Syrian officials have sent a statement to the United Nations complaining about multiple Israeli attacks over the past three days, and accusing Israel of coordinating the attacks with terrorists.
The statement claimed the strikes aimed primarily at benefiting the Jabha al-Nusra rebels, who are openly allied with al-Qaeda, saying that there was “no room for doubt” that the two are working toward a common purpose.
Syria’s cabinet held an emergency meeting today related to the attacks, followed by giving lip-service to retaliation that Israeli officials maintain they are confident will never actually come.
Syria’s Foreign Ministry also says that the attack amounted to a “declaration of war,” though of course Israel and Syria remain in a state of war as they have for decades. The attack does risk a ceasefire that’s also been in place for decades, however.
Already struggling with the ongoing civil war, Israeli attacks further complicate the situation for the Assad government, but may also present a rhetorical opportunity, giving them a chance to court sympathy regionally while painting the rebellion as pro-Israeli in nature.
Jason, I do not think Syria's government needs any "chance to court sympathy" since it withstood two years of onslaught of united terrorists from all over the Sunni Arab states helped by all western countries either by direct involvement in financing or supplying so called rebels or by turning their heads the other way – not to annoy their leader USA, in an effort not to be sanctioned to "stone age". Two bullies of the world – Israel and US have a good time now.
Syrian rebels have made use of the deadly nerve agent sarin in their war-torn country's conflict, UN human rights investigator Carla del Ponte has said. "According to the testimonies we have gathered, the rebels have used chemical weapons, making use of sarin gas," del Ponte, a former war crimes prosecutor, said in an interview with Swiss radio late on Sunday. According to Lawrence Wilkerson, who was the senior aid to Colin Powell, says that Israel carried out false flag fabrication to attack Syria. Obama, the first black president is responsible for this attack because the dog never dare to attack without Obama’s green light. Is ICC going to charge Israel and US, Obama, with war crimes against humanity? If not, Americans must rise and overthrow the first black zionist puppet who has committed numerous war crimes against humanity, otherwise they are accomplices themselves .http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/syrian-rebels-used-sarin-gas-un-human-rights-investigator.aspx?PageID=238&NID=46302&NewsCatID=352
Interesting that is what it sounded like to me when I heard initial reports. It seemed very unlikely that Assad would bomb his own troops with chemical WMD and not have a good story. In fact Assad has no advantage in using chemical weapon, the last thing he want is a wider conflict that could further unbalance the situation. The most likely thing is that freedom fighters used poison gas to draw in the US EU Israel and other suckers.
In Col Wilkerson's interview with Czenk he did NOT state as some solid conclusion that there was an Israeli false flag; he stated that was one possibility especially given how the evidence for Syria's chemical weapon use was, he said, "really flakey" according to his intel sources. Unless there's somewhere else he put his name to the false flag scenario as the-only-possibility, I'm assuming someone blew his statement out of proportion. People who 'matter' rarely stake their reputation on 'false flag' scenarios, however likely they may be in any given case. It was an expression of the Colonel's integrity to list it as one possibility.
I saw that interview. I thought Cenk's eyebrows were going to jump right off his head when Wilkerson said it. He did say that it was likely a false flag operation, and he did at least imply that, of several possible culprits, it was probably Israel. Cenk asked him a sort of flabbergasted way to amend or retract, but Wilkerson said it again. Larry and Carla are two very brave souls.
All of which makes me wonder whether Sheikh Nasrallah was really telling the truth about the Hariri assassination – which Detlev Mehlis immediately attempted to pin on Syria, before subsequent investigators blamed Hizb' Allah, but not before Syria had paid the strategic price.
Planet earth — A sports mentality
DARKNESS
“Syria… to court sympathy regionally
while painting the rebellion as pro-Israel”
LIGHT
Whether one believes in evolution or creation, earth most certainly is undergoing a moral evolution and our Empire from birth to downfall, from our nuke cremations in Japan to terrorize the world, to our drone killing of any freedom fighter who appears to be a leader, surely our society has reached the ultimate conclusion of what happens when a nation kills for no other purpose then the thrill of winning.