From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. On September 6, Israel seems to have launched an airstrike at a target in northern Syria.

If you crave details, join the crowd.

I wonder if you could tell us what the target was, whether you supported this bombing raid,

and what do you think it does to change the dynamic in an already hot region?

I'm not going to comment on the matter.

Would you like another question?

Did you support it?

I'm not going to comment on the matter.

The governments of Syria and Israel were equally forthcoming,

and with all the other sources on this story anonymous,

it's impossible to tell actual information from politically motivated speculation.

Some say the strike hit weapons-bound for Hezbollah.

Others say it was a dry run for an attack on Iran, and others that it hit a nuclear site set up with the help of North Korea,

with whom America has just forged an anti-nuke agreement. Washington Post-Farne

editor Keith Richberg has seen speculation swirl while the facts remain just out of reach.

It's been a greatly kept secret because normally the Israelis are among the most talkative

officials we speak with covering the world, but on this case, they've been incredibly tight-lipped. There have been a lot of

things coming unofficially out of opposition figures like BB Netanyahu, but nothing really

official. On the other hand, there's been so much sort of unofficially leaking out from John

Bolton, from think tankers, from U.S. officials off the record,

that we seem to be getting a good outline of precisely what this is, but we don't know if it's

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