Posted on 04/30/2018 8:54:22 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Senior members of the Israeli security establishment are predicting that the month of May will be one of the most volatile periods in the current era. Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Yadlin, the former head of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Military Intelligence Directorate, said in an interview published April 22, “I have not seen a May this dangerous since May 1967.”
Of particular note, two of the five military fronts concerning Israel have rapidly escalated in recent months. In the campaign against Iran being waged in Syria, the two sides have inched closer to an unprecedented tipping point. The situation in Gaza has worsened, with mass marches and protests held at the border fence every Friday for the past four weeks, in addition to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the enclave.
The odds for an all-out war between Israel and its opponents this summer are no longer miniscule. As I wrote April 18 in Al-Monitor, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said at a Cabinet meeting that it is possible that war will, indeed, erupt, and if so, Israel will have to cope with Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and the Lebanese army as well as Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Salafist groups in Gaza.
Many Israeli legislators are worried, because for the first time in a long time, consensus exists among Israel's top brass about the situation and how to deal with it. There are no dissenting or minority opinions on the subject, no moderate voices warning against escalation and the possible results. It reminds some of Israel’s statesmen of the heady days between the 1967 war and before the eruption of the 1973 Yom Kippur war, which resulted in one of Israel’s greatest military catastrophes.
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Very very stupid wish by Erdogan. Iran? If they are smart they really don't want to open this can of worms. Will their hate of Israel prevail with both of them? Or will they realize the consequences?
Yep, its imminent. And Turkey should be booted out of NATO yesterday.
Israel appears to me to be trying to start an unprovoked war in Syria, undoubtedly to drag us into it. I am one of those moderate voices mentioned in the article that appears to be missing in Israel. I do not support war against Syria/ Russia/ Iran as having nothing to do with our interests what so ever. President Trump needs to do what he said he would do in the campaign and just three weeks ago— that is get those 2000 troops out of Syria. They are illegal there anyway. Move them to the Mexican border and stop THAT INVASION!! I promise you that this nation will NOT support a war in the middle east. It will make Vietnam demonstrations look like dancing around the May pole. GET OUT!
"If you take out Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region." -- Benjamin Netanyahu, speech to U.S. Congress, 9/12/2002
Last night’s destruction of so much Iranian weaponry that it caused a 2.0 “earthquake” when it exploded, may have pushed back the start date.
Yes, I read about that. One report said 2.6 magnitude.
Your suggestion is well taken.
Just to point out that Al-Monitor is a Muslim propaganda outlet with close ties to Leftist American foreign policy establishment and to Far Left Israelis. It is essentially an outlet for the Council on Foreign Relations view of reality.
What you have stated is irrelevant. God has spoken in Ezekiel 38. Russia, Iran and Turkey will attack Israel and God will destroy them.
BIBI giving speech ‘today’....I believe it’s about 1:00 EST our time...big deal...likely exposing how Iran has broken the Nuclear Deal and recent bombings in Syria.
Noose is tightening on Iran.....
Got a ways to go before that happens....
Well, at least it wont be our lives and our money.
Thats a Big YES.
Gog Magog. Coming to a theater near you!
Someone’s putting hooks into Erdogan’s jaws.
Nah......The war in Syria/Iran began long before Israels participation which has been limited at best..but they most certainly have an area the need to defend against the attacks coming out of Syria to Israel.
Further Trump has already began withdrawing some of troops not only in Syria but in Iraq as well.
Not without Russia....Erdogans hands are tied otherwise.
Is this the beginnings of the Gog & Magog
war predicted 2500 years ago in Ezekiel 38 ?
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