U.S. tells Israel: Leave Syria to Washington

[lovuian]

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/634568.html

U.S. tells Israel: Leave Syria to Washington

By Yoav Stern, Aluf Benn and Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondents, News Agencies and Haaretz Service

The United States has asked Israel to keep out of efforts to bring pressure to bear on Syria, and to leave things to Washington's devices.

Messages in this vein have been repeated recently on a number of occasions, with U.S. officials asking Israel to stay out of things whenever their Israeli counterparts have raised the situation in Syria during talks.

Government sources said Saturday that they had no knowledge of a so-called "Gadhafi package deal" that the Americans had offered Syria to bring it in from the international cold, as reported in the London Times newspaper

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Testy Bush & company!!!

[sarcasmo]

1. Stop the Insanity. Looks like Syria's bombing will come after the 06

elections.

[HuffleClaw]

6. i'm guessin really really soon

if they are as desperate for a distraction as much as i suspect they are

[teryang]

2. Leave Washinton to Israel n/t

[Gyre]

3. Israel lunging on the leash

Is the image that comes to mind. Nice!

Gyre

[PurityOfEssence]

4. We'll call you when we need your military

You may be confused by the power of the PNAC, but the United States runs you; you don't run the United States. (pause for muffled laughter...)

We'll gin up the excuse to invade and destroy Syria, you just keep the IDF on a hair trigger and shut the fuck up.

These are exciting times for warlords looking to settle old scores.

[mallard]

5. Re: no deals in the works

"Government sources said Saturday that they had no knowledge of a so-called 'Gadhafi package deal' that the Americans had offered Syria to bring it in from the international cold, as reported in the London Times newspaper.

If they don't know about it already, it must not mean much.