Jordan is another story
However, Israel's eastern neighbours in Jordan and Syria seem another story.
"Jordan feels threatened by IS. We will cooperate with them one way or another," ambassador Slov said. Jordanian media has been reporting that more than 2000 Jordanians had already joined al-Qaeda splinter the IS, al-Qaeda's branch al-Nusra Front or other rebels who are fighting for an "Islamic" state in Syria. Hundreds of them were killed by the Syrian Arab Army.
The Daily Beast on last June 27 quoted Thomas Sanderson, the co-director for transnational threats at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, as saying that Israel considers the survival of Jordan as "a paramount national-security objective."
If Jordan requested Israeli assistance in protecting its borders, Israel would have "little choice" but to help, the Beast quoted the director of the Israeli National Security Council, Yaakov Amidror, as saying.
As a precaution measure, Israel is building now a 500-kilometre "security fence" on its border with Jordan.
While Israel is willing and getting ready to "interfere" in Jordan, it is already deeply interfering in Syria, where the real battle has been raging for less than four years now against terrorists led by the IS.
A few weeks ago The Associated Press reported that the IS and the al-Nusra had concluded an agreement to stop fighting each other and cooperate on destroying the U.S.-trained and supported rebels (the Syrian Revolutionaries Front and the Hazm movement) as well as the Syrian government forces in northern Syria.
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