Morons in the US Congress are calling for the downfall of that murderous tyrant Assad and want to arm the “rebels”. When are we going to wake up to the fact that these rebels if in power are a more menacing threat to Israel than Assad. They are fanatical Islamic Jihadists who have been recorded on ARAB media of capturing Syrian soldiers and performing the worst acts of cannibalistic barbarity upon them, of raping women in front of their families and much much more. So the question is, would you prefer these fanatical Islamic barbarians facing Israel or the barbarian we know i.e. Assad.

I’ll repeat what I have said in a different post.
If, due to a targeted assassination Assad goes, then the likes of who replaces him is guaranteed to be abundantly worse with those murderous Jihadist fanatics in control of the Syrian chemical weapons stockpile. How would Israelis feel then and so too we Jews in the diaspora?

The Syrian tragedy represents the usual Arab barbarity towards each other. The holocaust was in fact the systematic attempt to eradicate Jews, of whatever nationality from the face of the earth.

I am sick and tired of every barbarian atrocity committed by one nation over another or on parts of its own citizenry bringing out the usual clamour of comparisons with the holocaust, especially by Jews, who should know better. Jews of all people should never refer to the holocaust so loosely. What happenned under the Third Reich was a uniquely Jewish catastrophe and to me it is demeaning to the memory of the 6 million who perished in the ovens and ditches throughout Nazi occupied Europe to equate their deaths with the current Syrian or any other tragedy, as tragic as these may be. If we keep referring to every tragedy as a reminder of the holocaust then the term will become meaningless.

What is going on in Syria is the usual Arab bloodletting, where everyone is at everyone else’s throat.

The world should just keep out.
And Israel should definitely keep out unless there is some compelling reason in its security interests to intervene.

Michael as you say, Israel can only depend on itself.
Most of us have known that all along.

In any future confrontation with any adversary, Israel in my opinion should be ruthless, unleash the IAF in its full fury, with no targets off limits and cease hostilities only after there is the unconditional surrender of the enemy on Israel’s terms. No more ending anything prematurely or inconclusively because of world pressure. This has got Israel nowhere in the past.

and its opposition.