Israel’s latest round of airstrikes against southern Syria continued into a second day today, after stray artillery shells crossed the disputed border and landed on the Israeli-held Golan Heights. Today’s Israeli strikes were somewhat deadlier, killing at least two civilians in Quneitra.
Israel had insisted that they had exclusively targeted military targets, saying they’d destroyed an “ammunition truck” and artillery positions, along with attacking a tank inside Syria. This is a fairly common reaction to stray shells by Israel, which has repeatedly attacked the Syrian military over the course of the protracted war within the country.
The Syrian Army aren’t very happy with the timing of this latest Israeli foray, however, noting that today’s strikes came at the exact same time al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front launched an offensive in the exact same area, accusing Israel of effectively providing air cover for the Islamists.
Israel is known to be providing substantial amounts of aid to rebels in this area of Syria, including some Islamist-leaning groups. It has never been confirmed that Nusra was among those getting supported by Israel, however it has been speculated by Syria that this might be the case, and Israel has accepted wounded al-Qaeda fighters crossing into Syria for treatment.
Israel’s political support for the entire charade, commanding the entire Western establishment elites, the populist Israel lobby, and the GCC is far more deadly than Tel Aviv’s direct support.
Please explain.
Do I really need to explain the Israel lobby? Its an international phenomenon, with supporters across all social classes and most conventional ideological factions.
There was much hubaloo over the Kushner-Bannon split, for example, but Bannon is an Israelist.
And who would have imagined an Saudi/GCC-Israeli alliance with only Qatar odd man out supporting the traditional Arab position that Israel is an illegitimate Western colonial construct.
Tail does not waggle the head, the Israel elite is
only 1% of the most corrupt Western powers elite.
What is the head? the Israel lobby is sufficiently multiracial and multicultural to be a significant force multiplier across strata, even the very top.
1% of the world’s population control half the wealth by 2016; the estimate was 38% in 2013. It doesn’t take much for a handful of people to have a significant impact on world events.
Israel has been seeped in corruption since before the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. Just a repeat of bad history, just read the Old Testament and you know exactly what Israel will do next.
“It has never been confirmed that Nusra was among those getting supported by Israel.”
This article confirms it right after the title.
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Israel-treating-al-Qaida-fighters-wounded-in-Syria-civil-war-393862
I guess we have a pretty good idea now what the high-level meetings between the Saudis and Israel were about.
Another pointless attack by Israel, what they hope to gain is hard to understand.
It is good politics (killing Syrian’s) domestically with the fanatics in Likud and it plays well with the Wahabbis in the KSA.