Syria today issued an angry denial to Israeli accusations that it has supplied Hezbollah with scud missiles, saying the claim was made primarily to damage the chances of a comprehensive peace deal and could even be a pretext for war.
In addition to damaging the already negligible chance of peace talks between the two sides, the accusation has also done serious damage to the possible rapprochement between Syria and the US, which has announced it is delaying the appointment of a new ambassador to Syria over the Israeli accusation.
But the accusation has additional severity for Lebanon, which has over the past several months been faced with the prospect of another Israeli invasion, something Israeli officials have insisted is “only a matter of time.”
The issue may be a complicated one, as Syria’s denial and Israel’s claims come with an as-yet unconfirmed report in a Kuwaiti newspaper that Hezbollah actually received old, unusable scuds at some point. The group may have intended to use the parts in the creation of some of its own, lower range rockets.
Syria, Lebanon, and every other country in the Middle East NEEDS nukes to defend themselves against Israel. If Iran isn't developing nuclear weapons, then they damn well should be. And if they are building nukes, who can blame them?
God Bless America.
God Bless America.
One should not forget the pretext for Israel's 1967 attack on it's neighbors.
More should be examined on JFK's threat of Israel sanctions regarding
it's illegal WMD programs.
Not ignoring Israel's 1956 attack on Egypt in collusion with UK and France.
The Greater Israel plan,a 19th century colonial enterprise was always about land and water.That land less it's non Jewish inhabitants ofcourse.War is the most oprtune time to move large populations. Israel's new residency laws is probably final phse of expelling Palestinians from occupied West Bank as attack on Iran is carried out
And if they did receive some scuds, so what. They are entitled to protect themselves from aggression and terrorism. When will America wake up and realize that our special relationship is going to end up being our downfall. The international community has awaken, its our turn.
At this point the United States is just going to have to suffer the consequences of its ill-advised support of the abominable Zionist state.
AMEN to all three posts above.
I wouldn't want to see any new countries get nukes, but they should have scuds and better weapons and anti-aircraft batteries to defend themselves from Israel.
Israel crushed Arab aggression outnumbered and often out-gunned and still has to deal with the catch-22 demands of the world after eliminating existential threats. Take Egypt: "oh, we surrender, we won't fight you, just give us back the Sinai."
If Syria starts anything, it will just further prove the point that Israel needs the Golan as a buffer zone to thwart any Syrian or Lebanese terrorist aggressions.
You gripe so much about Hezbollah getting a few old Scuds. What about the state-of-the- art weaponry Israel gets from the US every year? The TERRORIST aggressions really come from Tel Aviv. What is more criminal: F-16s deliberately bombing civilians and destroying Lebanon infrastructure or a few primitive rockets, which didn't even reach their targets accurately anyway? Schmuck, the days in which the world stupidly believed your lies are over. Please don't continue with those hateful tactics. You are only going to get people to start hating Israel as a result of their genocidal policies. Here in South America, people know the sort of people you are.
The only thing Syria ever "started" with the Zionists was trying to get back the real estate that was wrongfully taken in 1967. You Jews have thoroughly perverted and unprincipled ideas about what you think you're entitled to do.