he would be left alone if only he would stop endangering the jewish state. but how could he stop when his shia terror patron's sole goal is to annihilate that very same jewish state.

Latakia is "the" port for the Alawites. It's also a port used for trafficking arms, not only now but also in the past. USSR (KGB) and now Russia (FSB) had and has there always a good foothold. Now, the explosion: rebels, accident, IAF,.... all options are open. But IAF was yesterday operating in other parts of Lebanon: deception? Strange Israel refused to react! Hopely, a missile storage or the Russian eavesdropping facility was hitted. But, that latter is more wishfull thinking, because of the possible diplomatic implications with Russia.

Please know that there exists a determined, albeit small, group of staunch Israel supporters in the US. I acknowledge that our present "leadership" doesn't reflect our views. We wish to bless you with our prayers, but also political petitioning and activity. WE THE PEOPLE stand with you!

Its just that the opposition is noisier

So what ? Let OBOOMA announce it was Israeli raid. This will warning do not mess with the Israelis

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The S-300 can shoot down israeli civilian and fighter jets. If Hezbollah got hold of something like that it would be a real game changer with large parts of the countries airspace at threat. Since the arab spring both Libya & Syria have become weapons supermarkets and we have to keep them out of terrorist hands no matter how its done.

I hope that there were lots of rockets in there. Great work, IAF.

The United States can say what it wants. Israel doesn't inform the White House of its intent -- not given the proclivities and sentiments of the current American administration. But it is worth remembering that Israel has been saying for quite a while that it will not permit the transfer of game-changing weapons to Hezbollah. Latakia is just the most recent example that Israel means business.

in yaalon's first 7 months as DM, he has initated more substantial and more numerous operations than ehud barak did over his entire term. Whereas barak negotiated hamas being allowed right up to the gaza fence and bent over backwards for morsi out of fear, nothing less than fear, yaalon has hit hezbollah rockets 4 -5 times, has IAF in the skies all over the place, stands firm with egypt who now under sissi is combatting hamaas terror, and has put the idf on the offense, not sitting back like haaretz pumped up lousy land general barak. and herzog should thank yaalon every day for saving his rear end. This pathetic weaklilng whose father is rolling over in his grave and the weakness of his son by giving up strategic land. israel has to put out to the world that it will start deestroying people around if trouble lurks.and bibi is also warned to stop with his pacific formulations and just sit on status quo. Tell kerry to forget it and get lost. Yaalon will deal with released prisoners. No oother general can lead israel in defense than yaalon because the alternative is antoher weak barak who did nothing recall when israeli soldiers were lynched in ramallan. That bloody square should be levelled period.

yadlin like baidowitz who advocated israel give up the golan makes a dumb appeasement strategy of pulling back while retaining 15% of west bank including jordan valley when the plo starts an initifada. This is exactly the wrong strategy as it displays weakness. abbas should be cut off from the press and west bank put in diplomatic concrete. The israeli plan based on levy shoud be claims for all the land based on san remo,and the east bank reuben;s land which comprises 1/5 of Jordan. Israelis were stupid not to make claims years ago but generals rabin, dayan, barak, now yadlin had too much sway over foreign and national policy.

The Israeli spokesman office should start using the following as a response to every question about our involvement in anything: Maybe we did it, maybe we didn't. I think we'll go play some tennis in Dubai now. Use that response for EVERYTHING.

The Russian are giving Israel signal to bomb these expensive S 300, so to get repeat orders from the Syrian. Good for business, and in fact Israel deserve some sort of commission from the Russian. V I V A (IAF) !!!!!!!

Why not announce it. When America strikes we let the entire world know we did it. We are not afraid to let the bad guys know we did it. Israel should announce it as well to put Assad on notice that he can't transfer weapons to terrorist with impunity. If Mexico was transferring weapons to the Al Quada do you think the US wouldn't announce a strike against Mexico? Israel is in this situation because it lets terrorist groups get arms without striking hard the core nations such as Iran, Syria etc that arm these groups.