Israel Invents Syrian WMD Threat, IDF Commanders Threaten Intervention!

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• In war, truth is the first casualty! All wars are based on deception – Sun Tzu!
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  Israel Invents Syrian WMD Threat, IDF Commanders Threaten Intervention! 
  by Richard Silverstein
  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.
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  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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  Hundreds of tonnes of Syria’s stockpile of deadly nerve  gas could fall into the hands of terrorist groups if the regime of  Bashar al-Assad falls apart amid widening concerns that Israel could go to war to try to stop this ‘Doomsday threat‘.
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  The fact that this would give Israel a further opportunity to tweak  its Iranian enemy and ensure the installation of a pro-Israel puppet  regime in Syria would of course be entirely incidental and  unintentional.
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  The Sky News report in particular seems to be pure garbage, claiming  to know the locations of all chemical warfare labs in the country plus  additional storage sites.  The report provides no attribution or source,  not even an anonymous one.  According to Sky, Al Qaeda is not only  active in Syria, but has specifically told its member to get their hands  on chemical weapons.  Again no quotations or source offered to bolster  the claim.  To hear Sky tell it, missiles filled with Sarin and other  potent nerve gases are sitting on launching pads waiting either for  Assad to launch them or for the rebels to get their fingers on the  button.  And of course the rockets can hit “any location in Israel,” the  required hysteria inducing phrase harkening back to Saddam’s SCUDs and  other visions of Zionist apocalypse.
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  Here is former Mossad chief Danny Yatom nicely hitting all the grace notes of hasbara interventionism :
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  Israel is deeply concerned that Assad may deliberately  give Hezbollah chemical weapons – or that they could end up in the hands  of other terror groups. In either case, this could lead to a regional  war, Danny Yatom, the former head of Mossad warned.
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  “The conventional wisdom should be that we cannot exclude a  non-conventional attack on Israel. We would have to pre-empt in order to  prevent it. We need to be prepared to launch even military attacks… and  military attacks mean maybe a deterioration to war,” he told Sky News.
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  Though on its face, Yatom is advocating for Israeli intervention,  it’s also possible he’s playing the not so subtle game of pressuring the  U.S. and its allies to act by threatening to act if they don’t do so  first.  The operative thinking would be saying to the Americans: if you  don’t do something, we will; since you won’t like how we’ll handle this,  you better take care of it yourself.”
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  Israel seems to be laying down its marker and saying it too has an  interest in determining the nature of the next Syrian regime.  Israel  will go to very great lengths to ensure it does not have a proto-Iranian  regime on its front doorstep, even to the extent of directly  intervening.  All of which would be devastating not just for Syria, but  for the entire region.  Israeli “intervention” into affairs in Iran,  Lebanon and Gaza has greatly destabilized those countries and wreaked  general mayhem.  More of this sort of “help” the Middle East does not  need.
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  Here’s more unfounded hysteria on behalf of interventionism:
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  There are widespread fears that a Gaddafi-style collapse  of Syria into chaos, would mean that chemical weapons would spread  around the globe.
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  Yes, of course widespread fears.  So widespread we don’t even have to  tell you who specifically is afraid and of what.  People, we’ve seen  this movie before and it was a stinker the first time.  Do we need to  see it again to know just how bad the sequel is?  The original was  called Bush Brings You Iraqi WMD.  Remember those mushrooms clouds Condi  Rice pictured for your visual delectation?  Isn’t it a bit like having déjà vu all over again, to paraphrase Yogi Berra?
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