It’s been almost two weeks since Israel launched attacks on several targets inside Syria, with the Obama Administration later revealed to have not only “green-lit” the Israeli attack but to have authorized yet more attacks in the future.
Analysts, including top former Israeli officials, see this round of strikes as just the first stage of what will be an ever-escalating series of Israeli strikes against targets inside Syria, likely to get more aggressive as the civil war continues to worsen.
Former Israeli military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin says that he sees Israel likely to attack not only chemical weapons, but any anti-aircraft and anti-ship weapons that they see potentially crossing the border into Lebanon, while he and other analysts warn that such attacks risk further escalation, potentially bringing Israel into the war more directly.
The indications are that the US has endorsed any and all Israeli attacks on Syria in the future, with some reports that Israel has considered invading Syria outright to seize another 10 miles of “buffer zone,” as they did with the occupation of the Golan Heights.
The real reason, as I've said here ad nauseum, is that Israel intends to attack Hizballah in Lebanon to reduce its missile arsenal, and this requires Israel to go through Syrian territory in order to attack Hizballah in the Bekaa Valley, which in turn requires Syria to be under US and NATO air strikes to immobilize Syrian military forces.
A report this past week from an Israeli officer explicitly advocated attacking Lebanon precisely for the purpose of degrading Hizballah's missile arsenal, thus directly validating my statements for the first time.
As an aside, it's possible the reported "10-mile buffer zone" Israel is considering extending into Syrian territory might be used to enable Israel to cross Syrian territory and attack Hizballah in the Bekaa Valley.
In any event, Israel is clearly using the Syrian insurgency and Assad's unwillingness to get involved in a war with Israel to enable it to attack Hizballah and Iranian assets in Syria.
I repeat my prediction that the US and NATO and Israel (and probably Turkey) will be attacking Syria sometime this year, with Israel using that attack to enable it to attack Lebanon.
israel needs to recycle its US made weapons so they can get a new batch and receive a higher quota like they do every few years….
its about that time for a new war. Israel is trying to provoke a war with hezbollah knowing full well that iran will not get involved in fear of US involvement
Look: there is nothing crossing into Lebanon from Syria.., the Lebanese resistance movement to Israel aggression already have everything they need to defend themselves.., and if Israel attack Lebanon they will have the same defeat as they recieved in 2006.., so stop this BS talk about Israel wanting to secure its border against Syrian sending any weapon into Lebanon…, what they (us and israel) are doing is helping these bandits from Saudi Arabia and UAE.., in one hand and in the other the terrorists that are imported to Syria from Europe then tereaind in turkey and then send to Syria fighting the Syrian people.., trying to weaken the struggle of the Syrian people for their freedom against the us, saudis, uae and european interests.., making sure that this war is not winnable by anyone.., us in particular eager for this war to continue because they have bet on it. This war is lost already.., by those who wants to continue with it…, because.., as they have bet on it.., is the Syrian, Iranian, Iraqi, Lebanese, the Russian and Chinesse bond will not be broken by such an stupid bet.
It might get worse but it will not be winnable as in Iraq or throughout the us wars from Vietnam to present.
Was there anything good and positive comming out of this new "entity" in ME? The only positive thing for Humanity will be lesson, /after Israel becames history/ never ever let anybody in the future again use Almighty God like Realestate agent
Greatest ever lie, just like Holy Trinity, puts people on planet into WW3 scenario…. peter czech
Corporate mainstream media brainwashes the mainstream public into
believing that little impoverished Israel controls an Empire that owns
half of all the wealth on mother earth. So, wealth driven robots that
our public be, they perceive this news as of no importance, just a
rogue state and loose cannon doing a nothing thing.
But quite the contrary, for Israel was created to terrorize the Middle-East
into trading their oil for Western war materials. A massive and deceitful
conspiracy that can only be overcome by an equally massive and well
organized effort to drive out of the Middle-East all the Western investors
and all the foreign troops that they rule over.