10-05-2017, 02:58 PM
I'm not sure who it is that you are referring to when you say "people trying to rationalize that Assad isn't so bad". If the raw numbers of deaths, torturing children, ghastly brutality in so many ways, etc. isn't enough to convince someone of how horrible the Assad regime is then an analogy with the Las Vegas mass shooting isn't likely to convince them.
Israelis would be justified in their concern about the success of Assad and Hezbollah with the help of the Russians (and the U.S.) in crushing ISIS. It probably won't take long for Assad and his buddies to in-turn grind down the non-Kurd anti-Assad rebel groups in Syria. Then Turkey will probably help put the screws to the Syrian Kurds. Iran is already gathering troops on the Iraqi Kurd-Iranian border. And Iran is increasing its general military cooperation with the Iraqi government (dominated by Shiites). The signs are gathering that there will be serious efforts to neutralize the Iraqi Kurds before too long.
If the rebel groups in Syria are swept aside and the Kurds are neutralized, then there's a strong possibility that the Iranians-Hezbollah-Assad-Iraqi Shiite axis can and will much more fully turn its attention on Israel (not that Israel hasn't gotten plenty of their attention, but they have had to focus a lot of effort toward defeating Isis and assuring the Assad regime's survival). Maybe that won't happen, but I think the possibility is real enough that I can see the Israelis being very concerned about it.
Israelis would be justified in their concern about the success of Assad and Hezbollah with the help of the Russians (and the U.S.) in crushing ISIS. It probably won't take long for Assad and his buddies to in-turn grind down the non-Kurd anti-Assad rebel groups in Syria. Then Turkey will probably help put the screws to the Syrian Kurds. Iran is already gathering troops on the Iraqi Kurd-Iranian border. And Iran is increasing its general military cooperation with the Iraqi government (dominated by Shiites). The signs are gathering that there will be serious efforts to neutralize the Iraqi Kurds before too long.
If the rebel groups in Syria are swept aside and the Kurds are neutralized, then there's a strong possibility that the Iranians-Hezbollah-Assad-Iraqi Shiite axis can and will much more fully turn its attention on Israel (not that Israel hasn't gotten plenty of their attention, but they have had to focus a lot of effort toward defeating Isis and assuring the Assad regime's survival). Maybe that won't happen, but I think the possibility is real enough that I can see the Israelis being very concerned about it.