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SitiWanMahani - Selepas sumber dalam pentadbiran Obama berkata Israel bertanggung-jawab untuk serangan Rabu pada asas peluru berpandu Syria, seorang penganalisis Israel memberi amaran bahawa risiko Amerika Syarikat memulakan ‘yang sangat besar meluapkan.’
Tentera Udara Israel menyerang sebuah pangkalan tentera berhampiran bandar pela-buhan Syria Latakia, mensasarkan peluru berpandu dibuat Rusia SA 125 yang tuntutan Israel telah bersedia untuk dipindahkan kepada Hizbullah di Lubnan, seorang pegawai keselamatan memberitahu AP.
Seorang pegawai White House mengesahkan serangan itu berlaku dalam sekelip mata Khamis, tetapi dengan syarat tidak ada maklumat tambahan.
Pegawai-pegawai bercakap dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan kerana mereka tidak diberi kuasa untuk membincangkan secara terbuka butiran serangan itu.
Walau bagaimanapun, tiada Israel atau Syria mengesahkan bahawa serangan tentera apa-pun yang telah berlaku.
Israel mematuhi oleh dasar tidak pernah mengulas mengenai insiden itu, sebaliknya, Tel Aviv menegaskan bahawa Israel tidak akan membenarkan senjata canggih untuk lulus ke tangan Hizbullah melalui wilayah Syria.
Tuduhan mendorong menegur keras pada malam Jumaat dari Israel Channel 10, yang dikenali sebagai kebocoran Amerika “skandal,” sambil menambah bahawa ia adalah “tidak masuk akal” untuk sekutu Israel untuk bertindak dalam apa-apa cara.
Channel Israel 2, seperti yang dipetik oleh ‘Times of Israel’, berkata kebocoran “datang secara langsung dari White House,” dan menyatakan bahawa “ini bukan kali pertama” bahawa pentadbiran Obama telah menunjukkan jari pada Israel, berikutan beberapa serbuan ke atas sasaran Syria.
Saluran ini pergi setakat untuk mencadangkan pertimbangan yang telah diberikan kepada mewujudkan panel untuk menyiasat sumber-sumber yang dipercayai di dalam Pentagon, walaupun ia tidak memberi sebarang petunjuk tentang bagaimana kerajaan asing mungkin boleh meminta langkah sedemikian terhadap tentera negara lain pusat arahan.
Penganalisis tentera Channel 2, Roni Daniel, berkata dasar Israel berdiam diri sama ada ia dijalankan serangan seperti itu dibenarkan untuk mengekalkan deniability munasabah, supaya Presiden Syria Bashar Assad tidak merasa dipaksa untuk bertindak balas terhadap serangan itu.
Walau bagaimanapun, ini seolah-olah telah menjadi lonjakan besar keparcayaan pada sebahagian daripada kerajaan Israel, kerana Menteri Luar Syria, Walid Moallem, memberi amaran pada akhir Mei “jika Israel menyerang lagi, kami akan bertindak balas dengan segera.”
Para cendekiawan politik Israel berhujah White House, dengan secara terbuka bocor berita tindakan Israel,”. Menolak Assad lebih dekat ke tahap di mana dia tidak boleh menelan serangan ini, dan akan bertindak balas “Daniel menyimpulkannya: “Kemudian mungkin Amerika Syarikat akan bertepuk tangan kerana ia akan telah memulakan satu yang sangat besar meluapkannya. "
Ini bukan kali pertama Israel telah dituduh oleh Amerika Syarikat bagi menjalankan serangan ke atas wilayah Syria. Pada 5 Julai, 2013, Tentera Udara Israel disyaki mensasarkan pemasangan tentera di Latakia yang didakwa ditempatkan Russian peluru berpandu anti- kapal Yakhont, senjata canggih yang pegawai Israel sebelum ini berkata mereka tidak akan membenarkan untuk sampai ke Syria.
Berita serangan berupa Israel datang di tengah-tengah perang Syria awam yang hampir menarik campur tangan tentera Amerika Syarikat, berikutan serangan senjata kimia misteri pada 21 Ogos di pinggir bandar Damsyik yang menyebabkan beratus-ratus kematian dan kecederaan.
Dengan tindakan ketenteraan yang berlaku, Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin berjaya dalam memajukan pelan bersetuju bahawa Syria akan memusnahkan semua senjata kimia itu, di bawah naungan Pertubuhan bagi Larangan Senjata Kimia (OPCW).
Setakat ini, kerajaan Syria telah bekerjasama dengan penyiasatan di tengah-tengah suasana yang tegang di dalam negara itu, dan seperti yang ditunjukkan oleh tindakan jelas Israel, dan juga di luarnya.
‘Scandalous’: Israel fumes as US officials spill the beans
on Syrian missile strike . . .
After sources in the Obama administration said Israel was responsible for Wednesday’s attack on a Syrian missile base, an Israeli analyst warned that the US risks starting ‘a very major flare-up.’
The Israeli Air Force struck a military base near the Syrian port city of Latakia, targeting Russian-made SA 125 missiles that Israel claims were set to be transferred to Hezbollah in Lebanon, a security official told AP.
A White House official confirmed the attack happened overnight Thursday, but provided no additional information.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the attack.
However, neither Israel nor Syria confirmed that a military strike of any sort had occurred.
Israel abides by a policy of never commenting on such incidences; rather, Tel Aviv reiterated that Israel will not allow advanced weapons to pass into the hands of Hezbollah via Syrian territory.
The accusation prompted a harsh rebuke on Friday night from Israeli Channel 10, which called the American leak “scandalous,” adding that it was “unthinkable” for Israel’s ally to be acting in such a way.
Israel’s Channel 2, as quoted by the Times of Israel, said the leak “came directly from the White House,” and noted that “this is not the first time” that the Obama administration has pointed the finger at Israel, following a number of raids on Syrian targets.
The channel went so far as to suggest that consideration had been given to establishing a panel to investigate the sources, believed to be inside the Pentagon, although it gave no indication as to how a foreign government could possibly invoke such a measure against another country’s military command center.
Channel 2′s military analyst, Roni Daniel, said Israel’s policy of remaining silent on whether it carried out such attacks permitted it to maintain plausible deniability, so that Syria’s President Bashar Assad did not feel compelled to respond to the attacks.
However, this seems to have been a large leap of faith on the part of the Israeli government, since Syrian Foreign Minister, Walid Moallem, warned at the end of May “if Israel attacks again, we will retaliate immediately."
The Israeli political pundit argued the White House, by publicly leaking news of Israel’s actions, “are pushing Assad closer to the point where he can’t swallow these attacks, and will respond.” Daniel concluded: “Then perhaps the US will clap its hands because it will have started a very major flare-up.”
This is not the first time Israel has been accused by the United States for carrying out attacks on Syrian territory. On July 5, 2013, the Israeli Air Force was suspected of targeting a military installation in Latakia that allegedly housed Russian Yakhont anti-ship missiles, an advanced weapon that Israeli officials previously said they would not allow to reach Syria.
News of Israel’s purported attack comes amid the Syrian civil war that nearly attracted US military intervention, following a mysterious chemical weapons attack on August 21 in the suburbs of Damascus that resulted in hundreds of deaths and injuries.
With military action looking imminent, Russian President Vladimir Putin succeeded in advancing an agreed plan that would have Syria destroy all of it chemical weapons, under the auspices of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Thus far, the Syrian government has been cooperating with the investigators amid a tense atmosphere both inside the country, and, as indicated by Israel’s apparent actions, outside as well.
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