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[Character Assassin]

It may have escaped your notice, but suicide bombings are not the only violent attacks on Israel and its citizens. There are frequent hit-and-run guerilla attacks wherein no one tries to blow themselves up.

Most of these raids are 100 percent legal, since they target soldiers, not civilians.

100% 'legal'? On what basis? And can you support the contention that 'most' target soldiers, not civilians?

There's no question that Syria assists numerous Palestinian terrorist groups. But Israel engages in activity that's been described by Kofi Annan as "state terrorism", and sponsors terrorists like the SLA.

I place no value in opinions or statements of Kofi Annan.

Hezbollah was the wrong group to single out. While I have political and ideological disagreements with Hezbollah, they aren't a terrorist group -- they don't target civilians as a policy.

If you think Hezbollah is not a terrorist group, we really have nothing further to discuss.

Then you ask, "We did? Were those American planes? American pilots?" No. Fisk is trying to make that case that America's threatening of Syria effectively gave the green light for Israel to attack Syria.

They would have done so in any case. I see no evidence that they get their marching orders, so to speak, from Washington D.C.

You then write that "Israel plays to win, and has won each time Syria has attacked it." But Syria has never attacked Israel.

That is a matter of opinion and definition. Suffice it to say "when conflict between Israel and Syria ensued" if it makes you feel any better.

Israel did not exist in 1948. Therefore, Syria did not attack Israel. Syria was merely acting to secure the areas allocated for the Palestinian state.

A distinction without a difference.

Israel attacked Syria in 1967.

When one strikes out at a man pointing a gun to one's head, the terminology becomes irrelevant.

Syria did not attack Israel in 1973. It attacked Israeli forces in the Occupied Territories.

A distinction without a difference.

Israel continued attacking Syria even after a ceasefire had been declared.

Irrelevant.