Is anyone surprised that with his back against the wall Bashar Assad and his Iranian and Hezbollah allies would threaten retaliation against Israel if President Barack Obama goes through with his threatened strike against the Syrian regime? The Jewish state has played the role of Middle East bogeyman for distressed Arab dictators for so long no one even bothers to ask: how dare you threaten retaliation against a nation that has no involvement in your civil war? More shocking, however, are the Israel-haters and Syria apologists in Europe and the US whove launched their own preemptive strike accusing American Jews as well as the Jewish state of fomenting yet another US war in the Middle East. Of course, that charge is bunk. Israelis dont need the threat of US intervention to deter Assad. Bashar knows that the first chemicaltipped missile he tries to launch at Israel will guarantee his demise. It is true that some, but far from all, American Jews support limited military action to punish the Syrian regimes chemical weapons use, but as the Simon Wiesenthal Centers Rabbi Marvin Hier told The Washington Post this is not a Jewish issue, but a humanitarian challenge.
We believe that an appropriate response to such brazen crimes against humanity is called for because, left unchallenged, Assad will continue to deploy chemical weapons which could help set the stage in the near future for WMDs to be delivered to a zip code near you.
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