Munich Deja Vu
Bryan at Hot Air has a post up discussing this grim article by Arthur Herman in the New York Post. Bryan points out that Syria has been emboldened by the events in Lebanon and is threatening Israel over the Golan Heights.
SYRIA has warned Israel that the occupation of the Golan Heights “cannot last forever” and said Syrians will emulate Hizbollah to recover their land.
“We say to the forces occupying our land that our people warn you that they will not allow our land to be occupied forever,” the government’s daily Ath-Thawra said.
“You must understand that our people will fight the way the Lebanese resistance (Hizbollah) fought you,” it added.
“Our people will fight you … on every inch of the Golan,” it said.
However, the newspaper urged decision-makers in Israel “to open up to new perspectives”, noting that some in the Jewish state were in favour of making peace with Syria.
That last part is just a cynical play to the Israeli left which, like the American left, is mostly full of narcisstic dolts who don’t believe the world is dangerous as long their own country keeps its sword in the sheath. And it’s likely to work to some extent. You can’t overestimate the weakness and gullibility of the left. You just can’t.
The rest is a roadmap to anything but peace. The Syrians and Iranians think they have hit upon a strategy to destroy Israel: Attack it with standoff weapons like Katyushas, goading it into fighting a ground war that frightens the world into halting Israel’s defensive actions. The end game is that Israel can’t defend its borders, it becomes demoralized and then the Arabs and Iranians move in for the kill. In response to the standoff attacks, Israel has the choice of non-response, weak response or brutal response–there’s no way to uproot an entrenched army of any size without using some very nasty tactics and weapons….
Grim indeed.
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The Right Nation — August 16, 2006 @ 2:40 pm
By Roland Hesz, August 17, 2006 @ 2:59 am
No problems there.
Israel wants to attack Syria anyway, so they will galdly accept any excuse there
And by Israel I don’t mean the israeli people.
By Roland Hesz, August 17, 2006 @ 3:00 am
I just wonder how long it will take for them to wipe out each other :S