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Analysis: The first direct confrontation between Israel and Iran
Arutz Sheva ^ | 2/11/18 | Yochanan Visser

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 ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
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To: raiderboy
But for God’s sakes . dont start WWIII over a fricking DRONE!!

Just double down on your meds, fairy boy.

41 posted on 02/11/2018 8:42:57 PM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: NoCmpromiz
Looks like a deranged noob who bears watching.
Whatcha think?

I think a retread with psychological problems and an attitude...

42 posted on 02/11/2018 8:46:49 PM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: raiderboy

#18. Raiderboy, my god you do drone on, and on, and on. Steve Tyler just emailed me and asked me to ask you to stop posting. He’s getting a headache.


43 posted on 02/11/2018 9:52:30 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: raiderboy

Welcome to FreeRepublic.

You aren’t fooling anybody. A drone is not a kite. This was a significant incursion by the Iranians through their proxy Syria.

But you know that, don’t you?


44 posted on 02/11/2018 11:10:19 PM PST by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: Lera

You forgot to mention that Hamas would be attacking from the south via its many many tunnels - it would be a real mess for Israel if those clowns ever got to coordinating their war machines.


45 posted on 02/12/2018 4:00:49 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: UCANSEE2

Regardless of whether the drone had some sort of ordinance, it was likely gathering intel on Israeli defenses and communications - which is why it was taken out. Some think it was going to proceed (had it remained undetected) to a city making a mockery of Israeli defenses.


46 posted on 02/12/2018 4:05:24 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: raiderboy

Do you work for the PLA’s Abbas or Hamas’ Khaled Mashal? Perhaps you are gainfully employed by General Qasem Soleimani or one of the Iranian mullahs?


47 posted on 02/12/2018 4:09:25 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: mac_truck

That is was an ambush is the most prevalent theory at the moment, (given the large number of SA-5s in the air), and that the Russians may have been controlling the batteries. However, the drone did manage to gather a lot of intel about Israeli positions and comm along the border.


48 posted on 02/12/2018 4:14:01 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: mac_truck

For a long time Israel has provided air support for Syrian “rebels”

They did until the Iranian proxy forces, and Hezbollah drove them out or killed them. The Druze were caught in the middle of that whole affair - I haven’t heard how it turned out for them.

Now Israel has Iran and Hezbollah along the Golan border (there may still be pocket or two of Syrian ‘freedom’ fighters remaining but they are not a player here. This is what the fuss is about. Mostly Israeli IAF violates Syrian airspace with stand-off munitions from Lebanon airspace. The the SA-5 has ranges into Israel so it was not necessary for their plane to be in Syrian air, just near it.


49 posted on 02/12/2018 4:24:01 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: raiderboy

Tongue-in-cheek or total brain fart?


50 posted on 02/12/2018 4:57:08 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...;-})
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To: publius911
Flying anything into another's sovereign space invites getting whatever it is shot down.

That seems to be exactly what happened to the Israeli F16 doesn't it?

51 posted on 02/12/2018 6:21:59 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: PIF
it was likely gathering intel on Israeli defenses and communications - which is why it was taken out. Now that ISIS has been largely beaten in other parts of Syria, the SAA and its allies are starting to focus their attention on the southern portion of their country.

So it's just as likely the drone was gathering intelligence on the assortment of Sunni Muslim terrorist training camps along Syria's border with Israel.

One way or another those Sunni terrorists are going to get eradicated, whether the Israelis like it or not.

52 posted on 02/12/2018 6:33:03 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: PIF
They did until the Iranian proxy forces, and Hezbollah drove them out or killed them.

Zero evidence this has happened...lots and lots of evidence to the contrary.

53 posted on 02/12/2018 6:36:15 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck

Zero evidence this has happened.


Really? Seriously? The Golan opposite Israeli lines is filled with those fighters who are trying to connect up a direct route from Iran to the Lebanon and the Med.

Maybe that isn’t in the MSN yet. Don’t know don’t care.


54 posted on 02/12/2018 6:43:07 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: mac_truck

As they ar mostly ‘eradicated’ now by units of al-Qods and Hezbollah combined arms ...

Do you imagine Iran would run a drone intel op just to find out what they already know while ignoring the Israelis?


55 posted on 02/12/2018 6:45:50 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: raiderboy
Where is the proof? I have never heard of a single drone attacking Israel. NOT ONE! What a joke. There is no proof it was from Syria.

There is no proof it was armed. True.

But it was flying over Israel. They shot it down and it landed in Israel. Hard to deny it was over Israel conducting surveillance. Why conduct surveillance unless planning an attack ?

Since it was an Iranian made drone, copied exactly from the US made drone that was shot down over Iran, and Iran is too far away from Israel for the drone to fly, where do you think it launched from ?

56 posted on 02/12/2018 6:59:15 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: PIF
The Golan opposite Israeli lines is filled with those fighters who are trying to connect up a direct route from Iran to the Lebanon and the Med.

Quite literally bullshit.

The area is filled with all manner of Sunni terrorists (including branches of ISIS, Al Qaeda, and Al-Nusra among others) whose objective is to create a corridor to shift fighters from other battle fronts in Syria up to Damascus.

From the Times of Israel Former Qaeda leader in Syria ‘welcomes’ Israeli airstrikes

57 posted on 02/12/2018 8:07:29 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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