Reputação e o Valor da Palavra

Num país onde ser falastrão é mérito, poucos conseguem entender a lógica israelense do ataque a Syria na semana passada: A top Israeli official suggested Sunday that his government was behind an airstrike in Syria last week. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak didn't explicitly confirm or deny his government's involvement in the fighter jet attack, which a senior U.S. official has said targeted a weapons convoy suspected of moving weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon. But Barak's remarks at a security conference in Munich, Germany, appeared to be the first public comment by an Israeli official on the incident. "I cannot add anything to what you've read in the newspapers about ... what happened in Syria several days ago, but I keep telling, frankly, that we've said -- and that's another proof that when we say something we mean it -- we say that we don't think that it should be allowable to bring advanced weapon systems into Lebanon."