Israel, Hit Syria Not Hizbollah

[bemildred]

Interesting in light of recent events.

The time has finally come for Israel to take the gloves off
and start to hit hard, for real. It's time for Israelis to get over
their "Syrian Syndrome", that irrational deep-seated fear of
Syria, dating back to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. The Syria
of today might not be much different than the Syria of 1973,
but Israel sure the heck is. Israel's military in 2003 is quite
a bit more advanced, Israel's economy - while still a little
slow - is exponentially ahead of Syria's economy. In fact by
every measure of national power, Israel is well beyond
Syria, the gap has grown not shrunk since 1973. So "get
over it", Syria is a paper tiger, or more aptly put a "paper
bag", or "basket case".

Even after renewed attacks on Israel, why bother with
Hizbollah? Why play Syria's and Iran's game? Why pretend
that Hizbollah is calling the shots? Why give "immunity" to
the real culprits? Put the blame squarely where it belongs,
on Syria. One could try to blame the Lebanese government
for not doing enough to tone down Hizbollah. The Lebanese
military really should take up positions in Southern Lebanon
and de-militarize Hizbollah. Israel has left Lebanese soil.
Ask the UN; for once they support our position and agree
with us. But alas, Lebanon is not an independent state.
Lebanon is a puppet regime controlled by Damascus.

So Israel needs to put the blame where it belongs; on the
only power capable of reining in Hizbollah, of dis-arming
them, of cutting off their flow of weapons from Iran, and of
discouraging them from attacking Israel, i.e. Syria. About
that last line, Syria uses Hizbollah to keep pressure on
Israel. Hizbollah is Syria's proxy army against Israel. Notice
the Syrian occupation army in Lebanon never attacks
Israel. It's always Hizbollah, so that Syria can't be directly
blamed for the attack. Well I'm saying, forget the small fry,
BLAME SYRIA!

First, the Israeli government should make it a cornerstone
of it's foreign policy to raise the issue of Syria's continuing
violation of UN Security Council Resolution 520, that calls
on all foreign forces - including Syria - to leave Lebanon, at
every diplomatic opportunity. What a joke that Syria sits on
the UN Security Council, while it violates a Security Council
resolution. No wonder, many people in the United States,
Israel, and elsewhere hold the UN in such low esteem. And,
Israel should more vigorously lobby Washington to "sit-on"
Syria, till Syria gets out of Lebanon. Washington has been
wishy-washy in dealing with Damascus.

MichNews

[DuctapeFatwa]

1. Violation of UN Resolutions is a serious matter!

Israel must insist that Syria comply with Resolution 520.

Syria is NOT exempt from Security Council resolutions, and as long as Israel does not bring this up in the UN it is ENABLING Syria's flagrant violation of a duly passed resolution of the United Nations Security Council.

Syria must abide by the rule of law.

[mike_c]

2. pot calling the kettle black....

"the Israeli government should make it a cornerstone of it's foreign policy to raise the issue of Syria's continuing violation of UN Security Council Resolution 520, that calls on all foreign forces - including Syria - to leave Lebanon...."

Israel has thumbed its nose at Security Council Resolutions for 50 years.

[pansypoo53219]

3. what is interesting is

they did not automatically retaliate. what is Isreals problem??? gee, announce you are going to build 600+ homes in the occupied territories. that sounds OK. that sould not make anybody pissed.
the settlements have to leave.
next the indians are gonna want manhattan back.

[bemildred]

4. That is interesting.

It appears the Israeli planes went in nap-of-the-earth
through Lebanon, with a short run through Syrian airspace,
and they are said to have fired three missiles, and the
camp would not appear to have any active air defense, so
it is not clear that any attempt at air defense was made,
or to be expected.

I expect that the second such attack, if not delayed another
few decades, will be more indicative.