Thank you, Hafez al-Assad

Jewish World Review ^ | 5/24/2013 | Carolyne B. Glick

[Former Fetus]

The threats emanating from Syria have become downright frightening. For the past several days, Homeland Security Minister Gilad Erdan has been warning repeatedly that it is certain that Israeli population centers will be hit by Syrian ballistic missiles and that we have to be prepared for the worst case scenarios, including Scud missile launched chemical weapons attacks on Israel's metropolitan centers.

Wednesday, Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel spelled out Israel's concerns from a military perspective. The chance of war breaking out at any time is extremely high. Syria has a massive arsenal that includes advanced anti-aircraft missiles, anti-ship missiles and surface to surface missiles. Syria also has large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, advanced artillery as well as the other components of a large conventional military force.

Eshel warned, "Syria is collapsing before our eyes. If it collapses tomorrow we could find its vast arsenal dispersed and pointing at us."

>>SNIP<<

In other words, if it hadn't been for Assad Sr. and his unyielding hatred for Israel, we would be facing the same situation in relation to Syria today that we faced in Lebanon in 2006 and as we have faced in Gaza since we withdrew in 2005. The lack of consensus regarding our strategic imperative to defeat our enemies in Gaza and Lebanon caused the IDF to fail to win its campaigns in both theaters.

So at this bitter juncture, as we face the all but certain prospect of war with Syria while our one ally is behaving like a drunken bull in a China shop, we have one man to thank for our continued ability to face this daunting challenge.

Thank you Hafez al-Assad. Your hatred has saved us.

[Former Fetus]

They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation,
That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

Assyria also has joined with them;
They have helped the children of Lot.

Psalm 83: 4, 8

[Paladin2]

Syria wants to attempt to pull the country together by attacking the common enemy?

[Zhang Fei]

Syria wants to attempt to pull the country together by attacking the common enemy?

Probably not all out war, but pinprick attacks.

[Former Fetus]

It makes sense that the only way to unite the regular people is attacking a common enemy. Regardless of their version of Islam, foreign alliances... they all agree on one thing: they hate Israel!

Besides, it has been prophesied. We are watching Old Testament prophecy being fulfilled in front of our very eyes.

[Chad_the_Impaler]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hezbollahs-heavy-losses_729079.html

“In other words, two militias trained and armed by Iran—one Sunni, one Shia—may now be shooting at each other, with the side that the Islamic Republic has invested in most heavily losing.”