Syria: Hizballah's Actions 'Legitimate'

UPDATE 2:

Ha'aretz - "The latest Israel Defense Forces assessments hold that the two missiles fired against INS Spear and a Cambodian freighter Friday had been smuggled into Lebanon from Syria on Thursday night, prior to the air force attacks on the Damascus-Beirut highway".

- Netanyahu's Chief of Staff when he was Finance Minsiter agreed with me yesterday about Syria and told me that if you want to blow off steam then bomb Lebanon. If you want to solve the problem then bomb Syria. Why haven't we done so, I asked. "Because we lack leadership" he responded.

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UPDATE:

The rockets which are hitting Haifa and have killed at eight people so far were made in Syria.

George Bush said 'see, the irony is what they really need to do is to get Syria to get Hizbullah to stop doing this shit and it's over'.

It's quite clear, and has been for years, that Syria is the major problem here, along of course with Iran.

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Can we please try and ensure that all comments are not pejorative, personal attacks. Disagreement is fine but being rude is not.

I never advocated bombing civilians and the IDF never targets civilians in any of its actions. Perhaps I should have been clearer, but bombing Assad's palaces, air and sea ports, military installations and other targets of the regime's authority and dignity would send a clear message to Syria that Israel will not tolerate its sponsorship of Hizballah and its direct responsibility for the current crisis.

Exactly this type of action in Lebanon has now brought the Lebanese Prime Minister to state that his government will reassert government authority over all Lebanese territory.

Israel’s attacks have also led to an Arab Foreign Ministers Summit in Cairo where the Saudi Foreign Minister called Hizballah’s attack “unexpected, inappropriate and irresponsible acts.” Delegates of Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, the Palestinian Authority, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain supported this stance.

The Syrian delegate condemned the Saudi FM’s stance, but maybe he’d think twice if the IDF was bombing his ministry in Damascus. The Syrians said that Hizballah’s actions were “legitimate acts in line with international resolutions and the UN charter, as acts of resistance.” What methods are there of turning Syria from this point of view, other than inflicting painful and humiliating punishment for the crisis they have provoked?