Syria should abandon ‘trash talk’ on Israel
Early this month, newspapers and TV informed us that Israel bombed locations inside Syria not once, but twice. Although Israel didn’t comment, “inside sources” says the targets were munitions factories where missiles were either being stored or made ready to transport to Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group that is one of Israel’s deadliest enemies.
Syria, for its part, made threatening statements and said these air strikes made it clear that Israel was in league with “al-Qaeda groups,” meaning rebels who are fighting the Syrian government in its bloody civil war. A Syrian government spokesperson also said that the Israeli action was like “a declaration of war” against Syria.
A declaration of war against Syria? That’s somewhat laughable. Syria and Israel have technically been at war with each other since 1949. The Armistice Agreements of 1949 may have gotten a Nobel Prize for Dr. Ralph Bunche, but they basically were just a cease-fire.