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Waiting for the American cop
Eliezer Marom
Published: 28.08.13, 10:43
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1. In layman's terms he is saying
Sheik Rattle & Roll ,   USA   (08.28.13)
What Assad is doing is every bad and even though we have the power to stop Assad we prefer others to fight and die and spend there own money.
2. Body Bags
tom ,   new york   (08.28.13)
During the first Gulf War Bush kept Israel from responding to Iraqui Scud attacks . Israelis don't need to come home in body bags , let the Syrians fight each other for decades.
3. Naive and foolish Op-Ed
Dror ,   Haifa, Israel   (08.28.13)
Eliezer Marom you are either very naive or it could be that you just do not mind lying to the Israeli public through your teeth. The fact that our press, political leadership, and defense leadership are all behind this lie is a very disturbing reality. We are not living in the 1930's when it took years to verify that the Holocaust was happening while it was happening. You are impudent enough to have us believe that Assad as stupid and as cruel as he is would conduct a massacre of rebel supporters in Damascus a year to the day that Obama warned of crossing the red line before being bombed? On top of that, he invites the UN inspectors to Damascus the same week he conducts this massacre and they are only a few miles away when this happens? AND EVEN MORE, today they were supposed to re-start their investigation, very conveniently another chemical attack was perpetrated today, VERY CONVENIENT.
4. Israeli shmocks and useful idiots
Dror ,   Haifai, Israel   (08.28.13)
You risk our safety to go along with Obamabas and Kerry's contrivances and lies.Why don't you just keep your mouths shut and let the bastards fight it out like the dogs they are. Why are you supporting their blatant lies? THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS AND SEES.. SHUT YOUR GD MOUTHS WILL YA..
5. 3 Dror
CJK   (08.28.13)
the rebels do not have the capacity to carry out the massive chemical weapons attack on the damascus suburbs that we all saw the other day. it is very likely that the attack was encouraged by the wily devils in iran. take note, that once obama and his western allies will fire a few missiles into syria, they will never attack iran. so this syrian operation, which will not destroy assad's chemical weapons nor degrade substantially his military, will serve the purposes of both iran and obama extremely well. us envoy feltman is presently in tehran trying to get help from the devils over there. we can protest as much as we want, but obama is both stupid and evil and definitely not a friend of israel.
6. I remain quite uncertain
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (08.28.13)
Were the chemical weapons unleashed by Assad, or by Syrian insurgents hoping for Western intervention? Answer that, and we will know what needs to be done.
7. Instead of the veteran and street...
Gideon Reader   (08.28.13)
...wise grizeled beat cop, a spotty faced fresh out of police academy and foolish post modern admin style Peace Officer showed up. He will take a report for the record. Most police contacts occur AFTER the criminal event. It is rare to have a cop prevent an enforcement worthy occurance. this is the same event as the camel and asprin factory of the long gone horny Clinton era. Same lasting effect.
8. 1 stop whining and complaining like an old maid
CJK   (08.28.13)
it is israeli civilians who will be most at risk and will bear the brunt of retaliation from all around. israel took out assad's nuclear reactor while the us will leave the chemical weapons intact. stop pretending that this little exercise will be anything other than an ego trip for obama and his "red line."
9. Not sure why US is involved
Shep Fargotstein ,   Memphis   (08.28.13)
I agree that the use of chemical weapons is horrific, but this is not the first time Muslims have used WMDs against their own people - and the USA never intervened. Saddam did it. Assad's father did it. I don't think either side deserves our support! With that said I have 2 hypothesis why the USA would intervene: 1) Obama is doing a 180 degree reversal of his mideast policy and is now trying to get on the right side of Saudi Arabia - who supports the Al Quaida Islamist fighting Assad. 2) Obama wants to weaken Assad's forces enough to produce a stalemate where the opposing forces end up killing each other off until they are exhausted and then the USA comes in and picks up the pieces. Either way, as long as there are no USA military boots on the ground, I am OK with the US intervening. Obama's previous policy of leading from behind has screwed up the world order. The world needs the stability that the US projects through it;s vastly superior armed forces and economic might. Obama never appreciated the role of America in the world and sought from day one to "reset" our place in the world by withdrawing and disengaging. WOrld events taught him a lesson and hundreds of thousands died while he learned it. Think of all the people in Iraq, Afganistan, Egypt and Iran who died fighting for liberty and freedom and were abandoned by Obama. This will go down as the most shameful Presidency in the history of the USA>
10. Errant assumption
Doug ,   U.S.   (08.28.13)
Regardless of what may happen to Syrians or to any other group of people, it does *not* remind me of the Holocaust.
11. CJK
Dror ,   Haifa, Israel   (08.28.13)
Highly doubtful that it was the Iranians that did the deed. The way Kerry was behaving at his press conference was very suspicious. I have a sneaking suspicion that it definitely was the Saudi and Qatari organized mercs in cahoots with the American shadow govt. that did the dirty deed. It is too blatant and they are the ones to gain the most from the massacre blamed on Assad. QUE BONO = Who benefits?
12. Waiting for America...
Walid ,   Spain   (08.28.13)
I agree with your analysis but disagree that Israel should sit on the sidelines and watch if the ball comes their way. I think you of all people in the world should know what gazing human means. Though the numbers differ and no one can compare what happened under the Nazis to what is happening in Syria, still mass murder is mass murder and everyone has the moral obligation to to take action against brutal dictators and butchers such as Assad. This is an opportunity for Israel to demonstrate to the Arab world what moral values mean.
13. CJK ...
Dror ,   Haifa, Israel   (08.28.13)
Furthermore, your dislike of Obama is not misplaced, but this situation can get out of hand very fast. The Russians still have plenty of surface to ship missiles stockpiled in Syria. All it takes is for one Destroyer or Cruiser to get hit and this is whole thing is going to get wratcheted up to another level. Obama is good at playing feckles. That is his job. He is a deceiver. Nobel peace prize War monger.... Do you get my drift?
14. lots of ridiculous nonsense coming out of both sides
gamal ,   yaffa   (08.28.13)
Analysis from this writer and armchair home analysts miss the main point: assad is better for Israel than the al nusra looking to replace him. The rebels could not have gassed their own since they are not in possession of the sarin to begin with. The gassing only could have taken place at the request of the masters in teheran who pull assad's strings-in order to test the response. Since the stated objective of the US is to NOT destroy the chemical weapons-there is absolutely no reason for the west to intervene. The ONLY reason they should intervene is to take out the chems, not to intiate regime change nor to help the rebels. In the end its Israel that has the most to lose during this entire operation as it needs to sit quietly between hamas rockets in the south and hezbollah rockets in the north and assads missiles from the northwest. America doesn't give a flying fig about Israel and Obama is doing this for no one but himself. It would serve him right to be hit hard and suffer some losses just to remind him that there is no such thing as half-engagements in the middle east and half won battles.
15. Feb 2001, israel uses posion gas
Truth be told   (08.28.13)
in Gaza
16. Life can be funny...US in bed with al-Qaeda and Brotherhood
Noodles ,   Coney Island   (08.28.13)
And there's not going to be any blowback on the mainland?
17. Noodles
Dror ,   Haifa, Israel   (08.28.13)
At least you get it... Our a** kissing shmos and suck ups in Israel are afraid to tell it like it is. Or, they assume to be geniuses and actually believe what they are being told by the media.. Such idiotic dupes and suckers. I swear without God protecting us we would have disappeared centuries ago for being such a naive and stupid nation.
18. America must act and stop Assad
Mark Jeffery Koch ,   Cherry Hill, NJ USA   (08.28.13)
As a Jewish American who was born a few years after World War II ended I, like many other people, learned of the horror of six million Jews who were murdered, of which one million were children. We learned later that our government knew that Hitler was sending Jews to concentration camps and gassing them. We chose to do nothing. Almost fifty years later we knew what was going on in Rwanda and again chose to do nothing and 800,000 people were murdered. It is morally repugnant for anyone to claim that unless it is in our strategic interests we should look the other way as men, women, and children are tortured and murdered, with the Assad regime using jetfighter planes, tanks, and artillery to reduce his cities to rubble, and repeatedly using chemical weapons against them. It is disgusting to read comment after comment in America media websites saying "let them kill each other, it does not involve us." Mass killing of a civilian population anywhere in the world does involve America. We are the only country that has a military that can go anywhere in the world, not to wantonly attack another country, but to prevent genocide and mass murder. We sent our forces to Somalia to end a famine. We sent our airforce to stop genocide in Kosovo. We have used our military to help Haiti after the earthquake, and Japan after the devastating tsunami. America must act when it can to prevent mass murder and war. To close our eyes and ears to the deaths of innocents anywhere is not what America is or ever was about.
19. ***Sarah*** at 6, It was Assad...and we can only
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (08.28.13)
hope, that the US attack on his assets will be more than symbolic...oh well... Any significant degradation of Irans most important ally will be crucial in the near future !
20. 6- join the club
David ,   capitola-USA   (08.28.13)
If the US Govt. has evidence (as they now claim) bring it on---put-up or shut-up. If the Govt. had proof that "rebels", aka al-nusra/al-Qaeda, did it, does anyone believe they would admit it since those terrorists are supported by "allies" like Turkey? Take a look at YouTube videos of "rebels" firing blue gas cannisters using artillery and you decide. The only faction fighting in Syria worth supporting is the Kurdish PYD because they fight (and kill) al-Qaeda terrorists.
21. Why The US?
Christy ,   Boston, US   (08.28.13)
The attack that killed all those people was horrible. I would favor whatever non-military sanctions could be taken against any group that would do this. However, I don't favor, nor do the vast majority of US Citizens, getting involved with this conflict. It's not our business. When the US had our Civil War, it wouldn't have been good for a foreign power to be involved. Same is true here. It's between various groups in Syria.
22. # 1 - What he's saying ,...
split ,   US   (08.28.13)
That the State of Israel is committed to defend it's people to a very last US soldier ;) ,...
23. Everyone got their gas masks at the ready?
Cameron ,   USA   (08.29.13)
24. Again, Just Like The Iraq Invasion
Brett ,   Florida   (08.29.13)
In boxing terms it's called a telegraphed punch, and this action obama plans is just like that. Give warning to dig in, re-aim rockets and missles, be sure you know the position of every U.S. ship, and tell all your muslim buddies to be ready to strike everwhere. He embare-assed himself with the idiotic red line comment, and now if assad and tehran figure they have nothing to lose, Israel gets to absorb the stupidity of his actions.
25. Translation: Israel fooled America into fighting another war
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN   (08.29.13)
...on Israel's behalf.
26. #25 who is the fool?
(08.29.13)
Since Israel does not want the attack and gains nothing from the attack, your rant makes no sense. Maybe it is Obama's taste for blood that is leading America into a useless war?
27. BenASSi and his accusations
Dror ,   Haifa, Israel   (08.29.13)
Israel was almost ruined and destroyed by the deceptions and betrayals of Nixon and Kissinger in 73 All for the sake of the Petrodollar and American hegemony in the ME, our soldiers were sacrificed to the Egyptians and Syrians at Kissinger's and Nixon's behest. As I see it the Money Tree that America captured and planted through the Petrodollar in 71' gave America limitless credit for 40 years, plus. Now it is close to ending. The idiot Americans think that it is their taxpayer dollars that fund the foreign and military aid bribe money that Empire America provides to several nations it needs to buy off. Could not be farther from the truth. As I see it, you not only owe us big time, you owe the entire world for this grandest of deceptions. I cannot make up my mind on what is the greatest deception in History. It is a tie between the Petrodollar, Christianity, and Islam. Benassi, I hope you have been informed...
28. Very interesting translation, #22, #25
Tahl   (08.29.13)
And where exactly in this piece does the author imply that an American attack on Syria would be to "defend Israel" or "on Israel's behalf"? How exactly?
29. 25 and what other wars did america fight for israel?
we are here the stay   (08.29.13)
30. #28 - Learn to read between the lines ,...
split ,   US   (08.29.13)
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