Israel Pulling A Bush On Syria

Israel Pulling A Bush On Syria

July 13, 2012

Israel Invents Syrian WMD Threat, IDF Commanders Threaten Intervention

by Richard Silverstein
richardsilverstein.com

in Mideast Peace
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Syria appears to be entering an even more chaotic and dangerous period in its civil war now that Israeli officials are concocting potential threats that must be addressed by Israeli intervention. The latest series of stories derives from U.S. and Israeli intelligence circles and suggests that Syria has a “vast stockpile” (Wall Street Journal) or “hundreds of tons” (Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News) of chemical weapons that could fall into the hands of Al Qaeda, Iran’s ayatollahs or God knows who, should Bashar al-Assad’s regime fall. Naturally, Israel would have to protect its interests and intervene to prevent this from happening:

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