Israel to ask Obama to use air strikes in case of Syrian missile transfer

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Israel to ask Obama to use air strikes in case of Syrian missile transfer

US expected to resist Israeli pressure to attack Iran, while Tel Aviv
unlikely to yield on Palestine, leaving Syria a common goal

Julian Borger
The Guardian, Sunday 17 March 2013 16.35 GMT

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.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/17/obama-visit-israel-syrian-missiles-transfer

[azurnoir]

1. honestly I hope this is a pile

but in the case that it is not, why isn't Israel willing to fight it's own war(s) against Lebanon and or Syria, okay I see perhaps why Israel doesn't want to take on Iran alone, but this is quite beyond