[Lurker]

I'll cut the Lebanese gov't about an inch of slack on this one. The last guy who tried to clean out Lebanon ended up dead courtesy of the Syrians.

And Hizbollah wouldn't exist without Boy Assad and his merrry band of butchers.

If the Israelis gov't really wants to end its problems with those thugs they need to kill Assad.

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[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

Fair enough and good point. The Lebanese are arguably still not 100% sovereign.

However I am not sure if killing Asad would be a terribly good long-term solution.

In addition to setting an unforunate precedent of assassignating regional leaders, the ensuing chaos in Syrai and international condemnation would probably not be in Israel's best short-term interest.

In the long-term Asad might easily be followed by an Islamic regime even more hostile to Israel.

I am honestly beginning to wonder whether Israel might just wish to go back into Gaza and take the rest of Palestine. Drive the Palestinians out. Create a huge buffer zone and annex the whole of biblical Israel. They would be no worse off and then have more land.

[rod1]

Yep I think Assad death date office pool is about to begin.