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“When Israel, the only country in the world whose very existence is under attack, is consistently and conspicuously singled out for condemnation, I believe we are morally obligated to take a stand.” by Canada's PM Harper

Thursday 31 January 2013

Unconventional weapon

There are repeated in quite a few sources reports over Israeli hit at the convoy carrying weapons from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Presumably in this transport were Russian made SA-17 rockets but it is just educated guess.

I am thinking about fear there once was (quite many years ago now but still it is well remembered by many) in Western world over possibility of cold war turning hot - in fact hot as a place hit by nuclear bomb.
Today the danger of THIS particular conflict is gone and we may engage in unending  debate how close were we to war, say during Cuba crisis or on few other occasions. It is a task for historians.

Yet it is not history I think about. There are millions of people living in Israel, there are subsequent millions in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, in region...
Assad's regime was manufacturing and storing unconventional weapons for a long time. And nobody can be sure how much of it and what kind he has. He was thinking rather about his internal opposition but maybe not only. The important thing is it is there, it has been for years, it is deadly, and Assad's regime hasn't done it on his own, he was helped by some countries while other governments turned blind eye not caring to know, to blow the whistle, it was far away...
Well it is NOT! The breaking of the international law on producing and spreading atomic, biological and chemical weapons was purposefully broken (or let to be broken). The world keeps turning blind eye on domestic war in Syria already responsible for 60,000 casualties and millions of badly affected. It is immoral! Yet there is much more at stake.
 Like regional attack by whoever of terrorist organizations comes into possession of unconventional weapons and uses them. Like transferring those weapons through leaking borders further into the world. Like using it on civil planes (including biological factors which could be detected only when it is long too late).
There is enough unconventional weapons in Syria, fanatical madmen in various terrorist organizations and   cold-blooded efficient strategists working for those organizations to feel uneasiness. No matter where you live.
It is enough people under threat on spot to feel urge to do something!

Something has been done. And I am pretty sure (already spotted some of the comments-to-come) that there will be callings that Israeli planes were in breach of Syrian territory, that it is against UN charter (obviously producing, gathering these weapons, domestic war and bombing refugees including Palestinian refugees camps (I mention it as anti-Israeli activists usually using "Palestinian refugees" word as comas in sentences this time were reluctant to talk about it) were in accordance with the charter). And everybody will just assume that it is not their problem as Israel will take care of the threat and they will be safe to discuss if it was just and what does it theoretically mean.
I hope Israel will take care. For the sake of Israelis, Syrians, Lebanese and all those who think (but are wrong) they live to far to be affected.

It was a sin and a crime in moral sense (and in many cases in legal as well) to let those weapons be there, to let so many be affected by them and not to try and diminish this threat.

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