Israel To Pressure Obama On Air Strikes Against Syria

[Purveyor]

Israel will use President Obama’s visit on Wednesday to try to persuade the US to carry out air strikes on Syrian missiles if there is evidence that they are being to handed over to Hezbollah in Lebanon, or at least to give full support to Israeli military action to stop the transfer.

On this week’s trip to Israel and the West Bank, Obama will also come under Israeli pressure to lower the US threshold for military action against Iran, while the US president will try to extract greater Israeli commitment to a peace process with the Palestinians. Neither side is likely to be successful, leaving Syria as the most promising arena for US-Israeli agreement.

The Obama administration has made clear that it would intervene militarily to stop the Assad regime using its chemical or biological weapons or transferring them to extremist groups, but Israeli officials say they feel they have been left alone to deal with the threat of the spread of Syria’s arsenal of anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles.

Israeli warplanes destroyed a Syrian convoy at the end of January that Israeli officials say was taking sophisticated Russian-made ground-to-air missiles to Hezbollah. The government of Binyamin Netanyahu has made clear that it would strike again in similar circumstances. A senior official said: “Maybe it would be better if Israel doesn’t do it, but who is going to deal with it?”

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/17/israel-to-pressure-obama-on-air-strikes-against-syria/

[libtodeath]

1. Why do we care so much what they want

how many billions has it cost us?

[TwilightGardener]

2. There have already been reports of chemical weapons being used in Syria--but they

were apparently unsubstantiated. I hope we aren't going to be fed bullshit intelligence. I also hate the presumption that we must agree to do SOMETHING militarily--if not Iran, then Syria, surely!

[Purveyor]

3. I have read some reports on the chems as it was even 'reported' that the rebels too gained access

to some variation of chems.

As you indicated, hard to put much faith with any reporting out of that region.

[NaturalHigh]

4. We don't need another war.

There's enough shit going on over here.