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Israel will try with everything it has, not to drag Syria into the fight as many have suggested, but to drag Iran and possibly the US into it instead.
Israel has no real strategic value in toppling the Baathist regime in Syria and replacing it with an unstable and insane Shia fundamentalist regime, but it has everything to gain by destroying Iranian nuclear capability before the nuclear umbrella is functional. The only way it can do that is cause Iran to enter the shooting war, or at least implicate it in the present one so it can be shot back at.
Its simple really: Israel cannot accept a nuclear Iran. It has a window of opportunity between now and the US elections in 08: US forces are in theatre, Iran has not yet developed a nuclear umbrella, and Hezbollah has handed Israel the gift of a hot war right smack in the middle of it all.
Has anyone noticed that the US is massing troops in Baghdad and actually increasing hardened-point force in Iraq (supposedly for garrison duty)? And that a US carrier battle group appears to be "missing" somewhere out there?
Crusader
- “iran Now Has Amassed Roughly 225 Pounds Of 20% Uranium And 11,000 Pounds Of 3.5%, Sufficient For Almost Five Nuclear Bombs.”
Make NO MISTAKE this is Casus Belli from Historian, and Amb. Michael Oren in the WSJ (extracted):Iran is also the world’s leading state sponsor of terror. It has supplied more than 70,000 rockets to terrorist organizations deployed on Israel’s borders...
- The Bush Administration Wanted Israel To Attack Syria
This, if true, confirms what I thought was going on in the Hizbollah/Israel War. It seemed to me obvious that Bush was doing everything he could to publicly signal to Israel that they had our absolute support in attacking Syria, and possibly even Iran....
- Smoking Gun Evidence Iran Is Arming Iraqi Terrorists
Here you go: WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2006 — U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have...
- Israel Planning For War Against Iran And Syria
From the London Times: THREATENED by a potentially nuclear-armed Tehran, Israel is preparing for a possible war with both Iran and Syria, according to Israeli political and military sources. The conflict with Hezbollah has led to a strategic rethink...
- Re-reading The Msm
Plausible translation of MSM-speak by Jason Pappas From Reuters: “The European Union has expressed concern that the confrontation between Hizbollah and Israel could spread to Syria and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi talked with President Bashar...
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Iranian Revolutionary Guards fighting with Hezbollah?
"...Israeli television said early [today] the bodies of Iranian Revolutionary Guards had been found among guerrillas killed in south Lebanon. There was no independent confirmation.
Hizbollah denied that any Iranians were taking part in the fighting alongside its guerrillas.
"Hizbollah categorically denies the lies and claims that the enemy is promoting that Iranian fighters are present in the confrontations with the occupation forces," the Lebanese guerrilla group said in a statement faxed to Reuters..."
Israel will try with everything it has, not to drag Syria into the fight as many have suggested, but to drag Iran and possibly the US into it instead.
Israel has no real strategic value in toppling the Baathist regime in Syria and replacing it with an unstable and insane Shia fundamentalist regime, but it has everything to gain by destroying Iranian nuclear capability before the nuclear umbrella is functional. The only way it can do that is cause Iran to enter the shooting war, or at least implicate it in the present one so it can be shot back at.
Its simple really: Israel cannot accept a nuclear Iran. It has a window of opportunity between now and the US elections in 08: US forces are in theatre, Iran has not yet developed a nuclear umbrella, and Hezbollah has handed Israel the gift of a hot war right smack in the middle of it all.
Has anyone noticed that the US is massing troops in Baghdad and actually increasing hardened-point force in Iraq (supposedly for garrison duty)? And that a US carrier battle group appears to be "missing" somewhere out there?
Crusader
- “iran Now Has Amassed Roughly 225 Pounds Of 20% Uranium And 11,000 Pounds Of 3.5%, Sufficient For Almost Five Nuclear Bombs.”
Make NO MISTAKE this is Casus Belli from Historian, and Amb. Michael Oren in the WSJ (extracted):Iran is also the world’s leading state sponsor of terror. It has supplied more than 70,000 rockets to terrorist organizations deployed on Israel’s borders...
- The Bush Administration Wanted Israel To Attack Syria
This, if true, confirms what I thought was going on in the Hizbollah/Israel War. It seemed to me obvious that Bush was doing everything he could to publicly signal to Israel that they had our absolute support in attacking Syria, and possibly even Iran....
- Smoking Gun Evidence Iran Is Arming Iraqi Terrorists
Here you go: WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2006 — U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have...
- Israel Planning For War Against Iran And Syria
From the London Times: THREATENED by a potentially nuclear-armed Tehran, Israel is preparing for a possible war with both Iran and Syria, according to Israeli political and military sources. The conflict with Hezbollah has led to a strategic rethink...
- Re-reading The Msm
Plausible translation of MSM-speak by Jason Pappas From Reuters: “The European Union has expressed concern that the confrontation between Hizbollah and Israel could spread to Syria and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi talked with President Bashar...