Netanyahu Visits Area Israel Recently Seized in Syria, Officials Say
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Netanyahu Visits Area Israel Recently Seized in Syria, Officials Say
Saved by Robin Willis
Not getting sucked into the Syrian civil war has arguably been Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s greatest political achievement (as of March 2018). If it had wanted to, the Israel Defense Forces could have seized Damascus within a week, but what would Israel have gained from that?
After the Six Day War, Israel, having been under attack for forever, realized that this was an opportunity to once and for all create defensible borders. In other words, it decided to add strategic padding by building on the land it had recently acquired from Jordan and Egypt.