Since Wednesday morning’s attack on Syria, Israel has been typically coy, refusing to confirm or deny what was attacked, and indeed whether they attacked at all, though privately there appears to be little doubt that they did so.
The question now is, having “gotten away with” an attack on Syria, with Syrian officials threatening retaliation but really in no position to do so, whether or not Israel will attack again. Officials are hinting that this will be the case, though again in the usual vague terms.
The reports from Western officials are that the attack was aimed at preventing SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles from being sent to Hezbollah, in southern Lebanon. This is part of Israel’s ongoing efforts to keep factions they are liable to go to war with at any time light on defensive arms, to make future wars more convenient to launch.
Yet from the Assad regime’s standpoint, the Israeli attack may be a blessing, giving it a measure of international sympathy and an opportunity to play up its civil war as part of a fight against Israel.
And as the war continues to worsen, Israel may find itself under pressure to act more and more, as Syria’s massive weapons cache, as with Libya’s, becomes more difficult to keep a handle on, and weapons smuggling becomes not only a state occupation but one for private smugglers. Israeli officials may be comfortable threatening more and more attacks, but if they are stuck constantly launching strikes against the Syria-Lebanon border they may find themselves getting drawn deeper into a regional war they really don’t want.
Off course they will.., they all ready started attacking Syria.., they are looking for friends to back them up and NATO is there to help out…, or Saudis, the Jordanian king, the Turks and off course the jihadist, the illegitimate sons of Saudi king and the Swedish kingdom family, the French social democrats support of the barbarians are there to help out. Israel has been part of US and EU plot against the Syrian people from day one.., all that talk of democracy by the west is in any way is about democracy.., but it is a empty word directing the world toward ww three.., this plan started by Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright back in 1990, in 2011 Hillary Clinton started the new version by directly engaging the Saudis and their barbarians in Libya and then Syria.., but off course they blame everything on what is their own creation in Afghanistan.., the Wahhabis terrorism and their affiliated terrorists groups.
In addition to the cogent reasons for Israel's attack listed in the article, one wonders if an additional motivation might be Israel's hope to provoke an attack on itself from Iran. In the last 10 days, Iran has announced that any attack on Syria would be considered an attack on itself, Iran; and the out-going Israeli defense minister has said that Israel could not/would not attack Iran without US support. As no negotiated resolution of the US-Iran dispute over Iran's nuclear program is in sight, and as arguably the sanctions on Iran are "not working" to force Iranian capitulation, perhaps Israeli sees the need to elicit a small-scale "Pearl Harbor" to rally US support for a war against Iran. Too paranoid? I'm not sure.
If Israel really does, then I hope Syria will send everything its got, even its chemical and biological weapons to clear Palestine forever from invading foreign trice …Assad would became HERO and liberated mankind would surely and happily rebuild Syria… peter czech
Syrian government have all the right to defend its people and its land against any attack by anyone including these barbarians whom are feed by the Saudis, the UAE and the Swedish kingdoms family.., or for that matter the liberal Neo fascism in Europe and beyond.
What Hillary Clinton and rest of the us and eu government created is simply a madness showing how desperate the vulture capitalism is.., there is no other explanation for vulture capitalism action.., there is no democracy nor there is any diplomacy.., the vulture capitalism war machinery is feed by the political system to create war and again wars. Empire have no power anymore.., what is left of him is his militarism regime.
"few days earlier the Syrian Arab Army had seized some sophisticated Israeli material used by the Contras, which it stored in the research center where it was to be taken apart and analyzed.
This is probably the material that the Israelis intended to destroy before being taken to Russia or Iran. The Center was first attacked by ground commandos of the Free Syrian Army who were pushed back. Then, the Israeli Air Force intervened directly to carry out the work that the Contras were unable to achieve."