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Israel's ex-spy chief sees opportunity in Syria crisis
Israel's Efraim Halevy believes a collapse of the Assad regime in Syria could deal a blow to ally Iran's regional ambitions and nuclear program.
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
February 18, 2012, 5:42 p.m.
Reporting from Jerusalem
Instability in Syria poses stark security risks for Israel, but it also offers a chance to deliver a stinging blow toIran's regional ambitions and even its nuclear program, Israel's former national security advisor says.
Israel in recent weeks has been consumed by a debate over the wisdom of launching a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. But Efraim Halevy, who also led the Mossad spy agency from 1998 to 2002, believes Israel should also focus on exploiting the opportunity to strike Iran politically and diplomatically through the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad, a staunch ally of Iran.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Halevy, now a leading intelligence analyst here, said Israel should start to look at Iran and Syria as two sides of the same problem.
More: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-israel-syria-qa-20120219,0,2382385.story
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
February 18, 2012, 5:42 p.m.
Reporting from Jerusalem
Instability in Syria poses stark security risks for Israel, but it also offers a chance to deliver a stinging blow toIran's regional ambitions and even its nuclear program, Israel's former national security advisor says.
Israel in recent weeks has been consumed by a debate over the wisdom of launching a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. But Efraim Halevy, who also led the Mossad spy agency from 1998 to 2002, believes Israel should also focus on exploiting the opportunity to strike Iran politically and diplomatically through the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad, a staunch ally of Iran.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Halevy, now a leading intelligence analyst here, said Israel should start to look at Iran and Syria as two sides of the same problem.
More: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-israel-syria-qa-20120219,0,2382385.story
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Israel's ex-spy chief sees opportunity in Syria crisis (Original Post)
ellisonz
Feb 2012
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napoleon_in_rags
(3,991 posts)1. When the leaks are like "no shit Sherlock" an adjustment must be made.
REally? Israel knows the Syria bone is connected to the Iran bone is connected to the Russia bone? Revealing articles shouldn't be about what everybody knew two weeks ago via Anonymous, they shed some light.
I mean its not a bad article per say, but its a terrible headline. Quoth Jon Stewart: "Do they think we're retarded?"
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)2. Israel and Iran...
Two girls who are bitchy about the other wearing the same dress to the prom.
"But I wanted to be the fundamentalist theocratic misogynist regional powerrrrrrr! *whine, footstomp* Daddy, make her payyyyy!"
leveymg
(36,418 posts)3. As if they have not worked long and hard for this, all along.
Talk about stating the obvious.