Despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisting Israel doesn’t intend to “ratchet up” strikes against Syria, his nation continued to attack targets inside Syria today, killing at least six people and wounding seven others in airstrikes.
The airstrike hit a car killing five within, and also killed a sixth bystander. The identities of the five targets are still in dispute, with the Israeli military claiming they were “Islamic Jihad” fighters, and Syrian state media insisting that those in the car were civilians.
The latest string of incidents began yesterday, when stray rocket fire from inside Syria hit an empty field in Israeli-occupied territory. There were no casualties. Israel initially blamed Islamic Jihad, then later said Iran was responsible, then finally declared Syria to be totally responsible, and confirmed “widespread” strikes against Syrian military targets yesterday evening.
Today, Israel seems to be rolling back that blame, and is now claiming Islamic Jihad was responsible, and that everyone responsible was killed. They are still blaming Iran, however, suggesting they “ordered” the attack, and that this should kill the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran.
Islamic Jihad denied having anything to do with the stray rockets almost immediately, and indeed it doesn’t make a lot of sense for anyone to have “ordered” an attack on an empty field. Stray fire has happened a few times over the course of Syria’s Civil War, and Israel always uses it as an opportunity to attack targets inside Syria, though they have also attacked targets inside Syria on occasion without this pretext.
What's funny Syria's missiles worked against Turkish fighter and also
Jordanian fighters and both jets were shot down, some how Arabian
Arms don't work against Israel.
As usual Jason Ditz blames the Jews which he simply calls Israel. Of course no one fired any rockets at Israel. If they did, well it was simply a stray rocket fired, by whom? Christians? who have been beheaded I guess.
Ditz you are an anti-Semite. Israel is not the problem, you and other anti-Semites are the problem.
Not even a nice try. If you're going to play the anti-Semite card, you need to play it against someone who might actually be suspect as such. Trying to play it on Ditz just results in pretty much everyone laughing at you and putting you on their "either doesn't have a clue what he's talking about, or doesn't think twice before lying" lists.
Every criticism of Israel is not legit. Ditto on every criticism of any pro Israel Jewish. Everyone (and by that, I mean those raised in the Zionist Bubble) knows that Israel and pro Israel groups are incapable of ever being wrong. And that any criticism of them is therefore de facto racism…the special from of racism that has its own name, anti-Semitism, that inexplicably crops up all over the world. For no reason — or maybe its because everyone is jealous of the obviously and innately superior Jewish race. Tough to keep the hasbara straight sometimes
Netanyahu is entirely focused on the Iran deal. Therefore, these strikes are first and foremost about the Iran deal.
He hopes to get into with Iran. If he can't, then he hopes to highlight his demands about additional issues unrelated to nuclear concerns that he he says he wants to lump into the deal. Of course he lies, as always. He just wants to make a deal impossible.
That means he's bombing Syria in hopes of making the Iran deal impossible. Iran will react accordingly, meaning that for now it won't react. The US will also lay low, to defuse this effort to warmonger.
easy….1) fire rocket at self making sure it hits desert sand. 2) declare it was hamas, syria, zombies that own property, 3) attack whomever you want and take their land. motto "thou shalt do war by deception"
Israel isn't to blame. The Israeli government is too blame. They have unilaterally attacked Syria over 10 times now which is a violation of border integrity. Syria has every right under the law to attack Israel for their illegal transgressions.
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