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  • #76
    Re: Israel VS Syria Part II

    Originally posted by Tennken
    My guess is that they would prefer not to engage Syria at the moment, but if they have to they should be able to handle it. I would think there air force would be able to a great share of the work, I don't think I would want to be near Damascus if it starts.
    Agreed - historically and militarily Israel is much better equipped and trained to destroy arab armies as opposed to the likes of Hezbollah that blend in with civilian massses...

    Keep in mind that Israel has already taken out the roads and key bridges that link Syria with Lebanon - any movement in force by the Syrian military that crossed over from their own soil into Lebanon would unleash a massive IAF attack that would make very short work of any equipment and/or mass troop movements.

    IMO if Syria is pushed into doing anything in this instance it would more likely be in the form of massive scud missile launches in coordination with Iran to try and overwhelm Israel's anti-missile defenses.

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    • #77
      Re: Israel VS Syria Part II

      I also have thought they might use some of the long lost Iraqi WMD. I
      have no doubt that Iraq did have some WMD, maybe not as many as
      we believed and I think it very likely they were moved to Syria.

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      • #78
        Re: Israel VS Syria Part II

        This was their objective - make it difficult to resupply and to escape at the same time...

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        Israel severs Lebanon road link to Syria

        http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/mideast_conflict

        BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel expanded its assault on Lebanon Friday, launching its first major attack on the Christian heartland north of Beirut and severing the last significant road link to Syria. Hezbollah renewed attacks on northern Israel, killing two civilians in a barrage of 120 rockets. An Israeli airstrike hit dozens of farm workers loading vegetables near the Lebanon-Syria border, killing 23, the workers' foreman and a Lebanese official said.

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        • #79
          Re: Israel VS Syria Part II

          http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/747006.html
          Last update - 00:23 07/08/2006

          Assad to Annan: UN Lebanon resolution recipe for instability

          By News Agencies

          Syrian President Bashar Assad has warned of worsening instability if a draft UN Security Council resolution on Lebanon is passed without the approval of all political forces in that country.

          The government news agency said Assad told UN Secretary General Kofi Annan by telephone on Sunday that "any decision taken without a Lebanese consensus will complicate matters and deepen instability."

          Annan phoned Assad to discuss the U.S.-French draft resolution, which Syria, a key backer of Hezbollah guerrillas, regards as one-sided and which the speaker of the Lebanese parliament has said is unacceptable.

          "There are a number of powers that are trying to secure political gains for Israel that could not be achieved by waging war," Assad said.


          http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...cle%2FShowFull

          Aug. 6, 2006 16:06 | Updated Aug. 6, 2006 16:46
          Syria 'ready for possible regional war'


          Last update - 00:23 07/08/2006

          Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem crossed into Lebanon Sunday for the first visit by a top Syrian official in more than a year, Lebanon's state news agency said.

          Speaking to reporters after the meeting with his Lebanese counterpart, Fawzi Salloukh, Moallem said "Syria is ready for the possibility of a regional war if the Israeli aggression continues."

          He added that a US-French draft resolution to end the war "adopted Israel's point of view only." Underlining his support for Hizbullah, Moallem said, "as Syria's foreign minister I hope to be a soldier in the resistance." (Ding, ding, ding...says more that both articles put together!)

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          • #80
            Re: Israel VS Syria Part II

            Originally posted by Biblenuggetlady
            Syria 'ready for possible regional war'
            He added that a US-French draft resolution to end the war "adopted Israel's point of view only." Underlining his support for Hizbullah, Moallem said, "as Syria's foreign minister I hope to be a soldier in the resistance." (Ding, ding, ding...says more that both articles put together!)

            He should be very carefull what he wishes for, he might just get it.

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            • #81
              Re: Israel VS Syria Part II

              http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayA...ion=middleeast

              Syria accuses Israel of bombing Qaa “intentionally”(AFP)

              6 August 2006

              DAMASCUS - Syria late Saturday accused Israel of having “intentionally” bombed the Lebanese village of Qaa near the Syrian border where 28 people, mostly Syrians, were killed, the official Sana news agency reported.


              In a letter sent to the UN secretary general and the chairman of the Security Council, the Syrian foreign ministry denounced “the massacre committed by Israel yesterday in Qaa.”

              “Israel has carried out a series of bloody massacres” in its invasion of Lebanon, “where its aircraft have intentionally killed 33 Syrian and Lebanese civilians and wounded 12 others,” the letter charged.

              The bombardment of Qaa claimed 28 lives, almost all of them Syrian farm workers in Lebanon, Lebanese rescue services said.

              The men had been shifting boxes of fruit and vegetables at a warehouse in the Christian village of Qaa, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the eastern city of Baalbek when the Israelis struck on Friday..

              The toll now equals what was the deadliest raid by the Jewish state which also killed 28 people, including 16 children, in the southern Lebanese village of Qana on July 30.

              Syria demanded Israeli compensation for the families of the dead Syrians, and backed Lebanon in its call for compensation for ”Israel’s massacres at Qana and Qaa and the destruction of infrastructure in Lebanon.”

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              • #82
                Re: Israel VS Syria Part II

                05:25 Sirens ring out in towns in the Golan Heights in the north (Israel Radio)
                http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/ShTickers.html
                wonder what Syria is up to?

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                • #83
                  Re: Israel VS Syria Part II

                  Syria checks bomb shelters

                  The winds of war blowing through the region are also being felt in Syria, as the country begins checks of its public bomb shelters for the first time since 1973.
                  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...288995,00.html

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                  • #84
                    Re: Israel VS Syria Part II

                    I posted a thread, Zech. 12. I encourage everyone to read it. Chuck Smith made it in 2000 but it goes into previous battles with Israel and Syria and how God did miracles and also that Syria started broadcasting that Damascus was under attack by Israel, and they weren't...trying to get Int'l pressure on a cease-fire...but it backfired and their own men abandoned their tanks and ran for Jordan.

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                    • #85
                      Re: Israel VS Syria Part II

                      Fox news reported earlier today that Syria was removing land mines
                      from there border with Lebanon, they talked as though there was
                      some concern that this may be a preperation for Syrian troops to
                      enter into Lebanon. I still can't see Syria making such a suicidial
                      move, but in todays crazy times anything is possible.

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                      • #86
                        Re: Israel VS Syria Part II

                        Originally posted by Tennken
                        Fox news reported earlier today that Syria was removing land mines
                        from there border with Lebanon, they talked as though there was
                        some concern that this may be a preperation for Syrian troops to
                        enter into Lebanon. I still can't see Syria making such a suicidial
                        move, but in todays crazy times anything is possible.
                        Thanks - missed that bit of news.

                        Agreed the IAF would make short work of any Syrian troop concentrations and/or tanks

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                        • #87
                          Re: Israel VS Syria Part II

                          I heard that resport yesterday too, then they wondered if it was not "showmanship" to intimidate Israel. Wish they'd start broadcasting on their radios that Israel was in the city of Damascus fighting Syrian's and pleaing for international help again...last time their men abandoned their posts and tanks and ran for Jordan!

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                          • #88
                            Re: Israel VS Syria Part II

                            Originally posted by Biblenuggetlady
                            I heard that resport yesterday too, then they wondered if it was not "showmanship" to intimidate Israel. Wish they'd start broadcasting on their radios that Israel was in the city of Damascus fighting Syrian's and pleaing for international help again...last time their men abandoned their posts and tanks and ran for Jordan!
                            Hopefully there will still be at least one man who is willing to jump from tank to tank and take out whole army, if that is the case.
                            Last edited by Julian4JC; 08-11-2006, 04:10 PM.

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                            • #89
                              Re: Israel VS Syria Part II

                              http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayA...iddleeast&col=

                              Syria supports Lebanese approval of UN text
                              (AFP)

                              13 August 2006



                              DAMASCUS - Syria backed Lebanon’s approval of a UN resolution aimed at ending hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah but also expressed reservations on the text, official media said Sunday.


                              ‘Syria supports Lebanon’s unanimous decision as well as official Lebanese reservations about UN Security Council Resolution 1701,’ an anonymous Syrian official was quoted by the official SANA news agency as saying.

                              Syria deeply regrets that the Security Council did not take into consideration a number of Lebanese demands and did not hold Israel responsible for its barbaric aggression against innocent civilians and for the destruction of infrastructure which constitute war crimes,’ the official added.

                              The Lebanese government—which includes two Hezbollah ministers—on Saturday approved Resolution 1701 that was passed on Friday but voiced reservations on the document.

                              The reservations related to the absence of any condemnation of Israeli destruction in Lebanon and lack of clarity on the issues of Lebanese prisoners held by Israel as well as the Israeli-occupied Shebaa farms, an official Lebanese source said.

                              Syria and Iran are seen as Hezbollah’s main backers, although both countries deny they supply the Shiite movement with arms.

                              Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal on Sunday praised the ‘heroic actions by the resistance’ in Lebanon which he said had ‘humiliated the supposedly invincible (Israeli) war machine.’

                              He said that Israel had orchestrated the war against Lebanon so as to bring about the disarmament of Hezbollah which a previous UN Security Council resolution had failed to do.

                              This barbaric aggressive has been planned with the aim of meeting an objective that Israel could not achieve with Resolution 1559,’ he was quoted by the SANA news agency as saying.

                              Resolution 1559, which was adopted in September 2004, called for the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias operating in the country and the withdrawal of foreign forces there.

                              Hezbollah did not defer to the text although Syria withdrew its forces from Lebanon in April 2005.

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                              • #90
                                Re: Israel VS Syria Part II

                                http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayA...iddleeast&col=


                                Syria calls for probe of Israel’s attacks on civilians
                                (AFP)

                                13 August 2006



                                DAMASCUS - Syrian media on Sunday called for an international enquiry into Israel’s month-long destruction of civilians targets in Lebanon, two days after a UN resolution called for an end to the conflict.

                                ‘The destruction that has hit infrastructure, civilian homes and entire villages in Lebanon must be the subject of an international enquiry which will make Israel assume responsibility for its barbaric acts,’ the official Ath-Thawra daily said in an editorial.

                                Those responsible for the destruction will be considered war criminals,’ it wrote, with over 1,100 people, mostly civilians, killed in the bombardment of Lebanon that Israel says is aimed at eliminating the Syrian- and Iranian-backed Hezbollah.

                                But ‘the language used today shows partiality towards aggression, especially as Israel is not denounced for its massacres,’ the paper said.

                                UN chief Kofi Annan said Sunday both sides agreed to stop fighting on Monday but Israel continued to pound targets including petrol stations in the port city of Tyre and Hezbollah continued to fire rockets at Israel (I guess they forgot to mention the record 250 rockets fired at Israel?)

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