Quote:
Originally Posted by aklim
How is it even that? Unless you might think that the heat from the conflict doesn't put Israel in good light but I am not sure how. Not saying it is not true just don't even know how Israel is even involved.
|
Saddam provided safe haven, money, training, and arms to terrorists. Israel was the prime focus of those terrorists. Saddam also used those terrorists as weapons of intimidation against the oil states.
By removing Saddam, it strengthened the oil states and Israel against the Syrian & Iranian-backed Hizbollah (sharing common Shiite beliefs) and emasculated the Iraqi support (and blackmail of oil states) Sunni supported Hamas and PLO.
This also strengthened secularist Lebanon vis a vis the Shiite-Syrian alliance. It also strengthened Jordan against the Palestinians.
B