Report: Israel planning to attack Hezbollah arms depots in Syria

[steph1962]

Report: Israel planning to attack Hezbollah arms depots in Syria

August 28, 2010

The Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reports that Israel is preparing to strike Hezbollah targets within Syria, including long-range rocket depots; Syrian military is reportedly on high alert.

Israel is planning to attack Hezbollah arms depots and weapons manufacturing plants in Syria, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reported on Saturday.

The report is based on Western sources who asserted that Israel has increased its military force level along the northern border in the Golan Heights and Mount Dov areas.

The report cited European sources who claimed that recent Israeli unmanned aerial drone flights over Lebanon and Syria signal Israel's intentions to carry out operations in the area.

According to the report, Israel plans to attack Hezbollah weapons depots, including ones deep inside Syria that store long-range rockets.

The Al Rai report said that the situation on the Israel-Syria border is tense and that Syria could respond immediately to any Israeli attack and not demonstrate the restraint that it did after the Israeli Air Force bombed a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria in the fall of 2007.

According to the report, Syria's military is on high alert and is strengthening its anti-aircraft defenses along the border with Israel and at strategic sites within Syria.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomac...syria-1.310655

[Sheprdboi]

Same here in http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=186255

[MrMannn]

muslim news ources in all stories.

Generally its a rule of thumb to use a grain of salt when dealing with arab news sources. They have a tendency to just make stuff up.

That said, it doesn't take a leap of logic to come to this conclusion. If Hezbolah has missile depots in Syria, then yes they will be targets. Syria is still smarting from the IDF bombing run a few years ago--they know they can and will be hit.

I think this was written more to inflame muslim passions for war than to warn against Israeli actions.

[Boash]

If Israel was preparing to do so I doubt that this paper would know anything about it, anymore than they did when Israel raided the Syrian nuke site.

[Zion]

By any remote chance, are any of these long-range rocket depots/weapons facilities located near DAMASCUS?

[sbenning5]

By any remote chance, are any of these long-range rocket depots/weapons facilities located near DAMASCUS?

I was wondering the same thing!

[RobertB]

muslim news ources in all stories.

Generally its a rule of thumb to use a grain of salt when dealing with arab news sources. They have a tendency to just make stuff up.

That said, it doesn't take a leap of logic to come to this conclusion. If Hezbolah has missile depots in Syria, then yes they will be targets. Syria is still smarting from the IDF bombing run a few years ago--they know they can and will be hit.

I think this was written more to inflame muslim passions for war than to warn against Israeli actions.

David Dolan was interviewed today on www.prophecytoday.com and he noted that very fact. Israel has just watched while thousands of tons of weaponry has made its way into both Gaza and southern Lebanon. That weaponry is for a purpose, specifically some Jew cleansing, and has to be used by the Moslems. And since Israel knows at some point it has to act against those tons of weaponry, likely soon, the article contains some truth. It would be designed though for a Moslem audience as you note.

[Christina]

By any remote chance, are any of these long-range rocket depots/weapons facilities located near DAMASCUS?

LOL, I was just thinking the same thing as I was reading the article in the OP!

[Carrie Grace]

By any remote chance, are any of these long-range rocket depots/weapons facilities located near DAMASCUS?

I was right there with you when I read that! ;^)

[LightOfMyLife]

[QUOTE=Carrie Grace;1912759]I was right there with you when I read that! ;^)[/QUOTE ] If this is indeed true, it sounds like a prophetic event in Isaiah 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

[HisAlways]

If Israel was preparing to do so I doubt that this paper would know anything about it, anymore than they did when Israel raided the Syrian nuke site.

Exactly right !!!

[Reason&Hope]

I agree with Mr. Mann. This is part of a propaganda campaign against Israel so that Hezbollah and its cohorts will be able to justify attacking Israel. It's part of the lead-up to war. Which is not to say the 'news' item isn't interesting; it's interesting in a devious way.