By Stan Goodenough
Sep 12, 2007
Influential left-wing news organizations helped add impetus Tuesday and early Wednesday towards a new Middle East war with wild speculation and un-sourced allegations concerning Israel's reported incursion into Syrian airspace last week.
The unfounded charges appear to be motivated by, among other things, frustration at the Israeli government's ongoing refusal to comment over what Damascus has called a hostile Israeli act.
According to a report in the New York Times Wednesday, Israel has sent its warplanes over Syria on a number of occasions in recent days in order to photograph what could be nuclear installations supplied by North Korea.
The Times attributed its "discovery" to an unnamed Bush administration official.
Earlier, "CNN-lies’" chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour “broke the story” that Israeli planes were long-range F-15 bombers, and that they attacked a weapons consignment en route via Syria to the Lebanese Hizb'allah.
The network's report also suggested that IDF troops may have been inserted into Syria.
Syria, Israel's most implacable Arab foe, has long facilitated Iran's supplying of Hizb'allah with missiles and other weaponry whose ultimate destination is Israel and the destruction of Jewish lives.
Just how authentic Amanpour's story is remains unclear. The journalist, who is no friend of Israel, and who was most recently high-profiled with the international screening of her blatantly-biased television special "God's Warriors," cited US defense officials "speaking on condition of anonymity."
She also "quoted" unnamed sources who, she says, expressed Israel's "happiness" with the results of the attack.
CNN and the New York Times "scoops" successfully ratcheted up another level the already taut atmosphere between Damascus and Jerusalem.
Syria, which has registered complaints about the Israeli "aggression" with the United Nations Secretary-General and the chairman of the Security Council, said Wednesday its response has "not yet come."