Israel warns Damascus?
With Syria making increasingly menacing moves toward the Hariri government in Lebanon, and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doing her best April Glaspie imitation in a New York meeting with Syrian foreign minister Walid Mualem last week, DEBKA is claiming that Israel's release earlier this week of cabinet minutes of a 1973 discussion of bombing Damascus is meant to warn the Syrians to keep their hands off Lebanon. In the hours leading up to the fateful moment on Oct. 6 1973, when the combined forces of Egypt and Syria caught Israel napping by a joint offensive (designed by their Russian sponsor), Israel's chief of staff, the late Lt. Gen. David Elazar, said to Prime Minister Golda Meir: In operational terms, we can wipe out the entire Syrian air force by 12:00 noon today. We need another 30 hours to destroy its missiles. Then, if they go on the offensive at 5 pm., our air force will be free to strike the Syrian army. To me, this is operational option is attractive.Hmmm.
Three days later, on Oct. 9, catastrophe stared Israel in the face: The IDF was in a bad way and taking casualties in the realm of hundreds dead and thousands injured; their defense lines in Sinai and the Golan had fallen and there was nothing in the way of the Syrian army going all the way to the Sea of Galilee and Tiberias.
In a closed meeting with Golda Meir, the iconic defense minister Moshe Dayan asked for permission to bomb Damascus. "Inside the city?" she asked. "Inside the city and its environs," he replied. "We have to break the Syrians," Dayan explained that he proposed to strike the Syrian General Command and infrastructure in Damascus. "We've done enough going around the fields (a reference to targets outside the Syrian capital). There are no more key targets left. Damascus is the only one. We can't promise the population won't be hurt."
Golda's permission was withheld.
debkafile's sources report that the decision to release these documents and the section relating to Syria was taken in Jerusalem after the Obama administration failed to prevent the two-day state visit to Lebanon by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad taking place on Oct. 13.
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The 1973 war papers released in Jerusalem, revealing that Israel then was just hours away from an air blitz against Damascus, was a message to Assad that Jerusalem was not aligned with the Americans in this.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:09 AM
2 Comments:
Israel was not caught "off gaurd". The Israeli government knew full well that they would be attacked and instead of using that information they betrayed their own people and let Jews be slaughtered for the sake of what the gentile world thinks. YS"V [more than an Arab] to Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan [nothing is more dangerous to Jews than traitorous Jews!]. -- I pray the history books will show what evil people these two were, unlike how the Bolsheviks have traditionally portrayed them. Favorable opinion of Meir in America is beyond ludicrous.
Hillary seems to have become Little Blue Riding Hood.
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