Sunday January 1, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

Israel's head of Military Intelligence just charged that the missiles shot into Israel by Hezbollah are Russian-made and that Hezbollah got the missiles from Syria.

Russia responded by saying that it was impossible. The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said, "there are no and can be no grounds..." "The system of Russian weapons export is one of the safest." "The arms export control system we have developed is one of the strictest and most reliable in the world. It rules out any possibility of misuse of weapons."

Israel's Intel Chief knows how it happened. He said that Russia sells to Syria with the promise that Syria not transfer the weapons.
Russia must trust the Syrians more than the Israelis trust them.

Those missiles got fired into Israel. It is easy to trace because missiles do not totally destroy on impact and every missile manufacturer has very distinct characters. On several occasions in the last year high level Israelis, including the prime minister, met with Russian leaders asking them to stop supplying Syria and Iran. All to no avail.

Something is wrong.
Just because Syria promises not to transfer missiles does not mean they do not get transferred. I would not be surprised if Syria argued that Hezbollah is a branch of the Syrian Army.
We know that Hezbollah is trained and paid by Syria.