Report: IDF presents PM with Syrian buffer zone plan
Jerusalem Post – Breaking News.
The Times reported that the proposal, intended to protect itself from rebels across the northern frontier, has been presented to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
“A buffer zone set up with the co-operation of local villagers lies at the heart of the plan. If the country remains unstable we might have to stay there for years,” The Times quoted a military planner as saying.
A security fence is currently being erected from Mount Avital south to the point where the Israeli, Syrian and Jordanian borders meet on the southern Golan Heights, but, according to the military source, a buffer zone is necessary to prevent daily mortar and rocket attacks.
“We knew then that there was a strongman in Damascus. But not any more. The new wall will be good when it’s ready but without the buffer zone mortar and rocket attacks on Israel would be a daily event,” The Times quoted the military source as saying.
WarSclerotic 
February 3, 2013 at 9:16 AM
Creating a buffer zone inside Syria by Israel will be a v e r y wrong move, strategically. The Al Nusra jihadists will be very pleased and their motivation will be sky high for a prolonged war against Israel.
The last buffer zone which was established in Lebanon created Hezbollah, almost two decades ago. Israel should base its strategy on dealing with the terrorists in Syria in a similar fashion it does against Gaza. For every attempt to hurt the jewish state, a heavy military reaction will put them to sleep. Air strikes, ground operations, smart strikes, all the IDF arsenal should be deployed for facing the growing danger from Syria. All this and more, but, please, no more buffer zones.