it is well known that the rebels do not have the capabilities to assemble and deliver sarin gas in sufficient quantities to carry out the massive chemical weapons attack on the eastern suburb of damascus. nor would they have the capacity to carry such weapons, even if they existed, from northern syria all the way to south at damascus. indeed, the attack was carried out from the high ground under assad's control to the low lying eastern suburb of damascus. on this there is no doubt among various intelligence agencies, including us, germany, uk, israel. they all have intercepted intelligence communications between the perpetrators of the attack and syrian high ranking officials as well as between hezbollah and its iranian master. unit 8200 is certainly more reliable than any propaganda presented by putin and his cohorts.

hezbollah should realize that they would lose a fight with TZAHAL, and this time, decisively. hezbollah seems to have a death wish. more of them will bite the dust in syria than they would in lebanon.

toward Israel Israel should wipe out Lebanon from the face of the earth. Lebanon is held responsible for the rise of those murderers in its area and has to pay the prise. Enough with silk gloves policy. Time to secure Israel using full radical force. Not words that are interpreted as weakness.

pending Iranian go-ahead. I guess Rohanis' New Year wish was typical Iranian rhetoric: deceitful and meaningless

The nerve of these Satanically possessed monsters to want to ignite a world war based on lies that they have perpetrated. The entire world can see the frame up, false flag, premeditated provocation. Kerry and the State Dept. have their fingerprints all over this. They are sick, vile, evil people in the service of fascistic authoritarian global con men otherwise known as the Banksters. Time to roll this back and investigate Obama and Kerry's part in this false flag massacre conducted by their Al Qaeda "rebel" buddies.

Let them fight and die in that quagmire.

hezbollah under nasrollah is by far the best fighting force among the arabs or iranians where they are motivated along with viet cong antitank + dug in rocket methods surrounded by ieds. You will not take their positions in a frontal unless asymmetric methods are used. for sure you cannot use soldiers like shalit in such encounters, weak yankels if truth be told. You need eichners who should be brought back and soon after he does some service, bloodthirsty killers,t hat is what you need to killl hezbollahs. Moreover, they have 25000 soldiers in motorized vehicles to take a gallille town and hold it. So don't fool around like barak. have blocking forces along with air force and artilllery and missiles to decimate them, to kill everyone of them, you hear. Don't complain after that I didn't tell you.

I find it hard to fathom why "Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., Sen Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky." Voted 'Nay'to a Senate committee vote to fire a warning shot across the bow when the Syrian Assad regime has used sarin nerve gas. And then we have Russia, who is a staunch supporter of Syrian regime leader Assad who essentially says we will rebuild for Assad, anything the USA destroys in Syria.

All the blood thirstyness coming from the previous commenters' do you really not care to preserve human life? No matter where/what it is? "Israel should wipe Lebanon off the map" excuse me, but as an Israeli citizen I must detest your comment, all we here is that countries wish to destroy us, how are we? the supposedly educated Jewish people and our christian (western allies) supposed to stand as a true beacon of hope and a better world, when small narrow minded induviduals bear so much hate? I pity you my friend, I hope one day you realize the true value of human life, no matter what religion or belief system it posses, and what you stated was in fact, genocide.

bunch of liars!

We'll probably see millions upon millions of dead and the Nobel Peace Prize recipient will still be in power. Pretty bizarre, eh pal?

Hezb'allah taks a good game and terror of course is their norm war however, is for the big boys. This is what they wanted, let's see how it ends up for this ME religo-trash. G-d bless Israel, the apple of His eye.

and life is for the living. Perhaps you've forgotten of the 6 million dead European Jews who, if given the chance NOW, would fight like hell to remain alive and not be soothed into suicide by some mealy mouthed loser as yourself placating empty words of 1- no solace 2- no living Jews in Israel if they don't defend themselves. By your theory we'd allow Hitler to live.... How old are you? 12? Or, your IQ is beneath 14..... Our G-d is also a G-d of war. member? Or, are you even a Jew??? BUILD MORE !!!!

Hezb'allah taks a good game and terror of course is their norm war however, is for the big boys. This is what they wanted, let's see how it ends up for this ME religo-trash. G-d bless Israel, the apple of His eye.

have both learned that words are cheap war is expensive and, Muslims have a nasty habit or running away from battles. Maybe Hezb'allah really wants to die rather than face their own ridiculous empty lives of more murder and mayhem?

Folks, you live in interesting times; these are the early days of the New Islamic Persian Empire; and pulling the covers over your head will not help you. General Soleimani, the Irani general who gave the order to attack American interests in Iraq if Syria is attacked, is also responsible for the Al Khobar bombings in Saudi Arabia killing hundreds of U.S. servicemen. He is the inspiration for an utterly ruthless Irani general in the new Amazon Kindle Thriller-The Bahrain Protocol. The book highlights Iran's plans to distract the U.S. with terrorist attacks while it finishes its Imam Hussein nuclear bomb, who will have no problem in using it-like its vassal Syria with the gas. Iran's long term plan is to blackmail the West by threatening the destruction of the Arabian Gulf oilfields-60% of the world's production. That is why Israel-and Saudi Arabia-will take Iran on, with or without the U.S.!