The international “Circus” and the massacre in Syria

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This is a “bloody” joke. The world looks at the atrocities in Syria as if it is a football game. The Americans and the Europeans are very busy in meetings about the situation that are not worth the paper of the invitation to participate.

Locking at the very sad circus , Israel can draw only one conclusion – it will have to take care of its security alone without any help that will only get the shape of more fruitless talks.

The U.N. is useless , the U.S. is useless the Europeans are useless . This because they are not threatened directly by a country like Syria. But euphoria can change overnight when Al Qaida  is penetrating deeper into any crack in Syria,

All this happens in spite of the fact that the U.S. has again confirmed that Chemical weapons have been used at least twice in attacks during the Syrian civil war.

“The intelligence community has agreed with varying levels of confidence that chemical weapons were used in small amounts in at least two instances in Syria,” Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman told American lawmakers, according to AFP. “But having high confidence up in the intelligence community, for which I have great admiration, is not in fact all that one needs to take some of the actions that many people have contemplated.”

In recent weeks, the US government has intimated that the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime against its own people would potentially constitute the crossing of a “red line” for possible military intervention. Still, US President Barack Obama claimed two weeks ago that the intelligence about the use of chemical weapons in Syria was still not sufficient.

In Syria, each side has accused the other of wielding deadly chemical weapons during the devastating civil war that broke out in 2011, but Sherman did not point a finger at either side. The White House is blaming the country’s embattled President Bashar Assad of using chemical weapons.

On Friday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that there is “strong evidence” that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons against its people.

Talk of increased Western intervention in Syria has grown louder in the wake of Israeli accusations that Assad attacked civilians with sarin nerve gas on multiple occasions.

Again all there is right now is talk. Israel is prepared to defend itself with all it has and that is a lot.