Syria Attacked by France, Britain and the USA

But from the international media, you'd think it was just Trump...

Trump Orders Strikes On Syria In Retaliation For Chemical Attack

Trump staking claim of 'Mission Accomplished' in Syria

Syria chemical weapons program crippled: U.S.

Strange, isn't it?

Assad Murders Syrians, Can it Be Stopped?

While the Syrian terrorist dictator Assad continues his murderous rampage, using chemical weapons plus against Syrians, anti-Israel countries conspire to condemn Israel for self-defense.

The pictures coming out of Syria are awful and make it clear that Assad is targeting civilians.

https://www.reuters.tv/v/jqy/2018/04/09/trump-says-big-price-to-pay-for-syria-attack

There are reports of  Syrian bases being bombed, but nobody knows who's doing it for sure. I have this picture in my mind of some mysterious cartoon character swooping in to "save the day."

My innate pragmatism makes me very pessimistic. That's because the western so-called developed world is being taken over by Moslems. That's because Christian society, even the Catholic countries are just not reproducing. Their birthrate is in the negative, especially among the academics, but even in "blue collar" social/economic circles. This means a serious lack of workers, and also not enough young people to pay into the governmental pension systems, like American Social Security.

That's why Europe and the United States are easing their immigration laws and encouraging even illegal migrants to remain. Somebody has to work. But the question is whether these newcomers, mostly Muslim, will assimilate into the existing culture and value system, or will they change society into their own.

Any objective social observer with a knowledge of history should be very worried.

Too Much Disturbing News About ISIS and Arab Terror Threats

This morning's news sites show how dangers of international Arab ISIS terrorism, Iran etc. just can't be swept under the rug.

One of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's greatest international failures is that he not only never succeeded in convincing the United States of the dangers of Iran, but he did so badly that the USA seems to trust Iran more than it trusts Israel. Obama and Kerry have been begging Iran to talk. They don't treat Iran as a world danger, a pariah, which it should be.

Alain Jocard/Agence France-Presse
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PARIS — The Obama administration is open to talking with Iran on the security crisis in Iraq, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday, even after Iran’s supreme leader angrily said Tehran would no longer discuss Middle East issues with the United States...He acknowledged that he had opposed Iran’s attendance, but he stressed that the United States was still prepared to speak with the Iranians about Iraq and Syria, including on the margins of the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program that will resume in New York on Thursday.
Just because the Iranians were not invited to the conference, Mr. Kerry said, “doesn't mean that we are opposed to the idea of communicating to find out if they will come on board or under what circumstances or whether there is the possibility of a change.”
...The Obama administration has long sought to separate the nuclear talks with Iran from discussions of regional issues, out of concern that Tehran might seek concessions in the nuclear negotiations in return for cooperating on Syria or Iran.

I don't understand how the Americans can disassociate the Iranian nuclear threat to world peace from the character and aims of the Iranian leadership. They're using modern child psychology in dealing with dangerous psychopaths. Modern child psychology tells us to separate the child from his bad actions by saying:

"What you just did was bad."
Instead of saying:
"You are a bad boy."

This may work with young children who are inherently good, but it won't work with Iranians, ISIS and the volunteers/recruits to Arab terrorism. There's an excellent interactive article on the New York Times site about the rise of ISIS. It's worth using one of your limited number of free NYT articles to read it. (If you know of a place it can be accessed freely, please let me know in the comments, thanks.) Here's the opening:

A Rogue State Along Two Rivers

How ISIS Came to Control Large Portions of Syria and Iraq
By JEREMY ASHKENAS, ARCHIE TSE, DEREK WATKINS and KAREN YOURISH July 3, 2014

The militant group called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria seemed to surprise many American and Iraqi officials with the recent gains it made in its violent campaign to create a new religious state. But the victories achieved in the past few weeks were built on months of maneuvering along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, which define a region known as the cradle of civilization.

Not only has countries like Turkey proven fertile ground for recruits, but so has Europe and even the United States.

At least three Somali families in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area have female relatives who have gone missing in the past six weeks and may have tried to join Islamic State, said community leader Abdirizak Bihi. He said that while the reasons for their disappearance were unclear, he had told the families to contact police.

Not long ago, I watched a very panicky news report on television about how shocked the British are that the ISIS be-headers had good middle-class British accents. We must remember that many of the worst and most brutal terrorists are educated.

I remember, haven't forgotten how the media was so certain that since Bashar Hafez al-Assad was a doctor in England, he'd be more humane and reform Syria. But the truth is that he became just like his father, if not worse. Please don't ignore/forget his use of chemical weapons against civilians, as if it's humane to use them against militarily.

Depressing, isn't it? There aren't any world leaders willing and able to do what must be done.

The Time has come to Recognize What The American Government Really Is

This isn't the first time that the message from the Obama Government is to ignore Israeli Intelligence and advice.

Jewish Press

Just because the United States is larger and richer doesn't make its policies more intelligent or correct. Any open-minded student of Modern History can easily list a long variety of American mistakes.

It wasn't all that long ago that the American governmental "experts" insisted that Israel had fabricated anti-Syrian news about chemical weapons.  Obama's Government is still having trouble keeping up with Israeli discoveries and Intelligence data.

The U.S. Finally Realized: The Syrian Chemical Weapons Fraud 
The U.S. confirmed today what Israeli sources have already reported: Syria is hiding parts of its chemical weapon caches.iHLS has published an article a few days ago under the headline “The Biggest Hoax – “Syria Clean of Chemical Weapons”. In Israel they realized early that the Syrians were lying, while in the U.S. it took a while.

United States Secretary of State John Kerry is one of the most antagonistic, ignorant and anti-Israel American officials we've yet to suffer.  Kerry's threats of Arab terror violence unless we kowtow to American pressure shows which side of the fence he is on.  It's not Israel's for sure, and he's not on the fence as a neutral mediator.

US Secretary of State John Kerry, using the bully tactics of his boss Barack Obama,warned Israel that if Israeli-Palestinian talks break down, there might be a third intifada. Kerry’s one-sided warning was even more astounding when this fact is thrown in the mix: two days before he shot off his mouth, a poll conducted by the Arab World For Research & Development showed that only 29% of West Bank and Gaza Palestinians would be in favor of a third intifada, even though 60% believe it could happen.What this despicable action by Kerry means is that Kerry has now tacitly given a green light for Palestinian terrorists to wage a third intifada against Israel. The Palestinians don’t want one, but the U.S. is now saying that they have justification because of Israel’s intransigence.

Reports from those who have heard his briefings aren't any better.

“It was fairly anti-Israeli,” Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) said to reporters after the briefing. “I was supposed to disbelieve everything the Israelis had just told me, and I think the Israelis probably have a pretty good intelligence service.” He said the Israelis had told him that the “total changes proposed set back the program by 24 days.” A Senate aide told BuzzFeed that during the meeting, “every time anybody would say anything about ‘what would the Israelis say,’ they’d get cut off and Kerry would say, ‘You have to ignore what they’re telling you, stop listening to the Israelis on this.’” “They had no details,” the aide said. “They had no ability to verify anything, to describe anything, to answer basic questions.” Republicans and Democrats alike have questioned the sagacity of removing sanctions at this point in the negotiations, rather than ratcheting them up now, and then dialing them back down if an acceptable deal is reached.
Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/senators-appalled-by-kerrys-anti-israel-remarks-in-iran-briefing/2013/11/14/

It's time for Israel to listen and take seriously that we do not have true allies in the American Government's top echelons. The United States, including its President Obama, Vice President Biden and Secretary of State Kerry, does not behave like a true, respectful ally of Israel.  It's time for us in Israel to recognize that fact and go it "alone."  In actuality, we won't truly be alone.  We will again benefit from G-d's miracles and protection.

'Pay no attention to the high explosives behind the curtain' by Doug Greener

This originally appeared in the Jerusalem Post.  I think it's brilliant, so I got permission from the author to post it here.

'Pay no attention to the high explosives behind the curtain'

10/08/2013 17:04   By DOUG GREENER

As Syria's chemical weapons are being found and destroyed, the civil war will continue, with Assad's growing supremacy and little interference from the Western powers.

Photo by: Reuters

       

In spite of all the dire warnings, I have a notion that Assad won't be pulling any monkey business when it comes to getting rid of his chemical weapons.  The simple reason: They really are not doing him any good. He doesn't even need them.

Let's look at the details.

Against his own defenseless people, poison gas definitely strikes fear and terror. It's insidious, unseen and causes agonizing death. As Assad himself has demonstrated, when chemical weapons are used in large amounts against a civilian population or compact army units, the results can be devastating. Even those protected by gas masks are not immune, since the really nasty chemicals can penetrate the skin.

But -- the use of poison gas, as the use of any terror weapon, cannot win the war for Assad.  For that, he has bullets, planes, tanks, artillery, rockets and high explosives -- as much as he needs.  These are called "conventional" weapons, and they have killed a hundred more times the number than those who succumbed to chemical weapons. Using conventional means, Assad's army and militias have blown apart, mowed down, dismembered, eviscerated, beheaded, raped and buried their opponents alive. 

And while Assad was doing this, no one made a move to stop him. The Western powers, if that they can be called, only threatened to intervene when Assad used his chemical arsenal. The current agreement for him to dismantle these weapons makes no mention of the continuing "conventional" war. What a deal for the Damascus dictator! "I'm the good guy because I agree to give up my poison gas (which really doesn't do me much good), while you agree to let me fight this war, slaughter my own people to my heart's content, using only high explosives. Great! Where do I sign?" We needn't be too cynical to think that Assad had this in mind all along.

Against other countries which can fight back, such as Israel, chemical weapons also cannot bring victory. Known as the "poor man's weapons of mass destruction," they are not even close to matching the destructive power of nuclear weaponry, which Israel is rumored to possess. Poison chemicals can inflict terror and a horrible toll in human suffering, but the damage, as heartless as it sounds, is not permanent. Against Israel, Assad should know that he can use chemical weapons but once. That use would open the portals of permissibility for Israel to respond with a ferociousness that would not only end Assad's rule, but also the ability of Syria to function as a state. 

In short, if Syria has chemical weapons but cannot use them with impunity, why bother keeping them -- especially if the government can benefit from getting rid of them? So watch the process of finding and then destroying Syria's chemical weapons to go slowly and methodically, but without interruption. In the meantime, the civil war will continue, with Assad's growing supremacy and little interference from the Western powers. They will be too focused on the chemicals to notice the pyrotechnics behind the curtain.  

Doug Greener has an agency in Jerusalem for advertising and direct mail.             

BBC, Wonderful! Israel Wasn't Mentioned in Its Syria News

While trying to find out more about the shooting in the American Navy location that killed at least a half a dozen people, we had the BBC on.  Most details about the shooting were still considered top secret, so they had a long piece about Syria, its refugees, Turkey and Lebanon.  I kept listening and listening for a mention of Israel and didn't hear one.  Honestly, I was surprised.  It's not that Israel is involved with Syria, it's just that for some really dangerous and fokokt  reason Obama and Netanyahu have made it an Israeli issue, rather than one of Middle East and World Peace.

screen capture: Channel 10 news

The Newscast focused on Lebanon and Syrian refugees. It was just such a pleasure not to hear them talk about Israel.  What could they say about Israel? Well, they could say that Israel has accepted quite a number of injured Syrians and given world class medical care.  It's pretty obvious that the international press isn't going to give that story much play.  It'll make Israel look good.  Of course I like the idea of Israel looking good.  We are the best country in the world, warts and all.  Nobody's perfect...

A good thing for Israel in that most international media aren't talking about the great chessed, loving kindness Israel does for the Syrians is because we don't need the Syrians to focus on us as allies of their enemies.  I have no doubt that Assad knows perfectly well that we've been helping, but I think we're safer if the fiction of isolation continues.

PS The United States is looking more and more dangerous.  I feel a lot safer in Israel.

What Should We Believe re: Chemical Weapons, Iraq, Syria, Obama, Peace etc.?

We live in very confusing, tricky times etc.   Along with the blessings and advantages of instant communications, internet and more, there is also the downside.  Anyone can post anything, truth, lies, tricks etc. It was once a schlepp to get over to someone's wagon or tent to hear his message, but now, you just have to answer your phone or turn on your computer or television. You don't have to leave the comfort of your favorite chair.

So, you tell me:

Are we supposed to believe that United States Secretary of State Kerry can broker a deal to make "peace" between Israel and the Arabs?

Has Syria been secretly transporting its chemical weapons to Iraq? Or is that untrue?

Will the latest "Arab spring" bring a breath of freedom and fresh air?

Has United States President Barack Hussein Obama made the right decision to go with Russia on Syria?

Is the "Two State Solution" the savior of the State of Israel or could it be the cause of its destruction?

Everybody claims to "KNOW."  But considering how few people really agree with each other, then it's obvious that they don't know because two conflicting opinions/facts can't be right.

Today while paddling around the pool, I was talking health and recipes with a friend. She asked how I cook vegetables.  I told her that I use plain old-fashioned soy oil.

"But I've been told that olive oil is healthier."
"Yes, it is, but I don't think that it's any healthier after being cooked.  The experts say that we should only use cold-pressed olive oil, because the heat can destroy the goodness, vitamins, minerals.  Cooking with olive oil then destroys even more.  So I use olive oil in salads but not for cooking."

Yes, that's an example of how my mind works.  I don't cook with honey for the same reason.  If heating the honey for commercial production isn't good for the honey, then heating it for cooking can't be good either.

I look and listen to what the Arabs are saying.  I consider the Palestine Media Watch site to be extremely important. Instead of listening to politicians and the media projecting their presumptions, I want to know what our enemies are saying to each other and their people.  They are not educating for peace with Israel.  They are education, promoting the total destruction of the State of Israel and the banishment of the Jewish People.

They have been very clever in how they do it.  This was explained with multiple illustrations at the event memorializing Emanuel Winston, Twenty Years Since the Oslo Accords. Unfortunately, the Jewish People hasn't been using its advertising and promotion talents to counteract the Arab campaign.

It's time for us to take the lead, isn't it?

Can We in Israel Count on The United States, United Nations and International "Justice?"

OK, I admit that I just wrote a lousy, too long title, but it accurately summarizes what we need to think about.

The UN Watch just posted a speech worth listening to.

Testimony before the United Nations Human Rights Council Delivered by UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer10 September 2013

Madam President,
The purpose of this council is to protect human rights victims and respond to urgent situations.
Yet as we meet here today, three weeks have passed since Syria gassed to death hundreds of its own men, women, and children — and still the council closes its eyes, refusing our call for an emergency session.
The world deserves to know: Are innocent civilians attacked by their own government with chemical weapons not human rights victims? Is the most horrific crime of the 21st century not an urgent situation?
Yes, the council will discuss Syria next week, but that was scheduled months ago. And yes, High Commissioner Pillay mentioned Syria, yet she avoided any condemnation of its murderous regime.
Madam President, why is this monstrous crime being treated here with such apathy, banality and triteness? Where is this council’s moral outrage? Where is its sense of urgency?
Can a human rights body that ignores this atrocity be deemed credible, effective, or in any way relevant?
The United Nations, which constantly demands accountability, must ask itself:
Why were the killers of Damascus time and again promoted by this organization to key positions, awarded a legitimacy they never deserved?
When Assad murdered 20,000 in 1982, why was Syria sitting here, as an elected member of the Human Rights Commission, and then reelected? What message did that send?
And even after the current massacres began, why was Syria elected in 2011 to UNESCO’s human rights committee? Why is Assad still there, despite our repeated appeals?
Finally, why is it, that of the 10 Agenda Items for this session, only one specific country is listed, and it’s Israel — whose hospitals, as we speak, are quietly treating dozens of Syria’s injured victims?
Let us state the truth: if the UN allocated just one-hundredth of the moral outrage it uses against the only democracy in the Middle East, murderous dictators like Assad might have been shamed, isolated and weakened, instead of elevated, celebrated and strengthened as champions of human rights.
Thank you, Madam President.

And my frequent commenter, Shy Guy, pointed out in a comment nothing concerning United States President Barack Hussein Obama is what his image-makers want us to believe.  There's a fantastic must-see"video" you can see on this link.  I couldn't find a way to post it here.

We, especially in Israel, and certainly it would do a lot for world peace if the entire world would just use some logic.  We can't trust other nations nor international organizations.  Israel must only trust G-d and, yes, go it alone.  The international concept of "morality" is farce.

Obama's Well Choreographed Syria Speech, However....

I really got a kick out of how Obama strode gracefully and well rehearsed to the podium and microphone to give his big marketing public relations speech to try to convince the American legislators and public to support his Syria attack.



It reminds me of one of the basic lectures, principles in good folk dance choreography I learned from the legendary Fred Berk many decades ago when I studied in his Leadership and Choreography course.  There must be an entrance.  Obama's speech was carefully staged.

Unless I missed something, it seems that he just gave the speech to the camera, no live non staff audience.  If I was a "betting gal," I'd bet my last dollar, or Israeli Shekel which is actually a stronger and healthier currency, on the fact that he read that speech from a very large, clear screen that was right behind the camera.  That's why he didn't keep looking down to read the speech.  We all know that he has a major problem memorizing speeches. It's no secret.  I have my own memory problems; of course I'm younger.  One of the reasons I stopped teaching was that I couldn't learn/memorize the names of my students.

A well rehearsed marketing speech is no more than any other advertising. At just about the same time Obama released his Syria war promotion speech, Apple promoted its two "new phones."  According to Bloomberg news, they are a disappointment. Contrary to the hype, the expensive one doesn't have enough innovation and the cheaper one isn't cheap enough.  Marketing is a complicated business.

Hyping phones is probably easier and less dangerous than hyping a war.  The fact that Obama keeps insisting that only the bad guys will get hurt seems too much like the kids raised on computer war games.  Real life is a lot more dangerous.

PS We in Israel shouldn't forget that there's  lots of dangerous doubletalk coming out of the Americans.  I don't trust the American politicians running the government when it comes to anything concerning Israel.  We can't and shouldn't count on them to help us if there's trouble.  We can only depend on G-d, and G-d has made it very clear.  Here we are just days before Yom Kippur.  Let the Americans cope with Obama and his unworkable "bootless" war.  We have bigger fish to fry...

Leaders Don't Follow Polls, But I Pray for a Vote of Common Sense

A number of years ago I was "amused" at the response of an American  politician who when asked what his policy was responded:

"I'm waiting to see the polls."

Steven Senne / AP

That's pretty much what United States President Barack Hussein Obama is now saying about his war with Syrian Bashar Assad over the unacceptable use of chemical weapons.

After Obama's bombastic verbal pledges to attack the Syrian regime for their dastardly acts, he has pretty much painted himself into a corner when his expected international allies pulled away from the idea.  It's not that anyone in their right moral mind is in favor of chemical weapons, but very few people can really see anything effective or suitable in attacking Syria.

I'm far from being a pacifist, but I don't see what good an American led attack would do for the world or the Syrians.  It's like raping a whore.  Just because she (or he) is a prostitute, even a low-priced one, doesn't justify rape.  The Assad The Second regime in Syria is a terrible dictatorship, but there is no opposition that will be better for the Syrians. It's like a gang war. No matter what the gang is called, it's still a bunch of immoral, criminal hoodlums.

One thing that may make a bit of difference would be to declare and uphold diplomatic and economic sanctions against Syria. 

• Expel all of their diplomats.
• Have the United Nations expel them
• Stop all forms of aid.
• Declare sanctions, and stop supporting all NGO's that give aid to Syria.
• Isolate them diplomatically.

The only thing that an American led attack would do, no matter how small or large, would be to unite the Syrians behind Assad, because he'd easily show them that they have a common enemy.  That would strengthen Assad, not weaken him. 

Davka in this case, I sincerely hope that Obama's war talk be voted down. The United States and the rest of the world would be a lot safer if Obama would get himself more competent advisors. I just hope that Congress and the British Parliament strongly defeat their bills to start a war in Syria.

War With Syria? Should We Be Dusting Off Our Gas Masks?

There's nothing more dangerous for world peace than a bunch of trigger happy, inexperienced Leftists. 

United States President Barack Hussein Obama should never have been elected.  It was the most racist elections in the history of the United States.  If he had been 100% white, with his experience and qualifications, he never would have been elected.  People voted for him because he's colored. Now he may be causing a very dangerous war in the Middle East by totally overacting in how he wants to "punish" Syria for using chemical weapons.

Obama doesn't even have the support of the American Military.  Listen to this Fox report, which I can't get the embedded link for.  Anyone with a minimum of military/diplomatic experience will easily point out how senseless the threats are.  And just like with Bush The First's Iraq/Gulf War, it will just be an excuse for Israel to be attacked.  The Syrians will take out their anger on us, not on the Americans which are spearheading the threats against them.

The internal (within a foreign country) use of chemical weapons is immoral by popular western standards, but it's certainly no reason to plan on bombing the said/guilty country.  How will that show, teach moral superiority?

It's like beating up a kid because he hit another kid.

"Don't you ever hit," smack! "anyone ever" bang! "again!!"

First of all, there should be emergency United Nations Security Council meetings called to condemn Syria and institute a full range of sanctions, including closing all foreign embassies in Syria, sending their diplomats packing, etc.  If the point is to punish the Syrian regime, then they are the ones to be punished, not the Syrian citizens.  The fallout from an American-led attack would land on Israel, while Bashar al-Assad would be emboldened and strengthened for standing against America.

All foreign aid and NGO programs to Syria must cease.  That's how you use moral superiority against an enemy regime.  You don't use military weapons.

Thankfully, the more other foreign leaders think about the issue, the more sense they are making. 

photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash 90

"To see a government in the 21st century gassing its own citizens is an abomination and the world has to move against that, Mulcair said. "That should be done through the institutions of international law, in particularly the United Nations."

So, G-d willing, we won't have to search through our attic for the old gas masks and then exchange them for new ones.

No Comprendo! What Good Would It do For the USA-GB Alliance to Attack Syria?

Honestly, I think there should have had been a surprise "surgical attack" on the sites of the nuclear development in Iran.  But I don't see what useful, suitable target there could be in Syria. 

Warplanes and military transporters have begun arriving at Britain's Akrotiri airbase on Cyprus, less than 100 miles from the Syrian coast, in a sign of increasing preparations for a military strike against the Assad regime in Syria.

It's one thing if they had secret agents to surprise assassinate/execute Assad and his higher ups. 



It's pretty clear that the United States hasn't a clue as to what to do and what the Syrian and Arab culture, mentality is really like. Yes, I understand that they are "outraged."  But how do you militarily attack a "regime" in a useful, efficient way?  I'll never forget the absurdity of the American attack on Iraq that killed thousands of soldiers and civilians to give Sadam Hussein a fair trial.  What fair trial di they give to those soldiers and civilians they killed? And if the allied forces do get the Assad regime out of power, who will rule in his place?  Does the United States really want to find itself with another Iraq to rule?

Barry Rubin writes that none of what's going on in Syria is really all that new.

To understand Syria’s special feature, it is best to heed the all-important insight of a Lebanese-American scholar, Fouad Ajami: “Syria’s main asset, in contrast to Egypt’s preeminence and Saudi wealth, is its capacity for mischief.”
In the final analysis, the aforementioned mischief was in the service of regime maintenance, the all-encompassing cause and goal of the Syrian government’s behavior. Demagoguery, not the delivery of material benefits, is the basis of its power.
Why have those who govern Syria followed such a pattern for more than six decades under almost a dozen different regimes? The answer: Precisely because the country is a weak one in many respects. Aside from lacking Egypt’s power and Saudi Arabia’s money, it also falls short on internal coherence due to its diverse population and minority-dominated regime. In Iraq, Saddam Hussein used repression, ideology, and foreign adventures to hold together a system dominated by Sunni Arab Muslims who were only one-fifth of the population. In Syria, even more intense measures were needed to sustain an Alawite regime that rules based on a community only half as large proportionately.

I don't think it would be wise on Israel's part to use logic and common sense when trying to predict Syrian action.  Yaakov Lappin is wrong:

Any US military step will probably serve as a “slap” to the Syrian regime, but won’t go as far as toppling President Bashar Assad from power.
Hence, it would be an act of self-destruction on Assad’s part to drag Israel into the conflict, for any direct Syrian retribution against Israel would endanger the very existence of the embattled regime in Damascus.

It's important to remember that the "international community" is consistently wrong in its analysis and policy when it comes to the Middle-East, which is the most dangerous thing when talking about international peace and stability.

One response that would make sense would be for Israel, Right, Left, Center, politicians, academics and media to publically state that the Golan will remain forever in Israeli hands for the safety and security of Israel, Jews and non-Jews alike.

Who is Bombing Syria? I Don't Care! My Enemy's Enemy is My Friend

Syria is a very dangerous country.  It's not just dangerous to Israel.  It threatens its own citizens, neighboring Arab countries and is a danger to that nebulous concept of "world peace."

So, the fact that "somebody" is bombing it doesn't really bother me, as long as its aim is accurate, hits the Syrian target and doesn't harm Israel in any way.

A series of explosions were heard in Damascus overnight Saturday, as the official Syrian news agency SANA claimed that Israel carried out a rocket attack on the Jamraya scientific research center in Damascus.

And from CNN:

An image taken from a Youtube video purportedly shows an explosion on a mountain filmed from a Damascus suburb Saturday.

(CNN) -- Syria accused Israel of firing rockets into the Damascus suburb of Jamraya on Sunday, striking a "scientific research center," Syrian state TV reported.

It is the second Syrian claim this year of a strike against what observers have described as a government defense research facility, and it comes one day after U.S. officials first told CNN that the United States believes Israel carried out an airstrike against Syria.

Israel Defense Forces declined to comment on the Syrian TV report. "We do not comment on these reports at all," an IDF spokesperson said.

This is the way a dangerous country should be stopped, not with talk and idle threats, the way it's being done with Iran.  The big problem now with stopping Iran's nuclear development is that it has been going on for years, and years and years already.  The whole world knows about it, and the whole world has heard rumors that Israel will bomb them like it did to Iraq decades ago if...   Well, it's impossible for Israel to bomb Iran the way it did Iraq way back when, because when then Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the air strike, it caught the world by surprise.  There hadn't been years and years of public and international discussion about the pros and cons and whether or not the United States would approve, support the move etc.



It's dangerous to delay in destroying enemies, just like when you delay treatment against cancer, the cancer grows and spreads.  So, I really don't care what country is bombing the chemical weapons plants in Syria. They should just do a good and complete job of it.

Those Moving Red Lines

Politicians love to claim that they have "red lines," standards that if someone or a country crosses, then, they'll immediately... do whatever they should have done to prevent the horrid, dangerous thing that should happen.

The American Government expended a lot of energy claiming that Israel had just been imagining that Syria used chemical weapons, but now seem to have recognized that a "red line" had been crossed.

I don't understand why all these governments and leaders, politicians etc. wait for the crossing of the dangerous red lines and don't do everything they should to prevent dangerous people from reaching the "red line."  Just call it one of my "dumb questions."  Once these "red lines" have been crossed, there's no real going back.  We're then stuck with a new, horrendously dangerous fait accompli, status quo.

An accomplished fact; an action which is completed before those affected by it are in a position to query or reverse it.

Arlene Kushner wrote a very good article on the situation,  On The Edge.

Yesterday, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor told the Security Council:
"The Iranian nuclear program continues to advance at the speed of an express train," Prosor said. "The international community's efforts to stop them are moving at the pace of the local train, pausing at every stop for some nations to get off and on."

The world is plagued with faux leaders who refuse to take the initiative and prevent disaster.  They keep on hoping that the dangers will just go away in a sort of spontaneous combustion.  And the "leaders" of democratic countries just pray that those dangers will reach their peak after their term of office, so they can blame their unlucky successor. like in the game of "hot potato."

The United States loves to consider its President as "the most powerful man in the world," but at best Obama is offering tiny Israel the "opportunity" to bomb the Iranian reactor.  That makes Barack Hussein Obama and the United States of America the wimpiest country in the world. Their promising not to condemn Israel for doing what they should be doing is not leadership; it's hiding behind mommy's apron.

And no doubt the true enemies of world peace, Iran, Syria and the terrorists making their secret plans are just laughing...