BK & Igkick
Naive is a weakness, not an asset, “drunk with power,” or “balance of power,” to whom are you referring? I can think of 22 nations who for the past 60 years have done everything to physically, diplomatically & socially isolate, condemn & attack the tiny Jewish nation.
Israel is surrounded by a majority of people that do not share, have exposure to, nor a model for the same western values shared by N. Americans & Europeans. The country is the size of less then 1/10 of 1% of the entire middle east. A fifth of the worlds population, a billion strong have obsessively waged a campaign of intolerance against her. Oil, a primary commodity has supplied this ideology with infinite financing. A plague of misinformation against Israel spreads with impunity to media outlets, universities and countless other movements.
Make no mistake, if syria/hezbollah/iran regains Golan & Sheeba Farms, they will surely exploit it. True, if attacked from Golan after peace signed, Israel could launch simple air strikes, destroying the 150 dams throughout Syria flooding half the country. If this is true why was Lebanon 2 a failure? Certain covert restrictions & barriers confined Israel’s ability to execute a successful assault.
World opinion didn’t fall in Israel’s favor during its previous wars, why would they assume it would in the future when hezbollah begins firing rockets from Golan? What if the attacks are spontaneous and random, like from Gaza, sporadically killing & maiming? What’s Israel to do then, recapture Golan? flood Damascus? or should they launch limited, ineffective air strikes with equally ineffective minor ground incursions? What would the ‘oil educated’ world approve of publicly?
