Syria doesn’t get it.
Sorry, Farouk, but Bebe doesn’t owe anything to Obama.
“Syrian VP: Israel Won’t Attack Iran Without US Support”
I wouldn’t bet too many lives on that.
I pray you are wrong.
“You” as in “Syria”.
He said the same thing a couple of years ago about their reactor.
The idea that Israel would attack Iran is ludicrous. Israel cannot even get her own house in order, and I mean Gaza and the West Bank.
Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas — and flea bites all over. That, Israel is doing. No wonder the enemies don’t respect her. Clean up Gaza instead of retreating, and maybe people won’t laugh out loud about a pre-emptive strike on Iran.
For now I will leave Netanyahu out of the assessment, because he’s obviously the best of the lot. But for the rest of them, Israel is defeating itself in a slow, agonized drip-by-drip surrender.
These are God’s chosen people. They do not belong on the defensive. Their leadership has sold them into something worse than slavery, and their abject posture toward the world will gain them what abject postures always gain. Another slaughter.
Rant over. Nothing further.
The Israelis don’t give a damn about what Obama says or wants. They will take care of their own problems when the time arrives.
Why would they depend on a muslim for help. Obama has done everything except declare the national religion of the US as muslim.
To entirely defeat and destroy Iran’s nuclear program with CONVENTIONAL forces alone, I think the US woud have to do it. If Israel attacks, it would either have to use nukes, or be satisfied with just doing severe damage to the program, but without a real knock-out punch. And of course, Iran would also launch SOME sort of counter-attack.
Any attack on Iran will drive the price of gas through the roof
If Israel attacks Iran who is going to resupply all the munitions etc used up in the attack
Israel is between a rock and a hard place
She is a dependent nation that no one in the world gives a damn about
That is the fact of life
I see no solution other than internal revolt in Iran
I think that any pronouncement from any part of the Syrian government is pretty much worthless, and certainly any pronouncement that has to do with anything external to Syria is completely without worth.
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Says WHO?
The Lyin’ King has succeeded in alienating Israel so much in the last 11 months that they no longer need or want our help or permission for anything.
“Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Shara estimated that Israel would not be able to attack Iran without the support of the United States.”
Sounds like someone is gambling with other peoples’ lives.
Dude, you willing to make book on that??
Yeah, didn’t think so. Keep deluding yourself. Bibi WILL take action if Israel is threatened over the line!
Syria’s regime is actually pretty weak. They are surrounded by US allies (Israel, Turkey, Iraq), and Syria barely controls its own country. Read some of Bill Roggio’s posts on his site. Syria is losing control over the eastern part of their country to Sunni Islamist groups.
Any threats by Syria are a joke. UNLESS, and this is the worst-case scenario that I forsee, is that Syria requests assistance to fight al-Qaeda in their country, and we provide it. It sounds insane, but there are precedents: Egypt and Saudi Arabia. It would mean that instead of isolating the Syrian regime, we’re propping it up.
Solution: continue to isolate Syria, but at the same time tell Special Forces and CIA to take the gloves off in eastern Syria if need be.
Something tells me that Israel would be somewhat more disturbed by a nuclear-armed Iran than by a few rockets from towelheads.And my hunch is that Israel could respond (and would respond) rather more forcefully to one than the other.