COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
“Israel threatens to
destroy Syria's air defence systems 'without the slightest hesitation'”
Arrogance beyond belief.
Israel effectively claims the right to send fighter jets
into Syria anytime it chooses.
And if Syria dares do what any country in the world would do
- use its air defenses - Israel claims the right to destroy them.
Of course, the entire horror of Syria is a deliberately
created event, staged to look like a genuine revolt, created by the US, Israel,
Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Turkey with lots of help from Britain and France.
Israel hates Assad and wants his legitimate and widely-supported
government gone, and it would like a Syria left as a set of ruined rump states,
much as Iraq after America's Israel-inspired invasion there.
Israel is a country out of control. A kind of well-armed
Mafia State threatening everyone within a thousand miles and making endless
arbitrary demands of everyone.
We know, for instance, from the words of former Secretary of
State Colin Powell that Israel's nuclear arsenal is aimed at Iran, a country
without nuclear weapons and a country which has attacked no one in its entire
modern history.
And still Israel thinks Iran should be attacked and says so
frequently.
Is it any wonder Iran would be concerned? That it would
support the fight against subsidized terrorists in Syria and in Yemen?
Almost every horror and difficulty in the Middle East can be
traced either directly to Israel's acts or indirectly to its influence upon the
United States and some of its allies.
The entire series of Neocon Wars, killing perhaps two
million people, has been aimed at creating a cordon sanitaire around this state
which absolutely refuses to live in peace or respect its neighbors' rights.
It is almost hard to imagine how countries which helped
create and nourish the rule of law as an important building block of civilization
- Britain and the US - support a country which we see freely stealing from its
neighbors regularly and attacking anyone it feels like attacking.
