Israeli Analysts Doubt Syria Will Get the Message on Terrorism

[Herschel]

It is questionable whether Syria will get Israel's message to stop supporting terrorism - a message that Israel sent this weekend when it bombed a terrorist training camp outside of Damascus, experts here are saying.


Israeli fighter planes struck the Ayn Tzahab camp some 12 miles outside the Syrian capital early Sunday, less than a day after Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a restaurant in the northern Israeli coastal city of Haifa, killing 19 people.


Israeli officials said the strike -- the deepest inside Syrian territory since the 1973 Yom Kippur War -- was intended to send a signal to terror organizations. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged that Israel would go after terrorists wherever they are and by every means at its disposal.


The army later released a map of the Damascus area on which it had pinpointed the homes and offices terrorist leaders and organizations.

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Perhaps Syria prefers to make themselves a target. Oh, my.

[Darranar]

1. Even if this really was a terrorist training camp...

which is certainly in doubt, this raid did nothing to stop terrorists.

[Redclydesider]

3. terrorists

And talking to terrorists sure as hell dosent work either.

[Darranar]

4. Then don't talk to terrorists!

Since when has Israel been negotiating with Hamas?

[Redclydesider]

5. no problem

So you concur that Israel is right to kill the Hamas, islamic jihad dudes, glad we agree.

[Darranar]

6. I never said that...

I think that doing it is perfectly justified, but I don't think it's conductive to peace - except in a few circumstances.

[Stupdworld]

2. obvious n/t

[laura888]

7. Are people who question the actions of Israel...

...all terrorists?

Then I am a terrorist. Please come arrest me.

Syria just wants the international community - namely the U.N. - to analyze whether Israel's attacks were justified.

Why not let this happen?