The Gathering Storm

Gabriel Schoenfeld
The Weekly Standard
01 July '10
Posted before Shabbat

The Obama administration’s policy of engagement with Syria has yielded yet more rewards.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Iran has sent Syria a sophisticated radar system that could threaten Israel's ability to launch a surprise attack against Iran's nuclear facilities, say Israeli and U.S. officials, extending an alliance aimed at undermining Israel's military dominance in the region.

The radar could bolster Syria's defenses by providing early warning of Israeli air-force sorties. It could also benefit Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group based in Lebanon and widely believed to receive arms from Syria.

How much more evidence is required before a policy can be called failed or worse than failed – counterproductive?

Israel is facing grave dangers from the enormous arsenal of short-range rockets Hezbollah has amassed in Lebanon, which has grown, as the Journal also reports, to more than 40,000 from 12,000 in 2006.

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