Israel strikes deep into Syria.

[M_Six]

This represents a serious escalation and drags the peace process much further away from the "roadmap". Israel keeps swatting individual bees, but this episode disturbs the nest. The response could be painful.

As the saying goes, "the light at the end of the tunnel is probably an oncoming freight train."

[ClubMed]

There wont be a response, the Syrian government is too weak, both militarily and politically to do anything about it.

The Israelis claim they bombed a training camp, the Syrians claim it wasn't a training camp, neither has ever been the source of trustworthy information.

Of course by pure coincidence it's the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War (aka Ramadan War and October War).

[M_Six]

There wont be a response, the Syrian government is too weak, both militarily and politically to do anything about it.

Maybe not a direct response from Syria, but a response will occur. And it'll be deadly. Then Israel will respond, and then the Palestinians will respond, then Israel will respond....

It'll never end.

[ClubMed]

Of course if you mean proxy groups then both sides have been at war for 50 years.

[J-Excel]

If it was an Islamic Jihad training camp, good for Isreal. They can't continue to be attacked by Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and the like and just sit idle. I see Isreal continually on the defense there and I don't think that's a media swayed perspective. There aren't any Isreali suicide bombers attacking Palestine. I'm afraid, sick as it may sound, the only solution to the conflict there is complete ethnic cleansing, and the longer these terrorist attacks go on the more likely people will support it.

[M_Six]

Of course if you mean proxy groups then both sides have been at war for 50 years.

I agree entirely. More's the pity.

J-E, I wasn't passing judgment on Israel. I recognize their right to self-defense. I was just pointing out that any hope of peace is long gone.

[shahani]

I think the ethnic cleansing is the right answer.

Cleansing of Israel.

Maybe then their hi-tech goon squads will stop killing people.

[Theophylact]

Maybe then their hi-tech goon squads will stop killing people.

Not to put too fine a point upon it, shahani, but this does come on the heels of the murder of 19 Israeli civilians (including Arabs) in Haifa by a suicide bombing for which Islamic Jihad is claiming credit.

There's plenty of blame to go around without calling for ethnic cleansing.

[daveleau]

Wow, shahani. you support ethnic cleansing? I didn't see that coming.

It is good to see that we are not alone in our fight against terrorism. I have heard from two individual sources that have both spent quite a large amount of time in Iraq recently that the Iraqi's are happy that we are there and they are afraid that we will leave before their country is stable again. They also said (this is the point that is relevant to this thread) that the Syrian and Iranian terrorists are the ones supporting the regime-loyalists and posing as regime loyalist Iraqis to make our actions fail. They hope our actions will fail so that they can save their terror networks in both the weak nations of Syria and Iran. If we succeed they fear that their terror groups will be attacked and destroyed like those in Afghanistan and those in Iraq.

[shahani]

Well, its the old chicken and egg situation.

I have never condoned the Palestenian terrorists killing innocent Israelis.

And I do not condone Israelis either.

Whether its action or reaction, both sides are equally guilty and need to stop this senseless killing of innocent people.

Now.