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Israel’s Act of War Against Syria—Madness or Cold Calculation?
by by F. William Engdahl - Open-Publishing - Monday 13 May 20131 comment
Israel’s Act of War Against Syria—Madness or Cold Calculation?
by F. William Engdahl
At a time when the US and Gulf proxies are losing ground to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) nationwide, this pundit ranges in on the likely motive for Israel’s recent air raids against Syria, carried out with Washington’s approbation.
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | FRANKFURT (GERMANY) | 12 MAY 2013
Columns of smoke and fire light the sky over Damascus, after an IsraeIi air strike on at the Jamraya military facility. Israeli strikes on Syrian army targets show co-ordination with "terrorists" including al-Qaeda linked militants, the Syrian foreign ministry has said.
Photograph: EPA
On May 3-4 the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) launched two successive aerial bombing strikes deep inside Syrian territory, reportedly against the Jamraya military research center near Damascus Airport. While Israeli spokesmen have been coy about admitting responsibility, the Obama Administration confirmed and endorsed the bombings in Syrian sovereign territory. By precepts of international law, Israel has committed acts of war against Syria, in violation of the UN Charter.
The alleged justification for the Netanyahu regime, which seems to set another set of laws for itself as the norms of international law, was the claim that the strikes targeted a warehouse storing Iranian Fateh-110 “game changing” missiles in transit to the Lebanese Hezbollah. In January the IDF made a similar air strike to destroy a convoy of advanced air defense missiles en route to Hezbollah that would hinder Israel’s ability to enter Lebanese airspace unharrassed.
To grasp what is going on inside Tel Aviv a recent timeline helps. On April 27, before Israel embarked on action against Syria, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov forged a new Russian alliance with Hezbollah in Beirut. According to Debka.com, an online source with reported close ties to the Israeli intelligence community, “This was Putin’s answer to Obama’s direct appeal for a partnership in the effort to terminate the Syrian conflict. Obama’s rejoinder was the green light he gave Israel to go for Iranian and Hezbollah targets in Syria.” [1]
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13 May 2013, 17:29
It’s both madness and calculation. Suria is part of the plan for the GREATER ISRAEL. It will be annexed just as Iraq was. Israel (The Rothschilds) intend to control all the land between the Nile and the Euphrates.