JV.

    They are more of a threat to the autocratic Arab and Muslim leaders than to Israel. They are lightly armed no airforce and lack real military training. they are sprad out over vast Flat desert landscpes with no real places to hide.

    Even the french could take them on alone and decimate them in a one on one conflict today. They are a threat because America and the West have allowed them to pretty much have their own way but have never come up against a real military force. ISIS is a creation of the West and the Saudis and they are most a diversion to deflect from concentrating on Iran and the bomb…. The Americans are playing us with a Three-card Monte scam. I hope they turn on their masters like the Saudis and Qataris and off the whole lot of em….

    Jordan alone could take them on and decimate them but the little king is afraid of domestic opposition nd he doesn’t have the dough to wage a war. It’s all stashed for the future in Swiss banks and other off shore accts. When it’s time to leave and make a get away they are set up for life in great style.

    The second best thing other than the smell of burning Napalm in the morning is seeing Israelis enemies killing each other and may it continue for at least a hundred years.

    To BR. I’m all for getting and keeping more territory but not at the expense of our dead and wounded sons and daughters. Only if war is imposed on us should we risk our kids.

  22. Felix Quigley Said:

    Yes indeed it is now urgent that Israel takes total possession of the Golan Heights and more indeed as the threat from Hizbullah, Iran and Islamic State surrounds Israel.

    did you hear me say urgent, did you hear me mention a threat from IS? I refer specifically to the new threat from the russion/iranian/syrian proxy called Hezbullah and the Iranians. You remember, they are the ones you kept saying that Israel should be supporting… 😛 😛 😛
    Furhtermore, I do not advise taking the syrian golan because of threat but rather to use the threats to seize the territory and to keep it. I advised using the breach of the cease fire agreement to seize more land. I do not beleive that IS is a threat to Israel is spite of the narratives and rhetoric.
    Felix Quigley Said:

    But Ross had never warned about this surrounding of Israel over years of saying that the Arab Spring was a good thing for Jews and Israel hardly sound advice or terribly prescient either

    Indeed it was even more prescient than I imagined. the arab spring has been excellent for Israel, even better than a cold war peace treaty. what could be better than seeing the past years of Israel enemies in chaos slaughtering each other, getting weaker and weaker?
    Pardon me quigley, but what have you been watching the past 2-3 years since I gave my succcessful predictions and your predictions fell flat on their trotskyite face? One could not have imagined to see Hezbullah fully enmeshed in fighting with the sunni arabs and spread over lebanon and syria. And what of Assad who is obviously much weaker fighting for his land and with no control over the border across which he would like to claim land. Assad has not controlled his border with Israel for a while now so it would be difficult for him to claim the Israeli golan when he does not even own the syrian golan. And what about Iran who is now fighting in lebanon, syria and Iraq?
    quigley your problem is that your trotskyism is a religion for you and similar to christianity, who kept hanging on to the ptolemaic astronomical system, you have a need to keep explaining everything with scenarios that have become anachronistic. You ignore facts which do not fit in to your ptolemaic system.
    Israel has always been surrounding by insane muslim nutters who want her dead but never has she seen where they are all killing each other. Not only that, you should notice that the euros are also starting to be gobbled up by their muslim jew killer proxies and perhaps we can all be happy soon to see europe burn in the flames in which it hoped to put the Jews. Certainly they will have to be muslim dhimmis as a punishment for trying to get the Jews to accept muslim dhimmitude.
    Quigley, whats not to like. Tomorrow is a new day but the last few years have been excellent for Israel, but not for her detractors. I would not be surprised if Israel does not wade deeper into the waters against the Iranian proxies and further aids their enemies, the sunnis. If there were to be a war now with hezbullah Israel will have a far greater advantage than it would have if Hezbullah had not been in its current war. Now Israel has potential allies as hezbullah is no longer safe in syria or lebanon. Did you notice that the sunnis who surrounded Israel the last couple of years did not attack Israel which was as I predicted, that understandings existed with the GCC.

    You need to pay more attention to what I actually write rather than what you imagine I am writing.
    BTW you still haven’t explained your german working class non anti semitism theory, did you run away?

  23. Yes indeed it is now urgent that Israel takes total possession of the Golan Heights and more indeed as the threat from Hizbullah, Iran and Islamic State surrounds Israel. But Ross had never warned about this surrounding of Israel over years of saying that the Arab Spring was a good thing for Jews and Israel hardly sound advice or terribly prescient either

  24. @ Felix Quigley:
    I do not know what is that you find so funny. Any of the three you have mentioned have more brain, analytical abilities, common sense and vision in their little fingers that you have in your entire scattered material you call brain.
    Before you criticize others start looking at yourself. What I find really tragic is: years after communism has been shown for the failure that it is, you continue to worship a criminal named Trosky. Don’t you get tired of the same platitudes without relevance? I find really hilarious you do not know how to write in a clear manner and most of the time you cannot express yourself with clarity of thought, ending up time and again with the same platitudes and terminology of an ideology that has been bankrupt, for many years.
    Your common sense and analytical skills are missing or you would have seen the light already. You comment on what you do not know and have no idea of the crap you are writing. Don’t you feel any shame in commenting in a forum where the average IQ of the people participating is much higher than that of your red diaper babies friends.
    Be honest, if you do not have anything better to say about these three. You ought to consider keeping your mouth shut and leaving for other shores where the company is more congenial and compatible to your envious personality.

  25. Felix Quigley Said:

    Funniest thing ever written on Israpundit. Funny if not so tragic. Ted, Ross and Yamit should set up Comedy Club in Israpundit…will do welll!

    can you explain the relevance of your comment to the article, if not you should take the comment to chit chat. What is the funny part and what is the tragic part… and why?

  26. My understanding is that the syrian truce agreements call for demilitarization of the zone and that the introduction of hezbullah and Iran at the behest of the syrian gov constitutes a breach of the agreement which could allow Israel to return to the Syrian golan which it relinquish in exchange for the demilitarization. Israel needs to return to the syrian golan and control that zone which is now proven to be militarizing again.

  27. Felix Quigley Said:

    Ted, Ross and Yamit should set up Comedy Club in Israpundit…will do welll!

    Indeed, you have proven to be the source of much amusements when you are asked to support your ludicrous posts. You still have not answered to the last few requests for explanation and support of your “theories”. If I remeber you last one was how the non anti semitic german workers were coerced into antisemitism by the communist party betrayal. You ran away as usual like a little child proving your inability to support or explain your posts.