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| Israel braces for Syrian response |
| 2007-10-05 |
| srael is preparing for a Syrian response to the 6 September raid in northeast Syria, after both countries confirmed that the attack took place. Israeli intelligence agencies are mostly concerned that the Syrian response will be in the form of a terror attack on an Israeli target around the world. Israeli official delegations worldwide and airlines were ordered to increase precautions, recalling the Syrian attempt to bomb an El-Al flight from London to Tel Aviv in 1986. "I believe that the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad would rather act through proxies, such as terrorist organisation, than test his army in war against Israel," former Israel Defence Force (IDF) Chief of Staff, Lieutenant-General Moshe Ya'alon told Jane's. Indeed, when asked by the British Broadcasting Corporation if he intends to retaliate against Israel, Syria's President Assad said: "Retaliate does not mean missile for missile and bomb for bomb. We have our means to retaliate, maybe politically, maybe in other ways. But we have the right to retaliate." |
| Posted by:Oztralian |
| #10 Instability in the middle east tends to raise the price of oil. This would benefit any country that is a net exporter of oil. Anything that disrupts supply from the middle east would increase both the price and the demand for oil from regions outside the middle east. Russia and Venezuela would be major benefactors to any problems in the middle east. So when looking at issues in that region, you might ask yourself ... "who benefits?". |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2007-10-05 22:44 |
| #9 Israeli Poster > believes COMMUNISM IS AT WAR WITH THE WEST AND USING MUSLIM TERRORISTS AS PROXIES TO DESTABILIZE, ATTACK, AND WEAKEN WESTERN INTERESTS WHILE ALSO FATTENING THEIR [COMMIE] WALLETS??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-10-05 22:38 |
| #8 While Syria is indeed traditionally majority Sunnis, Iran has been engaged in a "conversion" campaign with the blessing of the Assad government. Iran is paying Syrian families to "convert" to Shiism. I have no data on the number of families converted so far. This story is a year old. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2007-10-05 22:25 |
| #7 YNETNEWS > NASRALLAH > Besides blaming Israel for recent Leb assassinations/killings, says he WISHES ARAB ARMIES WOULD MOVE/INVADE? INTO PALESTINE to stop Israel-Zionists. ALso claims ZIONISTS WERE [historically]ASSISTED BY BRITAIN TO REPRESS/PERSECUTE THE PALESTINIANS. Also from YNETNEWS > calls for HIZBULLAH to be merged into Lebanese Army??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-10-05 22:21 |
| #6 While Israel has its official strategy about attacking Syria, they could probably deter a lot of crap if they were to be let it known, unofficially, that if Syria attacks them, even with proxies, that Israel will retaliate strongly against the Alawite Shiite minority that rules Syria. Since the Alawites are less that 10% of the population, if they get much weaker, they majority Sunnis could overthrow them. And they know it. So they would lean on their son, Assad, to cool his jets. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-10-05 21:56 |
| #5 Moud has failed to live up to the expectations of the Syrian-Iran alliance - unless Iran does something very soon in overt = publicly acknowledged retaliation agz Israel for 9/6, Syria has to keep one eye on Israel, and the other on Iran. IMO ITS NOT ENUFF FOR SYRIA FOR A TERROR GROUP TO STRIKE ISRAEL ON IRAN's ORDERS BUT IRAN DENIES ANY ROLE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-10-05 21:16 |
| #4 And as many civilian casualties as they can splash in blood across the media. Do you really think that any Syrian strategy involves the actual engagement of legitimate Israeli military targets? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-05 20:57 |
| #3 And as many civilian casualties as they can splash in blood across the media. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-10-05 20:52 |
| #2 I think Syria is scared shitless over the deep attack with no warning. Syria will need to respond or look even weaker and more humiliated in the arab world, but I don't think it will be anything major. Pin prick with major PR hype. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-10-05 20:22 |
| #1 srael... Hahaha.. My bad. |
| Posted by: Oztralian 2007-10-05 20:14 |