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Israeli ambassador: Chemical weapons passed from Syria to Hezbollah would be 'game-changer'
FoxNews.com ^ | 12/9/2012

Posted on 12/09/2012 5:02:13 PM PST by RoosterRedux

Israel's ambassador to the United States warned Sunday that any evidence of chemical weapons being passed from the Assad regime to extremist groups like Hezbollah would be a "game-changer," and said that would be a "red line" for Israel.

The remark comes amid claims that the Syrian regime is mixing and moving the components for the deadly sarin nerve gas. Ambassador Michael Oren said he could not confirm those reports but made clear that Israel is watching the situation "very carefully."

"Were those weapons to pass into the wrong hands -- Hezbollah's hands for example -- that would be a game-changer for us," he told "Fox News Sunday."

"We have a very clear red line about those chemical weapons passing into the wrong hands. Can you imagine if Hezbollah and its 70,000 rockets would get its hands on chemical weapons? That could kill thousands of people."

Israel's so-called "red line" is different than the United States'. While Israel considers the "red line" to be the movement of chemical weapons to extremist groups, the Obama administration has said lately that its trigger for action would be any move by Syrian President Bashar Assad to use the weapons against the Syrian people.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ambassador; assad; chemical; chemicalweapons; gamechanger; hezbollah; israel; israeli; michaeloren; muslimbrotherhood; oren; passed; redline; syria; syriachemicalweapons; syrian; syriawar; waronterror; weapons
F*ck the Mayan Calendar. Here is the real Armageddon!
1 posted on 12/09/2012 5:02:21 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Now. Now. There is always the possibility that the Mayan Calendar is related to Armageddon. They may not be mutually exclusive.


2 posted on 12/09/2012 5:56:05 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: RoosterRedux; All

I am sure the Liberal Anti-Semitic Democrats in the Obama Admin are not happy about this....will their Anti-Semitism try to stop, or, even attack Israel, should they go all out on Hezbollah and their supporter states?

Ronald Reagan once said “We begin bombing in five minutes”. Just hope Israel is ready to “begin nuking in five minutes”


3 posted on 12/09/2012 6:10:31 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (Seems that the ones who understand little about the economy are economists)
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To: RoosterRedux

Well, Obama wants the extremist groups to win in Syria... which means they will in fact take possession of the WMD’s.

Things are going to get real interesting.


4 posted on 12/09/2012 7:04:27 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks RoosterRedux.

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5 posted on 12/09/2012 8:30:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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6 posted on 12/10/2012 5:10:18 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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7 posted on 12/10/2012 5:10:54 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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8 posted on 12/10/2012 5:11:53 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: RoosterRedux

Another legacy of the Obama Years.


9 posted on 12/10/2012 5:18:45 AM PST by McGruff (No New RINOs!)
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