Israel and the United States are working to create a crisis between Syria and Lebanon, an Israeli Arab Knesset member said. ”It is in the clear interests of the big spider, the United States, and the little spider, Israel, to create a crisis between Syria and Lebanon,” Mohammed Barakeh of the Hadash-Ta`al party said Thursday, according to Ha`aretz. He was speaking at a pro-Syrian rally in Nazareth that was attended by Israeli Arabs, Druse, other Arab Knesset members and public officials. Some of those in attendance waved Syrian and Palestinian flags and held pictures of former Syrian president Hafez Assad.