to be able to speak out of both sides of their mouth and hiney at the same time! Truly amaing!!

A lot of bragging, lots of smoke, sound beating, tail between the legs... Sounds like 1948? Sounds like 1956? Sounds like 1967? Sounds like 1973? Next time - it will be IDF stationed in Damascus ...

that's "failure"??? if so, what does that say about syria?

I see you've added a humor column. This guy is like that Borat fellow, right?

Maybe he is a better doctor than statesman...

By the threats and frightening cenario painted, it is oh so obvious that Syria are like a scaired cat hiding in the corner waiting to be attacked by a ferocios Rotweilder.We dont buy your phsycological scare tackticks.

Otherwise they wouldn't try to spin the media in this way.

boastings of how badly the Americans were being defeated, and yet in one scene you could actually see our tanks on our way down to downtown Baghdad!!

This guy is a moron. Everything he says is either a lie or illogical or both. Well, except the stuff about Syria supporting Hizbollah during the Lebanon war.

The Russians are worried, the Iranians are worried and so are the Syrians. The Russians gave both countries their latest and greatest, supposedly unjammable anitaircraft systems. What was the result? The IAF jammed everything and the mission was carried out without any planes being downed. Now the Russians are on their way back to figure out what to do next. The Americans are thrilled because they will have access to the electronic intelligence. Win Win for the good guys.

(errr, what is this expert myopic dicktator, really good at?)

parliamentarian seems to have forgotten is that towards the end of the "October War", more properly known as the Yom Kippur War, the IDF was within 20 km of Damascus poised to inflict such damage the likes of which no Arab country has yet experienced. If it wasn't for the elder Assad begging the UN for a cease fire declaration the Israeli flag would be flying in Damascus today. Great Syrian acheivement, indeed.

During the Lebanon war,they denied involvement...But this declaration is so stupid;it reflects Syrian arrogance and stupidity....Syria aerial defense forces?BS!!!

If Israeli jets flew over Syria, attacked whatever site was attacked, and returned safely, and not 1 shot was fired at them...and this Syrian Minister of Disinformation calls it a "FAILED MISSION." Well then my question is what is his defenition of a ACCOMPLISHED MISSION???

how we pilots in the iaf do not say a single thing. no information. no one is trying to convice the world of our success. while all syria does is blah blah blah israel failed and israel this and israel that. the thing is that if one is trying to convince the world that their enemy israel failed over and over again, indeed it points to the fact that israel indeed did not fail. why try to convince the world we failed? could it be because we really suceeded in getting what we wanted, whatever it was? believe me, we suceeded more than in our wildest dreams and i wish i could tell you how and where, but they'll kill me if i do. we left a big damage, enough to cause the syrians more embarassment than ever. we entered, got what we were after, jammed it all and let go of our fuel tanks and extra weight and left. the bombs we left in syria. the fuel tanks some minutes later in turkey. shalom and to all my friends in the iaf. you lucky bastards! you were great!

mr. ridiculous! israel failed in yom kipur war? then how come we still live on the golan? it's a good thing your country asked the un to intevene on our way to damascus. we were 20 km away and could already smell the arab stench a mile away. we turned back because our olfactory senses overwhelmed us and frankly didn't feel that the sewer that is damascus fitted into the israeli beautiful country. what would israel do with millions of syrians that do not know how to read and spell? we couldn't afford to educate you all or it would have taken us years to do so in any case.

The one bit of truth is this delusional rant is that Israel's postion will be weakened if the US abandons Iraq.

Pathetic little weasles.

After being humiliated in the 1967 war (the Arabs were soundly thrashed in just six days), their defeat in 1973 was seen by them as a moral victory: they hung on for three weeks before losing and were about to see the Israeli flag flying above Damascus. How pathetic that 34 years later, they still celebrate this "victory".

"...our last encounter with the Zionists proved a big success we still take pride in. I’m referring to the October War, ..." In 1982, more than 8 years after the "october war", syrian and israeli planes engaged in a big air battle. The Syrians lost 85 MiG jets (maybe even more), while Israel didn't lose any fighter jet !!! And the Syrians also lost their air defense missile batteries in the Lebanese Bekaa valley. REALLY A GREAT SUCCESS FOR THE SYRIANS - losing 0:85 !! It seems Syria prefers to forget and ignore this 1982 conflict.

"a big success we still take pride in. I’m referring to the October War, ..." "the biggest achievement he brought to Syria against Israel was the October War" So the "October War" was a big success and big achievement for Syria? 1. Although they surprised Israel badly and at first outnumbered the Israeli armored forces in the Golan at a Ratio of more than 7:1 (1300 syrian tanks vs. 180 isr. tanks), they couldn't break through to israeli population centers 2. After one week of fighting, all syrian forces were pushed back to the former ceasefire-lines or even into own territory 3. IDF advanced to 40 km from Damaskus, shelled the syrian capital with artillery, and 4. the israeli advance could only be stopped by the help of Jordanian and Iraqi forces. OK, this time the Syrians fought longer - they were defeated after one or two weeks, in contrast to only two days in 1967, so it was an improvement - but to call it a big achievement, a big success? Sounds like a sense of reality like Ahmadinejad ("no state of Israel", "no holocaust", "no gays in Iran", "no nuclear issue anymore", ..) or Nasrallah ("divine victory").

Q. Why the fuss? A. Because they had been sussed out. Such innocents.

"...If Israel doesn’t change its policy, it will find itself going against Hizbullah in the north, Hamas in the south, and the Syrian army, which is allied with Iran,” Syrian parliament member Dr Mohammad Habash told the Israeli-Arab newspaper Kul-Alarab.........." SO WHAT...??? The Syrian and their terrorists/ prothesis are pushing Israel in the Mother of all the battles.... Stupid clowns...