Crying wolf, foreign agendas and Israel's role in destabilis

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Lebanon's total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precedent for the entire Arab world, including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula, and is already following that track. The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically and religiously unique areas, such as in Lebanon, is Israel's primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target.

Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure... This state of affairs will be the guarantee for peace and security in the area in the long run, and that aim is already within our reach today... Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon.* (emphasis added)

The whole premise of this article makes no sense to me. Why would Israel want to destabilize Syria? (Or any of their neighbor countries, for that matter?) It is much easier to deal with a centralized enemy than a country full of guerilla combatants like Hezbolah.

Because it's an ally of Iran and having a country engaged in a civil war would tie up military resources and responsiveness? You can't really attack another nation if your own people are warring with you and each other at the same time. This could be in anticipation to bombing of Iran and an attempt to mitigate a coordinated counter-offensive. If it is, it's very cunning but risky.

The whole premise of this article makes no sense to me. Why would Israel want to destabilize Syria? (Or any of their neighbor countries, for that matter?) It is much easier to deal with a centralized enemy than a country full of guerilla combatants like Hezbolah.