Hat tip to Bon Bon for this!
Israeli warplanes buzzed the summer residence of Syrian President Bashar Assad early Wednesday, military officials said, in a message aimed at pressuring the Syrian leader to win the release of a captured Israeli soldier.
The officials said on condition of anonymity that the fighter jets flew over Assad’s palace in a low-altitude overnight raid near the Mediterranean port city of Latakia in northwestern Syria. Israeli television reports said four planes were involved, and Assad was home at the time.
The flight caused “noise” on the ground, the military officials said on condition of anonymity, according to military guidelines.
The officials said Assad was targeted because of the “direct link” between Syria and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group holding Cpl. Gilad Shalit, 19, in the Gaza Strip. Syria hosts Khaled Meshaal, Hamas’ exiled supreme leader.
There was no immediate reaction from Syria.
The flyover was the second time Israel has buzzed Assad’s summer palace. In August 2003, warplanes reportedly flew so low that windows in the palace shattered. At the time, Israel said the flyover was aimed at pressuring Assad to dismantle Palestinian militant groups based in his country.
In October 2003, an Israeli warplanes bombed an Islamic Jihad training base deep in Syria. It was the first attack on Syrian soil in more than two decades.
The airstrike followed a suicide bombing by Islamic Jihad that killed 19 Israelis in a restaurant.
Quite a message to send!
I didn’t realize Israel had done this before. I do hope that it produces some results. I’m tired of the anti Israel message the world seems to have. Israel has every right to be where it is and to expect nothing less than support for it’s existence.
“Isreal has every right to be where it is”
Maybe, but does that also give them the right to oppress and occupy the Palestinians and their land?
There are two sides to this coin, you know.
San Fran…..if you go back to the day when Clinton hosted Terrorfat….ummm…sorry I just can’t help calling him that. Arafat. Right here in Maryland’s historic eastern shore. He got just about everything he asked for from Israel and turned it down.
The Palestinians danced in the street on 9/11. I once felt sorry for them. No more. I have nothing but contempt for their shallow, self serving, child killing ways.
“I have nothing but contempt for their shallow, self serving, child killing ways.”
Wow. To be able to take a whole group of people and label them one way or another because of the actions of a few from the distant past or the recent past, is, well…the same thing the radicals do to us.
Aren’t we better than that? Are YOU better than that?
Yes, we are better than that San Fran. We can distinguish evil from good. If that means fighting evil then so be it.
The Palestinians dress their BABIES in fighting fatigues, send their young, elementary school age boys to camps to learn how to fight infidels (i.e., jews and christians)and in some cases to become suicide bombers.
No other middle eastern country welcomes them into their fold. Have you ever asked why that is? It’s because they are used as scape goats to continue the fight against Israel that most middle eastern countries engage in.
The U.S. has given BILLIONS of dollars in aid and we saw what their thanks was on 9/11.
I, for one, have had enough. If anyone should be banished from a country it should be the Palestinians, not the Israeli’s.
“We can distinguish evil from good.”
Can we? Are we infallible? Are we incapable of error in judgement?
Your uncontrollable nationalism is showing.
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Yes we can distinguish evil from good. America as well as the rest of the civilized world recognizes that everyone has a right to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, gender equality and pursuit of happiness. By civlized world I exclude muslim extremists. Their only wish is to kill infidels or anyone who disagrees with that with absolutely NO RESPECT or room for any differences.
I believe that it doesn’t matter what religious belief you have, or not, “civilized” means accepting and respecting others view.
So in answer to your question, can we distinguish evil from good. Yes, in the most basic sense.