Yesterday, an Israeli newspaper stated that President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor Tom Donilon visited Israel secretly over the weekend and stated that it was an attempt to convince Israel not to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.
While the Obama administration is out attempting to persuade Israel not to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities, western military sources yesterday are advising Israel to prepare for a possible Syrian missile attack.
To make matters more concerning, a former Mossad chief Danny Yatom said that Israel is preparing for military action in Syria, if its chemical weapons end up in the hands of Hezbollah.
“The conventional wisdom should be that we cannot exclude a non-conventional attack on Israel,” he said. “We would have to pre-empt in order to prevent it. We need to be prepared to launch even military attacks...and military attacks mean maybe a deterioration to war.”
In February of this year, Israeli officials fear that if Syria’s President Assad falls from power, Hezbollah’s could obtain chemical and biological weapons that could be used against Israel and with Iran flexing its muscle and rhetoric against Israel, this presents intense danger for Israel.
These developments come at a time when Syria is on the verge of a full scale war within its borders, amounting to a full-scale civil war and with violence increasing, there are substantial fears of military strikes, in the form of missiles, into Israel.
On July 29, the Jewish day of Tisha B'Av, a day of mourning and fasting, Republican Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney is scheduled to visit Israel on a fundraising trip at the suggestion of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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