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To: ETL
"Israel is not threatened by a Russia-Syria-Iraq-Iran-hezbollah axis?? Are you serious? "

Absent the historical US Commitment to Israel (they don't trust or believe Obama), I suspect Israel, at least, accepts Russia's imposition of rational, state actors.

Certainly a Syrian State with full, unquestioned control of their territory is in Israel's interests.

Israel has little influence over what happens in Iraq, and less interest.

I suspect they intend to deal with Iran via other means.

Know this: If Israel decides they need to expel Russia from Syria, they could do so easily. They have 400 combat aircraft, excellent missiles, over 1,000 tanks and another 1,000 Self Propelled Artillery.

If we see Russia starting to deploy numbers that are a direct threat to Israel, I will conceded and adopt your position.

But, as it stands now, Israel could expel them at will.

369 posted on 09/30/2015 11:54:57 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Mariner
Russia informed Israel in advance of its airstrikes in Syria, multiple intelligence sources have said, underlining the coordination between the two countries over the Syrian crisis, following Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's recent trip to the Kremlin to discuss Russia's massive troop buildup.

US officials have already ""confirmed"" that Russia gave them an hour's notice of the strikes, but an Israeli military source told Arutz Sheva that Israel, too, had been notified in advance, via a mechanism reached between Jerusalem and Moscow during Netanyahu's recent meeting with Putin.

That arrangement was reached after Putin acknowledged Israel's vital security interests in Syria, and agreed to coordinate his own country's efforts there with the Israeli government to avoid any accidental clashes between the two.

http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/news.php?Itemid=18128&page=2

373 posted on 09/30/2015 12:05:30 PM PDT by caww
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To: Mariner

FYI...Hezbollah ‘withdrew’ from Syria days ago....


375 posted on 09/30/2015 12:08:06 PM PDT by caww
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