In a speech following his meeting with President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu described an Israeli Army hospital set up to treat Syrian refugees, who arrive bleeding and often near death:
“On my visit I met two such Syrians, a shell-shocked father and his badly wounded 5-year-old boy. A few days earlier, the man’s wife and baby daughter were blown to bits by Iranian bombs dropped by Assad’s air force. Now the grieving father was holding his little boy in his arms, and Israeli doctors were struggling to save the boy’s life . . .
“Those Syrians discovered what you’ve always known to be true: In the Middle East, bludgeoned by butchery and barbarism, Israel is humane; Israel is compassionate; Israel is a force for good. . .
“On the other side of that moral divide, steeped in blood and savagery, stand the forces of terror: Iran, Assad, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda and many others. Did you ever hear about Syria sending a field hospital anywhere? Did you ever hear about Iran sending a humanitarian delegation overseas? No? You missed that memo? You know why? You know why you haven’t heard anything about that? Because the only thing that Iran sends abroad are rockets, terrorists and missiles to murder, maim and menace the innocent.”
Think of it as another bright red line in the Middle East.