Think about Israel.

The divided opposition in Syria has at last chosen a common leader in a get together in Qatar going on for over a week. The chosen one is Moaz al-Khatib, former Sunni Muslim imam of the Umayyad mosque in Damascus. He is said to be a moderate and is said to have argued for peace talks with Bashar al-Assad. He will have 2 moderate Vice Presidents, a prominent dissident, Riad Seif and a leading secular activist, Suhair al-Atassi. The new body will be called the National Coalition for Opposition Forces and Syrian Revolution and will have representation from Kurds, Christians, Alawites and women's groups. Turkey and the Gulf Arab states have an open interest in combining a Sunni opposition to the Alawis, an offshoot of Shia. What role western powers such as the US, UK and France have played behind the scenes and what inducements, in the form of heavy weapons and anti aircraft missiles, have been offered we do not know. Britain is already rumored to be ready to supply arms to the rebels which will take the war in Syria to a new level. The new leadership provides a fig leaf to western powers to once again interfere in the affairs of a Muslim country even after the getting bloody noses in Iraq and Afghanistan and leaving behind a divided Libya, a fertile hunting ground for Al Qaeda. The world should not be fooled by the moderate nature of the leadership. A similar moderate leadership was cobbled together to justify the murder of 30,000 Libyans and is now confined to Tripoli while armed militias rule various parts of a divided country. The Egyptian revolution, which led to the fall of Hosni Mubarak, was led by mainly secular groups but has yielded a government by the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood was formed in Egypt in 1928 and has spread to most countries of the middle east and north Africa. It has been periodically persecuted by various leaders such as Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and Hafez al-Assad of Syria, late father of the present president. In 1982 a Brotherhood uprising in the city of Hama was brutally put down with the loss of up to 40,000 lives. Thus, the Brotherhood knows how to wait to grab power as it has done in Egypt. Once Assad falls and elections are organised the Brotherhood will quietly take over the government because it has an efficient organisation on the ground. The Brotherhood is leading a series of protests in Jordan and is slowly trying to grab power in that country. If it succeeds Israel will be completely surrounded. In the west it has Egypt, to the south east there is Jordan, to the north east Syria and to the north Lebanon, with the dangerously armed Hezbollah. The only escape is to the north west into the Mediterranean sea. Netanyahu is exercised over Iran possessing nuclear weapons when danger is brewing just across its borders. The US should be alarmed.