Israeli soldiers walk next to a mobile artillery unit in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights near the border with Syria. File photo
Posted on 05/12/2015 12:37:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Alon Ben-David, said Sunday that the military intelligence service are working on the preparation of a list of targets that are likely to be struck inside Syria, after a possible fall of the Assad regime.
Israel is concerned about the opposition party that may replace Assad regime in case of the latter's downfall.
In remarks published by the Israeli newspaper of Maariv, in its Sunday's edition, Ben-David said that the leadership of the Israeli Air Force, in cooperation with the Military Intelligence Service, is working on setting a list of targets to be struck in case jihadists take over power in Syria.
Ben-David also stressed in his remarks that the pro-Assad Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Lebanese Hezbollah militia have recently failed to make any progress in southern Syria.
He pointed out that the Syrian regime and the ruling elite are only in control of a few neighborhoods of the capital Damascus, which turned into an easy target for the armed opposition's attacks, forcing many of the Alawite families (of the Assad sect) residing in Damascus to move toward the coastal region.
"The Israeli military intelligence confirms that the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's ability to protect the Syrian regime has dramatically declined, making the Israeli military command more cautious of a sudden fall of the Syrian regime which will let battle-hardened jihadist groups rule near the Israeli border," Ben-David added.
Two weeks ago, Israel bombed a number of military brigades of the Syrian regime army in the "Third Division" of the Quteifa area (40 km north of Damascus), which contained strategic depots for long-range Scud missiles.
Israeli soldiers walk next to a mobile artillery unit in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights near the border with Syria. File photo
Iran is already at war, and has been since the mullahcracy overthrew the Shah.
It's nice to see one of those end-times maps with the "Brook of Egypt" represented correctly (the wadi el-Arish) instead of as the Nile, like so many of the bonehead versions have.
Well, that’s a historical map — but I see what you’re saying.
I visited the Golan Heights when I was in Israel last year. It was strange being at the gift shop and looking out and seeing smoke from the Syrian civil war a few miles away.
It’s amusing that there’s a gift shop on the Golan. ;’)
Nassrallah had a stroke, Assad is going down , time to start planning for an Israeli Spring.
Assad has been a store window mannikin for a while now.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32703945
[snip] “It’s coming apart at the seams,” said one diplomat. “They are starting to turn on each other like hungry wolves.” Two top security and intelligence generals, Rustum Ghazali and Ali Mamluk, have recently fallen victim to the tension. Ghazali, head of the Political Security Directorate, was reported to have died in hospital last month after being beaten up by the bodyguards (apparently including Hezbollah operatives) of a rival general, Military Intelligence chief Rafiq Shahada. [/snip]
[snip] A violation of the deal struck to eliminate Syria’s chemical arsenal would undermine President Obama’s single claim to policy success in Syria, where four years of war has displaced nearly half the country, killed more than 200,000 people and shown no sign of abating. It could also embarrass Russia, Mr. Assad’s most powerful military and diplomatic patron. [/snip]
[snip] ...its aim is to collect evidence of atrocities committed by the Syrian regime and opposition, in preparation for the day when they can be judged by a tribunal. Adel and his team of 50 investigators had made many such trips in the three years since the CIJA was established, but these smuggling runs through Tell Abyad in the first months of 2014 would prove to be the most fruitful. They were carrying the greatest find of the investigation so far: a complete set of documents from the provinces of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor, which provided a clear picture of the regime’s machinery of repression, and showed how tightly it is controlled by Assad and his inner circle. [/snip]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/12/syria-truth-smugglers-bashar-al-assad-war-crimes
Apparently the 30 year foreign occupation and co-opting of the gov’t by Iranian proxy thugs isn’t figured into this.
[snip] “The number of Lebanese residing in Lebanon doesn’t exceed 4 million, and is accompanied by 1,250,000 registered refugees and more than 500,000 Syrian nationals, who are either unregistered refugees or workers. Then there are about 400,000 Palestinian refugees,” said Kanaan, who was representing Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri during a seminar about the effects of the Syria crisis in Lebanon. “Fifty-five percent of the population of Lebanon is not Lebanese, this by itself constitutes a demographic imbalance and a factor for instability,” Kanaan said. [/snip]
MP: Half of people in Lebanon not Lebanese
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/May-12/297601-mp-half-of-people-in-lebanon-not-lebanese.ashx
duh!
Rafiq Hariri tribunal: Was the former Lebanon PM’s assassination the work of Syria’s President Assad?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/rafiq-hariri-tribunal-was-the-former-lebanon-pms-assassination-the-work-of-syrias-president-assad-10245381.html
[snip] Hariri said Hezbollah was “using the Lebanese borders” to wage a war that “only serves to protect the western wing of [President] Bashar Assad in light of the regime’s recent military defeats in many Syrian areas.” [/snip]
Hezbollah offensive in Qalamoun protects Assad, not Lebanon: Hariri
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/May-05/296891-hezbollah-offensive-in-qalamoun-protects-assad-not-lebanon-hariri.ashx
[snip] The annual report by the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights said hundreds of people were tortured by authorities in Gaza, ruled by the Islamic militant group Hamas, and in the West Bank, governed by the Western-backed Palestinian Authority. [/snip]
Rights group: Human rights under Palestinian rule worsened
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/May-12/297685-rights-group-human-rights-under-palestinian-rule-worsened.ashx
[snip] He said his main concern was the use of government-run media outlets as platforms “to offend an Arab country and insult Saudi Arabia, its officials and its role ... for the sake of Iran and its regional policies.” [/snip]
Hariri hits out at Nasrallah for Saudi Arabia remarks
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Apr-09/293834-hariri-hits-out-at-nasrallah-for-saudi-arabia-remarks.ashx
Hassan Nasrallah: The war in Yemen announces the end of the House of Saud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYTfT49imqM
[snip] According to Arab media reports, a missile attack was carried out against the facility in Sudan’s Omdurman area. The Sudan Tribune said that witnesses reported seeing flames from their houses a few miles away and that the ground shook. [/snip]
Reports of missile strike on Sudan weapons facility tied to Israeli drone
http://www.worldtribune.com/2015/05/07/reports-of-missile-strike-on-sudan-weapons-facility-tied-to-israeli-drone/
[snip] ...on the morning of March 25, a Russian-made Syrian Scud missile, estimated to have been fired from a range of 180 kilometers, exploded near the Reyhanli district in Turkey’s southernmost city of Hatay, near the Syrian border. The missile left a 15-meter-wide crater in a stream bed, broke the windows of the surrounding houses, caused the roof of a building in the nearby military base to collapse, damaged two military vehicles and inflicted minor injuries on five Turkish civilians. [/snip]
A Turkish-Saudi Military Offensive on Syria?
ttp://www.breakingisraelnews.com/39503/a-turkish-saudi-military-offensive-on-syria-opinion/
[snip] Aware of its vulnerability to such missile attacks, Turkey in 2007 designed a program to indigenously develop and produce short- and medium-altitude air defense systems. Ankara chose a partnership of military specialist Aselsan and missile maker Roketsan, both government-controlled companies. [/snip]
Syrian Scud Unveils Turk Vulnerabilities
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/36658/syrian-scud-unveils-turk-vulnerabilities-opinion/
[snip] On Saturday, Divisions 155 and 65 of the Syrian army were targeted. Both divisions possess Assad’s “strategic weapons.” According to al-Arabiya, the targets were Scud missile depots housed in military bases. Al Jazeera reported on Saturday that several explosions were heard in Kteife, Yabrud, and Kalamun in the Qalamoun mountains. The area is known for housing weapon depots and missile launchers. On Sunday, the Israeli air force killed four Hezbollah terrorists who crossed the Israeli border on the Golan Heights and intended to carry out an attack with an explosive device. [/snip]
Iranian Threat Forces Israel To Adopt New Strategy In Syria – IAF Attacks Syrian Divisions And Hezbollah Terrorists
http://www.westernjournalism.com/iranian-threat-forces-israel-to-adopt-new-strategy-in-syria-iaf-attacks-syrian-divisions-and-hezbollah-terrorists/
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