Israel is bracing for potential retaliation tonight after an Israeli military helicopter crossed into Syria and killed five Hezbollah fighters, including some key figures in the group’s anti-ISIS operations, along with one Iranian who was traveling with them.
Among the slain were Mohammed Issa, the commander for all operations against ISIS, an Iranian adviser named Ali Reza al-Tabatabai, 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.
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.
Only régime change in Israel would positively help to end terrible wars in ME. Israels régime should be disarmed and under UN control. Mankind will dearly regret this "entity of evil" was not dealt with long time ago….pedro CR
Now as little puppet Israel never does anything except by order of it’s master, Empire USA,
as the corporate rich hire most American politicians as paid actors,
as the corporate rich do nothing that does not maximize profit,
as terrorist Israel was created by our corporate rich to maximize profit in trading war materials for Middle-East oil,
as nothing generates more terror for the Middle-East then bombs dropped by warplanes,
as nothing generates more profit for our corporate rich then bombs being dropped by US warplanes,
as war is hell on earth anyway you cut it,
surely there can be only one purpose for planet earth,
to prove the harm in it.
I think you're getting the roles reversed. The "puppet" Israel's PM got 29 standing ovations during his recent visit to the U.S. congress. Let's compare that to how Obama is treated in Israeli circles, including by its PM. It's also groups serving the interests of Israel in America that command the most power in Washington lobbying halls, and bringing attention to this fact is professional suicide.
I would agree about the benefits of war for U.S. corporations tied to the military, so there is mutual benefit in America's relationship with Israel. But the idea that Israel's a passive player in these conflicts doesn't add up. Just about everything discussed in the Allon plan, and re-iterated in the Project for the New American Century, has come to fruition in the Middle East. Is that simply coincidence?
And at the first sign of retaliation, the Israelis will come running to Congress demanding that the US live up to their unwritten agreement to come and destroy those who attacked Israel. Oh, and not to forget the demand that the US Congress increase the annual tithe to Jerusalem so Israel can instigate more blowback, which the US will be required to clean up…again.
To — Terry Patterson — Wealth own’s people body and soul
Over 90% of all political domations in Israel USA come from the rich nobility and corporate rich, old money and new money, a fact that must be kept hidden from the American public and since 1776 it has been most doable as High Society owns all of mainstream media.
And since 1945 all of our corporate mainstream media has created the illusion that Israel is guilty for all the harm done by Empire USA. But, it is money that controls everything and if you own the money, you are in absolute control.