Israel Matzav

Syrian opposition: Obama allowed ISIS cancer to metastasize

An Israeli Druze who is in touch with the Syrian opposition accuses the Hussein Obama administration of allowing what he calls the ISIS cancer to metastasize. He also reports that the (non-Islamist) opposition wants friendly relations with Israel.

Mendi Safadi, an Israeli Druse 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, who met with senior opposition officials last week, 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.

Islamic State should have been dealt with months ago, when it was concentrated in much smaller territory, Safadi told The Jerusalem Post in an interview on Sunday.

“Islamic State is a cancer,” and just like the disease, “it needed to be attacked before it spread.”

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Islamic State could have been finished off three months ago if the US had acted decisively at that time, said Safadi, but now that the group has spread, it will require a much more robust ground operation to eliminate the group’s hold on territory in Iraq and Syria.

Safadi showed the Post documentation identifying two apparent spies who infiltrated Islamic State and were sending him information about the group in return for cash.

Not all of the fighters affiliated with Islamic State are true believers, he said, noting that some have come to the conclusion on their own that the group is extreme and dangerous.

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Safadi also claimed that his sources in Islamic State told him about the group’s upcoming declaration of a caliphate, a month-and-a-half before it was to occur.

Safadi said that he shared the intelligence with Israel and contacts in the United States six months ago, but no action that he is aware of was taken to halt the group at that point.

Safadi also claims that if the US supported the non-Islamist rebels, the war could be over in months. Read the whole thing.

But of course, that won't happen. Hussein Obama wants the world to be taken over by radical Islam. What could go wrong?

Labels: Ayoub Kara, Druze, Free Syrian Army, Golan Heights, ISIS, Israeli Arab, Syria

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:52 AM