Israel threatens Syria strike after deadly bombings

[Khephra]

FROM AFP:

JERUSALEM : Israel threatened to launch a military attack against Syria, accusing Damascus of being directly implicated in a double Hamas suicide attack which killed 16 people.

As Israel's top diplomats pressed their case that Damascus should pay the price for sheltering Hamas leaders, deputy defense minister Zeev Boim dropped strong hints that a strike on Syrian targets could be imminent.

"The rule that 'anyone who deals in terror against Israel is a target' is a rule that must be stated and one that we must stand behind," Boim told public radio, adding that Israel would take care not to cause a "conflagration" on its northern border.

"It is possible to launch operations, provided that the targets are well chosen and that the moment is right, in order to make the Syrians understand that there are red lines that cannot be crossed," he added.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/104548/1/.html

[LeftCoast]

1. Just remember...

...when you point you finger at someone else, you've got three fingers pointing back at you...

[Jim Sagle]

5. Horseshit.

[LeftCoast]

6. Hmm??

:eyes:

[slojim240]

2. Isreal can just claim that a group is behind a bombing and then launch

attacks. Do they have any proof? Is the US going to sit quietly by and allow Israel to embroil us in another unjustified war?

[On the Road]

3. Sit Back? They'll Have Our Full Support

[slojim240]

4. Wouldn't you know, just when another Israeli spy has been discovered

and when it may even appear that Israel had a hand in the Niger fake documents, and when there may even be Israeli links to African coups, Israel will bomb a neighboring country to distract US attention (not the rest of the world) from the coming storm?

[galactus4prez]

7. France and US: Syria Must Withdraw from Lebanon

France and the US proposed a resolution in the Security Council demanding that Syria end it's 25 year occupation of Lebanon and withdrawn the 20,000 Syrian troops stationed there.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53574-2004Sep1.html

Interesting pair, US and France. You know the UK will go along. What about China and Russia?