Posted on 09/06/2016 10:32:16 AM PDT by Nachum
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Amid the carnage of Syria's civil war, well into its sixth year, Israeli military chiefs say that Iran and its prized proxy, Hezbollah, are surreptitiously seeking to establish a new front in an older conflict, the Iran-backed group's 30-year war against the Jewish state that until recently was waged almost exclusively from neighboring Lebanon.
The center of this strategy, which Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has frequently espoused in re cent months, is the Golan Heights, a 1,000-meter-high volcanic plateau that overlooks northern Israel. It has been a battleground since biblical times.
Israel seized the western two-thirds of the heights in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in 1981. It refuses to surrender this occupied enclave from where it has the Syrian capital, Damascus, within the range of its artillery.
The Golan has also acted as a buffer zone that protects Israel from any spillover from the war raging in Syria. However, if the Israelis are correct, that may be changing, with the Tehran regime, which with Russia dominates Syrian military strategy, using Hezbollah to establish a new forward base against the Jewish state.
"Like other foreign and domestic actors, Hezbollah has seized on the Syrian civil war to improve its position in the country and the surrounding region," the U.S.-based global security consultancy Stratfor observed in an April 6 analysis.
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Yet another Obama/Clinton/Kerry “achievement” for the cause of IslamoNazi expansion and his dream of an ultimate world-wide IslamoNazi Caliphate or empire
Exactly. We’ve gone from a Middle East that we dominated and where we were respected and feared 10 years ago, to one where war is on Israel’s doorstep, where Russia and Iran call the shots and we are a laughing stock today. All because of Barry’s “Smart” Diplomacy.
it is exactly what he wanted to achieve, a much-weakened USA, and a much-strengthened and expanded scope of IslamONazism
Suggestion to Israel. The way to end this quickly is to, Kill Nasrallah and then MOAB the funeral.
sounds like a great idea !
End Time Bible Prophecy ping
Could get interesting.
I can’t share it on my Facebook page what gives?
I can’t share it on my Facebook page what gives?
The article?
Nevermind I was able to thanks for posting this
Especially if you Follow the Shepherds Prophecy the Burden of Damascus and the Magog Invasion.
may as well hit mecca too just to stir the nest so they can be engaged by angels in the army of God, death to Islam
Obama included protecting Iran’s nuclear facilities in the deal.
I wonder if Israel is preparing for an incursion into southern Syria, following on from Turkey moving in from the north.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Iran putting it's windfall to good use.
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