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sumber dalam pentadbiran Obama berkata Israel bertang-gungjawab 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 pelabuhan
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
apapun 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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