Israel’s weekend helicopter attack in Syria, which killed five members of Hezbollah, including top leaders of their anti-ISIS movement, also killed an Iranian general, according to the Iranian media.
The slain Iranian had previously been reported as an “adviser,” but Iranian media today identified him as Gen. Mohammed Allahdadi, who was heading to Quneitra to inspect the defenses of the Assad government there.
Also among the slain were Mohammed Issa, the Hezbollah commander for all operations against ISIS and, perhaps most significantly, Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of a former Hezbollah military leader.
The attack is a serious blow to anti-ISIS operations in Syria, as the Assad government has increasingly relied on Hezbollah fighters, led by Issa, to resist the jihadists’ expansion deeper into their territory, and has sought Iranian expertise on defending their territory against offensives.
Hezbollah’s official news channel warned Israel the attack could “lead to a costly adventure that will put the Middle East at stake,” but while most Israelis expect retaliation for the attack, few expect it to snowball into an outright war.
Israeli officials are claiming that Mughniyeh was planning to attack the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, though many are doubting this claim, and analysts say they don’t believe it was a targeted assassination so much as Israel seeing a group of Hezbollah fighters in a convoy and deciding to attack them.
So Israel conducts an illegal attack inside Syria and kills the people who are their best chance of not getting sucked into the war- nice work, Tel Aviv. Why on earth would Hezbollah want to fight ISIS if you're just going to attack them anyway? At this point, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if Hezbollah pulled back and bounced ISIS over to the Israel border- then you'd have a real problem on your hands.
In short- you might want to think before pulling the trigger next time. Killing your allies isn't the best policy.
Gosh, it's almost like they don't want peace – but that just couldn't be the case. After all this is the world famous peace wager – Israel.
…and the "most moral Army in the world"…according to the Moldovan bouncer.
So now it's all clear– Tel Aviv and Isis are allies, fighting a common enemy. We know this all along
(So now it's all clear– Tel Aviv and Isis are allies)
You are right. Tell this to Noam Chomsky, a closet Zionist, who paints Israel as 'indifferent' to war in Syria and lies when said Israel wants Assad. Don't trust these Zionist closet who paints only 'us imperialism' as the party who benefits from killing of millions of Muslims.
Israel and Saudi Arabia are on the same side (at least for now). They want to see al-Assad defeated more than anything else. That means that they are siding with ISIL. Washington is bombing ISIL now, but its ultimate goal is to destroy the secular Syrian government, and turn what's left of Syria into Libya. If that was not the case, they wouldn't be supporting the FSA. By supporting the FSA, the US is also supporting ISIL through the back door.
Yeah and tell me again how Israel isn't ISIS' air force. Tell me again how serious they are about the ISIS "threat", so serious that they kill people who are fighting them…and damned if we ever see any retaliation on these Israeli thugs who are probably doing this because they have an election coming up and Bibi has to look sufficiently fundamentalist to satisfy the jew supremo-kooks who form the basis of his support.
Both the US and Israel are on the side of chaos. Chaos keeps the Muslim sects fighting each other, which is the master plan. If the Sunnis and Shias ever wake up and realize who their real enemies are, look out.
Syria needs to respond to this illegal violation by Israel. Nice to see Israel take the side of Sunni terrorists but then again, we are talking about Netanyahoo
"analysts say they don’t believe it was a targeted assassination so much as Israel seeing a group of Hezbollah fighters in a convoy and deciding to attack them."
these people are only good for doing news analysis in fox . israel just manages in a strike (which are not THAT common) to hit so many bigwigs of the faction they consider as their real enemy
This was too good a target to 'pass up'. Shinbet and Mossad have spies in the most unlikely places. Having the 'cream of the crop' in one blast radius. Zapp!
No comment.
Israel is ISIS. It has always backed the most radical groups against the saner Arabs. They backed Hezzbollah at first against the Palestinians. They also backed Hamas against the secular Palestinian groups. Our allies in Saudi Arabia and Qatar do the same. Israel is led by lunatics. They have provoked their only ally in the region Turkey. They want Syria destroyed and everybody else neutered all at the expense of the blood and treasure of the good old USA. They want a massive world war which ends with them on the top. They don't care how much death and destruction they cause.
Israel wants the status quo to continue forever, not a massive world war because they would definitely not end up on top.
ISIS is a CIA-Mossad asset. “israel” is not fighting ISIS because ISIS serves “israeli” objectives of weakening opposition to “israeli” expansionism by getting it’s opponents to fight each other rather than “israel”.
It’s just one more implementation of the Oded Yinon plan.
watch the world outrage if hezbollah or iran respond
This only fuels my deep suspicions of who really is behind ISIS, the biggest Bulls–t story since….all the other Bulls–t stories.
If Hezbolleh plays true to its imputed form, there should be a spate of bombings and outrages featuring Jewish institutions around the world.
War on terrorism — License to commit wars of aggression and Empire expansion
For clearly an act of terrorism is this senseless slaughter of human flesh, for neither Israel nor Syria have declared war against each other and the only purpose for such a wanton lust for rofit, is to increase the number of body parts and explosions as the profit in such a war is in direct proportion to both.
Just remember, they attack us over here because they're jealous of our big screen t.v. sets. It has nothing to do with revenge for killing them over there.
Obviously, the Israeli helicopter crews mistook the convoy for a US Navy intelligence ship.