Tammy Bruce: Who Israel Attacks and Why

Who Israel Attacks and Why

Herb Keinon at the Jerusalem Post has an excellent analysis of the pressures on Israel and why they are safe to directly attack Lebanon but not Syria. The following is one bit featuring comments made today by Israeli Prime Minister Olmert.

Analysis: Blaming Beirut, thinking of Damascus and Gaza

"Throughout the recent period, Syria has proven that it is a terrorist government," Olmert said with Koizumi standing at his side. "It supports terrorism. It is a government that backs terrorism. It is a government that encourages the murderous actions both of terrorists located on its soil and those beyond it. Of course, there will have to be an appropriate preparation in order to deal with the conduct of the Syrian government."

This language was quite similar to language he used Sunday to describe the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority government. "This is the first time in modern history that there is a whole government which is a terrorist government," he said. "This is not a government which is influenced by terror, this is not a government which sympathizes terror, this government is terror."

If Israel took strong military action against that type of government in Gaza, it would seem only natural for it to take similar action against a similar type of government in Damascus.

But to do so, to go on a strong military offensive against Syria, Israel would need international legitimacy, and getting legitimacy to declare war on Syria for an act perpetrated from Lebanese soil by a party within the Lebanese government, would be difficult to obtain.

So the address is Lebanon.

Read the whole article please. It will give you some important background about what Israel is doing now and what they may do in the days to come.

In the meantime, CNN has this, from 6:15pm PT, Israel authorizes 'severe' response to abductions

Posted by Tammy · July 12, 2006 05:52 PM · Permalink
Internationalism | Terrorism | War on Radical Islam

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I admit, when I saw the Fox News Alert prior to Shep's show; I became a bit frightened. I thought, "here we go, full war is about to begin". Then I realized that Israel is on full war alert each and every day of their existance. My God, what more can they do? The evil thugs are all around them. Their main goal? To detroy Israel at all costs. You know that is true and I do too. Tonight, the Israel Cabinet met, made a decision and followed through. The sites and sounds of the aftermath turns my soul. War is an ugly, awful thing. But, sometimes we must enter it to save the very freedoms and beliefs we hold so dear. Israel, in my opinion, is defending her God given right to exist. I support her and her efforts tonight. Pray for Israel.

Posted by: Trinity at July 12, 2006 08:50 PM

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