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May 1, 2018

Israeli Attacks on Iranian Positions in Syria Could Be the Only Way to Prevent Further Escalation

U.S. support is necessary.

Sunday night, two Syrian military bases were attacked, and reportedly a few dozen Iranian soldiers—or Pakistani Shiites fighting for Iran—were killed. There is much speculation that Israel carried out the strikes, perhaps in coordination with the U.S. In any case, not only are tensions between Jerusalem and Tehran growing, with the Islamic Republic determined to turn Syria into a launching pad for attacks on the Jewish state and the Jewish state determined to stop it, but, as Ehud Yaari explains, the situation is bound to escalate. Inevitably, he writes, Iran and the Syrian government will launch an offensive to dislodge rebels from the southern part of the country close to Israel’s border:

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