Why Israel didn't attack Syria in 2006
I have discussed many times on this blog the belief of US neoconservatives that Israel would attack Syria during the Second Lebanon War. Yesterday, someone who claimed to know, told me that in fact we were explicitly told to attack Syria and that then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert refused.According to my source, Olmert said that Israel would never destroy a secular Arab government.
It's believable that Olmert would say that, but I would argue that it's foolhardy. On the other hand, there are a lot of people here who believe that the US should have attacked Iran six years ago and not Iraq. That one might make sense in retrospect.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:23 AM
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