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,

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars. But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

I'm passing on verbatim an email I just received from Dan Friedman in New York. Dan has added his own comment at the top.

[The notion that “American pressure” motivates Israel’s many strategic blunders may have held water 25 years ago, but now it’s just a convenient excuse that serves the purpose of various parties in Israel and the Diaspora, on the Left and on the Right. Today, “Friends of