Israeli Jets Bomb Syrian Military Site
In what was the first clear instance of aggression by Israel toward Syria, overnight Israeli jets conducted a bombing run over a military site in Syria, targeting what according to Israel was a military convoy heading to Lebanon. As Al Arabiya reports: "Israeli jets bombed a convoy on Syria's border with Lebanon on Wednesday, sources told Reuters, apparently targeting weapons destined for Hezbollah in what some called a warning to Damascus not to arm Israel's Lebanese enemy. "The target was a truck loaded with weapons, heading from Syria to Lebanon," said one Western diplomat, adding that the consignment may well have included anti-aircraft missiles. The overnight attack, which several sources placed on the Syrian side of the border, followed warnings from Israel that it was ready to act to prevent the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad leading to Syria's chemical weapons and modern rockets reaching either his Hezbollah allies or his Islamist enemies."
More on the target and location of the attack:
A source among the Syrian rebels said an air strike around dawn (0430 GMT) blasted a convoy on a mountain track about 5 kilometres (3 miles) south of where the main Damascus-Beirut highway crosses the border. Its load probably included high-tech anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles, but not chemical weapons.
"It attacked trucks carrying sophisticated weapons from the regime to Hezbollah," the source said, adding that it took place inside Syria, though the border is poorly defined in the area.
A regional security source said the target was weaponry given by Assad's military to fellow Iranian ally Hezbollah:
"This episode boils down to a warning by Israel to Syria and Hezbollah not to engage in the transfer of sensitive weapons," the source said. "Assad knows his survival depends on his military capabilities and he would not want those capabilities neutralised by Israel - so the message is this kind of transfer is simply not worth it, neither for him nor Hezbollah."
With official secrecy shrouding the event, few details were corroborated by multiple sources. All those with knowledge of the event - from several countries - spoke anonymously.
There was no comment from the Israeli or Syrian governments nor Hezbollah. Israel's ally the United States declined all comment. A Lebanese security source said its territory was not hit, though the army reported a heavy presence of Israeli jets through the night after days of unusually frequent incursions.
Iran has previously warned that any attack on Syria is the same as an attack on Iran. For now, however, Iran has not issued a statement:
There was no immediate comment on the incident from Tehran, which Israel views as its principal enemy and with which it is engaged in a bitter confrontation over Iran's nuclear programme.
Perhaps what is more interesting is how Russia and/or China which have made clear that Syria is a strategic geopolitical center for bnoth in the past will react, if at all.
Keep an eye on Brent as the middle east may be finally coming out of hibernation.
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Castro had the right idea concerning the Rockefellers.
Yeah, but who funded him? And for what purpose?
A 4 front war for Israel.. Syria ,Lebanon, Egypt and Iran. It's gonna get ugly.
yeah, just like in '67. or '73. Hopefully they can use this as an excuse to rid themselves of self-hating progressive shitheads and then whip the living piss out of the muslims again.
Then maybe we can use it as an excuse to rid our damn selves of self-hating progressive shitheads, too. That's really all we need, you know. An excuse.
do it without US help and then we'll see. Israel is like the mouthy little schoolyard punk that has a big brother to watch his back
exactly....
and big brother is broke and gots his ass cheeks spread all over the globe...
just a matter of time before "the victims" get theirs something proper....
or that 140 lb dick neck with a nom de blog that he wouldn't amount to a pimple on the ass of?
YEAH, THAT GUY!
hey cock-knocker- how about the family of the native Indian that used to live on the land your cardboard box now occupies comes and tells you some crazy-assed book said it "rightfully belongs to them" and you should get your ass off of it-and if you don't we'll kick you off at the point of a gun? sound familiar
Pharisee/Government Troll.
weird how these guys pop out of the woodwork to comment on stories about Israel
They are agent provocateurs or they are neo-con imbeciles who believe what FOX and Charles Krauthammer tell them. The 'Chosen' are nothing less than the Pharisees who rejected and crucified Christ, who specifically taught of a new convenant that superceded the old covenant. They are a fine lot to throw a nation's moral and fiscal treasures behind...
The petrodollar must roll on!
To the Pharisees, Babylonian Talmudic Judean impersonators : "ye are of your father the devil..." John 8:44
They are of Esau/ Edom, against Jacob and true Israel:
"Edom is in Jewry" - Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925, Volume 5, p.41
"The modern Jew is the product of the Talmud." – Michael Rodkinson, in preface of Babylonian Talmud, page XI.
Romans 9:13 - "As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated".
More info: www.anglo-saxonisrael.com
Careful, you might get what you wish for. Israel's best and brightest "self-hating progressive shitheads" emigrate to Europe and the US, leaving behind a bunch of Russian immigrant settlers. The future looks very dim for Israel.
Syria TV: Israel attacked military research center near Damascus http://www.haaretz.com/ Fuck Israel, fight your own god damned wars. Yes they are GOD DAMNED... You are FUCKEN CHOSEN BY GOD, AND THERE IS NO GOD> NOW FUCK OFF!Thank you!
Keep it up, Gerty. At shit rate you'll have a fatal heart attack. Schweeeeetttttt!!!!
Who told Mossad why, what, when, and where? As a famous man once said about "the rest of the story". It was certainly not the CIA.
Hagel wrote a full-on apology letter to Babs Boxer that he would be a good little Hebe/AIPAC boot licker from now on
Hey Israel, bombs away! Just make sure you fight you're own fucking war! And, without costing me any fucking money cause I'm busy financing the U.S.'s wars, thank you.
Even geopolitical tensions ar QE'd! This must not be serious.
Shouldn't make the news, Israel can bomb anyone they care to anywhere, including U.S. Navy ships in neutral waters. Just protecting themselves y'know.
Shouldn't make the news, Israel routinely bomb anyone they care to anywhere, including U.S. Navy ships in neutral waters. Just protecting themselves y'know.
There, fixed it for you
Now I prepare to commit suicide by shooting myself in the back with my offhand
Not that anyone would care.
Let me make sure I have this straight. Syria is having a devil of a time getting arms to combat it's "rebels" but it is also supplying arms to Lebanon, and Israel has the right to bomb them preemptively...sure why not. Why not say that Assad is being possessed by the spirit of Hitler and Zombie Pirate Osama Bin Ladin has awakened the Kraken and will close off the Straights of Hormuz.
No need for all that. Read some of them stories in the Bible and the Koran and it will all make sense. Got I hope they finally just kill each other back to the stone age so the rest of us can get on with life. Fuck JEWS FUCK MUSLIMS
Stop making sense. You wanna fit in here, right?
that strategy is sound, not foolish. assha(t)d is gonna lose his turf...he knows it. he get his buddies to throw a few at israel from lebanon and have israel take the bait....shift the 'war' to arab v israel, not dickhead assha(t)d vs whoever.....
the proof lies in the pudding, i suggest. iran chose to lay quiet. its intel must have confirmed....i bet that israel and iran talk on this topic often.
just a guess.
:)
its NOW OR NEVER...sings Netty yahoo !
Netanyahu Tells America To Bomb Iran - Business Insider
Fuck the Zionist Entity...
i really do wish China and Russia would step up and just say
"back the fuck up or get blown the fuck up...."
Hitler must be laughing in his grave at what he's created.....
who said he was dead?
Gerrard Williams and Simon Dunstan tell us that Hitler has been dead since 1962.
Yes, he supposedly lived out his life in SA as a painter of small post-cards.
So Von Manstein, is china going to what... walk... to Israel? No force projection capability.
Ditto for the Russians. Rusting in harbors. All but toothless now.
Sure, they've got the Big Sticks, but if they light one up they fear the reprisals. MAD still works with sane peoples.
Now, the muzzies, that's entirely different. Which is why everyone, everyone is afaid of Old Yeller. And Iran. Because once the hydrophoby sets in, there's no controlling them any longer.
Ever heard of Sunburn missiles?
they would turn the Straights of Hormuz into a shooting gallery
i use dermatologists recommended neutron egena lotion for my protection from sunburns.
russia still has some muscle-good air/sea missiles- Isreal would have to think twice
And it won't be game on until Russia has equipped Syria with enough Iskander batteries so Assad can defend all of Syria's borders.
Judging by that Mossad-sponsored video Bibi is not impressed...
"MAD still works with sane peoples."
Yet, we have Israel bombing a highly unstable country with highly unstable allies, and the US engaging in full-on monetary war via Ctrl-P. What the fuck were you saying about sanity again?
The only redeeming quality I find in Obama is he seems to be less than a willing participant in Israel's imperialistic affairs. Perhaps we will find out how capable Israel is in defending itself. The world might be a better place after Israel vs. Iran, China and Russia. One can dream.
Sooo...you believe the rhetoric of a constitution shedding politician? Really?
Ahhh no. Read my commentary again. "One redeeming quality". One as in singular. Can we all agree we don't need AIPAK running this country?
WTF is so hard about recognizing puppets? You'd think the inability to form a coherent thought while away from a teleprompter would be a tell.
Apparently not.
+1!
Slow down, the yids have the right to protect the "European Interests" too.
Chutzpah knows no limits. No wonder Goldman's Saks predicted $150 oil.
JP Morgan Chase bought our SPR at auction, 1.1 million barrels for 116.8 million. Corrrect me if I'm wrong?
And I looked, and beheld a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Now, and I never get this straight, does the mark of the beast (666) save you or get you roasted for eternity? Is there some kind of decoder for this stuff?
DISCLOSURE: IMHO All that apocalyptic stuff is CRAP. Hell & Heaven co-exist right here, right now, on this Earth. You may have the key to either in hand right now.
Everytime a sword is rattled along the east coast of the Mediterrenean, someone cries "Revelation!".
The Mark of the Beast was a numerological warning about Nero, later the numbers were changed to represent Diocletian, i.e. tyrants that sought to exterminate the church. At least, that's the best explanation I've seen.