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It's in Israel's strategic interest to see all of its neighbors embroiled in permanent wars. This is an oft-stated objective of Israeli foreign policy.
In this way, they can keep their neighbors permanently weak and divided. They deliberately foment sectarian conflict in all of their neighbors (and beyond) as a way to stay ahead of the game.
ISIS and other similar radicals have been used for this purpose. They are a virus injected into the region to cause harm. Most of these ISIS people are foreigners from Libya, Europe, Algeria, Pakistan, and other places. They are being bankrolled by the US and its allies. The US doesn't like to get directly involved, so it can preserve deniability.
But it uses its client states to do the real heavy lifting, the real dirty work: payrolls, training camps, weapons, etc.
But where they made a mistake was in underestimating just how radical these people are.
If you look at history, the Muslim Brotherhood was used for the same purpose by Jordan, Israel, and the US in the early 1980s. They tried to use this group to overthrow Hafez Asad. He eventually responded with overwhelming force and had them crushed in Hama in 1982.
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It's in Israel's strategic interest to see all of its neighbors embroiled in permanent wars. This is an oft-stated objective of Israeli foreign policy.
In this way, they can keep their neighbors permanently weak and divided. They deliberately foment sectarian conflict in all of their neighbors (and beyond) as a way to stay ahead of the game.
ISIS and other similar radicals have been used for this purpose. They are a virus injected into the region to cause harm. Most of these ISIS people are foreigners from Libya, Europe, Algeria, Pakistan, and other places. They are being bankrolled by the US and its allies. The US doesn't like to get directly involved, so it can preserve deniability.
But it uses its client states to do the real heavy lifting, the real dirty work: payrolls, training camps, weapons, etc.
But where they made a mistake was in underestimating just how radical these people are.
If you look at history, the Muslim Brotherhood was used for the same purpose by Jordan, Israel, and the US in the early 1980s. They tried to use this group to overthrow Hafez Asad. He eventually responded with overwhelming force and had them crushed in Hama in 1982.
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