Posted on 01/24/2019 6:11:27 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
In response to the latest Israeli-Iranian hostilities, the head of Iran’s air force, Brig.-Gen. Aziz Nasirzadeh, declared Monday: “We’re ready for the decisive war that will bring about Israel’s disappearance from the earth.” This statement echoes the message behind weeks of Iranian propaganda, accompanied by antisemitic symbols, predicting Israel’s imminent destruction.
The latest hostilities started on January 20 with an attack on military targets in the Damascus region that Syrian media attributed to Israel. Iranian forces responded almost immediately by launching a rocket toward the Mount Hermon ski resort in the Golan Heights, crowded with civilians, yet the Iron Dome missile defense system was able to intercept it.
Israel retaliated with an extensive attack which targeted Iranian bases in Syria and, later, Syrian anti-aircraft infrastructures.
It should be noted that in earlier attacks, Israel targeted specific Iranian military assets often based in one location at the same time. The few larger- scale attacks it did carry out were typically reactive. Therefore, Israel’s military actions during the past two months indicate a gradual shift in its strategy regarding Syria. Israel is now operating against multiple military targets at once.
Moreover, it has abandoned its traditional policy of ambiguity – not only claiming responsibility for the attacks in Syria but also publicizing the specific targets of those attacks. These operations have sent a clear message to the Iranians and Hezbollah in Lebanon: Israel will not tolerate an Iranian stronghold being established in southwest Syria.
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Attacking targets in Syria, without provocation because they don’t like them, is a act of war. If Iran, a guest at the request of Syria, provoked it, then a retaliation response is justified and should extend all the way to Iranian soil.
“Attacking targets in Syria, without provocation because they don’t like them, is a act of war.”
Obama, is that you?
@ “deep state wild dummy redneck” No, its a fact you and Bolton don’t like. If Iran launches a missile from Syria into Israel, then Israel should launch a couple dozen into IRAN, not just Syria.....
Perhaps you and I are at cross-purposes at each other's throats due to a fog of cross-posting. I am a dedicated supporter of Israel and hope that they crush the islamofascists. The "Palestinians" are a made-up grievance group and deserve no sympathy from people that can think. Also, the afghani clerics in Iran can go f--- themselves.
Israel and Syria have been at war since 1948.
You need to think this through. The biggest threat to Israel is from Iran is missile attacks. A better retaliation from Israel would be to use its submarine assets and sink some Iranian Navel Vessels. It also could hit their air assets with missiles. But most importantly, it should not blatantly attack civilian areas as the Iranians would do to them. It should use covert means to encourage dissidents to rise up against the Clerics.
The Bush Doctrine: You don’t have to wait to attack an enemy if the enemy has declared for your utter destruction.
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“We’re ready for the decisive war that will bring about Israel’s disappearance from the earth.”
Three-and-a-half millennia, and they’re still with the “kill all the Jooos!” frabajaba. Lunatics keep trying the same thing and expecting a different result.
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