“The contents of the reported documents challenge the long-standing narrative that the Assad government was a steadfast opponent of Israel, instead portraying its alleged complicity in Israeli military operations against Iranian targets. The documents state that Assad's regime not only received intelligence from Israel but also actively coordinated attacks against Iranian positions.”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51