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While The West Was Sleeping, Israel And Syria Clashed In Their Biggest Battle Since 1973 War
dailycaller.com ^ | 5/10/2018 | Will Racke

Posted on 05/10/2018 9:55:18 AM PDT by rktman

Israel exchanged rocket and cruise missile fire with Iranian forces deployed inside Syria during an hours-long battle late Wednesday, the biggest direct confrontation between the two countries since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Responding to a barrage of rockets reportedly fired by Iranian troops at Israeli positions in the Golan Heights, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attacked nearly all of Iran’s military installations in Syria, an IDF spokesman said, according to the Associated Press.

Targets included a weapons storage facility, logistics sites and intelligence centers used by the Quds Force, the special operations division of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. Also destroyed were several Syrian air-defense systems, which activated against Israeli fighter jets.

None of the warplanes were hit, the IDF said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: erdogan; golanheights; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; idf; iran; israel; israeliran; jerusalem; kurdistan; lebanon; letshavejerusalem; qudsforce; receptayyiperdogan; russia; syria; turkey; waronterror
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No doubt the iranians will be touting this as a great victory over the little satan.
1 posted on 05/10/2018 9:55:18 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

And why would this be any of “The Wests” business?


2 posted on 05/10/2018 9:57:36 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: rktman

I don’t believe that’s accurate. Operation Mole Cricket 19 was a far bigger deal than this current engagement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mole_Cricket_19


3 posted on 05/10/2018 9:58:21 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Re supply cruise rockets? Money maker.


4 posted on 05/10/2018 9:58:43 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: MNJohnnie

Israel is part of western civilization. In fact, without Israel there wouldn’t ever have been a western civilization.


5 posted on 05/10/2018 9:59:00 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

The greeks and romans might argue with that


6 posted on 05/10/2018 9:59:50 AM PDT by z3n
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To: rktman

Iran is putting to use the money Obama/Kerry released to them.


7 posted on 05/10/2018 10:00:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: z3n

I don’t know haw they could. Western civilization is the end product of 4,000 years of Juedeo-Christian, Greco-Roman, Anglo-American progress.


8 posted on 05/10/2018 10:02:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes...which is the true reason for the so-called “nuke deal”!


9 posted on 05/10/2018 10:03:39 AM PDT by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: z3n

A lonely Jewish carpenter caused major changes to Greek and Roman culture.


10 posted on 05/10/2018 10:03:39 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: rktman

Yeah, the West was sleeping...

Well Europe maybe, but my take is that Trump WAS IN THE LOOP.


11 posted on 05/10/2018 10:04:23 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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Sleeping? What BS.

Who does the Daily Caller think controls the airspace?

We had our normal overwatch on, but didn’t deploy any extaordinary assets, the IDF had it covered.


12 posted on 05/10/2018 10:04:36 AM PDT by gandalftb
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To: BenLurkin

Good point!


13 posted on 05/10/2018 10:05:07 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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Iran is putting to use the money Obama/Kerry released to them.

I still want to know where 0bama got the pallets of cash. Why isn't this being investigated?

14 posted on 05/10/2018 10:05:54 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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I still want to know where 0bama got the pallets of cash. Why isn't this being investigated?

Probably just printed it, no worries about inflation given the Obama recession.

15 posted on 05/10/2018 10:07:27 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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No doubt the iranians will be touting this as a great victory over the little satan.

They'll try but the war is not popular back at home.

The Syrian war is costing Iran $10-$20 billion a year, the vast majority of Iranians live in poverty except for the mullahs and their families.

They've had 40 years of 'Death to America', 'Death to Israel' and no results and it's getting very, very old.

16 posted on 05/10/2018 10:07:27 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: BenLurkin

Uh, you left out the mooselimb factor. You know, paper, math, astromomy, space flight. It goes on and on and on......


17 posted on 05/10/2018 10:10:43 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: gandalftb

Well, we know PDJT was up around 0200 EDT.


18 posted on 05/10/2018 10:11:34 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Can’t help but notice that scientific achievements in the Muslim world all petered out once the dying husk of the Hellenic world had breathed its last.


19 posted on 05/10/2018 10:15:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: rktman

dont forget IED’s and truck bombs,


20 posted on 05/10/2018 10:20:43 AM PDT by tm61 (Election 2012: we find it IS possible, to polish a turd.)
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