Just two days ago I told my friend the following suspicion:
ISIL is a benefit to Israel. I'm not gonna tinfoil much more than that, in regards to the practicalities of it, the same way I can say the World Trade Center attacks were beneficial for the banking hegemony of the US+Europe, without going into speculations on the mechanics of it.
I hypothethized the following: Nobody is standing in the way of ISIL, and they are employing surprisingly ruthless tactics, allowing them to conquer vast areas of territory in a short ammount of time. They are destabilizing - hell - disintegrating two countries. Countries that just so happen to be the main obstacle in a future grand plan of a "Greater Israel".
They are rag-tag fucks (a big bulk of them are western disenfranchised muslims, many among them are "gangstas" and such sorts), who only succeed because they are fighting forces of outdated materials. ISIL vs the AllFuckingMight of the US-of-A would be another matter, we all know that, even if it would take the US 15 years of harrowind hell, they would crush them.
Now I find out that this is allready circulating, apparently Edward Snowden has outed ISIL's top leader (also the #1 most wanted on CIA's list, or #2, either way, up on the list) as a Mossad agent. Apparently also, Edward Snowden has said no such thing, ever - but - the "damage is done", and rumors fly that ISIL is a product of American, Israeli and UK collaboration, precisely to swarm across Syria, Iraq, and they are now recently making incursions into Lebanon.
All speculation, which is why I titled the thread this way - it's gonna be interesting to see where this goes.
These guys have been remarkably effective, and incredibly blunt in their approach, basically seeking to create a country of Sharia, Terrorism and Assholery, the wet dream of any ancient alien, making Hamaz, Hezbollah and Fatah combined seem like angry boy scouts. They also have few friends, even Al Qaeda considers them an aberration.
So far they control the eastern deserts of Syria, the western deserts of Iraq, but Baghdad itself is soon to fall.
They have declared an independent "caliphate", and have outlined a 5-year plan, where they have re-captured all historical muslim lands - period, all of it, somehow they plan to make a move on Spain, for example, be it across the mediterranean, or wandering through hostile Europe - either way, they seem to think they will not be nuked untill then.
It smells fishy. In the meantime, bodies pile up.