Syria Willing To Go To War With Israel For Strategic Golan Heights
You can lob a short range missile from the Golan Heights and hit any place in Israel. The Golan Heights is the “High Ground” that Israel’s enemies would love to gain. Should the Golan Heights fall out of Israel’s hands and into the hands of their enemies, the results could be catastrophic for Israel. One has to wonder as to the timing of Syria’s desire to take the Golan.
~Bashman
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, Washington 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.
JPost
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Old Bashar can wish in one hand and shit in the other…
He won’t be getting the Golan Heights back anytime soon.
October 6th, 2007 at 4:54 pm“Syria will not hesitate to start a war with Israel in order to restore its control over the Golan Heights…”
It’s been 34 years MF. If you had the stones youda done it already. More Baath party bluster from the twisted ideology that brought us Saddam and his sidekick Baghdad Bob. Same storyline, different faces. Iraq, The Sequel.
“…although others, led by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, firmly opposed it and offered to publicly condemn Syria for operating a nuclear facility instead.”
WTF Condi?? “publicly condemn”?? Looks like we didn’t have the nuts to let *someone else* do the right thing. FUCK!!
October 6th, 2007 at 6:06 pmWhat, again? Did these idiots forget that that is how they lost the Golan Heights in the first place?
October 6th, 2007 at 6:14 pmOl Bashir must be hitting the Lebanese hash again. He’s high if he thinks he’s taking back the Golan anytime soon. I’m sure Israel would love getting some payback.
October 6th, 2007 at 6:57 pmRoger that.
October 6th, 2007 at 8:04 pmI could hear Bashir’s teeth chattering even in print. He’s not sleeping well these nights, thinking ’bout that invisable air attack he could do jack shit about. Forget Golan, dude, worry that some young Turk wants fame, fortune and your hareem.
Syria would be making the mistake of the young new millennium. There really is a spiritual component here and Israel is still God’s country and the Jews are His people. Do not mess with the Apple of God’s eye.
October 6th, 2007 at 8:23 pmThe Israelis are not going to give up the Golan without a fight nor should they!
October 6th, 2007 at 11:58 pmBefore the Israelis won the Golan Heights in the Yom Kippur war, the IslamoNazis put guns up there and shot down on them with impunity…and they’re not going to endure this again.
Long live Israel–as JJIrons said, they are the apple of God’s eye!
I think Syria would last about 3 days, max. It might only be hours. They are hopelessly outclassed; their armed forces are the typical domestic suppression model, unfit for external adventures.
October 7th, 2007 at 1:20 pmCorrection: meant to type “typical Arab/ME domestic suppression model”.
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