Air raid hits Syria border

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ISRAELI warplanes struck the town of Masnaa, the main crossing point over the border between Lebanon and Syria, security sources said.

One person was wounded when three missiles slammed into the last customs building at the crossing point, digging craters in the middle of the road, they said.

The passageway was closed by the strike.

Israeli warplanes had attacked the same area on July 15, three days after the Jewish state launched a massive offensive on Lebanon following the capture of two Israeli soldiers by the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19959478-1702,00.html

[HereSince1628]

1. How would an Israeli provocation to cause escalation look different?

I just don't see how this helps Israel tactically, strategically, or in the eyes of the international community. The only thing is can possibly do is provoke an attack by Syria that will enable US retaliation for its friends in the region.

[whistle]

2. Israel is following orders from Dick Cheney neocon central

...there is no interest in world opinion, strategic benefit or tactical advantage. BushCo wants an expanded war in the middle east and Israel is accommodating that objective in exchange for a larger cut of the middle east pie.

[xchrom]

3. what bushco wants is a sunni alliance with syria as a member.

i.e. saudi arabia, kuwait, jordan, uae and syria.

it separates -- to their way of thinking -- and isolates iran.

[KoKo]

5. I thought I saw Prince Bandar with Condi in photo's last weekend

in Rome. Would the Syrians take the money to isolate Lebanon?

[xchrom]

6. not so much isolate lebannon as isolate the shiites

in lebannon.

politically lebannon is many personalities.

[KoKo]

7. thanks......interesting...n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

4. I'm SHOCKED!

It is almost like the Israelis are acting in cahoots with the ** Cabal to goad Syria and Iran into widening the war. Unthinkable. They could not be that duplicitous.