Assad revokes citizenship of politician who visited Knesset

...Israel is violating international law every day! I stress every day!... Every single days since 1967 war between Arab-Israel (they have been violating 4 th Geneva Convention everydays, rejecting the UNSC Resolution # 242, etc.). They got away with illegal targeted killings, building illegal settlements, driven people from their homelands, massacres, ethnic cleansings. This Assad reaction on Syrian politician was none of their business whatsoever, although I personally disagree about what Assad did to Ghadry. Democratization is very important to the country like Syria and Egypt.

What was not printed was Syria's massacre of it's own people at Hama (if I recall), Thousands were slaughtered, similar to the NAZI persectution of Jews and others. Syria is a dictatorship. It's economy is in shambles, yet it is purchasing billions in military aid from Russia, using Iran's nickel. It's help during our first Gulf War, was a farce..just for show. It's latest denial of citizen rights, is just one of many criminal and illegal activities it's involved with. The real law breaker is not Israel, nor is Israel above the law. When your country's existence is at stake, under international law, you as a country have the right to protect yourself. If Syria nukes did in fact hit Tel Aviv, would those who are critical of Israel, cry one tear? I think we know the answer. Israel sent a message that Assad, if he were not so blind, would pay attention to.

Uh oh! It's the big scary evil Zionists! Heaven forbid that they defend themselves by striking the nuclear-weapons generating military target of an extremist theocratic/autocratic government (resulting in precisely zero civilian deaths!). You want to discuss violations of international law? The Syrian government is the definition of "violation of international law," you doublethinking schmuck.

If only Israel filled in the dots of the tactics and strategy that the Arabs are using (as well as commensurate propaganda) it would have a bigger edge of it's enemies. I agree with your post completely., very insightful. I'm not posting this just to be complimentary. It's the right analysis. Hopefully, somebody of importance is looking. Syria w/o Egypt cannot sustain a war with Israel, and it knows the reality. However, by itself, it has created a lot of trouble, supporting Hezbollah, interfering in Lebanon, etc. It has treaties with Iran, which, may, or may not mean anything. Minimally, I see Iran contributing in any war effort, as best as it can for now. But it doesn't want to give Israel the pretext to take out it's nuclear sites. (30 in all). Experts say, the US would need 2 weeks to do a complete job. Israel could send 30F15s and 16, with lesser results. US and EU money will continue however. Iran will aid Syria for the foreseeable future. When will Israel show it's true muscle?

Marcel, Israel and Syria are still technically in a state of war. There's no peace treaty between the two states. Violating airspace of one country by another in a time of war isn't called international law violation. Syria's facilitation of weapons delivery to Hizbullah isn't an act of peace either.

You know the Syria that has had an ongoing proxy war with Israel using Lebanese and other mercenaries,because they are too gutless to fight themselves. Remember the three no's of Khartoum.

Not to mention other traitors who call for war and destruction against Israel while taking Israeli taxpayers money.

#3 Marcel: let's hear you talk after some Pals kill one of your relatives.

Marcel, you must understand one thing, there is absolutely no room for fascism in any way shape or form to exist on this planet...heck, if not for fascism, there would be 60 million more people on this planet and who knows what kind of artistic or intellectual granduer these people could have brought...secondly, yes, in this case Israel is above the law, Nazism and Israel are like oil and water, they simply are not miscible...and by the way, if Montreal was building nuclear reactors with the intention of harming Toronto, well I do beleive that your government would act accordingly, just like the Israelis did...by the way, the Maple Leafs are looking terrible this year!

Ghadry appears to be a person of conscience and genuine commitment to peace. It's no wonder that his overtures would be dismissed and denigrated by an austere regime that favours violence over dialogue.

And we give importance to that rotten regime!

"Citizenship revocation is a rare move that under certain circumstances can be viewed as a violation of international law." When israeli Minister of Interior threathens to strip israeli neo-nazi from their citizenship is it a violation of international law? Zionist are always thinking one way. Their way. Israel is violating international law every day! I stress every day! Violating syrian air space is VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW no matter what the motives are.

This action, no doubt in response to what happened last week in Syria, should show the extreme left in Israel that young Assad has no potential to be a Syrian Anwar Sadat. Assad has too weak a regime and is too dependent on Iran to be serious about peace, but is waiting until he gets enough new arms to stage a short war with Israel on the Golan in which his regime still has a chance to survive and get a quick ceasefire thanks to the international community and Russia. Assad may argue that both Olmert and Abbas are equally weak, but Olmert is proped-up by a still strong IDF, and Abbas by American and EU money. So Assad, Man of Peace, waits, but for war.

Yes, Syria wants peace. They just haven't said exactly when they want it and whom they want it with. But that shouldn't stop the do-gooders at the EU and other places in the world from spending the next couple of years jumping up and down and insisting Israel hand over the Golan Heights to Assad. We Israelis keep getting these signals from Syria that only reinforce our doubts about Syria's intentions. Others might think that Syria wants peace, but it doesn't look to us like they do.