Of course: Israel is to blame for civil war in Syria says....
But not all Israelis are happy that the deal didn't happen. Take, for instance, uber-Leftist columnist Shimon Shiffer of Yedioth Aharonoth. Please, take him....
Despite all of what has been described above, there are some wise Israelis who have already decided that Israel is the culprit. One of them is Yedioth Ahronoth analyst Shimon Shiffer, whose column on Sunday defended U.S. President Barack Obama's wavering on Syria and continued deliberations on the matter. Towards the end of the column, Shiffer inserted a passage that matches the rhetoric of those advocating territorial concessions, the same people who have until recently wanted Israel to hand the Golan Heights over to the Assad family, who would in turn provide for Israel's security needs.
"I dare to assume," Shiffer wrote, "that had the two parties [Israel and Syria] reached an accord, we would not have witnessed this civil war, whose outcome is anyone's guess." Eureka! The Syrian conflict is Israel's fault.
Why didn't we pursue the path Shiffer and his friends had advocated? Why didn't we let the Golan Heights come under the control of the Assad family and forsake our security? Had a deal been signed with Assad, the bloody encounters would have take place right above the Sea of Galilee; no Israeli/Jewish community would have been safe. Pro-Syrian sleeper cells would become active, too. This is all just common sense.
Read the rest of Dror Eydar's column here.But the Left's orthodoxy is still wedded to the dogma that the conflict with our enemies is mainly about territory. There are still many among us who accept this folly; they are awarded airtime and column inches. Jews have always had a knack for being the devil's advocate.
Labels: Bashar al-Assad, chemical weapons, Golan Heights, Israeli Left, Syria, Syrian army
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:31 PM
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