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Israeli tanks hit inside Syria
[CS Monitor] Israeli tanks on the Golan Heights fired on and hit a Syria artillery battery on Monday in response to cross-border mortar fire, marking the first time after 18 months of watching the Syrian conflict from the sidelines that the Jewish state has allowed itself to participate.

The Israeli fire, the first hit inside Syrian territory since the 1973 Israel-Arab war, follow weeks in which the Israeli army held its fire as the civil war increasingly spilled across the border with mortar and bullet fire. Syrian tanks also have been entering a United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
patrolled buffer zone.

But because the Golan spillover is still viewed as the result of errant fire rather than intentional, the conflict hasn't yet reached a tipping point that will force Jerusalem to become embroiled like Turkey and Jordan, say analysts.

Instead, Israel is likely to stick with its policy of just rooting for the downfall of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
-- seen here as the link between Iran and the Lebanese myrmidon group Hezbollah -- while refraining from throwing its lot in with any of the opposition groups, many of whom are seen as Islamist bully boyz that could destabilize their border.

Posted by: Fred 2012-11-13
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