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The Australian
November 1, 2013
Israel is reported to have launched another airstrike on a supply of weapons in Syria.
In what would be Israel’s fifth such reported intervention this year, a supply of Russian-made surface-to-air missiles at a military base near Latakia, a stronghold of the Assad regime, was hit late this week. CNN quoted a US administration source as saying Israel had launched the attack.
The report came as the international agency charged with overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons announced it had disabled all sites known to manufacture such weapons.
Israel’s biggest-selling newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, reported that the leak to CNN revealed a deep rift between Washington and Jerusalem.
“Officials in Washington say that the timing of the strike was not good, to say the least, because yesterday Assad had kept his commitment and enabled the chemical weapons installations to be dismantled,” it said.
“Senior officials in Jerusalem said yesterday that the leaks express the Americans’ fear that the region will be set ablaze.”
The paper said Israeli officials regarded the leak as “particularly severe, particularly since it came from a strategic ally”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Moscow in May to urge President Vladimir Putin to cease exports of certain missiles to Syria, particularly the long-range S-300 missiles.
According to Israel’s Maariv newspaper at the time, Mr Netanyahu suggested to Mr Putin that should Russia go ahead with such exports, Israel would consider destroying them before they became operational.
Israel’s concern about these missiles is that they could be used to shoot down civilian aircraft flying into and out of Israel.
Mr Putin gave no commitment to stop such exports. After that visit, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad claimed that Russia was honouring all its weapons contracts with Syria.
Israel has a policy of not confirming such attacks, but it also has a stated policy that it will strike any weapons that it believes are destined for Hezbollah.
