What Would War Between Israel And Syria Do To The Already Fragile Global Economy?

by Michael

War is a horrible thing.  Just ask anyone that has ever been in the middle of it.  And in this day and age governments around the world possess weapons of such incalculable power that war should be unthinkable.  In future wars, we could literally see millions of people killed on a single day.  Nobody should want that or look forward to that.  Unfortunately, the next major regional war in [...]

False-Flag Alert, Former Bush administration official: “Israel may be behind use of chemical arms in Syria”

Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, says Israel may have conducted ‘false flag’ operation. Describes its government as inept and Netanyahu as ‘clueless.’

Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who once served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff, believes that the chemical weapons used in Syria may have been an Israeli “false flag” operation aimed at implicating Bashar Assad’s regime.

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/west-of-eden/former-bush-administration-official-israel-may-be-behind-use-of-chemical-arms-in-syria.premium-1.519172

 

Obama: “Israel Justified [...]

BREAKING INTEL: FSA Takes Control of Chemical-Weapons Site at Al Safirah. Syria Opposition Leader Al-Khatib Urges Assad To Negotiate.

“FSA now control some of Syria’s chemical weapons. Al Safirah is where these are based. FSA have had the area cordoned for a while!”

https://twitter.com/Basilkabbani

Al Safirah is where the chemical weapons enabled scuds are based. FSA have had the area cordoned for a while!

https://twitter.com/LuisaZangh

Syrian State TV Provides Evidence Of Anti-Aircraft Vehicles Destroyed In The Israeli Airstrike

Syria’s opposition coalition confirms Assad could get immunity from prosecution by stepping down now (most unlikely) [...]

Iran Reportedly Refuses Assad Request To Hit Back At Israel, ‘Take Care Of Your Business’… Syria Talks About Opening The Golan Front!

Tehran tells president to ‘take care of your business’ after Israeli air strike, Israeli TV says; analyst worries about new rash of Syrian TV interviews demanding attacks on the Golan.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-reportedly-refuses-assad-request-to-hit-back-at-israel/

Lebanese Professor:

If it does not act in response to Israeli aggression, it will be quite embarrassing for the regime to justify the use of fighter jets and helicopter gunships in its internal conflict (for purposes of regime preservation), but not for [...]

Israel Launches Full-Scale Military Offensive in Gaza “Pillar of Defense” after Drones Assassinate Hamas Chief of Staff. HAMAS: STRIKE ‘OPENED THE GATES OF HELL’…. Top Hamas Commander Killed In The Air Strike

Reports of a loud explosion near Gaza city hospital.

Tweets coming in saying it was a car.

Drones overhead.

Stay tuned.

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel is considering resuming its contentious practice of assassinating militant leaders in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in an effort to halt intensified rocket attacks on Israel’s south, according to defense officials.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20121113/DA2H7L300.html

Breaking News:

One dead, 1 injured in Israel strike on Gaza car: Hamas spokesman

https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng

Confirmed: Israel has assassinated @AlqassamBrigade chief of staff [...]

Iran dispatches warships to Sudan after Israeli airstrike on missile base

Damien McElroy
telegraph.co.uk
October 30, 2012

Sudanese state media said that a docking ceremony was staged in Port Sudan to receive the convoy led by an Iranian naval frigate and corvette warship.

Commanders of the Iranian flotilla reportedly met Sudanese navy chiefs as a gesture of “peace and friendship”.

But Israel sees the increasingly close military links between Iran and Sudan as a credible threat. It fears Iran is building missiles to supply Hizbollah and [...]

Israel Launches Airstrikes After Attacks From Gaza… Mosque hit

JERUSALEM – Palestinian militants from Gazafired a barrage of rockets and mortar shells into Israeli territory on Monday, causing no casualties but some property damage, after an Israeli airstrike wounded at least 10 Palestinians in southern Gaza on Sunday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/world/middleeast/israel-launches-airstrikes-after-attacks-from-gaza.html

IDF responds to 30 mortar shells bombing Hamas terror targets in Gaza; escalation follows air strike on 2 terrorists in Rafah.

The IDF struck targets in Gaza Monday in response to a barrage of more than [...]

Iran: “We Just Need an Excuse & 24 Hours to Wipe Out Israel” (If they don’t wipe themselves out first)

Hojjat al-Eslam Ali Shirazi, the representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the Islamic Republic’s Qods Force, said this week that Iran needed just “24 hours and an excuse” to destroy Israel.

In his first public interview in a year, reported in the Persian-language Jahan News, which is close to the regime, Shirazi said if Israel attacked Iran, the Islamic Republic would be able to turn the conflict into [...]

BREAKING ALERT: Militants Cross Into Israel From Egypt And Open Fire Killing Civilians

JERUSALEM (AP) – Militants crossed from Egypt’s turbulent Sinai Peninsula into southern Israel on Monday and opened fire on civilians building a border security fence, defense officials said. One of the Israeli workers was killed, and two assailants died in a gun battle with Israeli troops responding to the attack.

 

No group claimed responsibility for the attack, which underscored the growing lawlessness in the Sinai desert since longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was [...]

ISRAEL WARNS: ‘SECURITY PROBLEM’ FROM EGYPT

JERUSALEM (AP) – Militants crossed from Egypt’s turbulent Sinai Peninsula into southern Israel on Monday and opened fire on civilians building a border security fence, defense officials said. One of the Israeli workers was killed, and two assailants died in a gunbattle with Israeli troops responding to the attack.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack, which underscored the growing lawlessness in the Sinai desert since longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak [...]