Empty Rhetoric from a Deflated Syrian Hot Air Balloon!
October 7, 2007
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If Syria and Iran attack Israel before three major impediments are out of the way, they will suffer a terrible defeat, and I believe they are well aware of it.
I am hoping their acute awareness of it will cause them to agree to a time of relative false peace, some sort of a hudna. They have a lot of work to do before they will be able
to defeat Israel in a Middle East War.
Considering the results of Syria’s wars with Israel in 48, 67, and 73, plus last month’s failure to detect and destroy Israeli aircraft by their great pig-in-a-poke Russian high tech system, coupled with the existence of a long eastern border with Iraq, where some 140,000 American military forces are at war, I would have to surmise that the statement made by Syrian President Bashar stating: ‘Syria won’t hesitate to start a war with Israel to regain Golan,” is empty rhetoric from a deflated hot air balloon.
Syria is not about to start a war with Israel until these serious obstacles are changed or removed, and it is unlikely it will do so until Iran has a deterrent consisting of several deliverable nuclear warheads. It is difficult for me to image an attack against Israel by Syria or Iran until:
1. American troops are out of Iraq in sufficient numbers.
2. Iran and Syria have dependable detect and destroy systems.
3. Iran has several deliverable nuclear deterrent warheads.
Considering these three factors, I would guess the earliest possible date for Syria and Iran to be ready to attack Israel would be 2010, and it might be as late as the end of 2014.
However, Israel is more than prepared to attack them both at any given moment, and knowing Israel, it is certainly a possibility.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
‘Syria won’t hesitate to start a war with Israel to regain Golan’
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
October 6, 2007
Syria will not hesitate to start a war with Israel in order to restore its control over the Golan Heights, A-Baath, the official newspaper of President Bashar Assad’s government, warned Saturday.
In an article to mark 34 years since the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, A-Baath said: “Our people and our leadership are determined to liberate our conquered lands using all means, methods and ways.”
Meanwhile, ABC News quoted American officials as saying that the IAF raid in Syria during September was planned for several months and was postponed a number of times due to heavy US pressure.
According to the report, Israel presented US officials with satellite imagery which clearly showed North Korean nuclear technology in a Syrian facility. According to a US source, W
ashington officials were astonished by the imagery and by the fact US intelligence had not picked up on the facility previously.
“Israel tends to be very thorough about its intelligence coverage, particularly when it takes a major military step, so they would not have acted without data from several sources,” said ABC News military consultant Tony Cordesman.
A different source told ABC News that Israel had planned the strike as early as July 14, and in confidential meetings with high ranking US officials, debated over the appropriate response.
Several officials supported Israel’s decision to strike, although others, led by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, firmly opposed it and offered to publicly condemn Syria for operating a nuclear facility instead.
US officials who initially opposed the raid, according to ABC, apparently feared the negative influence it might have over the whole region. Consequently, officials in Washington persuaded Israel to push back the raid, but in September, Israel feared that information about the facility might be leaked to the press, and went ahead with the strike, despite objections by Washington.
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