Israel violates Lebanon airspace to attack Syria: Elias Farhat

Israel violates Lebanon airspace to attack Syria: Elias Farhat

Israeli fighter jets (file photo)

Fri Feb 8, 2013 7:2PM GMT

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Interview with Elias Farhat

...as long as the Israeli warplanes are violating the Lebanese airspace without any respond or any reaction from the United Nations and from the UNIFIL, which is in South Lebanon, Israel may use the Lebanese airspace again to launch an aerial attack against any other target in Syria."

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A political analyst says as long as the Israeli warplanes violate the Lebanese airspace without any reaction from the UN, Israel may use the Lebanese airspace again to launch an aerial attack against any other target in Syria.

The comments came after the Lebanese army said at least 12 Israeli warplanes have violated Lebanon’s airspace, conducting several illegal flights over the country. The airspace violations, which are reported on an almost daily basis, contravene the United Nations Security Council's Resolution 1701, which ended the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006. 

Press TV has conducted an interview with Elias Farhat, political analyst, to further discuss the issue. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview. 

Press TV: When we look at what happened last week in terms of the time before Israel struck on Syrian soil, on the military research facility, there were lots of violations of Lebanese airspace and of course one of their claims was that they had targeted a convoy heading to Lebanon. Are we going to look at Israel perhaps continuing this supposed aim again with these violations of their airspace being twelve times in one day? 

Farhat: Yes, as long as the Israeli warplanes are violating the Lebanese airspace without any respond or any reaction from the United Nations and from the UNIFIL, which is in South Lebanon, Israel may use the Lebanese airspace again to launch an aerial attack against any other target in Syria. 

This means that the Lebanese government has to raise this issue to the Security Council because Israel uses our airspace to attack a third country which is an aggression, an act of aggression using our airspace. 

And we expect that Israel will do it again as soon as it finds it is possible or it sees an opportunity, a political opportunity in the region it can use again the Lebanese airspace to launch another attack against Syria’s sites under the pretext that it attacks convoys for Hezbollah which has been proved to the public opinion that it was completely false and the attack was against a Syrian military scientific site.

Press TV: And I am curious, quickly if you can answer this, is Israel doing this with the pretext that perhaps it’s area that they want to annex in Syria as I am sure you are well aware by targeting Syria which in turn obviously involves violating Lebanon’s airspace? 

Farhat: Yes I believe that Israel is now promoting to what it says an annex of some Syrian soil or enclave in order to protect its borders but any attack to achieve this enclave or to occupy an enclave, it means a war against Syria and any war against Syria will spill over all the region. 

It is impossible for this war to stay in one part in Syria and even if there is a lot of trouble all over Syria, when it comes to confronting Israel I guess the Syrian government will take its decision and defend itself against any Israeli aggression or any expansion on the Syrian soil. 

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