Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Israel Sees The Islamic State At Its Borders

A black flag belonging to the Islamic State is seen near the Syrian town of Kobani, as pictured from the Turkish-Syrian border near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, October 6, 2014. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

ISIS Closing In On Israel From The North And The South -- Riyadh Mohammed, The Fiscal Times

The war against ISIS is taking a dangerous, perhaps inevitable turn. The terror organization has been keen to expand to southern Syria and the Syrian capital of Damascus. Now it says it has recruited three Syrian rebel groups operating in the south of the country in an area bordering the Israeli occupied Golan Heights — that have switched their loyalties to ISIS.

This switch means that Israel, the U.S.’s closest ally in the Middle East, could be threatened from the southwest by the Egyptian ISIS group of Ansar Bait al-Maqdis in Sinai and by ISIS in southern Syria.

The ISIS war is not going well at all for the US-led alliance in Syria. ISIS and al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, are still the dominant rebel groups in the country. The U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army is still not a reliable fighting force.

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Update: Israel's top General is seeing the same threats .... Gantz: Israel Faces With Conflict on Multiple Fronts (Defense News)

My Comment: It is only a question of time before the Islamic State does launch a military/terrorist operation against Israel .... the propaganda benefits from such an attack is too tempting for them to not pass-it-up.

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