Israel Enters the Syria Conflict
1 | ISRAEL
The question is not whether Israel sent warplanes into Syria on the night of Jan. 29. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak made that clear enough later in the week, calling news reports of the lightning strikes "proof [that] when we said something, we mean it." What Israel had said was that it would not tolerate Syria's sending advanced weapons into Lebanon, where the Shi'ite militia Hizballah waged war on the Jewish state in 2006. According to then chief of military intelligence Amos Yadlin, Israeli leaders subsequently drew the line at four specific armaments:...
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