Posted by Iranian on September 20, 2007, 9:30 pm, in reply to "Israel sends Iran a message with Syrian airstrike " Besides that how the hell are you. --Previous Message--
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If you ask me Israel will start world war III and we will all end up paying for it. They do not have a conscience and do not care about anyone else. They will drag the world to its end and have no care. Also I truly believe they setup 9/11 and blamed it on so many people and were influential and manuvered US to attach Iraq and now they ask where we got the BS info about WMD's the info came from Israeli millitary and we did what they wanted and now US is just as much hated as Israel and that makes them happy and an alie.
: By Ilene R. Prusher
: Wed Sep 19, 4:00 AM ET
:
: Jerusalem - It's the event that
: everyone here – and no one – is
: talking about.
:
: Israeli officials have neither
: confirmed nor denied the target of
: its Sept. 6 airstrike in Syria. Was
: it, as some media outlets reported,
: an attack on the run-of-the-mill
: munitions being transferred through
: Syria on their way to Hizbullah, or
: was it a strike on nuclear
: components supplied by North Korea?
:
: Either way, Israel's chief of
: military intelligence announced that
: Israel's deterrence had "been
: restored."
:
: But unusually quiet, regional
: analysts note, are moderate Arab
: states and international players who
: would, in the past, have been quick
: to condemn any act of Israeli
: aggression against a neighbor.
:
: Amid the state-imposed silence from
: officialdom here on what exactly
: Israeli bombs struck and why
: (Israelis are discussing it only on
: the basis of leaks in Washington),
: observers see several key messages.
:
: First, Israel was able to strike at
: Syria without suffering any
: consequences, military or
: diplomatic. Second, Israel might
: take steps to fulfill one of its
: ultimate security objectives, which
: is to prevent other countries in the
: Middle East from obtaining nuclear
: capability, especially those overtly
: hostile to Israel. Third, if a
: Syrian nuclear installation can be
: targeted by Israel without any
: international outcry – and with the
: tacit backing of allies in the US
: and Turkey – Iran's nuclear
: facilities are looking more likely
: than ever to be next.
:
: "Some analysts think that it's
: a message to the Iranian regime that
: Israel can strike anywhere in the
: region. And it shows us the extent
: of cooperation between Israel and
: Turkey, because Turkey didn't
: condemn the attacks until now,"
: says Emad Gad, an expert in Israeli
: affairs at the Al-Ahram Center for
: Political and Strategic Studies in
: Cairo. Israel dropped fuel tanks in
: Turkey near their border with Syria
: as part of the operation.
:
: "I think some Arab countries
: like Saudi Arabia and some other
: circles felt happy about the Israeli
: strike. Still, the main message is
: to the Syrian side," Dr. Gad
: says, pointing to Israel's
: frustration over Syria's assistance
: to Hizbullah, Hamas, and other
: Palestinian militant factions
: operating in Syria. Many in Egypt
: and elsewhere in the region see
: Israel's strike, when put in the
: context of the international
: community's standoff with Iran, as a
: step toward a bigger confrontation.
:
: "We are heading toward what
: will probably be a European-US
: strike targeting the Iranian
: project, and people here are afraid
: of what the Iranian reaction will
: be," he adds. "It will be
: hard for them to hit America, and so
: anything that's seen as an American
: installation in the region could be
: a target."
:
: Meir Javedanfar, an Iranian-born,
: Tel Aviv-based analyst and author of
: "The Nuclear Sphinx of
: Tehran," says the muted
: reaction to Israel's strike has Iran
: quite concerned.
:
: "What worries Iran most is that
: the international community hasn't
: condemned Israel," says Mr.
: Javedanfar. "If they're not
: saying anything about Syria, and
: Syria's not as much on the outs,
: what does it say for Iran?"
:
: He says the operation had several
: goals in mind. "One, get Iran
: to come back and start negotiating
: seriously and put better offers on
: the table. Two, restore Israel's
: deterrence to what it was before
: last year's war with Lebanon. I
: think it has done that, in a big
: way, because Syria has not
: responded."
:
: Not so fast, others say. Deterrence,
: one of the most important concepts
: in Israeli defense, is also one of
: its most amorphous. The Haaretz
: newspaper Tuesday criticized
: Israel's Director of Military
: Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin,
: for having declared Israel's
: deterrent capability restored in one
: fell swoop.
:
: "A successful strike – if it
: did occur – could serve as a
: statement: anyone who places nuclear
: weapons near Israel's borders or
: within striking distances will have
: to pay a price," the paper's
: editorial read. But, it continued,
: "Israel's deterrence is
: measured day in and day out in the
: western Negev as well. Hundreds of
: Qassam rockets from Gaza strike the
: region every month, with Israel
: unable to come up with a deterrent
: response."
:
: All of this comes at a time when
: there seemed to be increased signs
: of hope for an Israeli-Syrian
: rapprochement. The possibility of
: the two countries revisiting the
: negotiating table, abandoned more
: than seven years ago, has been in
: the offing in recent months, though
: the Bush administration has been
: encouraging Israel to focus on the
: Palestinian peace track instead.
:
: Hebrew University professor Moshe
: Maoz, a supporter of the potential
: for Israeli-Syrian peace, worries
: that a strike could further
: radicalize Syria.
:
: "This could restore deterrence,
: sure, but it might further undermine
: the chances of peace with Syria, and
: push them closer to the Shiite
: axis," he says. "Israel is
: pushing Syria, along with Bush, into
: the hands of Iran, by refusing to
: talk to them." In fact, some
: other Iran analysts say Israel's
: strike was a kind of victory for
: Iranian President Mahmoud
: Ahmedinajad, who has been able to
: turn to Syria sanctimoniously and
: say that his " 'advice' about
: Israel not wanting peace was true
: all along," Javedanfar
: explains.
:
: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
: told reporters this week that he was
: ready to make peace with Syria if
: the conditions ripen, and that there
: was no reason to rule out dialogue.
:
: "The Israeli deterrent track
: has always been kind of divorced
: from the political track, and
: they're always willing to put one
: ahead of the other if they think
: it's something urgent," says
: Kenneth Pollack at the Brookings
: Institution in Washington.
: "They obviously knew about this
: site for a long time; they didn't
: discover it last week. It underlines
: a point that everyone knew: Israel
: doesn't want other countries to
: acquire nuclear weapons and it will
: do whatever it thinks is necessary
: to stop it," he adds.
:
: "But no one knows what the
: Syrians were up to," he says.
: "People are wondering if it was
: a very nascent nuclear program and
: no one wants to see that."
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