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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel Mulls 'Cooperation' with Lebanese Army against Extremists
2014-12-11
[AnNahar] Israel announced Wednesday for the first time that it is mulling the possibility of starting ?undeclared cooperation? with the Lebanese army against the Death Eater Islamist groups that are operating in the region.

Tel Aviv is ?contemplating the possibility of engaging in undeclared cooperation with the Lebanese army against the Sunni Death Eater groups despite the official state of war between the two countries,? the Israeli public radio quoted an Israeli army official as saying.

?The U.S.-led international coalition has gathered forces and parties that have an interest in fighting the common enemy, and accordingly Israel is also seeking to expand its security ties with Egypt, Jordan and the Paleostinian Authority,? the official added.

In response to a news hound's question, the official declined to confirm or deny whether the supposed cooperation had ?already started.?

Leb and Israel have been in a state of war for six decades and the Lebanese army refers to the Israeli military as ?the enemy? in all its statements, amid daily violations of Lebanese illusory sovereignty.

Leb has not officially joined the anti-Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
coalition and has insisted that it must operate under the authority of the U.N., although Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji has attended several Coalition meetings in Washington.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  not really - there's only the one sensible adult and all these squabbling kiddos - what's the track record of any of these kiddos reaching puberty, far less adulthood
Posted by: Bov Flimbers   2014-12-11 02:51  

#1  can we say that ISIS is having the unintended consequence of driving the adults in the room in the ME to cooperate with each other?
Posted by: Mystic   2014-12-11 01:01  

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