Lebanese Prime Minister: Scud Missile Accusation Akin To Iraqi WMDs

Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006.

Recently the Israeli government accused the Syrian regime of supplying the Lebanese party-cum-militia Hezbollah with Scud missiles. Israel has not offered any proof of this accusation, but its president has personally pronounced it.

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Not surprisingly, the United States has, for all intends and purposes, endorsed the unproven Israeli claim. The Obama administration has not explicitly stated that it believes it to be true, but has taken the accusation as worthy and recently has postponed sending the new U.S. ambassador to Syria for Senate confirmation.

Syria, Hezbollah, Lebanon and now Egypt deny the Israeli claim. Lebanon's pro-American prime minister has compared the claim that Hezbollah has received Scud missiles as akin to the Bush administration's claim that Saddam Hussein maintained stockpiles of WMDs.

And Egypt's foreign minister has stated that “these allegations are lies and are laughable" and Cairo will stand with Syria and Lebanon against Israel.

And there is also the question of why would Syria even attempt such a thing. Syria is currently in the process of a rapprochement with the United States, why would it sacrifice all that on the eve of a Senate confirmation for the new U.S. ambassador? There is no motive because there is no tactical gain from shipping these weapons to Hezbollah.

All this is an Israel lie to 1) distract from Israel's continued illegal settlement building and get Obama to stop pressuring Israel and 2) to give Israel a false pretext it seeks to go to war against Hezbollah after Israel's failure in 2006 to defeat the Shiite militia. And maybe even to go to war against Syria.

Another Israeli war is brewing in the region.