Ambassador Michael S. Comay, Israel’s delegate at the United Nations, informed the Security Council this weekend that the Israeli air attack on Syrian positions last Thursday was a “strictly limited action” meant as reprisal for the “continual Syrian violence against Israel’s population and territory.”
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