Syrian rebels set sights on ‘liberating’ capital

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8. But ultimately Israel will be surrounded by Sunni theocracies

Saudi Arabia is a Sunni theocracy. The Muslim Brotherhood is gaining in Egypt. Turkey slowly evolves towards an Islamist state.

The key strategic issue is whether the Shia crescent from the Hezbollah in Lebanon, to Alawites in Syria, to Shiites in Iraq and Iran can hold

or

whether Saudi Arabia and Turkey can execute a pincer movement through Syria and Jordan to complete the Sunni ring around Israel.

I would actually bet that at some point Turkey enters northern Syria in order to "protect" the Alawite and Christian etc popoulations of Syria for "humanitarian" reasons. Syria then collapses.

This is followed shortly by a collapse of Jordan, which is essentially a completely isolated anachronism, and the partition of Iraq, with the western Sunni portion becoming part of the new Sunni Islamic Greater Syrian state.

I'm not clear why the US and Israel think that this is a good thing. But so it seems.