POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
This confirms what many believed: that it was the rebels,
not the government, using chemical weapons.
Now, where does one obtain this nerve gas, sarin, a deadly
and sophisticated one which comes in two compounds only assembled at the time
of use?
There are only a limited number of countries who make and
store it, including both the United States and Israel.
We know about Israel's chemical arms because there was a
crash of an El Al cargo plane in 1992 in the Amsterdam area, killing dozens of
people and releasing toxic substances Israel refused to accurately identify.
It was later determined that at least part of the cargo was
one of the components of sarin, a cargo which was not declared and which is
illegal to ship in most countries.
One has the well-founded suspicion that Israel supplied some
of the sarin material recently to that rabble called the Free Syrian Army.
Its purpose in doing so would be typical of Israel's nasty
security forces practices - of which we have a long history including the 1967
War and Israel's attempt to sink an American intelligence ship - and that is to
create a casus belli with the claim that Assad had crossed one of Israel's many
arbitrary "red lines."
Only in recent days we read a lot of nonsense about the
government of Syria having used poison gas, including from America's pathetic
Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, who managed to reverse himself in less than
a day after asserting - rightly - that American intelligence did not believe
Assad had used chemicals.
His reversal undoubtedly reflected the immense pressure of
the Israel Lobby, incensed that he had effectively contradicted Mr Netanyahu's
earlier public claim about Syria's use.
We see the outlines here of a very shabby story: the
desperate efforts of Israel and the United States to support the phony
rebellion they created in Syria because it is beginning to look like that
rebellion will fail.
What Israel wants in these matters is for Syria to be
removed as a power in the region, left as a weak and divided state whose
elements will fight with each other for years to come.
Never mind those elements include the same kind of scum that
neither Israel nor the United States would even allow to cross their borders.
Who cares about the poor Syrians, just so long as once more Israel gets what it
wants.
The whole series of events in Syria will prove a textbook
example of arrogance, brutality, and cynicism in foreign affairs.
But then that description pretty well sums up the entire
brief history of modern Israel.
