Damascus= Ruinous Heap

Israel has now set the stage for Damascus to become a "ruinous heap" as described in the Bible's Isaiah 17:1.

Israel has warned Syria that if an attack comes against Israel from Syria's territory, it will be Syria who will receive the Israeli retaliation, not the sponsoring, puppet-masters (Iran or otherwise).

That avoids the "little green men" problem in Ukraine-Crimeria (ie. Russian speaking troops with no insignia nor obvious governmental authority, who invaded Crimea, fought against the Ukrainian government forces, and caused or aided Crimea succeeding from Ukraine and re-joining Russia).

Today in Syria, there are over 1,000 different armed groups who are fighting in some form or another (see here and here).

If Israel (or any other country) is attacked by somebody from within Syria, it could take years to figure out the truth of exactly who did the attack, which commanding officer ordered the attack, the proxy war puppet-master behind those attacking forces, the funding sources, the suppliers of the weapons, the co-conspirators, those who could have vetoed or prevented the attack but sat on their hands and did nothing, the enablers, the cheerleaders, the sympathizers, and so on.  Likely, it would be impossible to ever know for sure.

Syria's President Assad has claimed he is in charge within Syria, and the only legitimate government for all of Syria.  If Assad has encouraged, acquiesced, or failed to take action against terrorists, allied forces, or others who are using Syria as a base of operations, who should be held responsible for this dangerous situation?

By holding President Assad responsible (and indirectly Assad's supporter, Russia) for everything that occurs within Syria's territory, Israel avoids all of the impossible messiness of retaliating against the multitude of ghost armies inside Syria who might attack Israel or other countries.

If Iran, USA, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, ISIS, Pakistan, and others who control or influence the actions of armed forces operating within Syria, and they are truly friends of Assad and/or the Syrian people, they might want to clarify their orders, rules of engagement, and acceptable targets, weapons, timing, degree, and methods for anything that is direct or indirect against any other country, including Israel.

Are we now minutes or hours away from nuclear war, the first time since 1945?


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