Reports surrounding Wednesday’s Israeli attack on Syria were full of conflicting stories about what was hit, and it turns out they were all correct, as officials now confirm that “several targets” were hit by Israeli warplanes in the attack.
The reports go on to explain the ambivalent US reaction to the attack by noting, citing US intelligence sources, that President Obama had given Israel a “green light” to launch the attack ahead of time.
The building destroyed near Damascus, which the Syrian government confirmed, was reportedly a warehouse, and officials believed it included equipment related to deployment of chemical weapons, though not the weapons themselves. They also insisted that the attack on the convoy to Lebanon, which Syria has yet to confirm, was another of the attacks, and claimed “one to two additional targets” beyond those.
Officials discussing the matter cited Israeli and US concerns that weapons might be transferred out of Syrian government control into Lebanon, and added an ominous aside: that the United States is itself planning to attack targets in and around Aleppo if the rebels get too close to sites related to chemical weapons.
The Israeli strikes threaten to lead to a major escalation and regionalization of the war. One can only imagine that if the US follows through with attacks targeting both regime and rebels the matter will be dramatically more serious.
With whatever the support provided to Israel and the son of the barbarians from Saudi Arabia or europe this war is getting out of hand.., the continuation of Syrian war shows the White House desperation knowing and therefore acting irrationally by showing its true face being the real servant to Israel.., all that theater playing and rethoric about democracy.., mimicking Dr. Martin Luther King comes to light showing the fact that the only ones who can be the US "friends" are noneothers then a apartheid regime and rest are no others then dictatorial monarchism or religious regimes. Having said that.., they all know that they have lost this war.., as all other wars in afghanistan, Iraq and now Syria.., and that even the enemy of the Syrian people (the oppositions) have started crying looking at the country being destroyed by them wanting to negotiate.., that's the danger felt by US and EU so they rely on their last result.., begging Israel.., the world only apartheid regime.., for a delusional victory over the will of the Syrian people.., these regimes support for barbarians and their terrorists groups didn't worke so they ask their zionist "brothers" to help out.
I laugh at all the ducks that voted for Obamastein.
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I though obamastein is for pigs. Got all the fools on your side and you can be elected to any thing.
Syria has to be destroyed before the attack on Iran happens. The PNAC Plan lays it out clearly. Baghdad – Damascus – Tehran.
this is just a us/israel slaughter fest
doesnt matter who is killed as long as it is arabs
the blowback is coming
Like Obama could have stopped them?
Of course, he could have just told them that he would stop financial support,
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Like he couldn't have? Better to ask, "Would he have stopped them?" President Drone-On-Ya would not have stopped them.
obama dare not to come out and support the Syrian rebels directly. Because the world known that what he did to Libya and killed Gaddhafi and promoted the Arab spring which caused the resignation of Mubarak (which is his friend who aided him during his first inauguration for his speech to please the Muslim at Tahir Square in Egypt) did not work. His new regime in Egypt even worsen than Mubarak. He knew that he fail so bad on his foreign policy for supporting the rebels in the Muslim countries. He just want to please the Muslim Brotherhood because he is one of them but it turned out that these terrorists did attack and killed the Americans in Benghazi. He just push Israel to attack Syria and if it turn out well, he will take credit but if any thing goes wrong he will blame on Israel. He just lead from behind again.
Had the Israelis hit a "Payless" shoe store in Damascus; it would have surely been a "Hezbollah weapons cache". Destroy something first, analyze later being the usual process.
Had the Israelis hit a "Payless" shoe store in Damascus; it would have surely been a "Hezbollah weapons cache". Destroy something first, analyze later being the usual process.
It seems that powerful, well armed big countries never learned from history that no good comes out of interfering in other people's business and when you have an army you are inclined to use it. Only Japan and Germany, it seems, have learned that hard lesson from the ghastly reign of horror they rained down on the world in the middle of the last century.Good luck Obama and Bibi.
I think Putin should announce that he will deploy along the Syrian/Israel and the Lebanon/Israel border batteries of the best anti-aircraft defences that they have to protect Lebanon and Syria from the illegal incursions of Israeli warplanes. This move would mimic the deployment of Patriot missles along the Turkey/Syria border by the USA and NATO. When Western nations give tacit support to a country that violates sovereign borders everyday in the name of self defence, the world will eventually become the "wild west". MIght is right and anything goes. I thought that the Geneva Conventions and the UN had moved well beyond this type of inter-country actions.
Putin would be chastised if he were to do that, unfortunately that is the double-standard of a reality that we live in, but you may be right, If Putin were to do that, the U.S. and Israel might think twice about further intervention, I hope they will not be so bold as to wage war on Russia.
This looks to me like a "test case" (Let´s see how the world reacts to Israel getting involved militarily again in the region). There is then the added value of expanding further into Syria once the government falls, claiming more land for Greater Israel.
"an ominous aside: that the United States is itself planning to attack targets in and around Aleppo if the rebels get too close to sites related to chemical weapons." So what happens to the people of Syria if we hit a chemical weapons stash? Oh I guess just some more collateral damage but in the long run it's for their own good. How can anyone in D.C. even look in the mirror.
The Syrian situation would be dampened if Russia (Putin) would deploy state-of-the-art anti-aircraft missles on Syrian and Lebanese borders with Israel to intercept any Israeli planes that violate those countries sovereign air space (as defined by the UN). This is exactly what the USA and NATO did by placing Patriot missle on the border of Syria with Turkey and claimed it as a defensive move. If the Western world allows Israel to violate the borders of sovereign states willy-nilly, there will never be any hope for peace in the Middle East. Bring on Armagedden. .
The US is so desperate to introduce the Libya scenario for Syria, it is using the Zionist regime using the premise of defence, attacks a sovereign Country again violating International Law freely and that a Country deep in a Civil War claiming it threaten Israel’s existence hoping the legitimate Syrian Government not the US recognised Jihadists hoping then a green loght is open for NATO and the US to intervene whilst containing to support the AQ Islamic Jihad Terrorists army
If Syria falls, Iran will fall also. If Iran falls, Russia and China will intervene. If Russia and China intervene it's World War III. Get ready!
If Syria falls, Iran will fall also. If Iran falls, Russia and China will intervene. If Russia and China intervene it's World War III. Get ready!
Israel is digging its own grave.
The blatant double-standard totally bewilders me, it makes me sick to see such arrogant behavior from both the U.S and Israel, not to mention Turkey. First Turkey creates the breeding ground for these islamist extremist to overthrow Assad and then Israel gets into the mix and they mock Assad for not retaliating against Israel, if they are so brave why don't they show Assad how its done.
The U.S. and Israel is a whole other ball game, they have backed this thing from the start then when the rebels start to near chemical weapon stores it's "oh, well now we have to intervene to protect ourselves from the terrorists"…this is like the twilight zone.