Of course: Israel is to blame for civil war in Syria says....

One thing that has most Israelis breathing a sigh of relief these days is the fact that Ehud Barak did not succeed in giving Syria the Golan Heights in the late 1990's. It was close. The dispute came down to a narrow strip of land on the eastern side of the Kinneret, which prevented the deal from happening.

But not all Israelis are happy that the deal didn't happen. Take, for instance,

Israeli intelligence: Yes, Assad used chem weapons

Israeli intelligence believes that Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people.

Yuval Steinitz, the minister for intelligence and strategic affairs,
told Israel Radio that it is Israel's intelligence assessment that
President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against Syrian civilians on
Wednesday.

IDF destroys Syrian army post in response to shelling in Golan

The IDF used a Tamuz guided missile to destroy a Syrian army post on the Golan Heights on Saturday after Syrian shells hit the Israeli side of the Heights.

The IDF fired a Tamuz surface-to-surface missile at a Syrian army
post on Saturday, after several Syrian mortar shells exploded in the
Golan Heights.

The Tamuz - a guided missile - accurately struck its target.

Earlier on Saturday,

EU claims US 'quietly supporting' settlement sanctions

A senior European official told an Israeli diplomat last week that the United States is 'quietly supporting' Europe's sanctions against Israeli 'settlements' according to Haaretz's Barak Ravid.

Last week, senior Foreign Ministry officials said, Ambassador to the
European Union David Walzer met with Helga Schmid, the deputy secretary
general of the European External Action Service and one of

Syrian civil war spilling over into Israel?

A surprise IDF drill in the Golan Heights shows that the IDF is preparing for the possibility of the Syrian civil war spilling over into Israel.

A key battalion of the IDF’s Nahal infantry brigade held a surprise war drill
this week, mobilizing troops from around the country to a staging area in the
North, and launching a live-fire exercise together with other army
units.

Lt.-Col. Menny

Israel to EU: 'Take your guidelines and put them where the sun don't shine'

Israel has rejected the European Union's guidelines that exclude Judea and Samaria from Israel. The government decided today that it will not enter into any agreements with Europe that are based upon the new guidelines. The government also accused the Europeans of 'significantly damaging' the 'peace process' with the 'Palestinians' by publishing the guidelines.

Israel will not enter into any