Israeli officials both past and present, and a number of analysts, are predicting that Israel’s Sunday evening attack on Syria, which killed a number of Iranians, is going to provoke retaliation from the Iranian government. This, they believe, will be the start of a proxy war, and potentially direct military confrontation, within Syria.
It’s not unusual, of course, for Israeli analysts to predict imminent war with Iran. They’ve been doing so for literally since the Iranian Revolution. Yet the increasing certainty about such a conflict is noteworthy, as are warnings it will amount to the “worst war in decades” for the Middle East.
That’s really saying something for the Middle East. Yet this has broadly been a war of choice for Israel, which has been attacking Syria with regularity, and openly talking about the attacks being about Iran. The Israeli right’s long-anticipated war with materially the whole of Shi’a Islam may be on the horizon.
Iran’s own position on this is less considered. Iranian officials are certainly irked by Israeli attacks on them in Syria, and attacks on Syria in general. Yet they’ve long resisted Israel’s attempts to sucker them into a war, and while everyone expects some eventual retaliation, it’s far from a foregone conclusion that Iran is just going to attack Israel one morning.
Eventual retaliation has been the repeated position of Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah for Israel’s repeated attacks. That’s so far not meant any major border clashes or anything, but continued acrimony. When it spills over is likely anyone’s guess.
In the meantime, Iran’s primary goal in Syria is to save the Assad government, something they can do without fighting Israel. So while Israeli analysts express dread about the scope of the war to come, whether it comes or not likely depends on how far the Israeli government is willing to go in provocation.
Excellent question. ISRael still does not understand that its biggest problem maybe is gettinvg itself i nto a real war. War with stronger power
Israel pretends it wants to be treated like a normal country, which it certainly is not. By refusing to follow any international law, and blaming “antisemitism” for any criticism, it makes trouble all over the region with claims of danger and victimhood which are completely unjustified. Israel is in no danger from its neighbours if it treats others like humans with rights.
I agree 100%, Rosemerry, Israel does pretend to be treated as a normal country, which it certainly isn’t; and, by refusing to follow any international law and blaming “anti-semitism” for any criticism, it makes trouble all over the region with claims of danger and victimhood, of which are totally unjustified. The Zionist Entity’s in no danger from its neighbors if it treats others as humans with rights.
Now, since POTUS Trump has reversed his stance 180 degrees back to his announcement to soon withdraw all US troops from Syria and bring them back home, the demonic Bibzy must be stomping around his office, foaming at the mouth, at Trump’s reversal. I love it:-)) The Trotskyists surrounding Trump surely are foaming at the mouth right now.
Bianca said it perfectly, too; that Israel still doesn’t understand that its more serious problem maybe getting itself into a real war .. a real war with a stronger power.
Iran blew up an Israeli embassy in Argentina, they blew up a Jewish community center in Argentina, killing children. Iran constantly threatens the destruction of the Israeli state. These are not normal circumstances for people to live under.
When someone engages in one sided selective criticism it is ok to question their motives
Netanyahu wants Iran to attack Israel and hopefully kill a good number of those American troops that Trump and his neocon war criminal pals deliberated inserted into Israel, for that express purpose.
Those guys were sent there to be killed – so they could provide the long coveted “excuse” that the Israelis have been scheming to create over the last several decades and which they will use to con the embarrassingly stupid American public into supporting a US military attack and a full scale war against Iran.
I voted for Trump because he promised to put a screeching halt to these endless wars for Israel that these neocon, Israel First war mongers have been lying and false flagging our nation into – and what does Trump do? He turns around and hires a huge number of the same blood thirsty, mentally insane, war mongering neocons who infested the Bush Administration – and it’s right back to the same evil, lying, false flagging, war criminality that we saw from Bush and Obama.
I will not be voting for this slab of lying New York City rat excrement a second time. I sure as hell won’t vote any greasy democrats, but I will be voting for the Constitution Party from now one. I’ve had it with these mass murdering, lying, GOP slime balls.