Is Netanyahu Starting a War with Syria to Save His Government?

Every time he is threatened, Netanyahu finds a new threat to bomb.

The Israeli government is on the verge of collapse. On July 15, the ultra-Orthodox UTJ party pulled out of Benjamin Netanyahu’s fragile coalition over the military draft exemption crisis, leaving his majority hanging by a thread. Less than 24 hours earlier, Israeli jets launched strikes on Syrian government tanks in Sweida. The overlap in timing is not …