Israel's justification for attack on Syria

[hedgetrimmer]

first: this is the link for the current article or posted thread... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=150148&mesg_id=150148

second: this is the link for this article... http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1105652003

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TIM CORNWELL DEPUTY FOREIGN EDITOR


ISRAEL may have taken the war of words between the US and Damascus as a green light for its attack on Syrian soil, analysts said yesterday.

Israeli officials described yesterday’s air raid, barely ten miles outside the Syrian capital, as a warning shot meant to end Syrian support for terrorists, fired with "no intention of escalation".

Washington, meanwhile, has repeatedly blamed Syria for allowing "Arabs" and "foreigners" to cross its border to attack American troops, hinting at the possible threat of sanctions.

At the same time, it has joined Israel in demanding that Syria end its backing for Palestinian militants.

The US occupation of Iraq has left Israel’s old enemy surrounded by allies of the US. The cross-border pipeline supplying cheap Iraqi oil has been turned off, adding to the economic pressure on Syria’s president, Bashar Assad.
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a note from the author: a terrorist is someone who acts upon the beliefs of their culture and who has not the means finacially or otherwise to act in a equal manner to which one is being attacked or percieved to being attacked, it is the rebel army...

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. God I hate to be right

That has been my feeling all day

[goforit]

2. Pearl ,Wolfowitz and Rummy are sitting around w/ martinis while

Sharon is gunning them down how appropiate!!!!

Now Clark said SEVEN countries?????

[hedgetrimmer]

3. Syria, at U.N., assails Israeli strike

link: http://www.msnbc.com/news/801833.asp?vts=100520031929

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Oct. 5 — Syria urged the U.N. Security Council to condemn an Israeli airstrike on a purported terrorist camp near Damascus on Sunday, while Israel defended the attack and accused its neighbor of harboring terrorists. It was Israel’s deepest raid into Syria in 30 years, one day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people in a Haifa restaurant.

DIPLOMATS FROM the two countries spoke at an emergency meeting of the council, called at Syria’s request. Syria’s U.N. Ambassador Fayssal Mekdad called on the council to adopt a resolution condemning the attack as “military aggression.”
Israel continues “to flout the Charter of the United Nations to the point that Arabs and many people across the globe feel that Israel is above law,” Mekdad said.
“Israel’s record in terms of respecting international law and the U.N. resolutions is not at all an honorable record,” Mekdad said. “Israel continues to defy the United Nations and its resolutions ... until this very day.”
“Resolutions 242 and 338, aimed at achieving a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, are challenged by Israel,” Mekdad said. “Israel, with its provoking and broadening of this aggression, reaffirms that it is a government of war and not a government of peace.”

[hedgetrimmer]

4. UN in crisis talks over Syria attack

link: http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1105572003

TIM CORNWELL DEPUTY FOREIGN EDITOR


THE United Nations Security Council went into emergency session last night after Israeli war planes hit an alleged Palestinian terrorist training camp barely ten miles from the Syrian capital Damascus.

Israel said the air raid was a "measured defensive response" after Saturday’s suicide bombing that killed 19 people, which it blamed on militants backed by Syria and Iran. One guard was injured in the attack.

But there were fears that the strike - the first in 30 years to reach so deep into the territory of Israel’s long-time enemy - may have crossed a diplomatic threshold in the Middle East at a time of high tension.

During an emergency open council meeting, Syria’s UN ambassador, Fayssal Mekdad, said "the flagrant Israel aggression was not an isolated incident".

He charged that Israel continues "to flout the Charter of the United Nations to the point that Arabs and many people across the globe feel that Israel is above the law, above international law, and acts outside the resolutions adopted by this council".

[gate of the sun]

5. they can blame the US if they like

it could be true yet....they did what they wanted to do all along...Terriost action is just a pile of camel dung. Yes the US has made that a reason for attack. and that is Camel dung too. The war on terrorism is bunk. Israel does think it is above the law. History proves this..... I resent their ability to cause ww3.....I resent their lack of respect for the world. for peace.

[ConcernedCanuk]

6. Oh sh_t - this is getting scary - Isreal has 200 nukes -

- and worse yet

- Isreal has the "blessings" of the USA

- I believe the USA has just propogated WW3

- and I'm afraid it will be our LAST war

- gotta find somewhere to bury my head in the sand

(sigh)

[The Zanti Regent]

8. Don't forget the TV Preachers egging Israel and Sharon on!

Every day they push Israel closer to war is a day closer to when they think Jesus will come back.

Jesus remembers what happened the first time he was here. He isn't coming back!

[KharmaTrain]

7. Syria's In A Box

I also first thought this strike into Syria was both with the blessings of BushCo and in reaction to the pressure that's being put on Assad by this invasion.

Sharon knows he's got a free shot to go anywhere in the region militarily and this is a serious new development, since if Israel attacks once, what will stop them from retailating again after the next Hamas or Hezbollah bomber detonates?

Assad doesn't have the military or financial backing his father did and I'm sure his military is no match head-to-head against Israel (remember what Sharon did to the Syrian missile batteries in '82?).

The Chickenhawks are trying to force Assad's hand, either by striking back at Israel (which you know will mean retailiation on a massive scale) or on the Iraq border with U.S. forces. I see two goals here...

1.) Destabilazation of Assad and "regime change" in Damascus (does Rummy have a Syrian Chalabi lying around?)

2.) Preparations for an offensive into the Bekaa Valley by the IDF.

[Matilda]

9. Syria helped Lebanon dispel the Israelis from their country,

and I'm sure Sharron hasn't forgiven that one. If anything points up Bush's hopeless inadequacy, this is it. Israel may prevail in
the short-term, but it will only give greater focus to Arab hatred,
and who can blame them? It's such a highly-charged emotional issue
and needs such careful handling, I just despair with Bush in charge.
The UN is powerless, because the US will always back Israel, but this is no time to be partisan. Israel has won every encounter with the Arab world hands down for fifty years, yet she is not secure, and peace is further away than ever - doesn't it occur to Israel that there might be a better way? Something has to change, and only the US can do it, but I fear it's not very likely.