Syria: Israel considers strike at chemical weapons

Source: The Telegraph

The Pentagon is not advocating military action, particularly while President Bashar al-Assad still clings to power, but US officials told the New York Times that the option had been presented by Israel.

Thomas Donilon, the US national security advisor, was in Israel last weekend to discuss the dramatically developing crisis, which reached a bloody turning point on Wednesday when a rebel bomb killed three of Mr Assad’s closest aides.

An Israeli incursion from the air or by land would be highly sensitive, given that it has officially been in a state of war with Syria for decades.

Israel however has a track record of unilateral action there, having destroyed a facility suspected of being a planned nuclear weapon research and development centre in the eastern Deir ez-Zor region in 2007.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9411483/Syria-Israel-considers-strike-at-chemical-weapons.html

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Syria: Israel considers strike at chemical weapons (Original post)	TomClash	Jul 2012	OP
Why? Let Turkey take it.	aquart	Jul 2012	#1
That would be really, really stupid. nt	bemildred	Jul 2012	#2
Oh, yeah, that would be really helpful.	Comrade Grumpy	Jul 2012	#3
This message was self-deleted by its author	Behind the Aegis	Jul 2012	#4
An airstrike against a chemical weapons depot could kill everyone in a wide area.	leveymg	Jul 2012	#5

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Thu Jul 19, 2012, 03:51 PM

aquart (67,518 posts)

1. Why? Let Turkey take it.

They're the ones who lost a plane.

Israel, sweetie, stay out of it.

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Thu Jul 19, 2012, 03:57 PM

bemildred (67,488 posts)

2. That would be really, really stupid. nt

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Thu Jul 19, 2012, 04:09 PM

Comrade Grumpy (3,347 posts)

3. Oh, yeah, that would be really helpful.

This is already on the verge of turning into a regional shit storm. How many missiles do you think Hezbollah would then send Israel's way? And then what? Civil war in Syria, civil war in Lebanon, Hezbollah v. Israel redux, and that's just for starters.

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Thu Jul 19, 2012, 05:17 PM

leveymg (26,307 posts)

5. An airstrike against a chemical weapons depot could kill everyone in a wide area.

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Perhaps even more deadly than bombing an operating nuclear reactor.

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