PM convenes security cabinet amid Syria concerns
PM convenes security cabinet amid Syria concerns | JPost | Israel News.
( This story dovetails quit nicely with the previous story about an Israeli attack on a chemical site. – JW )
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened his security cabinet Sunday for an in-depth discussion of the situation in Syria.
The meeting was believed to be the first in-depth discussion on the matter by the new security cabinet since the new government was formed in mid-March, and reportedly dealt with different scenarios the country had to prepare for. The meeting came following a determination by military intelligence, later corroborated by the US, that Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against his opponents..
The security cabinet is made up of Netanyahu, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, Finance Minister Yair Lapid Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett and Communications and Home Front Defense Minister Gilad Erdan.
Before the meeting the Prime Minister asked his ministers not to discuss the situation in Syria without coordinating first with his office. A day earlier government officials stressed that, following the US admission that Assad had in fact used chemical weapons, Israel was not calling on the US to take any particular course of action.
Nevertheless, Environmental Protection Minister Amir Peretz told reporters before Sunday’s cabinet meeting that it was incumbent upon the US and the international community to take action to halt the carnage in Syria.
WarSclerotic 
April 29, 2013 at 4:15 PM
Netanyahu has just said that Iran didn’t cross the red line, yet, and that Yadlin assertion was inexact. Hearing Bibi ”defending” Iran is like hearing ”ok, boys, be ready” for me.
April 29, 2013 at 5:22 PM
Probably a ‘curve ball’. Methinks something’s afoot.
April 29, 2013 at 7:45 PM
The actual politic-militarily situation, with Hezbollah into Syria, Iran in Syria also, WMD changing hands as we speak and many other wild cards, well, in such a strategic constellation, I would expect Israel to act presto in Iran, even a limited operation, like stinging them and preparing the next.
April 29, 2013 at 9:37 PM
Off topic but THIS is insanity.
The Boston Globe now trying to find the motives of the Boston bombers without mentioning the words terror, muslim, islam or jihad.
Boston Globe: Potential psychological explanations behind bombings
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/massachusetts/2013/04/28/older-father-figure-may-have-had-undue-influence-young-bombing-suspect/7wdY0MKZp4d8DVdSmJ8pJM/story.html
April 30, 2013 at 2:12 AM
so there now on the right track,as all the people that know anything have been silenced
April 29, 2013 at 10:16 PM
This is not a game of chess. It is a game of global risk and the final moves are being played out right now.
April 30, 2013 at 2:20 AM
Its only luck were winning on we may well need another Monty and Churchill soon,i hope the Americans have some people like that we just about do ,will there voices be listened to
April 29, 2013 at 11:01 PM
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