Thursday August 14, 2008

I've Been Thinking:

Israel anticipated the Russian-Georgia conflict late in 2007.

Israel squelched an arms deal with Georgia.
Until then, Israel was pretty actively arming Georgia.
But this was a deal for the Merkava tank, arguably the safest and most mobile tank in the world.

Russia took serious umbrage over the impending sale.
After looking carefully at the situation Israel felt that that Georgia-Russian situation was too volatile and so Israel backed out of the deal.

Over the years, whenever Israel challenged Russia about selling weapons to Syria saying that those weapons would fall into the hands of terrorists the Russians would throw it back in the face of the Israelis.
The Russians would say: When you stop selling to Georgia we can talk about stopping our sales to Syria.

Israel stopped selling arms to Georgia.
The Russians are still selling arms to Syria.

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