hurricane trump is blowing all over the place and confounding all who believe they've found which way he'll go next including the israeli's who rule us;
The Pentagon was not the only party
pressing Donald Trump to keep troops in Syria last year. It turns out
the Israeli government and its supporters in Washington were working
very hard to get the Trump administration to use America’s military
presence there to support an Israeli campaign of airstrikes aimed at
threatening war with Iran.
The Israeli strategy was aimed at
dividing Russia from Iran and thus putting pressure on Tehran to
withdraw its military personnel from Syria. A campaign by a pro-Israel
think tank actually succeeded in getting such a policy ready for Trump’s
approval last fall—although it was not supported by some Pentagon
officials.
The story of the Israel lobby’s latest
attempt to capture American policy, recounted here for the first time,
reveals just how far Israel was able to reach into the Trump
administration before the president personally intervened.
Israel’s Strategy of Provocation in Syria
In early 2018, Israel had stepped up
the pace of its airstrikes against Iran-related targets in Syria. The
original rationale for the strikes had been to prevent Iran from
transporting advanced, highly accurate missiles through Syria to
Hezbollah in Lebanon (although Israeli military intelligence had admitted nearly a decade ago that
Hezbollah had already received hundreds of such weapons). But by 2018,
the IDF had added another reason for the attacks: to force Iran to give
up its military presence in Syria altogether. This despite the fact that
Israel had failed to cite any evidence of any permanent Iranian bases there...........https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-the-israeli-effort-to-keep-trump-in-syria-failed/
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