Posted on 02/11/2018 4:21:20 PM PST by Lera
This is the beginning of something much bigger. It marks a turning point in the covert war Israel and Iran have been fighting for decades.
Much has already be written about what happened on Saturday when Israel came very close to all out war with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and Assad’s army in Syria.
To understand the seriousness of the situation, one has to look at the broader picture and take into account not only what occurred on Saturday but what happened on the Lebanese front over the past few weeks.
The incident on Saturday, when the IAF first downed an Iranian attack drone in the vicinity of the Israel town of Beit Shean and later attacked Iranian and Syrian targets deep in the war-torn country, showed the Israel security cabinet was right when it embarked on a new diplomatic offensive against Iran’s belligerent activities in Syria at the beginning of January.
At the time, the Israeli government announced that it had decided to make a “multi-faceted effort” to stop Iran’s drive to take-over the border area with Israel in Syria. The government held a series of “extremely significant discussions” on the increasing Iranian threat to Israel.
The actions of the Netanyahu government came after Iranian proxies in Syria began trying to set up camp in the demilitarized zone bordering on Mount Hermon on the Golan Heights, and after Hezbollah deployed troops on the southern Golan Heights during an offensive against the Khalid ibn al-Walid army, the local branch of ISIS.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
It said it was an attack drone.
You sound distraught - do you need a tissue?
Who is “it”? Where is there any evidence of any attack from Syria on Israel in the last 10 years? CRAZY!!
Have you been drinking heavily?
You either forgot your sarcasm tag or you forgot where you’re posting.
You won’t find too many supporters of your Iranian, Syrian, PLO and Hamas sympathies here.
Looks like a deranged noob who bears watching.
Whatcha think?
This report also dances around the exact location of the drone by saying it was 'in the vicinity' of an Israeli border town.
I read another report that suggests the drone was used to lure the Israeli F-16 into Syrian airspace before launching missiles at it, which would suggest a more sophisticated response (perhaps premeditated) than the Israelis were expecting.
Israel had no reason to attack a sovereign country. If that changes, i will say so.
Sermon today was on David and Goliath. Israel will be just fine.
For a long time Israel has provided air support for Syrian “rebels” (however that gets defined in Jerusalem these days) along their border and in the southern quadrant of Syria, and they’ve gotten used to violating Syrian air space to conduct strikes on targets as they see fit.
Perhaps that changes now, we’ll see.
You just go around making stuff up. You said on another thread that aliens from Brazil brought nutria to the US, and now you're saying that the drone was unarmed when the article called it an "attack drone."
You make it sound like little Freddie from next door accidentally threw a Frisbee over Israel's fence.
“Israel had no reason to attack a sovereign country.”
I’m not 100% sure, but I think the Yom Kippur War technically continues between Syria and Israel, just as the Korean War was never formally ended. Egypt and Israel reached an accord, and Sadat was murdered in large part for making peace with Israel.
Where are you from?
Israel had an f-16 shot down idiot, along with the drone incident.
Are u some Iranian Revolutionary guard apologist??
You believe Iranian-Syrian propaganda?
A certified raver.
Most of us don't care what you have heard or not heard.
Flying anything into another's sovereign space invites getting whatever it is shot down. If the Israelis shoot down a toy no harm done.
What proof do YOU have that it did not come from Syria??
I will always believe Israel over the blatherings of a koranimal agent.
WWIII??? Don't be silly.
Do hysterics much?
You sure are.
A different planet and a different reality, but you whine well...
The Syrians and Iranians will tell you that the drone was doing recon in the Golan where the border is what either side wants to say it is.
They will also say the recon was against anti-Assad jihadist rebels (al-Qaeda).
Every time Israel goes into action in Syria the contention from the Syrian side is that Israel is helping the rebels in Syria (aka “al-Qaeda”).
“Wait a minute. Israel attacks a sovereign nation over an unarmed drone ? There is something bad wrong with that. “
Yeah. What’s wrong is that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard have advertised their intention to destroy Israel since about 1979 and they would be astounded that anyone could be stupid enough to miss it.
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