The inside story of Israel's bombing of the Syrian nuclear reactor

This was a great read. It gave me a lot of insight on how the big decisions were made and some of the motivations of the key players in Bush's second term. I very much liked how Bush let this play out. He basically allowed Israel to take care of its own business while letting Rice develop a plausible UN solution that he knew would be unacceptable to Israel in case it became public and blew up in our faces.

For the US it was a total win. The reactor is gone without direct US military action, Israel was appeased and we got plausible deniability and the ability to look like the good guys if it all went sour.

Funny how Syria is a "regime", while Israel is not - meanwhile the 2.5 million Arabs living in the West Bank are ruled by Jews and have no vote, and no say in anything whatsoever. The Arabs in East Jerusalem have just been completely cut off. Yet Israel is called a "democracy" and bankrolled by my American tax dollars, while countries the Zionists occupy, like Syria (in the Golan Heights) are "regimes".