Wednesday proved to be a tough one for the Israelis as they awoke to breaking news on their TV screens of a video of Israel warplanes destroying the Syrian reactor on September 6, 2007, under a mission named ‘Outside the box’, displayed on their screens.
It has been seen as quite odd that this news came up after a decade of the actual event. According to Israeli local news organizations, they were barred by the government and not allowed to release this news as “it may bring in massive insults and hatred from all over the world”. Officials released justification regarding the ban on the news as “it was censored to avoid humiliation and retaliation”. The publication of the news has caused international tension on the situation of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The released stated purpose of breaking the silence was to warn all who threaten the existence of Israel. It has been said it was done to show that none of such establishments would be allowed to continue any longer. And an intended move by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on releasing the video, was to urge the US and others to take a more severe action on Iran. With this, Israel gave an open threat to Iran and its ongoing influence in Syrian politics.
However, the backlash started a huge blame game among former officials to protect themselves from the constant rebukes and disagreement concerning this move. It has been stated that few people knew about the reactor in Syria and so, in a bid to use the information to their advantage, Israeli officials took a cunning step with the release of the video but it then caused an uproar.
