After a few years pass on a successful implementation of a peace agreement between Syria and Israel there will be a natural change in the type of relationship between Syria and Iran. A change that will render current Israeli security concerns irrelevant.

An Israel that is at peace with Syria and the Arabs will not have any enemies in the Middle East, not even Iran.

Many countries have close relations with Iran. Why do some Israelis find it reasonable to demand from Syria what they can not demand of Turkey or Brazil?

Israeli demands that are not derived from the many UN resolutions on the Middle East conflict, will lead the Syrians to wonder if the Israelis would still like to see their country dictating the terms of a peace agreement on a weaker Syrian peace partner. Peace will not be achieved this way.

The Bush administration had plans for an invasion of Syria. In this clip, four-star General Wesley Clark describes a memo from secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld in which he wrote that Syria was about to be invaded next as soon as the Iraq war was under control.

Despite the obvious fact that the Bush administration was posing a real existentioal threat to Syria, Israel was never asked to cut its ties with the United States as a precondition of the peace process. Had Syria asked, it would have been laughable. Asking Syria to volunteer turning into an enemy of Iran as a precondition to being an acceptable peace partner of Israel’s is equally illogical.

Israel worked hard in the past to gain the friendship of both Iran and Turkey. Alliance of the periphery (periphery doctrine) was a strategic principle advanced by David Ben Gurion holding that Israel should seek alliances with the non-Arab states of the Middle East periphery in order to counteract the opposition to Israel of bordering Arab states.

Today, Israel continues to appeal to the Iranians whenever it can. The web site of Israel's Foreign Ministry has an active and continuously updated section in Persian. Israelis who insist that Syria should voluntarily throw away its current status as Iran’s closest friend simply because Israel failed to remain Iran’s best friend, are not being very reasonable