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Syrian official answers Netanyahu: We will use all available means to recapture the Golan
Jerusalem Post ^ | 4/17/16 | Maayan Groisman

Posted on 04/17/2016 1:30:23 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

In a first reaction to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's declaration that "Israel will never leave the Golan Heights," Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad said Sunday that Syria is prepared to use every possible means to recapture the area, including military means.

"The Syrian Golan is an occupied Arab land according to the UN Security Council's resolutions, and the presence of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Forces proves this," Miqad said in an interview with the Lebanon-based TV channel al-Mayadeen.

"We have never renounced the resistance and we are ready to recapture the Golan in all possible ways, including military ways. Israel wants to provoke us, but we will never surrender," Miqdad added.


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1 posted on 04/17/2016 1:30:23 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Well, first of all, you might want to take back the rest of your country before you worry about the Golan Heights.


2 posted on 04/17/2016 1:31:39 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Ain’t that the truth. But I guess when faced with the dilemma of fighting fellow muslims or attacking the Jooooos they gotta go with killing Jews.


3 posted on 04/17/2016 1:34:33 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: AlaskaErik

True that.


4 posted on 04/17/2016 1:35:25 PM PDT by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

The Syrians can’t even capture a few villages from goat herders turned terrorists without Russian help.

What are they going to do againts a 1st rate military????


5 posted on 04/17/2016 1:38:19 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Hail no, they want no part of the IDF. This just another ay-rab shooting his fat mouth off.


6 posted on 04/17/2016 1:43:50 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Off the NWO)
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To: 2banana

Die?


7 posted on 04/17/2016 1:44:00 PM PDT by donozark (Vote Bernie Sanders: Because 100 million dead just isn't enough...)
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To: AlaskaErik

My thoughts exactly. They can’t even manage to hold to their own country even with the aid of Russia, but somehow they are going to take back the Golan Heights. Guess the ass whooping they Israelis gave them the last time around wasn’t enough.

You just can’t fix stupid, I guess.


8 posted on 04/17/2016 1:47:33 PM PDT by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Syria lost that territory in a war against Israel that they started. By the accepted international laws of war Israel can keep it (leaving aside the “special” rules the UN applies to Israel)


9 posted on 04/17/2016 1:49:03 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

My reply to Faisal al-Miqdad: drop dead you piece of diseased slime. You talk it but you can’t walk it.


10 posted on 04/17/2016 1:58:59 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: 2banana

This move is backed by 0bama and Putin, so what that means is the Russians will do the heavy lifting against the Israelis, while 0bama cuts all aid to Israel. The first strategic target will be Mt Hermon from which the Syrians/Russians can control all Israel’s airspace.

ISIS will attack from its stronghold at the corner of the Israeli-Jordan border; Hezbollah will launch its most powerful Iranian/Russian supplied rockets and best fighters; Hamas attacks from the south - if it can get out of its current financial difficulties.

Israel will put up a good fight, but without US aid it will lose the Golan with very heavy casualties - both military and civilian.


11 posted on 04/17/2016 2:02:37 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

I would put 6 months of paychecks to bet on the Israelis in that match up...


12 posted on 04/17/2016 2:14:13 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Yeah, no matter how many women and children we have to sacrifice to do it.


13 posted on 04/17/2016 2:21:47 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: PIF
Israel will put up a good fight, but without US aid it will lose the Golan with very heavy casualties - both military and civilian.

Israel has a greater ally than the U.S. and isn't going to lose...

14 posted on 04/17/2016 2:48:09 PM PDT by Smittie (Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: PIF

That is a worst-case scenario indeed, but it is one that the IDF is well aware of and has been planning for for years. They will literally blacken the skies over southern Lebanon with fighters, bombers, choppers and drones in addition to the deployment of Patriot batteries, Iron Dome and David’s Sling anti-missile systems. This will be complemented by hundreds of 155mm artillery pieces.

Israel’s performance against Hezbollah in 2006 was widely criticized. As a result, the IDF conducted a major review of the causes. My take (FWIW) is that Israel’s current posture is “fool me once, shame on you, etc...”. They aren’t going to get burned again. For example, they won’t repeat the mistake of a tentative mobilization or targeting strategy which was slow to catch up with the need to hit missile batteries effectively.

And, of course, as someone else said, the most important thing is Israel has a much more powerful ally than the United States. While I’m at it, G-d Bless America.


15 posted on 04/17/2016 3:55:28 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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16 posted on 04/17/2016 4:14:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Aah...shad-up.


17 posted on 04/17/2016 4:30:08 PM PDT by RAldrich
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Isaiah17: 1 An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.


18 posted on 04/18/2016 2:31:54 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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