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Fears Of Another Mid-East War After Israel Conducts Air Strikes In Syria
"Israel is trying to divert attention from the defeat that it suffered in the face of the determination of the hero prisoner, Mohammed Allan."
That’s from a spokesperson for the subtly named Islamic Jihad, a rebel group whose leadership is based in Damascus. Mohammed Allan had been starving himself for more than two months while in Israeli detention. He apparently decided to start eating again on Wednesday after Israel’s high court suspended his arrest warrant.
This "defeat", Islamic Jihad claims, prompted Israel to blame the group for a rocket attack that hit an Israeli village on Thursday.
The rockets fell harmlessly into the brush and even if they hadn't, Israel had deployed Iron Dome interceptors "as a precaution," so in the event citizens were at risk, the missiles likely would have been shot down, but nevertheless, the Israeli military retaliated in characteristically disproportionate fashion striking targets in the Syrian Golan Heights "five or six times" on Friday. Here’s Reuters:
Israeli officials said two rockets struck close to a northern village in the upper Galilee, near the Lebanese border, setting off brush fires but causing no casualties. Air-raid sirens had sent residents to shelters.
The attack was unusual as that frontier had been largely quiet since the 2006 war between Israel and the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah. By contrast, the Israeli-occupied Golan, about 16 km (10 miles) to the east, has occasionally come under fire from within Syria during the four-year-old civil war there.
An Israeli military source said the air force and artillery had struck "five or six times" in the Syrian Golan.
Syrian state TV confirmed Israeli strikes had hit, but said only material damage was done after "several missiles" targeted a transportation center and a public building in the Quneitra area near the Israeli frontier.
Rebel sources in Syria, however, said the strikes hit some of Damascus's military facilities on the Golan. A monitor initially reported casualties but did not elaborate.
For their part, Israel says a cell within the group fired the rockets at the behest of an unnamed "Iranian commander." That commander is apparently now dead, along with at least three out of four militants whose car was the target of the Israeli airstrikes.
More from Hareetz:
On Friday morning, an Israeli aircraft struck a car carrying five people in Syria. According to Syrian state TV, the attack took place in a village near Quneitra but gave no further details. According to the IDF, four were killed in the attack, while the condition of the fifth was unknown. It said that the men were members of the Islamic Jihad.
In Syria, there were conflicting reports as to the identity of those killed in the attack. Sources in the Syrian opposition said that five people were killed in the attack, including an Iranian commander. Syrian state TV said the five were civilians.
A senior Israeli officer told reporters on Friday that the IDF was tracking the cell following the rocket attack. He said that the decision to target them was reached after intelligence information confirmed that they fired the rockets on Thursday.
The strike was carried out at the center of the Syrian Golan Heights, ten kilometers from the border with Israel. The senior officer stressed that the attack took place in an area controlled by the Syrian army.
"We have no wish to continue heating up [the border], but to protect the security of the State of Israel and its northern border," the officer said. He stressed that the militants received their directions from Iran.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel "has no intention to escalate the events, but our (Israel's) policy stands. He added: "The states rushing to embrace Iran should know that an Iranian commander gave the cell orders to fire at Israel."
The implications here are as yet unclear, but there are two things worth noting.
First, Islamic Jihad is openly backed by Iran. Should the conflict escalate it will likely serve as further ammunition (figuratively speaking) for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been a sharp critic of the nuclear deal which is currently the subject of fierce debate among US lawmakers ahead of an attempt by Republicans to undercut the agreement and override a Presidential veto next month. From FT:
[The attacks] came as Israel delivered a demarche to the six world powers who signed a nuclear deal with Iran, which it blames for having co-ordinated the rocket attack.
“This is another clear and blatant demonstration of Iran’s continued and unabating support and involvement in terrorist attacks against Israel and in the region in general,” the demarche, published by Israel’s foreign ministry on Friday morning, said.
“This attack has also occurred before the ink on the . . . nuclear agreement has even dried, and provided a clear indication of how Iran intends to continue to pursue its destabilising actions and policies as the international sanctions regime is withdrawn in the near future,” the Israeli protest said.
Perhaps more importantly, Israel says it "holds the Syrian government responsible for [the] attacks," which would seem to suggest that in the event further "stray" rockets should find their way into Israel setting off any more brush fires, the Israeli military - which, you’ll note, isn’t exactly shy about retaliating mercilessly in the face of "aggression" - might just join the melee across the border.
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i green arrowed ya, only because i'm a clueless dolt, but could they not be Shunnis? just askin (and i totally agree:)
So what? Hamas works with Iran and they are not shias. You see it all in black and white.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah are allied with Syria and Iran. For a while Hamas appeared to oppose Assad, they were punished by Iran and changed their tune.
who gives a shit anymore if the world is on the brink of destruction, with our rivers and oceans being poisoned continuously, radiation blowin in the winds, the financial universe is a corrupt, criminally manipulated ponzi scheme impoverishing future droned generations into extreme austerity. we're overwhelmed by bloated, lying, ever intrusive, over taxing, inept monsters we call governments with our no party, clowned filled center ring, grandiose socialist political system. racial tensions boiling over, militarilized police states armed with weapons of mass destruction, paid for by the same mass that they'll use them on. world population and starvation increasing @ an ever increasing pace. throw in a little human trafficking, filmed for your viewing pleasure weekly beheadings, usurped media, with asinine tee vee, plus + nukes/bunkerbusters/rpgs/Sarin gas/biological/ cruise and predators everywhere. violent crime, as in murder, rape and pillaging, 'suicide by police' are back in vogue. sheeple on drugs at an all time high. add to that ball of C4 with junk (e)mail, obnoxious neighbors and/or keeping up with the Jones's, line jumpers, hip hop music, automated voice menus, the latest/greatest new thingy, etc., etc.,..........ever wonder why we never hear back from our extrateresstial counterparts? because they've got fucking caller ID............. anyway, just got my new rent to own 10 foot big screen, with my latest pay day loan, does anybody know if Caitlin's gonna be on the tube this weekend? have a great day!
Its time for th world to sweep Israel into the sea, and return the Zionists to wandering the world as the histroric devils that have have proved to be, over and over again.If not for the "chosen People" the world would be at peace. There will never be peace until the world is rid of all evil, selfish Jews. Fortunately, the world is waking up to this fact.
Its time for th world to sweep Israel into the sea, and return the Zionists to wandering the world as the histroric devils that have have proved to be, over and over again.If not for the "chosen People" the world would be at peace. There will never be peace until the world is rid of all evil, selfish Jews. Fortunately, the world is waking up to this fact.
Few years forward our kids will be learning in the school how 6 million jews were(again) killed during Israeli "defense" from Arab states, lol.
Well that would be poetic justice as they have been spewing the 6 million dead Jews for about a hundred years.
Self fulilling prophecy.
Well that would be poetic justice as they have been spewing the 6 million dead Jews for about a hundred years.
Self fulilling prophecy.
As this image indicates:
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Let me get this straight. The joooo hating zh crowd mocks bibi for falsley claiming the threats posed by iran by making up that iran will have a bomb in 6 months line but nothing is said about or posted when barry and lurch say if we dont do this deal iran with have a nuclear bomb IN 6 months.
Also is it only israel creating a false flag incident to provoke a war with iran? How about posing the opposite theory for some balance. For instance couldnt iran be using this as an excuse to blame israel for a failed deal because more people are starting to realize this is a bad deal? Now that very prominent democrats in congress are not supporting it iran could us this as a reason to provoke israel into war. No of course not. Iran would never do anything like that /s.
Lastly, if some one threw a grenade in your backyard would you wait until they killed someone to respond or would you insure they cant throw them anymore because you blew their arms off?
God you jooo haters here suck. But thats propaganda formyou i guess.
Is that you Bibi? I didn't know you read ZH...In fact I didn't know you could read at all!
I notice that you did not reply with an answer to an obvious observation. And anyone who answers with racial slurs and attacks wiyhoit answer the question has no answer because they are intellectually dishonest.
Go perform a sex act with yourself human paraquat.
How bad does israel want to go to war with Iran? Bad enough do it themselves, or only bad enough to have Americans do all the killing and dying again? Didn't we sacrifice enough blood and treasure and prestige turning Iraq into a failed state that can no longer threaten israel? Now the propaganda demands war against Iran and Syria, yet again we know who wants it so bad, but won't israel get off their asses and sacrifice their precious young ones for the glory of Netanyahu?
I don't care much for Obama but at least he isn't as dumb as Bush to fall for the same bullshit twice. However, the Catholic controlled AmeriKan media expects us to forget the last dozen years where chaos was steadily advanced all across the region on purpose.
Mossad is famous for false-flag attacks, sorry maybe no one ever told you that, it's what intelligence services do.
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(1). JESUS CHRIST
(2). HEYWOOD JAHBLOMEE
To all the Jew haters here on ZH:
I fart in your general direction
To all the Zionists here on ZH I fling feces in your general direction...you filthy, hook nose, fuckin pieces of shit!
Oy Vey!
I shit in your open hole of a mouth Zionist scumpile.
An explanation in one line of the liberal left's utter miscomprehension of ME politics "the Israeli military retaliated in characteristically disproportionate fashion..."
Looks to me like Iran is working against Assad with Israel
You do not poke wolverines with a stick, even if your a skunk.
You do not shoot rockets into isreal, period!
Because if you do they will blow up everything within 200 yards of where they cam from.
A little hint to those thinking about shooting rockets into Isreal.
JUST DON"T DO IT YOu dumb fuker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds proportional to me.
oy anything to stop "THE DEAL"
Thankfully a few knowledgeable souls on ZH, have the full picture of Israel, it's TOTAL control of U.S politics and the understanding that EVERY potential U.S president has to bow down on all fours and give their hand in submission to Israeli interests, like a monkey in Planet of the apes. Jewish control of political and Financial America is TOTAL. The fools on here who support Trump on one hand, then despise Jewish control of America and Israel itself on the other, are the worst kind of idiot, for they are known by Zionists as useful idiots. The Jews(pure bloods) make up 2.1% of the U.S population and that includes those whose mother is Jewish and father non-Jewish. If you include non-Jewish mother and Jewish father, then their percentage is 2.4% of the U.S population.
If you then look at Jewish representation in politics. IE; Senators, Congressmen and Jewish advisory roles on Capitol Hill, alarm bells should start ringing to any sane individual, but alas the average American is batshit stupid, but it gets worse. If you look deeper at Jewish representation on Senate intelligence, federal funding and finance /monetary committees, the disproportion gets to a level of outright farce and the coincidence defence simply doesn't cut it. Then again cognitive dissonance is an American middle class hobby and they take it seriously.
If one is willing to acknowledge the disproportionate soft and hard power of American Jews in politics and lobbying, finance and the criminal justice system, then the circle is complete with their near total ownership of the media across all platforms. They have the U.S citizen controlled by the junk they consume across all media platforms. They pass law via politics. You can't beat them in the law courts and they control the finances of the country and have the U.S indebted to a level it can never pay back and I forgot to mention the U.S tax payer funds Israel’s military machine and gives her their most advance weapons. Alas most of the military equipment is in the form of grants and not loans. It’s very important to recognise the distinction, but that’s not all.
Via Jewish mainstream media, the disinformation about the Israel-Palestine conflict and its relationship with its Arab neighbours has reached a level of lies only a student of the conflict and keen observers could detect. Then it is easy to disregard the hasbara lies which the Zionists repeat ad-nauseam and this attack on Syria, is just another lie. Where is the fucking logic in a severely weakened Assad, provoking an attack on Israel, who on a whim will weaken his remaining military assets, in an existential conflict he is barely winning? Only the Jewish owned media would give such a bullshit story credence.
Jews are not real. Nobody has a jewish mother or father. What you call Jews are an assorted mix of mostly european and middle eastern peoples that call themselves Jews, and some blacks, asian, indian and hispanics as well. Biologically you cant tell a random jew apart from a random goy. Because all jews are converts or descend from converts and intermarry there is no "Standard genetic jew" to compare against.
Those who call themselves Jews often like to pretend they are a race and instaurate racial purity laws but never truly get to it because they have always been mongrels. Before the founding of the state of Israel they liked to say they were just normal people who followed a different religion, now they say they are a different breed who does not even need to follow a religion to be a jew. Very inconsistent.
Is Donald Trump's kid a jew? Can you prove it with DNA?
Hey wood. Go blow yourself you festering pile of excrement!!! God you are such a bloody cunt if you weren't a algo bot like GW!!!
What a biotch!!!