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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Assad and Hezbollah are taking advantage of rebels' weakness
2015-02-13
[Ynet] While Assad and Iran-backed Hezbollah forces are indeed advancing towards the Israeli-Syrian border, their inability to defeat the rebels is preventing them from reaching their next goal ‐ opening a front against Israel from Syria.

The onslaught being led by Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators...
 together with Hezbollah and Iranian forces south of Damascus, in the direction of Israel's border, is intended to relieve some of the rebel pressure on his embattled capital city. For years, Assad has tried to uproot rebel strongholds and prevent the different Islamist rebel factions from uniting, especially the Nusra Front, which has planted itself firmly in the city of Daraa near the border between Jordan and the Syrian Golan Heights.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  That reads like an article from IS Squire.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-02-13 17:13  

#3  Because Ron Ben-Yishai build his journalistic career on screaming "wolf".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-02-13 14:18  

#2  Assad has been the least-worst option for Israel since the civil war started. I doubt he wants to change that.
Posted by: Grunter   2015-02-13 13:39  

#1  .....[Assad's] next goal – opening a front against Israel from Syria.

Not sure I'm prepared to make that assessment just yet.

Posted by: Besoeker   2015-02-13 06:09  

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