Israel’s Next War Is Always ‘Inevitable’
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/opinion/israels-next-war-is-always-inevitable.html
What hardly any Israelis will consider, though, and virtually no influential voices in the West will publicly suggest, is that #Israel — not Hezbollah in Lebanon, nor Hamas in Gaza, nor the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria — is provoking the next war. Counterintuitive though it may be to Israeli and most Western minds, Israel, not its militant Islamist or brutal Syrian enemies, is the aggressor in these border wars.