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Israel shoots down Syrian warplane as Golan frontier heats up
trust.org ^ | 7/24/18 | Reuters / Dan Williams and Lisa Barrington

Posted on 07/24/2018 10:37:06 AM PDT by ColdOne

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, July 24 (Reuters) - Israel said it shot down a Syrian warplane that crossed into the occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday, but Damascus said the jet was fired on as it took part in sorties against rebels within Syria.

The incident added new fuel to weeks of tensions over the Golan, a strategic plateau between the two old enemies and where Israel has been on high alert as Syrian government forces, supported by Russia, close in to regain rebel-held ground.

Israel worries Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may defy a 1974 U.N. armistice that demilitarised much of the Golan, or let his Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah reinforcements deploy there.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: golanheights; hamas; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; israel; jerusalem; jordan; lebanon; letshavejerusalem; russia; su17m4; su22; su24; syria; waronterror

1 posted on 07/24/2018 10:37:06 AM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Israelis can shoot down Syrian MiGs with the ease one can kill flies with a can of Raid.


2 posted on 07/24/2018 10:46:44 AM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: ColdOne
Jerusalem Post says it was an SU-22. Not sure if that's true. SU22 is a very primitive airplane, a variant of the SU-17 "Fitter," originally introduced in 1970.


3 posted on 07/24/2018 10:47:47 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: ColdOne

I hear that the Syrian jet was shot down in Syrian airspace and that it exploded in the air and crashed well inside of Syria.


4 posted on 07/24/2018 10:49:57 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: ColdOne

GOD BLESS ISRAEL......

AM YISRAEL CHAI.... THE people Israel live!


5 posted on 07/24/2018 10:50:33 AM PDT by ncfool (America Reborn 1/20/2017. Lets make sure we don't screw up,the opportunity to MAGA.)
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To: ColdOne

the “...occupied Golan Heights...” were legally annexed by Israel.


6 posted on 07/24/2018 10:50:40 AM PDT by wny
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To: MeganC

So what? Syria would claim a jet shot down over Tel Aviv was over Syrian territory.


7 posted on 07/24/2018 10:52:42 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: jjotto

No one disputes that the jet crashed inside of Syria.


8 posted on 07/24/2018 11:03:53 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: jmacusa; ColdOne

Vaporized by American engineered, American built, Patriot Missiles provided by the U.S.A.

Not even a real challenge, that would be like passing a Desoto on the interstate...


9 posted on 07/24/2018 1:05:10 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
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To: heterosupremacist

You should read about what the Israeli Air Force did to the Syrian Air Force over the Behkka Valley in 1982. In the space of about three days the IAF shot down some sixty Syrian MiGs without a single loss of their own. It was so much of a turkey shoot one IAF pilot said ‘’They(the Syrian pilots) made almost no attempts to evade. It was as if they wanted to be shot down’’.


10 posted on 07/24/2018 10:21:24 PM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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