by Robert Fisk
Beirut. Israel received the Green Light. It came from what is called the Syria Accountability Act, moving through the United States Congress with the help of Israel’s supporters, that will impose sanctions on Damascus for its supposed enthusiasm for “terrorism” and occupation of Lebanon.
Speaker after speaker in the past week has been warning that Syria is the new – or old, or non-existent – threat previously represented by Iraq: that it has weapons of mass destruction, that it has biological warheads, that it received Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction just before we began our illegal invasion of Iraq in March.
The Israeli lie about “thousands” of Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon has been uncloaked yet again. In reality, there hasn’t been an Iranian militant in Lebanon for 20 years. But who cares? The dictatorial Syrian regime – and dictatorial it most decidedly is – has to be struck after a Jenin woman lawyer, who has probably never visited Damascus in her life, blows herself and 19 innocent Israelis up in Haifa.
And why not? If America can strike Afghanistan for the international crimes against humanity of 11 September 2001, when 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, and if America can invade Iraq, which had absolutely nothing to do with 11 September, why shouldn’t Israel strike Syria?
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