Posted on 03/17/2017 1:10:56 AM PDT by Nextrush
Syria deploys air defense system, fires missiles at Israel Air Force jets; Israeli missile defense system intercepts missile north of Jerusalem.
Syria and Israel engaged in the most serious incident between the two countries since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War six years ago overnight on Thursday, as Israeli Air Force planes struck several targets in Syria.
In response, the Assad regime deployed air defense systems and fired a number of missiles towards Israeli jets. None of the missiles struck the jets, though one of the projectiles was intercepted by Israel's "Arrow" defense system north of Jerusalem.
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If the Dem 2020 candidate is remotely tied to any of those, that book will be published...
It would be nice ISIS would be attacked instead of Assad. Seems ISIS is the problem for much of us, not Assad.
is Assad better or worse than what would follow?
Russia’s arm sales to a rogue nation like Iran is about profits and their mutual efforts to undermine US power. They also collaborate in other areas that are more dangers to US interests.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/09/07/7-sep-16-world-view-2013-history-syrias-bashar-al-assad-created-isis/
You are conflating things here. Yes it seems like the one thing you mention, but is really from the Russian perspective something else - acquisition of hard currency is one major Russian objective - profits are nearly unknown in Russia - accumulation of money by some oligarch is not the same thing as the Western idea of profits.
Russia is only “undermining US power,” if you imagine that is Russia’s long term objective - but it is not historically - rather it is securing the boundaries of its nation, and the surrounding territory to make invasion difficult, as well as the historic quest for warm water access - hence the retaking of the Crimea.
If Iran did something terrible to Russia, Russia would have no qualms about using nuclear weapons on them. In fact that is their military policy. Russia has a totally different perspective on use of nuclear weapons than the West - this from a nation which developed its nuclear program by handling plutonium with bare hands ...
Remember Iran is the Mexico of Russia and all that flows from that sort of relationship - much as ours does with our southern neighbor.
This must be a joke. No Freeper could be so uninformed about affairs in this region.
Trust me. They collaborate on things, like Intel and other operations.
Russia didn't push the USA out of Kyrgyzstan because it's on the Russian border. Russia, under Putin, aspires to much more than taking care of its borders. It doesn't need to send its bombers in to the airspace of neutral nations to protect its borders. It doesn't need to send its submarines into the territorial waters of neutral nations to protect its borders.
It’s not a joke. There are people on the site who are more interested in the interests of Putin than of any other nation including our own.
You’ve got the right question from the Israeli standpoint.
The alternative to Assad is likely to be worse, but that doesn’t mean the Israelis want a stronger Assad. Keeping enemies divided is a traditional strategy.
Israel has chosen to address immediate threats immediately, leaving the future to the future.
ISIS hasn’t done much damage to Israel, so there’s no reason to antagonize the bigger powers that back ISIS one way or another.
Hezbollah. A thorn in our side since they weren’t obliterated after Beirut.
I think the original plan was to install jihadists with Saudi and Qatari ties, perhaps a Muslim Brotherhood-Mohammad Morsi-Erodgan Turkish Islamist type government.
Assad is aligned with the Shiites of Iran, not the Sunnis so to speak.
Israel would win because Iran would not have a Syrian platform for launching its weapons against Israel now and in the future.
The Saudis-Qataris don’t want a war with Israel but they would like to see a “two-state solution” on the Palestinian matter.
If Israel and the Israel Lobby plus the Neocon supporters of Israel are indeed, in collusion with the Gulf Arabs in the “Arab Spring” designed to hurt Iran by isolating it and taking out allies, what is expected of Israel at the end of the road? (”Arab Spring” was bookended by the 2009 street revolt in Iran and the 2014 street revolt in Ukraine).
Is the end game a Palestinian Peace Accord with Jews being forced out by the thousands from their homes in Judaea and Samaria to accommodate the creation of Palestine alongside Israel.
If anyone wants to read a great article about the growing threat of Hezbollah, go here:
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/badran-tony-the-third-lebanon-war/
it’s a longer read - but is quite interesting to read. No, it’s no clickbait.
Pinging the End Times ping list to the article
Most Serious Military Incident.....Syrian Civil War
If we assure Assad we are only attacking jihadi rebels, I don’t see why he world attack us. If we go after Syrian forces or assad, I would expect him to fight back.
His closest ally in the fight is the world’s largest owner of nuclear weapons. So there is that to consider.
In any case, we are in the wrong if we are fighting to remove Assad.
The Israelis did this while Obama was in office, too.
Assad is better than what would follow
I wonder how far off Isaiah 17 really is.
So it’s a Civil War now, interesting. So, who started that new spin?
What is Syria supposed to do when its territory is attacked by anyone? Lay in the dust and grovel?
I’m surprised it still has much military force after attacks by three or more countries.
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