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Syria Prepared to Go to War with Israel
The Baath official, who spoke on condition his name be withheld, said Damascus is preparing for anticipated Israeli retaliation following Syrian guerrilla attacks and for a larger war with the Jewish state in August or September. He said in the opening salvo of any conflict, Syria has the capabilities of firing "hundreds" of missiles at Tel Aviv.
http://cid-yama.livejournal.com/19335.html
Also, Israel diverts water from Golan away from Syria; could it be 'all about the water'?
Arkansawyer here.
The WND is not reliable. Kinda like Debka.
Second. I've never heard this-
In 1964, Syria diverted the Hasbani and Banyas rivers, depriving Israel of major fresh water resources. Israel retaliated by launching airstrikes at Syrian constructions.
But I have heard this-
Jordan 'nearly running dry'
The Dead Sea
Last Updated: Friday, 11 March 2005, 16:17 GMT
The Dead Sea is also under threat of drying up.
The river Jordan is in danger of disappearing altogether under pressure from huge water diversion programs, an environmental group has warned.
More than 90% of the water is being diverted by Israel, Jordan and Syria, Friends of the Earth Middle East say.
Water is more important than oil.
Above post has multiple links to several sources.
If Syria attacks Israel, how many days do you think it will take Israel to push within artillery range of Damascus? I think the over/under should be about 3.
Arkansawyer
BBC-
"1967: Israel launches attack on Egypt
Israeli forces have launched a pre-emptive attack on Egypt and destroyed nearly 400 Egypt-based military aircraft."
The Arab world waits for the US to withdraw from Iraq.
The status quo favors the Arab World.
The status quo does not favor Israel.
Is Jordan flowing toward oblivion?
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Dec 3, 2006
DEGANYA, Israel -- At a baptismal site on the Jordan River just south of the Sea of Galilee, pilgrims kneel in the water as a priest intones a blessing, a high point of their visit to the Holy Land.
A few hundred yards downstream beyond an earthen dam, a pipe spews raw sewage into the riverbed, next to a canal dumping saline water collected from springs. With the fresh river water blocked by the dam, all that flows on is a polluted, salty stream meandering 60 miles south to the Dead Sea.
I'd say 2 hours. Damascus is only 50miles from the Golan Heights.
Arkansawyer
Yes, I agree. But no names used/anonymous means rumor.
And Syria has nothing to gain from attacking, while
Israel has a history of attacking.
This time last year Israel was trying to capture the Litani.
Didn't work out, but Israel still must have it.
Especially after Syria and Jordan have diverted the Yarmuk.
"We are calling for fresh water from the Kinneret to be restored to the Jordan River," says Bromberg." Litvinoff adds that even a partial restoration of water flow would help rehabilitate the river, slow the decline in the Dead Sea water level and allow for tourism development to replace agriculture.
FOEME has received a discouraging message on this score from the Water Commission. "Rehabilitating the Jordan is particularly problematic because it is a river shared with neighboring countries," Water Commissioner Shimon Tal wrote to Bromberg several weeks ago. "Channeling clear water to the river can only be done through full cooperation among the countries. In view of the water shortage in the region, especially in the neighboring countries, it is hard to believe there would be consent to this."
This story from April:
http://nycjewishnews.com/syria-threatens-war-olmert-dismissive
Arkansawyer
From your article-
Israel has annexed the Golan Heights, the high ground overlooking northern Israel, after liberating it from Syria in 1967 during the Six Day War. More than 40,000 Israeli Jews now live in the Golan.
After liberating it?
Israel's Lifeline the Northern Water Sources
Three principal water sources barely suffice to supply the water requirements of the State of Israel:
The Banias and the Dan- presently flow through sovereign Israeli territory. Syria formerly controlled the sources of the Banias, while the sources of the Dan were right on the border. These waters were the cause of continuous Syrian aggression.
This danger became a real threat in the early Sixties, when the Syrians made an effort to divert the three river beds to a new water carrier, to divert the Banias to the Golan Heights and from there to the Yarmuk basin.
Syria, with plenty of water, would have gained no civilian advantage from this plan, except for the political objective of destroying Israel without having to go to war or employing military means.
Israel frustrated this plan from the outset by a combination of diplomatic efforts and military pressure, at the cost of many casualties and severe damage to front line settlements.
The struggle for the water continued for years and constituted one of the principal causes of the Six Day War....
C. The importance of the Kinneret basin, fed mainly by the Jordan sources, increases with each passing year, and under no circumstances must this source be endangered.
"Beirut's Daily Star newspaper reports that Damascus has ordered its citizens in Lebanon to return home by July 15, citing concerns over the "security situation in Lebanon." And a report in the government controlled Syrian daily al-Thawra said Syrian students studying in the public Lebanese University and the Beirut Arab University were authorized to enroll in public Syrian universities for the upcoming academic year 2007-2008.
MEMRI -- the Middle East Media Research Institute -- reports that on July 5, the Lebanese daily al-Liwa cited rumors that Syrian workers were leaving Lebanon at the request of the Syrian authorities. Arab and Iranian media reports have backed up the probability that Lebanon's current political impasse may turn violent after July 15. Indeed, a number of sensitive events affecting Lebanon and/or Syria coincide with the fatidic July 15 date."
http://www.nowpublic.com/analysis_rumors_syria_israel_war_claude_salhani
Report: Removal of Golan checkpoints possible sign Syria's preparing for war
"Israel is "concerned" that Syria's removal of military checkpoints on their side of the Golan Heights could be a sign that Damascus is preparing for war, the London based Al-Hayat reported Saturday.
The article reported that the checkpoints, which are on the road to Kuneitra, have been there since the Six Day War."
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Security/11645.htm
The US was very disappointed with the outcome of the last Israeli attack on Southern Lebanon, as were the Israelis. Hezbollah did not fold and run away but stood their ground and fought to a draw against the large and sophisticated military of Israel. As a result Israels military lost some street cred in the ME and now feel that they have to regain it by dealing a severe blow to Hezbollah and/or Syria. Robert Fisk has the right idea...he has taken up permanent residence in Beriut...what better place for a war correspondent that doesnt want to commute? We will be treated to yet another summer war...and none to soon to save us from the travails of Paris and the lunatic ramblings of shrub.
And the MSM obsession as to whether Britney has neutered her new dog.
:-(
Alan
Here is the War Nerd's take on the recent Lebanon fiasco.
http://www.exile.ru/2006-August-11/a_hezbollah_upon_all_of_thee.html
His observations as to Israeli youth could easily be applied to us as well. Instead of some hardened Audie Murphy types who had to scrape together a dinner by hunting rabbits in Oklahoma during the depression, we have a bunch of softies who’s idea of neglect is not getting the latest Xbox or cell phone.
Arkansawyer
And I don't trust MEMRI either-
Monday, May 14, 2007
The Lies of MEMRI, yet again. I normally would not link to MEMRI, but this time I will. An alert reader sent me a message when I was in Houston, alerting me to the blatant lies of MEMRI in this clip. I did not have a chance to view it and verify his translation until I returned tonight. He wishes to remain anonymous, but this is his text (thanks anonymous): "
MEMRI Clip No. 1442
A Mickey Mouse Character on Hamas TV Teaches Children about Islamic Rule of the World
4/13/2007
...سنابل: بدنا انقاوم.
Sanabel: Bedna enqawem.
Sanabel: We are going to resist.
MEMRI: We want to fight.
فرفور: و بعدين؟ هادي حفظناها و بعدين؟
Farfour: Wo ba’dain? Hadi hfeznaha, wo ba’dain?
Farfour: Then what? We already know this one, then what?
MEMRI: We got that. What else?
سراء: إحنا بدنا..
Sarraa’: Ehna bedna …
Sarraa’: We are going to …
MEMRI: We want to...
سنابل: بطخّونا اليهود.
Sanabel: Betokhoona el yahood.
Sanabel: The Jews will shoot us.
MEMRI: We will annihilate the Jews.
سراء
That's one source quoted in one article. Seems you are working awful hard to put across, "Nothing going on here, move along, nothing to see."
I try not to work very hard.
Entropy and all. 8D
Syria has nothing to gain from Attacking Israel.
Hezbollah has shown the way.
Just sit and wait.
Israel needs water, electricity, gas, and oil.
And the US is withdrawing from Iraq.
Beijing backs Syrian Golan claim
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1184063449364&pagename=JPost%...
Looks like Syria is being activated in the "The Great Game" as the powers struggle for empire.
Triumvirate of collapse - Economy, Ecosystem, Energy
Everyone is getting into the game. Iran announces it has 600 missiles targeted on Israel.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/07/15/iran_claims_600_missile...
This story was going around last week
http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/getstory?openform&549222D...
I would point out that from a military standpoint, those missiles are actually aimed at all targets. What i mean to say is that the coordinates of all targets within range of an installation are known. At firing time, it is simply a matter of entering the command key and issuing the fire command.
i'ts the same with ICBM's with mirv warheads. I guarantee that that every city on earth with more than 100,000 inhabitants or any industry presence is targeted somewhere in some strategy book. Most of course are targeted hundreds of times over.
If I have a missile in range of NY, Boston, and Toronto, who do I hit? It really depends who you wanna kill, you can't kill them all with one missile, but you can scare the crap out of all three until the bird is in the air.
That's not how targeting is done.
Ghawar Is Dying as we slide Into the Grey Zone
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.