Category Archives: Syria

Syria and Iran: 2gether 4ever

Syria and Iran are going to stay bestest buddies like, forever! Syrian President Bashar Assad rejected claims that Syria’s alliance with Iran had been weakened by Damascus’ participation in last month’s US-sponsored Mideast peace conference, saying Thursday that the two … Continue reading

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Hamas to Iran and Syria: Let us kill more Jews

Hamas is asking its Iranian masters for permission to kill more Jews. Hamas has asked Iran to allow the organization to escalate its altercations with Israel, carry out more suicide attacks and if need be – threaten kidnapped IDF soldier … Continue reading

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Israel is fighting the next war

I’ve been saying for some time now that the IDF has learned many lessons from the Lebanon war of 2006, and that Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran have not. Here’s what amounts to a throwaway graf at the end of … Continue reading

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Syria’s quid pro quo for Annapolis

Here’s what the Dorktator took away as a lesson for his sending a representative to Annapolis: A car bomb attack killed one of Lebanon’s top generals and at least two other people Wednesday, the military and state media said, putting … Continue reading

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Syrians preventing Internet cooties

The Syrians are making sure their kids don’t get Jew cooties. They’re blocking Facebook. Syrian authorities have blocked Facebook, the popular Internet hangout, over what seems to be fears of Israeli “infiltration” of Syrian social networks on the Net, according … Continue reading

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Syria puts on the big boy pants

A Syrian legislator has decided to give us all something to giggle about. Syrian MP Dr. Muhammad Habash warned Israel not to attack his country in an interview with the Israeli-Arab news paper Ma’a al-Hadat published on Thursday saying Israel’s … Continue reading

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An Annapolis quid pro quo?

For the last few months, we’ve been reading article after article about what is coming to be known as the Annapolis folly: The conference where nothing will be accomplished, where the U.S. knows that going in, and where the futility … Continue reading

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All your radar are belong to us

Part of the Israeli attack on Syria included first taking out—via old-fashioned bombing—a critical radar station. And the U.S. helped. The first event in the raid involved Israel’s strike aircraft flying into Syria without alerting Syrian air defenses. The ultimate … Continue reading

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Waiting for …?

The media is on a campaign to whitewash the Iranian nuclear program. Jonathan Landay of the McClatchy newspapers reports Experts: No evidence of Iranian nuclear weapons program. The headline says one thing, but the article says something else. There are … Continue reading

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‘Al Jazeera’: US Air Force carried out raid on Syrian nuke site

Just heard it on the radio, and here it is, already on Jpost: The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday. The Web site quoted Israeli and Arab … Continue reading

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And we shall… investigate

Meryl just mentioned “The lack of world condemnation of the Israeli raid on an nascent Syrian nuclear plant…“, and here it comes: Mohamed ElBaradei accuses Jewish state of ‘taking the law into its own hands’, says ‘if countries have information … Continue reading

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Wiped clean

via memeorandum The New York Times reports that – commercially available – satellite photographs confirm what the Washington Post reported a few days ago: Syria has cleaned up the target of Israel’s September raid. “It’s a magic act — here … Continue reading

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Spoiling for a fight

According to the NY Times the United States is prepared to declare the Quds unit of Iran’s Revolutionary guards a terrorist organization. The administration also plans to accuse the entire Revolutionary Guard Corps of proliferating weapons of mass destruction, the … Continue reading

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Walking back the cat X 2

According to William Safire “walking back the cat” is a technique used to determine dissent in an otherwise closed government. Intelligence analysts have a technique to reveal a foreign government’s internal dissension called ”walking back the cat.” They apply what … Continue reading

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Wow the IAEA is really on the ball

Earlier when I wrote about the discovery that Syria was cleaning up the site I was put off by the nay sayers who argued “This isn’t like a Road Runner cartoon where you call up Acme Reactors and they deliver … Continue reading

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