Posted on 10/04/2024 6:56:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Overnight, Israel carried out air and sea strikes against an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ammunition dump on the Russian naval base at Khmeimim/Hmeimim, Syria. The attacks avoided Russian-manned facilities and were timed to coincide with the arrival of a suspected shipment of weapons from Iran by the
Russian and IRGC air defense systems were used, but video demonstrates their ineffectiveness to attacks from air-launched and sea-launched weapons.
Shortly after the attack, Russia began evacuating diplomats and citizens from Lebanon and encouraged the 1.5 million Russians living in Israel to leave the country "while such opportunities exist."
Israel wishes are granted!
Russia ambassador in Tel Aviv recommended that citizens in Israel consider leaving the country "while such opportunities exist." He said this in an interview with TASS.
1.5 Milion Russians live in Israel.
Something big is coming, Russia Retaliation. pic.twitter.com/CeOrvqkfAg— 🇨🇦 LORD JAREDEL TSHILOMBO, METATRON (@JTMprincenews) October 3, 2024
Israel followed up this attack with another one on an IRGC weapons depot on the Tadmur Airbase at Palmyra, Syria. Russian mercenaries operate this base.
#Syria: #Israel bombed a weapons depot inside a hangar in the vicinity of #Palmyra military airport, causing explosions in #PalmyraCity in eastern #Homs countryside, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
In the absence of an official statement from Syrian authorities, observers noted that #Iranian militias, along with #Russian forces, maintain a military presence there.
pic.twitter.com/lJFwJx8J63— khaled mahmoued (@khaledmahmoued1) October 4, 2024
This unprecedented attack drives home just how serious Israel is about prosecuting its campaign to reduce the threat from Hezbollah and Iran, and how little power Russia has in the region.
No matter what Joe Biden wants, it will be shocking if Israel does not make a run at Iran's nuclear capability because that is all that Iran has left. As I pointed out in a previous post, Iran had used Hamas and Hezbollah as proxies to attack Israel, and to deter Israel from attacking Iran; see Israel Hammering Iran's Proxy Armies Sends a Clear Message to Tehran That the Rules Have Changed. The theory was that Israel would not strike Iran if that might cause simultaneous attacks by its two subsidized terrorist groups. That strategy is in ruins as Hamas is nearly eradicated and Hezbollah's leadership has been gutted, and their weapons caches methodically demolished.
Iran's fallback position will be to manufacture and test a nuclear weapon that the Obama administration assured us could never happen, no matter how many pallets of used, nonsequential small-denomination bills were sent there. Israel has to take some action against the nuclear threat. I expect that any military action against Iran's nuclear weapons program will be accompanied by an array of non-kinetic attacks; think Stuxnet.
Russia has a decision to make about its adventure in Syria. It has shown that it is unable to either prevent attacks on its areas of interest or to credibly defend those areas when they are attacked. By allying itself with Iran, its reputation is inextricably attached to Iran's fate. If it continues to let IRGC thugs snuggle up to its facilities, inevitably, Russians are going to be killed, and then the Kremlin will have a whole new level of humiliation to contend with.
In Syria but the overhead space views should have shown they were eating borscht down there.
“...1.5 Milion[sic] Russians live in Israel...”
Now, there is some actual reporting, if true.
About a million Russian speakers immigrated to Israel from 1990 to 2020, and more since. They were actually from a number of former Soviet constituent states. Whether they could ‘return’ as Russian citizens I don’t know.
Sounds like they mostly should be named as former Rooskies.
they want them back as recruits in Ukraine
Russia needs to focus on its current problems and not add Israel into the mix. They have enough to deal with Ukraine
Russian Jews. They ain’t leaving.
The words “unprecedented” and “Israel” are used together far too often to describe any action Israel takes to defend herself from multi-pronged attacks on her sovereignty.
Ukrainian jews, they ain’t leaving.
You notice where people can actually live side by side?
Oh, oh, oh,.... I know.
Pick me. Pick me.
The Ezekiel 38 war.
Sure seems like it
To the left, anyone defending themselves from attack is the bad guy.
Regards,
Wouldn't surprise me if Putin soon claimed that Israel had to be "de-nazified," too!
Also: There are a lot of Russian-speakers and/or ethnic Russians living in Israel, thus giving Putin the right to invade and annex territory there, right?
Ri-ight?
Regards,
Oh, I'm sure that most of them are "rarin' at the bit" to return and help Putin lose his war of conquest in Ukraine!
Regards,
Last I checked Netanyahu was not shelling Russian Jews and the Russian Jews were kicking Nazi butt in Gaza
I’ve often wondered what the Russian Orthodox Church tells itself about Russia’s involvement there.
Might not be far off.
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