Posted on 12/26/2014 8:17:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv
With ISIS continuing to hold the upper hand in Syria and Iraq, it appears that the terrorist network is planning what military strategists call a pincer movement to attack the Israeli homeland from the north and south. Three Syrian rebel groups switched loyalties to gain ISIS support for attacks on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights, according to a report by the Fiscal Times. ISIS is now able to coordinate with Egyptian ISIS-aligned terror group Ansar Bait al-Maqdis in Sinai to simultaneously pressure Israel's northern and southern borders...
Although the U.S. led Coalition Joint Task Force named "Operation Inherent Resolve" claims to have impacted ISIS command and control, resupply and maneuvering in Iraq and Syria, the number of ISIS fighters is still growing rapidly. No one is claiming that the bombing has slowed down ISIS recruiting of foreign fighters...
ISIS has been criticized by many Arabs and Sunni extremists for fighting Muslims instead of making war on Israel. A coordinated attack on Israel would be a PR bonanza for ISIS's popularity and undoubtedly would spur recruitment and funding efforts. Most of ISIS's top military commanders are former senior officers in Saddam Hussein's million man army. Facing the U.S. in the 1991 First Gulf War, Saddam hurled hundreds of Scud missiles at Israel in an effort to inflame the entire Middle East by goading the Jewish State into the Gulf War.
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But due to Israel's small size nuke strikes will have to be planned to coincide with prevailing wind patterns that spare Israel the fallout.
Professor Pinchas Alpert , Director of the School of Atmospheric Studies at Tel Aviv University, writes that recent studies indicate that the Land of Israel has a unique meteorological status in the world because it is situated at the point of convergence of four distinct climatic systems: two opposing low atmospheric pressure zones, and two opposing high atmospheric pressure zones.
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Israel is located at the exact point where...four weather systems converge. This is why the country is subject to contradictory weather patterns (rainy or dry) as well as highly unpredictable shifts in the direction of prevailing winds. These unusual climatic conditions make it very difficult to predict weather conditions.
There is no other inhabited region on earth that experiences such a convergence of opposing weather systems - called a "saddle" in scientific terms - with such frequency. The only other places around the globe where "saddle points" occur with similar frequency are located in mid-ocean.
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Since treaties mean nothing to Muslims (except a chance to rearm and train new troops) and giving back the Golan would be near-suicide, that statement is a head scratcher.
Israel needs to free itself of its ties to the U.S. for as long as we have a Moslem for a president.
Sounds like a PR recruiting stunt by ISIS.
There are more defending Israel than there are against them. It will be a sound defeat of ISIS and all on it’s side.
I stand with Israel.
It seems like an ISIS attack on Israel would be a little, shall we say, ill-advised. Rash even. Foolhardy comes to mind.
We’ve seen what ISIS can do against unarmed or poorly armed victims, and they make swarm attacks using motor vehicles. But they’ve had their greatest success in the flats. They haven’t done worth a darn against Kobane (which is in the hills) or against adversaries with a high enough crow’s nest. The best approach against Israel has been stealthy attacks in many places and with great numbers. That was shown in 1973.
Uh, who won that fight again?
More recently, the Hizzies fired missiles they’d stockpiled in underground bunkers. Israel has identified the bunkers (including those built subsequent to the previous war in Lebanon) and accumulated bunker-busting ordnance to use against them.
Hamas digs rat tunnels, they hide under hospitals and schools, and fire missiles off the roofs, but they have to get restocked, and Egypt isn’t going to have that happen again. The overthrow of Iran’s ally Morsi screwed up those plans.
Egypt takes aim at Hamas’ terror tunnels
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3228903/posts
Egypt floods Gaza tunnels, cut Palestinian lifeline
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2988656/posts
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I have always wondered which ME governments secretly fund ISIS. Turkey and Saudi Arabia are suspects #1 and #2.
This supposed attack on Israel is just talk to improve their image with other Muslims. It’s a sign that they are in trouble. When you are in trouble in the ME, Rule #1 is go after (or talk about going after) the Jews.
I don’t understand why Saudi Arabia is a better ally than Iran would be. Saudi Arabia’s main export, besides manipulation of the oil market, seems to be terrorists. Now we’ve got Iran opposed to the ISIS maniacs and Saudi Arabia not so much. We never hear of Iranis associated with the worst of the terrorist groups. If your argument is one that only favors Israel, I don’t get that either. I’d think Israel will be in a much more challenged position if Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan can’t fend of ISIS.
Do it...ISIS.....DO IT!
If the Jews can slowly withdraw to the point where ISIS commits their “reserves”, there is going to be a shortage of virgins in jihadi paradise.
Iran’s main export is terrorism — and Zero is sending that regime $700 million a month to help them with that. Iran is the leader in support for worldwide jihad, and that has been true for a while.
Saudi Arabia and the GCC are 100 percent opposed to ISIS, and vice versa. The only reason Iran has done anything at all (and that includes slaughtering Sunni Iraqis ‘rescued’ from ISIS) is that the GCC was carrying out bombing sorties against ISIS while the Iraqi Shiite puppet regime of Iran’s was turning tail and running from it.
Since your argument is based on false premises, you don’t have an argument.
Huge event. Rudderless.
Prayers up for Israel.
Jihad is jihad is jihad, and support for it doesn’t come from regimes for the most part. Among regimes, Iran leads the world in support for jihad.
Qatar’s former ruler was deposed, he had been bankrolling various allies of Iran, working as a proxy for Iran at least as long ago as the Gulf War (two emirs ago). His biggest projects were the installation of Iran’s ally Morsi in Egypt (since deposed) and attempted overthrow of Assad in Syria (although that started without outside help).
Much of the cash that finances worldwide jihad has come from rich individuals in the muzzie world, and the thugs they recruit are fanatics who can operate on a shoestring budget. Thanks to the USSR in past decades and now Russia, the world is awash in automatic weapons and their ammo.
Turkey has backed the FSA, which probably accounts for its inability to get the job done. Turkey also has about 25% Shiite-related population, including Alawites, luckily for Turkey distributed across a number of different ethnic groups. The border with Iraq has been porous since the Gulf War, at least, so it’s no big surprise that the ISIS volunteers cross there. They also cross from Jordan.
The foreign Arabs fighting in Syria come from Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon (not counting the thousands of Hizzies), Russia (probably Chechens — btw, Chechens also fight on the side of the Russians against Ukraine), France, Libya, Britain, and bringing up the rear, Turkey. Those recruits are volunteers (that is, idiots) seeking paradise through jihad.
Of course, because funding comes from so many places, the opposition to Assad (and we all remember when al-Qaeda was the cry around here) is tremendously fragmented, with each group largely limited to a single enclave, and alliances switching back and forth in baffling irregularity.
By contrast, Iran sent 19,000 thugs to prop up Assad, and they’ve been there (other than those who got killed) for over three years. Iran’s proxy Hezbollah has been occupying southern Lebanon for 30 years, and occupying part of Syria for more than three years, doing a great deal of fighting.
Iran’s Shiite allies just took over Yemen a few months ago.
Iran has missiles and troops in Eritrea, overlooking the sea lanes where a big chunk of the world’s oil travels.
Iran recruits, funds, and trains terrorists throughout Africa, Asia, and South America.
Our best move would be to support the Kurds against not only ISIS, but in their drive toward their own national state, carved out of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. If we’re gung-ho on stability, we need to get rid of the Iranian mullahcracy and keep one foot on the private parts of the House of Saud, because they also like stability, but it’s a lot easier to trust but verify if the other guy can’t walk too far.
Not so much a head-scratcher as a piece of agitprop. The source is, hmm, lost the tab, search now misses it, but anyway, it’s from one of those NGO “peace” organizations that hates the Jews.
I love that scene in Sudden Impact, the movie itself, mostly not. :’)
Attacking Israel will be the very last thing ISIS ever does.
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