Posted on 05/04/2013 8:07:27 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Following evidence of chemical warfare and an increasinly reticent US position, Israel has in recent days taken widely reported steps to neutralise threats emanating from within civil war-torn Syria.
While strikes from Lebanese airspace this weekend are not thought to have been on chemical weapons caches, the recent Israeli intelligence regarding the use of such weaponry is thought to have spurred on a round of strikes, including the latest just hours ago.
The Syrian state news agency SANA, citing initial reports, said early Sunday that Israeli missiles struck a military research center near the capital Damascus.
Syrian state television has reported that a major strike on an ammunition depot in Qassiyoun mountains shook Damascus, while Hezbollah's Al-Manar station claimed the explosion may have been a downed Israeli jet.
Rumours are surfacing online that following the latest volley of attacks on the Syrian regime, President Bashar al-Assad will soon officially declare war on Israel, with speculators pointing to 5am local time for official confirmation. This information continues to persist despite the technical state of war that currently exists between the two states.
Many however, have been quick to dismiss these reports as strictly rumour, with various commentators claiming that such a move would be sure to end Assad's reign of terror in Syria "within a week".
The news of an Israeli intervention in Syria has caught the Obama administration on the back foot, with the US president refusing to comment at length about the strike. Obama said, "The Israelis, justifiably, have to guard against the transfer of advanced weaponry to terrorist organizations like Hezbollah."
The US president made no mention of supposed "red lines" being crossed, despite evidence of Syria's used of chemical weapons against rebel forces. Critics have hit out at Barack Obama in recent days for failing to put forward any coherent strategy to bring the violence in Syria to an end. The inaction, according to some, is another example of Obama's "lead from behind" strategy, the same tactic he employed during the intervention in Libya.
UPDATE 03:15am GMT: 5am local time in Syria has passed without comment from military authorities or the Assad regime. Speculation continues about the nature of the attack with some insisting that Israel's weaponry was "nuclear-like", that chemicals can be "smelt" in the air, and that the attack was co-ordinated by Israel with help from Syrian rebel forces.
Declaring war on Israel may be the one thing that Assad and his enemies can agree on. It wouldn’t surprise me if there is a ceasefire called in the Syrian civil war for the express purpose of joint retaliation against their ‘Zionist enemy’.
Meanwhile, in Obama’s bedroom......
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And just what is he supposed to do? Get us into ANOTHER war? For once I don’t mind the jerk voting ‘present.’
Great, when they form a tight cluster of Jihadi’s, drop the Daisy Cutters
Yes, Egypt.... somewhere ...I think months ago I discussed the role of Egypt should we see war between Syria, Damascus destroyed and just who exactly are the gentiles referred to in ...Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.”
Confidential to boy Assad: "anybody not wearing 6 million sunblock is gonna have a really bad day."
Whoof! What was that? JDAM?
If Israel used a JSOW (Joint Stand-Off Weapon aka “Smart pig”), would it be Kosher?
Here you go
Syria: Egypt, Arab League Condemn Israeli Attacks
May 5, 2013 | 1356 GMT
Egypt has condemned Israeli strikes in Syria, saying that the strikes violate international law and will only further complicate matters, The Daily Star reported May 5. The Arab League has also called on the U.N. Security Council to step in and end the attacks against Syria, saying that such attacks violate an Arab state’s national sovereignty. Israel launched strikes in Syria on May 3 and May 5, targeting what Israeli officials say were weapons being sent to Hezbollah militants
As long as they don’t eat it, I guess. LOL!
Moochelle, will you answer that phone...its 3:00am
why report such issues anymore, we know the CIC will go to bed and let others deal with why he’s sleeping.
After all Libya was a perfect situation where the CIC was informed of an attack and this CIC went to bed because he wanted to sleep for his Vegas trip.
Yes that is how cold this fairy boy is
makes me sick and frigging angry when I htink of those guys fighting for their lives, praying that the country who they served will not turn their backs on them in their need and what does the CIC do?
He F-IN went to bed and to sleep and then went to Vegas saying ti was a you tube video.
That is impeachment as far as I;m concerned and yet most of this country has no idea what Benghazi is because they’re lazy ignorant low info voters
Moses’ voice rang clear through the desert air: “The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth” (Deuteronomy 7:6).
The problem is that if he does declare war on Israel, Al Qaeda and the Sunnis just might join him.
in this situation he’ll go to bed just like he heard about Americans dying in Libya.
Sir, the embassy is being attacked, the Ambassador is being attacked and we have Americans on a building waiting for help , shall we move in and t=get them out and help them?”
“Er how do you know this dod we have a drone over head?”
“Yes Sir”
“OK er have a briefing I have to go to bed and let me know the outcome in the morning before I take the trip out to Vegas, I;ve seen the numbers and even with all the fraud in the Dem controlled counties in those swing states, it’s still close “
“er yes Sir, er good night er sir”
I am so pissed off every time I run that in my head and think of those guys on a building under fire, using the laser to direct help and them talking to each other saying we have to just wait this out ‘well have help soon I’m sure.
AND NO HELP CAME and we have a massive cover up bu this media minus FOX and a handful of others and the most corrupt media and most corrupt secret administration in the modern times, hell Nixon wasn;t this bad .
It would be in Israel's interest to see Syria reduced to a rump state made up of weak, squabbling factions. Much like what happened to Libya and Iraq. This, in fact, was the strategy outlined in a report written by Netanyahu, A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.
Is Israel directly arming and financing Al Qaeda foreign mercenaries to kill Christians and overthrow the current Syrian government? They don't have to since the American taxpayers are already doing it.
I’d rather the Boy Assad continue in power than yet another country fall to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The only thing missing is Reggie’s head on the pillow in the background.
Israeli warplanes strike Syria, targeting missile shipment
By Bassem Mroue and Ian Deitch
Associated Press
http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_23176757/israeli-warplanes-strike-syria-targeting-missile-shipment
[snip] While the government tried to use the airstrikes to taint the rebels by linking them to Israel, Syria’s arch rival, the attacks still pose a dilemma for an Assad regime already battling a relentless rebellion at home. If it fails to respond, it looks weak and opens the door to such airstrikes becoming a common occurrence. But any military retaliation against Israel would risk dragging the Jewish state and its powerful army into a broader conflict. [/snip]
Watch Russia and China. Its not the hand you can see that concerns me, but the one you cannot.
One should ask themselves, who has the greatest oil reserves in the world, should Saudi Arabia be rendered useless by a dirty bomb attack from across the gulf?
Aside from the US and Canada, I think that might be Russia.
Nice oil fields King Abudulla (or whomever is in charge), would be a shame if Iran did something crazzzeeee.
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