While Russia seems to have the stomach for massacres the rest of the world does not. Those destroyed weapons would have escalated the tension in the region and would have ultimately resulted in 'The Evil Israel' bombing Gaza or some other area. Those weapons would have been deployed eventually and strikes to stop them would have resulted anyway, only it would have taken more lives.
I sincerely believe Russia is interested in escalation of tensions and not reduction of violence. There is nothing to state otherwise, so the Russian criticism of Israel is hideous for the attempts of Russian oligarchs to move munitions into Syria and increase the killing. Russia states all parties need to be at a table for talks while they authorize escalation of weapons into Syria. That is hardly a policy of stabilizing the country, unless, the only people alive after the shelling is the Assad family.
Russian diplomacy to achieve a common ground in Syria has failed. When is Russia going to realize its folly and the fact THEY were responsible for the problem Israel faced and was forced to make a decision. The problem here is Russia.
January 31, 2013
...The Russian Foreign Ministry (click here) says such action, if confirmed, amounts to "unprovoked attacks" against a sovereign nation, in violation of the United Nations charter.
Differing accounts of the Wednesday airstrike have emerged, with Syrian authorities saying Israeli jets fired on a military research facility near Damascus, killing two people.
Israeli and Western news media reported an Israeli airstrike at a different location, close to the Syrian-Lebanese border. They say the target was a convoy delivering missile parts to Hezbollah, the strongly anti-Israel Shi'ite militia based in Lebanon.
Hezbollah condemned the attack in a statement Thursday and expresses its "full solidarity" with Syria....
It is NOT an unprovoked attack! If Russia doesn't understand that, they
are not and have not paid attention to the long standing assessment of the
region, then Israel's actions are completely defensible at any UN Security
Council. Unlike Syria, Israel operates its military to PREVENT deaths of
citizens and not cause them.
...The Russian Foreign Ministry (click here) says such action, if confirmed, amounts to "unprovoked attacks" against a sovereign nation, in violation of the United Nations charter.
Differing accounts of the Wednesday airstrike have emerged, with Syrian authorities saying Israeli jets fired on a military research facility near Damascus, killing two people.
Israeli and Western news media reported an Israeli airstrike at a different location, close to the Syrian-Lebanese border. They say the target was a convoy delivering missile parts to Hezbollah, the strongly anti-Israel Shi'ite militia based in Lebanon.
Hezbollah condemned the attack in a statement Thursday and expresses its "full solidarity" with Syria....
It is NOT an unprovoked attack! If Russia doesn't understand that, they
are not and have not paid attention to the long standing assessment of the
region, then Israel's actions are completely defensible at any UN Security
Council. Unlike Syria, Israel operates its military to PREVENT deaths of
citizens and not cause them.
