Israel attacked Syria?!? I sure didn't see this on the American MSM....

[icymist]

I'm away from my computer for just a few days and I now learn this?

Syria says not planning a military response to IAF air strike

By Haaretz Staff and News Agencies

The Syrian deputy foreign minister said Friday that Damascus is not planning a military response, a week after claiming that Israel Air Force warplanes bombed targets in its territory. (Click here for map).

Damascus announced last Thursday that IAF jets had violated its airspace, and had been fired upon by Syrian air defenses. Israel has refused to make any comment about the incident.

But Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faysal Mekdad warned after a meeting with his Russian counterpart Friday that growing tension could spark a violent outbreak in the region, and that Syria has the "means to respond in ways that will preserve its position of power."
Read the full article

[Rick Myers]

1. The only reporting I saw on this was The Jerusalem Times

Which claimed the aircraft dropped their external fuel tanks. Other 'Arab' media have claimed they dropped weapons. There have been several conflicting reports, but the specific weapons used have not been identified... Yet...

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Syria has air defenses & an air force...

If Israel dropped munitions on Syrian territory, I'm sure we'd see more conflict than what's transpired, however, why would IAF aircraft drop tanks UNLESS they were going into air-to-air combat?:shrug:

[cali]

5. Actually, much more has been revealed

I'm too lazy right now to link it, but if you google, you can find out all about it- including Turkey's involvement.

[LSK]

2. but but but poor little Israel is so defenseless

We must save them from evil Iran and Syria!

:sarcasm:

[aquart]

7. What a load of pasture pastry.

I hope you eat every fragrant, steaming bite.

Try looking at a map sometime. And an almanac to check current statistics. Syria and Iran have land and oil. Israel has oranges, tomatoes, and tourists. And a few brilliant guns.

Syria: 19 million

Iran: 65 million

Israel: 7 million, which is less than the population of NYC

Bon appetit.

[LSK]

8. who has 200+ nukes?

And a direct supply line to the US Military Industrial Complex???

:shrug:

[MadBadger]

9. Who is surrounded by countries that every which way you look, hates them?

Besides the US.

[LSK]

10. maybe if Israel respected 1967 borders,it wouldn't be so hated

Or is oppression in the West Bank ok?

[Megahurtz]

22. AND

the $backing$ of the U.S. and access to even more Nukes???

:nopity: "Poor little Israel" is right. :nopity:

[aquart]

3. It is real annoying

when people don't know enough about Israel to spell it correctly while maligning it. The name of the god El is included in the word.

[icymist]

6. Thank you for your kind response pointing out my stupid ignorance.

The misspelling has been corrected oh enlightened one.

[bahrbearian]

11. I was going to dare you to post this in the Israel-Palistine forum

but it looks like they came here.

[icymist]

12. Yeah. I'm beginning to regret posting this at all.

SIGH

[MisterP]

18. just tell them there's a crushed 24-year-old protester outside

they'll set off at a run

[cali]

19. Another content free comment.

Which in this case has the dubious achievement of being totally offensive. Rachel Corrie deserves better than to have her name bandied about to score a cheap point.

[Megahurtz]

23. Nah.

Don't let them intimidate and silence you. Ever!

[wuushew]

13. Is this the same incident that also violated Turkish airspace?

There is zero justification for this action. Israel is going to find out someday that Russian SAMs are nothing to laugh at.

[cali]

17. The latest is that Turkey provided intelligence to Israel

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RLDHA80&show_article=1&catnum=0

Hard to know what really happened. I'm not condoning Israel's action, just saying this is a very convoluted and complex story.

[Megahurtz]

25. Hmm...

I don't see anything in your link about Turkey providing intelligence to Israel.

Click on it.
It says:

>>>"Oil Exec: Workers Remodeled Stevens Home"<<< :shrug:

Hmm...

[cali]

28. Oops. Sorry. Here ya go.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411398606&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[Fierce]

14. I heard about it on NPR last week.

Some say it's MSM.

ETA: Also, our newspaper had a bit on it.

[The Stranger]

15. The MSM reported it as "Syria Shoots at Israeli Planes," and then in footnote disclosing

that the Israeli planes were over Syria dropping some type of ordinance when the Syrians took such an outrageous and aggressive action.

[cali]

16. Where is that quote from? n/t

[The Stranger]

20. Here ya go, cali:

Syrian fire at Israeli aircraft
ratchets up tensions, fears

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20070906syriaairplane.html

Or this? This was the AP story whose headline was changed to "Murky Raid Heats Up Syria-Israel Tension:"

Syria says it shot at Israeli aircraft

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070906/ap_on_re_mi_ea/syria_israel_7

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:XRiv9gutBD8J:customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SYRIA_ISRAEL%3FSITE%3DNMSAN%26SECTION%3DHOME%26TEMPLATE%3DDEFAULT%26CTIME%3D2007-09-06-16-42-10+Syria+Shoots+at+Israeli+Planes&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us

Murky Raid Heats Up Syria-Israel Tension

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SYRIA_ISRAEL?SITE=NMSAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-09-06-16-42-10

[cali]

21. Thank you.

In case you missed it, my point was simply that it's better not to put quotes around something that isn't one. Much better to do as you just did and post the actual quotes. I knew that the initial headlines were these. This incident's been discussed for days in I/P.

[Megahurtz]

24. That Figures. n/t

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

26. PNAC, AIPAC,...the ties that bind US to spreading an all out war in the M.E.

Since spreading the war is politically dangerous to the neocon/corporacrats in the U.S., I wasn't surprised to hear a BLURB about Israel doing the dirty work of incitement.

[bridgit]

27. a couple three days back it was reported as a 'fly over' OK'd by the US

then reported that arms in transit to Iraq were taken out