Posted on 04/17/2010 8:42:01 PM PDT by jhpigott
Israel: 1) threatens to launch immediate (fast and devastating) retaliation against Syria in event of Hezbollah attack
2) considers Hezbollah a division of the Syrian army
3) will target Syrian infrastructure
ping
War undoubtedly coming soon over these missiles.
Best to get the ports before the Russians establish their naval bases there...they are hurrying.
Zero has really improved the situation with the ME, Iran and Israel. He has really done a great job in defusing the tension and coming to a long term peace soltion. Damn..I never thought he could do it...
God bless Israel and all who defend and protect her. Get ‘em, Judah.
I think the Syrian delivery of SCUDs to Hezbollah certainly hasn’t helped the situation, but it looks like Israel is directly threatening to retaliate against Syria for ANY attack by Hezbollah.
Thanks Barak Hussein.
prisoner6
Hearing of this demarche, it wouldn't take long for an inventive Saudi intelligence chief to call in his chits with his clients in Lebanon, especially those Hezboallah operatives on his payroll. If the Syrians have been foolish enough (and the Boy President is NOT his father...) to actually give the Hez the missiles in any kind of quantity, than a reliable missile regiment commander could let loose literally dozens of the damn things agianst Haifa, Tel Aviv....Damona....
And knowing the Al-Saud clan, they'd find a way to blame it on the Persians.
The Syrians are clever, but too clever by half sometimes. It will be one of the great mysteries of modern Arab history how an Alawite family got their nation transformed into a client of a Persian Empire on the other side of the Arab world, one that just happened to have an American army in between it and its patron.
Best,
Chris
Earlier Saturday, Israel was firing flares over southern Lebanon. The Lebanese army went on full alert.
Is it a Back-Down by Syria or A Flatten-Down by Israel?
Don`t mess with the Star of David
Yep, I saw that.
The Israelis have been doing a lot of probing along their northern border since the new year. The IDF held a very large exercise a couple months ago. I have read about a number of incidents where small elements of the IDF have ventured near/just over the border. And the IAF has really stepped up recon over S. Lebanon and the Bekka Valley. Things are pretty tense in that corner of the world.
It could also serve as further justification for Israel to knock out Iran’s nuclear reactors, as Hezbollah is to Iran as Al Qaeda was to Afghanistan pre 9/11
Interesting timing . . .
20:0414/04/2010
Russia’s nuclear-powered missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky has arrived in Syria’s Mediterranean port of Tartus ahead of Russian Navy drills in the Indian Ocean.
A large Syrian naval delegation accompanied by Russia’s ambassador to Syria, Sergei Kirpichenko, visited the Russian warship on Wednesday.
http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20100414/158581904.html
So what?
Hmmm....
“The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.”
Isaiah 17:1
I was just about to post something about that. The timing is not a coincidence. Seems like everybody is getting all their ducks in a row.
Undoubtedly.
Neutralizing Hezbollah and Syria would go a long way towards limiting Iran’s retalitory options in the event of an Israeli airstrike against Iran’s nuke facilities.
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