'US pushing Israel to wage war against Syria with aid'

Take this story with a grain of salt because in comes from, shall we say, a slightly biased source. But if true, this is hardly something needed in the Mid-East.

Washington is preventing Israel from making peace with Syria and instead is forcing it to wage war, the Arab country's government-owned daily Tishrin read on Monday.

The paper said that recent moves made by the US including supplying Israel with weapons and agreeing to a 30 billion dollar aid-package are methods the country was implementing to push the Jewish state to wage war on Damascus.

That all said, I'm inclined to believe its true. The neocons want the Mid-East in turmoil and, if the US can't invade Syria, Israel is the perfect proxy.

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