The UN is an incredibly conservative organization: it wants things returned to the way they were three years ago or more than six decades ago.

Fortunately, Syria is done.

Assad will never get it back; Islamic Jihad will never get it.

Someone needs to wake up to the idea that Syria’s six to eight million internally displaced and refugee have an inherent right to regain their land, and should that include the development of a peaceful buffer with Israel . . . . 🙂 It’s not so easy, I know, but it would make more sense if the greater of the fighting ranks, state military and revolutionary forces, were to draw (had drawn, would now draw) from the middle of the society displaced or trapped between similarly malignant and anachronistic powers.

Toward the end of last week, I suggested a re-think on the part of President Bashar al-Assad’s “coup proof” military: if there’s any humanity left in, it alone could negotiate a strategy with General Idris, whom it knows well, depose the dictator, fend off the al-Qaeda affiliates, reform or update (in a good way) Hezbollah, tell Putin and the Ayatollah both how the New Syria is going to be, make peace with Israel, now that Israel has provided more than 700 Syrians with emergency medical services (and returned them incognito to Syria), and forge a genuinely new path into the global future.

Wishful thinking.

The inspiration for it: Israel enmeshed in complex Syrian refugee crisis | JPost | Israel News – 2/2/2014.

If there world worked right, some kind of refugee region and buffer would form along Israel’s defense line under — this is the hard part — Israeli suzerainty while the Syrian Civil War continues.  The population would then become a de factor protectorate with extraordinary benefits.

The fact of the matter is that everything about the Syrian Civil War, from the collapse into chaos and sadism of the old Soviet political architecture, now post-Soviet, to the incursion by the al-Qaeda affiliates and seduced adolescent and early post-adolescent boys and girls, is indeed anachronistic and malignant.

Not one inch of either is working for good and legitimate ends, nor will they.

It seems like only yesterday that Syrians dared complain to the Assad regime about the state of their economy.

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