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2007-10-05 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Oztralian 2007-10-05 20:10|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 srael...

Hahaha..

My bad.

Posted by Oztralian 2007-10-05 20:14|| 2007-10-05 20:14|| Front Page Top

#2 I think Syria is scared shitless over the deep attack with no warning. Syria will need to respond or look even weaker and more humiliated in the arab world, but I don't think it will be anything major. Pin prick with major PR hype.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-10-05 20:22|| 2007-10-05 20:22|| Front Page Top

#3 And as many civilian casualties as they can splash in blood across the media.

Posted by lotp 2007-10-05 20:52|| 2007-10-05 20:52|| Front Page Top

#4 And as many civilian casualties as they can splash in blood across the media.

Do you really think that any Syrian strategy involves the actual engagement of legitimate Israeli military targets?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-05 20:57|| 2007-10-05 20:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Moud has failed to live up to the expectations of the Syrian-Iran alliance - unless Iran does something very soon in overt = publicly acknowledged retaliation agz Israel for 9/6, Syria has to keep one eye on Israel, and the other on Iran. IMO ITS NOT ENUFF FOR SYRIA FOR A TERROR GROUP TO STRIKE ISRAEL ON IRAN's ORDERS BUT IRAN DENIES ANY ROLE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-05 21:16|| 2007-10-05 21:16|| Front Page Top

#6 While Israel has its official strategy about attacking Syria, they could probably deter a lot of crap if they were to be let it known, unofficially, that if Syria attacks them, even with proxies, that Israel will retaliate strongly against the Alawite Shiite minority that rules Syria.

Since the Alawites are less that 10% of the population, if they get much weaker, they majority Sunnis could overthrow them. And they know it. So they would lean on their son, Assad, to cool his jets.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-05 21:56|| 2007-10-05 21:56|| Front Page Top

#7 YNETNEWS > NASRALLAH > Besides blaming Israel for recent Leb assassinations/killings, says he WISHES ARAB ARMIES WOULD MOVE/INVADE? INTO PALESTINE to stop Israel-Zionists. ALso claims ZIONISTS WERE [historically]ASSISTED BY BRITAIN TO REPRESS/PERSECUTE THE PALESTINIANS.

Also from YNETNEWS > calls for HIZBULLAH to be merged into Lebanese Army???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-05 22:21|| 2007-10-05 22:21|| Front Page Top

#8 While Syria is indeed traditionally majority Sunnis, Iran has been engaged in a "conversion" campaign with the blessing of the Assad government. Iran is paying Syrian families to "convert" to Shiism. I have no data on the number of families converted so far.

This story is a year old.

Posted by crosspatch">crosspatch 2007-10-05 22:25|| 2007-10-05 22:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Israeli Poster > believes COMMUNISM IS AT WAR WITH THE WEST AND USING MUSLIM TERRORISTS AS PROXIES TO DESTABILIZE, ATTACK, AND WEAKEN WESTERN INTERESTS WHILE ALSO FATTENING THEIR [COMMIE] WALLETS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-05 22:38|| 2007-10-05 22:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Instability in the middle east tends to raise the price of oil. This would benefit any country that is a net exporter of oil. Anything that disrupts supply from the middle east would increase both the price and the demand for oil from regions outside the middle east.

Russia and Venezuela would be major benefactors to any problems in the middle east. So when looking at issues in that region, you might ask yourself ... "who benefits?".

Posted by crosspatch">crosspatch 2007-10-05 22:44|| 2007-10-05 22:44|| Front Page Top

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