I think Israel can handle this, but as someone else said...they should not count on US aid. Obama is probably phoning in his support to the ISIS (ISIL) terrorists right now. He is probably also phoning the lamestream media his phony official support for Israel, to be on record, but praying for ISIS success. We know this game by now. Why the American people have not marched on DC to demand this regime’s ouster I cannot fathom. To me, it surely seems that much of the supposed outrage is just as long as it doesn’t cost more than $10-$25. Otherwise, the cost is too extreme and please don’t bother me. Unfortunately, I’m beginning to believe that most Americans have been sold over to socialism and have little stomach to do the hard things it will take to turn this country around.
All we need to do is make sure we never elect another Democrat, to any office, then replace all judges, while enacting tort reform.
The Israelis struck oil, struck natural gas, and won’t need hydrocarbon support from the US much longer. In 20 years, there will be seafloor pipelines running from Cyprus (the Greek part) to Israel on the one hand and Europe on the other, carrying natural gas, and perhaps liquid petroleum of some form.
The Turks before Erdogan took over wanted to build a “peace pipeline” to relay fresh water (Turkey has a surplus) to Cyprus (both sides), Israel, Gaza, Syria, Jordan (via Syria), including seafloor pipelines. That’s out of the question now. Turkey’s original pitch was to run the pipeline through Syria into Israel and Jordan, but none of the countries accepted that (Syria deprives Jordan of some of its freshwater supply with an illegal dam).
Egypt and Israel discussed diversion of Nile water across Sinai and into Israel; Sudan said (rather nonsensically) that they would shut down the flow of the Nile to Egypt if this was tried. Mubarek began his “peace canal” anyway, with a tunnel conduit under the Suez Canal and out into open air, along the Med coast of the Sinai, and reaching as far as El Arish, but excluding Israel. His idea was to expand water supplies into vacant areas to entice Egyptians out of the Nile valley and into new settlements.
Israel’s been working away at desalination technology, and building desalination plants. Under the 1994 treaty, Israel has to make up water shortfalls to Jordan, which it tries to do. Israel *should* shut down all water supplies to Gaza and the Arab-occupied areas of Judea and Samaria, they’d shed parasites by the 100s of 1000s. Instead, Israel will continue to build capacity until it can more than supply its needs and treaty obligations with desalination.
If Israel is attacked again, say, before early 2017, the US will help, or the Mossad will eliminate the political obstacle — it would simply be a matter of Israel’s survival. And, you can bet that, if that happened, there are FINOs who would spend the rest of their bitter lives complaining about it.