>>63995949
Hamas got what it fucking deserved, but I deeply criticize their lack of patience with the Damascus government. They're neck-deep in the usual post-revolutionary crises, plus having the Turks and Kurds breathing down their necks, and that's prevented them from doing a deep unfucking on their military. So we have what's essentially still a rebel rabble, and on the other side, we have one of the three major power blocks within the Druze being very militantly anti-Damascus, but good fucking luck getting the "regulars" to notice the difference, especially under fire. So shit blows up, Arabs be Arabs with all their barbarities and need to be the one who gets the last shot in, and that starts dragging Israel in. What I'm not seeing out of Israel is acknowledging the retard on their team of the C3 issue on the Syrians'.

That's not to downplay the difficulty of getting troops in contact to stop shooting at each other, but the level of escalation they've jumped to isn't helping to accomplish it. Maybe there's backroom shit going on between Tel Aviv and Damascus, but on the face of it this is way too close to spilling over into a proper war, and that's a bridge too far for me. More than anything, Syria needs the space to settle down so that the government can stabilize and replace the jackoffs that are only there because they were there before the takeover, and the more Israel shoots at them, the longer that's going to take.