Posted on 07/14/2006 12:02:31 PM PDT by OPS4
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Report: Syrians shoot at Israel Lebanese sources predict provocation from Damascus
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 14, 2006 1:35 p.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
AL-ZAURA REGION, Golan Heights – While Israeli military sources in the Golan Heights are reporting Syrian military gunfire directed inside the Jewish state, Lebanese political sources are telling WND they expect a provocation of some kind from Damascus.
Israeli Defense Forces are attempting to determine the exact source of the gunfire. If the source cannot be determined, sources say, Israel may choose to ignore or officially deny it occurred in an effort to avoid widening what is rapidly becoming a regional conflict.
Meanwhile, Lebanese sources predict a small, limited provocation against Israel – perhaps a small skirmish or the use of Palestinian groups on the Syrian side of the border firing mortars under the direction of the Syrian army. It would not be a major attack, the sources say, just a minor provocation in conjunction with Iran to show Syria is in solidarity with Hezbollah and the Palestinians, who launched the original attacks against Israel on two fronts – Gaza and southern Lebanon.
Yesterday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said an Israeli strike on Syria would be considered an attack on the whole Islamic world that would bring a "fierce response."
"If the Zionist regime commits another stupid move and attacks Syria, this will be considered like attacking the whole Islamic world and this regime will receive a very fierce response," Ahmadinejad was quoted by Iranian state television as saying in a telephone conversation with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Israel has blamed Syria and Iran for the Hezbollah rocket attacks on towns and cities in northern Israel. In recent weeks, Israel has buzzed the palace of Assad with fighter-bombers as a warning against hostile actions.
Ahmadinejad has called repeatedly for the destruction of Israel – or for moving the Jewish state to Europe. Iran is believed to be developing a nuclear weapons program and has long-range missiles capable of striking the Jewish state.
Hezbollah rockets yesterday rained down on northern Israeli towns as the Jewish state's warplanes carried out strategic strikes against the Hezbollah's infrastructure and the Beirut International Airport. A total air and sea closure was imposed over Lebanon.
Hezbollah threatened to use longer range rockets against the major northern port city of Haifa, in which case military officials tell WND Israel would likely launch a major ground invasion inside Lebanon.
The fighting was instigated by a well-orchestrated Hezbollah attack against Israel's northern border yesterday in which two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped and three others were killed.
Israel will win!
If Syria just pokes Israel a little bit, they may choose to take it...for a while. I don't know if they're in a mood to absorb a whole lot of abuse from the Golan, though.
Whatever Syria does, you can be assured that it will be done through proxies, so there's enough "plausible deniability" that if Israel does go after them, they can run screaming to the UN and the Arab League to paint Israel as the aggressor. Well, heck, then again, Syrian tanks could be rolling through downtown Tel Aviv and the UN would still find a way to blame Israel for it.
}:-)4
More like Israel may choose to use the attack as a reason to widen the conflict to include the puppetmasters.
Send up some MiGs, Assad. I want to see another Bekaa Valley shutout. ....it's been about a quarter century since the last one.
Is it just me? Or does it look to anyone else like Syria is trying to provoke Israel into attacking Syria so that Iran can attack Israel "in solidarity"?
Sounds like someone is asking for his nuclear reactors to be destroyed.
Hmmm...
Reminds me of an attack on a radio station in 1939......
Much of what is known about the Gleiwitz incident comes from the sworn affidavit of Alfred Naujocks at the Nuremberg Trials. According to his testimony, the incident was organised by Naujocks under orders from Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Müller, the chief of the Gestapo.
On the night of August 31, 1939 a small group of German operatives led by Naujocks seized the Gleiwitz station and broadcasted a message in Polish that urged the Poles living in Silesia to strike against Germans. The Germans' goal was to make the attack and broadcast look like the work of anti-German Polish insurgents.
In order to make the attack scene more convincing, the Germans brought in Franciszek Honiok, a German Silesian known for sympathizing with the Poles, who had been arrested the previous day by the Gestapo. Honiok was dressed to look like an insurgent; then killed by lethal injection, given gunshot wounds, and left dead at the scene, so that he appeared to have been killed while attacking the station. His corpse was subsequently presented as proof of the attack to the police and press.
In addition to Honiok, several other convicts were kept available for this purpose. The Germans referred to them by the code phrase "Konserve" ("canned goods"). For this reason some sources incorrectly refer to the incident as "Operation Canned Goods".
This is shaping up to be a busy weekend...
Well they will have to jump over the U.S. Forces to do so.
That would be Iranian suicide.
Screw the candy-assed un. Israel needs to clean the vermin out where and when they find them.Godspeed Israel
It's just World Nut Daily falling for Al Qaeda's ploy to widen the war...make it look like Syria is attacking Israel.
Won't happen.
WND writers are conspiracy nutcases who don't understand the first thing about the real world. They're still hunkered down in their Y2K bunkers, claiming that the world ended back on January 1, 2000.
Here we go!!!
No offense, but that's rather obvious. I think Israel will hold off shooting back unless/until they (the attacks) get bigger or Israel has unshakable evidence of who is shooting.
Syria must want their television stations eliminated, or perhaps their airports turned into parking lots.
Do we have an actual news source as opposed to Whirled Nuts Daily?
I believe there is some quote along the lines of "wars are started by misscalculations", or something like that.
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