Read the full articleThe sudden and dramatic escalation in Israeli air strikes against suspected military targets in Syria risks turning Syria’s two-year civil war into a regional conflict. Israel as well as Syria and its allies have an apparent interest in avoiding an escalation in the short-term, but a miscalculation on either side could ramp up the fighting.
“We are coming very close to it,” says Timur Goksel, a university lecturer in Beirut who served with the United Nations peacekeeping force in south Lebanon from 1979 to 2003. “A severe case of brinkmanship is being played at the moment.”
Syria and the Lebanon-based Shiite movement Hezbollah, which has long relied on Syria’s Assad regime to funnel weapons from Iran, appear to have been drawing into a closer alliance as the Syrian civil war intensifies. If Israel continues to launch air strikes into Syria, says Mr. Goksel, “they will have to react.… The Israelis are pushing it to the edge.”
A series of strikes on a military facility just outside Damascus last night has been widely attributed to Israel, which would make it the second Israeli attack on Syria in less than 48 hours and the third this year. Among the reported targets of the two latest attacks were consignments of Iranian Fateh-110 missiles reportedly intended for Hezbollah, which would allow the Syrian ally to launch precise attacks on Israeli targets such as Ben Gurion Airport or the defense ministry in Tel Aviv from launch pads as far north as central Lebanon.
Israel has stated that it will not allow “game-changing” weapons systems to fall into Hezbollah’s hands. But Hezbollah is believed to have acquired by 2009 a Syrian-engineered version of the Fateh-110, known as the M600. Both Syrian and Iranian versions carry a 1,100-pound warhead and have a range of some 150 miles. The M600 reportedly has a basic guidance system that allows it to strike within 500 yards of its target at maximum range, enabling more accurate strikes than Hezbollah’s other long-range missiles afford.
If there is a reprisal on Israel, should we back them? Our treaty demands it but I really think we should nix that agreement. It's a former British colony and the mess they left in 1948 yet we have taken it as our own problem. It's the little dog yapping and hiding behind the big dog.
Israel and Syria and the treaty. Let them have at it.
israel can handle the situation by themselves imho. all neighboring arabic countries were unified against israel in the 60s and 70s yet still got their own asses pwned miserably. if the US were really so biased for israel, as those sand n!ggers condemned, the yids would've demolished the entire middle east before the gulf war imho. the US have been protecting those sand n!ggers actually, while keeping israel honest.
Latarian,
The Jews run America FYI
lefty brainwashed
game changing is for them to have more accurate weapons? I mean, you already have an absurd advantage in terms of firepower, tech and resources, but if they get a more accure missile its game changing? wouldnt it be a good thing if their weapons are more accurate? you'd have less collateral.
there's something about war and hypocrisy, Israel is a living monument
Cant handle the truth
We need to just stay out of Israels way. They are far more capable then lib s give them credit for.
Which liberal challenged Israel's military efficacy?
lol comparing a country which has a nuke to neighbors with just arms and stones....just like the 60s all over again....
when push comes to shove israel will have no problem dropping a nuke....
pretty much the par regading the US and US media reaction to the strikes: a breaking story, confused stories partial to Israel, and news that is filtered to keep the outrage focused on alleged human rights abuses by countries washington dislikes.
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