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Syrian anti-aircraft fire shoots down Israeli fighter jet, Israeli military says
ABC ^ | 2/10/18

Posted on 02/10/2018 12:43:35 AM PST by Lera

The Israeli military has shot down an Iranian drone that infiltrated the country and has struck Iranian targets in Syria that launched it, in what the military called a "severe and irregular violation of Israeli sovereignty".

The military said its planes faced heavy anti-aircraft counter fire from Syria that forced Israeli pilots to abandon an F-16 jet that crashed in northern Israel.

It said the pilots were injured and evacuated to a hospital. Sirens sounded in northern Israel as a result of massive Syrian fire.

Explosions could be heard in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley region near the Syrian border.

Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricus said Iran was "responsible for this severe violation of Israeli sovereignty".

The military said it was "monitoring events and is fully prepared for further action".

Syrian state TV quoted a military official saying Syrian air defences hit more than one Israeli plane.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: drone; f16; iran; iranian; israel; israeli; syria; syrian
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1 posted on 02/10/2018 12:43:35 AM PST by Lera
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To: Lera; jbb247; monkeywrench; PROCON; Bulldaddy; Mrs.Z; Aragon; RobinOfKingston; Mom MD; ...

Pinging the End Times ping list

Syrian anti-aircraft fire shoots down Israeli fighter jet, Israeli military says

The mess Obama set in motion is starting to spread.
Pray for Israel .


2 posted on 02/10/2018 12:49:48 AM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: Lera
The mess Obama set in motion is starting to spread.

Obama didn't end it, but he sure as hell didn't 'set this in motion'. That credit goes to the Bush family. We've been dropping bombs on the Middle East for 28 years straight.

I'm not sure when you started to pay attention. Do you think you could safely name the countries we bombed last year?

3 posted on 02/10/2018 12:54:27 AM PST by Gunslingr3
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To: Lera

I had to read it a few times (it’s late!).

Israel shoots down drone sent into Israel from Syria.
Israel sends airplanes into Syria to strike launch sites.
Syria shoots down airplane, but airplane crashes in Israel, pilots are okay(?).


4 posted on 02/10/2018 12:55:55 AM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts)
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To: Gunslingr3

Sorry, but Blame the Bushes doesn’t work here. Bush 41 responded to a very real threat to a very needed oil supplier. Bush 43 killed a man whose regime was actively doing all it could to kill Americans.

Understanding Obama in 2001 when he told an audience that WTC was our fault, through the 2009 Great Apology Tour through the 2016 Iranian nuc deal is very easy. He gave aid and comfort to our enemies at every opportunity.

It’s very simple. Obama wore our uniform, but played and plays for the other team.


5 posted on 02/10/2018 1:10:53 AM PST by Strac6 ("Mrs. Strac, Pilatus, and Sig Sauer: All the fun things in my life are Swiss!")
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To: Gunslingr3

I am well aware of the mess Bush started .
It was Obama though that started the mess in Syria and it was Obama that funded Iran


6 posted on 02/10/2018 1:13:43 AM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: Lera

“violation of ... sovereignty”

Seems to be alot of that going on lately.


7 posted on 02/10/2018 1:17:59 AM PST by McGruff (#ObamaGate)
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To: 21twelve

The pilots are ok , they ejected over Israeli airspace .

Israel just responded to that by sending in more jets and taking out 12 Syrian air defense systems . (Damascus and surrounding area )


8 posted on 02/10/2018 1:19:55 AM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: Lera

Headline matches story?


9 posted on 02/10/2018 1:27:45 AM PST by BeadCounter
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To: Strac6

Unfortunately, bashing the Bush Presidencies is now the norm for those with adaptive memories. Hopefully the future will be blessed with honest, informed historians.


10 posted on 02/10/2018 1:41:18 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: BeadCounter

Word coming in from the IDF on Twitter they have launched counterstrikes on anti-aircraft sites in Syria.

https://twitter.com/idfspokesperson


11 posted on 02/10/2018 1:50:02 AM PST by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: Gunslingr3

>> We’ve been dropping bombs on the Middle East for 28 years straight.

1400 years too few.


12 posted on 02/10/2018 2:00:18 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gunslingr3

An Obamabot on Free Republic.


13 posted on 02/10/2018 2:18:09 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

The Putin-bots are the worst of all. Going on as if Assad is some savior of Christian people and Putin a genius for allying with Iran.

Not.
So.
Fast.


14 posted on 02/10/2018 2:21:34 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: Gunslingr3

Wrong. It was started in 620 AD with the advance of the Disciples of Mohammad, killing and enslaving every one they found. Jews to the front of the beheading line.

In modern times it was the Palestinians who turned Lebanon from a peaceful Christian nations to a sham government actually run by Hezbollah and Iran who want nothing more than to put Jews back in the line.


15 posted on 02/10/2018 2:24:40 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: MarvinStinson

“First we’ll deal with the rebels, then Israel.” -Assad in 2015

https://www.timesofisrael.com/assad-first-well-deal-with-the-rebels-then-israel/

“Syrian president says Jerusalem to be capital of Palestine” (2017)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-israel-syria/syrian-president-says-jerusalem-to-be-palestinian-capital-idUSKBN1E02W4


16 posted on 02/10/2018 2:26:59 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: Gene Eric

Honest, informed historians?

Are you nuts?

The bushes are globalists, one world order types. I’m sorry if that ruins your perceptions, but good heavens, they talked openly about it.

They are indefensible.


17 posted on 02/10/2018 2:36:54 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: GoldenState_Rose

Israel has defined Iran as its primary enemy leading to this inevitable confrontation.

The Syrian Civil War was part of an anti-Iran strategy using the jihadists of Saudi Arabia, another adversary of Iran.

Syria’s Assad targeted as an ally of Iran to isolate Iran from Syrian bases-Hezbollah in Lebanon.

A strategy that would help Israel’s security interests.

Russia threw a monkey wrench into the plan and during the last Winter Olympics, there just happened to have been the overthrow of a pro-Russian government in Ukraine with all the fallout.

Now we have Winter Olympics again and.......


18 posted on 02/10/2018 2:40:05 AM PST by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: GoldenState_Rose

Christians lived in Assad’s Syria with no trouble.

Did you miss ISIS mass murdering them and blowing up their churches?


19 posted on 02/10/2018 2:50:40 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

I support MY country and MY President. And holistic strategy under Trump which is: annihilate ISIS and then then rein Assad and his ilk in. Kinda like WWII to Cold War: first fight Nazism, then onto the Commies.


20 posted on 02/10/2018 3:04:39 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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