Tag: Assad

A joint US-Israel missile launch is not such a big deal - unless it comes when Obama plans an attack on Syria. If the test was designed to scare the dickens out of everyone, it was a huge success.

The Arab League, split on whether to back U.S. intervention in Syria, has categorically denied reports that its member states will give the United...

Approximately a dozen Israeli Air Force jetfighters carried out reconnaissance flights over Lebanon since Friday, reflecting the high alert over possible attacks on Israel...

Syria presents a fascinatingly real, morbid ethical question, similar to the questions of Darfur and Rowanda.

Russia sends an anti-sub ship and missile cruiser to the Mediterranean, Britain sends jets, and Iran threatens Doom. If anyone needs to worry about a US attack on Assad, it is Israel, but Netanyahu stays calm.

Suicide may be the easiest way out for Syrian pilots who have not already defected. And if they see they are going to die anyway, why not take along as many Americans and Israelis as possible?

The IDF was scheduled to shut down civilian air space in the north as the United States prepares to attack Syria. Defense Minister Moshe...

Should we be a little disturbed when the Obama Administration is recruiting a veteran GW Bush hand to support its war plans?

I’m skeptical that we have any intention of taking action against Syria – even punitive action, with no view to an outcome or end-state.

According to Jewish Law, an insane person can't sign an important contract.

But Russia and Iran have rejected the claims that Assad had deployed chemical weapons, saying the rebels are responsible.

According to rebel sources in Syria, the number of dead as a result of the chemical gas attack on a suburb of Damascus has topped 1,300, including women and children.

The alleged attack took place while a UN mission with some 20 inspectors is in Damascus to investigate earlier reports of chemical weapons use.

Israel in the Golan and Eastern Kinneret area forced to go to bomb shelters and Syrians battle right along the border.

Nazi hunters, including Israel, have been looking for Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner for years. The CIA may have employed him. At the age of 100, he still may alive and hiding in Syria.

The Egyptian army military announced on Tuesday it will establish an interim regime if Mohammed Morsi cannot come to an agreement with opposition forces...

Syrian rebels for the first time have accused Hezbollah of using chemical weapons in battles with the Syrian opposition forces. According to the Rebel...

Syria returns the favor, in light of the escalating violence in Turkey.

When the going gets tough, Arab leaders routinely huff and puff at Israel. On cue, Assad threatens to open military front against Israel.

If billions of dollars have not bought PA support for a two-state solution in 20 years why should anything change now?

In an interview on Tuesday, Salim Idris, the head of the Syrian rebel army, called on Lebanon's president Michel Suleiman, the Arab League, and...

With a 'friend' like Erdogan, Obama’s policy toward Syria, Iran, the advance of revolutionary Islamism, and the Israel-Palestinian “peace process,” is in serious trouble.

It seems Russia has decided that the "strong horse" in the Middle East is Iran and the Shiites.

If Assad is winning, Western governments should respond by helping the rebels to prevent Assad from crushing them.

Whatever happens, there will be a Muslim Brotherhood regime in Syria and Obama will support it.

So far, everyone agrees that the ongoing civil war has been a bonanza for Israeli security concerns.

From Israel's point of view this is the ultimate test case.

Forgetting how to hate can be just as damaging as forgetting how to love.

Though my suggestion to now back Assad to prevent Jihadi takeover and allow both sides to fight themselves to exhaustion was rejected, it seems now the administration is taking note of my counsel.

On the happy day when Assad & Tehran fight the rebels & Ankara to mutual exhaustion, Western support then can go to non-Baathist and non-Islamist elements in Syria.