"To defeat ISIS (The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria as the IS was previously known) and leave Iran as a threshold nuclear power is to win the battle and lose the war," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly last September.
Therefore, "it should not come as a surprise that the (Benjamin) Netanyahu government has not yet taken any immediate steps against IS," according to Amos Harel, writing in Foreign Policy on September 15.
However, information is already surfacing that Israel is "taking steps" in the opposite direction, to empower the IS and other terrorist groups fighting and infighting in Syria.
Israeli daily Haaretz on last October 31 quoted a "senior Northern Command officer" as saying that the U.S.-led coalition "is making a big mistake in fighting against ISIS--the United States, Canada and France are on the same side as Hezbollah, Iran and [Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. That does not make sense."
Regardless, on September 8 Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel has provided "satellite imagery and other information" to the coalition. Three days later Netanyahu said at a conference in Herzliya: "Israel fully supports President [Barack] Obama's call for united actions against ISIS. We are playing our part in this continued effort. Some of the things are known; some of the things are less known."
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