Comments on: Briefly https://www.yourish.com/2006/10/09/2110 Cutting straight to the point Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:49:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: michael https://www.yourish.com/2006/10/09/2110/comment-page-1#comment-22023 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:49:23 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/10/09/2110#comment-22023 Hasn’t Abbas given Hamas an ultimatum before? And didn’t … nothing happen?

Assad’s saber rattling sounds more like Iran. He’s doing the same sort of things that Hezbollah did in the last 6 years.

The 3 fronts you mentioned, Meryl, while a concern, are not the worst scenario: The pallys are not an effective military force, and while Hez is, and Syria has a large army, they are close enough to allow the IDF to concentrate.

So as long as the IDF gets its act together in the wake of this summer’s war, Israel should be able to weather this storm.

Eric:

Hezbollah already took over half of Lebanon, and is just waiting for the shi’tes to have enough babies to allow them to get the rest.

And the pallys tried to take over Jordan in the late ’60’s. King Hussein kicked their collective ass in 1970.

]]> By: Eric J https://www.yourish.com/2006/10/09/2110/comment-page-1#comment-22018 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:35:47 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/10/09/2110#comment-22018 It seems clear to me now that other than Israel, the most potent military forces in the Middle East appear to be non-state actors. The states have the hardware, but the terrorists have the drive and will to use force.

I don’t see how that’s a state of affairs that can last. At some point Hezbollah or some other group is going to decide that they’d rather take over Syria or Egypt (or most likely, retake Lebanon) than keep blowing themselves up in Israel.

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