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Is Israel planning an occupation of a buffer zone in Syria?

There were reports in February that they were planning a land invasion and 10 mile buffer zone. Is that what these airstrikes are about? http://news.antiwar.com/2013/02/03/with-us-approva...

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    Nope.

    These airstrikes were about destroying some weapons that would probably be used in the future against Israel. Nothing more.

  • 8 years ago

    No such thing is being planned. Israel captured the buffer zone it needed during the 1967 7 Day War

    Before then, the Golan Heights belonged to Syria. Syria allowed all manner of terrorist organizations to operate in the Golan Heights, where they set up mortars and rocket launchers and blasted away at the Israeli settlements in the valley below.

    The Israelis took the Golan Heights in 1967 and paid a heavy price for it. They are not about to give it up.

    But they have no further need for a larger buffer zone, as they hold the high ground with the best defensive positions, a fact the Syrians found out in 1973, when the Israelis turned their armored divisions into scrap metal.

  • 8 years ago

    The air strikes were to destroy missiles that could reach through all of Israel.

    There is no need for a buffer zone as different terrorist groups are fighting each other (Hezbollah on the side of the government and the Moslem Brotherhood along with Al Quida on the other). Instead of a buffer zone, Israel has been accepting injured Syrians for medical treatment.

    Remember, Israel is the ONLY democracy in the Middle East. Lebanon could be the second one if they could free themselves from Syrian and Hezbollah control

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Israel is trying to prevent chemical weapons being launched by Assad into Israel, the strikes were strategically against those weapons facilities. Look at the size of Israel compared to Syria, it's tiny, a land invasion would be really stupid and Netanyahu is not stupid at all.

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  • torrez
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Yeah, solution to go! Obliterate Fatah and Hamas! Realize how the information media aren't giving the Lebanese the same kind of crap they gave the Israelis who did the equal factor. Bit of a double common, don't you think?

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Airstrikes without a declaration of war is another war crime for Israel whatever their plans might be.

  • 8 years ago

    Israel is destroying itself. Why don't they wake up! Nobody likes them.

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