Posted on 12/10/2024 8:16:20 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
Israel continues to launch hundreds of attacks daily against what is left of the Syrian military of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad in what Israel’s Army Radio called the biggest attacks against Syria since the Six-Day War in 1967.
As Breitbart News reported on Monday, the Israel Air Force (IAF) had carried out hundreds of attacks on Syrian military hardware in the wake of the rebel ouster of the Assad regime. Israel targeted the Syrian air force, as well as air defenses, missile stockpiles, chemical weapons sites, heavy weaponry, and other targets. Those attacks continued overnight into Tuesday, with Israeli airstrikes destroying the Syrian navy in its docks on the Mediterranean Sea.
Army Radio’s military correspondent Doron Kadosh said Tuesday — with a sense of bewilderment — that the goal appeared to be “to completely erase Assad’s military” so that it cannot threaten Israel and cannot fall into rebel hands.
Syria was once considered incredibly difficult to attack via air, due to the fact that it cannot be approached by flying low to avoid radar. Damascus is protected from the west by the Anti-Lebanon mountain range, including Mount Hermon, which requires Israeli aircraft to climb to high altitude before crossing into Syrian territory. Past attacks typically took advantage of cloud cover and ran the risk of being detected by radar and surface-to-air-missile systems.
However, the Assad regime was considerably weakened by the civil war, and Israel enjoyed greater freedom over Syrian airspace in recent years, bombing supply lines to Hezbollah in Lebanon as well as Iranian military targets.
Since the toppling of the regime, and the retreat of Iranian forces, Israel has enjoyed complete license over Syrian skies, and is attacking what is left of the Syrian military — and Iran’s forward air defenses — without any opposition.
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While this is going on I assume all of the night watchmen at these sites are taking a couple of weeks off, it would be the prudent thing to do.
Sounds like a plan. At least to give them a little breathing room for a while.
“ Israel continues to launch hundreds of attacks daily against what is left of the Syrian military of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad…”
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The goal is to destroy Syria’s military equipment so it will not see potential use by Syria’s new rulers (whoever they turn out to be). They are not targeting the personnel of Syria’s current military forces.
Israel is taking care of ALL family business 💯❤️🔥
The title and some of the article is written as though Israel is getting rid of the last of Assad’s military, meaning fighting soldiers.
I think what is meant is Israel is destroying what’s left of Assad’s military equipment so such equipment cannot be used against them. I have a feeling what’s left of Assad’s army is in hiding trying to save their heads, literally.
It’s common to destroy abandoned military equipment to prevent enemy use. Gee, I wonder what happened in Afghanistan? The enemy was literally gifted with billions of dollars in functional military equipment.
Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, Middle East Edition.
Punch them while they are down. The “rebels” can recruit Syrian Army technicians to man the air defenses if they wait. Destroy the air defense assets, then destroy their other assets before they are dispersed. Destroy warehouses and naval assets.
Yay!😁
Destroying coastal defenses, OSA missile boats, radar systems and air defenses that could cover IAF Jets on the way to Iran, fighter and attack jets, weapons storage, and military industrial complex targets. Basically anything not on the Russian bases is a target.
Not sure if Israel has attempted any diplomacy, but this "diplomacy by other means" will send a serious message to the next Syrian government.
“ Not sure if Israel has attempted any diplomacy, but this “diplomacy by other means” will send a serious message to the next Syrian government.”
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And hopefully that message will be heard loudly by the new overlords, whoever they turn out to be.
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