PATRICK COCKBURN—An Israeli-Iranian confrontation in Syria, would add yet another battle front to the conflict there that already has multiple fronts. If sustained, it could draw in Hezbollah in Lebanon which has been an important ally of Assad. The US may back a more aggressive Israeli posture in Syria, but the single-minded obsession of the Trump administration with Iran as the source of all instability in the Middle East is dangerously simple-minded and injects more instability into a region already deeply unstable.