re: With ISIS carving out more territory each day, why haven't they attacked Israel?

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Their headquarters is very close to Israel, yet they don't seem to be focused on Israel at all...or at least we haven't heard about attempted attacks.

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My bad. I guess the OP was wondering why Isis isn't out setting yo-yo's to trick Isralies into coming into Syria.

You do know that for the most part Isralies are in Israel?

Psssttt,

Iran doesn't have a workable nuke.

OP, ISIS works by blending in with the civilians. The other day they disguised themselves as Free Syrian Army and Kurdish soldiers to stage another attack on Kobane. They are actually a pretty organized fighting force, but they don't have enough numbers to take on Israel. The way they took Mosul was months and months of targeting Iraq army, who was poorly trained and mostly Shiite, in a Sunni dominated city. Finally the Iraq forces, after dealing with snipers and suicide bombers, in a city where nobody wanted them, said frick it and left or at least tried to.

ISIS can blend in with other muslims but couldn't do that in Israel. Same reason why Hamas or Hezbollah really won't do an all out assault on Israel. Sure they may do some suicide bombings or fire a few rockets in there, but for the most part that is about it before Israel retaliates and kills a bunch of them.

The Iraqi army and especially the Syrian regime forces are not very good fighting force. The Kurds are ok, but have weapons dating back to WW2. Right now, the Kurds, YPG, are the only one's making progress against them in Syria. The Iraqi military is starting to finally get guys trained along with Sunni tribes(very important) to help out. I'm sure ISIS will probably at some point do a few small attacks on Israel, but never any grand scale attack. They just wouldn't be effective. Israel is always on guard, and has weapons to take out suicide armored vehicles before they get to them, unlike Iraqi and Syrian troops.

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With ISIS carving out more territory each day, why haven't they attacked Israel? Posted by mizzoukills on 7/7/15 at 4:43 pm

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The original post.

"Why haven't they attacked Israel?"

Repeat that a few times.

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I don't follow. Bibi says hypothetically Iran would be a bigger threat than ISIS. How does that shape Israel and ISIS's policies toward one another right now? Explain that

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Dude

ISIS hates Hezbollah
Hezbollah hates Israel
Iran hates ISIS
Iran hates Israel
America hates ISIS
America hates Hezbollah
America is love/hate Israel
America is love/hate Iran
America has rekindled their love for Iraq
Iraq hates ISIS
Iraq kinda hates Iran but needs Iran to help against ISIS
Kurds are the one's everybody but America hates
America usually screws the Kurds in the end
Syrian regime hates everybody, but kinda ok with Kurds
Free Syrian army likes the Kurds but hates ISIS and Syrian Regime
Al Queda kinda hates ISIS and everybody else
Its a clusterfrick

ETA: I didn't even remotely answer your question

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Well let's see, Israel vows to protect itself and ISIS vows to conquer Israel. How have any "policies" changed exactly?

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ISIS doesn't actually attempt to conquer Israel that much, and Israel doesn't actually attempt to squelch ISIS that much. That's odd, and Iran becoming a bigger power on its own is not an explanation.

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There are millions of Arab Muslims in Israel, about 20% of the population. So why not?

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I'm not sure how open Israel's border is but I would imagine its guarded pretty well against outsiders coming in. Blending in works after taking over a city and defeating the defending forces which ISIS couldn't do in Israel. That's why our air power isn't as effective b/c we don't wanna kill innocent civilians and ISIS takes over many of these small villages with weak armies defending them. If somehow ISIS took over a city in Israel in a muslim dominated area, Israel would just bomb the shite out of it and there would be no ISIS left in that city. In Iraq and Syria, we aren't doing that. If there is chances of civilians being killed they hold off the bombing.

Genro, I'm done arguing what can only be described as semantics with you.

Now please make me an icee and I'll pay for my gas and leave.

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 is working to infiltrate and take over countries surrounding Israel, forming alliances with other terrorist groups against Israel, and actually putting cells of militants inside Israel. Yeah, ok, got it. 

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You are just now presenting all this information. I was only asking for an explanation.

Thank you for the CNN article about the six ISIS-supporting school teachers prosecuted in Israel and the NBC article about Israel's ISIS-blocking fence

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Genro, I'm done arguing what can only be described as semantics with you. 

Now please make me an icee and I'll pay for my gas and leave.

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It's not about semantics. I made clear I wasn't talking about an all out invasion. Regardless of who is right or wrong, your obstinance on that particular point of the argument was insane and idiotic