Is the Enemy of Your Enemy Necessarily Your Friend?
During his speech to congress Benjamin Netanyahu said, "When it comes to Iran and ISIS, the enemy of your enemy is your enemy." His notion is that ISIS and Iran have similar millenarian goals. They're merely rivalrous siblings, with the same murderous objectives--the control not only of Islam but of the world in general. But Netanyahu's idea is interesting in an almost Halachic way, to the extent that it turns over obvious assumptions. Perhaps we have been lulled to sleep by the Sunni and Shiite conflict. The Nazis and Russians were enemies ...
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