ISIS is a threat to world peace and the U.S. has reason, the president has said, to “degrade” and, then, to “destroy” it. The threat, for some, is much closer. Right next door, in fact. As Joel Greenberg of McClatchy reports:
The green and white flag fluttering above a border checkpoint not far from the Ein Zivan kibbutz on a recent afternoon symbolized the new reality that has taken hold for Israelis who live on the Golan Heights: Islamist rebels now control areas of Syria on the very doorstep of Israeli-controlled land.
And:
… there are worries in Israel that once the Islamist militants establish control, they will turn their guns toward the Israeli-held sector of the Golan. “Right now it’s not on their agenda, but it’s inevitable,” said Eyal Zisser, an expert on Syria at Tel Aviv University.
