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The battle for Syria's skies will see a move from proxy clashes to direct ones
The National, Arab Emirates Sourced Opinion ^ | April 29, 2018 | Jonathan Cook

Posted on 04/29/2018 8:45:38 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

The hidden battle in Syria – the one that rarely appears on our television screens – has been raging for years between Israel and a coalition comprising the Syrian government, Iran and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah.

Watching over the proceedings without directly intervening has been Russia, although that might be about to change.

The prize is control over Syrian territory but the battlefield is Syria’s skies.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenational.ae ...


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1 posted on 04/29/2018 8:45:38 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

PURE BS....


2 posted on 04/29/2018 8:54:08 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: Navy Patriot

Oh fabulous, a direct US- Russia air War. What could possibly go wrong?


3 posted on 04/29/2018 8:54:42 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: rrrod
PURE BS....

Which allegation? which conclusion? Or all of 'em?

4 posted on 04/29/2018 9:01:39 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Cook


5 posted on 04/29/2018 9:02:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Navy Patriot

Wishful thinking from a self-hating British Jew (who nonetheless acquired Israeli citizenship so Israel couldn’t deport him as a foreign agitator) for whom the Guardian isn’t anti-Israel enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Cook

If the Palestinians ever look like they’re about to take over, the Israelis should lock him in a cell so that he can’t leave before they take power. It would be interesting to see what they do to him.


6 posted on 04/29/2018 9:04:40 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Is a self hating Jew someone who refuses to vote Likud ?


7 posted on 04/29/2018 9:17:02 AM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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To: Navy Patriot

Why are we involved in someone else’s civil war?


8 posted on 04/29/2018 9:19:19 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: vooch

The Soros crowd’s first instinct is to smear their opponent, its an inbred behavior.


9 posted on 04/29/2018 9:32:22 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Zhang Fei
Wishful thinking from a self-hating British Jew ...

Which conclusion? Or all of 'em?

10 posted on 04/29/2018 9:35:20 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: Navy Patriot

Israel achieved one major aim early on: Western powers insisted that the Syrian government be disarmed of its large arsenal of chemical weapons, Damascus’s only deterrent against an Israeli nuclear threat.

Lines like this show you where the author is coming from


11 posted on 04/29/2018 9:36:06 AM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: vooch

“Is a self hating Jew someone who refuses to vote Likud ?”


Given the disastrous alternatives, yes. It’s not so much that Netanyahu is such a great guy. It’s more the case that the alternatives are far worse. You think Olmert was better? Barak? Peres? Rabin? There’s a reason Labor is practically extinct.

I’m at a loss vis-a-vis your great love of Assad and the Russians. I understand, from a purely sectarian standpoint, Assad’s need to evict as many Sunni Arabs as he can from Syria. That’s very different from saying that he’s a good guy. As to the Russians, they’ve been trying to stick it to Uncle Sam for the past 100 years, ever since the Bolsheviks took power.

Between the Assads’ sponsorship of the PLO, Hezbollah and Hamas, they have killed thousands of Israelis. Scaled up to the US population, that would be hundreds of thousands of dead in terror attacks, or a hundred 9/11’s worth of deaths. Payback’s a bitch, and it’s time for Israel to get some.


12 posted on 04/29/2018 9:47:26 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

“Why are we involved in someone else’s civil war?”


Same reason we got involved in two European civil wars in the 20th century, at the cost of 500,000 American lives - a hostile power threatened the conquest of the entire region - a region vital to American interests. Except the likely cost of a Syrian intervention is far lower.


13 posted on 04/29/2018 9:55:12 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Navy Patriot
Which allegation? which conclusion? Or all of 'em?

Slovakia has an S300 system so NATO countries can develop countermeasures. It has never shot down an aircraft in combat.

Russia never took advantage of the opportunity to fire their S400's either.

At some point, you have to accept that Russian systems are hot garbage.

India certainly has and is canceling deals.

14 posted on 04/29/2018 10:06:40 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: DesertRhino

I would like to see the Russians go after the Israeli planes and all get sot down by Israeli pilots.


15 posted on 04/29/2018 10:08:25 AM PDT by arthurus (P)
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To: Snickering Hound

I would love to see Israel give those systems a trial. Russia would soon have its tail between its legs and vallued customers demanding their money back.


16 posted on 04/29/2018 10:11:39 AM PDT by arthurus (H)
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To: jdsteel
"Israel achieved one major aim early on: Western powers insisted that the Syrian government be disarmed of its large arsenal of chemical weapons, Damascus’s only deterrent against an Israeli nuclear threat."

More accurately, in the past decade an a half Western Media consistently denied the existence of WMD's in Middle Eastern Nations the US targeted for Military force and trashed Republicans and Conservatives for suggesting they existed.

Western Intelligence, including Wilson and Plame generally backed the Liberal Media, and DemoRat prosecutors destroyed patriots (Libby) attempting to expose Deep Swamp bias.

Recently The Prog Left and Swamp have reversed themselves claiming Syria is a world class producer and serial user of WMD chemical weapons, pretending their previous positions and actions never occurred.

Factually Russia was the entity that initiated a coalition supervised search and destruction of said chemical weapons, so the Media and Swamp can claim with absolute certainty that Assad deploys chemical weapons on a weekly basis.

Therefore, the author's claim that Israel initiated the West's overblown and convenient fixation on Assad's chemical weapons is accurate only if Israel is closely linked to the American Prog Left, Deep Swamp Globalists, or is using them like free toilet paper in a public restroom.

As far as the author's allegation that Israel has Nukes, that's pretty much accepted, that Assad fears those Nukes is speculation, Israel isn't about to start a Nuclear war over Assad's Syria.

17 posted on 04/29/2018 10:18:41 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: Navy Patriot

The fact is that is Israeli nukes are not a threat to anyone except if they are militarily attached.


18 posted on 04/29/2018 10:21:32 AM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: arthurus

Russian supply of S-300 systems to Syria major threat to IAF

https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Russian-supply-of-S-300-systems-to-Syria-major-threat-to-IAF-549837

Not to mention S-400s.


19 posted on 04/29/2018 10:21:36 AM PDT by McGruff (Bring our troops home. Defend our border.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Nothing you posted was included in the article.


20 posted on 04/29/2018 10:25:24 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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