Not Lebanon but Syria?

Devotees know that we feel Israel's existential conflict with Iran lies in Lebanon. As such we've considered Syria a secondary theatre.

Hezbollah's rat-lines run through Syria and the Israelis have spent the last year hammering those rat-lines. 

In recent days our thinking has changed. What if the existential conflict lies in Syria and Lebanon is the secondary theatre?

Someone has had the same thought. The Times of Israel reports: 'Immigration Minister Yoav Gallant on Saturday said Israel has a plan in place to expel Iranian forces from Syria...'

Now that's complicated as hell. You have Syria, Iran, Russia (!), Isis, Kurds, pro-American rebels....in other words, typical Middle East.

We'll return to the ToI article tomorrow. In the meantime, readers may want to brush up: