A bullet from today's FYEOX Strategy Page newsletter

     Israel 

•      Israel believes that Hezbollah is preparing for another war with Israel. Like the last one, it would be started by a Hezbollah attack on Israel. But this time around, the war would be for the purpose of reducing political pressure on the Assad clan, which has ruled Syria for decades and is threatened by a growing public uprising.    ......     The Arab Spring rebellions has also brought forth (in Arab nations) calls for reconsidering relations (or lack thereof) with Israel. This sort of thing tends to come from the smaller Arab Gulf states, who have long been more entrepreneurial, and eager to do business with Israel. ...........     Israel has obtained 20 times more patents than all Arab countries combined.